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| Quazimoto:
I would classify myself as a player more so than a collector. I only buy games I do intend to play... eventually. As far as completeness goes; All my PSOne, PS2, PS3 and Genesis games are complete. I do have a fairly good sized GameBoy collection as well. It's not complete and I don't care about obtaining boxes for those, but I do want to eventually get manuals for all the games. |
| AxelSteelBMX:
--- Quote from: Seraph Man on July 29, 2013, 09:02:21 PM ---As for the games themselves, one the one hand, I buy games I intend to play. On the other, I have 2 PS2 games, 1 Game Gear game, and intend to get 2 PSP games, and an N64 game (and maybe a repro Genesis game), despite not owning any of those consoles, simply for collection's sake. Hell, I had 6 NES games before I ever got my NES. But those I consider special circumstances. I think of myself as a video game player, and a Mega Man collector. --- End quote --- As another Mega Man collector, good luck to you. Took me a long-ass time to lock down some of the ones you're talking about myself, and I'm still filling in the last handful of holes. Out of curiosity, which are you missing? I'm still aiming for the entire GBA MMZ series, BN6 Falzar, Xtreme 2 and ZX Advent to round out my domestic releases. |
| Azazell0:
I'm definately a player. I'm not even trying to collect as many games as I can, but rather ones I have personal experience in, ones I know were good but never had them as a kid and of course some gems I only discovered as an adult. My collection is not - and probably won't be - massive, but I would say each of the games I own has some kind of personal connection for me (or I just know are really good and I want to try them out). There's really no games in my shelf that are there just for the sake of collecting which I would never play. I too made the decision early on not to collect original boxes (have some manuals, though, but not really collecting them) for two main reasons : 1) money and 2) the DVD cases are more durable. If I had lots of money to spend, I would probably get some original boxes, but since I don't, this site and DVD cases are the way for me to go. Even if I had original boxes, it'd be a huge hassle with the protector plastics since I'm actually playing these games all the time! Uncanny, right? An exception however is Megadrive, since it's so easy to find games in original box for that console and it won't usually horribly raise the price. I have, however, bought some loose MD carts and then gotten a cheap game for a few euros from a local gamestore, sold the other game cart and re-used the box for my good MD game. |
| wiggy:
Loose carts for sure. In fact, when I do end up with a pricey game that has the box & manual, I just sell/trade them. In fact, I traded a Final Fight 3 box & manual to a fellow TCP member not long ago for a loose copy of Demon's Crest. So I got a copy of FF3 and Demon's Crest for 100 bucks :D Also picked up a CIB copy of Megaman Soccer not long ago for $40 and sold the box/manual for more than I paid for the whole package. Free gamez! ;D The only games for which I have boxes and manuals are those that I bought years ago when they were new or nearly new (and some that I've acquired more recently, but have little value on their own). |
| mojoeskateco:
I usually go cart only for the older systems where boxes where made of cardboard which isn't very durable and complete for disc based games or anything that came in a durable / plastic case. For NES, SNES, N64, etc. I feel that given the extreme price difference in most cases, I'd rather have a UGC which can be replaced if it's damaged. UGC's are also easier to take care of. I can't imagine wanting to play an NES game and having to take the box protector off, carefully open the box, get the cart out without creasing anything and then putting it back carefully when done. I could just imagine my OCD amping up if I had an expensive CIB like Little Samson and had to worry about devaluing it hundreds of dollars by accidentally creasing it every time I opened it up to play it. The only exception to my cardboard rule is current gen stuff that had collector's editions. I just do my best to take care of them but I usually buy them at retail price or lower so it's not like I paid an obscene amount for them .. if they get shelf ware I'm not too worried about it. |
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