what got you into collecting video games

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scott:

--- Quote from: madmax on June 24, 2012, 07:11:03 pm ---Forte shows me his Megaman collection.

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And seeing Forte and Madmax's collections for their favorite series, made me realize that I should polish off the Castlevania games and go for CIB versions. It's a vicious cycle.

george:
A friend of mine got me FF7 black label as a gift. I was so excited.

Soon, I wanted Fire Emblem for Gamecube again. Before long, I made it a mission to get every Final Fantasy ever. It just escalated after that and for a while, I couldn't stop. Every time I would see something that I would want I felt like it was my only chance to get it.

I've since slowed down, and now I'm very picky with what I collect. Sure, I get new gen games, but I don't count those. A lot of what I do now is getting stuff I absouletly love or feel will go up in value over time. ie, xenoblade, Last Story, Disgaea Collector Edition, etc.

disgaeniac:

--- Quote from: george on June 24, 2012, 07:27:50 pm ---A friend of mine got me FF7 black label as a gift. I was so excited.

Soon, I wanted Fire Emblem for Gamecube again. Before long, I made it a mission to get every Final Fantasy ever. It just escalated after that and for a while, I couldn't stop. Every time I would see something that I would want I felt like it was my only chance to get it.

I've since slowed down, and now I'm very picky with what I collect. Sure, I get new gen games, but I don't count those. A lot of what I do now is getting stuff I absouletly love or feel will go up in value over time. ie, xenoblade, Last Story, Disgaea Collector Edition, etc.

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If you're looking for LE's that have always become ridiculously rare & valuable ridiculously quickly...I've done very well w/ the LE's I'd pre-ordered for both Neptune games.

If you ever see a third - I'd say stock-up on 'em :)

theflea:
I started the day my grandfather bought me my 1st Atari 2600 when i was 7 and i still own it today. Got Pac-Man, Combat, Kangaroo, Frogger and Phoenix that day.
Later on I remember going to garage sales on my bike hunting down old Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, and NES games when most people only cared about Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. Some of my rarest games today i found back in those days when no one cared about old video games. lol

shingouryu:
Like many of the other people in this topic, I was started on gaming in general by my grandparents. My grandma had an NES and every day after elementary school I would walk to their house down the block from the school and we would see how far we could get in SMB3. Meanwhile, my uncle who still lived there would play the more "advanced" games like Punch Out and Zelda 2. As I grew older, I stayed largely a Nintendo kid, and I would play awesome games like the Megaman X's and Earthbound. I enjoyed being able to play the "advanced" games I admired watching my uncle play. Eventually I got a PSX for my birthday, and that's when I really started to get into RPG's. I used to own games like Tales of Destiny 1 and 2, Valkyrie Profile, Dragon Warrior 7, etc., but I was young and stupid, so most of these games weren't cared for or lost. To add to that, my mother, who is a Filipino immigrant, donated all of my old cartridges to the Philippines. I was devastated at the time, but now I can appreciate the action, and I hope that some Filipino children got the same enjoyment playing them as I did. So, I guess one reason I started collecting was to recapture those moments from my childhood.

Once I went to college I got a part time job a local Gamestop (please don't strike me!), and while the company is evil, it proved an excellent way to start collecting current games. Additionally, I prided myself on being a wealth of information, whether it was a recommendation, a plotline, gameplay tips or just the state of gaming in general. Sure, usually a guy would just come in and bluntly ask for Madden, but sometimes I could actually have a great conversation with somebody about a particular game or game mechanics. I started to write mini articles about games I enjoy, and funny things we expect as normal within the confines of video games. Of course, I feel like I can't really fully speak on a game with any sort of authority unless I've played it myself. So, I guess the other reason I collect games is the pursuit of knowledge.

As a final note, my sister recently had a boy, so I hope that in the future I'll be the cool video game playing uncle :-P

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