/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7365710
As soon as a zoomer sees a collection with something he wants and can't have

Do you play them

when it becomes unecessary. and it depends on the person. me looking at the picture, why the fuck does he have those big pc box games? just sell them and play the better and easier to use versions on gog.

I fundamentally hate the idea of someone owning a game, but never playing it. The point of having a large collection is that you are such a fucking nerd, you can't breathe without vidya, hence why you have so many. But every collector fag has played like 10% of their collection

>>7365710
if you can go through 90% of your collection and say "i play this", it's collecting
if more than 20% of your collection is owned simply because it's rare, or you read it's good from a "TOP 10 MOST OBSCURE (insert console) GAMES EVER!!!!!" then it's hoarding

>>7365710
same as>>7365740
also, the fact that he stacks his games on top of each other on the right hand side is retarded. just makes it harder to get them out, that is if he even plays them (hoarder desu)

>>7365710
Ahhh DT and Opeth my 2 favorite bands!

>>7365727
>FPBP

if he plays so many videogames, then why dont he know how to hold an N64 controller?

>>7365765
why is boomer blowing in ear

>>7365765
What an uncomfortable scene. Glad I was spared sound.

>>7365771
>>7365774

The brunette acted like she needed her RapeX.

>>7365710
that looks organized, hoarders live in a mess
>>7365727
you know most of the retards shitting up the board are actually millennials, right?

>>7365727
i have every game i want for free soiboy

>>7365765

lmfao, the girl with the scene kid eyelashes was SPOOKED

Anyone who says that collecting is hoarding has never been inside of a real hoard. Real hoards are disorganized and disgusting. If there's any room to walk, it's always extremely narrow pathways. If not, you need to climb over the stuff. The stuff in a hoard impedes movement around the home and by proxy ability to clean said home often making the place filled with bacteria and leaving it terribly smelly. Finally, items in hoards often have little to no actual significance. For example, in the hoard I had to help clean last year there were dead batteries lying everywhere and several hard copies of a manual for some camera printed out. Single sided as well. Lots of recycling and trash was everywhere like empty cans and bottles and plastic containers. There were berry vines growing in the back that couldn't be trimmed due to garbage and furniture blocking the exits back there. The berry vines had overtaken an entire paved back section and had even crept up inside of a sliding glass door. So to answer your question OP, the thing that turns collecting into hoarding is jealousy from onlookers.

>>7365765
damn you do that shit to me you can expect to get btfo. I don't care if it's a stunning looking girl or my own girlfriend, you don't do that, ever.

>if he plays so many videogames, then why dont he know how to hold an N64 controller?
First of all, it's a well-known fact that MJR doesn't play or even like playing videogames.

Secondly, ironically enough he actually is holding the objectively correct and superior way for anyone with decent sized hands like me. It's the best way to hold the N64 controller, I have held it that way since I was 11 and will continue to until I'm dead because it's the only right way.

>>7365710
>At what point does a retro video game collection go from collecting to hoarding?
When they stop knowing what they're talking about and start being a poser who wants to buy an identity. Volume of shit is less impressive than connected meaning behind the items. I knew a guy with a fossil collection that was like five seashells but they were badass because he could talk for uninterrupted hours about it.

But if the question is "should someone be roasted for collecting," who cares if they're intelligent or funny. Imo it's just feminine to look at a guy and start sizing up his room and how fuckable he is because of that.

>>7365710
>Ever heard of a little game called Duke Nukem 3D? Guys, lemme tell ya, its a true HIDDEN GEM™. How about Diablo 2? It's a real HIDDEN GEM™ guys, lemme tell ya.

>>7365765
Because he's a PChad.

Hoarding is:

1. Showing off
2. Buying to buy, not buying to play
3. Buying bad games despite knowing you're not going to play them
4. A form of self-consciousness over your own collection, then mitigating that by focusing on quanity over quality

The idea that someone has to play a game they collect is a completely arbitrary rule aimed at minimising the sour grapes of those who don't collect/have pathetic collections.

Do you expect a heavy collector to play through every game including compilation packs that feature the same games he owns? Should someone open a sealed copy of an expensive game to satisfy your stupid arbitrary rule?

It's all hoarding but it becomes a problem when you can't properly take care of what you're buying.

>>7365710
don't be like reggie please lol
Radical Reggie is just a perfect recipe for depression. He has a really unhealthy lifestyle and completely addicted to buying games over basic needs. If you're 40+ years old playing with toy lightsabers on camera, falling asleep while eating popcicles and begging for gas money to drive to a place where you're only going to spend more money and feed your unhealthy obsession, man take a look in the mirror (if you have one) and really get some help. I don't like the MJR crew or the Spawn Wave crew and they're nothing but a conglomerate of scammers and talentless hacks but I can't help but kind of feel for this guy. He's so desperate to be loved and praised by these weirdos that he's willing to put himself into debt over it. He's just so pathetic, the guy needs help.

>>7365920
Reminder that he has no real relationship, lives with some other guy to pay the rent while he's over 40, and spends copious amounts of money on video games every month just to show them off on a monthly collab.

>>7365737
He worked at Sierra and largerly has a lot of Nostalgia for old PC games. I would never bother with bigbox pc games, but maybe having Half-Life and Diablo 2 in Bigbox would be neat

>>7365710
Collecting literally is hoarding. That's the point. Otherwise you're not collecting.

>>7365918
is all about hoarding shitty plastic for no other reason than a fetish, we get it, you don't care about gaming at all and don't like games, just hoarding them. You made your point

Wouldn't consider it hoarding, but having that "museum look and feel" is soi as fuck. In fact, collecting video games in general makes you look like a soiboy. Reminder that MJR made the entire ground floor of his new house into a playpen.

>>7365765
I see baldy had a head start on the daydrinking and is already embarrassing himself

>>7365803
It looks organized because that's the corner of his room that his camera is point at. You don't see the rest of his home.

>>7365973
>hoarding shitty plastic

In contrast to hoarding shitty ROMS....illegally?

>>7365710
this is collecting, OP is hoarding

>>7365710
>have 200 odd old Windows 3.1/95/98 games in totes
>they're not le ebin sought after games like Warcraft so no one gives a shit
I think the only ones people might truly give a shit about is either 3D Dinosaur Adventure or King's Quest VII.

>>7365710
Having games on display as heirlooms is the tackiest shit a manchildren can do, he might as well have a bunch of rare funko pops.

>>7365990
This is over the top IMO. if i had a friend with this collection, i couldnt help but think he was onions incarnate.

>>7365710
If you buy games you don't like and buy games you don't ever play.

>>7365835
this anon has a good point

>>7366015
he pretty clearly just knows his series and keeps to it, hardly what you'd refer to as epic reddit buzzword

>>7365737
are you someone who just sits in an empty cube room? who gives a fuck? some people like the boxes

>>7365710
Some people appreciate the sensual experience of having these things. they trigger pleasant memories and feelings from the past. Some of you guys are too young to post here

>>7365738
>every collector fag has played like 10% of their collection
I'm pretty sure most people beat one out of every ten games they own, or something similar to that ratio

>>7365710
collecting becomes hoarding as soon as you stop having a goal.
some collections are also impossible to actually finish or are forever expanding, resulting in hoarding.
starwars collections can get silly, as did >>7365990

>>7366010
its only tacky if you are doing it to impress others. if you enjoy and have an attachment to it(or anything you collect) and enjoy being surrounded about it, then thats perfectly soul

>>7366048
its not like the steamfags spending thousands on games they will never play "just cause its on sale" are any better. at least with physical collectors you can give them the benefit of being able to resell their collection

>>7366090
I'd argue Steamfags are better because there's no price inflation with digital distribution. People hoarding physical games are taking away copies from those who would actually want to play them.

>>7365710
If you play the games or still have stuff from your childhood, that's fine. But if you're buying games just to have fatter stacks just for the sake if it, you have a problem.

>>7366097
they could just fucking emulate or get a flashcart/ODE if they want to play a game so bad

>>7366048
>I'm pretty sure
Got any facts to back that up other than an enema from the depths of your bowels there champ?

>>7366117
>Got any facts to back that up
its fucking 4chan not a political debate

>>7365749
Vertical stacking is easier if you have a lot and lack proper shelving. I tried doing horizontal stacks, but had nothing to keep them from falling over. But I've got problems because I also have a ton of books to deal with as well.

>>7365918
Why collect an interactive form of media if you have no desire to interact with it? Do you buy movies you have no intention of watching? Do you buy food you'll never eat? If you want some pladtic shit on a shelf, get into toy collecting.

does stacking horizontal really damage discs long term? wouldn't the same thing happen vertical as well from gravity? i would think the only true solution is suspend your game collection in a zero g environment

>>7366140
All media is interactive

>>7366172
the only media I can think of that suffers from horizontal stackage is Vinyls, in which case they get warped and damaged. If you stack upwards of 15 Games on eachother horizontally, the bottommost case can crack or chip, but not too much actual damage.

>>7366172
you can damage the cover art real bad not the disc.

>>7365765
God damn I want to impregnate the girl controller girl. Always wanted to visit her shop if I go to Seattle but I’m worried about walking around the store with such a raging rock hard cock.

>>7366257
Both women are hideous, install standards.

>>7366119
So that's a no then.
kys.

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>>7365823
that dude in the background on the right is her fiance/now husband and you can tell he straight up fuckin hates metal jesus and all his creepy manchildren boomer friends
reggie is based tho

>>7366172
I think it mostly just warps the cases, right?
also it obviously makes it a bitch to pull one out too which is why I roll my eyes whenever i see it; its like, motherfucker you have all these games/blurays/whatever but you made it so you really cant just grab one off the shelf?

>>7365765
What game are they playing? Everyone seems to be holding the controller differently. Especially the blonde girl.

Weird looking bald dude needs to hit the weights if he wants to go around blowing on girls.

>>7365710
I hate this man. Literally scalps games and then creates shit videos trying to convince people that they're good, obscure, rare, etc. so they'll sell and in turn sells what he has at a higher price after all the retards have taken the bait.

>>7366305
the thing with my collection, is I would never stack on top of each other, but I have a bunch of CD/DVD racks that are set up to hold the games horizontally. Just kinda spooks me that I could be damaging my stuff ever so slightly over the years using them

>>7365918
It's an odd thing to collect. I know people who buy Lego and store them away never building them. Makes me scratch my head.

>>7365973
lol, low quality bait. collectors are keeping these games alive. you're just ripping off a bunch of old games. don't you feel guilty about wasting your hard drive space if you're not going to play every single rom file?

>>7366140
video games are toys and they look nice on the shelf. good luck to you and your empty shelves, rom bitch.

>>7366312
Riggs is the same way and my local game shop owner sucks his dick because e-celeb, before he goes off and "checks the price" on an already priced item, on ebay.
The modern world was a mistake.

>>7366328
>rom bitch
Now I know what to name my next PC.

>>7366273
>Both women are hideous

>>7366350
They're not even a 4, anon.

>>7366351
You and that meme was made for each other, anon.

>>7366353
Average women blow them away, my man. I know many of their faces have been covered for almost a year now, but I still memba.

>>7366289
>it's the middle of the day
>your friend invites you and your girl over to hang
>show up at friend's house
>everyone's started drinking
>pathetic drunk guy of the group starts embarrassing himself
>hits on all the girls including yours
What do you do? Do you take him aside and tell him to fuck off? Fuck him up?

>>7365710
>At what point does a retro video game collection go from collecting to hoarding?
When you got a rubber neck, narcissistic personality disorder, and listen to infantile crap like Iron Maiden.

>>7366508
i'd just get in my car and drive away, leaving her there
fucking slut

>>7365710
I've switched to flash carts and don't buy much now, but I like keeping my collection for the memories. Something nice about holding the same cartridges I used as a kid, and looking through the old manuals.

>>7365803
>you know most of the retards shitting up the board are people who actually lived through retro vidya

Wow, what a shocker, tell me more you complete and utter retarded faggot!

>>7366546
have sex

>>7366553
>and looking through the old manuals
yup, bootlegs, flashcarts, emulation cant replace sticking your nose in the manual and taking a good wiff

>>7365710
When you get upset over losing pieces of plastic can readily be emulated without any time or much difficulty.

>>7366560
I just emulated your mom. It wasnt satisfying :d

>>7366560
Honestly I wouldn't be able to stand having an attachment to this much stuff that I feel like I could never replace.
Imagine going on vacation and checking the weather, and seeing that there's a huge rain storm happening back home. Is your basement leaking? Did you remember to close that upstairs window? Are the concrete ties to your house's foundation rusting away from an undetected slab leak? Did that rare game you bought on ebay get delivered, and is getting soaked outside? Just think! If the humidity inside your house reaches 40% or higher, pins corrode, labels peel, battery terminals rust and that old game you spent years hunting down might not ever work again...though, how could you even know? You're unlikely to play even a fraction of these games ever again. In fact, you're not even sure you really like playing games at all any more - but that doesn't matter. Father Time's unyielding threats of disk rot and pin corrosion eat away at your mind. Every second of every day you can't help but shake the thought that the clock is ticking on your precious collection, your temple, your sanctuary, your personality itself!

Not for me.
I'd rather have a good meal with friends or go on a trip with my lady than have all that plastic crap to worry about "protecting" and "preserving".
And what's the payoff? After years of saving, hunting, buying, collecting, displaying, cleaning, preserving. What would be my reward? I get to play an old, forgotten game, by myself, in the dark. Totally and utterly alone with my walls of carefully curated plastic.

>>7366604
cool story bro, upboat

>>7366604
im a big collector fag, but i am not too worried about this mindset
- Odds are, the majority of my collection, like 90%+ is going to out live me anyway
- If something truely catastrophic did happen or I had to sell my collection, then I would just emulate.

Point is I like the hobby (liked it more when it was less a wide spread one) and im going to continue to enjoy it no matter how many people I get screeching at me to stop, but I mean that can be said about a lot of hobbies.

>>7366604
>And what's the payoff? After years of saving, hunting, buying, collecting, displaying, cleaning, preserving. What would be my reward? I get to play an old, forgotten game, by myself, in the dark. Totally and utterly alone with my walls of carefully curated plastic.

Sounds like fucking heaven

>>7365710
>At what point does a retro video game collection go from collecting to hoarding?
When it doesn't look nice and neat. Hording really only applies when it's 1) useless shit and 2) you don't have it properly organized so it makes your living arrangements look like crap. Your pic looks fine to me because while there's a lot there, it's clearly all in very designated areas and the overall look of the room is nice.
Though the guy looks like he could use a hair cut, good taste in games from what I can see otherwise though.

>>7366621
>i like the hobby
>collecting things is a hobby

Imagine being so talentless and devoid of personality that your hobbies are "collecting" things.

>>7366676
Not him but assuming he goes out and finds the stuff by hand instead of just looking for stuff on ebay then I imagine it's a real hobby

>>7366683
he is not a gamer and buying things for a hobby is is what bug people do.

>>7366689
>he is not a gamer
What? He says in his post that if his collection died somehow he would just emulate which implies he does in fact play them. Stop projecting on other people

>>7365979
>shits on collectors
>posts an image making fun of emufags
What did xe meme by this?

>>7366703
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL-LPePDpTc

>>7366716
>posts an image making fun of emufags
You must be really fucking autistic because that image is obvious satire making fun of coomlectors

>>7366729
>obvious
Maybe if YOU'RE autistic, shithead.

>>7366720
D-do you think that random anon is that guy? Anon, take your meds please.

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>>7366508
Do these retards simping for the girls and that guy in the back not realize they're acting? Also bald guy blew in Metal's ear too

>>7365710
A collector enjoys the hunt and treats it as a hobby in and of itself, a hoarder uses the purchase as a distraction. The guy in your pic probably played most of, if not all of those games, and he just takes care of his shit, whereas I don't even remember buying some of the games I own, or how long I've had them because they all just sat in piles on my floor because I didn't even care enough to have a shelf to put them on.

>>7366720
That's a healthy attitude to take though

>>7366759
>we're just shitty actors!
Nice try, Metal Tranny Sucks.

>>7365990
No, that is autism and obviously a hoard.

>>7366759
>t. makes girls uncomfortable at parties

We all live on this bitch of an earth for 80 years and then we die. No one asked to be here. No one was given a choice. Just let people be happy and buy whatever the fuck it is they want to buy, whether it's "cringe" or "based" or whatever the fuck

>>7366859
>80 years
Nah, many of us aspire for more.

>No one asked to be here. No one was given a choice
Wrong twice over.
Overall three and a half cringes.

>>7366864
>Wrong twice over.

>>7366871
You prefaced two consecutive sentences with "no one" so I was making it rhyme and also I disagreed twice.
t. not George Lucas

>>7366875
>and also I disagreed twice.

>>7366880
Age isn't under our full control.
Choosing to hype up common games is.

>>7366854
I don't go to parties anyways.

>>7366906
I could tell

>>7366910
We're gamers here. You need to find another board normie.

>>7365990
>Unopened toys
Hoarding

>>7367026
>We're gamers here
Still with this old meme that gamers are only neckbeardos who don't shower and cower at real life eh grandpa?

>>7365710
Hoarding is when you go out of your way to buy a bunch of mediocre that you don't really care about to not ever play only out of desperation to fill some kind of void, typically a missing personality.

>>7365990
>Collecting toys
mentally ill

>>7365920
The Spawn Wave crew isn't all bad, Spawn, Nate and MVG are cool

>>7366321
>It's an odd thing to collect. I know people who buy Lego and store them away never building them. Makes me scratch my head.

People collect because of the scarcity. Many retro game collectors grew up in a period where a game would disappear from existence once it was no longer new. For me, I mostly started collecting for systems I always wanted to play as a child but missed out on.

I guess this is less appreciated now as people's first exposure to old gaming will be through emulation and it's nigh impossible to not be able to find a game thanks to digital platforms.

>>7365710
What's wrong with hoarding if it's something you like?