You ever been attacked for being a game collector?

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fredlepirate:
Never been attacked about it recently... my parent never really liked my love for video games when I was a teenager, but since I move out they dont have anything to say about it. My wife think I may have to many of them, but she doesnt really bother me with it if I dont spend to much on games (cannot afford any Neogeo games anymore). She play with me sometime if the game look cute.

At work (military), most people of my generation and younger (20 to 40) have a video game console or a PC and play games regularly. I dont talk about my collection, but we still talk often about the new games coming out. I did mention that I own a SNES and they get jealous, asking if I have Zelda or Mario Kart.

gf78:
There is only one "classic" game shop (ie not GameStop) in the area. I used to go there all the time, about every other day looking for old games or even manuals or cases for games. I've done a lot of business there.

A couple of years ago, they hired a guy who works on broken electronics such as consoles, phones, laptops, etc. And it hasn't taken long since then for me to stop going, maybe 3 times a year at most now. For one, he watches you like a hawk to see what you are looking at. If you don't pick it up then and he even has a hint you might want it another day, he snatches it up. Second and worst of all to me, he is antagonistic. He's an Xbot through and through and makes sure to point out his perception of it being superior to PlayStation. So bad to the point that he outright lies. We have gone back and forth as he tried to say that the PS3 had as many system failures as the Xbox 360. He tries to say that he has never seen a single broken Xbox One, but he has repaired over a dozen PS4's and they are pieces of junk. He's also a clueless moron who thinks that Sony was the owner of Kingdom Hearts and they lost it to Microsoft (since the 3rd game is coming out on Xbox One I guess). No matter what you try to say, he is a belligerent little toad who won't entertain the thought that he might not know what the F he's talking about.

And the thing is, I don't care that Xbox is his favorite and PlayStation is mine. To him, it seems he's equating his choice of brand to pecker size and he's almost vicious with his stance and statements. But worse than that, I am a paying customer who doesn't want to shop there or even browse there because he's such a douche.

doafan:
Attacked for being a collector ?, can't said that but I do have received a lot of bad comments from people (not friends) and of course from my parents, specially my dad but never cared about the opinions of others, at least when my parents were the ones that purchased the titles I felt sad sometimes but then totally forget about their complains when I played, right know that am a father, that I purchase my own consoles/games/accessories I don't give a shit about the opinions of other persons, why ?, because I earn my fucking money and I'm the only one who can decide how to spend it also is not like I spend all of it in videogames, like a mature and old man do have other priorities well arranged and videogames are the last ones at the priorities list, the day that those persons that doesn't like my collection hobby paid my food, services, education will quit collecting but that's not gonna happen.

karyann:
As a woman, I've been given a few eye rolls and sarcastic comments for sure. Some idiots think that I'm calling my boyfriend's games my own and then adding my Yoshi and gardening games to the list or whatever ::)

But most people with whom I share that I love gaming and that I collect games simply think it's cool and want to talk about games. Like some of you already mentioned, people often don't understand things that they are not into. Idiots are everywhere in the wild, whatever the area of interests ::)

aliensstudios:
I've never been attacked but I do feel uncomfortable showing my collection to certain individuals because most people just don't get the fascination with games and game memorabilia. Most everyone loves it though and I'm very happy with what I have. My mom is very indifferent to it, sometimes I get the sense that my dad is like: "Do you really need all this?" but he supports my hobby. I have a lot of acquaintances and feel uncomfortable sharing with them that I collect video games just because I don't want to be stereotyped as a weeaboo or a geek that sits around drinking Mountain Dew all day. I like sports, I like movies, I like music. Just because we love to collect games doesn't mean its our entire lives.
The people who attacked your friend likely have nothing in their lives like that. Remember, nobody insults someone if they're truly happy in their life. Just be glad you and your friend don't need to resort to petty insults to try and put someone down; you're better than that.

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