What do you think of my collection?

[xfactor1984]

I have been collecting for 3 years now and I was wondering if my collection was good for that period of time. Keep in mind that I am 18 and I am a senior in high school.

Consoles:

Atari 2600: 21 games
Atari jaguar: 3 games(defender 2000, kasumi ninja, troy aikan football)
Sega Master System: 7 games (hang on/safari,ghostbusters, alex kidd in miracle world, aztec adventure, afterburner, real baseball,thunderblade)
Sega Genesis: 2 games( beyond Oasis and Phantasy Star 4)
Sega cd: 5 games (willy beamish, fahreneit(sega cd and 32x version), rise of the dragon,brutal: paws of fury, nhl '94)
Sega 32x: 2 games (knuckles: choatix, star wars arcade)
Sega Saturn: 9 games (virtua fighter 2, virtua cop, die hard arcade, doom, quake, legend of oasis, darius gaiden, daytona usa, virtua fighter)
Sega Dreamcast: 25 games
Sega Game Gear: 1 game (sonic 2)
Nintendo: 74 games
Super Nintendo: 5 games (link to the past, super mario world, super mario all stars, x-men mutant apocolypse, revolution x)
N64: 2 games (ocarina of time, command and conquer)
Playstation 2 : 9 games ( contra shattered soldier,red faction, everquest online adventures, everquest online adventures: frontiers beta disc,metal gear solid 2, xenosaga,ff10,state of emergencyactivision anthology,gran turismo 3)
Game boy advance: 3 games (castlevania: circle of the moon, mario cart, golden sun)
Game boy color: 2 games (contra:the alien wars, pokemon blue)
3do: 9 games (immercenary, pebble beach gold, world cup golf, fifa soccer, myst, total eclipse, stellar 7, twsited the game show)
playstation 1: 10 games (metal gear solid, ff7, dragon warrior 7, star ocean: the second story, gran turismo 1 & 2, sim city 2000, brave fencer musachi, castlevania: symphony of the night, resident evil 2)

I have complete series on the nes like, double dragon, ninja gaiden, zelda, castlevania. If y'all want me to post all of my atari games and nes I will just do not feel like it now and i forgot most of them too.

I own all the consoles listed too.

[Fuel Injected]

Meh its not a collection without a Turbo Grafx.

LOL

j/k you have a lot of consols, I wish I had started that early. What is your fav?

[xfactor1984]

well the turbo grafx 16 is my next console to get, but my fav is either ,y saturn, dreamcast or ps2.

but most of all the dreamcast.

[Slipdeath]

he started early, i started early i still am early

[Ed Oscuro]

The Saturn? If you can like that system when you've got 74 Nintendo games you obviously have a strong opinion, which is a good thing :D (I do mean that--the Saturn has a lot of good titles if you know where to look, and if you can overlook its relatively outdated graphics.)

I would say it's a nice collection all right. I've only managed something like 130-140 games or so, but I have a different focus on collecting. Though this could be entirely wrong, I'd say your collection is more focused on getting all-around good titles instead of rares, and being able to play over being able to brag, but I could be wrong.

[xfactor1984]

well for right now i collect the stuff i like, but I am looking to start buying some rares. as or the nes collection thats one of my favorites too, I grew up playing it , but not the saturn( i just bought it in 2000, and i have played a lot of good games on it knowing that the system has a lot of crap on it also).

but i play my ddreamcast a lot too mainly because i loved how you could play online, but now i just play record of lodoss war on it now.

[jdc]

Very nice.

I wish I had some of those machines but other than Ebay, they don't come up too often in the used shops where I live.That's what I like about my NES, N64s and Genesises. Stuff is plentiful everywhere I look.....for cheap. Hunting for the "rare" stuff is fun.

[xfactor1984]

well stores around where i live have a lot but sell for more. like really common snes and genny games(loose) sell for 14.95 a pieace, some nes games are like that also.They must think they're really something, so i go to ebay and rack up in lot auctions.

[Ed Oscuro]

well stores around where i live have a lot but sell for more. like really common snes and genny games(loose) sell for 14.95 a pieace, some nes games are like that also.They must think they're really something, so i go to ebay and rack up in lot auctions.

Seems a lot of places sell 'em for that much; oddly I never seem to find SNES or Genesis games, with the exception of a couple junky post-retail titles that mostly disappeared from the local Blockbuster back in 1999 or so (still a couple old, pretty ugly ones there, games that I'd never pick up). Local Babbage's...well, I recently saw a copy of Valve's Gunman Chronicles that was down to about $5-$10 and that was a big thing. Didn't pick it up, though. Bought a loose copy of Link's Awakening (with a dead battery) for $15. :P

Gotta check those garage sales.

[Fuel Injected]

My NES collection would be a lot bigger if the consol was more reliable...Ive always had reliability issues with mine despite changing the PIN and cleaning the games before playing

[MarioAllStar2600]

My NES collection would be a lot bigger if the consol was more reliable...Ive always had reliability issues with mine despite changing the PIN and cleaning the games before playing

Get a top loader. COnsidering NES is the best system EVER! the console is worth the 80 bucks you spend.

[Jive3D]

You really need a VIRTUAL BOY & TG-16 (or DUO)

Did you Collect all of that in 3 years? My Collection has been aquired for a long time now, most of the items were purchased when they originally were released (with th exception of Saturn & Neo Geo)

Since you have a Saturn you should really pick up RS or Guardian Heroes.
I just got my Japanese Sonic Jam this week!

Check out my collection below if you give a hoot.

[pimpbot1976]

I have been collecting for about 1.5 years now. This is what games I have collected so far. http://users.ign.com/collection/epimpbot

I have a lot of other systems, peripherals etc too. I don't really focus on one system too much. I do prefer playing the NES though and I own 5 boxed NES's. One boxed Intellivision 2. One boxed Sega Master system. 3 Vectrex's. 1 Genesis. 1 Mega Drive Clone. 1 Boxed SNES. 1 boxed Mega CD. 1 Turbo Grafx. 4 Atari 2600's. 1 Intellivision. 1 boxed Colecovision. 1 boxed Panasonic 3DO. 1 boxed Sega Game Gear.

I will be buying an Amiga CD32 today and I was given a PC engine this past weekend.

That's about all I can remember since I am currently at work.

[AB Positive]

That's rather good. You did like me and went after a lot of systems and started picking out the games you wanted.

Right now I'm trying to pare down my system count to those I'll really enjoy. Currently that means Neo Geo MVS, Neo Geo Color Pocket, Genesis and Colecovision. An odd mix to be sure :D

-AG

[pimpbot1976]

I can't seem to stick to a few systems.....it must be my ADD :o

[Videogamerdaryll]

Sweet...Keep it going..

[RetroYoungen]

Pretty good lot at the moment, I must say for 3 years I'm impressed.

[Balloon Fight]

That isnt that bad of a collection, but you should try to focus on one system. You have many systems with under 10 games, which isnt a bad thing, but takes up space. I would suggest collecting for you top 2 or 3 favorite systems, and get as large of a collection as possible.

[Doonzmore]

MMMMM a fine collection indeed. Ya the dreamcast rocked, it should have lasted longer. My fav system would a tie between the Dreamcast and Genesis

[Sofa King Gud]

Good work... Keep it up! :)

[djbeatmongrel]

nice collection. check out mine http://www.angelfire.com/retro/kratedigga/videojuegos.html
for a little background info i started with gameboy, genesis, psx and ps2, started really collecting when i bought my gamecube a little over a year ago

[GamecubeFreek]

Nice collection. Im jealous of your Knuckles: Chaotix. I cant find it anywhere, but it would be too much trouble to play anyway, considering I dont have the right connections to hook up my 32x to my Genesis 1... but I digress. Keep up the great collection.

[xfactor1984]

thats a nice collection djbeat, ive been collecting since I was a freshman in high school, ive had 2 jobs since but they weren't for buying video games, just car insurance and car payment. i guess i know what to look for and what prices to pay, or maybe i was just lucky to get that much stuff without spending a lot of cash. Of course i have spent a butt load of cash over 3 years but not at one time except for my 3d0 system (45$) and the 9 games as a starter set(21$) all in all it was 88$ after shipping. I am now gonna buy a turbo grafx 16 and build on my nes, genny, snes collection because the snes and genny collections are really weak.

[chadtower]

Needs more cowbell.

[Sega Hitman]

Just a word of advice to the younger crowd, don't get a car :D . I'm about to turn 18, and I have 15 systems and 1200 games. This includes about half of all US Genesis releases, 100+ PS1 games, 150+ NES games, 100+ SNES games, 75 Dreamcast games, and so on. IMO, the cost of keeping up an old POS car, car insurance, and gas, just isn't really worth it if you don't NEED to have a car. If you can bum rides from friends and use public transportation when needed, you're set. Also, become well acquainted with ebay, as it can be a source of mucho bling bling.

-Hitman-

[Ed Oscuro]

Just a word of advice to the younger crowd, don't get a car :D . I'm about to turn 18, and I have 15 systems and 1200 games.

:D indeed! I'm just about 20, no car, but I had a while where I was able to get multiple $150 import games from Japan. I think if I pick up Comix Zone, Alien Soldier, and a dozen more common titles, I'll just about have every Japanese Mega Drive game I want (for a while, anyways).

[ClubNinja]

If you can bum rides from friends...

Yeah, I hate that advice because I'm the guy who everyone needs a ride from while they're blowing their cash on toys instead of responsibilities. :roll:

Keep this in mind. I maintain a car and college tuition bills, yet still hold about 1300 games over 37 platforms. Furthermore, I still have beer money - expensive bottled beer, and none of that piss-in-a-can crap. I don't take a dime from my family (not like they really have it to toss around anyway) and rarely work. If you're wise with your money and realistic in your desires, then you can still enjoy this hobby without making sacrifices. Buy a used, but reliable car that runs well. No need for a sports car or SUV or whatever's cool to you. Hell, I'm driving an old station wagon right now, and love the thing because I can easily haul boxes of goods around. It's totally easy to manage everything.

Of course, as was said, if you don't *need* a car, then you're all set. But don't go pissing off your friends for rides all the time so you can drop triple digits of coin a rare game. That's just silly. Put some money in the bank.