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MY RETRO LIFE

CONSUMED BY COLLECTING

Darran ponders his life choices

Regular readers of this section of the magazine will know I have a lot of games. You’ll also know that I’ve used these pages of the magazine to occasionally mention the depression I’ve suffered from over the years as well. While I won’t bore you with the reasons behind my long-term bouts of depression I will share something that some of you may have already guessed by now – I buy videogames as a coping mechanism.

I’ve always made excuses for the games I collect and to a point I still make some of them now. I grew up relatively poor as a child (our childhood photos of our home consist of mismatched furniture and all of us wearing hand-me-down clothes)

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