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General / Re: What is the main focus of your collection if you have one?

« on: January 01, 2019, 07:17:09 pm »

I'm focusing on North American SNES for now. My long term goal is to have a complete retail collection. After that I'll probably keep my collection to Nintendo systems. If I branch out from Nintendo, it'll probably be to recreate my childhood SMS collection, as it was the first console I ever owned.

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Classic Video Games / Re: What is the best deal you have ever gotten in the wild?

« on: January 01, 2019, 04:17:57 pm »

In probably '98 or '99 a local video rental place was getting rid of their SNES games to make room for newer systems. I rented Chrono Trigger for $1.99 and when I brought it back I was told I could keep it.

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General / Re: Opinions on Custom Reproduction Game Cases?

« on: January 01, 2019, 04:04:11 pm »

I only have one, as it came with the game when I purchased it, but I quite like it and am considering getting more. I'll keep my games in their original box if they have it, but getting these for my loose carts is certainly something I'm considering.

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General / Re: Childhood Gaming Christmas Stories

« on: January 01, 2019, 03:50:27 pm »

I don't remember if it was for Christmas or my Birthday, but my cousins from Germany sent me Secret of Mana as a gift. (I thought the big box with the Strategy Guide was so cool that it's one of the few games I actually kept the boxes for since Childhood). The problem was neither they nor I realized that there was a difference between PAL and NTSC format video games. I still have the game but have never been able to play it as I still don't have a PAL SNES. I recently picked up a North American and Japanese copy, just to have a complete collection of SNES Secret of Mana games.

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General / Re: Holiday loot thread 2018!!!

« on: January 01, 2019, 03:30:12 pm »

The wife and I got this from Santa. Pokemon for her, Zelda for me.

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General / Re: Intro thread

« on: January 01, 2019, 03:09:46 pm »

Hello,

I've been lurking here for a little bit, using the site to track my collection. I figured maybe I'd try getting involved on the forum and see if I can learn a thing or two.

I'm pretty new to collecting, only deciding to expand my collection after realizing that my childhood collection of SNES games had a few rarities in it. I suppose I could have sold them off to make a few bucks, but there was too much nostalgia there to give up on them. Most of my stuff is pretty old as I picked up a Switch over the holidays, but before that, my last console was a SNES that I got in 1992. Because of the nostalgia for that system, SNES is what I'm primarily collecting for. I'm a long ways off, but my end goal is to have a complete North American collection of SNES titles. There's a lot of them, and some of them are terribly expensive, so I don't expect it'll be a quick collection, but I like to have a goal in mind.