/vr/ - Retro Games

Ive been collecting things all my life, as a kid I used to beg my parens for sets of figurines only made to make you collect all of them to complete a set, I used to even eat and drink certain products for months just because collecting them earned you a prize. I collected movies and music CDs, trading cards, magazines, flippos, you name it.

As I fell into gaming it sort of came naturally for me to collect for it as well, but I never got serious enough with the hobby, and only managed to get a decent SNES and Mega Drive collection that I shamefully never touched. It was about collecting, never about playing them. A decade later I suddenly started getting serious and now I'm collecting to play, the hobby sticks because of that, and that's why I keep collecting.

People always complain about this hobby, that they're being robbed, that scalpers are scum, that too many people are looking for games nowadays, but for me the hobby is much more thrilling now that games actually sell for the actual value of the product, and I feel far more inclined to collect.

The community is also amazing, there's a few assholes that will try and sell you crap, you'll figure that out once you start buying from the same few names over and over again and figure out who to buy from and who to avoid, but once you find your footing you'll meet some great people and forget about the rest.