how to say goodbye

Why am I playing all these old games, with their obsolete UI's and crappy graphics, when there are tons of good and recent games that I haven't even played yet? So I can say goodbye to them. I want to take a brief walk down memory lane with these old games, to remind myself of what has come before, and record it. I want to remember what I liked or didn't, what moved me, and what I want. Maybe that's the whole point of this blog - to figure out why I am gaming when I could be doing something else with all this time.

I also want to deepen my overall knowledge and appreciation of video games, by finding gaps in my experience and filling them in. Even if that means I have to watch a playthrough and read others notes about it, at least I can have some idea of what I missed. And having reviewed the game, myself or by proxy, I want to put it firmly behind me. There are so many games lingering in boxes or in the archives that I think I might just play again, and I would like to let them go, or find justification for keeping them in rotation. I'll never have the time to play all the good games; this is a step towards not missing the best.