Is this true for you?

[shateredsoul1979]

[Malenko]

nope, dont want kids

[CCM]

nope, dont want kids

+1

[saint]

Only partially - I don't have much leisure time, and that I do have is often spent in other pursuits (for instance, building rather than playing arcade games). However, I take great delight in seeing friends and family and specifically my kids playing said games. My 8 year old often asks me to turn on the SNES that I still have hooked up and working on the 30" TV in my study, even though he has an X-box 360 and Nintendo Wii he can play on the 100" projector screen in the basement.

[shateredsoul1979]

... I want kids, someday. So that will be even truer then.

Currently I do agree with saint, building the arcade cab and figuring out the emulators was a lot of fun. I spend much more time doing that than playing. I'll play one game, and think, okay what game am I missing now. Okay I have the games, now I need a way to store them. Okay I have a way to store them, now how can I make my office/game room look cleaner. I'm also waiting for Hyperspin 2.0 so I can start working on "finalizing" my arcade setup on the software side.

[hypernova]

My 8 year old often asks me to turn on the SNES that I still have hooked up and working on the 30" TV in my study, even though he has an X-box 360 and Nintendo Wii he can play on the 100" projector screen in the basement.

We're back in a Tetris/Dr Mario battle mode at work with the Wii (emulation).  It's a great game, because the games only last a few minutes each, which means you can get a few in each 15 minute break.

[Ginsu Victim]

No kids, but I definitely fit in the "way too many to ever play them all" category.

[shateredsoul1979]

My 8 year old often asks me to turn on the SNES that I still have hooked up and working on the 30" TV in my study, even though he has an X-box 360 and Nintendo Wii he can play on the 100" projector screen in the basement.

We're back in a Tetris/Dr Mario battle mode at work with the Wii (emulation).  It's a great game, because the games only last a few minutes each, which means you can get a few in each 15 minute break.

Yeah, I find my self playing the ps2 version of Lumines. Puzzle games are fun and addicting. Only fighters and racing games can also provide that time of quick satisfaction for some games. On-line matches used to do that for me on halo 2, but I dunno.. I got bored of playing on-line. It's not the same as playing with a friend.

[rapomstage3]

I play games with my son..Its awesome. He's 5 and can pull fatalities better than most people.

[jamesjones626]

my son love contras on the nes, my 2 daughters love diner dash, and thats about the only games they like to play.  My oldest daughter use to be hooked on tapper.  My kids didn't turn out to much like me which i am not sure if thats a good or bad thing yet.  My son is the Anti-me, he loves to be dressed up all the time, hair combed, smelling and looking good, wants his hair cut all the time, loves to dance, has a great way with girls his age and very sociable.  The one thing we have in common though (he's 5 mind you) is he loves to be in the garage lifting weights with me.  He deadlifts 20lbs like a boss! 

[Donkbaca]

It is so true.  The older you get, the more time demands are put on you: Work, kids, wife, staying in shape, house work and yard work (never ends).   The only game time I get is late at night Fridays and Saturdays, and usually I would rather sleep.

Plus with games nowadays, playing for an hour or two a week doesn't cut it.  You  get busya nd take a couple weeks off and you get totally lost.

[Bootay]

Yep. It's true for me. I have kids and I never have the time to play my games. But I am like ShatteredSoul. I do more building/fixing/making room/cleaning/buying more, than actual playing. When I do play it is late Friday/Saturday night when everyone is asleep (so I don't get interrupted). But like Donk, I would rather just go to sleep most of the time.

When I do play, I usually end up playing the older stuff because everything newer requires too many man hours that I do not have. I would love to have the time to sit down and beat some of these long 60 hour games though. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, I would even settle for time enough to beat a 5 hour game. LOL

[Donkbaca]

Yeah, Forza 4 is coming out, I got all excited about it, bought it and then realized, "well there is another game to add to the to be played pile...."

[Howard_Casto]

... I want kids, someday. So that will be even truer then.

Currently I do agree with saint, building the arcade cab and figuring out the emulators was a lot of fun. I spend much more time doing that than playing. I'll play one game, and think, okay what game am I missing now. Okay I have the games, now I need a way to store them. Okay I have a way to store them, now how can I make my office/game room look cleaner.

I have this problem as well.  I think the main problem I have with aracde games in particular is the games that I particularly like have zero replay value and there aren't very many of them. 

My absolute favorite genre is the beat-em-up... you know final fight, tmnt, ect...  The problem is there are only like 20 of them and each one can be beaten in like an hour or two.  After you've beaten them you don't want to play them for a loooong time. 

My second favorite genre is the street fighters but those have even less replay value... at least in single player mode. 

I also like horizontal/vertical shooters, but again, not much replay value and they are quite short. 

And then the classics, while fun, aren't fun to play for more than 5 minutes.  I don't particularly want a perfect score in pacman, because their really isn't any reward from it. 


So mostly I play console games anymore.  Ubisoft gives me at least one good, long game a year (AC and/or POP) and there are usually some fill-ins like the upcoming Arkham City and such.  I'm pretty much down to 5-10 games a year anymore, which is kinda sad. 

As to the original question... Why would you buy a game you have no intention of playing?  I just don't get that.  Buy it once you have the time to play it. 

[ChadTower]

Only partially - I don't have much leisure time, and that I do have is often spent in other pursuits (for instance, building rather than playing arcade games). However, I take great delight in seeing friends and family and specifically my kids playing said games. My 8 year old often asks me to turn on the SNES that I still have hooked up and working on the 30" TV in my study, even though he has an X-box 360 and Nintendo Wii he can play on the 100" projector screen in the basement.

+1

This is my situation pretty much exactly if you swap the projector for a 60" RPTV I got from Freecycle.  My sons' friends are starting to appreciate coming over, too, because they can always find video game systems they have never even heard of.  It's awesome to see a group of 10-12 year olds going nuts because 2600 Warlords is so much fun.

I wish I could convince their friends to play any of the cabs/pins for more than 5 minutes.  Vector games seem to be a little too abstract for them and the pins don't grab them other than the SWE1 for obvious reasons.