Collecting Milestones Thread 2005

[digitalpress]

The 2004 Version:
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27598

We've all got our milestones, whether it be "game number 1000", "complete collection x", "obtain all Activision cartridges", etc.

Each time you reach a milestone this year, enter it into this thread. It should be fun to check back in a year later to see what kind of progress we all made.

Who wants to go first?

[Raccoon Lad]

Well, the Year is still early, but I recently finished my Sega Mark III Silver Cartridge collection.

Yes, BOTH games. (Rygar, Solomon's Key)

[LiquidX01]

I finally hit 50 Xbox games. Not too bad since I started tackling that collection not too long ago.

[Perkar]

I was on vacation this past weekend, and upon arriving home, i had a package waiting for me. that package contained Sports Jam for Dreamcast.... the very last Dreamcast game i needed for a complete US set. all official releases (including all 3 browsers), bleemcasts, sonic and shenmue le, official DC magazine demos...

\m/ \m/ \m/ \m/

now what to do....

[izret101]

I wanted to hit the 500 individual game mark.
Started the year off just over 300 and earlier this week i hit the 325 marker.

Now i just need to get enough cash to buy the games.
I really need a job...

Some minor goals along the way are
20 SNES individual titles CIB (currently 5-8)
100 NES individual titles CIB (55 currently)
30 Genesis individual titles CIB (15ish currently)
30 DC Individual titles CIB (18ish currently)
All of the Mortal Kombat games CIB for each system i own (about20 w/out variations)

[djbeatmongrel]

my milestone is to get everything off on my wanted list and work on getting a lot of wonderswan games. its the only system that i actually want to have the complete catlague for (still debating whether to collect special edition ws consoles as well)

[DigitalSpace]

Here's my milestones to date:

-I hit 300 games total on January 17'th. The game that put me there was 007 Agent Under Fire for the Gamecube.

-I got my 40'th Gamecube game (Ikaruga) on January 27'th. I'm currently at 43.

Here's a complete list of GC games I own:

1080° Avalanche
4x4 EVO 2
Alien Hominid
Beach Spikers
Beyond Good & Evil
Big Mutha Truckers
Bloodrayne
Burnout 2: Point Of Impact
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex (Player's Choice)
Dead To Rights
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Extreme-G 3
Future Tactics: The Uprising
Ikaruga
James Bond 007 in Agent Under Fire
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
The Legend Of Zelda Collector's Edition
The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Luigi's Mansion (Player's Choice)
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (Player's Choice)
Mario Kart Double Dash!! (w/bonus disc)
Mega Man Anniversary Collection
Metroid Prime
Need For Speed Underground
Pikmin
Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
R: Racing Evolution (w/ Pac-Man vs.)
The Simpsons: Hit & Run
Skies Of Arcadia Legends
Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut (Player's Choice)
Sonic Mega Collection
Spider-Man (Player's Choice)
Spider-Man 2
Star Fox Adventures
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Monkey Ball (Player's Choice)
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
TimeSplitters 2
True Crime: Streets Of LA
Viewtiful Joe
XIII
Zoocube

-I hit 10 GBA games last month as well (the 10'th was GT Advance 3). Not much, but hey, it's another collection in the double digits.

[Mr-E_MaN]

I guess the only thing I want to achieve in 2005 is that I get more SMS games, probably off of eBay, or trading since they are pretty rare around here.... my 2004 milestone was pretty unrealistic, so hopefully this one can be accomplished.

[Gapporin]

Current stats of my collection:

Games: About 130-135.

Consoles: 18 unique, 21 total.

My current top collection is NES games, with 29. Lowest? I only have 1 Game Boy Advance game and 1 SC-3000 game. I only 2 games for each of these consoles: Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Game.com, PlayStation 2, TI-99, TRS-80 and Virtual Boy.

[Simply Dave]

I just recently went over the 1800 game mark.

Current count: 1,814 games

4/05/05 Hit the 950 mark. Current count is 952
4/19/05 Hit the 1000 game mark
6/4/05 Hit the 1100 game mark
7/3/05 Hit the 1200 game mark
7/23/05 Hit the 1300 game mark
9/9/05 Hit the 1400 game mark
10/04/05 Hit the 1500 game mark
11/02/05 Hit the 1600 game mark
11/20/05 Hit the 1700 game mark
12/19/05 Hit the 1800 game mark Current count: 1,814

[gamergary]

I hit 25 famicom magazines.

[-hellvin-]

I have just recently aquired about 1,450 games.

I need only one more game to complete my Sega 32X collection:

World Series Baseball

I need only four more games to complete my Sega Master System collection:

Dick Tracy
Galaxy Force
Slap Shot
Sonic The Hedgehog

I sometimes can't believe how far I've taken my first year of game collecting. I've thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it and hope it only continues to grow. I will complete every sega collection sooner or later. ;D

[sleepycal]

A few goals for this year :

1. Collect all unique NA RE games - Just need RE Gaiden (pending) and for my limited edition RE4 to arrive. This one is a slam dunk for sure.

2. Collect remaining NA RE variants. Basically just PSX GH/non GH/dual shock variations of RE 1-3. Not extremely difficult, just depends how much energy and $ I feel like using.

3. Collect remaining Biohazard games. Not that likely unless I make another trip overseas. Prices are pretty inflated when buying them online from Canada.

4. Finish up my NA SMS collection. About 25 to go. Not too bad except for Buster Douglas. I'll probably accept Heavyweight champ in lieu of that.

5. Enjoy the games that I've collected so far. Easy!

[Kim Possible]

I'm two games away from having all the released 2600 Activision titles. I hope to scare up the other two this year.

we'll see.

other than that, we'll just see what comes, its early.

[videogameking26]

Really Happy I'm over the 100 game mark for both my PS2 & GBA

PS2- 108
GBA- 149

Also at 75 Xbox games and one shy of 40 gamecube games

Also over 500 total games in my collection..very happy indeed

[goatdan]

My collecting milestones are probably going to be some of the strangest, because I have decided that I want to mostly stop buying games (*gasp!*) until I have played some more.

The first is to play all of the Xbox, GameCube and opened Dreamcast games that I own. I have probably 10 Xbox titles I haven't played, two or three GameCube titles and about 50 Dreamcast titles.

The second is to beat a bunch of games that I started and either am really enjoying or stopped playing for a long time. I don't know why, but I'm HORRIBLE at beating games... I get to about 90% of the way and then stop on games I love. I don't know why I do it, but I do. Anyway, these games I want to beat include:

Xbox Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
Xbox Star Wars: KOTOR
Xbox Headhunter Redemption
Xbox Dead to Rights
GameCube Metroid Prime
GameCube Mario Kart: DD
Dreamcast Headhunter (one of my favorite games of all time... I stopped playing about about 95% done!)
Dreamcast Grandia II (literally... last boss battle)
Playstation Grandia (gotta figure out where the heck I put it)
Playstation or GameCube Metal Gear Solid
Playstation Final Fantasy 1, 2, 3, 4 (in Origins and Anthology or whatever it is)
NES Emulator Earthbound Zero

I also have a Dreamcast goal that I think is pretty much mine alone:

I want to publish at least four more titles this year. Since I am currently complete with the systems I love to collect for (Jaguar and DC), and the only other things I collect are relatively stupid stuff just to say I have it (Action Max, anyone?? Didn't think so...), I have found that my favorite thing to have is a new Dreamcast title. And with the games that I know should be coming, I'm extremely, extremely excited to get to play the final versions myself The future of the Dreamcast may be a lot better than people think

[esquire]

I just passed the 1,700 mark on my collection. I was at 1,699 and I just won some auctions for 4 games, bringing me to 1703. I should make it past the 2,000 mark hopefully by springtime.

[AtariBuff]

I'd like to reach 800 PAL PlayStation 1 games this year - so far I have at about 480 in my collection.
Who wants to help???

[Cobra Commander]

Hoping to hit the 800 mark before the end of the year. I'm at 662 right now, and at the rate I'm going, it shouldn't be long.

[briskbc]

I am switching gears right now. I used to want to own every game available for my favorite systems. I have decided to focus on just the good titles. The really good titles. I don't have a lot of money to spend on games so I may as well get the best bang for my buck. I am doing this by picking up collections of 5 to 20 games from eBay and selling off the unwanted stuff. I can usually end up getting the games I want to keep for a fraction of their individual price.

Another goal of mine is to NOT have to sell of my collection again. Financial reasons. :/