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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: oldgamerz on February 28, 2021, 06:32:50 pm
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I do collect only what I enjoy having, I am probably one of the only few people that for one, does not have a display setup. and sorts all my games based on type or genre instead of A-Z so I can find all games easier and play exactly what I'm in the mood for at that time. I don't know why so many collectors don't shelf their games by console than by what kind of game it is.
I don't like to have games as shelf fillers, I think it's a waste of money, if I want to display something then I would rather buy a video game statue of some kind instead of a game I don't want
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*raises hand*
Time and space is limited. If I'm going to collect a game, I'm going to or already have played it and want to continue to have access too it. Those that I've bought over time that I'm not a fan of, I generally will sell off.
Case in point.... I bought a PSV when it launched with Uncharted Golden Abyss. That's basically the only game that has kept me from selling off my PSV entirely. If a remaster of it would have been added to the Nathan Drake collection on PS4, I would have sold it off at that time. If they ever make a remaster of it for PS5, I'll sell my PSV paperweight.
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I do. Back when I first started, I picked up any cheap game I came across. And it just didn’t scratch any itch. It just had me wanting more. Any game I pick up, I feel I would get some fun out of it. There are still series out there I really want to check out. Most of them in the platforming and rpg genres.
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This is where I stand at the moment because there was a time when I buying whatever I could possibly get my hands on. Usually the justification was how cheap it was and I will get to it eventually. As time past and as more games I collected, the space where I was able to store these games became limited and it was starting to become clutter for me. Thing is I don't have a dedicated room for gaming so as a result buying big hauls for me are out of the question but most importantly, I was getting tired of having all these games at my disposal but never getting around to them. I bought them because I want to play them and not just sit around. Obviously if I had a room like that then who that's a different story but even then, I feel like those days for me are over and while I do still desire certain games to have as part of my collection, it's only a certain few and I've become a bit picky now.
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I do now. When I first really started collecting with 3DS I pretty much bought whatever. Now I only buy stuff I'm interested in playing.
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I don't like the term collector, but I pretty much only collect games that look fun/something that I'd enjoy. Only problem is though is that I may not end up playing them for a while since I have a habit of replaying games I've played before rather than actually tackling my backlog.
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I don't like the term collector, but I pretty much only collect games that look fun/something that I'd enjoy. Only problem is though is that I may not end up playing them for a while since I have a habit of replaying games I've played before rather than actually tackling my backlog.
me too :)
like I posted in a different thread. I have have a tremendous backlog, most of the games I play games I've played and go back to. It's hard for me to to stop playing a good game, and start something new even after I unlock or beat all of it's content. I want to eventually try each and every game to it's fullest but so many games I want to try.
plus music I want to hear more than my video games most of the time. It's going to be impossible to me to beat every single game in my collection even that I already have a copy of. Don't know how much longer I am going to live, just like everyone else, we all sometimes need to take it one day at a time and try to make ourselves happy.
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It's mind blowing to me that people actually collect stuff they don't enjoy. I've talked to people that have collections with so many games they hate, some of those games worth a lot of money too. I just can't wrap my head around why they keep them. My best friend is not necessarily a collector but he keeps every game he buys and half of them he doesn't even like, and has held on to some seriously big ticket items, where if he sold every bad game he owns, he could probably buy car with it. Me though, I only own games i like. If I buy a game and don't like it, I sell it. My time, space and money are limited resources so why waste them on things you don't even like?
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I have some games in my collection I "hate" or don't like, like Rise of the Robots of Shaq Fu, but the majority of my collection to start is made of games I used to own as a kid or had to sell off when I hit some pretty serious bad times almost 20 yrs ago. The rest are games I had rented or played at a friends house, or borrowed when we swapped systems for 2-3 months at a time (I had a SNES at first, friend had a Genesis, we wanted to play the other side so to speak so we traded systems for 2-3 months and had a BLAST), and while I still have some games to go on my "used to own" list that are prohibitively expensive (MMX3 USA and Final Fight 3 for example) I enjoy it all.
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It's not that rare of an occurence to only collect what you enjoy but I wouldn't discredit all people who collect everything for the simple fact that they might actually enjoy it.
Full set collectors are a thing. and It could be funny to play some bad games. there are reasons to collect items that are not peak quality. you could say that for the 2 reasons i mentioned as some examples obviously there are tons more reasons but the people do enjoy such items than.
as far as grail games go that have insane prices. While the games might be bad they are at the very least interesting conservation pieces so saying that those won't be enjoyed ain't really true.
Also along the way you might actually find gems that you would have otherwise skipped but I guess you could do so withouth keeping filler titles aswell but that would require effort to sell those again.
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With a handful of exceptions I'v always collected to play. Pretty much if I wanted it in my collection I had the intention of playing it down the road at some point. Whether this was next month, next year, or a decade later it was going to get played eventually.
I realized a few years ago that I had way, way more games in my collection than I'd ever have the time or energy to get to, as well as games that I fooled myself into thinking I'd pick up some day and play when in reality I probably wouldn't. As a result I've sold a decent amount of games that I was 99% sure I'd never touch and there are probably a decent amount still in my collection that fall into that category as well. But pretty much if it's a game I have no interest in or I know is a giant pile of poo then I have no desire to own it since I have no desire to play it.
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I've almost always collected games that I'd enjoy.
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That's all I've ever done. You won't find a single sports title in my collection besides Tony Hawk and WWE, or anything else I won't touch unless it's come from a lot I've bought and it just won't sell.
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I do collect only what I enjoy having, I am probably one of the only few people that for one, does not have a display setup. and sorts all my games based on type or genre instead of A-Z so I can find all games easier and play exactly what I'm in the mood for at that time. I don't know why so many collectors don't shelf their games by console than by what kind of game it is.
I don't like to have games as shelf fillers, I think it's a waste of money, if I want to display something then I would rather buy a video game statue of some kind instead of a game I don't want
I'm with you. I don't pick up games that I haven't researched to try to determine if I'll like them and I don't buy any games I haven't heard of, with one exception. I never mind picking up any pre-NES games if I find them pretty cheap. Like Atari 2600 or Intellivision or the like. But other than that, I keep my collection very curated to things that I like. The only real problem is that there's a lot of stuff I like!
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Question:
Of course we know of collectors who go for obtaining full sets of every game that released for a system, sports and shovelware be damned, so are there known collectors who are trying to find *sealed* copies of everything, including those sports and shovelware games?
I ask because I have a copy of David Robinson's Supreme Court for the Sega Genesis that's unopened and still in shrink, I literally only bought it because it was like 3 dollars at a KB Toys many, many years ago. I never once entertained the thought it would be worth anything one day, just bought it because I thought it was funny to be buying a new Genesis game at a retail store in 2006.
Since any game is automatically more valuable if it's still in its original shrinkwrap, does this mean I now stand a chance of selling a completely unnoteworthy 16-bit basketball game to someone who feverishly desires the perfect, fully complete Genesis game library for a higher price than usual?
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That's all I've ever done. You won't find a single sports title in my collection besides Tony Hawk and WWE, or anything else I won't touch unless it's come from a lot I've bought and it just won't sell.
some will probably think I'm weird. but I Love sports games for some reason. Most of my games are racing and first person shooters and sports games but I have something for every genre.
Question:
Of course we know of collectors who go for obtaining full sets of every game that released for a system, sports and shovelware be damned, so are there known collectors who are trying to find *sealed* copies of everything, including those sports and shovelware games?
I ask because I have a copy of David Robinson's Supreme Court for the Sega Genesis that's unopened and still in shrink, I literally only bought it because it was like 3 dollars at a KB Toys many, many years ago. I never once entertained the thought it would be worth anything one day, just bought it because I thought it was funny to be buying a new Genesis game at a retail store in 2006.
Since any game is automatically more valuable if it's still in its original shrinkwrap, does this mean I now stand a chance of selling a completely unnoteworthy 16-bit basketball game to someone who feverishly desires the perfect, fully complete Genesis game library for a higher price than usual?
That game sounds like fun to me. but someone else would be more happier then me to have something as rare as a Sealed complete Genesis game. I don't collect complete sets and I got lots of other sports games already to scratch my basketball itch. :)
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Some older cart games like Atari 8-bit I collect the platform .
The newer stuff , I'm more picky . I'll collect games that I plan on playing and a small percentage of that is games that I've gotten in lots that I came to own by chance .
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Ok here goes I collect everything if the price is cheap enough. If its a sports game or children's title it probably has to be free or close to free for me to pick it up.Unless I'm trying for a complete set,right now I'm close to completing nes,snes,n64,gamecube,dreamcast and xbox360 but if I don't complete them that ok too. I just figured I'm close so why not? I do try to play every game even bad games can be fun sometime.I do like to display them by set and alphabetically and I do enjoy vewing the artwork on my games as well as playing them so you could say I also only collect what I enjoy. Alot of people talk about filler games to me it's all personal perspective.I used to hate platformers I thought they were filler titles till my gaming taste changed now im still trying to find games I should of got years ago for cheaper. You can buy or collect whatever you enjoy whether it's sports games,bad games,rare or not I don't judge it's all in good fun.
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Of course that's all I collect. But "enjoying" is often times more than just thinking "this is a fantastic game". Everything in my collection, is something I enjoy or am interested in on some level. Everything on my game shelves, I could tell you something about that game, why I like it (or don't), where I bought it, how much I paid, and what the game means to me. All of them are there for a reason, and all of them were intentional purchases. At this point, I've purged anything that wasn't.
That's not to say that my game collection is going to look like a treasure-trove of all the best games ever; it isn't. It's just what I like, what I thought was worthy of owning and displaying. Some folks equate a large collection as being filler. But you can have a lot of games, and like them too. That's where the philosophy of quality over quantity sort-of falls flat, if what you like is a lot of different things... If I wanted, I could curate a smaller collection of only the most highly praised games, but that wouldn't be satisfying to me. I don't really care what they say are the only games worth my money. It's about what I like. It's taken me over a decade to achieve what I have and all on a limited budget, and that in itself means something to me.
I organize mine by console, and then by genre, typically. Sometimes by publisher, or by chronological order of release date, when I'm feeling especially archival about a console's library. No alphabet soup for me.
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This is me. Money, time, and space are limited for most collector's. I feel if I don't limit myself to only collecting what I want to play I might become a hoarder, and there are hoarder game collector's out there. I don't need every single game ever made, just what I want to play or the few exceptions of a game being a holy grail or something. I don't go for complete sets, and I have other priorities financially so only extra money here and there goes to collecting. I've been collecting for 15 years regularly so what started out as many a few dozens games has turned into about 1,500 or so.
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I’m on both sides of it.
I have a ton of stuff from the NES on up to Dreamcast that I’ll never play. I’m a completionist on some stuff. For later stuff, I don’t want to spend a ton of money on things I’ll never play.
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This conversation makes me think to a discussion I recently witnessed on a discord server, in which a 30 year old, unemployed “collector” was seeking to garner sympathy for their need to spend 1000 dollars a month to keep up their full Switch set. ???
^^^ These people are mentally ill. I have only sought to buy what I want to play (even though my backlog grows admittedly larger).
However, just as I don’t begrudge scalpers, I don’t begrudge collectors, either... but people who use stimulus checks and unemployment payments to fund their video game crack habit are reasons why I grow increasingly uncharitable, from a taxpayer perspective.
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Regardless of how you feel about the way they spend their money, no matter how stupid they are with it, the money is supposed to be spent so that it stimulates the economy, no? And those stimulus checks, as pitifully small the amounts were, did provide much needed relief to those who needed it. Even if just about everyone in my social circle is of a middle class college educated upbringing and definitely not needing the money, that doesn't mean there aren't millions of other Americans with far lesser socioeconomic stature who are out of work and unable to afford next month's rent who used the money for entirely for living essentials. And even if the poor folks used some of the money to buy weed and some new speakers, who gives a shit? Life is hard enough as it is, the average American's spirit is at an all-time low, so why not let folks buy a small amount of non-essential happiness as relief...
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Regardless of how you feel about the way they spend their money, no matter how stupid they are with it, the money is supposed to be spent so that it stimulates the economy, no? And those stimulus checks, as pitifully small the amounts were, did provide much needed relief to those who needed it. Even if just about everyone in my social circle is of a middle class college educated upbringing and definitely not needing the money, that doesn't mean there aren't millions of other Americans with far lesser socioeconomic stature who are out of work and unable to afford next month's rent who used the money for entirely for living essentials. And even if the poor folks used some of the money to buy weed and some new speakers, who gives a shit? Life is hard enough as it is, the average American's spirit is at an all-time low, so why not let folks buy a small amount of non-essential happiness as relief...
Because then more taxpayer money beyond stimulus checks will be needed to go to these same people (that I am referencing above), who spent irresponsibly in the first place, to provide for them what they chose not to get, in the first place.
Again, I was referencing a nutter who spends 1000 a month on games, not someone who buys food and clothes, and tosses 50-100 bucks at some entertainment.
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Regardless of how you feel about the way they spend their money, no matter how stupid they are with it, the money is supposed to be spent so that it stimulates the economy, no? And those stimulus checks, as pitifully small the amounts were, did provide much needed relief to those who needed it. Even if just about everyone in my social circle is of a middle class college educated upbringing and definitely not needing the money, that doesn't mean there aren't millions of other Americans with far lesser socioeconomic stature who are out of work and unable to afford next month's rent who used the money for entirely for living essentials. And even if the poor folks used some of the money to buy weed and some new speakers, who gives a shit? Life is hard enough as it is, the average American's spirit is at an all-time low, so why not let folks buy a small amount of non-essential happiness as relief...
Because then more taxpayer money beyond stimulus checks will be needed to go to these same people (that I am referencing above), who spent irresponsibly in the first place, to provide for them what they chose not to get, in the first place.
Again, I was referencing a nutter who spends 1000 a month on games, not someone who buys food and clothes, and tosses 50-100 bucks at some entertainment.
I'm that guy. I've got a family and responsibilities that come first. Yet I still have a healthy collection. Years of progress, waiting for good deals and thrifting, and flipping comics to fund it got me there
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How Many Collectors Only Collect What They Enjoy?
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Since always.
I don't pick up games that I haven't researched to try to determine if I'll like them and I don't buy any games I haven't heard of [...] I keep my collection very curated to things that I like.
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I ask because I have a copy of David Robinson's Supreme Court for the Sega Genesis that's unopened and still in shrink, [...]
Since any game is automatically more valuable if it's still in its original shrinkwrap, does this mean I now stand a chance of selling a completely unnoteworthy 16-bit basketball game to someone who feverishly desires the perfect, fully complete Genesis game library for a higher price than usual?
Depending on its condition, you could get up to $25 for it...perhaps $30 if you find the right buyer.
This conversation makes me think to a discussion I recently witnessed on a discord server, in which a 30 year old, unemployed “collector” was seeking to garner sympathy for their need to spend 1000 dollars a month to keep up their full Switch set. ???
^^^ These people are mentally ill. I have only sought to buy what I want to play (even though my backlog grows admittedly larger).
However, just as I don’t begrudge scalpers, I don’t begrudge collectors, either... but people who use stimulus checks and unemployment payments to fund their video game crack habit are reasons why I grow increasingly uncharitable, from a taxpayer perspective.
There are people who are in debt because of their penchant to keep their collection/addiction, essentially becoming hoarders, so none of this surprises me at all.
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I'm that guy. I've got a family and responsibilities that come first. Yet I still have a healthy collection. Years of progress, waiting for good deals and thrifting, and flipping comics to fund it got me there
You're not that guy. You just described yourself as someone who takes care of his priorities first. So, good on you :)
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I once knew a guy who toke out a loan for about 30 grand to buy 5 neo geo aes games so there is always worse.
But i'll admit i'm also guilty of spending 1000 euros or more on games in the past. Back in the day when i lived with my parents, diden't have a care in the world other then making sure i got in time to work. A lot of stuff was also alot cheaper then it is nowadays, yes those were the days.
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I once knew a guy who toke out a loan for about 30 grand to buy 5 neo geo aes games so there is always worse.
But i'll admit i'm also guilty of spending 1000 euros or more on games in the past. Back in the day when i lived with my parents, diden't have a care in the world other then making sure i got in time to work. A lot of stuff was also alot cheaper then it is nowadays, yes those were the days.
Sometimes you think you're bad with your collecting habits but never take out a loan to buy games bad. My goodness.
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If I recall correctly, the YouTuber known as Fluffy Gamer used to be, or may still be in debt for spending more money than he has on video games. At least he alluded to this multiple times on a few of his videos.
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I have had regrets about spending to much before years ago I bought a box of about 18 saturn games and a system for 800 dollars
I had the extra money but felt bad about spending that much on video games.Long story short that box had Guardian Heroes, Resident Evil,Die Hard,Panzer Dragoon II plus other rather expensive tittles and Panzer Dragoon Saga so Im definitely over it now.
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It really just turned into a collection for me, when I pick up a game, it is to play. Just happened to amass a lot of games that I like over the years, haha.
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*raises hand*
I don’t have the money or the space to buy a bunch of crap games I’m never going to play. I do a lot of research and only buy games I will like.
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It really just turned into a collection for me, when I pick up a game, it is to play. Just happened to amass a lot of games that I like over the years, haha.
Yep. This for me, as well.
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*raises hand*
I don’t have the money or the space to buy a bunch of crap games I’m never going to play. I do a lot of research and only buy games I will like.
Ditto for me. I also collect 4K UHDs and Bluray movies, comics, Music CDs and Magic cards so I have to spread my spending out on everything. I don't ever buy just games so I limit the games to those I will enjoy playing!
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There's been so many times where I've been like "Ok this month I'm gonna focus on only collecting for "X" console" and then went out to a thrift store and saw a copy of 1080 snowboarding for 4 dollars and pulled a Storage Wars "SAW IT, HAD TO HAVE IT" moment. It never fails lol, I always just end up buying things that I see. Which really isn't the worst thing in the world, but makes it hard for me to focus on one specific thing.
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another way I pre planned my collection was by buying video game compilations, instead of buying all my games individually. (for example) most of my Atari 2600 games I got on both the Activision Anthology and the Atari Anthology, game discs and I've added most the games in there to my VG collection. A lot of those games I can't add to my VG collection because they are arcade ports but I put Higher value on my compilations then the rest of my games. according to the Database only a few of the members on this site have Atari Anthology and Activision Anthology as well as just about all the collections on one single disc.
Midway Arcade Treasures 1
Midway Arcade Treasures 2
Midway Arcade Treasures 3
Namco Museum 50th Anniversary
Atari Anthology
Activision Anthology
Ultimate Sega Genesis Collection
NES MINI
SNES MINI
Turbo Graphics 16 Mini
PS1 MINI
RED 450 games In one Multi-cart for (not to be used on a real NES)
Intellivision FlashBack
Colecovision Flashback
Taito legends 1
Taito Legends 2
Sonic Mega Collection Plus [IT]
SNK Arcade Classics Vol. 1
Intellisivion Lives!
Capcom Classics Collection 1
Capcom Classic Collection volume 2
Atari Flashback
Excalibur-Ultimate-Plug-Play-Game
Namco Museium Vol 1
Activsion Classics Collection
Ultimate Board Game Collection: 20 Classics from Around the World
Mega Man Anniversary Collection
Mega Man X: Collection
AtGames Sega Genesis Classic Game Console
JAKKS Pacific Atari 10-in-1 Joystick
Namco JAKKS Pacific 2004 Ms. Pac Man Plug and Play 5 in 1
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Where I live (Brazil) it's very hard to have a massive collection, there rare opportunities to buy a game in mint condition for a reasonable price, everything is expensive and money is very short, I just manthem this hobby since my childhood for a question of sanity. Then, all my games has a reason to be here in my collection.
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I personally collect only games I think I would enjoy. I know there is such a thing as people collecting all the games for a system, but I don't think that will ever be my thing.