What is your collecting goal?

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SheriffHarv:
I dug my NES out of a box in the basement a few years ago after watching a bunch of youtube videos about retro gaming. I got it in 1989 when I was 14 years old and had 18 games for it from back then. I still had all the manuals and several ads, posters and inserts. No boxes though. The boxes were like keeping the wrapper off of your chocolate bar back then, it was garbage. If only we knew then what we know now eh?
For early goals I started off with buying a three game listing off Ebay for Tetris, Tetris 2 and Dr. Mario with manuals. Then I started looking for games I wanted as a kid but never got. I now have 110 NES games with 101 manuals. My collection would probably be twice as big if I wasn't such a stickler for having the manuals as well. Some of those were almost as expensive as the games themselves. I've also bought quite a few complete boxed games.(sorry, none that aren't already in here) I've probably got every game that I ever rented, played at a friends house, or dreamed about owning from thumbing through the pages of Nintendo Power.
As for my current collecting Goals- I'm working on getting all the launch titles for the NES right now. I've got 11 of them so have 7 more to go. Then I will probably finish up some collections ie- I have Double Dragon 1 and 2 but still need 3. I have Castlevania but will probably also get 2 and 3. I have no interest in owning every single NES cartridge. I buy stuff I want to play and there are a good number of games for the NES that I have absolutely no interest in playing. I'm also not going to pay more than $100 for any game. I have a little over 400 games in total for 11 consoles and 6 handhelds now. I'll basically now just buy games that interest me, will work toward finishing a small collecting goal and won't break the bank.

razielleonhart:
just get whatever chances my eye. i have even picked up broken games/systems just to save them from the trash

hoverboots:
And mine really stem from magazines I had read as a kid. That's how I found out about Maximo, Katamari Damacy, Guardian's Crusade, and Bomberman Fantasy Race (which I am still looking for).

Beastman1975:
Im pretty much done with my game collecting for old/rare titles , ill still buy new stuff and maybe the odd impulse buy but ive pretty much found everything on my want list

NinerWhiskey:

--- Quote from: Beastman1975 on January 16, 2015, 10:51:04 AM ---Im pretty much done with my game collecting for old/rare titles , ill still buy new stuff and maybe the odd impulse buy but ive pretty much found everything on my want list

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I think making a want list is what has really kept my hobby from spiraling out of control. My list is fluid because I add games to it as I think of them but at the end of the day, it's a smaller list than "every SNES game" or "every Game Boy game".

I have a few big ticket games on there (Chrono Trigger being the most expensive - so mad at myself for selling it in college) but outside of those games, my list is largely common games that don't fluxuate in price that much. I buy a couple of games every paycheck and will do so until I finish my list.

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