Hello everyone
As everyone knows, we as humans are designed of flaw and misjudgement. Here I have compiled some of the biggest mistakes new game curators make or even ones me myself has made. As a child I let these woes define me and if I even so much as corrupted a save file on a PS1 memory card or found a surface scratch on a game that probably came that way anyway because I buy used. I'd always blame myself and dwell which is compulsive i'd say.
A Stack Of Games Toppling Over?I have only been there with action figures and never video games. But you go to organize your games stacking them PS2 cases up just to accidentally bump them with the hip like a mother of 5 boiling the formula hitting the almond milk over. Causing all the cases to tumble over one another. A big ouch for any collector
. My brother who is a collector has had this happen. And he has been collecting since the 80s. I hate when this happens.
Over Scrubbing A Label. The Magic Eraser DevestatorThis one has personally happened to me when I was a rookie in collecting but not with a magic eraser but with just a slightly damp paper towel with a slightly dirty but otherwise mint Pokemon Yellow gameboy cartridges. My experiences with NES had laminated labels allowed for this with no damage whatsoever but instantly the yellow ink and brown ink that made up pikachu's face rubbed clean off and what was left was a faded gross mess
. I had to get a repoduction label that looked nothing like the real one. Over scrubbing is a mistake that my brother also made in his earlier days of collecting. We all learn by trial and error. Now I know that it's best to leave GB and GBA games alone. N64 as well. their labels are so delicate.
Corrupted Hard Drives?This one I feel is hard to do because it tells you not to unplug while the disc is spinning, while the light is on and without fully powering down and not just entering sleep mode. Never unplug while a game is saving. But I think in the PS2 and PS1 days. Many of kids had corrupted save files that I knew from rushing to power down before the game had fully saved.
What other mistakes in the collecting world have you made? Left something in the sun? Room to humid? Disc rot? Accidentally sat on a game box? Or are you
"You miss every shot you don't take" Michael Jordan probably
thank you for sharing.