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Got the Binding of Isaac: Repentance CE today. I’ve put more hours into BoI than any other Switch game, so this is a particularly cool pickup for me

I just kinda tried to work around it for the most part. My game-collecting habits and focuses shift with time anyway, and 3 years is a long time in a "collecting life", so I'm sure things would look at least a little bit different in my collection with or without the pandemic. Most of my game collecting is done through the mail or delivery services in one form or another anyway, so aside from a slight increase in the sheer volume of mail and parcels I was receiving, I wasn't impacted all that much. I still did several FB Marketplace meetups w/masks etc, and went to local game stores when they opened back up, restrictions and precautions abound. The real shift over the last few years has been in the focus of my collecting. At the start of Covid I was definitely most focused on Switch, Gameboy and GameCube collecting, with a strong emphasis on the Switch. 3 years later, my Gameboy/Gamecube collecting has slowed to a trickle (acquired most of the games I want), my Switch collecting has slowed down significantly and become pretty selective (the shovelware floodgates have really opened), and these days I'm pretty much putting all my collecting funds into signs and displays etc. Since they're so damned expensive, it doesn't leave much room in my collecting budget for anything else lol.

Had this guy show up today. They did a really great job on the packaging, AND I got my favourite turtle’s collectable card, Michelangelo!

Uhh….we’re talking about one guy, preferring one game over one other game in one very specific instance. My post is not indicative of the feelings of others on the site, or of the site as a whole. And even if it were, that would be fine. Lol

Tremendous, my friend. Looks amazing.

Holy schnappin' arseholes Batman, that thing is gorgeous. Congrats on the score. Pay an arm and a leg or get a decent deal?

I don’t know why I never thought of that!! Making the flyer now

Dang, creepin on 1100! I know the level of commitment that takes lol. Wouldn't mind seeing how you've got your collection set up! Thanks for the kind wordsanyway brother, I appreciate it. For the lighting, I've got app-controlled Geeni LED strips running along the top/back of the shelves to give that "backsplash" look against the wall, and for the galaxy effect, I have a small laser/light projector in the middle of the floor. You can see it this pic:

Solid lol, AirVillain. One of my first real-life laughs on the internet in 2023, well done I must admit.

To be honest I haven't done a count in quite a while, but the total is somewhere in the ballpark of 1200-1250 games. That's actually ~the same number I've had for a while, as I've both had to slow down on my Switch collecting for a bit while I settle some rather pricy sign/display deals, and I've also sold/traded a few "physically large+low priority" titles to make space in the game room (Valkyria Chronicles 4 comes to mind, with the giant CE box used to house a tiny plastic tank), as I'm pretty much totally out of space to display things and having to constantly "Tetris" things around to make them fit.

Got a new WoN sign and happened to catch a few nice pics of the Switch collection while photographing it

I made the 12+ hour round-trip down to Washington State this week to finally pick up my WoN fiberoptic sign Had to rearrange the signs in the game room a bit to accommodate, but pretty stoked with the results!

100% of this applies to me also ^^. I wasn’t in anyone’s clique or part of any inner circle, my presence there was just like it is here. I don’t know if I was obliviously dancing between the raindrops as all these negative things happened around me, but if that’s the case, I sure feel lucky to have come away from several years of daily visits without ever having noticed, myself.

Haha, gotta fund the weed and beer somehow I went and visited him a couple months ago around PRGE time, I need to convince him to start frequenting the site!

I think it’s being grossly exaggerated in hindsight, I wouldn’t say NA came within 100 miles of qualifying as a “toxic” environment. I would’ve called it a “pleasant/welcoming/friendly” online environment based on my years of experience there. Unless I REALLY wasn’t visiting the threads where all this was going on, I’d say we’re looking at a bit of sensationalized revisionist history.

I'm definitely team SMW. I love SMB3 but I feel like SMW just ups the ante. Also I can't believe you knocked SMWs music, that's just.....no dude, no.

In this pond, I don't know that there is. Someone has to be the biggest fish lol.

Bingo. That would've thrown things into a much worse state of disarray. As for NintendoAge, I miss the domain name, post history, and some users that didn't make the switchover for sure. I never really experienced a lot of toxic behaviour there, personally.

Thankfully got this one for Tradesmas!

‘Nother beauty added to the collection today, been on the hunt for a clean copy for I don’t know how long!

Yeah, trust me I wasn't thrilled to pay that lol. I've got a World of Nintendo fiberoptic I'm picking up on Jan 3, and a Mario statue in the works. Paying both an arm and a leg for both of 'em lol. I'll post 'em when I get 'em, but I don't know what the next pickup will be after that!

Paid way more for it than I wanted to. I offered 1500 for it which I though was a strong offer, ended up paying about 2K. Signs are getting pretty ridiculous these days man, I have 2 more display/sign deals on the table at the moment, and after that I don't know how I'll be able to continue collecting them lol.

Took up my whole backseat, but I picked up this gold seal Nintendo sign while in Oregon last week

Of course I have to post a shot of the Virtual Boy set

Hey Peko, it's Jordan from Poco / Mostly Games. You sold me Phalanx for GBA outside the store one time lol, if that jogs your memory. Good to see ya back