What is your end game? Room, store, museum or world domination?

[SNESNESCUBE64 | 532]

This topic is missing my option. I plan on eating my games at some point, potentially absorbing their powers. Nothing is more delicous than a combo of ABS, FR4, and silicon.

[Tabonga | 2,314]

I have always gone on the philosophy that whoever has the most toys wins.......

[Gloves | 11,761]

There's an end?

[Reed Rothchild | 9,510]

15 hours ago, SNESNESCUBE64 said:

This topic is missing my option. I plan on eating my games at some point, potentially absorbing their powers. Nothing is more delicous than a combo of ABS, FR4, and silicon.

We need a "I wish to know more" emoticon

[SNESNESCUBE64 | 532]

18 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

We need a "I wish to know more" emoticon

Whats more to understand? Look at game, and eat it. Consume tapes.

[BriGuy82 | 762]

A couple shelves, maybe close to one complete wall. All my stuff is sitting in plastic tub purgatory. I'd like to see it all set up and nice before I die. 

[T-Pac | 7,513]

18 hours ago, SNESNESCUBE64 said:

This topic is missing my option. I plan on eating my games at some point, potentially absorbing their powers. Nothing is more delicous than a combo of ABS, FR4, and silicon.

[SNESNESCUBE64 | 532]

22 minutes ago, CasualCart said:

Yeah just like that! I love that picture, it captures exactlu what I was thinking.

Edited November 4, 2020 by SNESNESCUBE64

[Makar | 1,946]

1 hour ago, CasualCart said:

Another great piece. Man before you know it everyone's avatars on the site will be your drawings lol

[ZeldaFreak | 3,600]

1 hour ago, Makar said:

Another great piece. Man before you know it everyone's avatars on the site will be your drawings lol

That's his master plan... he takes over more and more of the site, and my profile pic becomes less and less unique

[Makar | 1,946]

31 minutes ago, ZeldaFreak said:

That's his master plan... he takes over more and more of the site, and my profile pic becomes less and less unique

That @CasualCart fella sure is a dastardly evil genius

[ZeldaFreak | 3,600]

3 minutes ago, Makar said:

That @CasualCart fella sure is a dastardly evil genius

I, for one, welcome our new artistically talented overlords.

[Nintegageo | 582]

At this point I'm pretty happy with my console things. Now when we talk arcade, I want some cabinets and cartridges. The downtown apartment is a pretty relevant consideration as well.

[Andy_Bogomil | 815]

On 11/2/2020 at 9:53 PM, Bearcat-Doug said:

I'm good with a shelf full. I try to go with a quality over quantity approach.

I have a full room and I am trying to get back to this. Maybe two shelves with my favourite games but I definitely have to continue to downsize. I would say the same 50 games take up about 95 percent of my vintage gaming time. 

[T-Pac | 7,513]

21 hours ago, Makar said:

Another great piece. Man before you know it everyone's avatars on the site will be your drawings lol

Haha I feel like I'm unintentionally feeding a trend here. I've done a few double-takes at the Casual icons these past few weeks... it's kinda neat.

-CasualCart

[T-Pac | 7,513]

But back on topic - my collecting goals are more focused on specific games rather than volume / quantity.
I'd like to have every NES game that peaks my interest, as well as staples and some unique titles for Atari 2600, SNES/SFC, Famicom, GameBoy, and Genesis.

It will probably amount to several shelves of games. Like @Dr. Morbis said - I just want a big, functional library of classic games ready to play.

-CasualCart

[Splain | 2,560]

I remember when I decided to collect Game Boy games. I researched some of the fringe items and planted my feet firmly at "licensed, USA-released loose gray (non-GBC) carts." I'd get rid of anything else I happened to end up with. Then I started NOT getting rid of things like manuals, label variants, PAL-region exclusives, Game Gear games, and I re-planted my feet FIRMLY at slightly larger-scope collections, over and over, until now I'm basically collecting everything from the 4th/5th generation of handhelds (as Wikipedia labels them.) But HANDHELDS ONLY!! FIRM!! I have consoles but I'm not going for fullsets there. The pipe dream is to collect fullsets for all those handhelds.

Here's the problem: I picked up a Sega Nomad and a TurboExpress, and while shopping for games, I sort of realized that there's no such thing as a Nomad game or a TurboExpress game. What do I do here?? Full-on collect for these home consoles???

So yeah, I picked the "hissyfit" option.

[ZeldaFreak | 3,600]

46 minutes ago, CasualCart said:

Haha I feel like I'm unintentionally feeding a trend here. I've done a few double-takes at the Casual icons these past few weeks... it's kinda neat.

-CasualCart

Looks like you might need a stronger prescription if you're needing to squint that hard, hahaha

[SilverspoonGaming | 331]

I will continue my adventure of trying to complete as many NTSC libraries across all systems as possible, and when I did have a brick n mortar, it was a very bad situation I was in, and I moved towards online sales 100% quickly, the idea of having another brick n mortar is always in the back of my head.

[TheGreatBlackCat | 20]

If I'm going to be honest here, I'm feeling fatigue with collecting. I feel at odds with myself when I buy games because as much as I hate to admit, my passion for collecting is cooling. I don't know if it's that I'm getting older or if my priorities and wants out of life are changing, but I'm trying not to collect just to collect. Recently, I've bought a few rare games and I think it's because I want to buy them while I still care and simultaneously that they're the only games remaining that I care about.

Gone are the days of wanting a complete official NTSC NES library. That goal's out of reach for many of us now, but more realistic full library goals would be for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. I have many of the most expensive games knocked out of the way for those two consoles so finishing off their libraries isn't entirely out of reach. Will I care a few years from now? I don't know and it makes me sad because these old games were such an integral part of my life and my coming of age, but I'm happier now. I feel I may not need them as much as I needed them before.

I've been at odds with myself this entire pandemic over my collecting habits and if retro game collecting is as important to me as it once was. I don't have friends to share my collection with anymore who shared the same experiences that I had with them. But to answer OP's question: My game collecting stops with my one or two rooms. I don't want too much more that would take up an entire basement or anything and I'm realistically almost there.

[guitarzombie | 924]

I've reached my end game.  Have every game you want.  I could have a couple of gameboy games here and there but not going out of my way for em.

[Art of Nintendo Power | 353]

I was actually on track to start touring the Nintendo Power Art Collection via pop-up exhibits this year...and then things happened. Pretty frustrated to be so close to my end goal only to be shut down by fucking nature. 

[DoctorEncore | 3,690]

I've got a walk-in attic that will be transformed into my retro game room and a theater room that will be for new stuff. Those two combined should more than suffice.

[DoctorEncore | 3,690]

8 hours ago, TheGreatBlackCat said:

If I'm going to be honest here, I'm feeling fatigue with collecting. I feel at odds with myself when I buy games because as much as I hate to admit, my passion for collecting is cooling. I don't know if it's that I'm getting older or if my priorities and wants out of life are changing, but I'm trying not to collect just to collect. Recently, I've bought a few rare games and I think it's because I want to buy them while I still care and simultaneously that they're the only games remaining that I care about.

Gone are the days of wanting a complete official NTSC NES library. That goal's out of reach for many of us now, but more realistic full library goals would be for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. I have many of the most expensive games knocked out of the way for those two consoles so finishing off their libraries isn't entirely out of reach. Will I care a few years from now? I don't know and it makes me sad because these old games were such an integral part of my life and my coming of age, but I'm happier now. I feel I may not need them as much as I needed them before.

I've been at odds with myself this entire pandemic over my collecting habits and if retro game collecting is as important to me as it once was. I don't have friends to share my collection with anymore who shared the same experiences that I had with them. But to answer OP's question: My game collecting stops with my one or two rooms. I don't want too much more that would take up an entire basement or anything and I'm realistically almost there.

I'm on a collecting hiatus right now and I love it. Just picking up new games to play when I feel like playing them and not even looking at eBay does wonders for the soul. I'm working on Star Wars Squadrons, Paper Mario Origami King, and (soon) AC: Valhalla. Classic stuff and collecting is great, but I also love immersing myself in new games every now and then.

[yZoneFox | 18]

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