Originally Posted by
PDorr3
Being only 16 years old and on a pretty tight budget as well as an avid game collector I am going to aim for the game.com.
I hate to tell you, but that's a crappy excuse to get a Game.com. I can sympathize about being broke, but forget all this "complete collection" nonsense and collect for a GOOD system. Having a complete Game.com collection really won't impress anyone, and there really aren't any more than 4 or 5 good games anyways, so you won't even have any fun with it.
I bought a Game.com off of eBay as well, getting the standard system + 8 games for $30 or whatever. Frankly, aside from the game show games (Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy), built-in solitaire, Resident Evil 2, and Tiger Casino, everything else I got was just trash. The screen just smears everytime something moves fast (making Sonic Jam impossible to play), and for whatever reason, no game ever gets good, fluid animation (making Mortal Kombat Trilogy and Fighter's Megamix suck ass). They couldn't even get Midway Arcade Classics to work well.
If you really have your heart set on getting a complete collection for some system, you're better off looking into the Virtual Boy, the 32X, the Lynx, or the Jaguar. They're much better systems, and you'll actually enjoy them. Unfortunately, each of those systems has at least one or two games that are freakin' expensive... but that's collecting for you.
--Zero