Let's Get Physical (game collections)

[Rudie]

Wow this thread is way better than any other! I love looking at the PAL games.

God now y’all make me feel embarassed in the mountain of stuff I own. I sold well…almost everything I owned to move to Japan. And then beautiful independent game stores kept closing and I knew I had to buy things then and there. Now I got stuff in a storage locker in Texas, in my in-laws closet, and hidden all over my apartment.

Like let’s just take the Wii-U for example. I brought with me to play Breath of the Wild in my new life. And I thought Nintendoland and Mario might be fun with Lady Rude. And they were like once. Then I was in Japan with an American Wii U and I couldn’t sell it. And I so couldn’t sell it that I suddenly thought about how Wii U’s are a screen and a console as a single unit and they never made additonal screens. It is weirdly valuable in that fashion. And it also would be my Wii game playing machine. I got like 4 Wii games. The Wii U has also sat in a box for 3 years.

Next the Xbox 360 which would be my only way to play American DVDs. And I got stupid DVDs I find valuable. Then after the first Buttcon I was in Redmond Goodwill and saw a Kinect and all the Kinect games for 20 bucks. And I never played the Burger King games. Now I am stuck in Japan with a bunch of Kinect shit and not the living space.

I will try to take a nice picture of all the handhelds in this apartment tomorrow if I can find them all.

I also have FIVE arcade sticks.

Why did I choose to live in Tokyo. Move to the country then I can have a my crap room that i can die in in an Earthquake. That’s not a joke really. A friend was staying in someone’s nerd crap room and during one of the semi-big ones A monitor fell over right where their head would be sleeping. Scary Shit!

Alright here’s something:

That’s My Copy of Slave Zero that I sold to a Softmap in Shinjuku in 2010. I have been tracking it’s movements across Tokyo Game Stores for years. I have resolved to buy it the next time I see it.

Here's some disorganized garbage

All you children with nostalgia for Xbox are delightful!

[meauxdal]

@Rudie

The Wii U has also sat in a box for 3 years.

the fate of all wii us

[Rudie]

Also if you are still posting and the one that bought my n64 collection give me a what’sup. I don’t miss it (even i sold it at the exact wrong time.) i just cannot remember!

[ticky]

Realising that this might be a good place to ask a burning question, I’m hoping to get an ODE for my Dreamcast soon (relatively, I guess) but in my heart of hearts I do love owning and using discs (the relative expense of Dreamcast collecting, uh, very much notwithstanding).

Have people found good ways to split the difference somehow in this situation? Rip discs yourself for use with an ODE? Keep a spare DC for ripping? Keeping the case unscrewed for hot swapping?

Closest to ideal I’ve seen myself is that you can apparently just jam a second IDE device onto the GD-ROM drive’s connector path (it’s normal IDE with weird pins as I understand it, so this is just innately electrically possible) and it MIGHT be possible to use a small flash adapter or SDD there, keeping both functional, but everything I’ve seen about HDD loading (without ODE hardware, at least) on the Dreamcast sounds pretty unreliable.

[Mr_Mechanical]

While I don’t really buy physical anymore I still have a bunch of physical game stuff I kind of can’t bring myself to sell/donate.

First a pic of my dusty console setup:

So many wires… Not pictured: OG Xbox, a 360 and a GameCube w/ Game Boy Player (All non-working).

And now the games:

The yellow cart is Donkey Kong Country.

I think Schizm is a Myst-like. It never got opened. Still has the seal on the box flap.

Pretty sure this is a complete set of the 1998 Quake 2 figures by ReSaurus (albeit Strogg Tank has a broken leg) and a 1999 McFarlane Toys MGS1 Solid Snake, all complete with their original accessories. Yes Snake has a removable silence + laser sight attachment for his SOCOM pistol.

And I guess I’ll count the posters and stuff I got from collector’s editions etc.
GTA V PS3 collectors edition came with a hat, an artwork and a blueprint map that has hidden messages revealed when read under a uv lamp.

Halo CE poster came with the PC version of Halo CE. Something tells me the Halo 2 poster came from Official Xbox Magazine.

This Vice City poster I am pretty sure came with Vice City strategy guide. The reverse side has a game map with the locations of all the hidden packages.

The autographed Doom poster came with the original retail boxed version of Ultimate Doom. Pretty sure the autographs are photocopied. Still pretty cool though.

I didn’t take a picture of it because I forgot but I also have the hardcover version of the GTA V strategy guide. It’s pretty slick I wish more strategy guides were like this.

Also just remembered I still have a small stack of old game magazines that I didn’t think of while I was digging stuff out and taking pictures. Maybe another time.

Edit-Some of those on my shelf have their reverse-side covers displayed so you can’t see which games they are on the spine. Just for the sake of posterity they are, from the top: Breath of the Wild, Syndicate, The Last of Us, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Mafia II, Dishonored, Killzone 2, Uncharted 3, God of War III and Borderlands 2.

[Mikey]

The oddest item in my random smattering of physical copies of games is probably my boxed copy of Full Throttle which I received from a girlfriend many years ago after I told her about my fond childhood memories for it.

Box got a little smooshed in transit once so sadly it isn’t pristine.

Or maybe my random Rockman World V

[LaurelSoup]

[daphaknee]

oh yeah the regular shelf!

i have a friend at sony who sends me a box of ps3/ps4 games (i guess ps5 games very soon!). every ps4 game on its side is probably still shrink wrapped because of this

here is my nightstand game pile, which used to mean current handheld shit im playing before i go to bed but now its where boojis christmas games live cuz i dont know where to put them

and midway arcade treasures i guess so i can torture myself wondering who called me the midway of games every single night

[DaleNixon]

Patrick Bateman should be pointing and smiling smugly next to all of our game displays.

[LaurelSoup]

Now we have to do a chart of what the most widely owned game is on SB.

I have a single shelf, but most my cool older stuff is still stored at my parents so it has like the copy of Modern Warfare that was in a bag with other games at the thrift store and no one needs to see that. Imagine a cool photo with a sadly still sealed copy of Bangaio, the big ass Earthbound box, and Ninja 5-0 turned out just so to show off.

[idiot]

realised i have more physical megacd games than switch or ps4

a true aesthete

[wourme]

My video game collection is all stored in cabinets and closets. Here is an incomplete assortment. One day I hope to come up with the perfect way to store disc-based games and movies.

PS4, PS3, Wii U, Wii

PS2

My GameCube games (not pictured) are very similar to this but in tiny clamshell things which all fit in a single container. I don’t feel like digging them out.

PS1

TurboGrafx-16

I thought I had something like five copies of Keith Courage at one point, but now I guess I don’t have even one. Not that I would ever want to play Keith Courage again.

SNES

NES

[Rudie]

NES games look so good. Shame their price is so fucking high now.

[DaleNixon]

The N64 cartridge labeling is one of Nintendo’s highest crimes against humanity.

[tacotaskforce]

Counterpoint: That shell design was the most futuristic feeling thing my 11 year old self had ever put their hands on.

[Polygonzo]

This has been with me for many years. It’s unwatchably bad. I’ll probably be buried with it.

[daphaknee]

you all have such wonderful ways of organizing your games! meanwhile…

Bag.

[ellaguro]

these are some immaculately arranged games, wow… lol

@Rudie

NES games look so good. Shame their price is so fucking high now.

yeah for real!! i wish buying cartridge games esp for Nintendo consoles was in any way practical right now.

[wourme]

@daphaknee

you all have such wonderful ways of organizing your games! meanwhile…

 

[Rudie]

I mean if you don’t give a shit bootlegs have come a long way.