NZCollector

12:54am Jan 1st 2024 in New Zealand. Happy New Years! Hope you all had a great year and have an exciting and promising one ahead of you. Hope you're able to achieve your resolutions!

All done yep! Paired everything down to the really good stuff and love what I have way more now. Went from about 1400 games to ~300. Don't have any spare cash though, when you have an old BMW and it's almost $3 a litre for petrol, the spare change kinda vanishes

My brain hurts after reading this thread

Might seem silly but Sonic Heroes for the PS2. Been looking for a nice CIB black label copy all year. Two others popped up on the New Zealand alternative to eBay, but weren't quite right so passed on them. Managed to get a really nice one mid December for less than half of what the last one went for. Not rare by any stretch of the imagination, but my favourite addition because being patient worked out well.

12:08 Jan 1st 2023 in New Zealand. Happy New Years everyone! Hope you have a great year ahead of you and are able to achieve your goals (be it collecting or otherwise). Let's hear some of those resolutions!

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.

I know I'm not really active on here anymore since I've not collected for a couple years at this point (went from buying about 5-10 retro games a month to just 4 over the past two years, and only have about half a dozen more left I truly want). I'd guess prices are what's driven a lot of people away from the hobby (and by extension VGS). It's the same on YouTube too, used to watch at least 50 collecting channels, and of those 50 you'd be lucky to see 2 or 3 still posting, with many of them not even owning collections anymore. I lurk way more than I post, since I don't have much of an insight into current collecting trends anymore (beyond what I hear on Collector's Quest). The community that's on here is great though, love the fact that it's still going - and it fills in the gaps of what's happening in the collecting sphere. It's a bit sad to think about, but I view it as a hobby that's largely dissolved and those of us left are the ones that enjoy the playing factor just as much as we do/did collecting.

That's a cool little subset - near heard of or seen anyone go after this. They all look nice together, would imagine it'd make a nice display with all of them together

Really? Game doesn't have any interest to me so not in the market to buy it, but a lot of the retailers here have heaps of copies (especially the online retailers). The Switch game that was hard to get here was Klonoa, that was a tough game to find at a store. Went to go pre-order Pac-Man World today and saw four Digimon Survives

May be a weird choice but Pilotwings Resort. That's the one I first played, and have only played Pilotwings and Pilotwings 64 in the last few years. While I know they're good in their own regards, playing Resort first gave me a lot more expectations for the previous two. I like the other two, but because of that only enjoy Resort.

When you word it like that, it's a lot of time ha. Have pledged to your Patreon, at the $4 tier ($6.50NZD). Can now enjoy the After Dark's

That's amazing it exists, genuinely had no idea until it was linked here. Having looked at it a bit more you're right, it's definitely far from all of it. Got a bit excited at the prospect of looking at it again

Not only did that bring back some memories to a thread I WISH I was around on NA for when it happened (less than a year off), but it also made me learn of this archive. How long has this been around!? You can view ALL of the forum!

Been playing a bit of 3DS in the bursts of free time I have (mainly stuff like the 8-Bit Sonic games). Before the eShop closes, does anyone have any recommendations for some good unknown exclusive games on the eShop? Price doesn't matter, want to fully see what the store has to offer before it shuts down.

You bastard Ya got me