View Full Version : Check out this dude's "Mario" collection
NE146
07-13-2006, 04:13 PM
Holy cow :P
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/157
milhouseOFpain
07-13-2006, 04:29 PM
its times like this when i realize that i am not really that big of a dork after all... yet i am still jealous.
amazing :eek 2:
Predatorxs
07-13-2006, 04:46 PM
That is amazing, how much must he have spent on all those mario's! thats crazy, but still amazing!..
On a silly note, it would be easy for some kid or a friend to steal a mario out of his collection and he'd never notice.. LOL
ice1605
07-13-2006, 05:31 PM
Whoa! This is really cool! Too bad that that person has to sell some of his collection... of course, maybe I can by some of his Marios!
tynstar
07-13-2006, 05:56 PM
its times like this when i realize that i am not really that big of a dork after all.
I was thinking the same thing.
GaijinPunch
07-13-2006, 06:48 PM
its times like this when i realize that i am not really that big of a dork after all... yet i am still jealous.
amazing :eek 2:
Well said, young grasshopper.
GaijinPunch
07-13-2006, 06:48 PM
oops... I suck.
evil_genius
07-13-2006, 08:07 PM
HOLY FUCK!!
cyberfluxor
07-13-2006, 08:14 PM
.... Yeah .... That's a little extreme, it's just so many of them. With some things you collect you do things with that entertain you:
Video games - Play
Cars - Drive
Computers - Program and use
But when it comes to dolls, stuffed animals, and all I just don't understand too much the significance of it. Of course they can be valuable but they clutter up so much of your room and walls and do nothing interactive. It is amazing, but very creepy.
Kejoriv
07-13-2006, 08:36 PM
god damn. O_O
his wife is VERY tolerant as are a lot of DP members' significant others
Captain J
07-13-2006, 08:54 PM
that is awesome! i have a pretty huge nintendo collection, but nothing like that!
JerseyDevil65
07-13-2006, 09:06 PM
Is that the guy from 40 Year Old Virgin? LOL
Kejoriv
07-13-2006, 10:28 PM
Is that the guy from 40 Year Old Virgin? LOL
i think a majority of our rooms of doom are like that apartment...
dunkoff
07-14-2006, 07:25 AM
That is...sort of...frightening. Maybe that's what Michael Jackson's bedroom looks like? Keep your kids away... @_@
§ Gideon §
07-14-2006, 10:46 AM
Simply awesome. I've been to the site before, but I didn't realize this fellow had such an impressive collection. I am jealous. Real jealous.
It's also fun watching people illogically scramble for ego compensation!
... but maybe it's something else. Collecting can mess with your mind: There is no end, and that is torture. Collectors cope by setting milestones--making little "ends" for themselves (PS longboxes, NES black boxes, the Tengen releases...) and often holding these goals even higher than personal taste (which goes to show how important peace and order is in a person's world--even more important than desire itself).
I'm not lying: Collecting is serious shit. To an outside observer, it seems like childish self-indulgence--glamorizing and purchasing shiny trinkets with little self-control--but it's actually a ship, searching uncharted waters and constantly springing leaks. It all stems from the collector's paradox: The goal is to reach the end, but you know it can't happen. But that's the goal. It's the raison d'ętre, and you have to believe in the goal, or there's no willpower to go on. So, you keep searching, because your end might be out there somewhere. There might be that day when you set the final piece into your Room of Doom, take a good, hard look, and say: "Done." There are still games out there, though, so the end was made by you. It's no different than the fake milestones you made along the way.
... So you change directions. Move on to something else. You still haven't reached land. Such is life.
Ergo, when a fellow like Brett Martin shows up with a unbelievable assemblage of goods, it's a depressing reality: His voyage has been a long one--far longer than yours--and he still hasn't hit land...
GrayFox
07-14-2006, 01:14 PM
That is...sort of...frightening. Maybe that's what Michael Jackson's bedroom looks like? Keep your kids away... @_@
Collecting Mario merchandise = Pedophile?
Alllllright!
alexkidd2000
07-17-2006, 12:41 AM
I like how he says hes been playing games since the 2600 days. WTF? this guy is 26, which makes him born around 1986.
Guru of Time and Space
07-17-2006, 01:56 AM
I like how he says hes been playing games since the 2600 days. WTF? this guy is 26, which makes him born around 1986.
Hey.
You're really good at math.
-GoTaS
Dr. Morbis
07-17-2006, 01:57 AM
I like how he says hes been playing games since the 2600 days. WTF? this guy is 26, which makes him born around 1986.
Nice math detective! He was born around 1980 if he's 26 now which is just borderline for atari, I guess he could have been playing it from ages 2 to 6.
Gideon, your post was the MOST DEPRESSING THING my OCD/collecting mind has ever read. Then again, maybe it's a positive to know that the journey will never end, since were all enjoying the journey...
Xizer
07-17-2006, 03:16 AM
That is...sort of...frightening. Maybe that's what Michael Jackson's bedroom looks like? Keep your kids away... @_@
Throwing a Michael Jackson joke into everything isn't funny, it's just annoying. Besides, we don't even know he's a pedophile - he behaves differently than societal norms and people assume he's a pedophile. He's been found innocent twice.
That said, since when has collecting Mario = pedophile? You fail. Get out.
alexkidd2000
07-17-2006, 04:20 AM
I like how he says hes been playing games since the 2600 days. WTF? this guy is 26, which makes him born around 1986.
Nice math detective! He was born around 1980 if he's 26 now which is just borderline for atari, I guess he could have been playing it from ages 2 to 6.
Gideon, your post was the MOST DEPRESSING THING my OCD/collecting mind has ever read. Then again, maybe it's a positive to know that the journey will never end, since were all enjoying the journey...
Ok no more posting after smoking some weed.... haha.
FullCircle
07-17-2006, 08:26 AM
This guy's got a website that showed up in the forums previously, and has a thread in buying and selling.
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=86394&highlight=video+museum
§ Gideon §
07-17-2006, 10:56 AM
I like how he says hes been playing games since the 2600 days. WTF? this guy is 26, which makes him born around 1986.
Nice math detective! He was born around 1980 if he's 26 now which is just borderline for atari, I guess he could have been playing it from ages 2 to 6.
Gideon, your post was the MOST DEPRESSING THING my OCD/collecting mind has ever read. Then again, maybe it's a positive to know that the journey will never end, since were all enjoying the journey...
Ok no more posting after smoking some weed.... haha.
Hehe, I swear I'm clean. And I think Dr. Morbis has figured out the point to it all...
Though, I do apologize for the interruption.