When did you start to collect??? (year)

[Arqueologia_Digital]

I don´t know if this thread exists, but i couldn´t find it, if exists...sorry...

The question is easy, when did you start to collect??? (year), and if you want, tell the reasons.

I had started in 2001/2002, after a long investigation and a life dedicated (well, not all my life hehe) to the VG and gaming.

So, when i discovered MercadoLibre (Ebay for Argentina) and i saw that people offered that machines...i couldn´t resist...

After that, i had created Arqueología Digital

I want to read your posts!!!

Bye

Matías

[MarioAllStar2600]

I started collecting in 2000. I didn't get big into it untill 2001 one though. I was going for commons up untill CGE2k1, then I got really into the collecting scene. Ever since then it's pretty much been my life.

[Pantechnicon]

Well...1994 was the year I bought my 2nd Atari 2600 to replace the one I lost in 1988, but I wouldn't say I was "collecting" yet.

I'll say 1995. That was the year I discovered that the Goodwill next to my house was virtually loaded with all the things I always wished I had while growing up. That was the year I started buying large piles of carts, additional Atari consoles, etc. At the time, however, I was more interested in collecting old computers (the employees at Goodwill actually nicknamed me "The Commodore Kid"). I didn't switch exclusively to game and console collecting until 1999.

[jdc]

It was exactly the summer of 1996. It started when a friend of mine bought the brand new N64 and a copy of Super Mario 64. In 1997 I bought my own N64 and a copy of the brand new game Diddy Kong Racing. That started the madness.

[imanerd0011]

I have been playing games for all my life, but I wouldn't call myself a collector until around 2002.

[Richter Belmount]

2003

[vintagegamecrazy]

Been playing games since kindergarden. Been collecting since I'm guessing 'round 1998 I think I was in the summer before my junior year, and I was working full time and found a boxed Jaguar for $25 and that gave me the collecting urge. Before that I had bought tons of nes games and accumulated a pile of them and sold the lot two different times but at the time was not in my true collecting sense.

[rick weis]

started collecting in 1978, 2 weeks after i got an atari 2600 for christmas.

Rick

[atomicthumbs]

1997/1998.

Age can't stop me. Just slow me down a little.

[o2william]

Hmm, well, my parents gave away my original Atari 2600 and Odyssey2 after I got my NES in 1987 (or maybe it was '88 -- can't remember exactly). Learning from that mishap, I vigorously held onto my NES and games, so I suppose you could say I started collecting in '87 or '88. But it wasn't until 1994 when the "scour thrift stores hunting for anything and everything" kind of collecting started. I started by picking up a 2600 and Space Invaders at a flea market, then made a monster find of 100+ 2600 carts (including a boxed Gameline modem) and haven't looked back since.

[nildem]

I started collecting seriously in 1998. I bought a bunch of Jaguar stuff on clearance and really took off from there.

[pacmanhat]

2004 for me. I'm still, as they say, a n00b.

[felix]

^^^ hes a vet compared to me lol.. Im going to start monday when I get paid

I actually never had any interest in collecting until I came here and started going through the forums here
I have always looked for something that I could collect, but never was interested in anything like comic books or sports cards etc.. I didnt even know there was a market out there for classic videogames. After reading a lot of these threads, I had a major nostalgia high and decided that im going to start collecting all my childhood games and all the games that I wished I had.. I also have a really good hookup seeing that one of my good friends actually owns/runs a classic videogame store in my local mall..

BTW, im going to get him to make an account here in the fourms, im sure he will flip out when he sees it

[SKVermin]

Though my playing days predate the Atari 2600, I didn't truly start collecting until around 1999. By this point, games were already my career, and my first son was born. I wanted him to be able to see how games got to where they are now, so he would understand how spoiled he was.

I still kick myself for having unloaded so much of my collection in the past, trading in games or outright selling them off. Had I known then that I was going to develop such an interest in KEEPING them, my collection would be much larger. Thankfully I never dumped my Intellivision stuff, but all my NES and most of the SNES and PS1 had moved on.

[maxlords]

1994 or 1995, when I sold my copy of FF3 for SNES, then realized that I wanted to play it. When I went back, it was gone, and I swore to never again sell a game I liked. And now here I am.

[felix]

1994 or 1995, when I sold my copy of FF3 for SNES, then realized that I wanted to play it. When I went back, it was gone, and I swore to never again sell a game I liked. And now here I am.

I actually did the same thing with my copy of chrono trigger

[Videogamerdaryll]

Over 20 years..
I've always been obsessed with collection games..
Starting way back when the Atari 2600 was released...

I've collected games on and off through the yrs,collecting like crazy then slowing way down...(dating slows collecting,playing)
......I'd say for the last 7 I've been collecting games,playing games like crazy...(marriage)

[RetroYoungen]

I started collecting in 1998 or thereabouts, when I discovered Funcoland. I would go to that store with lunch money often, sometimes literally 3 times a week, and usually buy SOMEthing for cheap. I started out collecting NES, and back in those days loose carts would be very cheap, and sometimes I found myself walking out with up to 6 carts or so.

I saved a LOT of lunch money... and now that location has become a GameStop. And no longer holds games older than Playstation released.

Dammit, I miss MY Funco...

[robotriot]

As soon as I got my Amiga in 1994 I started hoarding games (mainly for PC though which I got one year later). I didn't care if they were boxed complete though, I bought lots of magazine fullversions, so that probably doesn't count ;) I really started collecting either in 2000 or 2001, when I bought a CD32 and decided to get all games for it. It's a shame I can't remember which year it was exactly :/

[ozyr]

I've been hooked on videgames since 1978, when my parents bought me and my sister an RCA Studio II for Christmas. Don't have that one anymore, as it died years later.

Then got a 2600 about a year later. It died in one day. THen bought and Odyssey2- and stayed with it (and still have the original)! Then of course, there is everything that came afterwards that I could afford to get...