There have been crossovers: the Playstation has had keyboard functionality since “The Deuce”, and the Xbox360 controller is practically Plug-n-Play for PC use, but countless controllers, game pads, and HOTAS-style input devices have been developed for the PC, few actually worth using and many of the latter totaling in the hundreds of dollars. PC and Console gaming have always held a rivalry, but regardless of which team your on certain games lend themselves to certain control schemes First Person Shooters are better suited to the precision of a mouse and keyboard, whereas racing/sports games like Rocket League, where you’re holding buttons/sticks down for extended periods of time, are easier to manage with a controller. Recently, VALVe has gotten into the hardware game, and this is where our story of intertwined passions came to be. For those of you unaware, Steam is essentially iTunes for video games. As such, I’ve been intimately familiar with VALVe’s gaming platform “Steam” since its bundled launch with their highly awaited sequel Half Life 2 (we’ll never see H元, gang, just accept it) back in 2004. Moral of the story: I’m a PC gamer by trade. We found unbelievable things in those systems animals, bodily waste and money included. We’d talk them down to $5 for the lot, take it all home, clean up and package the thing with two controllers, a zapper gun, and the Duck Hunt/Super Mario cartridge, selling the newly-pristine package to nostalgia-saddled gamers at a respectable markup.
My friend J and I would go to the local swap meets and find the grandparents whose loved ones had left behind their consoles and assorted games/accessories when leaving for college or simply due to an upgrade and clean house. I never really got into console gaming, but I did briefly pay the bills by flipping NES packages on eBay once.
There are a handful of passions that I’ve held throughout my career as a human on this planet filmmaking and gaming are two of the big ones.
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