I personally prefer flipping (heh) the operation: cheese on bottom bun, condiments on top. It’s a texture thing.

Framerates have to get below ~10 for me to start getting fussy. But I’m also still okay with watching old solarized VHS tapes with tracking issues on a 10" B&W CRT, so I get that I probably have a rare condition that requires medical supervision.

My first best friend gets his Atari 2600 first, because his 5th birthday is a few weeks before mine. Lets me binge on River Raid anyway.

Metal Gear on NES - The first time I ever throw a controller.

The Adventure of Link - The first time I ever rage-quit.

Original Game Boy specifically because a bunch of pro…

My personal advice? Buy an N64.

Reasons?

* They’re still relatively cheap despite retro game collections driving older prices through the roof in the last 5 years.

* I’ve never met anyone who didn’t love Mario Kart, and

* perhaps most importantly, N64 is the only system that provided solid training wheels when it came…

I wound up doing a massive write-up of my first play through. Rim world does so much by leaving a lot to the imagination but overloading said imagination with an insane amount of details, and an event system that seems singularly focused on hacking at confirmation bias.

You had to go and mention Rimworld.

I completely missed the Kickstarter but saw this post, read the description, thought “huh...” and am now 8 hours in with two co-workers equally addicted.

Not even out of alpha and it’s seriously amazing.

MGS2 was so, so good. People had weird issues with Raiden, but it’s easily my favorite.