What "sub-collections" are you working on ?

[thegreatescape]

I remember reading somewhere (probably here on DP) that its easier to collect if you aim for some smaller goals rather flat out buy everything that moves, e.g all the Tengen games for nes, screenshot style for nes, etc.

So what (if any) "sub-collections" are your working on, or have completed ?


Personally, in light of the recent Truxton thread and my recent purchase of Hellfire ive been thinking of trying to get all the Toaplan games. I also only need Thunderforce III to have all 3 G/MD thunderforce games, but its so goddam hard to find here (stupid US only release). :(

I also wouldnt mind having all the cardboard box accolade games, even if they are crap..

[whoisKeel]

Games i like.

[robotriot]

A complete collection of Amiga games is pretty much impossible with way over 4000 titles, but I'm trying to get all Psygnosis and Thalion games as a start :)

Oh, and I'm also trying to get all Megadrive games that were ported from the Amiga ^^

[tritium]

I'm collecting Genesis Arcade style games (Games I can play for 20 minutes).

So far I have Double Dragon, Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat 2,
Ghouls & Ghosts, Aladdin, Lion King, Columns.

I don't have to play 30 hours to beat them.

-Tritium

[Jive3D]

For a while I was collecting all of the original NES games that used the ORIGINAL font for the game name on the spine side of the cart, also using the same style art template for the picture side of the cart, if you know what I mean. I didnt get all of them but I got the ones worth caring about.

[GameNinja]

I am trying to get all the RPGs for the current systems.

[davidleeroth]

All Treasure games from all regions - still some variants to go.
All Treasure-related games - lots to go.
Early small/blackbox games for PAL NES - lots to go
Konami "silverbox" games for NES - couple of games and lots of boxes/manuals to go.

[Achika]

I decided last night to try to get all the NGage games....

It's small enough to be considered a sub LOL

[sisko]

I'm going for all of the Working Designs titles. Unfortunately its a pain in the ass since people want WAY too much money for them.

[Raccoon Lad]

Fantasy Zone!

I already have:
SMS:
Fantasy Zone - proto, complete
Fantasy Zone, complete
Fantasy Zone 2, complete
Fantasy Zone the Maze, complete

Mark III:
Fantasy Zone, loose
Fantasy Zone 2, complete
Galactic Protector, complete

Megadrive:
Super Fantasy Zone, complete

Game Gear:
Fantasy Zone Gear, loose

Famicom:
Fantasy Zone, loose
Fantasy Zone 2, loose

NES:
Fantasy Zone, loose

Turbografx:
Fantasy Zone, sealed

PC engine:
Fantasy Zone, complete

[Kamino]

Games that don't suck.
All Black NES Tengen Carts.(which is only about 16.)
All 2600 Activision carts.
On another note, i'm sitting one game away from the USA virtual boy collection. Need Jack bros.

[kainemaxwell]

Currently:

NES Dragon Warrior titles (done, need boxes)
NES Mega Man titles (need some boxes and a manual or 2)
NES Tengen titles (Need Tetris, ack!!)
Atari 2600 Activision titles (dunno how many more I need offhand)

Dunno what other sub-collections I'll start sometime.

[bargora]

I seem to be stalled in my collecting of 16 and 32 bit 2-D shoot-'em-ups. Time to buy some lottery tix, I guess.

[davidleeroth]

I decided last night to try to get all the NGage games....

O' boy... I hope they get very rare, very soon (maybe after you've got it covered ;)). That way I could drop even the thought of ever collecting them. LOL

[hydr0x]

right now nothing really as i'm pretty close to complete dc (well, 40 games, but close enough) and that's a small enough goal ;)

but i do this stuff to, like every PAL RPG for SNES (close) or every US cube+dc game not released in Europe and stuff like this, every SF game :o...

[captain nintendo]

Well I just completed my megaman collection for nes. I just need a manual or 2.

I was thinking about colordream games for nes next. (Complete of course)


Now as a side project I am working on SMS :o

[tholly]

well, i am not working on it very actively, but i would love to have every game that either stars Mario or has him in it in some sort of cameo role.

[kainemaxwell]

All Black NES Tengen Carts.(which is only about 16.)

Actually its 20.

[Cmosfm]

Just the Black Box NES games, loose or whatever, I think I only need Clu Clu Land and Donkey Kong Jr.

Can't tell you off the hand.

[mezrabad]

I'm trying to get a complete Magnavox Odyssey collection. Assuming nothing happens to the UPS trucks over the next few days I should reach my goal by next Wednesday. Yay! I didn't think I was ever going to find Basketball or Brain Wave.

[Keir]

As I build up my Atari 2600 collection, I use different manufacturers as milestones. These are the ones I've completed so far:

Absolute
Activision (completed most recently when I got Rampage from legeek)
CBS
Epyx
M Network
Milton Bradley
Mythicon
Sears (exclusives only)
TNT Games (all one of them!)
US Games/Vidtec

I'm working on a few that I am really close on:

Apollo (need Guardian and Wabbit)
Data Age (need Frankenstein's Monster)
Froggo (need Task Force)
Imagic (need Subterranea)
Sega (need Tapper and Up 'n Down)
Starpath (need Survival Island)
Telesys (need Ram It)
Zimag (need Cosmic Corridor)

[Ninja Blacksox]

Hrm.

I think I'll aim to get all the Panesian games.

0-3 thus far.

I'm with Cmosfm, actually. The original "black box" NES games sound like a winner. I've got a few of those lying around.

-A Boy

[AB Positive]

I'm pretty close to a complete Ranma 1/2 games collection. I'm getting three complete GB games from Japan, and I have the Janken Puzzle Battle in, along with one of the JP only SFC fighting games complete. So that leaves me:

2 JP SFC Ranmas, the US SNES Ranma, the three TG-16 Ranmas, the PSX Ranma, and the CD32 Ranma.

... ok, so I'm not so close, but those complete B&W GB games are bitches to find, most of the hard ones are done :D

-AG

[digitalpress]

Still working on my PSX longbox collection, I need about a dozen, most are sports games.

[PapaStu]

I'm going for all of the Working Designs titles. Unfortunately its a pain in the ass since people want WAY too much money for them.

Im STILL trying to get all the Working Design PlayStation variants out of the way (3 known covers left). Im going on 5 months now. Ive thought about getting the SegaCd and Saturn stuff too, but I think thats only going to prove that i'm a sick sick individual.

[o2william]

NES Dragon Warrior titles (done, need boxes)
NES Mega Man titles (need some boxes and a manual or 2)

Me too, although I'm not pursuing them that actively. Like you, I'm down to needing a few boxes and manuals (and DW maps).

One of my big "sub-collection" goals when I first started collecting was to reacquire every game myself or my friends ever had growing up. I think I'm about 2 NES games short of that. I believe Slalom and Clu-Clu Land are all I need... strange that I have 400+ NES games, and haven't picked those up yet.

Edited to add: NES Ninja Kid! I still need that one too. It was the third NES game I ever played (SMB and Rush'n Attack were #'s 1 and 2.)

[Bronty-2]

sealed set of nes black boxes. It's freaking impossible :angry:

[Chunky]

I have so far

12" ham and cheese
6" hot turkey and mayo
6" itallian




oh err.
I usually go for cheap to expensive, like get all the R1,s then R2s....
but after every blockbuster exclusive in cart form.

[kainemaxwell]

Actually I am pursuing my collections when I get the chance, extra cash and things become aviliable. So at one point I'll be hitting the Activision stuff then maybe a few days later an offer will come in on Tengen stuff, etc.

I need boxes and manuals, darnit!

[sisko]

I'm pretty close to a complete Ranma 1/2 games collection. I'm getting three complete GB games from Japan, and I have the Janken Puzzle Battle in, along with one of the JP only SFC fighting games complete. So that leaves me:

2 JP SFC Ranmas, the US SNES Ranma, the three TG-16 Ranmas, the PSX Ranma, and the CD32 Ranma.

... ok, so I'm not so close, but those complete B&W GB games are bitches to find, most of the hard ones are done :D

-AG

Aren't there a handful of PC-FX and Playdia Ranma titles?





Im STILL trying to get all the Working Design PlayStation variants out of the way (3 known covers left). Im going on 5 months now. Ive thought about getting the SegaCd and Saturn stuff too, but I think thats only going to prove that i'm a sick sick individual.

I'm not going for variants, as that would be way to difficult. Plus that limited Elemental Gearbolt set would be a pain in the ass to track down.

I'm getting pretty close, only 1 Sega CD, 1.5 Saturn, and 3 TG16 games left. :)

[VinnyT]

I checked my collection just now to see, and I realized I need NHL '97 and the "unyeared" one to complete a NHL collection.

[potatobob]

I'm working on collecting all the Rare, the company, games for N64.

[Ed Oscuro]

I really only have two I'd figure for being "goals." Lots of other areas I'll buy a wide range of stuff in; but in this case I know I've got this as a minimum goal: All Japanese Mega Drive action games from Konami and Treasure; going from there.

Plus all the Japanese Time Warner games for Saturn ;D

[Balloon Fight]

I'm currently working on the PS1 long box collection, all the tengen carts for NES, and all of the "black box" games for nes. I'm closest on the black boxes with only 3-4 left.

[FlufflePuff]

I collect NES games by year of release. I have 85 and 87 done. I almost have 86, I just need Balloon Fight. As the years go on, I have less and less, with my collection containing 0 games from 1993 :embarrassed:

Everyone always laughs when I tell them this, but I think its a cool way to segment an otherwise huge library into workable chunks.

[PapaStu]

Im STILL trying to get all the Working Design PlayStation variants out of the way (3 known covers left). Im going on 5 months now. Ive thought about getting the SegaCd and Saturn stuff too, but I think thats only going to prove that i'm a sick sick individual.

I'm not going for variants, as that would be way to difficult. Plus that limited Elemental Gearbolt set would be a pain in the ass to track down.

I'm getting pretty close, only 1 Sega CD, 1.5 Saturn, and 3 TG16 games left. :)

Well thats not so much a set as it is a special promotional gimmie. There were less than 50 made given out to execs and such who worked the game, and the guy who made them (which im thinking is zach at the moment) said that not even the play testers who did lots of work got them. You had to do insane amounts of stuff to even try to get one. One was given out to the guy who won the contest at E3 that year, and his immedately went to eBay. the guns and the memory card are just gold painted, the Briefcase is whats the big deal item, with the Elemental GB embossed on the case.

I dont think that we can necessarily even know that most of these special kinds of thank you's even exist, when some stuff is made in weird limited quantities of 3 or 10 and given to the president of some game company, knowing that it will almost never even see the collectors light of day. But thats not saying that i wouldnt kill to get one. ;)

[DigitalSpace]

Unlicensed domestic SNES games. And since Super 3D Noah's Ark was the only one, I just need to find that and I'll be set. LOL

Can't think of anything else at the moment. My last goal was to reach 100 SNES games and I just accomplished that. I guess my current goal would be to get some more games for my N64 library. Nothing specific, just whatever decent non-sports games I can find for under 5 bucks. I'll probably focus on getting some more GB/GBC/GBA games as well, since I only have 9 right now.

[tonyvortex]

i would have to say all things capcom have a soft spot for me.i know collecting all regions of their games is close to impossible though.out of my collection im sure at least 24% of the games i have are capcom.

[Cryomancer]

Once I accually get a master system, I'm going to start collecting all the Space Harrier games / ports. Also if 32x counts as a sub that's on my list, if it doesn't then how about the 5 32x-CD games?

I'd consider going for a complete Godzilla set as well someday...

But hey, I got a red, blue, yellow, and green VMU! Now I just need a red and yellow controller and I'll have a bitchin Power Stone 2 setup.

[Pantechnicon]

It actually just occurred to me a couple days ago that I've got all but three released Jaguar CD titles. It never occurred to me that there were so few in the first place so I've got this set as a sub-goal right now. Normally I don't go for this kind of thing but we're talking less than 15 titles, plus I really like Jag CD so I might as well.

A complete U.S. Virtual Boy collection would be nice, too, but titles are virtually (pun intended) impossible to find in the wild in my neck of the woods and I'm not attached to this system enough to pursue it on eHell.

[slip81]

I'm currently working on getting a complete collection of SMS games and every Batman game released on a home system. Then after that I'm moving onto every Ghostbuster game

[scorch56]

Any game with big giant robots in it..

OK.. maybe some itty bitty robots as well..

Any games with robots (Mecha) in them.

[AFGiant]

I just started gathering all the Zapper compatible NES games. I went to EBGames and bought about half of them LOL
Shouldn't be too hard.

[ubersaurus]

I've got a few that I'm working on.

All Compile made shooters
The mario action games(only really missing Yoshi's Story at this point)
versions of Spacewar
VIS games/crap LOL

[Aboliax]

Im starting at rarest GB and moving backwards, my thinking is that, GB games are still common right now, so the rarer ones will become more rare as time progresses and are thus better find now. The commons wil be around for quite a while still, so why not?

R5's im at 6/15 and R6's im at 1/9(mostly cause no one will sell me the Sachen games at a reasonable price).

Total i got ~74/600+ so I don't exclusively work on 5 and 6 I buy 3/4 occasionally too.

[Querjek]

All GBA and GCN games that were made by Nintendo or one of its second parties. Oh, and all GCN games on top of that.

[Damon Plus]

All of the Kunio games

[mezrabad]

I collect NES games by year of release. I have 85 and 87 done. I almost have 86, I just need Balloon Fight. As the years go on, I have less and less, with my collection containing 0 games from 1993 :embarrassed:

Everyone always laughs when I tell them this, but I think its a cool way to segment an otherwise huge library into workable chunks.

No, I think this is brilliant. It gives you a small set with which to be familiar so when you go out hunting you know what things are worth and how much to be paying for them. It allows you to acquire things slowly enough that you can play them with some satisfaction before the next acquisition. It allows you to acquire them in an order similar or at least close to the progression in which they were released, so you'll be able to appreciate how the games improved as the system matured. Finally, I think it's a bit cheaper to do it this way as you're not jumping at every good offer that comes down the pike unless it pertains to the system and sub-class on which you are focused at that point in time.

Now, what I'm doing is a little nuts. I started with the Odyssey and when I've finished it (sometime next week, fingers crossed) I'm moving on to the Fairchild Channel F, followed by the RCA Sudio II and finally I'll get to the Atari VCS (which I've already completed via Cuttle Cart 2.). My goal is to play everything on as close to the original hardware as possible, at the very least with the original controllers, until I get to the crash and then I'm going back to the dawn of the PC (1977) and going through all of the TRS-80, Apple II and Commodore PET games I can find emulated. Of course, if my video gaming preferences hold out, however, I'll probably be buying those systems eventually, too, I'm just really nervous about any of the software still being usable. Listen to me babble. I'm done now.

[max 330 mega]

im looking for all taito american releases for nes, ive got flintstones 2 in box so the hard part is over.

[Ed Oscuro]

Any game with big giant robots in it..

OK.. maybe some itty bitty robots as well..

Any games with robots (Mecha) in them.
Got Atomic Robo Kid? Armored Trooper Votoms? Front Mission Gun Hazard? All three Battletech 3050 games (SNES/SFC and Genesis, maybe just American on that last one)?

All highly recommended. Well, maybe not Votoms or the Battletech game so much, though, but even those are pretty good.

[SS]

I'm always working on sub-goals. My last was the 2600 Activision games. Having accomplished that, I am now focusing on 2600 Sears picture labels and odd-ball Atari late-release picture labels.

[fishsandwich]

I've always got a sub-genre or two going...

Like several of you, I'm working on getting all the black Tengen games for the NES. I know Ineed RBI Baseball 2, then I might be done. Does anyone have a list?

I finished my 32x collection and my Saturn shooter collection, I think I'm done with the Sega CD shooters, I'm not too far from being done with the Saturn Capcom games and the PSone shooters (domestic ONLY dammit) and I'd like a few NGPC games.

My big goal is the entire USA Saturn collection... I have 188 at last count, mostly shitty sports games lefgt. Then there the games that only came out for the Saturn in the UK... I'll never be done with anything.

Cheers

Fish Sandwich

[Nesmaster]

im working to get all 20 black tengen games for the nes. i have 19 and need Fantasy Zone. My ultimate sub-goal would be to get all the unlicensed games for the nes, and my ultimate goal is to get them all!

[Daria]

My sub collections include:

- Shining Force
- Zelda
- Breath of Fire (pretty much complete save a box for BoF 2 (snes))
- Dragon Warrior
- RPG Plushies

And pretty much any other series that I realize I have a few of and want to complete the "set". Since I collect RPGs I intend to have them all eventually but it makes things a bit easier to set priorities and mini goals like that.

[Bighab]

I am looking for a few games for my sub collections
1.Wizardry games(really want the WSC one,need some of the GB and PSX releases)
2.Front Mission series(need the WSC version and FM3 Millenium edition)
3.Nes KOEI games(looking for Romance 2 and a few other maps)

[hydr0x]

I am looking for a few games for my sub collections
1.Wizardry games(really want the WSC one,need some of the GB and PSX releases)


incl. the PC games?? quite a lot of work ;)

[Avenger]

every game Sega made...anyone know where i can get a good list? :D

[Nez]

The 32x collection have 22 down so I'm well on my way.

[Aussie2B]

I got loads of mini-collections going. I'm not one to really go for a complete collection for a particular system, so I go for mini-collections of things I'm really interested in. I'm working on:

Every console/handheld Castlevania game (Dracula X for SNES is the only one left that I particularly want, but I'll get the recent Iga games for completion's sake eventually.)

Every tri-Ace game (Pretty much complete already, but I do need the Director's Cut of SO3 and a few regional variations.)

Every TwinBee game (barely begun on this one)

Every Choaniki game (same as TwinBee)

Every US-released Square SNES game (Complete more or less, but I need Breath of Fire since Square published it.)

Every NES SNK game (Just for the hell of it since my boyfriend is an SNK freak.)

Every cardboard box Sega CD game (Only because I got half of them in one fell swoop, including some harder to find ones like Jaguar XJ220 and
Rise of the Dragon, so I may as well complete the mini-collection someday.)

And my distant dream... having every US-released N64 game (and if that goal is ever accomplished, I'd like to have every Japan-only N64 game too). I can't claim to be very close, though. :/ I only have 55 unique games at the moment (68 games counting duplicates). I am proud to say that I have most of the "must-have" games for the system, however, and many cool obscure titles too. :)

[Howie6925]

Right now, my sub collection is the Jakks t.v games.

[PhoeniX]

I'm working on a couple sub-collections:
Virtual Boy (need 2-3 [my red alarm is japanese version])
32X (Need 4 more [unfortouately one is Spider Man])
NGPC (About half way to US collection)

.... And I am thinking of actively working towards an Odyssey2 set.

[tholly]

I'm working on a couple sub-collections:
Virtual Boy (need 2-3 [my red alarm is japanese version])
32X (Need 4 more [unfortouately one is Spider Man])
NGPC (About half way to US collection)

.... And I am thinking of actively working towards an Odyssey2 set.


technically not sub - collection....you are working on complete collections

[scorch56]

Any game with big giant robots in it..

OK.. maybe some itty bitty robots as well..

Any games with robots (Mecha) in them.
Got Atomic Robo Kid? Armored Trooper Votoms? Front Mission Gun Hazard? All three Battletech 3050 games (SNES/SFC and Genesis, maybe just American on that last one)?

All highly recommended. Well, maybe not Votoms or the Battletech game so much, though, but even those are pretty good.

Well.. I've got a mint copy of Battletech for the Genesis. BTW.. the same game for the SNES was called Mechwarrior 3050.. not Battletech. I bought Super Famicom FM1 & Gun Hazard off eBay years ago (someone filed the carts down.. sacrilege) but I don't list them because they're just the carts and yes.. I'd love to get complete ones. About those other two titles? Are they imports? Because I'm just getting into imports. Check out my collection below.. I reiterate.. I like Mecha. ;)

[Neonsolid]

Gone.

[sku_u]

Right now I'm working on a few subsets as well as completing certain system collections:

Subsets:

Atari VCS--working on Sears Picture labels, only missing 2 of them; INTV--need 4 or 5 more; late release Atari picture labels; Activision--missing 1 label variation and 2 white label carts.

Collections:

Game.com, missing a few games; NUON, missing 2 titles; Arcadia 2001, missing about 10-15 titles; Astrocade, missing 3 obtainable titles, Colecovision, about half way to a complete set

[briskbc]

Well my collecting has almost stopped completely and I am selling almost everything right now. I was working on a complete Dreamcast collection but not anymore. I do check out eBay for those white UK demos that were given to the media. I have 6 of them and I want to get them all before they really start to dry up. I should be able to get about 1 every other month. I'm cool with that.

[Cryomancer]

I noticed I have damn near every pokemon game the other day. So I guess there's one.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

Im starting to get complete snes games very quickly
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[YoshiM]

The only "sub" collection goal I have is to collect the game magazines I used to have when I grew up. Thanks to the recent acquisition of the last issue of Nintendo Fun Club News I now have all the Nintendo Powers I used to own (NFCN issues 5, 6 & 7 along with the first year of Nintendo Powers). Now it's on to trying to get my hands on issues of VG&CE, Game Player's and maybe EGM.

[SegaAges]

kamino is doing one of the collections I am trying, full ntsc vb collection. all i have left is jack bros and the 2 demo carts.

i have been trying this as well.

almost every single one i am trying to do, i did do:
tony hawk 1-4 and underground
all legacy of kain games
all clayfighter games
ninja turtle games(1-3 on nes, 4 and tournament on nes, hyperstone heist on genesis, ninja turtles on ps2, fall of the foot clan on gb)
gta series (1-3 (including both london add-ons), vice city)
pokemon (red/blue/green/yellow, card, pinball, silver, staduim, snap, hey you! pikachu)

that is about all i can think of right now. i also collect sobe bottles (i have 27 unique bottles), if that counts at all.

[cracked8ball]

I'm currently sub collecting

-Data East NES titles
-Tengen NES titles
- Gradius games (all platforms)

[Ed Oscuro]

NEW CHALLENGE!

As many boxed Sharp x68K computers/peripherals as I can manage!

Plus the old Duke Nukem PC titles. D'ya know KIXX released the game in Great Britain?

[PapaStu]

Still working on my PSOne Working Designs collection. Ive now got a lead on my final missing disc. The hope is to get the seller to sell his personal copy. If not i'll at least have a pic of it.

Another side collection is those videogame lanyards. Ive got a whole mess of them. I love em. Achika has been very nice in getting many for me as well :D

[Dangerboy]

9 or so PSX long boxes to go...possibly less as I have a lump of ebay auctions coming in which include long box variants :eek 2:

Currently searching out Non GH jewel case versions of said long boxes (if you have a Mortal Kombat 3 JC version, you PM *now*).

Also tracking / researching Eidos GH variants (demos...ugh!) and Fighter's Edge stuff.

I'll also be tackling the Working Designs stuff as soon as papastu finishes up.

And to think, I could do worse....I coudl collect atari....

Jason

[PapaStu]

Also tracking / researching Eidos GH variants (demos...ugh!) and Fighter's Edge stuff.

I'll also be tackling the Working Designs stuff as soon as papastu finishes up.

And to think, I could do worse....I coudl collect atari....

Hehe,
Jason Ill help you get the WD stuff done. Once you get Eidos down, i'll go after those. Fighters edge is just going to be an easy experiment for the both of us considering the evilness of the Eidos and the WD stuff.