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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: oldgamerz on January 01, 2019, 01:25:39 pm
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I first desired to become a collector around the year 2015, that is when I had a giant increase in spending money I started buying retro consoles around this time. I can't quite remember what console I bought first, but I remember purchasing a used beat up PlayStation 3 Super Slim in summer of 2015. I may or may not had already a PlayStation 2 console around this time.
I started mass buying my video games for the 2nd time in around 2015, but my Tiger Woods Collection is older. I actually had a teenage hood collection but I sold most of them off, but I was actually more of a player than collector back then
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Between 2008-2009. I was out of school by 2008 but my plans to go to college immediately so I got a job and the money came in. It wasn't until I want to say 2010 or so when I started going to this big flea market in my state that I started to see a bunch of sellers so I took advantage and it went from there. This was before the retro gaming boom started so I was able to get a good amount of stuff pretty cheap compared to now relatively cheap.
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2008. I was still in college at the time and was having mad nostalgia for the Sega Saturn, a console I never owned growing up, but two of my good friends did. I remember playing games like Virtua Fighter 2, Nights, Die Hard Arcade, Bug, and various others titles at their houses during sleepovers and after school countless hours, and I always envied them for having Saturns. I had just recently transferred schools in 2008 and moved back to Colorado where I grew up. I went to a local game store that is sadly no longer in business and bought a Saturn console along with a copy of Virtua Fighter 2, Daytona USA, and some other game I can't seem to remember. During this time I discovered so many games for the Saturn that I never knew even existed as a kid, and from that I created my first video game want list that consisted of just Saturn games I wanted to own. Sadly, during the summer of 2009 I took a summer semester class that I miscalculated my expenses on and ended up about $2000 short of what I needed in order to pay for a class I needed to graduate. I didn't want to take out a student loan so I sold various things to pay for that semester including my entire Saturn collection. I didn't own anything crazy at the time and even games like Panzer Dragoon Saga were under $200 at the time, but I ended up getting around $500 for everything which wasn't bad. I have never got back into NTSC/US Saturn collecting since then unfortunately.
While I technically began collecting back in 2008, I feel like it wasn't until 2010, the year I graduated college and got my first real job when I began to collect hardcore, and collect for a ton of different consoles. From 2010 to 2013 I was a game hunting, game collecting fiend with very few consoles that didn't appeal to me. My collecting has become a lot more focused since then, but I feel like 2010 was definitely a noteworthy year regarding my status as a collector and video game enthusiast.
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February 21 1986 zelda how i loved thee
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I sorta casually had interest in it for many years, I've always had collecting needs, whether it was cards or games or toys, but I didn't get more into it until I moved out of my small town and moved to a place where I actually had way more options for collecting, which would put it around 2008 for me. Flea Markets, game stores, way more thrift shops. I don't exactly have the money for keeping collections, so I regularly sell off stuff before casually building up things again, but I'll always be a collector of some sort.
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The Myspace days back on those forums due to talking to collectors at the time.
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Probably 2015. A friend of mine gave me a ton of games, we're talking PS1, PS2, DS, 3DS Wii, and a good amount of PS3 games. Another friend gave me his N64 with some games and that really jumpstarted my want to collect and own a lot of good games.
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No specific year, for me it was a natural evolution of just playing games. Back around 4th grade or so, we sold our family NES to pay for a Genesis... and we missed those games enough that I vowed to never just dump a system again.
I suppose it kind of started around 2001- that's when I bought my first Sega CD. It marked the turning point of just getting what was new & setting my old systems aside, and actively buying older machines I had no nostalgia for. I wasn't seeking them out yet, though- the early pickups were ones of opportunity. The Sega CD was a high school friend cleaning out as he moved for college, the SNES was another friend's mom getting on her case for too many game consoles... that kind of thing. I bought the NES becuase Gamestop was closing out the system & i was afraid I wouldn't be able to find one later. I bought a Dreamcast becuase I was offered a free game collection for it.
So, not so much that I ever actively desired to collect... I just gradually realized it was what I was doing anyway, so I ran with it.
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I’ve always loved to keep the boxes and manuals of the games and consoles I owned as a child. So, in a way, one can say that I started collecting in the Christmas of 1990 when I got my Master System with Alex Kidd in Miracle World and Paperboy. However, I started to seriously hunt for older games in early 2011 after moving to Japan. I couldn’t resist the low prices and abundance of retro games around here...
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I've always been a gamer from a young age, but I started buying and playing games more regularly in December 2016 when I bought a Dreamcast and a SNES. I probably had about 100/150 games at the time just from my childhood (I had a PS2, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii and a few handheld already) and now i'm probably round 450/500.
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I've always had a bunch of games, but I can't quite recall when I really started "collecting".
June 2014 was when I hit pretty hard and my collection exploded in growth, but I had already been collecting for some time. I had gone to the flea market and ran into a guy with a booth selling stuff and advertising his facebook group (guy turned out to be a huge scum bag who was literally scamming people, I think Pat the NES Punk even called him out on his bullshit at one point. Essentially they did a raffle for Stadium Events or something, made a shit ton of money, he wound up winning the raffle, so he got the money and kept the game, and then he raffled it again a month later. Plus a lot of other fascist bullshit)
For sure before February 2013 I was collecting in some manner, because the day before starting my first career job I picked up a lot from Goodwill with a SMS system and 13 games for like $25... man the good old days.
Best I can tell, I started collecting in 2012, picking stuff up from Craigslist, goodwills, pawnshops, and yard sales.
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Somewhere around 2004-6. As a kid, my game collection was rather small and grew slowly as new games typically were only obtained as part of Christmas or birthday gifts. But then I got a job. With the fact that I could just buy a game I was interested in coupled with the rise of achievements, which encouraged playing lots of different games, my collection and backlog exploded. Eventually, I looked at the massive pile of unplayed games and just admitted to myself that I had become a collector.
There's still the desire to play through everything, but with new ones always coming out combined with my love of games that take 50+ hours to complete, that backlog's never getting smaller.
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I think I was about 2013 'cause that was when I got my first job and I remember immediately starting to collect from there. Shortly then before I'd started seeing other peoples' awesome collections and it made me really want one of my own.
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2014
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I started collecting when I was young, around 11 or 12. This was around 2002-2003. I would babysit and mow lawns in order to buy as many games as possible. While all my friends frequently traded in their games, I always loved collecting and rarely traded or sold any games I had. I however only collected PS1 and PS2 games for many years. I did not have a very big collection but I would spend hours cataloging and organizing the games I owned, I still have some of my handwritten lists. When I learned to drive, that helped me add more to my collection and by the time I was 17, I had around 50 PS1 games, 300 PS2 games, 50 PS3 games and some GC and other miscellaneous titles. When I went to college in 2008. my collecting slowed down quite a bit as I was not working but I was able to continue building up my ps1 and ps2 collection. I nearly stopped collecting around 2012, I was working and living on my own and I did not find much time to game or collect. I sold off some of my collection and most of the rest was stored in bins in my closet. My brother who had also had a strong interest in games had started collecting extensively and convinced me to get back into it by dragging me to the local retro expo in our town. I loved it though I was still strictly a playstation collector at that point. Around 2013-2014 is when I really started collecting and began to expand to new systems and when I got a major pay raise, I began to expand into new systems. My brother also left the scene and sold me all his boxed N64, DC and boxed GBA stuff which led me into looking for those systems too. I began to start collecting for cartridge systems, DC, Saturn, TG 16, Genesis, and this last year I even got a 3DO and a Jaguar! Now I collect for a ton of stuff. I love this hobby! I've met so many great people, have gotten a lot of great stuff and I can't wait to finally own a place so I can display it all.
So I would say I have desired to be a collector since I was a kid- 2002-2003, but it was not until 2013-2014 where I began to collect on the scale I do today.
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No specific year, for me it was a natural evolution of just playing games. Back around 4th grade or so, we sold our family NES to pay for a Genesis... and we missed those games enough that I vowed to never just dump a system again.
I suppose it kind of started around 2001- that's when I bought my first Sega CD. It marked the turning point of just getting what was new & setting my old systems aside, and actively buying older machines I had no nostalgia for. I wasn't seeking them out yet, though- the early pickups were ones of opportunity. The Sega CD was a high school friend cleaning out as he moved for college, the SNES was another friend's mom getting on her case for too many game consoles... that kind of thing. I bought the NES becuase Gamestop was closing out the system & i was afraid I wouldn't be able to find one later. I bought a Dreamcast becuase I was offered a free game collection for it.
So, not so much that I ever actively desired to collect... I just gradually realized it was what I was doing anyway, so I ran with it.
Basically, this.
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I first became a collector in 2014. Very recent compared to many. :). I always gamed heavily since I can remember but never decided to buy bunches of games to catelog them and collect. I always just did the basic beat a game, sell it, trade it thing. But then I became obsessed with the games of my childhood and trying to recapture my youth. I miss being a kid and try to relive the simplicity of the older years.
I used to collect PS2 games but sold them all. Now I got a lot of what I had as a child back and most is just trying new old games. Since NES,SNES and Atari were well before my time. Although I did own a NES as a kid that was passed down from my aunt.
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I started seriously around 2006 I think, The old blockbuster started a "new section" as Gamerush, and for one specific store they had the old NES rental games for sale. The good thing they sold them with box an manuals like new, since they didn't rent them along with the game. I bought a lot of them for around 2 dolars each. Since then, I started collecting but most of them I want them with Manuals and box. It makes me remember that feeling about opening a new game and checking manuals and all inserts, nothing like today.
I personally think it's almost an psicological issue ;D I have no specific "goal" but I mainly try to collect everything I had, I liked or I wanted as a Kid, Sega was not so strong in Mexico on those days, so Saturn and Sega CD are rare and something I look forward to have.
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I started seriously around 2006 I think, The old blockbuster started a "new section" as Gamerush, and for one specific store they had the old NES rental games for sale. The good thing they sold them with box an manuals like new, since they didn't rent them along with the game. I bought a lot of them for around 2 dolars each. Since then, I started collecting but most of them I want them with Manuals and box. It makes me remember that feeling about opening a new game and checking manuals and all inserts, nothing like today.
I personally think it's almost an psicological issue ;D I have no specific "goal" but I mainly try to collect everything I had, I liked or I wanted as a Kid, Sega was not so strong in Mexico on those days, so Saturn and Sega CD are rare and something I look forward to have.
I envy anyone who got into video game collecting around the time you did or earlier. I've met collectors who cleared out Funcolands or independent rental stores of their NES, SNES, and Genesis games for pennies on the dollar since no one wanted them at the time they were getting rid of them. There is a local collector who was been hitting up our local flea market since the early 2000s and has some crazy stories about games he found and what he paid, probably the craziest being Stadium Events for a couple of bucks. If only I had a time machine lol
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I envy anyone who got into video game collecting around the time you did or earlier. I've met collectors who cleared out Funcolands or independent rental stores of their NES, SNES, and Genesis games for pennies on the dollar since no one wanted them at the time they were getting rid of them. There is a local collector who was been hitting up our local flea market since the early 2000s and has some crazy stories about games he found and what he paid, probably the craziest being Stadium Events for a couple of bucks. If only I had a time machine lol
You just gotta work the system a bit, man- this is the time go buy up your Wii/PS3/360 games. 20 years from now, that generation will start their nostalgia buying & be jealous of our prices. Meanwhile, I suspect the NES era will be down to a couple bucks apiece, just like Atari is now.
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I envy anyone who got into video game collecting around the time you did or earlier. I've met collectors who cleared out Funcolands or independent rental stores of their NES, SNES, and Genesis games for pennies on the dollar since no one wanted them at the time they were getting rid of them. There is a local collector who was been hitting up our local flea market since the early 2000s and has some crazy stories about games he found and what he paid, probably the craziest being Stadium Events for a couple of bucks. If only I had a time machine lol
You just gotta work the system a bit, man- this is the time go buy up your Wii/PS3/360 games. 20 years from now, that generation will start their nostalgia buying & be jealous of our prices. Meanwhile, I suspect the NES era will be down to a couple bucks apiece, just like Atari is now.
Funny enough I don't believe that collecting for 6th generation and newer will ever be more popular than it was maybe 2-years ago. Keep mind that the PS2 came out almost 19-years ago, the Gamecube and XBOX 18-years, and Dreamcast almost 20. The people who were old enough to remember and enjoy these consoles are in their mid-20s at the youngest and are in that prime time for nostalgia + disposable income to create a huge collectors market for those consoles, but they've all been declining in value for over a year now. Even the PS3, XBOX 360, and Wii are getting to that point where collectorism should be setting in for them, but it hasn't. I believe the Wii will definitely rise a little, but I doubt it will ever reach the heights of even the Gamecube and N64.
But I do agree with you about Gen 7 being a great time to jump in. I was actually checking values on various highly sought after games and was pleasantly surprised to see many of them down about 20% or more since about 2-years ago. The bottom for these consoles will probably be in the next 5-years before they go up a little bit, but nothing like we saw during the beginning and middle of this decade with most older consoles.
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1987 is when I started collecting. I've been gaming since 1981 but 1987 is when I was actively thinking about what getting games on my own and planning ahead with when I'll be getting Christmas or birthday money. This intensified later on in jr. high when I would skip lunch to save my lunch money in order to get more games.
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I envy anyone who got into video game collecting around the time you did or earlier. I've met collectors who cleared out Funcolands or independent rental stores of their NES, SNES, and Genesis games for pennies on the dollar since no one wanted them at the time they were getting rid of them. There is a local collector who was been hitting up our local flea market since the early 2000s and has some crazy stories about games he found and what he paid, probably the craziest being Stadium Events for a couple of bucks. If only I had a time machine lol
You just gotta work the system a bit, man- this is the time go buy up your Wii/PS3/360 games. 20 years from now, that generation will start their nostalgia buying & be jealous of our prices. Meanwhile, I suspect the NES era will be down to a couple bucks apiece, just like Atari is now.
Funny enough I don't believe that collecting for 6th generation and newer will ever be more popular than it was maybe 2-years ago. Keep mind that the PS2 came out almost 19-years ago, the Gamecube and XBOX 18-years, and Dreamcast almost 20. The people who were old enough to remember and enjoy these consoles are in their mid-20s at the youngest and are in that prime time for nostalgia + disposable income to create a huge collectors market for those consoles, but they've all been declining in value for over a year now. Even the PS3, XBOX 360, and Wii are getting to that point where collectorism should be setting in for them, but it hasn't. I believe the Wii will definitely rise a little, but I doubt it will ever reach the heights of even the Gamecube and N64.
But I do agree with you about Gen 7 being a great time to jump in. I was actually checking values on various highly sought after games and was pleasantly surprised to see many of them down about 20% or more since about 2-years ago. The bottom for these consoles will probably be in the next 5-years before they go up a little bit, but nothing like we saw during the beginning and middle of this decade with most older consoles.
Generation 7 started to get real cheap around when I first started collecting in 2015 almost 4 years ago. Video games in general are still not that expensive yet at my area, it's too bad I stopped I am not sure if those $5 sellers are still in business, last time I went to buy any games was months ago
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It was around 2003 or so. I bought a box of nes games at a flea market and had the conscious thought, “I think I’d be awesome to have all of these”. That’s when the madness began.
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I started seriously around 2006 I think, The old blockbuster started a "new section" as Gamerush, and for one specific store they had the old NES rental games for sale. The good thing they sold them with box an manuals like new, since they didn't rent them along with the game. I bought a lot of them for around 2 dolars each. Since then, I started collecting but most of them I want them with Manuals and box. It makes me remember that feeling about opening a new game and checking manuals and all inserts, nothing like today.
I personally think it's almost an psicological issue ;D I have no specific "goal" but I mainly try to collect everything I had, I liked or I wanted as a Kid, Sega was not so strong in Mexico on those days, so Saturn and Sega CD are rare and something I look forward to have.
I envy anyone who got into video game collecting around the time you did or earlier. I've met collectors who cleared out Funcolands or independent rental stores of their NES, SNES, and Genesis games for pennies on the dollar since no one wanted them at the time they were getting rid of them. There is a local collector who was been hitting up our local flea market since the early 2000s and has some crazy stories about games he found and what he paid, probably the craziest being Stadium Events for a couple of bucks. If only I had a time machine lol
Before that was even easier to get better games I remember having seeing such rare games now, but never had interest, probably was also my income was not so much at the time to start serious collecting, and as you said a time machine will be a dream for this.
I think around 2010, more people started to look at this as bussiness, which came to increase prices and have the games hidden for them by the sellers :(
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Video games have always been a big part of my life, but collecting for me I feel started during the end of 1999 and the early 2000s. Even though comicbooks were my main focus during this point in time, I used to go to Babbage’s and Electronics Boutique regularly to get my video gaming fix. Going to the arcades was also a big thing for me back then, which also solidified my interests. My friends from school were also a big influence; if it weren’t for one of them, I would have never discovered Pokémon (and ultimately become as obsessed as I am today with the franchise).
College was also a big factor given I met new people with the same interests as me, including video games. Also, I've been collecting a lot of things growing up (even rocks), so the mindset was there already, I guess.
If I'm being honest, though, I think collecting is essentially the natural evolution for every gamer...or at least those who are the most dedicated to the hobby.