I'm sure you'll hear me rant about how cool it is being late to the gaming scene.  The first and most obvious benefit is that the next 10 games I plan on getting are no more than $7 each.  I'll be spending $70 max on stuff that collectively used to cost $500+.  Don't get me wrong, if someone were to ask me about current games on the market, I could tell them all about new and future releases despite not having played it yet.  (I should work at a damn game store.) 

In fact, I don't just limit myself to cheap games.  If I'm really jonesing to play something new, not much is going to stand in my way.  My deal is that I'm quite content playing the awesome games of yesterday.  For example I'm playing a GBA game that came our 4 years ago.  And it's actually a port of a game that came out 10 years before that.  I missed out on the Super Nintendo, and boy let me tell you I am loving on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past!  If I remember correctly, I think they added it to the greatest games of all time feature not too long ago. 

Call me crazy, but it's my first Zelda game that I'm actually planning on finishing.  (I had finals and couldn't commit to a long story.)  In my past I was never interested in RPGs.  (I know Zelda's different, but hear me out!)  I woudn't touch any sort of RPG with a 10 ft pole.  My perspectives changed when I decided to give Final Fantasy a try because I didn't want to be a hypocrite like some other gamers you run into and call a certain genre stupid when they hadn't really given it a chance. 

Anyways, long story short (too late! - I love the movie, Clue) I'm open to RPGs of all sorts, and I plan on trying out some good Strategy games in the near future.  It almost breaks my heart to think I would have missed out on a gem like A Link to the Past.  It's easy to see why this game struck a chord with gamers both in the past and present, and is another testament to being one of the benefits of showing up late.