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General / Re: How much time has past since you've last played the gaming systems you own?

« on: February 02, 2026, 10:35:10 am »

Let me just go through my console list and see

C64 - never
VIC-20 - never
GB - early 2000s
GBA - 10+ years
MSX - 2 years but technically never (cart wouldn't load)
Odyssey2 - never
NES (via Retron5) - 3-5 years
NGPC - 10+ years
PC - today ^_^ (MLM/browser), gaming PC - last week (Diablo III) but had gone 6 months without playing a "modern" game since June 2025.
PS1 - technically never, on PS2, 10 months
PS2 US/JP - 9 months
PS3 US - 9 months
PS3 JP - never
DC - 10+ years
GG - 15-20 years
SMS - 10-15 years
Genesis - 10 months
Saturn US - 3 years
Saturn JP - 10 months
Sinclair 1000 - never
TI-99 - never
Xbox 360 JP - never

Those are just complete/usable systems. I have other consoles that I don't have enough parts to actually use. I also left off Wii from that list, as while I have 2 Wii consoles, I don't have any complete systems as I've got rid of the parts and my black Wii just a few months ago.

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: January 30, 2026, 09:07:42 am »

Anyone to come audit my collection?  I really need to compare it to what I have on here system by system. It’s just a lot to do.

I did that once just for PC games. I was missing a ton somehow.

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General / Re: When will your backlog actually be completed?

« on: January 23, 2026, 10:06:17 am »

A year ago I would have said 50 years or something. Partly because I had found that a lot of the games I had I didn't actually care for enough to play. The 52 Games challenge helped with that. It helped me go through and actually play stuff I owned and many types of games I used to like I had outgrown. Entire genres became dead to me, such as platformers and especially 3D platformers.

Now I will say never but that is because life and lifestyle changes brought me to a point where I'm not interested in playing games. The interest isn't actually gone, but the priority for them is way down. I've only played 3 games in the past 6 months: MLM, Dropsum v2 and Diablo 3 (only in the past couple weeks sporatically). All of which are "endless" so they have no ability to progress through anything.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Error Listings and Rejected Edits 2025

« on: December 29, 2025, 02:02:33 pm »

Last night I made an edit to the N64 NA listing for Mario Golf (https://vgcollect.com/item/5049), adding to the title "(white E rating)". It was rejected for "Incorrect formatting. Descriptor not required", however I do feel it is required.

There exist two label variants for this game despite the game never receiving the Player's Choice label. The second variant (NUS-NFME-USA-1) actually contains the post-1999 solid black E rating, which I've already submitted a new listing for (with the title "Mario Golf (black E rating)", since that's the cart I own. Both variants exist for the Game Boy Color version too, both of which are already in the database (https://vgcollect.com/item/17115 and https://vgcollect.com/item/251516).

I was previously told to change the title for the original variant as the new variant was being submitted (when I was adding all the 1999 Game Boy Player's Choice variants).

Add the variant, then add the descriptor to the existing entry.

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General / Re: Gaming/Collecting Goals for 2026

« on: December 22, 2025, 10:43:33 am »

I don't really have a gaming goal. The closest I can think of is maybe to finally write a program that can automatically refactor Major League Manager rosters instead of having to do it manually every time.

As for collection goal, I'll be honest and say it will probably involve me downsizing considerably. Having gone all out on the 52 Games challenge the past couple of years has really shown to me that I don't really like most of the games that I have. I've also fallen onto into the convenience trap where I'm much more likely to just play games on my computer than fiddle around on a console. Part of that reason is the unreliability of my AVRs, they aren't working properly anymore thus I can't play games on them. Also my life is going in a different direction and I haven't really been playing anything. I played Diablo III last night for a few hours and that was the first time in exactly 6 months that I played a game. I'm still not counting MLM because that's more of a project.

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Site Feedback / Re: EMAIL, MESSAGES, REPLY"S going UNSENT despite "Message Sent" notification

« on: December 10, 2025, 10:30:07 am »

Messages will not show up in Sent Items unless you check "save a copy in my outbox."

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: November 27, 2025, 10:23:11 am »

I don't want to make this political, but inflation benefits people at the top, while hurting practically everyone else.

It seems that way but this isn't the case. It doesn't actually benefit anyone. Inflationary periods always lead to consoliation at the top, yes, but this also happens in the other levels as well. It just appears that way because numbers go up and we are lead to believe that big number > small number.

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Classic Video Games / Re: how would you rank your collecting experience per console

« on: November 25, 2025, 12:50:20 pm »

Despite having a lot of games on various platforms, I didn't actually collect for specific platforms except for a few. So I will just put those:

S - Genesis, PC
For Genesis I got heavily into variations and that made things a lot more fun. Especially finding NFR stuff. PC is always plentiful in both games and software and there is always something interesting you've never seen before.

A - Saturn JP
Japanese Saturn is a lot of fun, that's all I can say. Even the weird stuff and the hardware. Plus the LE contents are so wild.

B - PS2
Both US and JP. PS2 was my peak gaming times when it was around.

C - Saturn US, SMS
Saturn and SMS are hard to find anything really and my library is quite small. Saturn is what got me into collecting in the first place.

D - Game Gear, Dreamcast
I never really found much GG stuff. Dreamcast was in that period where I was big into PC gaming so often I wouldn't get anything even if I did find it because I didn't really have any want to play those games.

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Off Topic / Re: How do you deal with getting older?

« on: October 27, 2025, 12:09:13 pm »

All the garbage going on in the world, the politics, the economic system, the unending drama and noise coming from social media that I’m supposed to care about or get sucked into. I don’t want to be a part of it any longer. For the most part, I’m dead to that world. It feels like a waste of my time on this Earth, and everything about the present day system feels designed to make me feel less human and I want none of it. I desperately wanna recapture the way I felt when I was young, or at least how I felt as a young adult.

I know how you feel. For nearly the entire time I've been active on here I had actually withdrawn from society for the most part. I was "so over" all the BS. But I had found that I was missing something but I didn't know what that was. I can't tell you how I got over it exactly, because it involved a trigger that I was not expecting to occur. I don't know if a person can actually escape that type of situation willingly because for a very long time I didn't think there was a problem. After the trigger event occured, my spirits lifted considerably and I did not know what had happened. I went into a period of introspection to figure things out and found that I had been experiencing some form of depression for a long time. After I came to accept things, I re-integrated with the world including all of the drama, of which I am still involved with even today. But I think it is a cost worth paying.

The things that ended up changing for me:
- I stopped paying attention to the news, politics or things like that. This is partly because I stopped doom scrolling on X and now rarely use it.
- I started focusing on music again and listening to new things. As a result, I stopped listening to the radio so this relates to being out of the loop regarding news. The type of music I listen to has regressed a little but I found that my music choices are dependent on a couple of things, my overall emotional state and also the music scene.
- I stopped playing video games, with exception. I'm still playing the two games in my Currently Playing list, but I haven't played anything in my backlog since early June. This happened immediately after the trigger event. I tried to play a game about a month ago and found I didn't want to.
- I started going to see bands again after a long time. This partially effected the type of music I was listening too somewhat recently.
- I started being more sociable in public which also came with the penalty of being involved in drama.

I won't go into details but I had to come to grips with a mistake I made in my past that led me to becoming a recluse. Once I became at peace with my past, the rest of the world opened up for me. That included some of the things that I had tried to escape from, but as I said I think that cost is worth it. I'd rather be the person I am today than the one I was a year ago. Nothing is easy in life and it is complicated and confusing a lot of the time. You'll end up making mistakes and having to deal with the consequences, but it is better than just hiding away because in that state you can't learn and grow IMO.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Error Listings and Rejected Edits 2025

« on: October 06, 2025, 12:35:21 pm »

This particular version does seem to have, at least one, instance where the red attention label is present on top of the box.
https://www.2dehands.be/v/games-en-spelcomputers/games-nintendo-super-nes/m2290585087-bubsy-snes
This is the same as the one found on French Ebay, so it seems they got the same version.
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/336046807380

We would not expect that the red label would be present on a BE/NL or non-France version. There doesn't seem to be a -FRA version of this release, only the -FAH.

If there is proof this specific release was sold like this in Belgium, we can put the [BE] on there, but it should have the [FR] for sure.

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Modern Video Games / Re: misprint video game

« on: October 02, 2025, 09:44:07 am »

Legit printed items can have errors like that. There seems to be a print shift on the back and it looks like it does indeed effect the entire plate. The fact there is a print shift and an ink error is cool. I wouldn't necessarily jump to it being fake.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: dhaabi's VGC Database Work

« on: October 02, 2025, 09:37:29 am »

These type of entries, where a product is "unofficially" imported and gets a store specific label, doesn't get an entry. If a person has this item, it would be considered whatever the original version is, so in the example given here, it would be the US version.

I had run into a situation in the past regarding Sega Genesis games in Belgium that have a Christiaensen label on them.
https://www.lastdodo.com/en/items/8430047-christiaensen
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/rcgAAOSw7EFfgFeb/s-l1600.jpg

There is nothing unique about this particular Phantasy Star III. It is a US copy (with no Belgian specific inserts) but with a Belgian store's label on the front. There is no provenance as to the legitimacy of a product like this, so until it can be determined whether or not this is an actual variant, it does not get an entry here.

My recommendation is to delete https://vgcollect.com/item/284437

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Bundles vs. Individual Games

« on: September 26, 2025, 09:31:56 am »

Hmm, I guess Gog will just be annoying. This isn't a bundle in the normal sense when it comes to a digital download. Since GOG has its own category, rules for Steam or a digital console platform apply. Where those have actual "bundles" meaning they sell the games individually as well as in a single package. For this particular entry, Gog does not sell the titles individually and this is the only way to get it. So it can remain as an entry, however I will fix the title.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Bundles vs. Individual Games

« on: September 25, 2025, 11:41:32 am »

Individual games.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Category/Platform Requests 2.0

« on: September 22, 2025, 11:29:18 am »

Created VTech CreatiVision parent
moved CreatiVision sub into there from the main VTech parent
Added The Dick Smith Wizzard sub
Added FunVision sub

There are no items on ebay for these two platforms which could be added as subs in the future:
- Educat 2002
- Hanimex Rameses