Lol, pretty buried here on page 87...
I go by Alzorath most places (though I have noticed a couple places where my name is getting used where it's not me - including a couple people using it to get on servers, if you are ever wondering if it's me, poke me on here, twitter, or my yt channel and I can confirm or deny it).
My collection history? I actually used to have a decent NES collection, as well as an assortment of RPGs and Strategy titles for a variety of systems - though due to moving a lot, a dry spell with gaming, and a few other things - I'm basically having to start over from scratch, and I decided to use VGCollect to track it this time because the community seems like a good one.
Most of my current console collection was gathered over the course of this year (with a few exceptions that I happened to have in a box that got overlooked).
What Spurred my return to collecting? My youtube channel oddly enough, I've been fiddling about with different types of PC games over the years, and felt the urge to go back and show off a number of classic, interesting, or notable games from the past (and try some oddities I never had the opportunity to play) - with the plan currently to do proper walkthroughs and reviews of them in 2018.
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What do I Collect?
- Gaming-wise: Classic or Oddity RPGs & Strategy games are my primary focus, but I honestly collect from every genre (just saving sports for last or during a slow period due to how common they are). My current system focus is PS1, PS2, and Gamecube - and I will be expanding to PS3 and Wii/WiiU next year (focusing on RPGs and Strategy titles of course). I don't collect for value, but rather gameplay (and I favor games I can record so it can help fund expanding my collection). My goal is two-fold, preservation of the original medium, but also (and more importantly) preservation of the gameplay through video archives.
- Non-Gaming: Textbooks, Art Books, and Reference Books (smaller than my gaming collection, but it is something I make regular trips to Half-Price books for, since it's a cheap way to get old text books) - while most my books are related to Art, Psychology, and Photography - I'm at a point where I'm comfortable expanding it to include pretty much any subject that interests me (I'm thinking Electrical Engineering next lol). Due to collecting Art books, I also have small bits of comic book and graphic novel collecting floating about. (I'm sitting at a bit over 100 textbooks, out of about 200-300 books total, that have survived the last 3 moves intact)
I've also collected MtG cards twice in my life... each time getting fed up with it and abandoning it (even gave my old collection to a friend as a wedding gift since I couldn't take it in a move... wish I would've kept in touch with him - I'd have told him to get some specific cards in cases now since they've spiked in value)... my newer collection is still with me, but far less valuable. I think the main reason I keep falling out with it is that I don't feel the desire to play it enough to justify it - so it just collects dust and doesn't bring me joy. (and if you can't tell, I can't stand "collecting for value's sake" - the value to me is in the enjoyment of the pieces, not the shelf-count).
I'm waiting for the steam importer to really do my PC collection, since manually putting that in would be a nightmare (I need to put in most of my physical PC game collection still too, as of posting this, but I need to unpack it from storage to do so accurately) - my collection might also change after I get done going through some old family storage... since I might find more odd boxes in there with interesting stuff.
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Why VGCollect? Community. Frankly, I could track my stuff on a spreadsheet if all I wanted to do was track what I had, but having a community to enjoy the hobby with makes it immensely better - and the community is what makes this stand out above other places.
