Japanese video game complete collections!

[Adol]

I've updated and "classified" my albums...now everything is classified by system :)

I added 100% Complete Palcom MSX LD collection, as well as MSX, X68000, Laseractive collections!

When i'll have time in some months, i'll try to post pictures of all hardware, and 100% complete Famicom Disk system & N64 japanese collections, as well as Atari Lynx Factory Sealed collection!

I do have tons of Japanese computer games, PSOne, PS2, GBA, Saturn, Famicom complete games, but i'm very far to get 100% complete collections on those systems

Enjoy!

http://videogamecollectors.com/gallery/Full-Japanese-MD-32X-Collection

[slip81]

good gravy. just outta curiosity, can you read Japanese?

[Snapple]

Hardcore does not even begin to describe that collection. Nice work, dude.

[Adol]

good gravy. just outta curiosity, can you read Japanese?

Yes,of course :)
Otherwise i wouldn't be so much devoted to japanese video gaming :)

[rob black]

How old are you if you dont mind me asking?

[Adol]

I'm 26,but i managed to get pratically all those collections by age of 20-21.

Why?

[rob black]

I'm 26,but i managed to get pratically all those collections by age of 20-21.

Why?



Just asking. Thats freaking impressive


I was picturing you has a 40+ year old with loads of $$$


Awesom man.

[Adol]

Lol,sorry i'm not what you thought :)

[Japan-Games.com]

That's just absolutely amazing. I've sold thousands and thousands of games of the years but I still wouldn't be able to match that collection.

How did you do it?

[MarioMania]

Nice man..

Did you get my PM about 2 games

[Adol]

Nice man..

Did you get my PM about 2 games

Yes I got your PM,and i'll answer it

[Adol]

That's just absolutely amazing. I've sold thousands and thousands of games of the years but I still wouldn't be able to match that collection.

How did you do it?


Well just years of collecting (mainly between 1997&2001),and try to achieve my "goals",which were having all games on 1 system...then i tried to do the same on other systems,and i managed

I'll try to post pics of my Lynx (Factory Sealed),SMS,N64,Famicom Disk System 100% complete collections later..

unlike you i'm not a shop,and i mainly deal with games,not hardware..(although i have very rare pieces of hardware,this is not my priority,unlike you)

So i have about every system in existence in japan,but not in "all variations" (like Saturn,i have Saturn,White Saturn,Skeleton Saturn,but i do not have all V Saturn,Hi Saturn,etc..)

As an example, I had Blue STARS dreamcast,but i sold it because it hink it's too much money for 1 piece of hardware..i prefered to buy 200 SFC games instead! :)

oo,i sold my Neo Geo 100% Complete Japanese Home Cart collection back in 2002,because of financial problems...same goes with complete in box Game&Watch collection
That was too much money for what the place they had in my heart

But i'll probably never part with my SFC,PC Engine,MD/MCD/32X,SMS collections :)

[evil_genius]

Don't take this the wrong way, but you make me sick.

[Adol]

Lol,why?

[jajaja]

Damn.. again you impress me alot! :) I have never seen anyone with so much complete japanese stuff before.

[poloplayr]

Here Adol goes again and making me jealous :)

As impressive as always....

[Sammelhammel]

Very impressive Adol. Respect.

But I have one question: Why do you collect japanese games??....I think that's way too easy. You just need enough money.

Try it with PAL (french) or US-versions (sealed)....I think that would be much much much harder.....or impossible. And that's what collecting games is all about.

[jajaja]

Very impressive Adol. Respect.

But I have one question: Why do you collect japanese games??....I think that's way too easy. You just need enough money.

Try it with PAL (french) or US-versions (sealed)....I think that would be much much much harder.....or impossible. And that's what collecting games is all about.

Well.. how easy is it to come up with enough money? That can be a real challenge itself. Adol, if you dont mind me asking, how do you get all the money? And i strongly disagree that collecting is all about getting stuff that "impossible" to get. Collecting is all about collecting the stuff you want, nothing else.

[Adol]

Well.. how easy is it to come up with enough money? That can be a real challenge itself. Adol, if you dont mind me asking, how do you get all the money? And i strongly disagree that collecting is all about getting stuff that "impossible" to get. Collecting is all about collecting the stuff you want, nothing else.


I didn't need THAT much money,since i bought stuff at the good time.
And i sold at the good time

As an example,i bought 40 1941 Supergrafx BRAND NEW for $8 each in 1997 in France,and i sold them like $100 each ( even now,that'd be a good price)

Which allowed me to buy rare JPN MD games like WWF Raw for 12000 Yens ( when it is now 80000)

Radiant Silvergun was bought for $50 brand new when it was out...

I remember putting my Dracula New Classic Audio CD back in 1999 on Ebay,and it got sold for $1500! $1500 for an audio CD..I gladly sold it,and bought it again 1 month later for $200...i never forced anyone to bid that much.

I sold my neogeo cartridge complete collection for about $30000 back in 2002,at that time the prices were at their peak. ($800-900 for Twinkle Star Sprites,Blazing star, $1100 for Chibi Maruko Chan,etc..)

It is just a thing of "buying&selling at the right time"..i'm not "rich", neither my parents, i'm not old (26 now),

[Adol]

Very impressive Adol. Respect.

But I have one question: Why do you collect japanese games??....I think that's way too easy. You just need enough money.

Try it with PAL (french) or US-versions (sealed)....I think that would be much much much harder.....or impossible. And that's what collecting games is all about.

Personally,i think exactly the opposite:it is way too easy to collect PAL stuff when you're located in Europe..too easy! You just had to buy the games in STORES,when getting a rare SFC game was hard to find, back in 1996 in France!

The only PAL complete collection i have is Sega Master System, since i loved
it in my childhood,way more than the NES.

It is way harder to have good,mint&complete (or even factory sealed) japanese stuff,when you didn't go to japan for 8 years now.

I had most of those games when internet wasn' t really "functionnal", when it wasn't "that" easy to get rare japanese games.
Time when a Sailor Moon Another Story SFC sold easily for $100+.

About the money, I could say the same about US Factory sealed games (i do have some,and rare ones),or PAL games:you just need the money,and buy them on Ebay...there was even 3 Gold Nintendo World Championship carts those months...when you didn't see 1 PC Engine Modem for sale in years.

I lost many auctions for games i'd love to get, just because it's too rich for my blood....but that's the "game" of auctions!

When it was too easy,like for Jaguar or Neo-Geo CD,or Dreamcast, i brought myself into a bigger challenge: getting them factory sealed.
And it is not THAT easy to find a Factory Sealed Metal Slug,Brikinger,Ninja Masters...same goes for some Jaguar & DC games..

I think having 20-21 japanese complete collections is MUCH harder than anything i've seen before.

Ppl are proud to get one,like all NES complete in box games,when i do have TWENTY complete collections (ok some like PC-FX or Virtual Boy are easy)
That's only 20 times harder!

Try to get them,and maybe you'll understand..just try to get complete SFC collection for starter...that's only 1450 games to find,complete in box of course.

[Sammelhammel]

Ok when you are not going to Japan to buy those games it's difficult....you are right.

But I think it's easier to collecting jap-stuff, cause

1. there are thousand of shops in Japan who have a lot of games there...sealed. Where are those shops here in europe (specially in Germany where I come from)???

2. jap-stuff is all around the world....don't know an American who's collecting PAL-games.

3. The "collecting-scene" in Japan is much much bigger than in europe...otherwise there are bigger quantities.

Never saw a sealed FF VII (PAL) in ebay for example....and I'm looking for about two years EVERY day. And I can write you many games down which I never saw in ebay with a factory sealed condition.

Sorry, but in this time collecting PAL-games or getting PAL games sealed is much harder than getting jap-games.
Ok if you buy every game when they were released than you are right.

That's my opinion...

[Adol]

Ok when you are not going to Japan to buy those games it's difficult....you are right.

But I think it's easier to collecting jap-stuff, cause

1. there are thousand of shops in Japan who have a lot of games there...sealed.

2. jap-stuff is all around the world....don't know an American who's collecting PAL-games.

3. The "collecting-scene" in Japan is much much bigger than in europe...otherwise there are bigger quantities.

Never saw a sealed FF VII (PAL) in ebay for example....and I'm looking for about two years EVERY day. And I can write you many games down which I never saw in ebay with a factory sealed condition.

Sorry, but in this time collecting PAL-games or getting PAL games sealed is much harder than getting jap-games.
Ok if you buy every game when they were released than you are right.

That's my opinion...

1. That argument doesn't stand if you havent' been in Japan
I've been there in 1999,never since.

2.I'm an European.I don't know an European collector who doesn't collect PAL games.it is SO easy for us.

3.I agree in "general",but there are rare japanese games that are RARER than any rare occidental game.

I saw plenty of PAL French Factory Sealed FF VII on Ebay.
But i guess you're looking for PAL UK one.

And getting 600 or so PAL SNES games is easier than getting 1500 japanese ones.
Just because that's 2.5 times bigger

Then imagine 20 complete collections

I don't want to "deny" the fact getting PAL games in good condition is hard,no, but saying it is harder than getting complete japanese collections is just wrong.It is at least AS hard as PAL ones.

And if we're talking about PC Engine for example,there was NO PAL collection to make.

I don't collect japanese games because it is "harder" (for me) or "easier" (for you),i collect them because i love them and i grew up with them.
The only PAL games i grew up with was SMS games,and that's why i collected PAL SMS games.

Otherwise,since i'm 10,i'm into import market.SFC,MD,PC Engine from 1990.

That's why i collect such things

And my "devotion" to those systems is big,so big i tried to get every single game made for them.

Except Saturn for example, i have all games ever made for Sega systems since Mark III Market (all Mark III,MD,Mega CD,32X,Game Gear,Dreamcast games)..I'm 450 saturn titles, but i'm not considering finding and buying ( becaus money IS an issue of course) the remaining 750 titles,all complete. Even if i dream of it,that is just too much money for my blood.

I'm glad i managed to get all games ever made for Nec systems (PC Engine Hucard,CD,SCD,ACD,Supergrafx,PC-FX), and i'd love to do the same for Nintendo systems, but that's just too hard...maybe if i don't consider handhelds
(I'm have all FDS,VB,N64,DD64 and i'm going to have all SFC&Gamecube games, then remains Famicom which is "just" 1200 titles!!! And it is hard to find complete in box Famicom games those days)...

The hardest complete collection to me, is JPN Gameboy..it'd be a PAIN in the ass to find them complete in box,since only 5-10% of those games remains complete on the market...you always find loose games for that system.
And there is like 2000 games.

[jajaja]

What i like about japenese games is that they are usualy (after my experience) in good/great condition. PAL games, like NES and SNES, is very hard to find in great condition. Everytime there is some small damage on the box or scratches on the label etc. Seems like the japanese takes more care of their stuff, which is good.

[Adol]

What i like about japenese games is that they are usualy (after my experience) in good/great condition. PAL games, like NES and SNES, is very hard to find in great condition. Everytime there is some small damage on the box or scratches on the label etc. Seems like the japanese takes more care of their stuff, which is good.

I fully agree here,but if you wanted to get very good or NEW condition PAL games,you had the opportunity to do so by BUYING them at that time,in STORES

It was extremely easy.

Now, 10 or more years later, i agree finding JPN games in good condition is easier than PAL ones...US&Europeans players don't care about condition like JPN ones do.

But you DO stil find them,and here again,it is only a question of money.
When i collected 10 years ago,Internet wasn't there, and it was not only a question of money:some games just NEVER appeared.

All late MD JPN releases (Acclaim) just were NEVER imported in France. Nobody cared.

In 1996, Neo Geo imports like Pulstar,Big Tournament Golf,Gowkaizer,Waku Waku 7,Super Side Kicks 4 were NEVER imported.

PS: The difficulty to find "sealed" PAL or JPN games doesn't occur here, since Sega video games were NOT sealed until Sega Saturn, and Nintendo ones only in 2001 with Gamecube in Japan!
So you can never know for SURE they are BRAND NEW or not touched even once.

But finding factory sealed games is "another" challenge, and not always very challenging depending of people ( i understand fully ppl collecting those,but i understand too gamers who find it ridiculous).

[jajaja]

I fully agree here,but if you wanted to get very good or NEW condition PAL games,you had the opportunity to do so by BUYING them at that time,in STORES.

True, but back then i didnt collect :( I didnt think about the condition of the games either. I only have 1 complete NES game left that i bought in 1992/1993, which is Maniac Mansion :) I wish i bought up tons of Lion King, Aladdin and Flintstones 2 copies when they were new. I need a time machine! hehe.

[Adol]

True, but back then i didnt collect :( I didnt think about the condition of the games either. I only have 1 complete NES game left that i bought in 1992/1993, which is Maniac Mansion :) I wish i bought up tons of Lion King, Aladdin and Flintstones 2 copies when they were new. I need a time machine! hehe.

I'd buy all those Kizuna Encounter Neo Geo Carts,and would NOT sell the 3 i had!

Same goes for my 3 Ultimate 11.

[Sammelhammel]

@Adol

I'm talking about factory sealed games. That it is easy to get PAL games in a good or very good condition that's logical.

And I'm not talking about you, more about the whole situation.

How often do I see rare jap-systems (Coca-Cola PSP, Pepsi-DS, Donkey Kong-GBA, Saturn Hitachi...etc.) in ebay or in forums like this? How often did I see sealed Radiant Silverguns or sealed Sapphires (not the illegal copies).
Also your sealed Brikinger or Metal Slug is "easy" to get.

But it's crazy that I, as a European, never see such "stupid" sealed PS-games like FF VII, Legend of dragoon, Kula World, Bubble Bobble.....etc.
Don't know how it is in France, but in Germany it's difficult (impossible) to get those games. We have no shops here selling new and sealed retro-games like in Japan. Do you have those shops in France?
And trust me....I know what I'm talking about. I'm not just only looking to ebay or collecting games since yesterday.

That's why I'm thinking it's easier to get a sealed jap. DC-collection as a pal DC-collection. But please don't think I will decry your collection. It's really incredible.
I think I'm talking about it, cause I NEVER saw a sealed PAL-DC-Collection (or PS or Mega-Cd etc.)....every time I only see sealed jap-collections. It's funny.

Maybe some other collector's from Europe (AtariBuff????) can post their opinion and point of view.

And don't feel attacked from me... ;)

[Adol]

@Adol

I'm talking about factory sealed games. That it is easy to get PAL games in a good or very good condition that's logical.

And I'm not talking about you, more about the whole situation.

How often do I see rare jap-systems (Coca-Cola PSP, Pepsi-DS, Donkey Kong-GBA, Saturn Hitachi...etc.) in ebay or in forums like this? How often did I see sealed Radiant Silverguns or sealed Sapphires (not the illegal copies).
Also your sealed Brikinger or Metal Slug is "easy" to get.

But it's crazy that I, as a European, never see such "stupid" sealed PS-games like FF VII, Legend of dragoon, Kula World, Bubble Bobble.....etc.
Don't know how it is in France, but in Germany it's difficult (impossible) to get those games. We have no shops here selling new and sealed retro-games like in Japan. Do you have those shops in France?
And trust me....I know what I'm talking about. I'm not just only looking to ebay or collecting games since yesterday.

That's why I'm thinking it's easier to get a sealed jap. DC-collection as a pal DC-collection. But please don't think I will decry your collection. It's really incredible.
I think I'm talking about it, cause I NEVER saw a sealed PAL-DC-Collection (or PS or Mega-Cd etc.)....every time I only see sealed jap-collections. It's funny.

Maybe some other collector's from Europe (AtariBuff????) can post their opinion and point of view.

And don't feel attacked from me... ;)


Yes,there are PLENTY of shops in France selling retro games,for more than 15 years now
and some of them sell factory sealed ones,if they manage to find some
But now that Ebay exists,it is WAY easier to find them...
But talking about Factory sealed games, it is a SMALL minority of collecting video games.
Not everybody interested in video games is interested into collecting FACTORY SEALED ones.

About rare games,let's talk about my Power League Gold Hucard..how many times do you see it on Yahoo,or Ebay,etc..?1 every 2 years?

What about Darius Alpha, did you see it for sale with special letter AND glasses AND bubblewrapped nec avenue envelope?

What about Tsushin Booster for PC Engine?

What about my Aiwa CSD-GM1 complete in box?
the very first one to appear on Yahoo for 5 years was sold 10 days ago, and appeared immediately on ebay for $1200 (and i'm trying to sell mine for that kind of price because i consider it is a lot of money for it)?

and so on...all of those are way harder to get than PAL stuff...

I agree with your PAL Factory Sealed collection idea, i think that's maybe ppl here didn't even THOUGHT you buy a game for not opening it.
I think getting 1 relative PAL DC Factory sealed game could be harder than a relative factory sealed japanese one (but that's relative because there is 5 times less games in PAL collection!!)

But getting TWENTY complete collections, how hard is that?
and at the SAME time,not 1 after another..

[Japan-Games.com]

It still just seems impossible. Not that I doubt you, but in my mind I just can't imagine how that could happen. I mean you had every Neo Geo AES game by 2002? I mean just the sheer time of doing it 1) in the US and 2) before you were 22 and 3) before Yahoo & eBay from Japan were really widespread. You had 3 Kizuna Encounter carts? Did you buy them brand new when they came out? Same with Metal Slug? How could you have even found every single title during that time period before eBay?

I guess you could say I'm curious about the logistics heh. I know if I had $10,000,000 dollars I could do it, but starting with nothing and little money and having multiple copies of very rare titles is hard to imagine.

Even over 10 years you'd still have to average multiple purchases every day of brand new games. You couldn't just keep buying more and more games with limited funds so you'd have to buy and sell and buy again, then one day stop when you had a title you wanted. But how could you be consistently selling and buying to raise money to purchase again? And you still ended up with multiple copies of some rare items?

You couldn't have just bought every game new when it came out, obviously. But you wouldn't know what the rare titles would be until after some time, so obviously you'd be paying more for those by then. At some point to get the new item you have to pay more than anyone else, unless you just happened to luck into a few rare titles are really cheap prices. Quite a few times.

If you buy a game for $100, you're cash goes down by $100. If you're now done with that title than that $100 is gone and can't be used to purchase the next game. Every title you now own represents money that you invested that never came back in the form of cash. But cash is what you'd need just to keep the pyramid going. So you'd have to overcome that $100 loss on another deal just to get your cash back to even, then go up from there.

hehe...sorry....I wasn't expecting to do this. And I really am curious as to how you overcame the finances while still buying that many games that fast. I don't doubt you, but it's like a magic trick, and I'm trying to figure out how it works.

[Adol]

It still just seems impossible. Not that I doubt you, but in my mind I just can't imagine how that could happen. I mean you had every Neo Geo AES game by 2002? I mean just the sheer time of doing it 1) in the US and 2) before you were 22 and 3) before Yahoo & eBay from Japan were really widespread. You had 3 Kizuna Encounter carts? Did you buy them brand new when they came out? Same with Metal Slug? How could you have even found every single title during that time period before eBay?

I guess you could say I'm curious about the logistics heh. I know if I had $10,000,000 dollars I could do it, but starting with nothing and little money and having multiple copies of very rare titles is hard to imagine.

Even over 10 years you'd still have to average multiple purchases every day of brand new games. You couldn't just keep buying more and more games with limited funds so you'd have to buy and sell and buy again, then one day stop when you had a title you wanted. But how could you be consistently selling and buying to raise money to purchase again? And you still ended up with multiple copies of some rare items?

You couldn't have just bought every game new when it came out, obviously. But you wouldn't know what the rare titles would be until after some time, so obviously you'd be paying more for those by then. At some point to get the new item you have to pay more than anyone else, unless you just happened to luck into a few rare titles are really cheap prices. Quite a few times.

If you buy a game for $100, you're cash goes down by $100. If you're now done with that title than that $100 is gone and can't be used to purchase the next game. Every title you now own represents money that you invested that never came back in the form of cash. But cash is what you'd need just to keep the pyramid going. So you'd have to overcome that $100 loss on another deal just to get your cash back to even, then go up from there.

hehe...sorry....I wasn't expecting to do this. And I really am curious as to how you overcame the finances while still buying that many games that fast. I don't doubt you, but it's like a magic trick, and I'm trying to figure out how it works.

Well,just ask Shawn McCleskey,owner of www.neo-geo.com, from WHO he got Kizuna Encounter AND Ultimate 11,back in 2000!
Ask him,and he'll answer me.Because he still has both of them,and never managed ot get other copies after that.
I know another american person who still owns Ultimate 11 & Kizuna Encounter FROM me,back in 1999.That makes 4 out of the 6 games,i know where they are.

And since i'm born in 1980,yes i was 19.

Ebay was "widespread" in 1997,i'm on Ebay since 1997
I'm on Yahoo JPN from 1999 and at THAT time,it wasn't really known.

I never bought those Neo Geo games brand new when they came out,i bought them on Internet, by newsgroup or mailing list ads,from German guys.

I'm not in the US,i'm in France.

I didn't have multiple copies of Metal Slug,no,and i got 3 Kizuna Encounter & 3 Ultimate 11 carts separately, 1 at a time (although i remember having 1 KE & 1 U11 simultaneously)

I had complete collection of neo geo cartridge by 1999 yes,and i bought every new game coming out from 1999 to end of 2001 (Kof 2001 being the last one)..but really VERY FEW titles were coming out at that time
and i decided to sell everything 5 years ago,on first months of 2002.
This was the complete JAPANESE collection.

I started with nothing,since i was 15 years old,and i bought&sold a lot of things,in order to acquire the games i wanted for my collection...that is what we call business,isn't it?

I bought all my games USED of course,i couldn't buy them at retail price when they came out,i couldn't afford that.

I didn't care what the "rare titles" were,since my goal at that time was to GET THEM ALL.Then,obviously, i got the rare games in the process.And the crappy ones...

Generally i bought stuff for $200,and i sold a part of it for $200 or slightly more,and then i WON many games at once..

I bought games bundles,like 80 MD Games,and for the price i paid it,i sold the 20 most asked/valuable ones.
Then i won 60 games, plain and simple.

what is so hard to understand here?

The "magic trick" was that 1997-2001 period was VERY wealthy,and you could sell games with a LOT of profit.
Now Japanese people (or foreigners based in Japan,like you) sell directly to US/European customers, companies allow you to bid on Yahoo auctions when at that time only ppl (like me) with japanese knowledge were able to bid and win them...

then import game prices COLLAPSED literally...and profit wasn't possible anymore!
Do you realize i sold a Audio CD for $1500 at that time?
Somebody paid me $450 for a Panzer Dragoon Mini,and so on..
But i made some mistakes,likeselling those Kizuna&U11 carts
By now those 6 carts would value around $60000!
And i didn't even got $5000 of them!
I lost $55000!

[lordnikon]

Adol is someone who is obviously focused. He was focused at a younger age and was on the ball. He had connections and knew where to look for the right games. The story behind his collection is quite interesting, but I don't think its an impossible scenario.

This past September I was able walk out of a CompUSA with over 50 games, and I paid only about 200 bucks for them. I even scored a sealed MGS2 Sons of Liberty NON-greatest hits, for $1.68!!! The store was liquidating everything.

You just have to know what you are doing, and be at the right place at the right time.

[jajaja]

You just have to know what you are doing, and be at the right place at the right time.

Yep, but that is not as easy at it sounds :( You have to be updated and well informed (i would call it skills) + you need a dash of luck :)

[Ed Oscuro]

I have a question! Have you heard of Lucky Shot (X68000)? I am trying to figure out what sort of game it is.

[Adol]

I don't know this X68000 game,sorry :(

[DreamTR]

It's all relative, If you buy/sell anything, you can acquire what you need monetary wise, as it is a second income.

Adol is right, though. I would even see his Yahoo Account bidding on these Japanese items when I was searching through Yahoo Japan back from 1999-2001. I made a bit of money buying Dracula X games on Yahoo Japan, and selling them here. Selling US games not released here for NES and Virtual Boy over there. Things like that.

One thing of note, of those "20" collections, things such as N64 DD and Virtual Boy have a small number of games, but the value of a few of those titles is high.

I agree with Japanese Game Boy being nearly impossible to get, but think of it this way, there are TONS of collectors in Japan that we are unaware of, I am sure of it. I am not sure it could be a language barrier, but I am certain there are crazy collectors out there that have tons of games buried away somewhere, but are unbeknownst to us.

Some Japanese items are tough to get in some aspects, BUT think of this Adol, you don't know how hard it is to collect for American systems because you have not tried to collect for most of the bigger US systems. NES is easy to obtain IMO, there are only a few tougher titles out there worth big $$$. Complete and boxed NES is a bit tougher, as Stadium Events is a $$$$ box, and Myriad (unlicensed) is close to it.

No one has completed Game Boy yet to my knowledge. I believe I am the closest with complete/boxed GBC, nearly all of GBA (only missing new releases), and missing only 1 original Game Boy box in the US.

No one has completed Atari 2600 BOXED as far as I know. I don't plan on it, I wanted to get within 4-5 titles, and I am VERY close to doing this, but because there are blatant stupid things such as PAL Mangia boxed as an NTSC version where only 1 exists, as well as the BOMB games, there are too many games that are "suspect", and some that are nearly impossible to find boxes for (Music Machine, Malagai) and some that are impossible to find period (Gauntlet loose).

I am sure there are others that have completed Mega Drive, Mark III, Laseractive, N64, etc. The most impressive is Super Famicom (do you have all the Japanese games now?) because of the sheer number and fact it is a vaunted Nintendo system. I think complete PC Engine would be diffiuclt to get as well.

In any event, it is impressive not only that Adol has accomplished this, but he did it just by buying/selling.

Same goes on my end. I don't make a ton of money at my job, so I have to depend on buying/selling/trading in order to obtain the items I have trhese days.

[Japan-Games.com]

Being on YJ from 99-01 must have been nice. ;)

Like I said I believe you. I'm just saying to get that many games in such a short amount of time seems almost impossible, especailly if you also need to be selling games just to get money to buy the next ones. I figured you were buying games for $200, taking what you wanted, then reselling the rest for $200, but you'd have to do that hundreds of times. Was there really that much product on YJ back then? When did you leave Japan?

[Adol]

It's all relative, If you buy/sell anything, you can acquire what you need monetary wise, as it is a second income.

Adol is right, though. I would even see his Yahoo Account bidding on these Japanese items when I was searching through Yahoo Japan back from 1999-2001. I made a bit of money buying Dracula X games on Yahoo Japan, and selling them here. Selling US games not released here for NES and Virtual Boy over there. Things like that.

One thing of note, of those "20" collections, things such as N64 DD and Virtual Boy have a small number of games, but the value of a few of those titles is high.

I agree with Japanese Game Boy being nearly impossible to get, but think of it this way, there are TONS of collectors in Japan that we are unaware of, I am sure of it. I am not sure it could be a language barrier, but I am certain there are crazy collectors out there that have tons of games buried away somewhere, but are unbeknownst to us.

Some Japanese items are tough to get in some aspects, BUT think of this Adol, you don't know how hard it is to collect for American systems because you have not tried to collect for most of the bigger US systems. NES is easy to obtain IMO, there are only a few tougher titles out there worth big $$$. Complete and boxed NES is a bit tougher, as Stadium Events is a $$$$ box, and Myriad (unlicensed) is close to it.

No one has completed Game Boy yet to my knowledge. I believe I am the closest with complete/boxed GBC, nearly all of GBA (only missing new releases), and missing only 1 original Game Boy box in the US.

No one has completed Atari 2600 BOXED as far as I know. I don't plan on it, I wanted to get within 4-5 titles, and I am VERY close to doing this, but because there are blatant stupid things such as PAL Mangia boxed as an NTSC version where only 1 exists, as well as the BOMB games, there are too many games that are "suspect", and some that are nearly impossible to find boxes for (Music Machine, Malagai) and some that are impossible to find period (Gauntlet loose).

I am sure there are others that have completed Mega Drive, Mark III, Laseractive, N64, etc. The most impressive is Super Famicom (do you have all the Japanese games now?) because of the sheer number and fact it is a vaunted Nintendo system. I think complete PC Engine would be diffiuclt to get as well.

In any event, it is impressive not only that Adol has accomplished this, but he did it just by buying/selling.

Same goes on my end. I don't make a ton of money at my job, so I have to depend on buying/selling/trading in order to obtain the items I have trhese days.


I'm actually dealing a lot of Factory Sealed NES US Games,i know what you're talking about.
But i can't be "everywhere"so i focus on what i LOVE and LIKE,not what "could be considered the hardest"

That's what i did back at the time on YJ yes,i sold,my old userid was ADOLFRANCE,and japanese people didn't like AT all at that time that i was winning all auctions,they told me that ui was "stealing japanese patrimony"

LOL,i was just offering more money than them to japanese sellers,they should just be happy to get more money from foreigners,but since i was 1 of the first "gaijin" to do so,they were pissed off

There was even a website coalition against me :)

[Ed Oscuro]

I don't know this X68000 game,sorry :(
Alright, thanks though!

[ianoid]

I can see why Japan-Games is questioning this.

We must underestimate the value of being one of few liasons between collector cultures in the East vs. the West.

I can say that you have to have a certain amount of money to do this. Working capitol as it were, just to maintain storage and living expenses. Large house- alot of space. Living at home would save alot of money. You probably can't have a family (at least at a few years back) and a full time job to spend so much time buying and selling.

Prices on most items have dropped in the last few years. Which makes me even more baffled as to how one could complete a Neo Geo collection in 2001- while completed a few other collections. Getting a complete collection, optimisitically had to cost $20k, perhaps more. OK, so you spent alot of money on that, but then you spent the same on SFC, PCE, etc?

No matter, congratulations on your collection. Quite a unique accomplishment, and I'm sure a product of sheer obsession. I do the completist thing, but perhaps I don't have the time, money, or resources to have such unique complete collections.

Oh yeah, one final comment. I suspect that France is (or was) a video game goldmine. They have alot of unique systems, alot of importing, and the best stuff coming massively in from Europe and Japan. Some of the guys I know from France come up with the weirdest and wildest stuff, and are more resourceful than anyone I know in the world with respect to video game collecting. Color me jealous!

[Karellen]

@Adol

Also your sealed Brikinger or Metal Slug is "easy" to get.

But it's crazy that I, as a European, never see such "stupid" sealed PS-games like FF VII, Legend of dragoon, Kula World, Bubble Bobble.....etc.
Don't know how it is in France, but in Germany it's difficult (impossible) to get those games. We have no shops here selling new and sealed retro-games like in Japan. Do you have those shops in France?
And trust me....I know what I'm talking about. I'm not just only looking to ebay or collecting games since yesterday.

That's why I'm thinking it's easier to get a sealed jap. DC-collection as a pal DC-collection. But please don't think I will decry your collection. It's really incredible.
I think I'm talking about it, cause I NEVER saw a sealed PAL-DC-Collection (or PS or Mega-Cd etc.)....every time I only see sealed jap-collections. It's funny.

And don't feel attacked from me... ;)

Actually it's not true for the DC pal collection.There are some people who have the european factory sealed fullset.Ask to Cyberguile for example he's currently trying to get it and it seems he's doing it quite quickly.After all there was only 217 games on pal DC and a lot of shops have sold their stock at the end of the system mostly during sales...And even the games like Rez or Samba de amigo.So it was not difficult to buy them for cheap price at this time.And today you can always see a lot of pal DC factory sealed game on Ebay or Priceminister(a french website).Recently,with the bankruptcy of Acclaim there was a ton of new european DC games to sale...Definitively I don't think it's a very difficult set to complete and it's not a all at the same level of difficulty of a neogeo CD set FS ;)
And I also saw way more FF7 pal sealed than Brikinger or Sapphire sealed...I don't know which is the situation in Germany (I'm French)but on French forums or even in ebay you can see a lot of PS1 pal FS games.

Nevertheless I agree with the fact that today(and only today not in the 1995-2000 period),for example,getting a SNIN pal fullset is more difficult than the SFC fullset,because it's easier to find complete SFC games.

[cyberfluxor]

Dude, that's just amazing. There aren't a lot of words that can express what you have there. Good luck in continuing to collect for those other systems! As for the sealed collections, ever have the urge to bust one open and play or do you have opened duplicates to play?


BTW: poloplayr, you currently have 666 posts. ;)

[Ed Oscuro]

I'm actually dealing a lot of Factory Sealed NES US Games,i know what you're talking about.
But i can't be "everywhere"so i focus on what i LOVE and LIKE,not what "could be considered the hardest"

That's what i did back at the time on YJ yes,i sold,my old userid was ADOLFRANCE,and japanese people didn't like AT all at that time that i was winning all auctions,they told me that ui was "stealing japanese patrimony"

LOL,i was just offering more money than them to japanese sellers,they should just be happy to get more money from foreigners,but since i was 1 of the first "gaijin" to do so,they were pissed off

There was even a website coalition against me :)
Wow, that's pretty insane. It doesn't really surprise me though. I guess those folks weren't really fans of fair trade after all (nobody is when it hurts their business) :p

[Adol]

Well, getting a 100% complete SFC collection is a massive financial effort.
I refuse to pay 4000 yens for a shitty shogi game, but i have to!
still 150 titles to go and it'll end ;)

[ave]

Do you still shop at yahoo? Or is your current source cheap&secret? ^-^
I'd like to buy stuff in Japan via yahoo, but I think it would come pretty expensive with service fees, 2x shipping and so on.

PS: I've been watching your collection for a your or so now, its an absolutely awesome collection, there's nothing more to say I think! Never seen somebody owning that much games which I'd like to own -> jpn ones! :)

[Lozza]

@SAMMELHAMMEL

The reason it's almost impossible to find factory sealed PAL games is because of the way that most game shops in Europe take the CD's/cartrige out of the case and use them as display, when you buy a game in Europe ESPECIALLY the UK you take the case up to the till and the man PUTS the disc in it, therefor even NEW games are not factory sealed ;)

US & Japan is very different and they don't use that method!

[Sammelhammel]

@SAMMELHAMMEL

The reason it's almost impossible to find factory sealed PAL games is because of the way that most game shops in Europe take the CD's/cartrige out of the case and use them as display, when you buy a game in Europe ESPECIALLY the UK you take the case up to the till and the man PUTS the disc in it, therefor even NEW games are not factory sealed ;)

US & Japan is very different and they don't use that method!

You are right...so IT IS harder to find sealed PS-games. Thanks for agreeing.

@Karellen

Can you show me a link in the future where I can see a pal FF VII or any other (Suikoden, Legend of dragoon, Bubble Bobble, Kula World....)? When you see so much of them on ebay, than it would be easy to show me some of these. But please no Greatest Hits. That would be great :)

[ave]

@Hammel
Those sealed Brikin'gers, Pepsi DS or Coca Cola PSPs... they're all from Nti. And they're all the same. They are not less rare just because nobody wants to pay 300EUR+ for a handheld or a sealed game.

And in the end, in my case, I would NOT collect pal or us games even if they'd really be less often available. Its just all about taste and style (if you have it or not hahah ;)).

[Sammelhammel]

@Hammel
Those sealed Brikin'gers, Pepsi DS or Coca Cola PSPs... they're all from Nti. And they're all the same. They are not less rare just because nobody wants to pay 300EUR+ for a handheld or a sealed game.

And in the end, in my case, I would NOT collect pal or us games even if they'd really be less often available. Its just all about taste and style (if you have it or not hahah ;)).

Didn't know that you know what I see on ebay and what not.

It's funny when you collect the games because they're more stylish and don't know what is the game about nor understand a word ;)

But that it what collecting games is all about. Somebody collects games cause there are colorful and have cute little girls on it (ave), somebody cause they have a nice gameplay and somebody cause they are rare.

The main thing is that we have fun :)

[ave]

Didn't know that you know what I see on ebay and what not.

It's funny when you collect the games because they're more stylish and don't know what is the game about nor understand a word ;)

But that it what collecting games is all about. Somebody collects games cause there are colorful and have cute little girls on it (ave), somebody cause they have a nice gameplay and somebody cause they are rare.


I could get angry now, but I won't waste energy on this. :P

But anyway - as you may know, I don't play RPGs. I mostly play 2D-shooters and arcade- or actiongames. I understand everything I need to know for playing and its fun just as it is.
I don't collect jpn games because of its cute little girls on it but because they look nicer in general. And if theres no barrier in language (as in arcade-games which are my favourites) I don't see a reason to buy ugly US or PAL-versions while also being able to play the better-looking version! :P

And by the way, when did you see a sealed Indo no Honnou or Chrono Trigger (PSX/JP) last for sale? I could ask you that either.

[Sammelhammel]

Please don't use this thread ave....don't want that Adol gets angry, cause this is his thread about his collection....not about your/our collection-habits.

@Adol

Do you want to sell parts of your collection someday? Or do you think you keep this what you have and take it with you into grave?

[Adol]

Please don't use this thread ave....don't want that Adol gets angry, cause this is his thread about his collection....not about your/our collection-habits.

@Adol

Do you want to sell parts of your collection someday? Or do you think you keep this what you have and take it with you into grave?

I could sell some parts yes,when time will come for it! (marriage,raising children,etc.. ;)

[mb7241]

Such collections as yours never fail to impress me, Adol. I only have one single MSX game (and no system), but I think you know where that one came from ;) ... As for the rest of my imports, they are but a small ripple compared to your tsunami of games (I apologize for sounding poetic here...). Purely and simply amazing.

[goemon]

Very impressive collection! I'm jealous and thankful at the same time: jealous of the complete collections you have, and thankful that I don't have to move with a collection that size.

[smork]

I can't see how getting a complete JPN set is any easier than a complete US/PAL set. For most systems you can get pretty much everything through eBay if you have time and patience. Some items are really hard to get for Japanese sets as well -- and I would wager that a US DC set is cheaper per game and easier to aquire than a JPN set. Just because it's possible to find things in stores doesn't necessarily make it easier to get a complete set of anything.

Anyway, Adol, that's an impossibly impressive collection you have! I am way too distracted to ever get even 5% of what you have! Congrats!!!

[lkermel]

Salut Adol !

This is an impressive collection indeed. Congratulations !!!
I also can totally understand how you got there. I also remember picking great games for virtually nothing a decade ago. For instance, back in 1998, UK shops would buy CoreGrafxs for nearly $100 a piece. They only costed $10/$20 back in France !!!. But I am really impressed by what you did, and how you did it. Great stuff !!!

[Adol]

Salut Adol !

This is an impressive collection indeed. Congratulations !!!
I also can totally understand how you got there. I also remember picking great games for virtually nothing a decade ago. For instance, back in 1998, UK shops would buy CoreGrafxs for nearly $100 a piece. They only costed $10/$20 back in France !!!. But I am really impressed by what you did, and how you did it. Great stuff !!!


Thanks a lot, that's very kind of you Laurent! :)

[Iron Draggon]

for those of you wondering how it's done, here's how I amassed my collection:

I started collecting for the Genesis as soon as Sonic became the pack-in... yep, already 3 years behind... I bought all the old releases I could find, while simultaneously keeping up with all the new releases too... I started collecting for the Sega CD & 32X as soon as they came out, and just kept up with all the new releases... I started collecting for the SNES as soon as DKC became the pack-in... yep, already 5 years behind... I only bought what I wanted for it... I started collecting for the Game Gear right before they quit making it... I only bought what I wanted for it too... I started collecting for the 3DO as soon as Gex became the pack-in... I only bought what I wanted for it also... I started collecting for the Jaguar & Jag CD as soon as they came out, and just kept up with all the new releases... I started collecting for the Saturn & PS1 as soon as they came out, and just kept up with all the new releases... I started collecting for the VB as soon as the price of it dropped to $100, and bought all the games that were available for it at the time... it helped alot that I also found the one store in Houston that had Jack Bros... I started collecting for the Dreamcast right before they quit making it, and only bought what I wanted for it... I started collecting for the GBA last year, and I only buy what I want for it... I plan to start collecting for the DS this year...

the hardest part of all of it was coming up with all the money to buy all those games brand new... I typically paid $50-$75 per game... several at a time... I usually spent about $100-$500 every day of the week... and I was able to do it because I worked at least 60 hours per week working the busiest shifts at the busiest bar in Houston... making $100-$500 in tips per shift in addition to my $250-$500 weekly paycheck... and I didn't spend my money on anything else but video games and the absolute bare necessities of life... food, rent, utilities... my monthly expenses for necessities was about $500 per month...

I did all of this while I was in my early 20's... I was only 21 when I started... there was an internet back then, but I wasn't on it... I didn't get my first PC until Roller Coaster Tycoon came out... and it was the only reason why I got one... so all of my buying was done in real local brick and mortar stores... it helped alot that I lived in Houston... I couldn't have done it in a small town...

importing back then was much harder than it is now... my only sources for import games were the ones advertised in gaming magazines and the few local importers who were in business at the time... so needless to say I didn't manage to collect very many imports until I finally got online and into ebay...

so with all of that said, it was far more difficult for an American gamer living in the US to collect any import games for any region than it was to collect all the domestic games for every system... and I'd venture to say that the same applies to everyone else, no matter where you live... anyone can get all the games for all the systems in their home country, but very few can get all the games for all the systems in a foreign country... it's alot easier to do it now, by buying online, but it's still prohibitively expensive... even if you can afford all the games, you still have to be able to afford all the shipping too...

big props to Adol for doing it... I know exactly how hard it is... you have to bust your ass for many years and make alot of sacrifices to make it happen...

it's taken me about 15 years to collect about 1500 games for 15 systems... not that hard to do, if you're willing to buy incomplete used games in poor condition, but very hard to do if you're only willing to buy factory sealed games in mint condition... that's been the most limiting factor in all of my collecting... if it wasn't for that, I would've passed up all of DP years ago...

[StealthLurker]

I must say, I've admired Adol's collection for quite some time. IMHO *THE* best collection I have ever seen *PERIOD*. I have seen that other guy with basement library and the kid running around in the pics, but to me complete japanese collections have more value and effort to attain (but that's just my opinion, take it as that). The only other known contender in my mind would have been shou-sama's old collection, but he was more all over the place and to my knowledge not a "hardcore completist".

I can see the advantage off "getting the early jump" on the import market (YJ-wise) and not having to deal with middleman services, however it still baffles me about completing an import AES collection back then. I was around on the newsgroups (rec.video.marketplace or whatever it was called) back in the mid to late 90s. I scored a good deal on a complete boxed AES + some games for a good price, but it still costed money. I bought as much as I could back then (was a college student on a tight budget), so I couldn't do that much damage. I guess VERY ACTIVE buying and selling would have kept up the cycle of collecting but still seems like quite a feat! I guess you were cashing in on dot-com rich boys with nostalgic gaming needs? lol

There are very few good import shops in my area and if you do see something in a shop it'll probably be super marked up so the only way I can get anything is online. I've been doing 90% of my japanese game/system collecting on yahoo japan via middleman service and it's horrendously expensive. Just the other day I looked at an old invoice.... 2 games, 1 for the equivalent of $5USD and another for $13USD, slap on shipping within japan, fees, fees, fees and it's basically $50 USD out of my pocket. Not even shipping to the USA yet! Then consider a rarer higher priced game and the fees go out the roof. Now multiply that scenario over 1000+ games and tens of systems I've bought within 2 years and some change and that's some hefty dough (at least to me it is). So I can't imagine how much it would cost me to go complete on anything (not that I would even want to try to! LOL). To save some, I try to shoot for bundles to save on fees but after a while when you've been collecting for a bit all the bundles just have crap games and or crap you've got 5 times over. Oh well that's the breaks I guess...

BTW adol, do you have a bank account and or someone in japan to receive your items? ... Since most sellers don't deal internationally. If I could only save on middleman fees, that would almost increase my buying power by double. LOL

Second, are there fairly good jpn import game shops in France? Could be? In addition to games and other things, I also collect japanese toys. Of the japanese toy collectors I've seen some crazy, uber rare, ultra expensive toys in some French collections and they have told me they bought them locally. Is France the "second japan" in terms of all the cool stuff I want? LOL.

Well anyways, BIG PROPS to your AWESOME collection! YOU DA FRIGGIN' MAN... MAH MAN! LOL

.

[Adol]

I must say, I've admired Adol's collection for quite some time. IMHO *THE* best collection I have ever seen *PERIOD*. I have seen that other guy with basement library and the kid running around in the pics, but to me complete japanese collections have more value and effort to attain (but that's just my opinion, take it as that). The only other known contender in my mind would have been shou-sama's old collection, but he was more all over the place and to my knowledge not a "hardcore completist".

I can see the advantage off "getting the early jump" on the import market (YJ-wise) and not having to deal with middleman services, however it still baffles me about completing an import AES collection back then. I was around on the newsgroups (rec.video.marketplace or whatever it was called) back in the mid to late 90s. I scored a good deal on a complete boxed AES + some games for a good price, but it still costed money. I bought as much as I could back then (was a college student on a tight budget), so I couldn't do that much damage. I guess VERY ACTIVE buying and selling would have kept up the cycle of collecting but still seems like quite a feat! I guess you were cashing in on dot-com rich boys with nostalgic gaming needs? lol

There are very few good import shops in my area and if you do see something in a shop it'll probably be super marked up so the only way I can get anything is online. I've been doing 90% of my japanese game/system collecting on yahoo japan via middleman service and it's horrendously expensive. Just the other day I looked at an old invoice.... 2 games, 1 for the equivalent of $5USD and another for $13USD, slap on shipping within japan, fees, fees, fees and it's basically $50 USD out of my pocket. Not even shipping to the USA yet! Then consider a rarer higher priced game and the fees go out the roof. Now multiply that scenario over 1000+ games and tens of systems I've bought within 2 years and some change and that's some hefty dough (at least to me it is). So I can't imagine how much it would cost me to go complete on anything (not that I would even want to try to! LOL). To save some, I try to shoot for bundles to save on fees but after a while when you've been collecting for a bit all the bundles just have crap games and or crap you've got 5 times over. Oh well that's the breaks I guess...

BTW adol, do you have a bank account and or someone in japan to receive your items? ... Since most sellers don't deal internationally. If I could only save on middleman fees, that would almost increase my buying power by double. LOL

Second, are there fairly good jpn import game shops in France? Could be? In addition to games and other things, I also collect japanese toys. Of the japanese toy collectors I've seen some crazy, uber rare, ultra expensive toys in some French collections and they have told me they bought them locally. Is France the "second japan" in terms of all the cool stuff I want? LOL.

Well anyways, BIG PROPS to your AWESOME collection! YOU DA FRIGGIN' MAN... MAH MAN! LOL

.
I do have a friend who receive stuff for me in Japan.
But back in 1999 when i began dealing on YJ, i was sending the money in CASH directly to Japan, and was dealing directly with japanese sellers.
I was one of the first "gaijin" to do so, and japanese buyers hated me because i was winning many auctions instead of them.
So they started telling i'm a scammer, which is basically NON sense, since i always pay first before they send anything..how can they be ripped that way?
And i sent money in JPY CASH (no paypal or secure way at that time)!
They were great deals at that time, in Japan AND in France as well (i remember buying 40 BRAND NEW Factory Sealed 1941 SGX for $7 each)..

I consider France being the MOST prolific European country for japanese imports since 1990...maybe i'm wrong, but i think it's the case.
We had dozens of import shops in Paris from 1990 up to now.
I think that import scene was WAY greater in 1995-2000 than it is now, in France. Maybe i'm wrong.

I sold my entire 100% complete JPN Neo Geo Cart collection in 2002 by www.neo-geo.com online store,you could ask the owner ( Shawn Mc Cleskey),he'd confirm it,and he got his Kizuna Encounter & Ultimate 11 copies from me back in 2000.

I remember buying Chibi Maruko Chan NG Home Cart in Akihabara in 1998 for 6800 Yens!Can you believe it now?
Pulstar was about $130 or so in 1998...nobody gave a damn shit about those "big ugly carts", Neo Geo craziness didn't began at that time yet.

I'll try to make more pics of my collection when i'll have time...more to go, like SMS 100% Complete collection,N64 100% Complete collection, Lynx 95% Complete Factory Sealed collection, Video Game hardware, Audio CDs, Japanese PC games, etc..

And i hope to end this year my SFC collection, because those pics in my albums show 900-950 games or so, i'm now 1350 and still 130 or so titles to give an end to this challenge.

By the way, Shou-sama at that time was a COMPLETE moron.And i'm pretty sure he's still one, even i didn't spoke with him for decades.
He ripped me off on a PC Engine deal (back in 1997-1998,when there was IRC channel about Turbo Grafx,Ebay was just at his beginning,etc..)..
Eric something from Alaska as well.

[delafro]

Wow, that's sick! Nice work.

[Aussie2B]

I was wondering how do you go about confirming that you have EVERY game for a system? I find it very difficult to find any good resources that list every single Japanese game for a given system. Sites like GameFAQs have a ton listed, but there is still plenty missing too.

[Adol]

Actually i can assure you my collections are complete, in the sense i have "every game ever released, sold in stores" for the system in question.

And i only collect complete in box games,i can't stand loose carts to be "a complete collection" when you're missing 50% of the whole thing (but yes, game is the most important).

And more than that since i do have many not for sale / prototypes games ( but i can let DreamTR and other talk about prototypes hunt,this is not my goal) but in that domain,the hunt can't arrive to an end..there's always a "new" prototype coming form nowhere,etc.

But precise lists are well done by many japanese institutions, and they publish books ( Fami Complete, Megadrive Taizen...Daigirin and so on) with all info needed.
You have too official lists on Sega website,etc..
Then i can say this for sure...just because japanese are VERY professionnal about release info.
USA&Europe aren't that professionnal...you can't say WHICH day came out Bugs Bunny for NES, but you can say which day came out Popeye on Famicom, and his official release price.

That's why,following those books & lists (and they generally 99,99% match),i can assume my collections are complete.

[ave]

Well at least you don't have one SEGA My Card III-game... or maybe you just forgot to put it next to the others on the photo, I don't know^^

I was making a complete jpn Mark III and My Card III-list a few weeks ago. I actually used the SEGA.co.jp list as well as your photos. That was when I noticed the missing Woody Pop Shijinrui no Block Kuzushi whose serial was C-519.

And do you may know how much I have to pay for Sangokushi IV for 32X? I looked for it everywhere (even yahoo) but I never found any. :(

[Adol]

I have the complete collection then of course I have it!
but i have the whole bundle with special pad!

Here,back of the picture, it is written SEGA MY ARD,but has a "cartridge like" box because of the special pad:
http://videogamecollectors.com/gallery/Mark3CompleteCollection/Complete_Mark_3_Collection_Detailed_2

Sangokushi IV was worth 13000 yens or so those days.

[ave]

Thanks, I didn't know it was a bundle. :)