Centerpiece of Your Collection? [Archive]

Jasoco

03-31-2005, 02:36 AM

Is that where she went? You only let her out every once in a while (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507343/) to do an obsure movie, eh?

Lessee.. I'd say my centerpiece as it were would be... I guess my original. The game that started it all. Thee game that got me back into gaming. My boxed SMB3. When I found it, I realized there were people out there that still cared about the classics. I wouldn't trade that in for all the tea in Boston.

max 330 mega

03-31-2005, 02:37 AM

id say its Matrimelee AES, or
Keio flying squadron PAL demo kiosk, or Snatcher for sega cd.

Aussie2B

03-31-2005, 02:44 AM

I'll have a new centerpiece soon, one that I won from a contest. It will soon be framed and put up on my wall, but I won't reveal what it is just yet. ;P

But for now... I don't really know. O_o I have nothing especially unusual. Dracula X: Rondo of Blood is always nice for showing off. :) It's easily my single most valuable game. And of course, I got RPGs out the wazoo, many of which are pretty valuable.

FlufflePuff

03-31-2005, 02:55 AM

The most valuable item in my collection would probably be my Flinstones: Surprise at Dino Peak or my complete Secret Scout. Neither of those really stand out as a centerpiece though. So, for the time being, I'd have to say that my NES collection itself is the center of my collection. It comprises 50% of the collection as a whole, but it just looks so damn good on the shelves. Plus all the ladies ooh and ahhh at it when they come over... j/k. As I approach game 1000, I think I want to finally pick up a copy of Stadium Events. I think Stadium Events can stand as the centerpiece of my collection then.

FurinkanianFrood

03-31-2005, 03:06 AM

AES carts.

Expensive Saturn and PCE stuff (shooters and such).

Battle Garegga. Matrimelee AES. AOF3 AES JP (much better than the first two).
RofBlood, Kaze Kiri, Magical Chase, PCE RCRansom, PCE Steam Hearts (yeah that thing, I got a good deal on it).
Chip Chan Kick and some of my other PCFX stuff including the system I suppose.
Undead Line (Megadrive). Alien Soldier (Euro MD).

More Saturn, PCE, NeoGeo stuff. Some nice, fairly pricey boxed Super Famicom games.

Some DC stuff, matching service games and what not.

I guess I don't have a centerpiece per se.

Kroogah

03-31-2005, 03:08 AM

http://videogamecollectors.com/albums/The-Room-of-KROOG/mariosign.jpg

Jasoco

03-31-2005, 03:11 AM

Damn, that reminds me of the awesome gold "World of Nintendo" globe I missed out on eBay because of a bastard sniper once. It would definately have been my real centerpiece.

Dangerboy

03-31-2005, 03:23 AM

I guess my PlayStation library...it's th emost dominant thing in my first room area when you come up the stairs.

Landon

03-31-2005, 04:31 AM

***Beware- Long Winded Pontification Contained Below***

Since I only collect NES, the only thing I can claim as a centerpiece is a large number of R6 and R7 NES carts.
Since the world of NES collecting really only has 5 or 6 carts worthy of a label such as "centerpiece", it's kinda hard.

As far as those NES centerpiece carts...

NWC Cart is pretty much out of the realm for me. Even if I had that sort of disposable income, I don't think i'd spend that kind of $$$ on a NES game.
Impressing other gamers isn't high on my agenda. Sorry.

Stadium Events is a great rarity. When one comes up on ebay, I might pick it up, but given the prices it sells for, this possibility gets less and less every passing year. When I can buy an acre of land in a few states for the same price as this cart sells for, i'll take the acre every time.

No interest in 6-1's or other oddity multicarts- or at least, I wouldn't ever spend the sort of money the regularly command.

The Panesians (BB Babes, Hot Slots, PAB Poker) are desirable enough, but they are very infrequently sold, and again.... $200 and $300 for a cart is a lot of cheese. Still, I intend to aquire these sometime in the next year.

IN short, I think the R6's and R7's of today are tommorow's "grail" carts as more and more people are getting into NES and the carts begin to spike in price. When todays 25 year old turns 40, I really believe that desirable and rare classic NES games will be very expensive. The cart you pay $10 for today may very well be tommorows $500-$1000 cart.
Don't laugh, either. The 1960's GTO my dad bought in 1986 for $800 was recently sold- in the same condition he bought it in excepting for a few mechanical repairs- for just shy of $16,000.
The World War 1911 pistol a neighbor bought from the NRA for $30 each in 1965 are now worth $1500 each.
10 or 15 years from now when 40 year old men with commensurate incomes go to reclaim the NES parts of thier youth- just as happened with baseball cards or classic cards- the prices will reach the stratosphere.

Cauterize

03-31-2005, 06:55 AM

Super Mario Game & Watch Crystal Screen - R8 - $250 Loose!

AB Positive

03-31-2005, 07:05 AM

easily it's my JP complete Card Fighters Clash 2 for the NGPC.

-AG

anagrama

03-31-2005, 07:19 AM

Well, once I pick up the last game I need (it's currently waiting for me at the Post Office), I'd guess my complete European Master System collection would be the centrepiece.
If we're talking individual items, it'd have to be my copy of Les Schtroumpfs Autour du Monde (SMS, R9).

captain nintendo

03-31-2005, 08:26 AM

Maybe my sharp 19" NES combo television ??? Or my complete Caltron 6 in 1... Boxed Flinstones 2 , the factory sealed Cheetahmen 2 is nice as well.

My big Virtual boy collection could be considered a center piece as well :/
(I like the way the complete JP VB looks)

Chainsaw_Charlie

03-31-2005, 08:32 AM

My nes library of 70+ games or my Chavez 2 that i found yesterday

YoshiM

03-31-2005, 08:38 AM

There are three things that kinda get more focus than anything else:

Tengen Tetris: When I heard that they were being yanked off shelves I was curious about getting a copy. When I saw back in the early 90's that a game store sold a copy for $60 I knew I wanted one. Then I got one: $2 at a Goodwill. The fact I paid so little is also a sort of "centerpiece".

My NES: out of all of my game systems I have owned, this is the only one I never, ever sold. Owned since 1987. Not a big deal except to me but I still mention it when people ask.

"The Atari": this VCS four-switcher has more sentimental value than anything. My uncle used to own this machine. Back when we were kids, my now current wife and I used to play against each other on this machine. It brought us together. So as payment for fixing my cousin's computer I asked for that system and got it. (FYI: no, my wife and I weren't related-we share similar relatives due to marriages. Just sounds backwater LOL ).

Kejoriv

03-31-2005, 09:04 AM

My nes library of a little over 200 games. :-P

Nez

03-31-2005, 09:20 AM

My mint collection of the Panzer Dragoon series. Its complete save for the damn r zone game.

PapaStu

03-31-2005, 09:23 AM

I guess my centerpiece to my collection is my nearly complete WD Playstation variant collection. One more disc...... If not that its that i've got all 3 US Debug models.

tholly

03-31-2005, 09:48 AM

I'd say these 3 things are my Highlights:

http://videogamecollectors.com/albums/tholly/Power_Lords.sized.jpg

http://videogamecollectors.com/albums/tholly/Maganvox_Odyssey_2_Collection.sized.jpg

http://videogamecollectors.com/albums/tholly/53_G_001.sized.jpg

flywheels

03-31-2005, 10:21 AM

I'd say either Wonder 3 or Warriors of Fate II for the Saturn. Both of those games eluded me for so long!

Now why on earth did I sell me D&D Collections for the Saturn? :angry:

Jumpman Jr.

03-31-2005, 10:37 AM

For me it would be a bunch of things.. Among them, being:

Complete Virtual Boy Collection
Near Complete Intellivision Collection (5 more to go)
Spiker! Super Pro Volleyball, Congo Bongo and Fathom for the Intellivision
Super Mario Bros. Arcade Cabinet
Oh yeah... and I'm getting a copy of Flinstones 2 on the NES in the mail very soon
:D

Sanriostar

03-31-2005, 10:56 AM

I'm gonna go into pseudo-Mod mode here:

"Haven't we already done this thread?"

And I'll say what I did then:

SW'ed Gameline modem (well, sorta SW'ed, it's soming apart of it's own accord)
A Picture of Ralph Baer standing next to the Brown Box I took myself at CGE 2000
And a few proto repros: Elevator Action (which no longer works!!! :angry:) CV Pac-Man, and 5200 Super Pac-Man

And maybe GC Cubivore

Sph1nx

03-31-2005, 11:06 AM

tholly - Mario Pinball? Nice. Never even knew about those... hows the game play?

For me, it's my complete copy of Bannana Prince. Took me so damn long to find a copy.

atomicthumbs

03-31-2005, 11:16 AM

My Pokemon Snap Station from Blockbuster (again... paypal cash to the person who can help me find the part I'm missing).

tholly

03-31-2005, 01:10 PM

tholly - Mario Pinball? Nice. Never even knew about those... hows the game play?

For me, it's my complete copy of Bannana Prince. Took me so damn long to find a copy.

its an awesome pin to play

you have to beat a bunch of castles to advance and save the princess

there is also a smaller version in yellow that was put in arcades for kids to play

Here (http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=mario+bros&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick) is a link to some pics of the two Mario pins as well as amount of each made and stuff like that

TheRedEye

03-31-2005, 01:27 PM

Honestly, I might have to go with the Alien Hominid figurine set, just for nostalgic reasons. The producer of the game sent them to me just because he's a really nice guy. He also would buy me beer a couple months later, but I can't display draft beer.

pacmanhat

03-31-2005, 01:34 PM

I have a lot of rarer and more valuable things, but no matter what I get my friends tend to gravitate towards "Kris Kross: Make My Video" as the centerpiece. Either that or my Power Glove that actually works. That's what they think, anyway...I'm not sure what I think yet.

Crush Crawfish

03-31-2005, 03:49 PM

Probably my framed Shadow Hearts 2 poster, or maybe my boxed Turbografx-16, complete with $4 price tag on it. :D My big collection of Megaman figures is really awesome too!

Jasoco

03-31-2005, 04:56 PM

My Pokemon Snap Station from Blockbuster (again... paypal cash to the person who can help me find the part I'm missing).Which part are you missing? I'm missing everything that's not the printer. In other words, all I have is the printer. ;)
I love it. I guess I could consider it another centerpiece.

Also, I am so jealous of that SMB Pinball game. Damn, I rememeber seeing it in arcades in the 90's at camp grounds and fun centers.

atomicthumbs

03-31-2005, 04:59 PM

izret101

03-31-2005, 05:58 PM

What i consider the center pieces of my collection everyone else seems to have.
CIB Chrono Trigger and FF3 only i got mine both free so they are much more important to me.

One of my favorite things is my Halo Xbox (which everyone also seems to have)

And the thing people ask about the most oddly enough is my CIB Colecovision which i also got for free.

I also have an assortment of displays, posters, shipping boxes.

Unfortunately I haven't got anything new in quite awhile.

Kroogah

03-31-2005, 06:15 PM

I'm gonna go into pseudo-Mod mode here:

"Haven't we already done this thread?"

I don't think we've done this thread, but we've done threads that probably had similar answers. Like "What's the single rarest item you have" "What's the single most valuable" etc.

What i consider the center pieces of my collection everyone else seems to have.
CIB Chrono Trigger and FF3 only i got mine both free so they are much more important to me.

One of my favorite things is my Halo Xbox (which everyone also seems to have)

Bah it doesn't have to be one-of-a-kind to be a centerpiece. All my rare/valuable games just blend in with the rest anyway. Not really centerpieces. If I didn't have the Mario sign I would've gone with something like Taiko Drum Master just because of the box. Or my boxes for NES, SNES, Game Boy/Pocket/SP, N64, and Gamecube, because I have them all together and everybody asks about them. Pretty common stuff, but makes a great display.

Rugal

03-31-2005, 07:45 PM

Well i am a collector of PS1 games and DC games so out of those i would say my Sealed Arc the Lad collection, Lunar 2 and Front Mission Alternatie, 2 and 3 for my PS1 and for the Dc it would have to be my first print copy of Last Blade 2: Final Edition.

Slate

03-31-2005, 08:24 PM

I prize my Rarest items:

Night Driver (Atari 2600 - BNEW & Shrinkwrapped!)
Poy Poy (Playstation - R7)
Tank Brigade (Atari 2600 - BNEW! A Used copy is a R7! Sealed & Never opened!)

How rare do you ghuys think my copy of Tank brigade is? I mean, in the condtion that it is in.

DCVision

03-31-2005, 08:58 PM

Tholly... wow... never really seen many O' boxes... nice artwork on them... great collection.

tholly

03-31-2005, 09:06 PM

Tholly... wow... never really seen many O' boxes... nice artwork on them... great collection.

yea, that was one of the huge pluses to the Odyssey 2 collection..they look awesome

i think my favorite is P.T. Barnum's Acrobat

now, gameplay wise, i love Attack of the Timelord

Dr. Morbis

03-31-2005, 11:28 PM

My centerpiece is worthless to all, but priceless to me:

My original NES from Christmas '87 complete with Ghostbusters stickers lining the bottom and my name written on the door with one of those highly toxic 'silver-lining' markers they used to sell back then. The best part is, it works first try - every time, just like the day I got it.

StealthLurker

04-01-2005, 12:09 AM

1. My first famicom and the first 2 games I got for it. My grandmother bought them for me a long time ago and have special meaning to me.

2. Neo Geo AES Metal Slug 1
3. Virtua Fighter 3 50" dedicated cab

Iron Draggon

04-01-2005, 01:29 AM

My PC with a broadband internet connection! Without those two things, I'd never be able to continue all my collecting as I have been for the last 5 years!

swlovinist

04-01-2005, 01:52 AM

It is really hard for me to pick a centerpiece to my collection , but a few I guess would be

a sealed Cheethamen II

My Sega CD collection(one missing then I will have every US game complete)

My Nes Collection(500+boxed titiles), 2 from a US set

Playstation Kiosk with matching neon sign

Just a few to mention, good post

Classicgamesdepot

04-01-2005, 04:50 AM

wow tholly! That pinball machine brings back so many memories, they had one at this theme park by my house called palace park, it would dispense tickets based on your score.. how much did it cost you?

Stark

04-01-2005, 04:53 AM

Just 1 of many "centerpiece" items that I have but this is my favorite.

http://members.aol.com/Patsyesch/PGP

FurinkanianFrood

04-01-2005, 05:47 AM

Bah it doesn't have to be one-of-a-kind to be a centerpiece. All my rare/valuable games just blend in with the rest anyway. Not really centerpieces. If I didn't have the Mario sign I would've gone with something like Taiko Drum Master just because of the box. Or my boxes for NES, SNES, Game Boy/Pocket/SP, N64, and Gamecube, because I have them all together and everybody asks about them. Pretty common stuff, but makes a great display.

Yeah, the stuff tends to blend in. Especially the stuff I have sitting on shelves that doesn't have a title on the side that non-Japnese readers can read.

Most people don't even recognize them as PCE games, let alone rare or valuable games as many are. The quality overwhelms people who know the stuff, the quantity overwhelms everyone else.

Same with the Saturn stuff. To the average person that Saturn D+D collection on the shelf blends in with the other 60 Saturn imports.

There is generally one of two reactions, largely because of the blending:

1. Holy @#$% that's a lot of games/imports.
2. Why do you have so many games? Isn't it a waste of money? Blah, blah....

The second type of people don't usually enter the room though, unless it's someone I'm awfully close to.... then again, in that case they tend to just let it go unsaid.

My PC with a broadband internet connection! Without those two things, I'd never be able to continue all my collecting as I have been for the last 5 years!

Good point!

tholly

04-01-2005, 08:26 AM

Cauterize

04-01-2005, 10:01 AM

what is that thing Stark?

Iron Draggon

04-01-2005, 10:11 AM

My PC with a broadband internet connection! Without those two things, I'd never be able to continue all my collecting as I have been for the last 5 years!

Good point!

LOL Thanks. That was all I could think of that really stands out to me now. All of my really special pieces just blend in with the rest too. I would say that it was my factory sealed MegaDrive Encyclopedia, but I just had to sell it to come up with some extra cash for some more import games, so until I can afford to replace it, I can't claim that as my centerpiece anymore. And all the rest of my stuff is just a bunch of games when you look at it all as a whole. I get the same reactions from people who've seen it. I've yet to meet anyone who knows what it all is and appreciates all the rarities for their value, but most people I meet who've seen it seem to appreciate it as an investment. They know that games aren't cheap, so they figure it must be worth alot.

Gemini-Phoenix

04-01-2005, 10:19 AM

My red PS2. That would be the one thing I am most renowned for and most definately the centrepiece of my collection.

I guess I can also count my sealed copies of Vandal Hearts II, Suikoden I, Paper Mario, and Mario Party II as things which stick out the most.

Oh, and two Steel Battalions also have to be included as well! ;)

If any of these items were stolen and sold in my town or on eBay, then they wouldn't be too hard to track down. 8-)

atomicthumbs

04-01-2005, 07:59 PM

If any of these items were stolen and sold in my town or on eBay, then they wouldn't be too hard to track down. 8-)

That's why it's a good idea to keep records of your serial numbers. I'm not too worried either.

Policenaut

04-01-2005, 08:36 PM

My storage drawer full of SMS games, need just one, Buster Kayo Boxing. I can add as well l the 3 Saturn Panzer games, a complete copy of Chrono Trigger, all WD games for Sega CD, a complete Snatcher for Sega CD, sealed Arc the Lad Coll., and a few others things I don't remeber right now.

buttasuperb

04-01-2005, 09:07 PM

The stick in my sig
My MK2 cab
CPS3 system with all 3 SF3's (Now I need a cab to put it in)

izret101

04-01-2005, 11:13 PM

My MK2 cab

My MK2 cab

My MK2 cab

My MK2 cab

My MK2 cab

My MK2 cab

X_x X_x X_x X_x
I am so jealous!
If i get any arcade cabs (i am sure i will) i would rather own MK ones than anything.
Those would be my most prized possesions.

InsaneDavid

05-14-2005, 06:11 AM

I'd have to say my giant licensed Legend of Zelda wristwatch wall clock...

http://www.classicplastic.info/pics-zeldaclock08.jpg
(I REALLY need to take some new pics, that GameCube thing on the adjacent wall is the display case sized cardboard GameCube poster that Target stores put in the (empty) GameCube case prior to launch so it wouldn't look empty / hide any early arrivial games that were displayed behind it.)

It seems Slate of the DP forums has one of these clocks as well - that makes a grand total of three (including mine) that I've come across. Due to one of the biggest spelling errors in history / some really good luck it cost more to ship the clock then it did to buy it. LOL

rick weis

05-14-2005, 12:18 PM

fully loaded Atari 2600 P O P display unit.

BTW COOL wall clock!!!! 8-)

Rick

atomicthumbs

05-15-2005, 01:13 AM

fully loaded Atari 2600 P O P display unit.

BTW COOL wall clock!!!! 8-)

Rick

Hey, you have a picture?! I would love to see that!

SlayerOfFurbies

05-22-2005, 08:59 PM

Game wise i would say the conserstone of my collection is either Sonic adventure Limited Edition or my Nintendo Gamecube Kiosk demo discs.

Also my nintendo posters are very cool but no one other the SamuraiSmurfette is allowed in my room LOL

Hornet70

05-25-2005, 12:29 AM

Music Machine for the 2600

GLASSJOE

05-26-2005, 06:51 PM

Nes
dragon warrior 3

Intellivision
Diner complete
turbo

Speedy_NES

06-01-2005, 07:40 PM

Personal centerpieces:

Factory sealed Cheetahmen II & factory sealed Myriad 6-in-1 together with a lot of other rare factory sealed games...I don't have them up for display, but whenever I open the drawers and look at them, I remember how little I paid for them all, and feel really good about it ;)

The centerpiece collections of mine that amaze other people are my NES accessories and all of my pirated stuff (especially the NES/Famiclones).

-Speedy

06-03-2005, 12:56 AM

Hitachi Navi GPS HiSaturn
Panzer Dragoon Xbox
Entire Panzer Dragoon soundtrack library
Plush Lagi
Crows: The Battle Action and Blast Wind, just because it took me forever to find them mint/complete.

Sammelhammel

06-05-2005, 10:53 AM

Hard to say. I think I have three centerpieces in my collection, that I would never sell....

Gaia Seed (PSX) complete and mint
Chrono Trigger (SNES) complete and mint
M.A.C.S. (SNES)

Son of Bael

06-12-2005, 03:49 PM

These are the current centrepieces of my collection..
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/son_of_bael/game%20collection/collection12061.jpg
Alien Hominid- Incredible game, the Eurogamer edition is limited to 100 (only received this last week), and is signed by the lead programmer & lead artist. Pretty cool..
The MGS3 has an store exclusive slipcase, and is signed by Hideo Kojima.
The Devil May Cry 2 is the UK promo edition.

A factory sealed Crows: The Battle Action is the centre piece of my Saturn collection, just because it is so hard to find complete.

dj898

06-12-2005, 08:11 PM

pre-production Saturn prototype... :D
and Saturn Dragon's Dream - one of elusive OMRPG...

D-Lite

06-12-2005, 11:48 PM

Probably my complete and all boxed US Turbo Grafx HuCard and CD collection with sealed Magical Chase.

But I'd say my nearing complete english Neo Geo MVS kit collection is probably the thing that has cost me the most anguish.

For a single item though, it's definitely rare hardware that I am most excited about, so either the boxed FM Towns Marty 1 or the boxed Sega version Wondermega that's on it's way.

Jasoco

06-13-2005, 01:57 AM

I'm totally thinking on going on an Alien Hominid search tomorrow. I have put off playing it for too long. Actually, I haven't played much games lately, finally broke out Pikmin 2 again and got to 10,000 Poko's this afternoon. Still haven't beaten Metroid Prime's final boss. But I really want to play AH. The console version.

rarecube

06-13-2005, 03:53 AM

Sentimental Value ...
My centerpiece has to be my ...

My complete Pal mint copy of Donkey Kong Country ...
The first and best.

diskoboy

06-14-2005, 05:41 PM

My Galaga cocktail.

diskoboy

06-14-2005, 05:44 PM

My Galaga cocktail.

Where is the edit button? Oh well.... I forgot. My japanese copy of Shenmue 2 for the Dreamcast.

indianatigre

06-15-2005, 01:18 PM

Only two complete colecovision games from Bit Corp:
1) Tank Wars
2) Meteoric Shower

sharp

06-15-2005, 07:30 PM

I'm currently thinking about some of which I consider centerpieces, to use the $ for other are games. They are Worl Heroes Perfect MVS kit (Very hard to find last one on ebay went over 400$ years ago and didn't saw one after), Viewpoint MVS kit and Stack Up, complete Pal/Euro version.

For the rest I have a nice NGP(C) Collection and other center pieces are Daze Before Christams for the Megadrive and Syndicate for the Mega-CD.

Other items I can't think of at the moment.