I am truly loving these collection pics. Most of my games are in boxes in my closet and I play on Flash Carts and ODEs lol.
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I mostly hang onto Sega genedrive carts.
box containing my model 2, back up sega cd, 2 n64s and a 2600.
my nes pile mostly lives under my anime vhs pile. one day ill build a little nes shrine with a tv and a rack for the games.
The little black square in the bottom right is my YOBO. A fake nes from the flea market my brother bought that served as my only nes for many years. Im still kinda of nostalgic for its wrong colors and slightly crushed audio. Around 2007 the flea markets in florida were overflowing with cheap NES carts and it became a regular weekend ritual to spend Saturday mall ratting the flea market with my friends buying 2-5 carts and going home to see how deep we could get into them.
i have a lot more modern stuff in drawers or on shelves but im much less proud of disks. they seem a lot more transient than carts tbh.
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6 years ago, I transferred my beautiful collection of 800 DVDs and many many games into albums, so most of my media collection is in binders and my game collection mostly looks like this:
I’ve been bad about/reluctant to put new acquisitions in the binders, so a lot of my more recent stuff is stacked on shelves in small quantities:
Here is my depraved and redundant collection of handhelds:
And my handheld games, which I keep out of the binders because of format, though I’ve killed their cases as well. Normally these live in a drawer organizer I keep in my closet:
I also have a small collection of Famicom games to go with my shitty Famiclone, but those are all in a box in the basement and Imma pass on digging it out for now.
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purged most of mine in the last few years, don’t have much space here
if i’m ever brave enough to try and get those 25 year old stickers off i have a nest egg
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The GBA cases that are shaped like tiny GBAs are cute
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i lost all my old childhood games and game consoles when i left them behind with my housemates in Ohio to move to California like 9 years ago and they disappeared (i.e. probably got stolen and i wasn’t in a place to move them around anyway). though even by that point i had sold off my small NES collection to someone else, and probably would’ve sold off other stuff too because i had absolutely no money at that point.
when i was younger i used to follow around my older brother as he collected NES games when they were cheap. was fun going to Funcolands and pawn shops and garage sales all the time. but he never really played the games (whereas i did… lol), and sold them off only a few years after we did all that stuff. i kinda miss that search of things when we were collecting though and wish i had the means to do it again… but i know that even if i had a car, didn’t live in an expensive city with not a lot of space, and it was non COVID times… it’s not like it was before, and the prices are way inflated now.
anyway ever since i lost all my childhood stuff i haven’t had much because a) i’ve moved around so much and lived in small apartments and b) retro game collecting has gotten especially insanely expensive in the last 9 years. i would like to collect again more though! like, a limited curated collection anyway. but it’s the worst possible time to get back into like NES, SNES, Genesis, etc collecting.
anyway the only consoles i have now are Switch and PS2, which i have a little handful of games for (as well as a handful of some PS1 games). would like to get some of the good niche/horror stuff for PS1 or PS2 if i ever find it cheaply, so i guess that’s my big collecting goal for the future.
edit: here are a couple photos
the non-Switch stuff is mostly stuff i bought because it was cheap and it looked cool (which is the main way i prefer to collect games). that’s also how i have a Texas Instruments copy of Microsurgeon that i absolutely cannot play, which i bought at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo.
i had more PS2 games at some point that i got rid of because i have a hard drive in my PS2 and i didn’t feel a huge desire to hold onto ones i didn’t like specifically. most of these are just things i all bought cheaply that i either thought was funny to buy or i just like having around.
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maybe! at least some point in the future anyway.
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Wow, I’d never heard of that Bruce Willis game. Watching a video…it looks kinda cool? That Microsurgeon cover rules.
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Microsurgeon is rad, inscrutable, and technically astounding. In 1993 when I was 7 and wanted a Nintendo of my own more than anything my dad’s bowling/slot car racing friend dropped off his Intellivision and three dozen games, including Microsurgeon.
It’s hostile and overwhelmingly dense and I kept returning to it so it could scare me again
this human body has,
so many organs
and they’re all crawling with bugs
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I own practically nothing in physical form anymore and I suspect much of what little I do own is getting sold soon. The one thing I hang on to is my complete collection of the Bit Generations GBA games
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APOCALYPSE IS AMAZING ITS 3D ROBOTRON WITH JUMPING AND BRUCE WILLIS VOICE ACTS LIKE 13 ONE LINERS FOR IT
remember when one of the game of thrones writers wrote a book about being a new games journalism incel and he wrote a whole chapter about how not playing microsurgeon every day killed his grandparent? that fucking book
i have this garfield GBA cart in my collection that i always hide so my partner finds it and goes OOHHHH DAPHNY YOU RAPSCALLION but i hid it very well last time and now i cant find it to take a picture
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No, that would be super cool to have. These games play fine with a boring gamepad but that extra level of immersion adds a lot.
This is a beautiful set I still have from an SBer and other people have already done them photographic justice
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what!?
THE MICROSURGEON WINNER: A DEAD GRANDMA STORY
If the Intellivision had been fixed sooner – a week, a day, an hour – I could have saved her.
©D.B. Weiss, 2003
thank you daphny
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I used to want to collect everything but I’ve been phasing it down to just my favourites that I’ll always want to come back to. e.g. Shadow of the Colossus is an incredible game but I have no desire to play it again so I sold it. There’s many old games I still want to go back and collect but unless I get some incredible deal I can’t see myself shelling out crazy money for the rare stuff I want.
Best deal I ever got was Ultima I through VII for $20. They still had the cloth maps, books, registration cards and recepts. I got $800 for them back in 2011.
Something I’ve gotten into recently is arcade board collecting. It’s something I’ve always wanted since I was a kid but I always wrote it off as too expensive until I got a Neo Geo MVS PCB for $20 and learned that some of it can be affordable, particularly the NG stuff and it helps to have a guy in Japan who can ship me things.
I’ve been collecting arcade stuff for about a year now and I have:
- Marvel vs Capcom (CPS2)
- Mr Driller 2
- KoF 2003 and Metal Slug 5 dedicated PCBs
- My Neo Geo stuff (here’s my collection):
And my setup (only 1P right now due to COVID
)
idk, do other people on SB do arcade stuff? I considered making a thread about it.
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I have a real soft spot for Japanese PS1 games. They might be the pinnacle of games as a physical product. They now make up about a third of the games I own. I only owned one (Racing Lagoon) two years ago, so that’s kinda shocking. JPS1 box art is absolutely gorgeous, and the manuals, inserts, and discs all have a ton of little details that delight me whenever I discover them.
I understand the preservation aspects of optical drive emulators, but I will never understand people who want to choose what game they want to play from a boring-ass list. Getting home from work, looking through my shelf, picking a game that feels right for how I’m feeling, and getting to see the manual and other inserts in the jewel case as I put it in the console is just a ritual I look forward to so much that gives me far more joy than it probably should.
(This isn’t even a nostalgia thing for me. I had terrible taste as a kid and kept renting awful licensed platformers, so this is really how I’m playing the PS1 library I missed out on as an adult while trying to keep my Japanese sharp.)
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I do not have a complete collection of Gundam games
I do not have a near-complete collection of Gundam games
I have what I consider to be a representative collection of Gundam games. I originally started to put together the collection with the intention of scanning their packaging/manuals/inserts, but that stalled out.
And with the exception of two of the above the price of each game averages out to less than $10 per in total.
The LSI game is going to be the capstone of my collection unless I ever find a Bandai Electronics Gundam computer. It marks the first release of a Gundam game outside japan, and was exclusive to non-english countries in the EU. The smaller box is the contents of the Satellaview DLC for SD Gundam GNEXT for kids whose parents weren’t rich enough to have Satellaview. Ironically shortly after I managed to get a copy of this for $60 I saw an auction listing for the base game (typically worth $4 complete) that they had just assumed the memory card was part of, so now I have two memory cards. The memory card seems to sell around $90 if you’re lucky, but its also getting into the Actually Rare strata of games where you can’t even find the damn things for sale.
That said, what I do have a complete collection of is Super Robot Wars
(I am so glad Koei only did a Treasure Box for one Gundam Musou)
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Even the smallest cameo by Maryland’s gloriously ostentatious state flag makes me a little homesick.
Come back we miss you. We miss all our wayward children
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