Any retro collectors on the Bore.

[Rman]

It seems collecting video games has become my generation's Vinyl. I've been watching shows like The Game Chasers on Youtube.  I'm looking to purchase a PVM to play my old systems with chunky scanlines in glorious 240P. A Framemeister is also an option, I've been looking into.

Anyone hit with this retro collecting bug?

[Positive Touch]

I still have a bunch of old shit from back when it was new if that counts

[bork]

I was into it from the late 90s up until around 2005 or so, at which point I sold a lot of stuff off, including all my Genesis/CD/32X games and systems.  Had some really rare games like Panorama Cotton and Snatcher in mint condition.  Should have waited since the prices went way the hell up years later!

Still have all my old Saturn, Dreamcast, GB/GBC, VB, GBA, GC, DS, PS1, PS2, PSP, N64, NGPC, and XBox games and some SNES and NES stuff left from before the HD era.  Haven't touched any of it in years though.  Was thinking about selling a lot of it off and just sticking with the Sony stuff, since with the PS1 and PS2 I built up my collection to be literally every single game I ever wanted to own.

I'm just fine with playing older stuff on emulators now.  All that shit is just taking up shelf space.

[Rman]

I was into it from the late 90s up until around 2005 or so, at which point I sold a lot of stuff off, including all my Genesis/CD/32X games and systems.  Had some really rare games like Panorama Cotton and Snatcher in mint condition.  Should have waited since the prices went way the hell up years later!

Still have all my old Saturn, Dreamcast, GB/GBC, VB, GBA, GC, DS, PS1, PS2, PSP, N64, NGPC, and XBox games and some SNES and NES stuff left from before the HD era.  Haven't touched any of it in years though.  Was thinking about selling a lot of it off and just sticking with the Sony stuff, since with the PS1 and PS2 I built up my collection to be literally every single game I ever wanted to own.

I'm just fine with playing older stuff on emulators now.  All that shit is just taking up shelf space.

If you can wait, sell your stuff in bunches.  Right NES, Saturn, and SNES stuff is pricey. Especially CIB.

[tiesto]

I've been into retro collecting for a while, but lately have gotten even bigger than ever now that I met some more people really into it, and my other friends have been bitten by the bug as well. As newer games interest me less and less, stuff like finding obscure older games I may have missed the first time, picking up games I remember reading about in old Nintendo Power issues but never did play, hosting retro-gaming-themed get-togethers at my house, etc. has become very appealing.

[tiesto]

I was into it from the late 90s up until around 2005 or so, at which point I sold a lot of stuff off, including all my Genesis/CD/32X games and systems.  Had some really rare games like Panorama Cotton and Snatcher in mint condition.  Should have waited since the prices went way the hell up years later!

Still have all my old Saturn, Dreamcast, GB/GBC, VB, GBA, GC, DS, PS1, PS2, PSP, N64, NGPC, and XBox games and some SNES and NES stuff left from before the HD era.  Haven't touched any of it in years though.  Was thinking about selling a lot of it off and just sticking with the Sony stuff, since with the PS1 and PS2 I built up my collection to be literally every single game I ever wanted to own.

I'm just fine with playing older stuff on emulators now.  All that shit is just taking up shelf space.

If you can wait, sell your stuff in bunches.  Right NES, Saturn, and SNES stuff is pricey. Especially CIB.

Just make sure the Bore gets first crack at it though!

[Positive Touch]

owning old games is cool but the reality is that I look at the manual once or twice and the onto the shelf it goes. I have no problem playing old games on emu, actually prefer it bc I can flip thru a while library with a few clicks. just wish some of the emulators for big systems would get polished up a bit, and that they'd put some work into the ui.


I'm counting down the years til gba games get big. got lots of em in mint condition ready to go.

[Rman]

I was into it from the late 90s up until around 2005 or so, at which point I sold a lot of stuff off, including all my Genesis/CD/32X games and systems.  Had some really rare games like Panorama Cotton and Snatcher in mint condition.  Should have waited since the prices went way the hell up years later!

Still have all my old Saturn, Dreamcast, GB/GBC, VB, GBA, GC, DS, PS1, PS2, PSP, N64, NGPC, and XBox games and some SNES and NES stuff left from before the HD era.  Haven't touched any of it in years though.  Was thinking about selling a lot of it off and just sticking with the Sony stuff, since with the PS1 and PS2 I built up my collection to be literally every single game I ever wanted to own.

I'm just fine with playing older stuff on emulators now.  All that shit is just taking up shelf space.

If you can wait, sell your stuff in bunches.  Right NES, Saturn, and SNES stuff is pricey. Especially CIB.

Just make sure the Bore gets first crack at it though!

Definitely! Do we even have buying/selling thread.

[Bebpo]

I used to buy a shitload of old games (meaning PS1/Saturn), but that's because I hoped to actually play them someday.  Never bought carts because they take up too much space and Snes/Gen emulators have been perfect forever.  Very, very rarely if ever bought a game just for the collector aspect.


Now I hardly buy anything outside steam library games for 75% off and the occasional jrpg/srpg import.  Finally grew up and started saving my money for savings. 


Does Dcharlie post here anymore?  He's got an awesome retro library.

[demi]

Ummm I guess you missed Kick51's "pick ups" thread

I love collecting. The fun is finding that high price game cheap. If not, then buy some shit just because you fucking can. Dirty poors stand aside.

I made a Google sheet of my library if you'd like to see.

I have a bunch of dupes if anyone wants to trade or buy. Nothing extravagant though.

[archnemesis]

I buy games I want to play. Sometimes those happen to be retro, but I'm not collecting old games for the sake of a collection. I no longer have my old systems hooked up to the living room TV and I can't be bothered with replacing old batteries inside carts. Emulation is more convenient.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

well, there's a mom-n-pop games store that opened up nearby somewhat recently, and they stock legacy system games.

so yeah, I guess I am.  I'm picking up PS1, Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, etc. all the time.  Hell, I bought Clock Tower 2 and Mister Mosquito there not so long ago.  I'll for sure keep pumping money into a place like that.

[kick51]

Yeah, I guess I collect ps1, ps2, xbox, GC.  I don't just buy everything though. I mostly buy stuff I wanna play and stuff I know is a ridiculous deal.  I would collect other stuff but my shelves are full and my TV is plugged up airtight like a sasha grey. 

and also, vinyl collecting is still in (I do that too!)

[bork]

If you can wait, sell your stuff in bunches.  Right NES, Saturn, and SNES stuff is pricey. Especially CIB.

Yeah, I'm in no rush.  I definitely would want to dump it all at once so I wouldn't be stuck with the less popular games.

[bork]

Copying/pasting some posts from GAF console appreciation threads.  Here's PS1.

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I built up my PS1 collection, getting games as they came out (I used to import games all the time) or getting them used as they came into the game store that I worked at. I sold off my entire PS1 collection in 1998 to pay off a debt, which was a huge mistake, and I ended up starting the collection all over again several months later. The store still had a lot of the titles I had sold, so I got a lot of good stuff back.

In 2001 I went to Japan for the first time. Akihabara at the time was still filled to the brim with game shops. I ended up buying 50+ games on that trip and completed the bulk of my collection. I know I got Punch The Monkey on that trip...Slap Happy Rhythm Busters I imported at launch when it came out in summer 2000 though. I went back to Japan in 2004 and bought some more stuff, but didn't really continue on with PS1 imports until I moved over there in 2005. I got Umihara Kawase Shun after someone recommended it- where I was, the game shops had tons and tons of used PS1 games. Anything considered rare was put into a showcase for inflated prices, but I believe Umihara was normal price- and just about everything not considered "rare" was in mint condition, complete, and sold for a few hundred yen apiece.

Between that and my days at the game store in the years before, it was pretty easy to complete my collection. Domestic games I could either new or used, then take the best discs, manuals, inserts, and cases, and combine them into a perfect copy.

The hardest game to find in my collection was without a doubt Angel Eyes. I had owned the game before I sold off my PS1 collection in '98. Sold it to a friend when I needed cash and he didn't want to sell it back later- was never able to find a copy online after that and no used copies came through the shop. I searched for the game all the time in Japan and did not find a copy until 2008, in a shop in Aki. I didn't live in Tokyo and saw pretty much everything else you could think of in shops where I lived in Kanazawa. I don't believe the game is rare or anything, but it just never turned up.

My current Playstation 1 collection:



Hermie Hopperhead (J)
Gunners Heaven (Gunstar Heroes rip-off!) (J)
Raiden Project (J)
Parappa The Rapper (Playstation Best) (J)
Um Jammer Lammy (J)
Vib Ribbon (Playstation Books) (J)
Jumping Flash! 2 (Comes with the original game) (J)
Koukaku Kiddoutai/Ghost In The Shell (J)
Saru Get You/Ape Escape (J)
Wipeout XL (J)
Motortoon Grand Prix 2 (J)
Omega Boost (J)
The Superdimensional Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (J)
Eretzvaju/Evil Zone (J)
XI Jumbo (J)
Tenchu Shinobi Gaisen (J)
Tenchu Shinobi Hyakusen (J)
Tenchu 2 (J)
Bust A Move: Dance & Rhythm Action/Bust A Groove (J)
Bust A Move 2: Dance Tengoku Mix/Bust A Groove 2 (J)
Rakugaki Showtime (J)
Tobal 2 (J)
Ehrgeiz: God Bless The Ring (J)
Einhander
Parasite Eve
Parasite Eve II
Vagrant Story
Incredible Crisis
Devil Dice/XI
Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman



Street Fighter Zero/Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams (J)
Street Fighter Zero 3/Street Fighter Alpha 3 (J)
Capcom Generations 5/Street Fighter II Collection (J)
Street Fighter EX+Alpha (J)
Street Fighter EX2 Plus (J)
Vampire Savior EX Edition/Darkstalkers 3 (J)
Star Gladiator (J)
Shiritsu Justice Gakuen: Nekketsu Seisyun Nikki 2/Rival Schools "Evolution 2" (J)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Strider Hiryu 1&2 (J)
X2 (J)
One Piece Mansion
Megaman X4
Megaman X5
Megaman X6
Megaman Legends
Megaman Legends 2
The Misadventures Of Tron Bonne
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
Dino Crisis (w/Resident Evil 3 demo)
Dino Crisis 2
Real Bout Garoudensetsu/Real Bout Fatal Fury (J)
Real Bout Special: Dominated Mind (w/ bonus fan disc) (J)
Garoudensetsu Wild Ambition/Fatal Fury Wild Ambition (J)
Samurai Spirits Amakusa Kourin Special/Samurai Shodown IV Special (J)
Shinsetsu Samurai Spirits: Bushidou Retsuden/Samurai Shodown RPG (J)
Bakuhatsu Roman: Gekka No Kenshi/The Last Blade: The Way Of The Blade (J)
Metal Slug X (J)
Double Dragon (Port of the Neo-Geo AES version, not Neo CD!) (J)
Choujin Gakuen Gowkaizer/Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer (Ditto) (J)



Ridge Racer (Greatest Hits- didn't want the big case!)
Ridge Racer Revolution
Rage Racer (J)
R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (J)
Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (J)
Klonoa: The Door To Phantomile
Tekken 2
Tekken 3
Soul Edge
Lightning Legend (J)
Sexy Parodius (J)
Silent Hill (J)
Metal Gear Solid Integral (Has VR Missions disc, FPS mode) (J)
Akumajou Dracula X: Gekka No Yasoukyoku/Dracula X: Nocturne In The Moonlight (J)
Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night
Akumajou Dracula/Castlevania Chronicles (J)
Bloody Roar (J)
Bloody Roar 2: Bringer Of The New Age (J)
Psychic Force (shitty game-doctored disc; got it for free and hate that Acclaim logo!)
Psychic Force (J)
Psychic Force 2 (Port of Psychic Force 2012 with extra characters) (J)
Psychic Force Puzzle Taisen (Bust-A-Move with PF characters!  Has fan disc) (J)
Fighters' Impact (J)
Gundam Battle Assault 2
Silent Bomber (J)
Cowboy Bebop (J)
Hokuto No Ken: Seikimatsu Kyuuseishu Densetsu /HnK Legends Of The Savior (J)
X: Unmei no Sentaku/X: The Fateful Choice (Psychic Force 2 with X characters) (J)
Punch The Monkey: Game Edition (J)
Gunnm Martian Memory/Battle Angel Alita RPG (J)



Critical Blow (J)
Panzer Bandit (Plays like Guardian Heroes!) (J)
Asuka 120% Burning Fest Final (J)
Advanced V.G. 2 (porn game turned legit 2D fighter) (J)
Makeruna! Makendou 2 /Kendo Rage 2 (Super Famicom port) (J)
Guilty Gear (J)
Battle Athletes Daiundoukai (J)
Kakuge Yarou Fighting Game Creator /2D Fighter Maker (J)
Slap Happy Rhythm Busters (Cel-shaded 2D fighting/dance awesomeness) (J)
R-Type Delta (J)
Puzzle Arena Toshinden (J)
Umihara Kawase (J)
Toukidenshou Angel Eyes (Pre-DOA all-girl 2D fighter from Tecmo) (J)
3D Combative Sports: Dead Or Alive (J)
Dynasty Warriors
Destrega
Zero Divide (Forget the fighting game...Tiny Phalanx!!) (J)
Zero Divide 2: The Secret Wish (J)
Revelations Series: Persona
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
Trap Gunner
Tail Concerto
Gouketsuji Ichizoku 2: Jyotto Dake Saikyou Densetsu / Power Instinct 2 (J)
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider II: Starring Lara Croft
Tomb Raider III: Adventures Of Lara Croft
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation
Tomb Raider Chronicles
Fear Effect
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix
Alundra
Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
Arc The Lad Collection (w/ bonus pocket watch)
Viewpoint

[kick51]

If you can wait, sell your stuff in bunches.  Right NES, Saturn, and SNES stuff is pricey. Especially CIB.

Yeah, I'm in no rush.  I definitely would want to dump it all at once so I wouldn't be stuck with the less popular games.

I would stick that shit in storage.  I think game collecting has enough momentum to remain a thing for the rest of our lives. 


edit: japanese ps1 covers were the best.

[bork]

Absolutely loved the PS2.  Despite a pretty mediocre first year overall (I imported a system in April 2000 and am counting the time from that period onward), the system ended up becoming my favorite console of the previous generation.  I've owned multiple systems over the years, and right now just have a black PS2 slim with a mod chip for imports.

Here is my humble collection of games:



Fantavision (J)
Futari De Fantavision (J)
I.Q. Remix+ -Intelligent Qube- (J)
Ka / Mr. Mosquito (J)
Ka 2: Let's Go Hawaii! / Mr. Mosquito 2 (J)
Parappa The Rapper 2 (J)
Saru Get You 2 / Ape Escape 2 (J)
Sau Get You 3 / Ape Escape 3 (J)
The Mark Of Kri
Rise Of The Kasai
Champions Of Norrath
Champions: Return To Arms
Kinetica
Tekken Tag Tournament
Tekken 4 (J)
Tekken: Nina Williams: Death By Degrees (J)
Urban Reign (J)
Ridge Racer V
Kaze No Klonoa 2 / Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil (J)
Katamari Damacy
Soul Calibur II (Greatest Hits- the red stripe of shame!)
Soul Calibur III (J)
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Shinkon Gattai Godannar!! (J)
Chou Dragon Ball Z / Super Dragon Ball Z (J)



The Chikyuu Boueigun 2 / Earth Defense Force 2 (J)
The Oneechanpon / Zombie Hunters 2 (J) (Oneechanbara 2 with additional content)
Virtua Fighter: 10th Anniversary (J)
Virua Fighter 4 Evolution (J)
Outrun 2 SP: Special Tours (J)
Shinobi (J)
Kunoichi / Nightshade (J)
Initial D Special Stage (J)
Yakuza
Yakuza 2
DecAthlete Collection (DeAthlete, Winter Heat, and Virtua Athlete 2K) (J)
Gunstar Heroes Treasure Box (Gunstar Heroes, Dynamite Headdy, and Alien Soldier) (J)
Hokuto No Ken / Fist Of The North Star (J)
The Rumble Fish (J)
Spy Fiction (J)
Space Channel 5 Sepcial Edition (Space Channel 5 1 and 2)
Sakura Wars ~So long, my love~ LE
Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance (J)
Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence
Rumble Roses (Has some extra content and added animations over the U.S. version) (J)
Zone Of The Enders w/ MGS2 demo
Zone Of the Enders: The 2nd Runner
Cool Girl / Cy Girls (J)
Castlevania / Castlevania: Lament Of Innocence (J)
Akumajyou Dracula: Yami No Juin / Castlevania: Curse Of Darkness (Konami The Best) (J)



Silent Hill 2 (Greatest Hits- has additional content from the Xbox version)
Silent Hill 3 (J)
Silent Hill 4: The Room (J)
Gradius V (J)
OZ (J)
Bloody Roar 4 (J)
Technictix (J)
Technic Beat (J)
Melty Blood: Actress Again (J)
Arcana Heart (J)
Hajime No Ippo: Victorious Boxers (J)
Raging Bless (Golden Axe style action game from the former Jaleco) (J)
Outlaw Volleyball Remix
Hunter The Reckoning: Wayward
Escape From Monkey Island
Tenchu 3 /Tenchu: Wrath Of Heaven (J)
Tenchu Kurenai / Tenchu Fatal Shadows (J)
Shinobido: Imashime (J)
Shinobido: Takumi (J)
Dead Or Alive 2: Hard*Core (Has some extra content over U.S. version) (J)
Winback (J)
Gitaroo Man (J)
Maken Shao (Maken X with a third-person view) (J)
Odin Sphere
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness



Super Galdelic Hour (Virtual TV show with girls doing weird mini-games) (J)
Final Fantasy X International (J)
Final Fantasy X-2
X-Fire / X-Squad (Has different character design and music from U.S. version) (J)
Rally Shox (J)
SSX Tricky (J)
SSX3 (J)
Garoudensetsu / Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol. 1 (FF1, 2, Special, and 3) (J)
Garoudensetsu / Fatal Fury Battle Archives Vol. 2 (Real Bout, RBS, and RB2) (J)
Garou / Fatal Fury Mark Of The Wolves (J)
Ryuuko No Ken: Tenchi Jin / Art Of Fighting Anthology (AOF1-3) (J)
Samurai Spirits: Rokuban Shobu / Samurai Shodown Anthology (SS1-6) (J)
Fu'un Super Combo (Savage Reign and Kizuna Encounter) (J)
The King Of Fighters '94 ReBout (J)
The King Of Fighters NeoWave (Has Angel and May Lee) (J)
The King Of Fighters XI (J)
The King Of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match (J)
The King Of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match (J)
The King Of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match Tougeki (Bug fixes) (J)
KOF Maximum Impact (J)
KOF Maximum Impact 2 (J)
KOF Maximum Impact: Regulation A (Arcade version of MI2 with more characters) (J)
SNK Vs. Capcom: SvC Chaos (J)
NeoGeo Battle Colliseum (Has awful load times that are vastly improved on PS3!) (J)
Metal Slug 3 (J)



Twinkle Star Sprites: La Petite Princess (3D remake) (J)
ADK Tamashii (ADK, Ninja Master's, Ninja Combat, Ninja Commando, and TSS) (J)
Sunsoft Collection (Galaxy Fight and Waku-Waku 7) (J)
Shin Gouketsuji Ichizoku: Bonnou Kaihou (Power Instinct Matrimelee upgrade) (J)
Crimson Tears
Haunting Ground
God Hand (J)
Okami (Greatest Hits- The red stripe of shame returns!)
Viewtiful Joe (Dante and Trish from DMC!)
Viewtiful Joe 2
Street Fighter EX3 (J)
Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition (J)
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight For The Future (J)
Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (Hyper SFII and 3rd Strike)
Street Fighter Zero: Fighters' Generation / Street Fighter Alpha Anthology (SFA1-3) (J)
Onimusha (J)
Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege
Onimusha Blade Warriors
Onimusha: Dawn Of Dreams (J)
Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection (J)
Capcom Vs. SNk 2: Millionaire Fighting 2001 (Best Collection) J)
Capcom Fighting Evolution
Devil May Cry (J)
Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition (J)



Sengoku Basara 2 (J)
Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes (J)
Sengoku Basara X (2D fighting game by Arc System Works) (J)
JoJo No Kimyou No Bouken: Ougon No Kaze /GioGio's Bizzare Adventure Golden Whirlwind (J)
Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi: Gekitou! Ragnarok Hachikengou / History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi (J)
Resident Evil 4 (Japanese region, but in English!) (J)
Fate: Unlimited Codes LE (J)
Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Fight For The Future: The Limited Edition (J)



The contents of the two limited edition games I have, both from Capcom.  Fate Unlimited Codes comes with a Saber White Figma action figure.  3rd Strike contains the game (the other version shown in another picture is another copy of the game), a special DVD, puzzle, and guide book/mook.

[bork]

Game Cube.  I left Eternal Darkness out of the photos by accident.

Japanese:


American:


(The paperless case holds an Action Replay.)

I have a purple launch Japanese Game Cube, modded to play American games, the ethernet attachment, a purple GameBoy Player, and I believe I still have a purple screen add-on for it somewhere as well, making the system look pretty tall with everything attached.

My collection is on the smaller side; sold a number of titles off years back.  Some games were also replaced by Wii versions, like Metroid Prime (got the trilogy), Biohazard 0, and Biohazard 4.  Got rid of Double Dash because it was crap (sorry...it was) and sold off Smash Bros. Melee when Brawl came out.  I have a Japanese and an American copy of PN03 because I got the U.S. version dirt cheap brand new in 2003 or 2004.  Also used to have American versions of Beach Spikers and F-Zero GX.  This is because I used to work at a game store and would often bring my own games to display or play during downtime.  I got tired of bringing my Japanese Cube to play the imports, so I picked up American copies just to play at work, LOL.

At one point, the Game Cube was my system of choice during the last console generation, but releases dried up and many multiplatform titles ended up being the worst on this system, so I stopped playing it before the PS2 and Xbox.  When I look back at this system, my favorite titles were Super Monkey Ball, F-Zero GX, Beach Spikers, PN03, Biohazard, RE4, MGS TTS, and Soul Calibur II.  The latter was my favorite version of the game, because Link was a much better guest character than out-of-play-is-this-really-the-best-character-you-could-have-chosen Heihachi on PS2 and LOL-LOL-YUCK-Medievil Spawn on Xbox.  Not the best system for Nintendo's own first-party titles IMO, although there were certainly some solid titles.  I also enjoyed a lot of the EA Big titles on this system back in the day.

[demi]

aye nicca tell me when youre selling those sexy cube games.

[Sho Nuff]

I will tell you that the Framemeister is the best purchase I have made in years.

[Rman]

I used to buy a shitload of old games (meaning PS1/Saturn), but that's because I hoped to actually play them someday.  Never bought carts because they take up too much space and Snes/Gen emulators have been perfect forever.  Very, very rarely if ever bought a game just for the collector aspect.


Now I hardly buy anything outside steam library games for 75% off and the occasional jrpg/srpg import.  Finally grew up and started saving my money for savings. 


Does Dcharlie post here anymore?  He's got an awesome retro library.

I thought he sold it?

[Bebpo]

Did he?  Damn. 


I think the closest thing I have to my collector's cred is that I probably own like 25% of the entire PS2 library released in Japan.  I've got like boxes and boxes of PS2 games in the garage.  PS1/Saturn/Dreamcast/Xbox really just have the classics and my PS3/X360/DS/PSP library is large but nowhere near complete. 

I've tried to own every rpg released ever in Japan or the west, because I'm always playing an rpg at anytime, so that's where the bulk of my collection is.  Other genre less so.  Used to own every console fighting game released up until about 3-4 years ago.

[AdmiralViscen]

I have never been one to trade in games and I also suck up libaries from friends who are throwing their shit out, so I have over a thousand games now. Many have boxes and manuals but I keep them in a box in the basement. I keep the games themselves inside an ottoman with a lid that opens up and the controllers in a decorative bucket out of sight. The N64 games are on a rack in my second bedroom with a CRT TV that has an XBox, Dreamcast, NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, and Saturn hooked up to it through a couple of switch boxes.

Here's my collection:
http://backloggery.com/admiralviscen

And some photos I took last week after scrubbing a few dozen carts with q tips and alcohol and reorganizing them:




The bucket thingy has Zappers and DC fishing rods at the bottom, on top is more conventional stuff. I keep controllers for current consoles behind the Wii U tablet and in the upper drawer under the TV with a Retro Trio. (The Trio in this old picture is now where my Amiibos are)

N64 games are kept on a bookshelf in the second bedroom, along with the CD wallets for DC and Saturn games. The wallets in the trunk here have GCN, PS2, and Wii games. In the drawers under the TV I have wallets for 360/PS3/PS4/XBO/WiiU.

[kick51]

I need a thing like that for controllers.  wii sets and wii u gamepad take up all the shelf space

[MrAngryFace]

I still have one of the GB Micro famicom edition thanks to a drinky videogame purge way back when. I guess if I had a retro collection itd be gameboy (gb/gbc/gba/DS/3DS)- everything else I parse down to 10-15 games I really liked from that platform if its not current gen.

[Mr. Gundam]

I've got a ton of PS2, Gamecube and Xbox games that I should unload. I'll never play them again.

[demi]

I GET FIRST DIBS COME ON

[kick51]

i'd probably buy some

[Rman]

We should set up a trading post of sorts.

[Bebpo]

I've got a ton of PS2, Gamecube and Xbox games that I should unload. I'll never play them again.

Also my Vesperia PS3  


/I'll pick it up next time I'm in Seattle and see you

[Mr. Gundam]

I've got a ton of PS2, Gamecube and Xbox games that I should unload. I'll never play them again.

Also my Vesperia PS3  


/I'll pick it up next time I'm in Seattle and see you

I do have that still, even survived my basement flooding! I can mail it to you next week.

[Shuri]

I collect arcade games and boards. my latest pcbs I bought are Tekken 3 and The Simpsons, and a bunch of Neo-Geo MVS titles. I'll make a list soon

[Rman]

Neo-Geo is tempting. Always have soft spot for that system but, like most, I couldn't afford the home AES system and games.  AES stuff is absolutely insane right now as well.  I always preferred AES over MVS, but the latter is actually reasonable to collect and you get a consolelized MVS system as well.

[Shuri]

Yeah, AES is simply insane. but If you want to get into collecting, do it now because prices are getting insane for good games. MVS Games were dirt cheap 4-5 years ago but it's starting to change.

[tiesto]

New pickups, really excited to play the Terranigma repro. Loved the game when I played on emulators years ago.

[kick51]

was gonna say, damn nice find on Terranigma hehe

i need to post some pics, been getting packages every day for a week.

[bork]

I used to have a decent little AES collection, plus two modded Neo-Geo AES systems.  One of them was "top of the line" for the time and had stereo cable and S-Video inputs.  The picture looked amazing.  What finally got me out of it was when games would get dumped and emulated before their home releases...and would even be playable on modded Xboxes.  While S-Video Neo looked great, emulated games via component at 480P, with some nice filtering options, looked even better.  So I sold a lot of stuff off.  Then the PS2 collections started getting pretty much perfect and I got rid of the rest of my games and remaining console. 

But back in the late 90s/early 2000s, it was pretty awesome buying and selling AES carts.  I could buy a new release, play it until its sequel came out, then sell the previous version and get enough to cover the new game or get even more than I paid for it back.   

[Rman]

was gonna say, damn nice find on Terranigma hehe

i need to post some pics, been getting packages every day for a week.

Where do you get your stuff, Kicks? Online is such a shithow now.  But flea markets and such have been picked dry, though.

I used to have a decent little AES collection, plus two modded Neo-Geo AES systems.  One of them was "top of the line" for the time and had stereo cable and S-Video inputs.  The picture looked amazing.  What finally got me out of it was when games would get dumped and emulated before their home releases...and would even be playable on modded Xboxes.  While S-Video Neo looked great, emulated games via component at 480P, with some nice filtering options, looked even better.  So I sold a lot of stuff off.  Then the PS2 collections started getting pretty much perfect and I got rid of the rest of my games and remaining console. 

But back in the late 90s/early 2000s, it was pretty awesome buying and selling AES carts.  I could buy a new release, play it until its sequel came out, then sell the previous version and get enough to cover the new game or get even more than I paid for it back.   

Neo Geo was piracy so crazy.  It really decimated SNK.

Perfect emulators were developed not to long after the Internet era started to burgeon and everything was basically online.

[kick51]

ebay, amazon, half.  I take a lot of gambles...usually it pays off! 

there are a few used media places around me that occasionally have good prices on stuff, usually when they make a mistake.   

[DCharlieJP]

been a while

yeah, i sold pretty much everything games wise, not just retro.

PS2 was my biggest retro collection - somewhere in the top end of 800 boxed complete games.

Everything else of note was in the 3-400 game range, arcade pcbs around 150 or so i guess.

It's all gone - the idea was to get down from a room-and-a-half full of games to a point where my entire collection, books, movies etc fit in -one- cupboard.

To add another footnote to this - i sold off my entire collection 3 times, first two times i simply rebuilt it. What an idiot, lol. Luckily i either broke even of made a profit. If i'd actually held on to my stuff -this- time i could have made much much more selling it now. Aki prices are insane. Boxed Rendering Ranger is now fetching 198,000 yen which is insane.

[Rman]

Are you mostly digital now, dcharlie?

[DCharlieJP]

I'm mostly "too busy with work and children" at the moment.

I'm basically almost fully emulating anything from PS2 down - i still have a box of, um, about 500 (?) or so old disk games that i'm slowly burning to hdd and then discarding, but yeah - other than a burning desire to buy back a boxed Megadrive, i've no real desire to go back to the old days of retro.