This is somewhere between a blog post and a forum post.

I've been playing a lot of games, most of them old, and I found I really do enjoy writing reviews for games.  My writing needs work, but it's good practice, and everything I write for the site is worth more than I'm paid for it (nothing).  I was excited that my Alien Swarm review even got featured -- I also think it's my best written review.  I wrote it thinking "No, fewer words" the whole time, because I tend to ramble.  It's carefully trained by my old English classes back in school, where stretching half a page worth of content into ten pages worth of words was pretended to be a virtue.  Then I got into technical/business writing, where you're lucky if someone looks at the first page and it's important to get to the point in 500 words or less.  The latter is more where my instincts started, but the former is where my training sent me.

I do wonder, though, how many people read "old" reviews.  I've looked at one or two when I notice somebody else wrote a review for a game I also played.  I've even had a few where one person wrote one review, I wrote another, and we each had a different experience (positive or negative) in spite of describing the experience the same way (e.g. very hard, unforgiving, but fun once you get things right).

Does anyone else read/write old reviews?  Has anybody been buying these old games?  I wrote one for Ecco the Dolphin because I saw it being rereleased via Steam.

I do. I don't usually get time to buy games when they come out, and rent all the ones i missed in the summer, so this comes in handy!

Nope, not really. Unless they're Giantbomb made, or if the game isn't more than 3-4 years old.

I don't read reviews (unless they're for games I know I won't play), so it's a moot point.

I like reading reviews of games I've already beaten, just to see if agree with the writer.
 
Eh, It's fun for me, just a way to waste time when I'm REALLY bored.

I like old reviews. Mostly because its a trip down nostalgia lane of games I used to play. Classic gameroom  reviews on youtube are pretty solid. Reviewing everything from Atari on up.

I love to read old reviews to games I already beat or to games I am on the fence about buying late in their relevance.

Usually when I see a movie in theaters it is for opening weekend and by them I would have read the review of the movie if I was interested in it at all. If I simply queue something up on netflix that looks great, as I did with Mother, I go to ebert, phillip and screened to check out their oppinions.
 
For games, I only use them for purchasing decision for stuff like Mirrors Edge, stuff in the middle, I rarely by games Day One, unless its a sequel. Even if I don't read the review of a game I am going to buy, i read it afterwords.

I do all the time, but for some reason I never really read the user reviews here. I pick up ps2 games or older psp and ds games all the time and always check out youtube and ign for a review. I'm going to start reading user reviews here now. I feel silly, it's like I forgot there are user reviews here.

yes, when i find a game on sale, i go around different websites and read the old reviews just so i can reassure myself that buying this game will be the right thing to do.

I don't even read new reviews. I watch a few trailers for a game, maybe look at some review scores, watch for any news stories about game breaking bugs and the such and from there I can tell if I will like the game or not.