inasuma | 1,203 Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Something I've thought about a lot the past few months. I don't really have any high level collecting goals these days; mainly just one or two games i'm interested in. Do you sit back and save up for your future (undecided) goals? Do you never run out of goals? Do you sell stuff you don't want anymore? For me personally, i've been working on separating stuff in my personal collection that I want to keep and stuff I'm thinking about parting with. I have a good pile of games that were replaced by nicer copies, in addition to games I bought back when I didn't realize it was an undesirable variant. Another thing I tend to do is plan for displays and move into tangential hobbies like advertisements, TCGs, manage my lists of games (which never ends anyway), etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirVillain | 490 Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Play. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,790 Administrator · Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 I've never really had a concrete "finish line" in any of my collecting so I've never been in that situation. My goal is to own the games I like and/or imagine myself wanting to replay, which is an ever-moving target even if I were to restrict it to retro games, as there are plenty of old games I've yet to try out myself. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK | 260 Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Hitting a wall in my main collecting objectives turned me on to variant collecting. It's never-ending and new stuff keeps getting discovered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,547 Editorials Team · Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Beat them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,089 Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 Play 'em and beat 'em Actually, as I started getting really close to the end of the NES set, homebrews suddenly became much more appealing, to the point where hearing about a new game gets me excited these days. As long as people keep making NES games, I'll keep buying them, so I guess I'll never truly be done... 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8bitdontquit | 226 Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 In the end, if your a collector at heart, you'll always find goals. Unless your goal is to quit. Then quitting is the goal. Hmmm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNESNESCUBE64 | 541 Posted October 13, 2022 Share Posted October 13, 2022 It's an interesting thought. I've never had goals, just passing "hey this is interesting". For myself and many, when you are done with one thing you move on to the next. For me I moved to arcade stuff I moved on to arcade collecting and reproducing boards and other boards because I found I enjoyed it more. What do I do when I ultimately grow to hate everything electronic or can't do it anymore? Travel and enjoy something else. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 (edited) When I finished my NES set, it went from a priority to a side activity. Now I'm interested in variants and little additions to the set, but my primary goal is to just play and enjoy games in general with a focus on newer stuff. I did start a couple other sets, but not with nearly the same fervor or obsession. Collecting is a weird two-headed beast that is fun, but not fun, if that makes any sense. Edited October 14, 2022 by DoctorEncore 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor | 851 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 expand your interests. whether that be into a new system, new genre, new publisher, or a completely new hobby. The world is filled with so many awesome "things" that there's always something new! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,413 Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 Panic buy everything I think is underpriced in case I want it later. 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NZCollector | 107 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 (edited) Bit of a bump - thought this was new before replying Once the goals were achieved, pretty much stopped altogether. Weirdly enough it wasn't hard to adjust from collecting one day to not the next. I was borderline obsessed with collecting as a teenager, which is strange the bug left so easily. With basically every goal achieved, I've begun looking into other hobbies. My new car has a CD player (previous one didn't), so been buying RnB albums from the 2000s and reliving that area of nostalgia. It doesn't quite give the same feeling as games from my childhood gave, but definitely do look into other hobbies if you want to scratch some more nostalgia. Edited December 14, 2022 by NZCollector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptOut | 8,889 Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 I completed my N64 set, and gradually shifted my focus to Mega Drive! That should keep me busy for another couple of years, but I'm sure there will be something else new to catch my attention once I'm done with that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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