Playing games from the couch on a real PS2 again led me to an interesting thought. There’s generally no way, and no expectation of a way, to reset the console from the controller.

If you were going to switch game, you were going to be getting up to change the disc anyway, so what’s the point?

This led me to giving a “bad” game much more of a chance yesterday than I would have if I was on an emulator or something, because I could have just hit reset and changed to something else instantly. I ended up having some fun with it.

Anyway, no idea if this is bad or good. Just a bit of a flashback.

#retrogaming

Maybe today I'll play something less morally questionable, like Grand Theft Auto. Carl never did war crimes.

You can only spend so much time roleplaying Gul Dukat in a war game before you start questioning your life choices.

I made myself take a day off yesterday, and played some PS2 games. I discovered a really basic strategy game, Star Trek: Conquest, which really isn't very good, lacks depth, but was a nice fit for a no-brain day.

Well, when I say it makes depth I did lose one round because I committed all my resources to Gul Dukat's occupation of Bajor and refused to withdraw in the face of a Dominion assault which allowed the Klingon Empire to take Cardassia Prime behind me.

It's not a good game though, really.

I wonder if anyone's ever figured out the chances of anything coming from Mars.

Be good to have some kind of number to associate with it.