In a certain previous podcast, I outed myself as a complete and total cheapskate. As a rule of thumb I've refused to purchase a video game more than forty dollars, with the rare exceptions rearing their glorious heads from time to time. I usually buy used instead of new. I pay nearly bottom-dollar for any Humble Bundle that rolls around. I ignore the other, lesser bundles that have mandatory minimum prices. Heck, I've resorted to the underworld of retro gaming by burning "backup" copies of Dreamcast titles and diving headlong into ROM sites for cartridge-based systems. If any game developer made a dollar off of me in recent memory, they should laminate it, frame it, and nail it to a wall in their lobby in veneration for all time because it's a rare thing to see from me.
By all respects, I'm a horrible gamer, and should be ashamed of myself for not giving into the worship of the white elephant that is video games.
This is why I have such high hopes for - and an utter fear of - the OUYA.
