Imagine that you’re about the embark on something that is going to change your entire life… and your primary concerns are bringing old video game consoles and games you’ve played thousands of times before.
You’ve got an entire new city to explore, people to meet, places to visit, and the pressing matter is whether he’s going to be able to play Mario Golf. What was the purpose of this move again?
I can understand a computer. I believe that email, work, government/banking/medical stuff all feels better to do on a PC as opposed to on a phone, but maybe I'm old and out of touch. It's not purely an entertainment system. Plus, what else is he gonna do with it? Put it in mom's basement, I guess?
Even if we all
know he will use it almost exclusively as a cooming/consooming/sometimes streaming device when he could be doing much more with his time in Japan and his life in general, I can't really fault him for bringing it. Remember, he thinks he's going to Japan for a long, loooong time. And if the alternative is to buy a new one (no laptop???), then bringing it with him is probably the better choice financially as well.
Bringing the N64 is patent retardation, of course, a decision which encapsulates Chibi as a whole. First of all, emulators exist, and it's not like he is some top tier speedrunner whose WR might need defending on original hardware. Second of all, as others have mentioned, the whole issue of getting a CRT. I can just imagine him having to use his dinner table for the N64 and sitting 10 inches away from the screen due to the likely dimensions of his Tokyo apartment.
Finally, what is it all for? Is it because he expects to have company over to entertain with party games on his 30-year-old console? If it's just for him, did he not
just shill out hundreds of dollars on the newest Nintendo console, one which is actually portable and perfect for entertainment during those jetlag days? It's almost like some sort of autistic checklist item, as if he's in the car with his parents and if he doesn't get to bring his purple dragon plushie to the grocery store, then he will wail and shit himself the entire time. "I'm moving across the world to start a new career and a new life! What should I bring? Let's see, I guess I'll start with the things which have brought me the most woe over the past two decades..."