What Collections Have You Completed?

[digitalpress]

Revived topic from old forums

At present, I've completed the US collections for these systems:

32X*
3DO*
Adventurevision*
APF M-1000
Arcadia 2001
Atari 5200
Atari 7800*
Dreamcast*
Fairchild Channel F
Genesis*
Intellivision
NUON*
Odyssey2
Pico *
Sega CD*
Sega Master System*
Turbografx-16*
Vectrex
Virtual Boy*

* = includes at LEAST the box, if not box & instructions.

Saturn is next for me.

[Tritoch]

Didn't you mention that you completed a NUON collection too?

I've completed...nothing. My goal's to buy stuff I think I'll play, not get a "complete set" of games for a platform with 90% of them being stuff I'll never play.

[tom]

Hello DP,
do me a favour and send me an email of the Dreamcast tiltes, please?

Funny enough my first completed system is the first -Odyssey-. Recently I got the four 1973 games at a bargain price of $500.00.

Tom

[Raedon]

with all my collecting i haven't been able to complete any collection. but I'm only buying NES, Snes, and Genesis right now as I haven't been able to locate a source of pre-nes games and have only come across two lots of common 2600 games this year. As for Nes i'm getting to the point where the games in need are 1) rare or 2) expensive if not found in the wild. i.e. DW4, Bubble Bobble 2

[digitalpress]

Oh yeah, NUON. I updated my list, thanks for the reminder!

As for the Dreamcast list, we have it here:
http://www.digitpress.com/archives/arc00101.htm

[tom]

Thanks,
also, how complete is complete? Do the private games from various amateur VCS prgrammers count? Or Lynx? Or Jaguar?

[digitalpress]

It's all what you want it to be. When I say "complete US", I would consider ANY title available through any retail channel (stores, mail order, or website), though a Jaguar collector might not consider Songbird releases technically part of a complete US collection, and a US-based Atari 2600 collector might not consider homebrews - or even non-US released titles for that matter - part of their "complete collection".

Simply state your personal caveats if they're unique!

[tom]

Just read the Dreamcast US list. Ok, so a game like 'Visual Park' (with hardware) wasn't released in the USA. But Seaman was. Sometimes we people in Europe can't be clear on this.
Are you planning to collect/complete the Japanese DC, also for Virtual Boy?

[digitalpress]

I pick up "import" titles from time to time (example: Shenmue II or Manhunter on DC) but I really do concentrate on US titles for collecting.

[tom]

I think there should be a clear line of some sort. Remember that 1/4 of VCS titles from Atari/Activision and many more USA companies didn't even make it to the shores of Europe.
Going by German VCS releases, I completed the VCS range a long time ago. But I never considered it to be complete without the US releases. Later the prototypes surfaced, and now the amateur/homebrew games are starting to emerge.
Maybe the (official) life of the console should be the completing collecting factor.

[rolenta]

I have completed US collections of the following systems:

Atari 7800
Atari Jaguar
Nintendo Virtual Boy
Nuon

I'm only a couple carts short of completing my 2600 collection and need atound 20 carts each to complete my Intellivision and Odyssey2 collections (actually probably lesss than 20 for the O2 collection).

[nesman85]

DP, do you have to have the box and manual for each game for it to be a complete collection?

[molnars]

OK whay did it erase my account when they switched it over to the new board, oh well. I've got the following complete US collections.

Sega Master System
Sega CD
Pioneer Laseractive
Turbo Duo
Turbo Grafx
Neo Geo MVS

[Sylentwulf]

None.

I'm relatively close on intellivision and coleco, only need the really rare ones really.
Atari 2600 I probly need another 50-100
Odyssey 2 I need about 5

Everything else I'm not more than 50-60% done

[rolenta]

do you have to have the box and manual for each game for it to be a complete collection?

In the older systems I'm happy just to get the cart (although I have most of the manuals). Unfortunately I threw all of my boxes away over 20 years ago and I'm not about to start to try and collect them again.

[Atariguy]

The closest to complete would be my Vectrex collection. I still need the following:
Space Wars
Blitz!
Heads-Up Action Soccer
3D Minestorm
Narrow Escape
Crazy Coaster

If anyone has any of these for a good price, contact me.

[video_game_addict]

I haven't completed any yet either. My closest would be my 5200 collection with only one game missing; Star Wars: Death Star Battle

I'll still need about 8-10 more boxes & manuals to have a *totally complete* collection.


Next closest is SMS with around 75 boxed games. I simply don't have the desire to try and collect every game anymore though. There's too much crap for alot of these systems. And I don't play crap games, so I don't feel like keeping them for very long. I doubt if I'll ever have any complete collections after I finish up my 5200.

[verrive]

Well, It doesn't count but I have every Nintendo system I am about 35% done with my NES collection and a sad 15% with SNES.

- verrive

[digitalpress]

In some cases (like Turbografx, Master System, NUON, for example) I have all of the packaging. In others (like Odyssey2) I do not. I consider it complete when I've got all the games, but thanks for bringing that up, I'm gonna make another edit to my original post.

[Marco]

What fun is there in completing US collections? Broaden your horizon, people! 8) :wink:

Cheers,

Marco (who only collects 2600 and will therefore never have a complete collection)