VGCollectaholic

Why?
Like a lot of you, it sounds like, I have been a collector ever since I was a little kid.  I probably got that from my mom (a librarian who's mother and sister owned and operated antique stores).  I love making lists and working through them, organizing stuff, and researching - for me, collecting embodies all of that.   

Ever since early childhood I went through waves of collecting different things - my path more or less went Masters of the Universe >> GI Joe >> Transformers >> Sports Cards >> Wrestling Videos & Figures >> Movies.  I still have my complete childhood set of MOTU figs/vehicles/playsets, the sports cards, and the wrestling videos (I've got every WWF VHS tape that Coleseum Video ever released and a boat load of others spanning the globe).  Over the years I've sold off all the Joes, Transformers, and wrestling figures (at one point I had a full set of MOC Hasbro WWF figs... selling those off gave me money to open my second game store).

But one thing that never wavered through all of my waves of various collecting interests was collecting video games.  I got my first taste of video games Christmas 1984 when my aunt got me a TI-99/4A and I played Hunt the Wumpus endlessly.  (Her goal was to get me interested in these "newfangled computers", which worked to a point, I guess lol).  I was hooked.  I still have that TI-99/4A and every game I've owned since then.  So video game collecting has just been a hobby all my life I guess.

Determining What's Next & What Drives Decisions
I collect pretty much everything domestic (for me, that's US) and dabble very minimally in imports.  My focus tends to hop around a lot though month to month or even week to week.  Much of that has to do with seeing good deals on stuff and some has to do with random waves of nostalgia triggering impulse buys.  In the past couple months I've been hopping from NES to PSP to Dreamcast to Intellivision to PSVR, so it's really just price and opportunity driven for me, I guess.

13 hours ago, MiamiSlice said:

Use Bestine. 

Please. 

I also use Bestine.  Works wonders for marker and sticker removal, even on cardboard. 

6 hours ago, Archon 1981 said:

Every Odyssey2 game ever.

 This.  All of this. 

12 hours ago, DefaultGen said:

Latest game I bought because of that was this. I don't even know what the game is about but that cute kitty

I'm fairly certain that Adventures of Chatran a side-scrolling shmup where you fly flower-shaped ships and defend your homeland against an invading horde of gigantic marauding alien felines. 

I'm down to under ten to go on a few consoles (Turbografx, Master System, and Intellivision), so I'm always looking out for those.   But lately I've been chipping away at the ~120 or so licensed NES games I have left.

PM sent.

The blue/white color scheme and "Club" wording make me wonder if it might have been from Sam's Club.

4 minutes ago, DoctorEncore said:

Also interested in an answer to the above question and my own below.

Does anyone know of any box protectors for Arkanoid, Gyromite, and Stack-up? Thin plastic is fine.

RetroProtection sells Arkanoid protectors:

https://retroprotection.com/searchquick-submit.sc?keywords=arkanoid 

Amazingly well-done!  Absolutely love the organization on everything.   What shelving units are you using?   The height on them looks excellent.

Congrats dude!   I get so jealous every time I see your K*B Toys cabinet.  I worked at KB for a bit back in high school in the middle of the N64 era, so that always brings back some fun memories.  Working at KB is how I filled out a good chunk of my sealed Jaguar set (which I think was the first set I ever finished).

On 11/5/2019 at 10:54 AM, DefaultGen said:

I agree but pour one out for our fallen brethren of 2019, PCEFX was also shut down early this year before NintendoAge.

I always think of this guy when I think of the Turbo community. A guy standing in front of a shelf full of games complaining about other people want to collect the same thing as him but aren't "true fans". And people that buy games to put them on a shelf, literally what he does, is unacceptable, lol.

 

LOL, virtually everything about that video had me cracking up.