So, I talked to a guy I do business with the other day, and in the course of conversation, it comes up that I collect video games for home consoles. He says to me he has thousands of games in the basement. "Thousands?" say I.
"Thousands." he replies.
So I tell him I will call this weekend, and get together with him to see what he really has.
Long and short of it, I call him tonight, and he's home.
I roll on over there after work, I happened to be in the area. I get there, he takes me down into the basement, and the first thing I see is a Coca-Cola case (that you'd keep 20 oz. bottles in) full of longbox PSX games, maybe 25 or so with a bunch of SNES boxed games, and a couple Saturn games in there.
As we are going into the basement, he tells me the story of a small game store we used to have around here years ago, that ended up going out of business. When it did, he bought ALL the inventory. Store shelves, stock, fixtures, etc.
So, after spotting the one box, he opens the closet. (I wish I had pics to show you all). Those same Coke cases, stacked floor to ceiling, double-stacked to the wall, LOADED with games. There is, by what I saw, nothing newer than those longbox PSX and the Saturn games. I would estimate maybe 4000 games or so. I could be wrong.
I saw (just at a glance) Playstation, imports, Saturn, NES, SNES, 2600, Jaguar, 32x, Sega CD, just to name (I am sure) a few. Most everything is boxed, some are still sealed. I haven't brought it home yet, it's going to take a bit, but I will be hitting some folks up for ID's on the import stuff (I know next-to nothing about import titles).
My current collection is around 1100 games, and I think I will have at least doubled my collection by the time this is all said and done.
Stay tuned, there (almost definitely) will be some stuff for sale, as I am positive there HAS to be dupes in there.
Now, if there's a boxed Stadium Events in there.....I will post pics at some point (it'll be a while, don't hang on the edge of your seat)