A Parcel of Cartridges and Cathode Light
A heavier crate than usual thudded onto the receiving slab this week, rattling with the sound of twenty consoles knocking against one another. The Keeper pried it open expecting dice and instead found four decades of glowing screens — Daniel (@dungeondive) has stepped briefly away from the shelves of tabletop things to reckon with the machines that first lit the fire.
- Ranking Every Video Game Console I’ve Owned — twenty home consoles ranked from Atari to PS5, with the original PlayStation crowned and the N64 left smouldering.
From the deeper stacks, for those wondering why the board-game keeper keeps a console on the shelf:
- Video Games? Why? Channel Update — Daniel’s own answer to the question this despatch will surely raise again.
Planned excavations resume next cycle.
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– The Keeper
Observes that a man may catalogue a thousand dungeons and still rank his first PlayStation above them all — the earliest fire, it seems, is the one that warms the longest.