Tell us any or all of the following:
- Who you are
Brian
- Where you live
NYC
- How you found the forums
Trying to find like minded individuals.
- What your favorite games are
Too many to name, but I'm currently playing (slowly):
- Minish cap
- Link to the past
- Metroid Fusion
- Metroid Zero Mission
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
- 3DS Ocarina of Time
Recently beat the new Shadowrunner indie games on Steam. Really liked them, and it's rare I'm able to sit through a whole game, but I did more than one.
Before I had kids, I played a lot of MMOs including Evercrack, AO, SWG, and WoW.
I have some old favorites, but don't play them now.:
- M.U.L.E
- Virus (Amiga game)
- Bards Tale series
- Shuffle Puck cafe
- Civ series
- Empire
- Most Epyx games
- and many many more...
That said, even though I've gamed since childhood in the 1980s, I'm recently spending much more time collecting.. prowling ebay, and other game sale sites. Also getting pretty familiar with pricecharting.com.
- What systems you collect for:
Primarily focusing on handhelds, particularly Nintendo. With my strongest focus on GBA. I also want to own all the major handhelds. Currently have all the nintendo ones (ignoring special editions and variants), GG, Nomad, Atari Lynx, NGPC and PSP. Need TurboExpress still, but it's a real commitment, and want to make more progress on GBA before branching out further. I did buy NES, SNES, N64, and GC systems and games too, when I first started collecting, but realized I need to focus, due to the NYC apartment thing, and limited budget thing. (I'm thinking about trading or selling my non-handheld games and systems over time, to make more space to focus on handhelds.)
- What you do in "real life"
Manage Linux servers, in the "cloud"
- Any other interesting facts, like how you began collecting, etc.
Collecting is my "mid-life crisis", as a way to reconnect with my youth. It started out trying to play some old GBA games on an emulator on my Android phone, and then evolved to a flash cart in a real GBA-SP. From there it's devolved/evolved into a true obsession collecting loose, CIB and sealed. So far it's been cheaper than a sports car, but if things continue, that may not be the case. At this point I have way more than I need for my collection and need to start trading away things that are extra, for things I need. I have a small selection of big box games, nothing amazing, of games I've played, that I'd like to find a home for. (I can't see myself ever collecting big box pc games, mostly due to my living situation.)
I'd really like to meet local GBA collectors, and show them my collection, maybe trade, and exchange knowledge. I've discovered that there are a couple major GBA collectors out there but none that I know of that are local, which I'm sure is just me not having met the right people. I found someone (dreamtr) who has a full collection, but they are in TN.) I'm working on my own lists of rares and uncommons that I'd like to compare notes. (Or if there is a list floating around, I would appreciate it.)
My goals for my GBA collection as of today, are to get all the super rares, rares, and maybe even all the uncommons in CIB or sealed, and probably go for a complete set, collecting the bulk loose (I definitely don't have room or budget for a full set of CIB+). I'm not actively seeking garbage loose carts, but do add them to my collection when I happen to pick them up in a lot. I have many spare, and wouldn't mind exchanging garbage carts with people who are looking to complete collections. I also have spares of some popular loose carts that I am open to trading. (Think top 25 games.)
I'm working with the creator of pricecharting.com to clean up the GBA section, as it's missing things and doesn't have breakouts for PAL and JP. I'm obsessed with collecting GBA.. and know about as much as possible for someone who's been doing it as a hobby for less than a year.
For background these are the systems I've owned through my life when they were new. C64, Amiga, PCjr, various PCs, NextStation Color, various Macbooks, SMS, Atari Lynx, Genesis, 3DO, GG, PS2, GBA-SP (AGS-001), new 2DS. My brother had an NES and a GB when we were kids. Sadly all of the classic stuff except the Lynx system and loose carts, have been lost to the mists of time, and many moves.
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