Does your collecting ever shift gears?

[turf]

I've always been a Nintendo collector.  That's what the majority of my collection is.  I've noticed that my most wanted games these days are heading in the Sega direction.  I know!  Heresy, right?  I'm looking a lot of Dreamcast and Genesis games that I don't have.  I think my collecting is starting to shift towards Sega stuff. 

Don't worry, Nintendo.  You'll always be #1 in my heart.  Daddy is just after a little strange.

Has your collecting ever shifted?  Do you just look up and see you're headed in a new direction?

[ignition365]

Oh for sure.  When I started out it was mostly Nintendo as well.  Mostly SNES.  Then I realized that I really like PS2 and started going at it.  Went from like 100 to like 500 pretty quick.  Now I'm really close to a full set of N64 so that's my priority.

[azure]

Definitely it changes gears often I would say, with certain things that never shift though. Sometimes I get really into hunting for a certain console, sometimes it's certain games.

[kashell]

It sure does. I usually stick to my favorite genres, but the consoles those genres are on will be all over the place.

[tripredacus]

It certainly does. I can think of these focuses

NES (early-mid 90s)
Genesis and Saturn (mid-late 90s)
PC (mid 90s-2000)
PS2 and PlayStation (2001-2008)
Saturn (2006-2010)
Daytona USA and After Burner (2010-2012)
Master System (2010-2011)
Genesis (2011-2013)
everything (2013-2016)
Genesis (2016)
PC and Genesis (2017)

I think those years make sense.

[telly]

I'm still building my collection and grabbing those big consoles, games and franchises. It's been that way since I started seriously collection, which was about 4 or 5 years ago.

[shepard11]

I'd say mine shifts all the time. Right now I'm really into my Wii U and those damn amiibos. But I never pass up a Dreamcast or Game Gear I'm missing.

[burningdoom]

I really am just a cheapskate. I go for most anything that's looks good and is $20-$30 or under.

[turf]

I really am just a cheapskate. I go for most anything that's looks good and is $20-$30 or under.

Be careful.  That's how I amassed a eff-ton of games.

[justin8301]

Mine tend to shift based on what ever I'm playing at the time. I just resurrected my vita so I could play Ys VIII and I've already picked up like 6 new vita games in the last week.

[ignition365]

I really am just a cheapskate. I go for most anything that's looks good and is $20-$30 or under.

Be careful.  That's how I amassed a eff-ton of games.

Samesies.

[marvelvscapcom2]

I suffer from collecting mood swings lol.  I used to be on a huge PS2 kick than got obsessed with Wii U, than I wanted every good Wii game, I was buying SNES for a little bit,  I started collecting with only NES games when I first started collecting than expanded to other consoles.  Now ive been only focusing on new releases for Xbox One and Switch and amiibos and not so much retro but I do want Mario Strikers for GC and have a craving for a ColecoVision for some reason .

[Warmsignal]

Prob on a monthly basis my main focus changes consoles. I've always been that way. Earlier this year it was Game Gear, then Wii U, then Saturn, then PS4, and now Wii.

[burningdoom]

I really am just a cheapskate. I go for most anything that's looks good and is $20-$30 or under.

Be careful.  That's how I amassed a eff-ton of games.

Me too, though I don't have quite the shit-ton you do.

[sworddude]

Pretty much depends what people decide to get rid of.

If It's a great deal I'm game if there is some interesting stuff that I need that is.

I will avoid atari like the plague though 

In the past I started collecting only nintendo: gamecube and gba to be exact. Later on I branched out to sony and sega since apparently some nintendo series or certain genre's were also on these consoles. And the Snes looked allot like the gba so yea It's only natural.

Only had nintendo stuff at home back than but my friends had sony and sega games. I was mainly a nintendo guy back than.

Ever since I retrieved old arcade games that I have played as a kid and games such as second samurai. I Forgot the titles but came across them by chance Great stuff