The WORST way to Collect Video Games!
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- Don't collect games the same way I did.
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this is why i dont go for complete sets or subsets i only collect what i think i will like.
Exactly what i do!!! Collector's want to collect everything.....silly rabbit, trix are for kids! 😂
Andy I absolutely LOVED this video! I can 100% relate to this and I am actually in collection 3.0 right now haha. I went through all those phases you just talked about.
That's what's up retro wolf 88. And I would like to say I appreciate you upfront boldness and it's going ahead speaking your mind and telling us where it's at right now in this video. I like to collect everything I can get my hands on I don't really care if it's complete or not as long as I have it and I can preserve the preservation of it myself!! That's where I'm at my mind mentally right now but that's just me. We're on different places in our life... And yeah I enjoyed watching this video thoroughly TOO!!!🤓🤓🧐
Every game I go after has to be one I actually enjoy, if I can't see myself enjoying it I won't obtain it. I do go for full sets of genres or themes, like all 12 original Xbox "Star Wars" games or all 5 "007 Bond" games for the series. Life is too short at my age of 60, I have to be realistic with my game collecting goals my friend.
This is what I do also
I saw all those games at the store today. I really wanted to buy all of them right there.
I have a passion for games from Magnavox to PS5. I'll buy anything if it's a) cheap enough, b) in good condition, c) how complete it is & lastly d) how valuable it is. Never pass up a good deal. Use it as trade/barter. I don't buy, "just to buy". There's a method to my madness!😉
Pretty much the only thing I’d go for a complete set is the nes, and I know that’s not even gonna happen.
wooo hoo thumbs up!
I collect because I enjoy the hobby and the games. I only started collecting in March of 2021 and will never go for a full set of anything. I mostly go for n64, gamecube, and switch games but will buy basically anything that has a blockbuster rental case or "property of blockbuster" sticker.
Definitely going through the same thing. I have too much stuff. I can’t even display everything that I do love. N64 is not a console I have many memories with actually and I’m asking why do I have these sports games I’ll never touch on it? I have gone back to play some of the games I missed because I was a PlayStation guy at that time. I just don’t need these games taking up space from the games I do love. The process has already begun with the ps2 and Xbox stuff. I’m just unloading low dollar items in mass at game stores to buy things I do want. I found if I trade in 30 games to get something I want to play I feel darn good about it. No money out of my pocket and I free up space!
Don't understand why people collect full sets anyway. The majority of a console's library is pure garbage, extremely mediocore or don't hold up too well.
I'm a big fan of watching game room tours. Whenever I see someone mentioning how they have a complete set of this or that console or they are going for one I just roll my eyes and click off the video. The thing that gets on my nerves the most are people flexing expensive games that aren't really that good like Rule of Rose or Kuon for PS2. Extreme collecting always seemed like a waste of money, time and space to me.
We’ve been doing exactly this with our Collection. Selling off 15 records to get the 2 grails we have always wanted. It just makes sense… quality over quantity
Dude, I have so many games I don't play. Wii shovelware I picked up just because it was cheap, terrible NES games, I don't know... around the time I got an NES Everdrive, I finally stopped obsessively buying video game stuff and got into collecting guitar pedals, then guitars... now I have shelves full of video games with guitar pedals in front of them. 😅
I may purge some of my games one day, but the thought of selling them individually sounds like a pain, and I don't want to take them to the local game store and get next to nothing. 🤷♂️
Great message! Collect what you love!
Holy crap, this for me is the best video you've ever done concering collecting. You've made a super great case on how one might want to collect. I'll have to go through my own collection and do the same.
Excellent video all around my man, thank you for it!
Yeah dude. I feel this with my Wii U complete set collecting. While I also struggle with space, it the collecting budget that really suffers... Im continually asking myself whether it's worth spending money on a Monster High game for the Wii U just to work towards a complete set when Id rather have the cash for another N64 game for that set (which Im WAY more nostalgic for). It doesnt feel nearly as bad buying shovelware or sports games for the N64 because I love that console.
I learned a long time ago I only collect games I actually want to play. Complete sets just seems like something to brag about. And a lot of collectors have passed the line of collector to hoarder.
If I don't want to play it I don't buy it, and I always go for the "best" version of a game so I can get the best out of my games (Xbox and GC at 480p) and if a game is over $100 not in my collection im not opposed to emulating. Obviously I have some grails but I never want to end up with more games then time to play them
Phenomenal messaging and video man. Very well said, and a great way to highlight that we should be collecting things we actually want to collect, or have a fondness for. Definitely a video every retro collector needs to listen in on.
So the GameCube I’m collecting for because it’s the console that meant an insane amount to me. But have been starting to pair down my collection of other consoles that just either aren’t that valuable to me anymore. I think I’m approaching 3.0 👍. Phenomenal video again man!
I'm a collector 2.0. Still have room to stay there a little longer.
I’m also definitely a 2.0
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I have every Rareware game on the N64 apart from Killer Instinct because I am not much into fighting games and the collector in me is like your missing one. I only buy games that I know I like or I think i'll like, but some times that temptation is there.
I only want all of the Mario games. Probably won't ever complete it but it's about my only goal
Great video brotha. Agreed on pretty much everything. HAA. I’m at 3.0 in my collection right now. Just didn’t have the passion for all the crap I had. That’s why I decided to lessen the game collection and expend my movie/music section of my game room because I am/always been so passionate about movies and music, so decided to expand that part and always LOVE when I walk into the garage and see all the music and movies, memorabilia , etc.
Its a lot of effort to get rid of stuff compared to adding lots of games. So it just builds up for multiple consoles for me. I have to pare it down a bunch ik. Mainly because of room.
Keep it up! Loving your channel brother.
Give your GameCube games to retrowolf88, help him complete that set. Bring Balance to the force !
This happened to me when I was 80% complete with the ps1 ntsu releases. I was wasting so much time and money bargaining for crappy games. I picked out my top 100 games and sold everything else.
Just recently stumbled upon your channel, but I’m certainly glad I did. My collecting started off as “my family wasn’t blessed to have the financial means when I was younger to get the cool things I wanted, but now I have money so I should just buy everything I wanted back then.” I had the same realization moment you just did a couple years ago that I truly did not have the passion for the collection. Great video, and I hope your 3.0 collection leads to wholesome memories!
Thank you so much for watching the channel! Glad you found it! Collection 3.0 will always be a work in progress but I'm having a much better connection to my games these days.
My wife tells me the same thing. It’s not the size Jay, it’s how you use it. Sadly I don’t use it well either.
You should enjoy what you collect. Not necessarily to complete a set. When I see John Hancock outrageous collection in the garage and his completed series. I don't want to go that route. So I set myself to collect the best and unique games for each system. If I ever finish a set, I fail. Why? Because all systems have shovelwares. That's over 60-70% of that system. That leaves us with 20% are great games and 10% with unique games.
I might offend you on this one. It's regarding N64. This system I have boycott because I didn't like the price tag of the n64 games. I was also into rpg and n64 didn't offer me. I did not like the controller. Half of the n64 is sports title. I'm not a fan of sports game. There are a few sport games I like. Ice hockey, Tecmo bowl and Dodgeball on nes, NBA jam on Snes, and Blitz on ps1. Only a few years ago did I purchase an N64 bundle, an Everdrive and a Brawls controller (I don't like the n64 controller). If I like the game on n64, I would buy just that game physically. That's where you come in because you have extensive knowledge of n64 libraries. You could do a video about hidden N64 games people should play. I would be interested in seeing that.
Tribes! You could never offend me dude. I appreciate your opinion!
My husband and I went thru this waaay back with Star Wars action figures in the 90's. It was a way for my husband to reclaim his small collection from childhood and for me to have a collection to begin with (my family was absolutely against girls playing with stuff boys play with. Not lady like..tisk tisk). We started getting the original characters, worked our way into the ships..then we got what wanted and then went nuts. We started getting stuff we didn't really care about because it looked cool..and then it started to dominate our shelves. Eventually, after the thrill of getting the stuff had died, we ended up sadly getting rid of the full collection with the exception of a 1st run Darth Maul.
Current star wars collection is now stuff I truly care about and its rather eclectic...ranging from replica light sabers, funko, plushies, art books, and action figures that I actually want...not just to have every character and sub character there ever thought to be. Having learned this lesson ages ago..I approach my game collection the same way..its things I am passionate about...things I want to play or things our family wants to play (my boy LOVES Sonic). Also, living in such a small house helps me keep my sanity (lol kind of. I'm thinking we need a Riff shed).
Excellent topic! I think we've all been there before.
I love how you have gone through this with the Star Wars collection. I can't blame people for getting on the hype train of a certain hobby, but we all come to realize what we really care about though it can take time to figure it out! Thanks Christine! Always great to see you in the comments!
You really nailed the phases of a collector - just moving from 2.0 to 3.0 myself.
I think I'm at 2.5 lol
Tom here--I've often thought of scaling back the collection of stuff I don't necessarily care for, same as you, but the wife won't let me. My wife will NOT let me get rid of video games. We're actually working on turning a spare bedroom into an overflow library with the main game room being the "showcase" area. So, I guess I'm collecting what/the way I do because...it makes the wife happy and happy wife..., all that jazz?
Childhood, Curiosity, and Challenge are the 3 C's I usually follow when collecting, and I usually end up buying games at conventions. Unfortunately this has also led to a massive backlog of games, and now I'm trying to get through a lot of 'em.
I definitely started out only collecting N64 games that were nostalgic to me and I've began going into games I think I will like or look interesting. I dont see myself going for a full collection though... my wife would murder me 😂
I've been murdered four times now. Somehow I just keep coming back...lol
I once thought about collecting all the official NES games, but I changed my mind because I don't play every genre and there are also bad expensive games. I don't see a reason to pay $100 for Wayne's World. LOL. But I will probably still collect hundreds of games.
I’m slowly starting to downsize my collection, as I had too many systems I wasn’t playing as well as games I wasn’t playing. I bought a bunch of the NES classic games for the Gameboy advanced, I think I played them once and that was it. So, I traded them into the game store. In fact, I’m in the process of getting the boxed games of the games I currently have for the NES. If I can get them cheaply that is. I figured it’ll keep them from getting too dirty with dust/dirt. Just the games I have, I’m not going for a complete set of boxed games, just the games I enjoy playing/have nostalgia for. As I go along, the games I have loose will be traded in towards the purchase of a boxed game. I don’t have a huge collection for each system I have, but really just games I have nostalgia for.
I'd love to see an in-depth follow-up of which exclusives are staying and going. Definitely worth keeping Otogi and Crimson Sea, but I'm sure no one will miss Stake: Fortune Fighters or that awful Bruce Lee game.
100%, great topic. I’m probably in the 1.5 collector mode and have started to pull back the last 6 months to take a breath, look at the volume and learn from mistakes.
I got the bug again in 2021, collected a few familiar childhood items then accelerated into Gameboy and 5 other consoles new to me.
Some verticals started to stand out like pinball, esp Gameboy pinball, though I didn’t go down the rabbit hole. I got hyped on an odd Japanese-only release that was kind of a dumb game along with another dud title. Had to step back and ask wtf.
So for me I’ll look for unique titles I like along with carts with particularly cool artwork.
I also started rolling too fast with more gamecube discs until I got Swiss running to at least demo games.
Thank you so much for this!! I've watched so many collectors and thought that's so cool and I wanted that. You are right, why? I'm never going to play those games. I love anything Mario and have gotten my daughter and nephews the same way. My youngest nephew is a huge Luigi fan and I would love to get stuff for him. He even made his own backpack after playing Luigi's mansion 3
Ah damn dont make me question my life lol. ive collected a very big ps2 collection of about 100 games as a student, and about 10 consoles. ive not regretted it so far :) but yeah i need to slim down my other consoles that dont matter, thanks for the wake up call lol
The "why" is something that creeps into every collectors mind. I've curated what I collect ONLY because I don't have a lot of space. To be fair, I took over one of my mother's basement bedrooms and turned that into a game room, as well. This includes multiple CRT's I've "refurbished"...another "why" moment! I am liking Switch collecting, atm, because it barely takes up any room 😂
It’s the same way for music I wanna collect all the band discography but then later down the line you honestly don’t need to at all. Just get what albums you really love. I just stop going for that and buy what I like and not worry bout omg I gotta get everything from this band. Same with video games I only buy what I like or I grew up with and not care or waste anymore money on other things I know I have no attachment with.
Yes collecting should be about a curated games collection tailored to you.
What's the point of having sealed games for example that you or no one else will play or if you have hundreds or thousands of games but you only play a very small fraction of them.
I collect for the stories.
Everything in my collection is either something I had as a kid, wanted as a kid, or is a gift from a friend. So every item tells a story.
I think this is the way to collect so that each time you physically handle one of the games there's a solid memory attached and not just a "oh I got that in a bundle deal" kind of memory.
stuff i collected was like hidden gems on ps2, ps3, xbox, 360, and ds. and stuff i felt id actually play that looked really cool
I see a lot of people do this with toy collecting, they get every figure in the line even when its rubbish as they must own every single one. Just cherry pick, get the best of any line you enjoy and skip the fodder that's my rule.
I did this with a few old games I had on the 360 as I had no interest or passion to keep them, I'm in the 3.0 phase now because of realising that I just want to collect games I really want to keep.
Cool concept and your bank account will also thank you in the long run… this is the conclusion I came too a few years ago: only getting what I actually enjoy or will play in the long term because I’m a big ole nerd.
So true. I love collecting the hardware itself, but rarely ever play or have any interest for any of the games. Then there is your other point, apart from showing off to a friend for a brief moment, what else am I really getting out of this?
I have done the same thing with my collection several times over and I have been collecting 40 years. By the way I am in the same state as you and do but often. Is there a place you sell what you are getting rid of?
Great video Andy, I'm currently on 2.0! Looking forward to seeing you build 3.0!
I only collect games I either have nostalgia for or games I missed that look fun. Either way I collect games to play, not display on a shelf.
I've been lucky to mostly only buy games I want to play, but my issue was buying too many collector's editions. Thankfully I've gotten that under control now.
For me I collect games I want to play & for things that are a bit extra, I collect additional versions of gsmes I really love (Chrono Trigger, Mario RPG, Donkey Kong Country 1-3)
My collection is substantial in size and value and while I never got into collecting for its value and still don’t collect for value…It’s monetary value is there if my family ever needs it. I mean my average game value is $45.47 and I think that’s a good way to measure whether you have quality or quantity.
I don’t need the money and enjoy collecting so no point in selling anything….That’s been my mindset for the past a 12-13 years.
Dude I’ll take your og xbox collection :) No, honestly, it’s a cool system but there is a lot of crap. That’s anything really. I could never be passionate about a complete set just because no console has a complete set of games I like. If anything I like a nice tight “favorites and bests” collection. Games that either mean something to me personally or represent the console historically like Halo, Uncharted, Mario etc. etc. I’m not really in it for money.
Awesome video Andy! I'm only going for complete sets that matter to me. Mainly consoles I have during my childhood. Also the Evercade, since it's super cheap to collect for and doesn't take up a lot of space.
I just collect the games I have nostalgia for that we played growing up, and games that are similar to the ones I have nostalgia for that I'd like to try out :) Never been the guy to buy "filler" just because it says Nintendo or something
Great video - and very wise words
Great video and on point. I started on collection 3.0 and as of yesterday I finished and I'm done collecting for the Gamecube! 😅
For me Gamecube will always be my top wish but I deemed it impossible for an average collector and switched to Wii U, that said the dream lives on!
Love this!
I have the Y question everytime I buy a nes game. 😂😂
Luckily, I skipped straight from 1.0 to 3.0
6:39 my collection isn’t small. It’s average sized 😭
Worst way to collect is,
Buying stuff just to fill up that void and wasting money knowing soon everything is going digital
The future looks bleak for physical collectors.
@Pacmancase
Yeah,
We all seen this b4 with dvds and music, now look where it is now
I'm seeing more and more collectors selling lately then ever. Best to sell now while prices are up
Been loving the complete N64 set series. I've recently been selling alot of stuff. My biggest regret in the beginning was I just bought everything and LOVED hunting. I needed a reason to hunt and that was... making videos and just getting a bunch of video games. I was jealous and trying to outdo my fellow youtubers and get cooler stuff. In the end, I spent way too much money and room. I love this video Andy. It really does make you think.... WHY?
Thank you dude! That is a compete set that I truly care for and will have fondness for. Other stuff is just stuff to me.
I just collect what I once had. Nothing less and nothing more.
It's shocking to me that it took you this long to start 3.0 considering you were one of the biggest reasons we started ours. Your panel at SEGE when you were talking about the evolution of a collection was one of the biggest reasons we took a harsher look at our collection. Either way, welcome to the 3.0 fam. It's very liberating to collect what you love instead of what you think you should.
Nah, I've be in collection 3.0 for years. I just thought the GameCube and Xbox stuff mattered more that it did. Maybe I changed as a collector or I convinced myself I would play and love all those games....I have recently went through my entire OG Xbox collection and guess what? Half the games are ass! I will never play them. Ha ha.
I only own and collect for games i will actually pick up and play.
Gamecube Galaxy sends his regards.
Haha!
I’m beginning the collection 3.0 phase now. I’m only going for titles or series I love or have wanted to play. If I buy a game and don’t like it, I get one I will. I also don’t have a ton of room for my collection so I’ve been really picky about what I’m buying. That’s why I haven’t went into getting my MOTU and TMNT collections started.
Yeah the space problem is a big deal for people but a might collection can be had with a few games. Glad you are on the right track!
Loved this video. I collect in kind of a 2.5 phase. 95% of my collection means something to me. And the other 5% is mostly a collection I’m going for that not all the games are all that. I am actually working on the same GC subset and love the hunt, but I do like most of the games as well. Also going for a complete Sega CD collection. For me though both of these collections mean something even though all the games in said collections may not. The Sega CD might me my favorite console ever as silly as that sounds so there’s just always been something in me that wanted to have all the games. For the GameCube it’s the FOMO. I never had or played one growing up and as an adult have decided I want to play all the games I never could on other consoles. Some games are admittedly not so great, but I like it because it’s an experience you can only have in one place.
Thanks Dakotah! As long as you are collecting for you and hitting the things that really mean something to you, I don't think you can go wrong. But the bug hits us all and somehow we end up with games in the collection that we picked up when we had the itch! lol
Great shots from the Video Game Cavern! Love that store!
We just moved to another house and I was trying to restuff my shelves and came to this conclusion too. I had doubles and triples on multiple consoles and games I don’t think I’d ever play so I think I parted out almost 500 games lol. I by bundles like the most of us and kept what I didn’t have and sold the rest but I was keeping everything I didn’t have lol. Made no sense but hard to come to that conclusion when you look at it and say but I’ve made my money back so there free games I’ll keep them. 🤘🍻🤘
I went through the same issues a couple years back. Glad I thinned it out then but I still have work to do!
New subscriber i was sent over by square pegs wow this video hit me very deep i am now in collection 3.0 about a year ago i sold off majority of my ps1 rpgs it took medical issues to give me a wake up call in life the truth be told theres never enough time in the world to play everything u want to play so enjoy what you love the most i have been wanting to collect the playmates dick tracy action figures i had as a kid they hold a very special place in my heart also i am an avid vhs collector though i am very picky on what in all seriousness I really believe the 3 stages of collecting would make for an excellent book especially comprised of others views from the gaming community I would like to say thank u for this wonderful topic and i look forward to watching your other vids
Hi Thomas! Welcome to the channel and thanks for the sub! I'm glad this video is hitting with people. I've almost treated it like a therapy session for my gaming habits!
Dude you made me feel so much better about my recent decision.. I'm only collecting all things Tomb Raider now.. 😅 Everything else is being sold on my ebay slowly as I go through everything that is. It is what it is. I felt so super guilty but feel a lot better now. Whew. Thank youuuuu!!!!
I am coming out of 2.0. I usually only play in handheld because it is so convenient so I am focusing on switch and emulating games I actually want to play on the steam deck. I just finished the oh ratchet and clank now playing hollow knight on switch.
I have tried to jump into the handheld games many times over and realized they are not as entertaining to me. I have a good handful of games I enjoy but I've never gone HAM on handhelds.
You should wait for the value to go up a bit more. Hard to say if it will go up or not.
Maybe you should start off by storing the games out of sight so you know that you can live without them.
The thing about me is I love buying stuff and love selling stuff lol which is pretty interesting
Its possible. I'm surprised that Xbox doesn't have the same love as PS or Nintendo especially with it's OG console.
This is why I am downsizing so much. I'm tired of collecting for collecting sake. I want the things that make me happy or that I love.
It's kind of hard to see the forest through the trees but once you focus on the true favorites. The hobby becomes fun again.
Funny I'm doing the same thing but I'm modding my og systems og xbox is done working on ps2 and gamecube now. Dreamcast doing the gdmu
I can't blame you. I'm a physical collector but I have roms still too.
I think it can be cyclical it’s often the case you will shrink down a collection to the point that you start to regret it and inevitably rebuy everything and end back up at 1.0
I sure hope that is not the case. I haven't regretted it yet. lol
Love this idea! I did this as in recent months. I have a full set of wii u north american release and it was a blast to collect over the last few years or so (probably close to 4 years now). I also am collecting every star wars and harry potter games. As for a another full set I'm going with a full psp set north american release
As of now I went back into the collection and if I didn't play or enjoy the game I would sell them. I ended up stop trying to collect every star wars game and if they have a version on the switch I would end up buying that copy and selling the old one. As for the Harry Potter the books and movies had such a profound impact on my life that I will charish those until the end or if I financially need too. (Alsp not that many HP helps too). Also the HP games are all different and it fun to go back and see how horrible some are.
As for the psp collection I never had a psp as a kid and I always wanted one. I would play my friends one at school and dreamt that one day I could afford it. Well during covids first lock down I started to tinker with broken psp to see if I could fix them and to report back I have a fixed a handful of them and even sold a few. That jumped started the psp collection and I use those funds to buy the psp games.
when your 57 year old seventh-grade teacher gave you that same line and wink....'I wonder what she's doin now?'
Haha!
100% with you on this. I'm in 3.0 of collecting and curating right now. I enjoy my collection a lot more now even though I've sold off 100's of games. It is fun looking through the collection now. Every game has a special meaning or memory.
Straight up, a collection like that is more fun to enjoy and speak to.
Also I feel like the “one day I’m not gonna care” applies to achievement hunting too: impressive numbers, cool you got the platinum in Ninja Gaiden 2, how’s that hernia treating you?
LMFAO!
Had to stop collecting when i started making.
I'm right there with you. That's why I stopped collecting everything (use to just buy all VHS tapes, CDs and games I would see) and now I'm just focusing on stuff I actually want.
Man your words hit me deep, I'm just as you described in the video, started collecting for my favorites stuff from childhood, but now i collect for the sake of collecting, waste of money and space, I'm starting to hate this hobby even though i love video games so much i can't imagine my life without it. But your video put some sense into me for the good reasons, I will collect only the things I truly care about enough to play and enjoy with friends. You earned yourself a sub good sir, god bless you.
Complete N64 sets????? 😂😂😂 Good luck pal!!
Only 10 games away.
Let it go... Let it go
I just sold off a good portion of my retro collection approx 1300 games. Ps 1&2, n64, nes, snes, Gamecube, psp and all gamecube. I kept anything that's boxed and just started emulation. Probably another 3-4 hundred games are going.
I imagine many people will go this way in the future. I still love to physically collect but I'm not so sure I need 4000 games.
@@Pacmancase my attention now is just collecting for current gen systems. Switch had become my favorite. Consoles Like ps vita, original xbox and jaguar will always Stay. Funny even with the amount of games I got rid of I still find myself with over 2k games.
It should always be measured in how much passion you have for the things you collect. Not just some automated accumulation because a spreadsheet tells you it's part of a set. I get why people full set collect but it's never held longterm appeal. That high wears out real quick.
Great advice you shared in this video Pacmancase, I like how you broke collecting down. As for me I feel like I'm past 1.0 but stuck between 2.0 and 3.0. I've calmed down on getting games that I have a slight interest in and even decided to trade away some of the fluff in my Switch collection to collect games that I know I'd love that I didn't get to really experience before. It's always changing with me but it's a comfortable place right now where I'm not collecting absolutely everything that I don't honestly need.
I had that same 2.0 collector issue recently
It is easy to over collect. We all do it, but recognizing it and refocusing is a healthier way to collect IMO
3:24 The best NES game hidden in the back
Jackal all day!
It's bizar but this is how my mind always have worked. I just can't collect for things that i never had anything with. I have 0% fond memories for the XBOX. Never been an XBOX guy. So it doesn't really make sense for me to collect. However, my friend has switched from PlayStation to XBOX and he has been collecting a series bit of stuff (especially guitar hero.) He even had a spare (and mint condition) XBOX 360 and gave it to me. So i'm displaying it of course, because it came from my friend, so that is special to me. For me, it's more the SNES, GameBoy Color, SEGA MasterSystem and PlayStation consoles and games that i like to collect. Just got my second PS3 system delivered. Still need a slim though. I won't be getting the PS3 super slim, (i really don't like that version.) I'm going to get a mint condition PS2 soon as well for €60, (about the same in $.) So i'm starting to get somewhere.
Anyway, if you are a collector, i would go with a collection that indeed really mean something to you. And don't get games you don't like or wouldn't ever play. For example, i don't like any sport/fps games. So soccer games like FIFA, or fps games like COD/Killzone, i won't ever collect.
Though TOMBA (TOMBI in Europe) or Heart Of Darkness for the PS1 are really good games that i like to collect for the PS1 (but they are expensive!) 😩
Truth!!!
Another thing I should add is that people should buy what they want/have nostalgia for. I bought both the PS5 and the Xbox Series S because everyone was buying them and I felt I needed to follow the trend. If I’m being honest, I’m really not in love with either system, the PS5 is great, but the design is lackluster, I prefer the PS4 design if I’m being honest. As far as the Series S goes, great little system, but I don’t have any love for it. If I could turn back time, I’d stop myself from purchasing either system. I might get flack for that comment, but I don’t care.
I collect ps1, ps2, ps4, gba and switch. Those are the systems I have nostalgia for (ps1, ps2) or have great libraries of games I enjoy (ps4, gba, switch). I only get games I know I'll like, and with anything retro I look up gameplay before adding it to my want list. I like rpgs and metroidvania and pixel art style games. Not interested in horror or first person type games. And once a year I have a purge and sell/trade off any games I've picked up that I didn't like after giving it a go or have sat on the shelf not played for way too long, of course there are exceptions. If they are low value I trade them in and put it toward an expensive, usually retro game I don't want to pay straight cash for. Last year I could of knocked off a heavy hitter ps1 game I wanted but needed a new phone so my aim is to get it this year by trading in finds from this summers carboots. The hunt is the fun part for me and getting a bargain. I rarely buy new, although this year I have 2 switch games I plan on buying day one when they release, suikoden 1 and 2 remaster and sea of stars. Everything else I can wait tillthe price drops
I collect because it’s my escape and makes me shift out of my work mindset.
as it should be! Great to see you the comments sierra!
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I’m always keeping my eye on you when I can.
I felt the same way with Sega games .i never owned any Sega consoles but did play them at friends/ neighbors. After getting all the games I wanted to play I eventually sold ALL my Sega games and consoles and bought …… little samson 😅. It felt good knowing I got the chance to replay those games but I had zero love for Sega.
I have been 3.0 from the jump. I just don’t have the space, the time, or the money to collect a bunch of games that are just going to sit on a shelf. Even if I pick up a game that is highly touted, but I don’t personally get any enjoyment out of, I won’t hesitate to sell it or trade it in for something else. That said, I still have way too many games 😅