When people see your collection, what do they notice first/the most?

[smokehouse]

When people see you collection, what do they notice the most?

When people see my gaming collection, they mostly notice either the 2600 or the NES before anything else. On top of that, I get asked about Contra, Excitebike and Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!!! the most. For some reason these games come up again and again. Contra takes the top spot, almost any time someone finds out about my collecting I get the “Hey, you collect games? Do you have Contra? You do? Man, I used to play that game for hours!!!”

Funny enough, I've actually been asked about my Neo Geo a few times...


What do people first notice when they see your collection for the first time and if they ask about a game, which one gets the most attention?

[InsaneDavid]

They almost never ask about a game or system, instead it's about the big Legend of Zelda wristwatch wall clock or the restored vintage pachinko machine.

[Cinder6]

Hmm, I think most people notice the Dreamcast, for some odd reason. But the game that gets asked about the most is, like yours, Contra. I'm not sure why, either.

I just wish I could have my MVS in the same room. Then, people would ask me about Street Fighter 2, even though that's a JAMMA game (but that's to be expected...most people know very little about arcade machines).

[mr.soul]

Most of my friends comment on the systems they've seen / owned first, and then move over to the 2600 and go, "holy crap, fake wood paneling" or, "I can't believe that thing still works"

edit: I get asked "Do you have Duck Hunt?" a lot, and when I say yes, "Do you have the gun?"

How could you have Duck Hunt without the gun? OF COURSE I have the gun.

[Pantechnicon]

The first thing they see when walking into the Room of Doom is the MAME cab, which is right next to the door. But the thing that drops their jaws and keeps their eyes riveted, what says: "This is a serious collection" are the shelves on the opposite wall with literally hundreds of pre-NES carts stacked in neat symmetrical columns. And yes, I enjoy watching those jaws drop :eek:.

(Honestly, I don't consider my collection all that big, but the layout does lend to the illusion of it being a greater size)

[Steven]

"You got too many fucking games"

Many haven't seen my collection though. My girlfriend, who was more than a casual gamer, went O_o when she saw my Saturn collection for the 1st time several years ago.

[TheRedEye]

My girlfriend.

[Gandhara]

Most often games people (who don't know much about gaming/systems) see and interested right away are Pacman and Sonic games. It must be the popularity of them over the years. Others that get alot of mention are Megaman, Contra, Ninja Gaiden, Mario, Ecco the Dolphin, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Frogger, Donkey Kong, and Centipede. A lot of old school arcade games. For the more unpopular/obscure Phoenix and Snake Rattle & Roll has been mentioned a few times!

[heybtbm]

"Oh my kids would love this room"

...because, you know...only kids play video games.

[smokehouse]

"Oh my kids would love this room"

...because, you know...only kids play video games.

Arrrrg…that pisses me off to no end.

I am so tired of the “Only kids play video games.” comments. I feel like saying “Yeah, I guess when I grow up I can spend tons of $$ on a “4-wheeler”, copious amounts of liquor, useless hunting gear and be miserable like you.”

I catch so much shit from my coworkers yet all they talking about is drinking, riding “4-wheelers” and hunting/fishing…it’s annoying as hell.

[MF_Luder]

My girlfriend.

When people first see your collection, they most often notice your girlfriend first? Lucky man. I've had several girlfriends through the years, but none worth collecting.





Sadly for me when people see my collection it's less "Wow, awesome Saturn collection!" and more "What the fuck are you doing with your life?".... Maybe I need new friends.

[ProgrammingAce]

Generally people have some idea what i do for a living, but the sheer numbers tend to overwhelm people.

The first thing people notice are the two xbox kiosks i have sitting in my living room. Depending on the time of day, you can actually see those from outside the house.

The second thing people notice are the launch team xbox and xbox 360's, but that's because i have them in a display case. The 16 debug PS2 sitting on the shelf above them tend to draw a few eyes too...

I throw a party at my place at least once a month, lately all people have noticed is the Wii...

[Mark III]

Most aren't gamers so the only thing that impresses them is the PS2 games. If they even bother glancing at the older stuff I only get random comments like " What's Dragon Force? That sounds gay"

[cyberfluxor]

I catch so much shit from my coworkers yet all they talking about is drinking, riding “4-wheelers” and hunting/fishing…it’s annoying as hell.
Hey! I do those things too, just not to the degree of gaming or working on computers. Drinking has it's downsides but if balanced correctly it's a great time! Well, I'm not going to get all off-topic on you but I know what you mean.

There are two kinds of responses due to living at my parents house still. Those are:
1) If a friend of my parents comes over and sees it for the first time, their faces light up and say their kids would be in heaven up there with all the games, computers, DVDs, music and other things linguring around. Sometimes they ask about the Atari because it's what more 40-60 year olds grew up knowing.

2) When new friends, friends of friends or my brothers friends come over (this rarely happens as I don't trust many to my room) their mouths open up and begin reading all of the games on the shelves, pointing out what games they have heard of. After a few minutes all they want to do it play video games over anything else in the world. A pretty funny reaction by all means and they serve their purpose: to be played. :)

[Policenaut]

Not much people have entered my (now it is my brother's) room. Only(aside of my family), a few of my relatives and friends. For my family is natural to see the games and Star Wars things, my relatives are way older than me so they don't care that much, my friends are the ones that get impressed everytime they see it.

[MasterJSP]

When people look at my SNES games the first thing they ask about is the end label of my Donkey Kong Country Competition Cart.

"Resale/Rental of the Game Pak is Prohibited???"

[Iron Draggon]

well mostly all they ever see of my collection is big stacks of boxes and racks of CD's with no labels on them... so the most frequent question is how do I ever find a game I want to play, and how do I ever choose from so many...

but if they could actually see all my games at one time, they would notice all my Genesis games the most... I have alot more of those than anything else...

[Sparky]

First thing that everyone notices is my Doctor Who pinball machine and then that monstrosity combo of the genesis, cd and 32x system… it calls to them and then they want to play some sonic :D

[ryborg]

It used to be my mounted collection of NES promo posters. You know, the crappy ones that would come with games like Tiger-Heli and such? Now I have an enormous David Wright MLB 07 promo poster that really ties the room together.

[bangtango]

This sounds stupid but I am sure at least one other person can identify with this.

Let's talk about people who have only become familiar with Nintendo handhelds in the past few years, starting with the Gameboy Advance & DS lines. They are usually adults who are casual gamers at best or younger kids. I know plenty of people that fall into both categories. You should see some of their reactions when they notice my brick Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket or even the Gameboy Color. I have a five year old nephew who regularly asks about my original brick Gameboy.

[Lemmi_Is_God]

no one has seen my collection in over 7 years, except for people online

edit

but those people seem to notice the 3DO wheel

[Push Upstairs]

When people first see your collection, they most often notice your girlfriend first? Sound like a very unique collection you have there.

I think he means that when they see his collection they take notice that he *HAS* a girlfriend.

I've never really shown anyone my collection. That might change when I finally move into a place where I can have a room devoted to games/movies/computer.

[DefaultGen]

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[Jumpman Jr.]

When I first tell somebody about my collection, I try to tell them that I have a lot of old Nintendo games. Like a freakish amount. The first response I get is usually "OHHH!!! Do you have that Duck Hunt game!" Honestly, if I had a nickel for every time I heard that... I'd have a lot of nickels.

As for showing people my collection; I literally have room dedicated to my games. You'd think that so many people walking into my game-room would notice so many different things, but the most common thing that is noticed is this little Mario toy that is on a spring. I can't understand it! The conversation usually goes like this:

"If you look over here, you can see every original Nintendo game ever made"
"Ooooo... Whats this Mario toy!"

[TurboGenesis]

Video game fellows usually take notice to the amount of games I have. It is usually go like:
"Damn..... you got ALOT of games!"
"Thats pretty...cool!"

I usually reply with:
"So what do you want to play?"
then proceed to pop it in.

Non game people take notice to all the consoles (15 hooked up to my television)
Since November 2006:
Guest: "WOW! Thats cool....you got a PS3! What games you got? How are the graphics?!?"
Me: "Well I dont have much :embarrassed: There really isn't much out for it right now."
Guest: "You got that war game?"
Me: "No. Sorry :embarrassed: :embarrassed: :embarrassed: "

OR

Guest: "You still play Nintendo?!?!? ROFL "
Me: "Yeah, I really find maximum enjoyment in it. I find great gameplay on old games"
Guest: "Thats cool"

Video games is my hobby and my escape from an otherwise crappy life.

[Streetball 21]

Arrrrg…that pisses me off to no end.

I am so tired of the “Only kids play video games.” comments. I feel like saying “Yeah, I guess when I grow up I can spend tons of $$ on a “4-wheeler”, copious amounts of liquor, useless hunting gear and be miserable like you.”

I catch so much shit from my coworkers yet all they talking about is drinking, riding “4-wheelers” and hunting/fishing…it’s annoying as hell.

Yea I hear that crap too. Video games are for everyone, and I make sure I let everyone know about it. Everyone usually notices the NES, or the Mortal Kombat posters I have on my wall.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Well,when the crew of window replacent guys came in all they noticed was my Neo Geo MVS Big"red" Arcade machines..maybe it's the red that stuck out but that's all they talked-asked about over and over.

They walked right past everything else,even climbing over my pocketbikes to wash their hands..Oner guy was a motorcyclist and didn't say nothing about my bikes even after putting his drill on one..
It was all about those two cabs..

Even my landlords mainly bitched about those cabs..

Other peope who have been here before and or know me,they notice my game wall first-Walk in,look left Holy CRAP!!..They look at nothing particular on it,just how it towers up LOL..they've seen it dozens of times yet always do the same thing..

Then I've had people who came in to fix something and notice nothing..Totally dead..


I've yet to have someone come over and look at-into something specific..I've always wanted that to happen,reason why I kept certain collection items in certain places-out in the open.
Most my friends only care as to where they are drinking-getting drunk next..I don't do that shit here so they don't come around anymore.

Right now with selling everything,the game wall is coming down and collections are going....I still have that desire to had shown someone-had someone notice something in my collection and ask about it..

I get blown away at just how many people I meet who aren't into Game Collectiing,retro game playing or just general game playing..Forget about telling them about my pockertbike racing,that convo goes right into space..

[swlovinist]

The current setup I have, I have had a couple of people ask, "where did your walls go"". By far, I have had the most questions about my vectrex, as many people ask "so is it an old TV or somethin?"

[Ryaan1234]

Considering most of my friends are around 16, most of them* seem to only care about the newer stuff. They like the fact that I have a lot of Xbox, Ps2, and Gamecube games, but they couldn't care less if I had over 100 Nes games. In fact, I suggested to my friends that I should invite them over and play some old-school multiplayer Nes games like Gauntlet (II) or even Bubble Bobble and they gave me a "Do you really think I'm interested?" look. Though, I did get my friend's younger brother to play Zombies Ate My Neighbors with me, he enjoyed it too. :) Slowly but surely I'm convincing my friends that old games are just as good as the new games.

*one of my friends is TMNT crazy and he loves the old (nintendo) games.

[Ed Oscuro]

I don't think you can see any of it, so...eh, there's some busted-up looking NESes and stuff lying around, nothing too valuable easily available.

[DefaultGen]

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[dubiouscubanx]

At the height of my videogame collecting, I would get a lot of questions about my X'Eye. A lot of my friends thought it was a pirate system.

[wallydawg]

Only my cousin (and of course my family since I live with them) has seen it.


I was in an indie game shop I frequent, talking to this other guy about some games, he just moved back from Puerto Rico and had to sell most of his games, trying to get them all back now. He had about 500 games (me at 550). The shop owner is like "what is wrong with you guys," figured he'd like us since we'll keep buying more games haha

my sister comes over and just wants to play super nintendo, since basically grew up with it

[djbeatmongrel]

i dont really have anyone new come over, i usually am the one going out. When i get my own place I would think my SF2 championship edition cab or my mt dew xbox would instantly draw in the eye. What i would really hope for is my wonderswan collection, specifically my wonderborg to catch a newcomers eye.

[98PaceCar]

It depends on which room they see first. If it's my arcade room, it's normally the Ms Pac or Star Wars Cockpit, depending on whether it's a guy or girl. In my console room, there's not really any one thing that people seem to notice. Most people my age (33) are fascinated with my 2600 collection, but I also get a fair number of comments about my NES stuff. A surprising number of people comment about the breadbox C64 that's set up in there, while the poor Toaster 4000 sitting behind it is completely ignored. <shrug>

[50s Brawler]

What do people first notice when they see your collection for the first time and if they ask about a game, which one gets the most attention?

Usually ppl freak when they see my NEO:GEO 2-Slot sitting in the gameroom downstairs, which is supposed to be a dining room. Then they see the Rastan Saga cab and IKARI III: The Rescue and the workings of my MX-5000 kit (still being built to full cab) and if that person is between the ages of 25 - 42 they're like: "Dude you've got a freggin' arcade in your house! HOLY SHIT I REMEMBER THE Neo-Geo. Dude what games' you got?"

If it's anyone under the age of 25, no one really cares. Now if we're talking about home consoles. I get the odd glance of bewilderment upon seeing my Atari 2600 or 7800 ProSystem... a curt nod towards my 8-Bit FAMICOM AV and a raised eyebrow when seeing a modded Playstation [1st model], Sega SATURN and Mega Drive hooked up to an aging MadCatz 4 system AV switcher box. Like before, if the ppl are under the age of 25 (usually), they just look at me like I'm nuts, for all othes it's... "FUCK... You still have a Genesis! Dude do you have Gunstar Heroes?"
:o

[ecresto]

alot of people used to comment on my mk2 arcade machine . but i sold it . now everyone says i got the 40 year old virgins room , their just jealous i guess .

[ninjabearhug]

My friend came round just before i packed all my stuff up ready to move. He's been a casual gamer since the MD and i've known him since i was a kid so he doesn't really notice my collection anymore. On this occasion though he brought his 8 year old kid round with him and then told him that i had loads of games in the back room and to go have a look. This was the first time a child had been into my games room and all i heard was " Awesome" and "Whats this ", "can i play this", "whats this do"etc,etc. I hadn't noticed until this point just how protective i was of my collection, the whole time the kid was in that room all i could think of was his sticky fingers attempting to pull my collection to pieces, i was a nervous wreck by the time he'd got bored of asking questions and had settled for watching a DVD instead of trying to mutilate my games.

Anyway most people just ask me "what's its worth".

[PapaStu]

That I/we have ALOT of stuff. This is mentioned with just the Apartment stuff being seen. My PS/PS2/GC/XB games and cases arn't even in our apartment, and none of my classic systems from when I was young are here either.

[PDorr3]

the first thing that almost always gets noticed when someone walks into my room is this nintendo 64 official store display sign:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/PDorr3/DSCF0861.jpg

Usualy too because I light it up which makes it really stand out. I am so happy I got it off ebay like 4 years ago for like $40 shipped....such a steal. Light came broken in shipping but it was an easy repair.

[Hwj_Chim]

My white PS2. I am always asked where I got It.

[XxHennersXx]

when you walk in you see my wall of games and then to the left my tv. people usually notice the n64 and nes games.

[RPG_Fanatic]

I've never really shown anyone my collection. That might change when I finally move into a place where I can have a room devoted to games/movies/computer.

Same here all of my stuff is in the closet (1 bedroom apartment's suck no room for anything) except for my PS3 and 360 in the living room.