Is owning multiples of a console obsessive/hoarding?

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blipcs76:
I suffer from this a little bit. I have 4 NES, 2 SNES, 2 N64, 4 Atari 2600, 4 PS1 and my worst offender is my 7 Sega Genesis consoles. I want to get rid of them, but I start parting it out and realize I can't find enough cables for all of them and I'm reluctant to sell them off if I leave myself without a way to hook them up. Usually, I acquire these duplicate consoles when I find them at garage sales with a bunch of games and they don't want to split it up. I want the games, so I end up with extra consoles.

The only system I purposefully collect multiples are Gameboys, where I want to eventually collect all the primary color variations. I probably wont' go any further than GBC though. I don't need 50 gameboys in different colors sitting around here :)

bobster:

--- Quote from: blipcs76 on May 20, 2014, 09:58:41 am ---I suffer from this a little bit. I have 4 NES, 2 SNES, 2 N64, 4 Atari 2600, 4 PS1 and my worst offender is my 7 Sega Genesis consoles. I want to get rid of them, but I start parting it out and realize I can't find enough cables for all of them and I'm reluctant to sell them off if I leave myself without a way to hook them up. Usually, I acquire these duplicate consoles when I find them at garage sales with a bunch of games and they don't want to split it up. I want the games, so I end up with extra consoles.

The only system I purposefully collect multiples are Gameboys, where I want to eventually collect all the primary color variations. I probably wont' go any further than GBC though. I don't need 50 gameboys in different colors sitting around here :)

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I have the same problem with Genesis consoles. Everyone and their mother has one around here. If I buy a Genesis lot, I end up with another console ::)

disgaeniac:
Only if *YOU* consider it to be so ;)

Hoarder/not a hoarder is something that each of us need to define & decide for ourselves, I think...

instantreplay:
Let me start by saying that I'm a psychology major and my area of interest is abnormal psychology.

In short, no, you are neither obsessive nor a hoarder (based on the information you've provided). In abnormal psychology, we define a behavior as "bad" only if it interferes with a person's ability to enjoy their life. The key point is that you said you primarily have multiple copies of rare games and even then you usually only buy duplicates if you can find them on sale.

1) An obsession means you cannot stop thinking about it. Unless you spend most of your free time looking for duplicates, you're not obsessive. It's one thing to walk by a video game store when on vacation and pop in to see if there are any good deals. It's another to plan a vacation in California and ONLY go to video game stores looking for deals.
2) A hoarder is someone who does not stop collecting. In your case, if you came across a copy of a rare game that was at a good price and you already have five copies of that game, would you buy that copy? A hoarder would buy the game at a low price no matter how many copies they owned.

Hope this helps :)

Warmsignal:
Well, I admit to myself that I'm a hoarder even though I don't collect multiples. Sometimes I like to be hypocritical and cry hoarder when someone collects multiples of the same game just because there is a slight variant. That doesn't mean the game is different! Why do you need the same game in every fashion that it was printed at the factory?! You will never use all of them!! Oh well, collect/hoard however you like. ;)

--- Quote from: instantreplay on May 20, 2014, 10:53:36 am ---Let me start by saying that I'm a psychology major and my area of interest is abnormal psychology.

In short, no, you are neither obsessive nor a hoarder (based on the information you've provided). In abnormal psychology, we define a behavior as "bad" only if it interferes with a person's ability to enjoy their life. The key point is that you said you primarily have multiple copies of rare games and even then you usually only buy duplicates if you can find them on sale.

1) An obsession means you cannot stop thinking about it. Unless you spend most of your free time looking for duplicates, you're not obsessive. It's one thing to walk by a video game store when on vacation and pop in to see if there are any good deals. It's another to plan a vacation in California and ONLY go to video game stores looking for deals.
2) A hoarder is someone who does not stop collecting. In your case, if you came across a copy of a rare game that was at a good price and you already have five copies of that game, would you buy that copy? A hoarder would buy the game at a low price no matter how many copies they owned.

Hope this helps :)

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Well, who among us isn't nearly always thinking about video games? I'd say it's an obsession, at least for me. Yeah, I'm always searching for something. I'd prefer to find something I don't have. I have driven hours just to visit other towns and scour them for games. I'd also of course, buy up a copy of something I already had if the price were right. I always see it as possible trade material, another way to get a game I don't have.

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