JP only, the family from the first one goes to Hawaii on holiday (Mister Mosquito too, natch). An American family is also involved and they speak English so those are the only missions I’ll kinda understand probably!
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What metrics do you use to collect things? Or pare down your collections?
I used to think I wanted to collect every game I really liked. Then it was simply my favourites. But now it’s just become “collecting things I feel the urge to collect”. I have little Nintendo stuff despite how good it is, but I own tons of Dreamcast games I’ll never part with because I like owning that stuff.
Arcade games I lean more towards because I can always pop them in and jam for a short period, so I get a lot of use out of those carts/discs even if the total playtime isn’t long. The opposite experience of owning a JRPG that is great, I spend dozens of hours with it on a playthrough, but never feel compelled to replay it.
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I dont really collect games but for stuff that i do collect my criteria is “will i use or look at this at least once a week and experience joy?” This really limits my impulse purchases.
I also like to add stuff to carts online but just let it sit there for a day. Oftentimes when i go back to look at it i can tell whether my positive reaction will last longer, or if it was just a temporary thing.
I am mostly collecting pins and plushes at this point so its kinda different but i think it helps me not make too many goofy purchases. I also don’t care for new stuff, so the like “limited time collectors edition” stuff simply never crosses my path. I mostly want weird old garbage.
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If anything I’ve had to learn to actually buy things for myself. I tend to think I’m not worth it somehow, so collecting plushes and pins has become a method for affirming to myself that I exist and to give myself small gifts occasionally.
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For me its a calculation based on the promise of future fun / how cumbersome it is to move / how valuable it is.
There is just no replacing the plasma despite its insane size and weight. Replicating it would require a really high end Qled and lag free, brightness based edge smoothing. Its not happening. It makes everything look too good.
Same argument with the CRT despite the fact that I have no good place to put it yet.
I have a huge tote of NES games because their value has exceeded the pain of putting them in a truck to move. I don’t know if they are a collection exactly but I cant make myself part with them yet.
What sets sega genesis apart is the quality of the game cases allows me to own CIB artifacts. I cant see collecting anything in cardboard. I will absolutely destroy that. I don’t play many sega genesis games these days and I am thinking of pairing down to like 10-20 good / weird ones as the promise of future fun aspect isn’t there for the majority of the sega shelf.
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When I was about 11 years old, I sold every game that had a metacritic score below 75.
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Metabaron > metacritic
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Realistically I don’t have a ton left. Much of it is down to “I own this decently collectable game that sits in my backlog and older games are going up in value so I don’t want to risk losing what could be my next favourite game, or something I come back to a lot.” Not that I can afford to bring these games with me, but I’m thinking in the long term.
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I had to sell almost everything to a lot of you when I moved to Japan. Then every independent game store In Tokyo had to close so I had to Get This Now.
I also theoritically still have a storage locker in Texas I’ve been paying for for six years that has a beautiful Sega Genesis collection in it.
Now with a 2 year old it will be another 2 years (ehhhh) before I can have my STUFF out on shelves again. It’s in so many corners of this nice Japanese apartment and frankly it is selfish how much of this family living space I am taking with my dumb bullshit.
On the other hand the price of this dumb bullshit keeps going up so keeping it around has only increased it’s value. Do I need Ibara for PS2 when I don’t even own a PS2? Well…
The refrain you hear elsewhere is also true. With the MiSTeR do I need 90% of this stuff? It’s making me think. Will be a real test when/if The Saturn Core comes out. I got like a 100 saturn games around and so much peripheal bullshit. Off the top of my head I got 15 boxes of game crap in here.
Boy I like looking at my stuff though. Been denied that pleasure for a long while now.
Based off a recent internet search it would have been more valuable to save my parents James Mechner books because those don’t exist in any form commerical or pirated online.
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What’s helped me is booting up every game in my collection and considering whether to keep it, no matter how sacred. When I boot it up, does it excite me? I parted with some titles I hadn’t expected to, and I don’t miss them.
Right now I’m deciding whether to keep the first three Ratchet games on PS2, or just the trilogy collection on PS3. I feel like I can’t allow myself to own both. Or MM on the 64 vs MM3D.
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after 20 odd years, like some cursed Egyptian artefact, it finds me
narrated by Jon Lovitz, naturally
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Huh don’t think I had this one. Had the Mario Kart and Diddy Kong Racing one.
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A lot of my old fighting games are too flashy for my abused eyeballs now but I guess I can show off their shiny discs = p
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today I found out Ikea discontinued the GNEDBY shelves I’ve been using for my game collection so I guess now I have a finite limit of how many games I can have while having matching shelves
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That’s a healthy way of looking at it. : ) The worse way would be that now you have to replace all your shelves. = o
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Was thinking about this and hey what do you know.
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Look at this stupid box of PS1 games. As someone who has played PS1 games on PS3 only for 15 years and now has a mister why would I possibly hang on to these.
And I’ve no doubt complained in this thread before, I like having these things as aesthetic objects but the point where they just sit in a box in a closet of my small apartment denying space to my family. It’s a burden.
I do like stuff though. Had a nice time looking at all the manuals the experience that is lost with modern games. Liked the fliers for other releases.
Which is preample for god I need to get rid of this stuff but also I want to order a unique PS2 on yahoo auctions and get Dragon Quest VIII and Kingdom Hearts and just have an aesthetic time.
It would be real sick to get a CRT in here. Feel like I could emotionally bargain for trading a lot of these physical games for a CRT.
If any of you are real sickos and are interested in paying the outrageous shipping for a bunch of JPS1, JSaturn, or American 360 games get at me I guess. They are of almost no value.
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Kinda tempted by Kaze no Notam and Manic Game Girl but I really shouldn’t spend money just before a big move lol.
Feeling your pain since I’ve got 8 plastic storage boxes worth of aesthetic chunks I likely will not replay but like looking at.
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I am also about to have a crate filled with about 40 in box Sega Genesis games here so gotta get my life in order. Now THAT takes up space.
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