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Why do you collect?
satoshi_matrix:
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This. :D
TyrannicalFascist:
Well I can answer by pretty much saying what I collect, as it's self explanatory:
-Games I had growing up
-Games I liked, but never had (Star Fox, Paper Mario, Sonic CD, etc)
-Games I never tried but always heard I should (A Link to the Past, Perfect Dark, DuckTales NES,...I have Classic Game Room and you guys to thank for these 8) )
-Gaming oddities, particularly licensed Nintendo or related (SGB Commander, GCN Hori GB Player Controller, Virtual Boy, SupaBoy, GCN Keyboard controller, Wisdom Tree GB games,...)
-Misc things (Sega Nomad, Nintendo Power Issues, Nintendo Mini Classics, Mario Knex mini figures, Nintendo BD&A beanbag characters, WOTC-era Pokemon cards,...)
-I also more or less collect games from these series: Mario & related (Yoshi, Wario, etc), Sonic, Star Wars, Rareware
So I guess it's part nostalgia and part a mixture of other things. There's no real hard and fast rule for what I collect. Strangely enough, I must admit, I don't have a lot of interest in collecting NES games. Currently I have 6 of them. Maybe it's because I've seen ahoy monstrous that library is via the AVGN and others. But more likely it's because I'm 25 and my first real system was SNES, so NES was a little before my time, personally speaking. Same with the Master System. My dad and I played Atari 2600 and 7800 a long time ago, which he sold, and he has a Flashback 2 and several of those plug and play games that we played, but I'm content playing them on my phone or elsewhere (though I may get Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong in cart form).
I currently own and get things for SNES, N64, GCN, Wii, WiiU, GEN, Sega CD, 32X, SAT, GB, GBC, GBA, VB, DS, 3DS, GG, and PC. I own a PSOne, though I don't currently track down games for it yet. Same for Xbox/360. I may get a Dreamcast one day, once I've filled out my recent retro systems like Sega Saturn. I only own one choice version of a system or handheld (not counting upgrades like DS Lite or Sega CDX) with 1 exception - my 2nd GBA, backlit by wiggy.
My collection is pretty modest compared to most on this site, but it's a selection of games, systems and accessories that I enjoy. 85-90% of my collection I play or have played, and the rest are just because I have a little of that completist attitude and have to get Mario is Missing and Sonic Labyrinth.
Some day I'll post my collection, when I feel it's in a presentable state.
kaysow:
played way too much back in the NES-days, my parents never would've got me one if they'd known.
then got a genesis, and tho they were fun games it just felt like more of the same. had no clue about the SNES stuff i was missing out on. so i kinda grew out of it around that era, only to be pulled back in middleschool when the PSX started to generate a bunch of hype in the schoolyard. having 3d games like tekken and tomb raider and resident evil looked awesome, and a mag i picked up strongly hyped up FFVII, to be released a year and a half later. from that point on i've had at least two consoles every gen.
but i never bothered to keep games. along the years stuff was sold off, lent away forever, or just ruined. also, i was content with roms and hardmodded machines running burned discs. that was until 2009 when my brother picked up God Hand for my birthday, a cult title which i hadn't considered buying for myself. at that point, i had like 10 old carts left in the attic, a couple of PSX and PS2 games (FF, MGS, Suikoden, that sorta timeless stuff) + a handful for the PS3. it was a pretty pathetic amassment when you looked at it, and i thought it'd be sweet to have more interesting stuff ready and available, to play at my fancy, and to lend out on recommendation.
so (like jdavis above) i'm more about building a respectable "library" than any complete "sets". i pick up
* the very best titles, personal favorites, 10/10. doesn't matter what suiko2 costs me (circa $100 actually, not too bad)
* titles with universal acclaim or historical significance, even if i only sorta like some of them (like DMC and pokemon)
* a few with universal disdain like superman 64
* oddities like chulip and tingle
* cult stuff that i keep hearing about. the importance of this category can't be understated. without it you'd easily miss out on stuff like drakengard/nier and the persona series (everyone loves #4 now, but back in 2007/08 you'd never have known)
also, reluctantly; a few that i don't really care for but can't ignore. like halo and gears of war. not call of duty tho, that goes nowhere near my collection. i need to draw a line somewhere, which would be at the kinect and spunkgargleweewee.
evoking the memory of a rental store offering is awesome, with everything lined up by title and system for easy access, so custom shelves is a must.
i can peruse this library at my own leisure, picking off games that i never got around to (ace combat, wild arms) or just the stuff i need to catch up with (walking dead, virtue's last reward). there's no hurry either, cuz i don't have the slightest problem with outdated graphics, altho outdated 2D looks better than outdated 3D. and i'm positive that the term "nostalgia goggles" is applied way too liberally in reference to old vidya. played suikoden 2 (1999) in 2006, and it instantly jumped to spot #1 on my list of favorite videogames. more recently, i've successfully enjoyed the pokemon and ace combat series.
Beastman1975:
I've always enjoyed movies and gameing but never planned on "collecting" such a large quantity of either, i guess the short answer is i refuse to trade in games/movies for a fraction of what i paid for them. even when i worked for gamestop i didnt like how we'd give about 20-25 bucks in trade for a new release and then turn around and sell it for 5 bucks less than brand new. i understand they want to make a profit on it but still made me feel dirty lol.
Lambadelta:
I was born around the time the SNES was released and was lucky enough to experience it because my older brother passed it down to me. Then years later i lost most of my stuff and only played modern games. I suddenly then realised most new games are boring, uninnovative or just repetitive. I then decided to buy a Super Famicom and collect for it. I want to collect all its games but not just to sit on a shelf. I want to collect them to play them ^^
I plan to collect for the N64, Sega Master System and Sega Megadrive. Maybe a Sega Saturn. I plan to also buy a Famicom system.
I find retro games a goldmine of unexplored creativity that the world seems to just forget. I say death to games like CoD and all hail the retro game era XD