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Need advice collecting
kingjohn3:
RBI 3 for NES is one of my all time favs because my buddy and I would play for hours but isnt regarded as the best Baseball game so I agree it can very subjective. For example, I love Goonies 2 because I loved the movie growing up. Best game ever? No, but its in my top 5. I was always a mainstream guy but occasionally a sleeper hit would sneak in
wiggy:
It's nice to see how differently we all approach collecting. There are some seriously varied approaches here.
I'm also sorta curious why everyone here collects as well.
Mick Dundee:
--- Quote from: wiggy on December 31, 2013, 08:35:23 PM ---I'm also sorta curious why everyone here collects as well.
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I think for me its because we didn't get to keep the games when I was little. My parents always purchased beyond their means. We had Nes, Sega, Snes, and even got a TG16. We never owned them more than a few months before we needed money and they were sold.
So I guess in short. Its something I have that I can be proud of that is mine and don't have to let go.
Ozzy_98:
(I'm wordy; deal with it) I was an only child living in the country in ohio, so video games were one thing to keep me from going mad with bordem. I imported my first game when I was 13-14, a fighter that got good reviews at a time we were starving for more SFII goodness, a game called "dragon ball Z 2". Was a wired game, cost me $80 + shipping from Chips & Bits. Bought my Turbo Duo not long after from Game Dude, cause it seemed like it was better for RPGs than Genesis, and when I poped Ys in, I pooped just a little. "Eece, the ideal utopia" indeed. I was working on the family farm at the time ($3.25 an hour in the early 90s rocked at 12-14 years of age) so I had extra cash, I'd write a list of games I wanted, and how many houws I had to work to earn each one.
Fast forward, I quit the farm after 12 years there, become unemployed, and no time to play games due to having to study and no money to buy them. Moved my way to working IT, buy a house that's much to small for games, and have them all in storage. about a month and a half ago, bought this new house that has room, dug out my games from storage (some did not fair well), and I'm trying to fill in the cracks. In the collection, not my cracks. That wouldn't be good for the games. Even if it's what N64 controllers were designed for.
Anyways for me, I'm collecting EVERYTHING. One thing I love are the SSI gold box games (Pool of Rad\Darkness, Curse of the acure half naked chick, ect). My first real RPGs on the C64, got me introduced into D&D, and a great tactical game. I have all the normal games, the Famicom version of Pool that looks like a gold box, still need neverwinter nights, but cant justify spending $200 on it when that's 400 UGC I could have. But other than that, and a prefrence for any TG16 stuff in the wild, I buy cheap and in bulk, from EVERY system I see.
wiggy:
--- Quote from: Ozzy_98 on December 31, 2013, 09:48:38 PM ---(I'm wordy; deal with it) I was an only child living in the country in ohio, so video games were one thing to keep me from going mad with bordem. I imported my first game when I was 13-14, a fighter that got good reviews at a time we were starving for more SFII goodness, a game called "dragon ball Z 2". Was a wired game, cost me $80 + shipping from Chips & Bits. Bought my Turbo Duo not long after from Game Dude, cause it seemed like it was better for RPGs than Genesis, and when I poped Ys in, I pooped just a little. "Eece, the ideal utopia" indeed. I was working on the family farm at the time ($3.25 an hour in the early 90s rocked at 12-14 years of age) so I had extra cash, I'd write a list of games I wanted, and how many houws I had to work to earn each one.
Fast forward, I quit the farm after 12 years there, become unemployed, and no time to play games due to having to study and no money to buy them. Moved my way to working IT, buy a house that's much to small for games, and have them all in storage. about a month and a half ago, bought this new house that has room, dug out my games from storage (some did not fair well), and I'm trying to fill in the cracks. In the collection, not my cracks. That wouldn't be good for the games. Even if it's what N64 controllers were designed for.
Anyways for me, I'm collecting EVERYTHING. One thing I love are the SSI gold box games (Pool of Rad\Darkness, Curse of the acure half naked chick, ect). My first real RPGs on the C64, got me introduced into D&D, and a great tactical game. I have all the normal games, the Famicom version of Pool that looks like a gold box, still need neverwinter nights, but cant justify spending $200 on it when that's 400 UGC I could have. But other than that, and a prefrence for any TG16 stuff in the wild, I buy cheap and in bulk, from EVERY system I see.
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Holy crap, I'm having flashbacks now :o