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My favorite find was from a yard sale: a boxed light gun rifle for the original Odyssey, the first commercial light gun for home use, I think. Pictures are in the standard finds thread so I won't repeat them here. So many good finds that others had made me jealous. Don't think I could pick just one.

There have always been systems I collect full sets for, and others I just pick up what interests me. Most of my full set systems are older and I rarely find anything for them anymore (I only collect in the wild) so nearly all my current acquisitions are in the second category. There are no current systems that I have full set interest in.

COLLECT - Systems: Microsoft XBox 50

COLLECT - Systems: Nintendo Wii 50 <Oops, request withdrawn as photo doesn't support it. Wii comes later>

COLLECT - Systems: Nintendo Virtual Boy 50

COLLECT - Systems: Nintendo SNES Fullset

COLLECT - Systems: Nintendo NES 50

COLLECT - Systems: Nintendo GameCube 50

COLLECT - Systems: Nintendo Game Boy Color 50

COLLECT - Systems: Nintendo Game Boy Advance 50

COLLECT - Systems: Nintendo Game Boy 50

COLLECT - Systems: Nintendo Famicom 50

Another photo montage, this time showing Nintendo and Xbox stuff: So let's start with: COLLECT - Systems: Nintendo 64 Fullset

I seem to have gotten two of these badges somehow.

Gotta have baseball cards just to put in your bike spokes! Anyway, to answer Estil's question, rookie cards are more valuable because they're dated (reprints usually have little or no value) and have that before-they-were-famous cachet, much like first editions of famous books. First prints of albums can be more valuable than reissues but are not readily apparent unless the art or copyright differs somehow. Back on topic, here's my vinyl setup(s). This is the main one: a Technics SL-1500 and a Pioneer VSX-09tx receiver pushing 2 pairs of original Large Advents. Speakers not shown as they're off to the side. The turntable, one of the Advents pairs and a still-working but currrently unconnected Marantz 1060 amp were my first real Hi-Fi stuff bought in college in 1975 or 76. They've served me faithfully for nearly 50 years. Next up is the secondary setup in my gaming room. This one has a Revox B-790 linear tracking turntable and, up til a week ago, a vintage Pioneer SX-616 receiver, but that blew a fuse so I'm currently using a cheaper Radio Shack unit. I'm just using some in-wall speakers that came with the house to save space. Finally, about 1/3 of my remaining record collection-the rest are still packed. I gave away over 500 records to lighten the load when I moved and mostly only kept specialty albums from the days before CDs took over: direct-to-disc, half-speed mastered, dbx encoded, etc, as well as a few with nostalgic value. Genre-wise, it's heavy on jazz.

COLLECT - Systems: Sony PlayStation 2 50

And, since the Sony stuff is in the same photo: COLLECT - Systems: Sony PlayStation 50

COLLECT - Systems: Sega Saturn 50

COLLECT - Systems: Sega Pico Fullset

COLLECT - Systems: Sega Master System Fullset

COLLECT - Systems: Sega Genesis 50

COLLECT - Systems: Sega Game Gear Fullset

COLLECT - Systems: Sega Dreamcast Fullset

COLLECT - Systems: Sega CD 50

I'm trying to not upload too many photos, so I stitched a bunch together to make a single image that I hope will still count as proof. Here's the Sega and Sony photo, and I'll make several badge request posts based on this photo, starting with: COLLECT - Systems: Sega 32X Fullset