June 15, 1988

Fantasy Zone comes to Master Systems across the land some 21 years ago.  I would like to say more than it's a pretty good game, one that has held up well through the ages, but I don't have much more to say.

I picked up an Xbox Elite 360 system within a day or two of its release, officially thrusting me to the current generation of systems.  We're coming up on two and a half years ago from this date.  And yet, I still have yet to pay the $60 price tag on a new, standard issue game of this generation.  I've paid more, and in one case much more, for a game's limited edition, but never sticker price for a game with that current generation price premium.  Even my most recent new acquisition, Cross Edge, was only $50, the price I paid bumped to $60 because I did get a special edition version of the game.

Goes to show that even though I might not play many classic games anymore, one of the defining aspects of the classic gamers' spirit: don't pay full price.  One of the reasons I gravitated toward classic games was the fact they were usually considerably less expensive than their recently released counterparts.  Still are, and this still holds true.

So you see, I haven't completely turned my back on my gaming roots.  Just more so than I would have liked.