Very true, at a point I'm now constantly reviewing my hobbies that take up all our free spacethe things you own end up owning you.
Even though Technosoft shmups were my first on the Genesisthanx guys, yeah ive been on the shmups forum since it first started in the early 2000s
played alot of battle garegga on the saturn and ikaruga on the dreamcast and after learning that there were 2 sequels to garegga on the arcade i jumped head first into the abyss
Got a supergun and blazing star, esprade (my first cave experience !) and battle bakraid sometime 2001/2002 and it has been going downhill ever since...