I really wanted a modded Xbox 360 when I was younger because I thought being able to play ‘backed up’ games and having a custom dashboard was really neat.

I ended up buying one last year to fulfill that childhood wish.

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    When I was like 19 or something, I went into a restaurant, got seated, asked to see a dessert menu. I ordered dessert. Then I asked for an appetizer menu. And I ordered an appetizer. Then I paid, and left.

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    When I was a kid, I was really into driving games, started off with Mario Kart and Stunt Race FX on the SNES, later moved onto F1 World Grand Prix on the N64, for which I had one of these bad boys.

    You put your legs either side of the wheel to hold it in place. It wasn’t very good at all if I’m being honest. Even at the time, 9 year old me thought it wasn’t great.

    So during covid, I saw that V3 pictured above being sold on facebook marketplace for 20chf (swissbux), and thought I could do better. Started off with a Logitech G29 and ended up with this:

    Yes, cable management is not great, but I’m in a relatively small apartment, so gotta wedge it in a corner, but it’s my corner, the Corner of Speed

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      I also loved racing games as a kid and my first purchase after I moved out was a g29 lmao.

      I’d love to have a simrig and could probably afford one nowadays, but space is really big issue when living in an apartment. I don’t really have a free corner to put it in like you.

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    2 tv’s side-by-side with 2 consoles for local multi-player. Dream achieved with a bonus wife to play with.

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    I always loved construction equipment as a kid. I had a full set of die-cast Cat construction machines and would play with them in a sandbox my dad built.

    Three months ago I bought a Kubota U27-4 mini-excavator. Needless to say, my inner 8 year old is thrilled.

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    A real video game set up. I have 17 consoles in the house and over 450 games.

    I even have the old CRT TV with an AV switcher hooked up so I can switch between consoles quickly without having to mess with any wires.

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        Eh not really. I have the yellow Pikachu Gameboy color. But I’m a big Halo fan (hence the username) so I’ve focused on collecting all the Halo special edition Xboxs. Only missing 5 and Infinite. 5 is relatively cheap I just haven’t got it yet and the Infinite Series X is jacked up in price since there were so few made and it was released during the pandemic when sclapers were doing their thing.

        Other than than mostly Xbox and Nintendo systems going back to SNES.

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          If I were you, I’d skip the 5 xbox just as an insult to that game’s writing.

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      I bought a new '99 Civic Si but when I saw the S2000 I wished I had waited. I loved my Si - it was blue and I named him Moonshadow – but that S2000 is sweet. Will never forget driving from Vegas to SoCal and being passed by a guy driving an S2000. Or did I pass him? It was so long ago. One of us yelled “nice car!” and the other said “you too!”

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    I sold a bunch of 70’s and 80’s tabletop roleplaying stuff when I went to college. A few years ago, I reacquired many of those titles at collector’s prices. Not my most brilliant financial move.

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    I don’t think there are any desires I carried over from childhood that I finally fulfilled later. Most things I wanted in the past I simply stopped wanting as I changed with age.

    I have, however, on numerous occasions in my adult life, looked at something that probably would’ve made my kid self go into orbit with excitement and thought, “Man, if only I could get an adult to buy me this…” only to blink a couple times, see the lightbulb turn on, and go, “HEY, WAIT A MINUTE…!”

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    I bought a house, and then the vacant lot next to the house, and hopefully someday before prices go nuts the vacant lot on the other side of the house. Urban farm, baybee!