It's fair to say, if a bit macabre, that I am collecting "retro" (that hurts to admit that the games/systems I grew up with are classified as retro) games due to the death of a once quite close friend. Last July my close friend Dan Wood died suddenly of heart failure. Funny thing is, if any of it is funny at all, is that through the years when I'd have health issues, I'd think to myself why couldn't I be healthy like Dan. Turns out I was the healthier one all along! Dan and my mother After the viewing and memorial dinner Dan's widow offered me a game that he and I had spent months playing together, Castlevania Symphony of the Night for PS1. This game means the world to me. Dan and I spent 1997 finding every single piece of food and items we could, and upright and upside down, we searched Castle Dracula. This game is quite expensive today, especially a black spine first printing. I lost my copy decades ago, while Dan kept his original game with ...