As promised I said I’d be back shortly with my 2015 gaming goals. If you haven’t seen and are interested to see how I did on my 2014 goals please read the post below this. Last year I had a good mix between collecting goals and playing goals. However this year I think will probably be a little bit more about playing the games. So without further ado here are Hitman Tommy’s 2015 Gaming Goals!
1.Find 25 more NES Cartridges for my collection.
This may not seem like very much but again it’s been difficult to find carts that I need in good shape and a good price. It was a real uphill climb to reach last year’s goal of 41, and actually almost half of my pickups from last year were a result of my trip to Calgary to go to the Expo. This year we don’t really have any intention on attending the Calgary Expo mainly due to other responsibilities and so far there hasn’t been anyone announced that will make us drive the 13 hours. That being said regardless of who they have for guests or not the Calgary Expo is a great time so if you’re in the area; buy a ticket and go you won’t regret it. Anyways as I was saying almost half of my 41 came from the trip last year so 25 seems like a good round number to strive for. It’s about 15% of what I’m missing from my collection and I feel it’s a solid amount to try for. It’s about 2 per month which fits well with my budget as the days of finding carts locally for $3-$5 a piece is long over and I’ll probably have to dump a bit more cash into or resort to online sources.
2.Complete Five X-box 360 games
This is a repeat goal from last year. I only completed 2 Xbox games last year (excluding XBLA games). 2014 was really about the Wii U for me and found more often than not if I found some free time that I’d play it as opposed to the Xbox. I have so many Xbox games that I have never even tried simply cause anything that I could find for a few dollars at a pawn shop I would buy and in 2014 I also corrected that and tried to only pick up things that I thought I would actually play. I also ditched a few titles that I knew would never see the light of day. However I still have so many Xbox games that I tend to suffer from the “I have too much to play” syndrome and usually results in me playing nothing at all. This year I think my tactic is that I’m going to just randomly pick a game, no researching how long it takes to beat or trying to make some convoluted plan on how I’m going to do it. Just pick a game beat it and move on. We’ll see how that goes.
**Note Since I started writing this I decided my first Xbox 360 game of 2015 will be Tomb Raider**
3.Beat one game for 10 different consoles/handhelds
One thing that was definitely missing from my 2014 list was a lack of retro gaming goals. My retro systems get more consistent use than anything else in my arsenal so it makes sense that I should have some type of goal. However I didn’t want to box myself into a corner by making it console specific. If I said beat 10 SNES games that’s all well and good but I know that anytime I went to play something else I’d be like “you should be playing something on Super Nintendo”. While I still want to have some type of goal surrounding this I still want 2015 to be more about playing what I want to play and not feeling like I have to play something. This goal is separate from the X-Box goal so when I beat my first 360 game for the year it doesn’t count towards the 10. I feel like I haven’t played my Sega CD or 3DO in awhile so maybe I’ll start there.
4. Five of my Biggest Wants for 2015
I’ve seen a few other people making a list like this of games they would like to acquire during the year so I figured I would do the same with some of the games I’ve been dying to get so I can play them. I’ll combine the entire list as one goal. So the Top 5 non-NES games I hope to find in 2015 are:
1.Professor Layton and The Last Specter -NDS
2.Secret of Mana -SNES
3.Blazing Lazers -TG16
4.Grandia- PS1
5.Dragon's Revenge- GEN
And that's it I'm only going to name 4 goals this year which is just as well as these will take up the majority of my time and money to complete as it is. Anyways I'm looking forward to another great year in 2015 and hopefully you stick around to see what else we have in store this year. Thanks for reading and Happy New Year everyone!!
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