I snagged Civilization 6 for free when epic was giving it out a few months ago. I'd never played any civ games but I have a copy of civ 5 so I decided to play that first and quickly got addicted and played it every night for a couple of months. Still haven't installed civ 6 yet though.
After that I moved on to GTA V on the pc. I also got that for free from epic a couple years ago, and just got around to installing it. I played it on the PS3 like 6 years ago, but it had been long enough that I could replay it again. The game plays flawlessly on my laptop; I use my xbox one controller wirelessly connected to my pc - also flawless. If I'd have known how easy it was to install and play with my xbox controller I would have played it much sooner. I've finished the main story line and assassination missions and each character is sitting around $1.8B. I spend most of my time in the game just fucking around. Mrs. frugalnacho hates the game and hates when I play it because I kill so many people. She doesn't seem to be able to separate the game from reality. The last game I purchased a hammer, then went around hammering people, hiding from the cops/having a shootout, followed by more hammering when the heat died down. Rinse and repeat until well over 100 hammer kills. I don't know why it's so entertaining, I have no desire to go on a hammer related serial/spree murder IRL. I also think it's funny to hammer the cats and dogs which I would also never do IRL. I don't remember any house cats when I played it on the PS3, they must have added them at some point. I completed the entire game, and surely I would have remembered stomping that many cats.
More recently I introduced my 5 year old son to super mario brothers 1 on an emulator. He's never played video games. He really sucks at this point, but it's his new favorite thing in the whole world.
Now that he's into it I want to build a dedicated emulator so we can play on the tv without using my laptop. I want to build one using a raspberry pi 4, but the only ones I can find are being scalped for way over retail price. I'm going to keep my eyes open for one. I'm want to introduce him to all of my favorite retro games: mario series, mega man series, zelda series, sonic, and a hundred others I'm not thinking of at the moment. I'm going to try and give him a slow drip of games so I don't overwhelm him by dumping 10,000 old games on him. I'm super excited that he is going to get to experience all the awesome games I got to play throughout my youth. Even a bit envious.