Get a load of this lot!!!


bmd3287 posted on Dec 13 2003 at 05:21 PM said:
...a lot of imports and anime games
You could have just edited your post, instead of creating another post four minutes later.
 
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..and you could have said nothing, and it wouldn't matter either!!

(and then I ALSO could have said nothing and then.. AAAIIIIEE just like dominos, it all falls one after the other!)
 
actually.. I think this guy is way, way beyond the point where he could ever think "I was stupid for buying all this shit"

I think maybe 7 or 8 years ago, at LEAST, he was already well hip-deep into his collection and realized that it was something that was considerably a major focal point for the rest of his life and would be until the day he left this world, and -- regardless of whether or not he still had any interest in the matter -- he realized "well, no matter what, I have to keep buying absolutely every thing even remotely videogame related and prop it up in the ol' display case just as sure as I've gotta keep pumping air in and out of my lungs.."

and now this brings us to the question, what kind of person can amass such hideous personal wealth that they can amass such an obscene collection? Is this what the U.S. Soldiers found when they raided Saddam's mansion? Does Paris Hilton have a younger, virginal brother? (obviously very content with his virginity, at that?)
 
I guess there's not much game collectors herel :) I know the GP32 appeals to people like that (me).. That list is impressive, but I know many people who have even more stuff.. .

Personally, I have about 100 different machines with about 900 games total.
here's my list
http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net/cgi-bin/p...db.cgi?owner=MP

and here's some pictures of my 'game room' (though most of the stuff is hidden behind the shirts and inside boxes) :

http://www.pelikonepeijoonit.net/room/july2003.html

So.. are there any other video game collector's here?

My collection still pales badly to some of the people found from here :
http://www.digitpress.com/gameroom/
 
My collection consists of 47 or 48 consoles. I forget. I mostly collect megadrive and nes games, but generally, if the price is right, I buy it. Not based on 'I must have everything' or 'I must be better than everyone else', but 'I might want to play that game someday'. And of course I did always like most of the games I buy...

But have I passed on things? Many times. I pass on consoles if I have more than 1 usually, I pass on lots of snes games due to fanboys buying them in vast quantities cos they are 'retro' thus driving up the price (and the price of megadrive games down, making them easier to collect! Thanks, suckers!), and sometimes I pass on a good deal like a Donkey Kong 2 G&W flip top thingy the other day for 5 bucks. I mean yeah, it was worth it, but that money went towards megadrive games instead. Like Global Gladiators. And G-Loc.

I admit I've been criticised for being a hoarder before, but I think that's because I found a copy of sonic shuffle for 15 bucks. (after I traded it for PSOv1 and Lethal Enforcers on SNES, as I had the guns but no game. The difference between a hoarder and a collector is the hoarder doesn't actually appreciate the games, they're just status symbols (this is especially true regarding prototypes...especially when more than one proto exists, and that one person has all of the known existing ones! from different sources! argh!)

Just in case someone wants to see, here's my collection: Games List
 
GurtyGurt posted on Dec 14 2003 at 08:47 AM said:
My collection consists of 47 or 48 consoles. I forget. I mostly collect megadrive and nes games, but generally, if the price is right, I buy it. Not based on 'I must have everything' or 'I must be better than everyone else', but 'I might want to play that game someday'. And of course I did always like most of the games I buy...
Good points!
I hate people who have the money to buy everything they want. That takes the fun out of the collecting. One major principle for me is that if something is more expensive that I'm willing to pay for it, I won't buy it. I'll just wait and see if I can find it some other time. Most of my collection I've gotten very cheap :) Just have to keep eyes open.

Another point is the fact that "Games are for playing, not just for dis-playing" .. I don't see the point of keeping stuff in shrinkwrap or having multiple copies of something.. You need to play them! That's the fun with this kind of collecting, instead of, say collecting stamps or vacuum cleaners (yup, people do that). You can actually have fun and do something with the stuff you've accumulated.

Great to have another collector here :)
 
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Computers for the most part aren't worth getting. A lot of them had a bare minimum of games, and trying to find and figure out Japanese PC variants would take you a few billion years. Okay, maybe not that bad. Keep in mind that not all of them are emulated...just the more well known ones are. (more well known in japan!)

Computers for me is definitely a case of 'dont buy it if you wont use it'. I would buy say, a SC-3000/SG-1000 (in fact i had a datasette for one once - I donated it to Zoop, in the hope that it may improve emulation quality for him...but I think it turned out to be dead, unfortunately), but I would not buy a PC-88 or something because while there's good games, there's only a bare minimum of them. Considering the amount of space it takes up and the amount of space I have, not to mention the amount of other equally good or much better games I have, it's just illogical. I stick mostly to the major stuff. Computers I would buy (including ones I have) are Commodore Vic20/64/128/+4/16/Amiga (but not PETs), Amstrad CPC's, ZX Spectrums (mine has no power cables I think? Does it work even? I got a ton of games at an auction...), MSX and its variants, um...maybe a BBC or something? Maybe the Atari computers? I mentioned the Sga ones already, um...there's probably more but I can't think of it. Console-wise, I'd buy virtually anything on the condition it is a console (ie not N-Gage or handheld LCD games).

Quite often I find myself giving tips on locations of good stuff to other collectors, if I don't want the item myself...and occasionally if I double up for some reason (usually when I don't know if I have some sports game, or bundles of games, or simply because the game is impossible to pass by), I'll give away or trade that to one of them also. I'd rather see the games go to someone I know will appreciate them than one of those 'must get everything' types...
 
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