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| urbanchaos:
I would say that I really got into game collection because of online shows such as "Pat the NES Punk", "The Angry Video Game Nerd" & "The Game Chasers" I guess I could also add to that the nostalgia factor that strucked me someday. |
| jobocan:
--- Quote from: urbanchaos on June 01, 2012, 10:43:52 am ---I would say that I really got into game collection because of online shows such as "Pat the NES Punk", "The Angry Video Game Nerd" & "The Game Chasers" I guess I could also add to that the nostalgia factor that strucked me someday. --- End quote --- There's a little of this with me for sure. I hadn't started collecting when I started watching AVGN stuff (I started watching his stuff when he released his Karate Kid review), but when I started seeing his collection, I thought it may be cool to start doing that too, since my collection at the time was pretty tiny (not even a hundred games, what?). It wasn't the main reason, but it did have a bit of an influence. But I really didn't start until I started buying old games (basically stuff that I used to like) from jjgames.com, I don't remember when I started exactly. They had great prices (at the time they were positively cheap compared to now) and free shipping on large orders (at the time for Canada, now they only have that in the US), so before long I started having hundreds of games. Other "collecting" shows like Game Chasers and Pat the NES Punk's Flea Market Madness did mildly change how I find games, making me try to visit more flea markets (there are barely any around here though, the ones we do have tend to have multiple resellers, or just people who overprice their stuff "because it's old", but I do get good finds from time to time) and made me more of a haggler. |
| killerchameleon:
Video game collecting never really started for me I just never got rid of any of it, its true I am a hoarder. :o |
| sessiz:
My oldest son got me started a couple of years ago. He's been gaming since he was 4 and I've been gaming since I could remember. One day he wanted to play some "old" games that I used to play at his age so I let him use a nes emulator and he fell in love. I told him that playing on an emulator wasn't the way it was done and here we are now. |
| madmax:
I'm pretty sure I've posted this before. I was staying at my grandmas house when I was young and she had a SNES. My uncle said that i would really like The legend of Zelda so I played that a lot and beat the game. After that I looked through the pile of games and saw FFII. Decided to give it a try and was instantly hooked. When I was a little older i got a PS2 and got FFX and played the heck out of that. I then got my hands on FF7 to 9. Fast forward a few years, I live on my own, have a little income and Forte shows me his Megaman collection. I ask myself what's stopping me from collecting FF games now that I'm independent. I had no real answer, so I started collecting :P |
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