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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: dharmajones93 on June 06, 2018, 08:10:51 am
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I've recently taken the plunge into collecting vinyl records. I'm keeping everything to strictly video game related records and original soundtracks. Sonic Adventure OST is on its way, and I preordered TESV and DOOM which should both be coming next month. There are tons I want to get so I will have start budgeting these in every month. CDs are great and all, but I like the novelty of the records as a collector, and I think they will display much better. There is also something more intimate about pulling out a record and letting it rip as opposed to just whipping out your phone.
Anyone else have a favorite non-hardware or software, but still video game related collection they're proud of? Plushies, cards, art, manuals, OST's, vinyl, magazines?
EDIT: Playing CDs on my PSOne as my dedicated CD player is still pretty awesome...
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A little variety of things I would say. Figures, plush, OSTs, guidebooks, art books etc.
Art books are definitely my favorite though, I can look through an art book for hours when it comes to some of my favorite games. The ones that get localized/fan translated are even better, because I can actually read all the interviews and stuff.
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Do strategy guides count for this topic?
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Magazines for certain, but I don't go out of my way for them.
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Art books are definitely my favorite though, I can look through an art book for hours when it comes to some of my favorite games. The ones that get localized/fan translated are even better, because I can actually read all the interviews and stuff.
I dream about this one. I have the Hyrule Historia but the one I really want is the art and artifacts one. Also, I have a Warcraft III art book. Of all the games I have no idea why I have this one, but it is still fascinating to look through. I could dig collecting art books.
Do strategy guides count for this topic?
Absolutely! This is one I have thought about more recently. There is a chain here called half price books that has strategy guides occassionally. Picked up a FFIX for the heck of it not too long ago!
Magazines for certain, but I don't go out of my way for them.
Which kinds of magazines? Nintendo Power would be a pretty great collection, but I bet there are some pretty cool or obscure magazines out there that would be infinitely more interesting.
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I collect all matters of video game merchandise that appeals to me. Probably my favorite are old video game magazines, specifically Nintendo Power, Gamepro, Game informer, and the official Dreamcast magazine. I have a few others, but those four are the ones I read the most back in the day and love to own now.
I also have a pretty big guide collection, but I typically only get guides that might be of use, mostly RPG guides.
And then finally are figures and statues. This is a VERY expensive sub collection to get into so I don't buy them often, but I still have a lot of them. Luckily my GF had a bunch from her childhood which I sort of inherited when we moved in together years ago.
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Old school merchandice and older strategy guides are the things that I like to collect, I have a modest strategy guide collection
I still limit myself I'm not really looking to buy figurines etc unless I find them really cheap if it's from the old school stuff of series that I like.
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Which kinds of magazines? Nintendo Power would be a pretty great collection, but I bet there are some pretty cool or obscure magazines out there that would be infinitely more interesting.
Computer magazines mostly.
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Do strategy guides count for this topic?
Absolutely! This is one I have thought about more recently. There is a chain here called half price books that has strategy guides occassionally. Picked up a FFIX for the heck of it not too long ago!
I really enjoy my strategy guide collection. If I have a game, then there's a slim chance I'd like to get the guide for it at some point. I may not need it, but it's nice to have. I really like casually reading them. Some folks read Cosmo. I read strategy guides.
Half-Priced Books is pretty cool. I haven't seen them since I moved; they may not have migrated south yet.
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Just old gaming magazines, pretty much. And a few posters I have hanging around the man-cave.
My favorite gaming magazines being VideoGames and Computer Entertainment, EGM, and Retro Gamer.
I also collect comic books, big time, and some of them are gaming related. Like Captain N, Game Boy, God of War, Halo, Wolfenstein, Mega Man, and a few others. But it's not like it's a big chunk of my comic collection or anything.
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I adore strategy guides, although things have shifted a bit now, up till a couple of years ago they were the closest you would ever get to a 'bible' on a particular game - not just the walkthrough, but art and stats/lists. Nowadays books are being published which take in=depth looks at particular games, but those are few and far between, so I'll still be picking up guides. I particularly like ones on Mario games and survival horror titles and rpgs.
There's several plushies over at the den in my parents place which they kindly keep there for me, I also love soundtrack CDs (wish I could afford more!) and wall art.
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I don't order them online, but when I go to a gathering like retro gaming expo I make it a habit to pick up a couple Nintendo Power magazines while I'm there.
Also comic books too. I might be getting a load of them sometime soon from a cousin.
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For example Plushes, Figures, promo stuff, board games, etc. Also, what is in your collection?
I tend to collect figures above all else, favorites being My runner 2 statue, and castle crashers figures.
I also have a small collection of video game related food, for example, I have both variants of the Super Mario cereal.
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A few Funko Pops. I thought I would never actually buy one but then when I went to a convention last summer, it kind of got my attention so right now I have a few
A few amiibo. Again the same situation with Funkos but I cant seem to find them at the moment
Super Mario Cereal Box. Yes I ate the cereal but kept the box
Video game related manga or in this case ones based on the Legend of Zelda series
Thats all I can think of
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I used to be super into movie collecting, and I still am to a lesser extent.
I also like pick up random cheap / interesting toys. But you would be hard pressed to call it a collection.
Now I'm primarily into games though, as the hunting is half the fun.
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Anyone else have a favorite non-hardware or software, but still video game related collection they're proud of? Plushies, cards, art, manuals, OST's, vinyl, magazines?
EDIT: Playing CDs on my PSOne as my dedicated CD player is still pretty awesome...
If you want to preserve your PSOne laser you could actually rip CD's to a PlayStation 3's hard drive. and listen to music off that.
but you now need to manually input the song artist and the album name in yourself because SONY closed their CD server
If you like music as much as I do. then get yourself a PS3 super slim with 250 or 500 gigabytes of space. You can also play PS1 and PS3 games on it as well. Video games on any PlayStation 3 only install patches. You don't need to put entire games on a PS3's hard drive. If you got the disc most games take up less then 1 gig because the PS3 used the games disc data instead on what some modern consoles do
Also you can have almost unlimited PS1 memory cards on a PS3 because you can put as many PS1 storage slots as you want on any PlayStation 3. :)
PS3 super slims are highly underrated in my opinion
ripping CD's don't cost much space on the PS3's hard drive at all depending on how much quality you want on the music files