There are threads about games/consoles that are on people's wishlists that they hope to buy, but I was wondering what people's more long term ambitions as collectors/gamers are. In other words, what are those video game related accomplishments that you hope to achieve someday?
These can range anywhere from owning a specific game to owning a complete set of something, to something really crazy like hitting 10k games in your collection or having your own home arcade. Here are mine:
1. Complete the Want List: I've maintained a Want List of all the games I want to own someday. This list has expanded and evolved many times since I began collecting. In fact I have at several times completed in getting all the games I wanted for a specific console, only to go back through the entire library of games for that console and find anywhere from a handful to dozens of other titles I'd still like to own. In some ways this want list seems never ending, but I would someday like to definitively say I've obtained every video games I've ever cared to own.
2. Build my dream game room: I've watched a lot of video game room tours over the years and have taken inspiration from several as sort of a template for what I want mine to be someday. The one game room that has always been my favorite due to the layout and it having a lot of cool, interesting stuff thrown into it is Big Mike of ChargeBackForward's game room. Each console has a dedicated shelf and it is laid out nicely along the parameter of his game room, with awesome gaming statues and other unique gaming merchandise adorning the walls, shelves, and in glass display cases. I'd love to have a room that looks similar to his in layout and aesthetic. As part of this I'd like to have a room big enough to do what i want with it, but since I began collecting I've unfortunately been unable to have this kind of space. Hopefully that will change someday, and actually leads me to my next bucket list goal.
3. Have my own home arcade: A prereq to this is having a house, which given how insane real estate is at this point this might be fairly far off. Assuming someday that rationality and sense becomes a part of the real estate industry again, I'd like to own a house, preferably with a walk out basement so it will be easy to haul arcade cabs and pinball machines in and out of. Ideally I'd like to own enough arcade cabs and pinball machines to make my basement look like an actual arcade. I'd also want to renovate and decorate the basement to look like you're in an arcade and not just some person's basement. In many ways building this arcade will probably be the final frontier for me since I can't think of a way to top it other than just collecting everything, which is something that doesn't sound appealing to me.
