/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9676436
I don't think I'll ever sell my collection but what troubles me the most is to decide the future of my games once I die

I only buy games that have some special meaning to me whenever I come across one and the price is right. I doubt I will ever sell any. My brother sold our snes when we were teens, I didn't care that much back then but bought it back from the guy he sold it to like 10 years later.

>>9676436
Is it really worth it going through the effort to jailbreak your ps2 to play American, European, and Japanese games, and the money to buy a bunch of crap? If you have a fetish for playing on original hardware you can just mod a hard drive for your ps2 to play every game you want. This is severe autism, and the person from picrel probably hasnt even finished 20% of the games on his shelves.

>>9676436
>For those that have, do you regret it?
I sold like 80-90% of it nearish the start of the pandemic, just keeping a handful of games for each console that hold sentimental value.
Then I used the money to pay for a set of flashcarts (GBC/GBA/DS/Mega Everdrive Pro/FxPak Pro/N64) as well as an XStation modded PS1. I also then softmodded my PS2 and set it up to load roms over my home network, softmodded my Wii for Wii and GCN games, and I already had a hacked 3DS for a bunch of other random shit.

Even with alllllll that shit, I still put away close to a thousand bucks from selling games I really didn't care about. I definitely don't regret it at all.

I've always considered gaming and game collecting to be two separate hobbies that just run parallel with each other. And I think the collecting side of things has really gotten shitty in the last 5 years. So I'm done collecting, and if I'm not actively collecting I don't really want to maintain a huge collection - I'll leave that to someone else.

I sold a ton of stuff to by a Wii. I sort of regret it but the fun I had with the Wii plus the modding evens it out for me. The other stuff was really just taking up space.

>>9676436
I will never sell what I have, it will only keep growing, in fact. I hope everyone that's into having physical for profit proposes dies painfully.

>>9676484

*buy

I don't have a physical collection. Once you can learn to be content with what you have, you won't be constantly striving for pieces of plastic and you'll truly be happy.

>>9676436
I sold my SNES when I was in a bad place financially, but most of the games were on the SNES mini I got years later. No regrets

I sold my Wii, Xbox, PS2, and Xbox 360 and don’t miss the games at all. I sold my PS4 less than a year after it was gifted to me and used some of the money buy an SNES mini. No regrets.

I still have my NES at my parents house. but only play it sometimes when I’m visiting.

I kept my Gamecube and turned that into my sole retro console. My goal is to keep that collection forever. I’m still buying games for it.

My only regret is selling my N64, which was such a great party/local multiplayer console. I wish I had it still just to play with friends. It also had some of my favorite games that I wish I could revisit. Emulation just doesn’t cut it.

>>9676436
I kinda regret it. It'd be nice to still have a physical collection for the sense of pride & accomplishment. But I'm perfectly content with emulation, so meh.

>>9676436
Don't see that ever happening. Reason why I have most of my stuff in the first place is that I never saw a reason to sell my old games back in the day either, unlike others who tossed everything out as soon as new consoles arrived. That and I make good money and even if I needed money, taking the time to sell shit on ebay just isn't worth my time. I'd be more likely to just give it away to family members who are interested rather than selling.

There are some games and consoles I'd like to hold onto forever, but others that I've owned for decades and barely touched. I sold a pretty minty Virtual Boy and the handful of games I had for it a few years back. Sometimes I regret it for a moment, but then I remember I never played it and it hurt my eyes.

Collecting was fun for me when it was more affordable and there wasn't this culture of le rare gem youtubers, scalpers and grading. But as I get older and can actually afford some of the games I wanted, I realize how little time I play a lot of the stuff I already own and how many cartridges and discs just sit on the shelf.

>>9676442
If any of my friends or family are alive, they can just have em to sell as a big lot.

I sold off my 600ish games collection. I got tired of my consoles breaking one right after the other. Repaired my NES 3+ times, my SNES twice, Ps1 stopped working, I bought as retron 5 to try to replace them but it barely payed half my carts. The last straw was when my N64 stopped working. I just started selling everything. I emulate everything now.

Never selling

I own probably around 600+ games incl. over 100+ Saturn games (PD Saga etc) and I'm buying ODE's for all my consoles, for both convenience and to play obscure games that would be expensive and unjustified. The collection is just a burden to me at this point, it fills 3 meters of floor to ceiling shelves. If there was an easy method of selling it at a reasonable price I would do it.

>>9676746
Wow, that is some wild bad luck. The only consoles I have ever had break, were my PS3 (2 or 3 times) and my Sega CD

>>9676769
Forgot to mention that since buying ODEs I actually play the games now rather than just looking for the next game to buy.

I have a decent sized physical collection, but recently got ODEs and flashcarts for pretty much all my consoles. I'm still keeping the physical collection around mostly for display purposes and nostalgia. Don't really feel the need to sell it unless I'd urgently need the money for something. I still buy some games from time to time, but honestly I should probably save the money. I'm just glad I'm finally at a point again where I am actually playing a lot of games. Nothing is more depressing than having a huge bunch of games, but not feeling like playing anything.

>>9676449
And im sure the people who load up a flashcart with an entire consoles library are absolutely playing every one.

I own a bunch of games and although i've been meaning to sell a lot of them I haven't got to it yet. I really hate how much space this stuff takes up it so much better to just get it digitally

>>9676436
Sold everything but handhelds years ago
No ragerts

>>9676449
>things on a shelf is autism
>hard drives with full rom sets somehow isn't
We get it, you don't want plastic and that's totally fine - but you should get over yourself.

>>9676436
>Do you think you'll ever sell your collection?
I have almost 300 physical games. Also emulate. Also pirate. Also run flash carts. Never gonna sell. But i am at the point where i have stopped buying 90s games. As the prices arent tolerable any longer.

>>9676893

Electronic hoarding is better than physical hoarding. Cheaper and smaller footprint.

>>9676436
I can't see myself ever selling it. Even at todays prices it's worth maybe $100k. For a gainfully employed adult my age that's nothing. I'll just give it away if I reach the point I'm unable to use it.

>>9676952

You're actually getting the full use out of a $100k collection? Or just looking at a shelf once in a while and going, "oh, that's cool!"

>>9676958
You won't take money to the grave, and money by itself brings no joy. It's a critical point that poor and emufags don't realize or conveniently skirt by since they have no snarky disingenuous reply to that. If having a physical collection elicits a positive response in my life, that's worth more than money in the bank.

>>9676964
>money by itself brings no joy

It does to some.

>>9676975
I can only pity them.

>>9676983

I agree, anon.

>>9676436
sold alot of nintendo shit, don't regret it, I still have a gamecube, 2 gba and one gba sp to sell along with gaymes.
there is 2 systems I regret selling, my 3 playstations and my psvita, I kept the psvita box tho just in case I come across one at a good price

>>9676769
This is me, except I have around 1000. The thing is I stopped buying physical games years ago, unless I get some really fantastic deal.
I've been getting consoles I missed, ODEs, flashcarts and doing softmods.
I did some hardware modifications but I'm always afraid of fucking up. I fucked up my perfectly fine AGS-101 days ago trying to do the power and audio mod. This is the kind of shit that sometimes makes me want to sell everything I have and just stick to emulation.

>>9677067
Another demotivational thing that happened to me once was getting a clone MD Everdrive, putting the official firmware inside it and bricking the cart. After that I had to get another one, which will now render useless because I recently got an official X5 because it can act as a RAM cart for the Mega CD.
If you stick to emulation you will never have this kind of problems and you won't waste money like a retard.

>>9676964
based

I would never sell it. Much of it has personal meaning because I made a point of keeping boxes/games in excellent condition as a child. I enjoy still being able to use and play those original pieces of my collection.

>>9676436
Emulation solved the collection problem years and years ago. I honestly look down upon people who still own and collect worthless, overpriced plastic. You can have all the games for all the systems. For free. A physical game collection is completely worthless and something for suckers.

I definitely need to downsize my collections. I collect for then just games and it's just too much shit in general. I do have some strong sentimental value attached to some pieces, which I feel is kinda unhealthy. To give that kinda power to "stuff". Material wealth is false.

>>9677276
>The thief trying to look down on others while crawling in the mud.

>>9677339
More then just games*

>>9676958
I guess that depends on your personal definition of "full use". Am I getting "full use" of all my cars? How about all those spare tires?

>>9676964
>money by itself brings no joy
This. Money needs to be in a giant vault in the form of gold coins you can swim in to be properly enjoyed.

>>9677340
Paying some guy for his analogue copy or taking some guy's digital dump of his copy are hardly different. Devs get nothing either way

>>9676964
Money buys freedom. First, freedom to not work. Second, freedom to live in any location you want. If you don't have those two freedoms but hoard plastic you're an idiot.

>>9677374
Hmm, I'm thinking I'd rather enjoy my life rather than listen to some guy telling me how I'm supposed to enjoy it.

>>9676436
i've been selling everything and i'm big into emulation.
if you only collect for a couple consoles its manageable, but if you play a shitload of systems it becomes one of those nightmare gamer cave rooms.
i had one of those meme setups with 16 consoles plugged in and a wall of games.

>>9676484
>i sold a ton of stuff
>to buy a wii that should cost less than a 100 bucks.

>>9677394
Do whatever you want, we're both on 4channel.org so we obviously have no impulse control and no respect for our time/money.

>>9677426
And there's the projection. I'm sorry you feel like a failure, anon. But assuming that random strangers are in the same boat as you isn't a healthy way to deal with this issue.

Have a big collection but I don't buy anything anymore. The prices are laughable now and people are fighting each other over scraps.

>>9676449
If you're jailbreaking may as well pirate

>>9677431
>heh actually my time is valuable says anon arguing on 4channel.org

>>9676436
For Christmas my mom thought it would be funny to get me one of those SNES Mini Consoles since she got me the original SNES when I was a child.
Looking into it I found out how easy it is to throw games on it from anything about that generation. So I filled it with all the NES, SNES, Genesis, GB, GBC, and GBA games I cared about. With the market super over-inflated right now I sold them all off and made a killing.
I got the PS1 mini for $20 and did the same thing. Plan on selling my PS1 collection too. The emulation works fine.

>>9677628
My mom got me one too, I replayed Kirby Super Star and knew then only the real thing is good enough for me.
Then I bought a PVM. And have been in love with it ever since. Still have the mini as decoration and won't sell it since it was a gift.

>>9677276
Careful brosef. Your NPD is showing again.

I'm going to sell someday. I haven't added to the collection in over 10 years, and I think I'm past the sentimental value stage. There's a handful that I might give away to friends though.

I play to be cremated with my copies of Snatcher.

>>9677431
Projecting their failure at life is literally the only thing keeping their heads from exploding. How can preventing your head from exploding not be a healthy thing to do?

>>9677374
The value of the average game collection is not enough money for either of those.

>>9678595
Indeed. Doing my tax return this year made me realise I need at least a million to retire comfortably and eventually move to a bigger house (in order to store more games).

>>9678610
>I need at least a million to retire comfortably
Well better hurry the fuck up, because if all you need to retire is 1M you're already past retirement age.
>move to a bigger house
Yeah, someone who doesn't actually have enough to retire doesn't have enough to afford a bigger house. Also maintaining a large house is a pain in the ass, even more so as you get older. Anyone actually old enough to consider retiring who doesn't have many millions will be moving to a smaller place, not a bigger one.

>>9676746
This guy here.

Today I saw these, it was so fucking tempting I almost started collecting again. Each intellevision game was $3-5 all were sealed
1/3

>>9679778
2/3

>>9679781
3/3

>>9676436
I probably will eventually yeah. I just don't really play that many games anymore.

I sold a bunch of games that are worth hundreds now.

>>9676436
unlikely

>>9676436
>Do you think you'll ever sell your collection?
I will on the first whiff of death (if I get the privilege), fuck burdening your family with managing this shit after death

>>9676436
>Do you think you'll ever sell your collection?
I have never sold and likely never will, I have however given away some to family.
>For those that have, do you regret it?
I'm probably in a different boat than most but I've lost (unwillingly) a big collection of games and consoles that would be worth lots of money today when I moved countries so I've been trying to collect some of the consoles I had and some of the ones I never had. For me the physical games aren't that important, what's important is having the console and the right TV set and setup. Nothing beats playing on the actual hardware and virtually every console nowadays can be modded so there's no need to hoard discs and cartridges.

>>9676442
Was thinking about this yesterday. What happens to all my shit once I die? If I die old no one will care about these prehistoric consoles and games. Their only value right now is in reliving my childhood and adolescence, the kids of today will only care about the Switch and PS5 when they're 35-40 years old.

See that's the thing, I see people older than me getting all crazy about Atari 2600, ColecoVision, NES, ZX Spectrum etc but to me those consoles and computers have no value whatsoever because they're before my time. I have no interest in their software or hardware. If I saw a Master System, a DMG or PSone then yeah I'd be excited too.

For me collecting is just an never ending nostalgia for my past, like I can't move on from those halcyon, summer days.

>>9676436
>For those that have, do you regret it?
Not at all. I made about $14,000 on eBay with mine back in 2014 and it helped me pay my monthly student loans so I could be a neet for two years before I joined the military. Nowadays my only physical consoles are Chinese handhelds and Gameboy Micro.

>>9679867
grow up, you have TOYS

>>9679867
Still only half as mentally ill as Sonic collectors.

>>9679930
>>9679932
seething poorfags

>>9679935
There's that projection again.

>>9679897
>I made about $14,000 on eBay with mine back in 2014

now ebay all payment systems narc on you to IRS if you sell $600 in a year

>>9679778
Most Intellivision stuff is pretty worthless anyway and the amount of people who even care about collecting it will likely continue to decline in the years to come as there's just not a lot of nostalgia tied to the brand in anyone younger than 50 by now. Still a good deal for sealed items but honestly the thought of buying a game and intentionally never playing it disgusts me.

>>9676436
I sold a good chunk and would sell more but it is hard to get the money it is worth now. Hell I would even take less but everyone wants to super low ball. I am switching to mostly emulation for the old stuff and will be starting a new collection of cheap stuff because that is what is fun. I am hoping the game store near me stops trying to screw me out of trade value at least.

Eventually. Always had the mindset that I would keep and enjoy everything for as long as I can, but that eventually I would need to get rid of it. Either because I hit dire straits or because I naturally grew out of it.

I'm getting close to dire straits, anon. I need $1,000 pretty soon. I might have to sell a few saturn games.

>>9676436
I genuinely can't think of any reasons why I would sell my collection. The only people who sell their collections are people who get into the hobby casually and then get bored. I will legitimately hang on to these until I die

>>9676442
>what troubles me the most is to decide the future of my games once I die

>>9679872
>For me the physical games aren't that important, what's important is having the console and the right TV set and setup. Nothing beats playing on the actual hardware and virtually every console nowadays can be modded so there's no need to hoard discs and cartridges.
Or you can just play every game for every system that has ever existed on your PC. For free.

The rest of your post is just the usual ebay seller grift.

>>9679935
t. scalper
I don't give a shit about your plastic and e-waste. I only care about the games, so I emulate.

>>9680149
>money it is worth now
The objective value of all of your plastic trash is in the negative since it's just e-waste.

>>9680165
>I genuinely can't think of any reasons why I would sell my collection.
It's garbage with no value you wasted money on and the sooner you get rid of it the better since the grift is over. You might get some of it back if there's still a chump or two out there. The verdict is simple - collecting games and consoles is a sign of superb idiocy and it makes you look stupid, because you fell for the scam. Every single person who collects this trash is on the same level as that old woman that collects toilet paper and piss bottles. It's nothing to be proud of, it means you are genuinely stupid.

All of this, ALL OF IT, can be got for free. And it was free for decades. And it still is and forever will be. Dumbasses.

>>9680173
Why are you angrily attacking anon over wanting an authentic setup? Emulators have inaccuracies, get over it.

This guy is really mad that people own things

>>9680184
>It's garbage with no value
Monetary value isn't the only type of value. These games are valuable to me because I like them. Monetary value is meaningless because I'll never sell them.
>you wasted money on
Money spent on hobbies, entertainment and things you enjoy is money well-spent. Besides, if I wasn't buying games then I would just be spending it on some other hobby. My bills are paid and I have plenty of savings and investments. I can afford to have hobbies. Idk about you though.
>the sooner you get rid of it the better
Why? I play games all the time, getting rid of games would just leave me with nothing to play.
>the grift is over
Speak English. Idk what that means.
>You might get some of it back
How am I supposed to get the games back if I sell them? And then what would be the point in selling them? That's stupid. I don't want the money back, I don't need it.
>collecting games and consoles is a sign of superb idiocy and it makes you look stupid
Insisting that emulators full of inaccuracies is the only way to play games and attacking people who can afford to have hobbies is superb idiocy and makes you look stupid.
>you fell for the scam.
Owning things I like is not a scam. You fell for the "own nothing and be happy" scam.
>Every single person who collects this trash is on the same level as that old woman that collects toilet paper and piss bottles.
My house is spotless and uncluttered.
>It's nothing to be proud of
Having enough money to pay your bills, put away for savings, make investments, as well as afford multiple hobbies is definitely something to be proud of.
>it means you are genuinely stupid.
Being financially stable doesn't mean you are stupid.
>All of this, ALL OF IT, can be got for free.
Ok? As I said earlier, money isn't a problem. It doesn't matter of it costs $5, $50 or $500.
And it was free for decades
Ok, and?
>And it still is and forever will be.
Ok... And?
>Dumbasses.
You're mad that people have money to buy stuff. Thirdie faggot

>>9680168
Only braindead cucks would think that even a hand full of games, 25-50 years from now, would be tossed to a dumpster.

>>9680168
Thats why its important to make accurate rips and high quality manual scans or even 3d scans. It then won't be so bad if the originals get thrown out if you can make perfect replicas. But there could be a time when they don't even bother making rom chips anymore but even then stuff like an arduino can emulator a rom chip. With a lot of my early collection if I didn't buy it then it likely would have been dumped.

>>9680165
I could them for a few thousand but why bother, just so I can get a newer old car, it wouldn't be enough to change my life.

>>9677628
I did that but got mega pissed at the lag on the other systems. Frame delay helped but not enough.

>>9677080
and then the 32x cart will be released which will make the mega everdrives obsolete.

>>9676893
Only takes about 4 nes games to pay for the flashcart it were going to buy them. I mostly just play games I already own anyway.

>>9676775
I got the saturn rhea, I hadn't played it for a couple of years and sd card adaptor had actually coroded so it didn't work, new adaptor and it worked fine but whats it going to be like in 10 years. We need better storage.
And the game files are cdi, the fuck. Having to use a 15 year old computer to convert the files.

>>9680173
>Or you can just play every game for every system that has ever existed on your PC. For free.

We get it.

Your a poorfag.

Moving on....

>>9680234
I'm a fan of actual games. You're just a shitty scalper jewing miserable fucks out of their money and using the board as your advertising service.

>>9676436
>Are you done collecting for a particular system, or do you regularly buy new games?

I will never own massive 100% complete game collections for systems. I have no desire or interest to own games that I will most likely never play. I don't like fluff.

I only buy games that have special meaning to me, or that I enjoy.

My basement has a few arcade machines (Neo Geo, Daytona USA, Time Crisis, etc), a few game systems with a couch, an air hockey table, and a pool table. .

Everything I own is something I've personally played and enjoy.

My hope is that I can enjoy the games with my family and friends. And hopefully pass my humble collection to my children. Especially the arcade machines as I know they are pretty rare these days.

>>9680241
If you were a fan of the actual games then you would play them accurately on real hardware.

>>9680227
>and then the 32x cart will be released which will make the mega everdrives obsolete
That's not going to happen. For a flash cart to run 32X games it would need to emulate the system fully through an FPGA. At that point you might as well play on an emulator. Plus the 32X barely has any games and none are popular enough to make it worth it. It also has the possibility of requiring too much power which may damage the console.

>>9680118
Well this was my first time finding boxed games in the wild, let alone sealed. It was quite the event for me. I also found this Zelda 2 sealed, Vegas stakes for SNES sealed and a boxed copy of sonic 2 for the gamegear

>>9680287
He doesn't care about games. He only cares about game data. He's the type of guy who downloads entire 700GB rips of MAME collections and thinks he's superior. The reality is that he's a data hoarder.

Systems that have a bunch of minor titles are unattractive to me. I much prefer to swim around in a nice luxurious pool or two than to dip my toes all around.
N64 > PS1.

>>9680363
The sealed game market is very toxic and the potential for scams there is enormous is you're not familiar with identifying legit factory seals. Buying complete vintage games is nice but paying huge markeups for some cellophane wrap is stupid if it means you're never gonna be able to play the game you spent all that money on.

>>9676436
I've sold some games over the years. I don't regret it, because I got them cheap and sold them for 40x what I paid, usually. Bought some guns when I was short on cash, so no regrets. Now that i am financially stable I don't plan on selling them, but if I need to it's nice knowing they are going up in value, and don't take up much room. I still haven't bought those games back that I sold because they are so expensive.

>Super Turrican 2 CIB
>Pocky and Rocky CIB
>R-Type III CIB

Yeah... Bought each for 20 bucks each in 2001.

>>9680287
>what is a flash cart

>>9680518
a pcb with an FPGA on it isn't fully accurate.

>>9679872
I gave away a shitload of stuff when I left the states. None of my family was interested so gave it to friends. I quickly rebuilt a far larger collection, as I moved to the vidya capital of the world, so no regrets.
Ironically, only zoomers need to worry about what happens to their collection when they die, cause tidepods amirite. Even with no medical miracles I'm about half way through my natural life at 54. When I kick it, yy grandchildren will be much older than nearly everyone on /vr/ is today. It's really not something worth working about unless you're a neurotic faggot.

>>9676436
its ok to change your mind
i sell all the time

>>9676436
>For those that have, do you regret it?
I sold off my small GB, GBA, DS, PSP, PS2, and 3DS collections. No regrets. Sold most of my PS1 collection. Some regrets. Kept my NES and SNES. Honestly its all I really play anyway. I picked up an N64 even though I didn't have it as a kid and a few games. It's pretty fun to play 3D Zelda, but my god I'm absolute shit at 3D DK.

I sell if I get a copy of a game I already have, why have more than 1 copy (unless it's some variation)? Nothing worse than hoarders that keep games from getting out on the market. My collection isnt that big so it will be easy to throw into some boxes and keep them in storage if I grow tired of it. We have to remember, in the end most of these stuff is just useless plastic junk we love because of nostalgia. Most of these will be dead in future to because of bitrot och discrot.

>>9681224
I'm not keeping games from getting into the market. I'm just giving them a chance to increase in value 50x before they do.

>>9680281
>I only buy games that have special meaning to me, or that I enjoy.
/thread

I'll never sell my collection and quite frankly I feel a sense of pride and accomplishment when I admire it. I think I've got 600 or so from 2600 to modern consoles. I always prefer to buy physical if I can to avoid having to rebuy games later on l.

My biggest problem now is finding a way to display it all. My primary motivation is to play my games but sometimes I will buy a game just to have it in my collection. I therefore find it hard to justify such purchases if I'm not actively displaying it. If things continue on this path my entire house will be nothing but DVD shelves by the time Im dead.

>>9676436
>Do you think you'll ever sell your collection?
no. you can never predict the future, but, at the moment, no.
>Are you done collecting for a particular system, or do you regularly buy new games?
PC big box collecting has pretty much stopped thanks to eBay bullshit pricing. occasionally, i'll find a flea market vendor willing to part with stuff for $5-$10 but that's pretty rare these days.

>>9679897
I see you took the you will own nothing and be happy trope to the extreme. Even your ass belongs to the Government.

>>9682396
theres other things to own beside fucking video games,i own about 200 games but its worth jack shit compare to the musical gear i own.

>>9676436
I sold my video game colection, my warhammer armies, my manchild toys, my swords and my gamer PC for close to nothing.
Best move in ages. Only kept a shit tier notebook for work.
Freedom is unvaluable.

>>9682509
Damn, it must be a daily struggle to not hang yourself.

>>9676436
Sold the majority of my collection like 4 years ago. got tired of constant maintenance on a lot of the disc based systems. had to replace a psx, 2 gamecubes, and 2 dreamcasts because they would constantly freeze/give disc read errors or just have trouble reading the discs because of worn down lasers. Buying discs was also a big risk because scratches were a pain in the ass to deal with, and would find myself constantly worried if games would freeze every loading screen
>Do you regret it
i wish i waited 2 years to sell them when the market exploded, couldve doubled my profit easily.
although i do kind of regret selling my psx collection, as that was my favorite system, and a lot of the games for it were childhood games. im tempted to pick it back up again but i know the disc reading stuff will piss me off again...

>Are you done collecting for a particular system, or do you regularly buy new games?
i mostly just collect for cart based systems now like the 64 and gameboy series now, and have most of the sought after games for them. theres still more i need, but the price has skyrocketed in recent years so i probably wont buy any more for a while

>>9682528
Honestly, I feel like removed a burden, and also won a room. No girls involved in this destruction (34yo KV). Just me evolving.

>>9682509
>he fell for the minimalism meme
lmaooooooooooo
selling the swords was a good move though, sword collections are a big red flag

>>9682553
>minimalism meme
Pretty much, yes.

>>9682543
yeah sure

>>9682553
>sword collections are a big red flag
Why?

>>9682509
>for close to nothing.
As I reseller I can confirm. Junkies are absolutely the best source of cheap product.

>>9682509
>sold my swords
Idiot. What will you do when the russians invade?

>>9676436
Since buying new collection pieces is completely impossible for me now that I've been priced out, I'm considering selling now while its most profitable and before disc rot comes for me. But I just have too much sentimental attachment to get rid of them.

>>9679872
I'm nowhere near needing to think about this yet, but my plan is to donate it all to some computing museum or something. Seems like by that time, the kind of people who would go there would be the one's who would get the most out of it.

I actually find it kind of stressful that games I bought for $30-$40 are worth hundreds now. I havea few games that I bought at MSRP that are now worth over $1000. I just want to have a collection I can play with, I don't want to have to worry about having expensive investment items that could get damaged or stolen

>>9684207
Well as far as getting damaged goes, just take good care of your games (which I'm sure you're already doing). Don't treat them roughly and keep them inside away from direct sunlight, and not in a loft or garage or something. A mishap may happen, but that's life.

As for stolen, I'm sure your average burglar is more interested in car keys, wallets, tablets and phones etc. Someone from /vr/ isn't going to burgle you because that requires leaving their home.

If it really stresses you out, get some enhanced contents insurance for your home. At least then you could get back $1000 or so for those truly valuable games in your collection. Maybe keep a spreadsheet of them as a reference.

>>9682396
>you will own nothing and be happy trope
You don't understand the meaning of this phrase. It has nothing to do with voluntary minimalism.

>>9676436
I wanna start collecting old games but only Pokémon and Mario games mainly. Maybe a couple other things but those are what I like most and are most common on the market. I wanna have then with the original box too. It doesn't have to be sealed just with the box and I wanna have 2 copies of each. I've played them before emulated but I wanna have the real thing now.

>>9685918
>2 copies of each
For what purpose?

>>9683982
Thanks for existing. Glad to make someone happy with my stuff.

>>9684245
>i'm owning nothing because i want to, not because of the propaganda that definitely didn't affect me!

>>9676524
I went through a phase like that, and sold most of my possessions. Then I realised it's actually nice to be surrounded by things I appreciate. So now I have a modest collection of games I play the most

>bought a lot of Dreamcast games when they were cheap around 2009-2012, burned games that were too expensive to CDR
>bought Shenmue twice because my first one had a bad third disc and I couldn’t finish it
>first console had the disc laser wear out
>got a good deal on a second one from a local game store since I didn’t need any controllers or cables
>been afraid to play too much and wear out the laser on my second
>finally bought Project Justice
>feel kind of stupid for spending so much money on just one game, especially since the US version doesn’t have the character creator board game mode
>buy a modded Dreamcast with a GDemu and an HDMI adapter
>cost less than a copy of Cannon Spike
>buy a bigger SD card and load it up with every game I own and tons of cool import games or prototypes I never got to play
I could have bought a GDemu clone by itself for even less and put it in my first Dreamcast, but the modded one came with a cool repro shell based on the Resident Evil limited edition consoles so I figured it was worth it for that alone, plus I got another controller with a VMU and rumble pack. My friend has a GC Loader and I kind of want to get one too since I’m on my second GameCube after the disc laser went out in the one I had since launch. There are a handful of games I’d want to keep but I almost never use them these days and some have been rereleased plenty of times so there’s not really much point to keeping them all. The games are only going to get more expensive and one day they won’t even work, so I’m considering selling all the games and getting flash carts/ODEs. It’s way easier to bring a console to a friend’s house if you aren’t carrying a stack of discs or cartridges. It’s fun to look through the manuals but that’s really only something I care about for disc games. Now I just want to buy more controllers and other peripherals.

>>9676436
Sold off a lot of my N64 games which I now regret. At least I have an Flash cart to still enjoy games on the system. I will try and keep the rest of my collection N64/GC/Wii for as long as possible.

Unrelated: which of your favourite games am I missing from my GC collection, any recommends? Single or multiplayer (PAL)

>>9676449
Not OP but I just got a case for my slim PS2 that lets me discswap and that was about it. You're making it sound like some ultimate trial

>>9676436
>Do you think you'll ever sell your collection?
No. I really. Really. Really fucking enjoy it. In fact its time to expand it. I love knowing I have my own private blockbuster downstairs. If I wake up at night I go down and look at the games and giggle in delight. It brings me immense pleasure playing through the games, even the cheesy ones. I am mainly personal computers of the early 80s, PS1, PS2, XBox360, and big box and CD>DVD PC
>>9676449
>Is it really worth it going through the effort to jailbreak your ps2 to play American, European, and Japanese games,
No but why do that? I mean for the ps1ps2/ there are so many games you can still pick up at estate auctions for almost nothing and they are going to be your region so why bother.

>>9686679
>every mario party except the best one
what the fuck are you thinking

>>9684207
i know this feeling. a lot of rare games have shot up in price and now im more worried about their condition. what if a disc becomes unreadable or something, then i have to rebuy it for retard price?

i like the feeling of just knowing that if something happens, i can just buy another one relatively easily for a decent feeling

>>9686926
I'm not really at it for the money and never look up the price. I got a shock once though because I was a huge futurama fan, so I had the DVD boxsets for seasons 1-4 and the PS2 game sealed. Looking for a game to play, rip the packaging off play it for a few hours. Have fun. Go upstairs, google it and discover it was worth a few hundred sealed. I can't be bothered with that shit so I never check the price. I buy this stuff to play. I don't pay much for it either. I pick it up in charity and thrift stores and auctions

>>9676436
>Do you think you'll ever sell your collection? For those that have, do you regret it?

I don't think I'll ever sell my childhood games. I was an autistic kid and took very good care of my stuff, so I have all the boxes and user manuals. The sentimental value of that far outweighs the few hundred bucks I'd get from selling it. I have, however, sold all the loose carts that I've acquired over the years. The one exception to this is my copy of Earthbound, which my brother gave me as a Christmas present in 2011. Again, sentimental attachment.

>Are you done collecting for a particular system, or do you regularly buy new games?

I'm done buying games in general. I have a modded PS2 and a modded Wii to satisfy all my sixth gen cravings, and flashcarts for everything before that. When the DS was current I even had a flashcart for that. I generally have very little interest in modern games and haven't bought any in years. My wife has a Switch so we will occasionally buy new games for that.

>>9676436
>Do you think you'll ever sell your collection?
>>9686862
>No

>>9679867
BASED
>>9680767
based
>>9682119
somewhat based
>>9687009
based
>>9677950
baste

>>9684245
>i could totally own things if i really wanted to
But of course you could, sweaty.

10 years ago I sold half of it. First it was depression, then moving to a smaller place with less room for storing crap.
Nowadays I regret selling. A good chunk of it was crap without boxes, but other stuff is impossible to find now without paying absurd prices. Even if there was no emotional attachment involved, I could have gotten more money by waiting.

The only thing I would want to get back is a Model 1 Megadrive, I don't care about the box and manuals, but mine was in great physical shape. No scuff marks, no murk, and I even had a custom made RGB Scart cable with a stereo sound input.
The games, I don't care that much. Those pal covers and spines were a bad eyesore. All I have kept is Gunstar Heroes, Rocket Knight and Risky Woods.

>>9680168
Saw a second hand shop run by latinos. The window was full of retro stuff that looked like an apartment had been cleaned and the bags were emptied straight into display area.

From original Nintendo Game & Watch games to pal dreamcast game cases cracked from the impact of dropping them. That shit was painful to see.

>>9676449
> the effort to jailbreak your ps2

Original hardware fetish? Sure. But I have no issues with leaving the original game in a protective bag and burning a DVD or playing from an HDD.

It's about finding the point at which you are happy. Not like there's a "Ten commandments of retro gaming and collecting" and if you break them, you will end in hell condemned to watch someone throwing nintendo games cardboard boxes to a fire and keeping the loose cartridges for all of eternitiy..

I sold my collection about four years ago. Large amount of stuff - SNES, Dreamcast, ancient Atari VCS, Amiga, N64, Atari lynx, Atari 7800, Amstrad CPC, Commodr CD32, Playstation 1 and 2 , gameboy (lots of them). Larg3 library of games for all of them. Probably some other stuff I’m forgetting too.
No regrets. Emulation works fine for me now if I want to play any of it. The fact was it mainly sat around doing nothing.

>>9676436
I regulary cull stuff that isnt doing anything. Like a stack of my GC stuff. bought for like $1-3ea and sold for 10+ because sports and other random shit blew up

>>9686679
You're missing:
Twin Snakes
Kirby Air Ride
Animal Crossing
Soul Calibur II
Super Monkey Ball
FF Crystal Chronicles

Good collection otherwise.

>>9687009
Based perl programmer.

>>9687350
I'm still in disbelief on how expensive some of the stuff I owned back in the day is going for now and they weren't rare by any means. I think my sister might still have some of my collection and consoles not sure but trying to get back those memories costs a lot of money these days.

>>9687459
>I'm still in disbelief on how expensive some of the stuff I owned back in the day is going for now

Those were exactly my thoughts when I heard about Rule of Rose, something I picked from a a bargain bin back then because I like that kind of flawed games

Less of availability increases the baseline price, although it's still overblown and bullshit for loose cartridges.

Europe has it worse, since there was a lot of country specific releases. While Megadrive games usually are one single version with a multilanguage case and manual, Nintendo games tend to have country specific versions, long before the colored triangles on the spine became a thing.
The amount of units released per country and the culture of "caring for your games" varies greatly from one to another. Spanish versions are amongst the worst and tend to be more expensive, but german versions used to be a lot cheaper, in near mint status, and readily available, so I ended with a ton of sauerkraut editions. And happy about them.

>>9686679
- Geist (It was no Metroid Prime, but it have a happy memory of it)
- Baten kaitos (that one was not even cheap or easy to find back then)

I think I still have an Odama on the thick box with the microphone that I tried to sell years ago without luck. I wonder if people still want that crap

>>9676436
I traded my Dreamcast, GameCube, PS1 and a bunch of games that weren't highly sentimental or rare to some guy for a Wii U, and I do kind of regret it, since the Wii U sucked and I ended up selling it. Mostly miss my Dreamcast, but I wasn't using it and hopefully that guy or his kids are.

>sold an N64 to gamestop in 2004 for $7.33

>>9687840
congrats on getting a good buck for that piece of shit

I flip all my games every few years once emulators become stable so I can buy more games.

How much would you spend for a copy of Panzer Dragoon Orta?
Lowest I can find is $28 but it's not in good condition. Pic related is $35.

>inb4 "zero" just emulate tards

>>9676436
Nah
The only thing that’s likely to make me sell is if I have a kid and the amount could put a dent in their college payments or something. Supposedly my collection is worth $20,000+ but I’d rather have the games than $20,000. And finding buyers would be a pain in the ass, so I’d probably just end up selling it in bulk to someone for something like $10k

And I’m not rich or anything, but the reality is that $10,000 probably wouldn’t make a big enough impact on my life to replace the games. Its not enough for a house. I don’t want a different car. As just a chunk if money I’d surely piss it away in a matter of years and then I’d be wondering why I bothered. Kids are about the only thing that would change that. But at least at the moment, the GF doesn’t want kids, so I’ll probably have this shit until my estate sale.

>>9687542
I wanted this game on launch and my mom wouldn’t let me buy it and I’ll never forgive myself for not finding an alternate route to purchasing it

>>9687542
This is me with Cubivore

>>9676442

This is why collecting almost anything is stupid.

I have 16 rare CRTs as well. This is a fraction of my game collection.

>>9688410
>Battle Athletes Victory VHS tape
based

>>9688410
Who's that on the towel? Kinda looks like Nanachi.

>>9688413
You’re even more based from recognizing it from a damn sliver of a corner, anon. Fucking kek.

>>9688416
That’s shiro from no game no life. This but in towel form. That damn towel took me forever to find and is unironically more rare than most of my games lmao

>>9688423

>>9688423
>>9688430

>>9686923
>>9687459
>>9687547
Thanks for suggestions bros, will put them on my to get list. This one in the mail today, finish off the NFS series. Started playing a bit before to test, I didn't know Carbon was a direct sequel to MW, gonna play it over the weekend.

>>9689702

If you are going to keep using an (unmodded) gamecube rather than a hacked wii and are playing on an LCD tv, try finding a freeloader.

Although most Gamecube PAL games have a 50-60hz selector and 50hz only games are rare, all of them have the Progressive scan mode removed. I started buying US NTSC versions of games I wanted to replay to enjoy at 480p.

For several years the official component cable was impossible to replicate, got to more than 300€ (I paid 50€ for a jp import) and the only solution was modding a japanese D-sub cable, but they finally managed to make affordable alternatives.

Of course, all of this is not worth the trouble if you get a Wii with GC controller inputs. Component cables are cheap and RGB scart is only needed if you want true 240p for the VC; you could just rip / download the mini dvds and play them on Nintendon't with Progressive mode and a 16:9 aspect ratio hack (Windwaker looks great like that).

>>9689702
BTW, All those games are Australian versions? I was thinking sweddish / finish until I noticed the age rating icons. Congratulations on sticking to a region. Mines were all pink until I started importing from UK to benefit from cheaper prices (the play.com era) and dark green started to appear on the on the collection

I see two pinks. I want to think they are spanish versions, but that would be a bit two far away, and the last time I sent stuff to AUS I got assraped with shipping and other charges.

>>9689860
Yeah I just use a Wii console, got a GC console I share with my brother (he has it). Got another Wii that I can hack - haven't gotten into Nintendon't yet, makes sense to keep the discs minty. Feel like the middle disc holding mechanism can damage the inner of the disc, maybe it's nothing..
>>9689867
Cheers, yes they are all Australian versions apart from the pink labels you spotted, I wanted to collect all games with Aus region, but the entire PAL library was not released here. Get which ones I can.

Pic related, top row - earlier classification design & later classification design. Bottom row, pink label games - MoH has an Aus classification stick stuck over the original European classification. Interestingly, game features on the rear are in both English and Finnish, it is EUR coded. Resident Evil funnily enough has an Australian classification printed to the cover art but both game/manual are EUR coded.

Early last year, we started going through my then alive Grandad's model car collection, and getting prices for each piece. I wish I had of asked him while he was still alive how he felt about us selling away his life long hobby collection. He didn't seem bothered about selling his less impressive pieces, and we've only started selling the more interesting pieces since he passed.
We've sold a great deal of the cars. We don't have a large family, but we picked out cars we liked that reminded us of him.
If I'm ever lucky enough to have the same loving family, I'd be fine with them selling my retro games and console (if they have no interest in it) once I'm going, or gone. Just need to show them how to gauge prices using sold eBay listings.

>>9689954
How much do those plastic protectors cost? I've been using plastic sleeves like pic related for years, just to protect boxed games from dust, but I can cardboard boxes would benefit from having something better.

>>9689954
Yep. Looks like they are two different shades of pink. I did not know about the sweddish / finnish one. Need to take a pic of my surviving GC games later today.

https://segaretro.org/Nintendo_of_Europe_coloured_triangles

>>9676436
I think blindly collecting is pointless. You will never collect everything and you will never be satisfied. For collecting to mean ANYTHING, it has to have some realistic achievable goals. That means something you can actually accomplish

Don't say: "I want every game ever made for every single system ever made complete in box."

That's nearly impossible.
It probably would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and would take years to track it all down.

Instead make your goals realistic and achievable.
Say something like: "I want to collect every single Sega Dreamcast game ever made."

That is possible. The goal is achievable.

Don't hoard and collect just for the sake of hoarding and collecting.

>>9690251
>I think blindly collecting is pointless
Get a load of this ablest cunt.
But I guess since you weren't even able to reply on topic you're disabled in your own way, so that's ok.

>>9690514
The topic literal asks if people ever finish their collections or do they continue to buy new games. Anon replied by saying it's important to set realistic goals. I don't see how that's off topic.

>>9679872
Really interesting post that I like, even if I do like collecting physical games to a certain point. I will say though that I don’t think your last point is really true.
I grew up with the Wii and the DS, and while they are my favorite systems to collect for (10% nostalgia, 20% cheapness, 70% amazing games), I still love collecting for consoles that I wasn’t even alive for.
I got an N64 when I was around 13 (I’m 18 now), and I got a PS3 even more recently with PS1 backwards compatibility, and both are a blast to collect for.

>When your collection is so large, quick math tells you it would take the rest of your life to meaningfully revisit every game in it

>>9689954

These are the games I still have. I think that in the end I only sold Megaman Network Transmission and the US version of Collection (the one with the inverted controls)

>>9690803
And a few JP ones from Play-Asia, back when it was more affordable (translation: When the euro was a decent currency before becoming a complete joke)

>>9690015
Not much, I guess? If you want just DVD sized bags, I have seen a pack of 200 for 19 eur on Amazon, so there has to be cheaper stuff on Ebay and Aliexpress.

I have bags on DVD and cd size, and a few comic book sizes that work well with bigger cases if you don't mint adjusting them a bit. Those are acid free, so maybe they work better with cardboard boxes

>>9690780
I guess if it makes him happy then what ever. He does not play his games, he just does it so he can keep his record going and it's his main personality trait now. My "collection" is just going to be 5th and 6th gen games that I like. Having that many games would feel stifling.

>>9690857
That's why I started selling. I Started looking at the stuff, and 1/3 of it had been purchased because of of rarity status or value. In the end it one day I looked at it and I was like "What's the point of having stuff that I won't play and has no emotional value?"

Right now it I bought retro stuff, it would be stuff that actually mattered to me, and those are have a high chance of getting played, even if I just make a backup of them (Heck, the Monkey Island II manual told me to back up the floppies and use those, rather than risk wearing down the originals).

It would be ironic.
>"Finally, I have time to play all this stuff.." >Texas freak snow storm strikes again, no electricity, threw away the generator to make room for more games.

>>9690841
NTA, but I hate that all of those DVD case plastic bags have a seam on the spine. It looks like shit from the side. Unfortunately I haven't found any that would have a seam on the other side (that would make the cases slide in horizontally).
The only covers known to me that do this are Nagaoka TS-521/3 and those are only for CDs. They cost 180 yen for 20 sheets and that's a fucking steal for their quality. 100% transparent, no color change, thick and durable plastic and they fit perfectly, Japanese CDs with obis look great in them.
Nagaoka used to make covers for DVDs and BDs (I even got some basic BD ones from one of the last batches ever, those have a seam on the spine though), but it seems they ended production of everything else some time ago and now make only CD and LP accessories.
https://www.nagaoka.co.jp/item/ts-5213.html

>>9690841
I mean the hard plastic protectors from >>9689702 and >>9689954
Not the plastic bagsggjmk

>>9691372
Those would be cool for the games worth displaying. Unfortunately few things can improve the garbage pal GBA games are. In the most extreme cases, there is no game title on any of the sides, just at the top.

And then I look at the few US gba games I have and... sigh, those guys are lucky.

>>9691372
There's a Polish company called Invisible Black. I don't know if they ship internationally, but I've recently bought a bunch of their protectors for my steelbooks and more valuable games and they're pretty good. Some of the BD ones had a bluish tint to them though (still 100% transparent), I don't know if they used different plastic for that batch or whatever.
About 0.80€ for one, you get a discount if you buy in bulk. They have many different standard sizes, with larger variants for steelbooks with outer covers. Looks like you can order custom sized protectors as well, but I've never tried it.
https://invisibleblack.pl/pl/p/Pudelko-Ochronne-Blu-Ray-G2-Bezbarwne-STANDARD/91
https://invisibleblack.pl/pl/p/Pudelko-Ochronne-DVD-G1-Bezbarwne-STANDARD/81
https://invisibleblack.pl/pl/p/Pudelko-Ochronne-CDJewelCase-Bezbarwne-STANDARD/97
https://invisibleblack.pl/pl/p/Pudelko-Ochronne-PSX-PS1-1CD-Bezbarwne-STANDARD/109
https://invisibleblack.pl/pl/p/Pudelko-Ochronne-GameBoy-Advance-Bezbarwne-STANDARD/107

That's just one example, you can probably find such protectors on ebay or aliexpress. One of the shops where I sometimes buy UHD BDs always bundles protectors with the steelbooks they're selling, but they're a bit different from those from IB (they open from the sides, not top/bottom), so there are certainly different sources.

A game collection is pretty easy to store and manage. Unless I ever had financial troubles I doubt I'd ever part with any of it.

Toys and figures on the other hand are kind of a fucking hassle. I've got like two book cases full of tiny little statues that are hard to deal with that I'm slowly losing interest in but I've never been able to get around to sell any of it.

>>9691849
PS2/Gamecube cases add up to a lot of space fast. Especially if you are living in a small apartment in a big city

>>9690803
>>9690809
Nice lil collection you got there, Japanese boxes are kino. Remember having Mario Power Tennis, but had to get rid of it because it was so much worse than Mario Tennis 64. Was really disappointed by that one in particular.

>>9691372
They're sold under "gamecube protectors 0.3m PET plastic" or something like that. Picked them up years ago for I can't even remember, less than a dollar a piece. Wouldn't be surprised if you'd pay more these days, unless you buy bulk or find a cheap chinese seller.

Here's my small Wii games collection

>>9692109
>Japanese boxes are kino.
What is this zoomer gibberish?

>>9692109
>Japanese boxes are kino.
If you're based in NA just print your own covers, you can add all the icons and graphics you want to.

>>9680215
What is point of the games if hardware will die soon?

I only buy games that I think I will be interested in playing. I then never play them.

I regret letting go of some games 6 years ago, but it paid the bills when I was between jobs. I've bought back a handful of things I missed the most

>supposed "best SNES game"
>not even 15 minutes into the game you come to a dead end where you have to blow up a wall that has no visual cue unless you randomly shoot at shit like a spastic retard
look me in the eyes and tell me this game wasn't designed to sell nintendo power subscriptions

>>9693069
I have a problem where I will get really obsessed with playing a game until the moment I actually hold it in my hands, at which point all motivation disappears.

>>9693897
Based PS2 enjoyer. Lots of overlap between your collection and mine, but I have maybe one rows' worth of the amount. That said, once PS2 emulation becomes more reliable, I'm definitely getting rid of my games. If not by selling them, maybe giving them to a friend.

>>9695297
>once PS2 emulation becomes more reliable
Not with the hackfest that is PCSX2. Someone would have to make a new emulator entirely from scratch. One that would actually be accurate to the hardware. We have fast PCs now, it can be done.

>>9676951
this is some depressing cope. I hope it's just because you're too young to have a collection

>>9676436
I won't sell the whole thing but I have sold games I no longer play to make room for others or other things I want.

>>9693897
>Armored Core 2
Man I hope you didn't have the rest of the PS2 games and sold those off cause that's gonna blow trying to get them back after 6 was announced.

>>9679867
Your Mega Man collection is fucking awesome, anon! I've never seen a better one. Do you dust it regularly and if so, how long does it take you?

>>9694557
Maybe that's a similar issue. Doesn't help for me that the room where I have my consoles set up is currently out of action.

>>9694031

overrated videogame. after the ghost ship the game feels empty and boring.

>>9694031
>designed to sell nintendo power subscriptions
It wasn't because Nintendo Power was an American magazine and that was a Japanese video game.

>>9695505
It feels empty and boring from start to staffroll.

>>9676436
I already did and replaced everything with flashcards. Best decision of my life. The time will come when everything is starting to die like disc rot and shit. It maybe be now for certain games or in 10-20 years but it will happen and thats when when everyone will switch over to flashcards anyway. Heck I know a lot of collectors who collect games but are way to scared to actually touch them so they play (they dont actually play) their games on flashcards anyway. At this point its not any different than collecting bitcoins and hoping they will increase in value over time.

>>9695476
oh wow, I hadn't been keeping up, that nuts how expensive these games are now. I only have Armored Core 2 and 5.

>>9676436
I almost only have 20 per system, so probably not, since I gave away some consoles even

>>9676436
Physical collection really has some advantages. You get to own the physical object which contains the official box, manual, the official game obviously. It's how it was meant to be used. It's a real pain to look for all that online, the official box, complete manual, inserts, posters, etc. Those often contain exclusive cool artworks that are part of the game officially.
It's more satisfying to own and play games the official way. It's like some kind of self achievement, like finishing a game without cheating. The satisfaction to own pdfs and roms and play them is inferior. That's why I think people actually pay for the physical games.
This is really what collections are all about : satisfaction of something accomplished.
With current prices, you have to be selective and focus on quality, which is good.
Good games are forever good, so I think those won't be worth nothing when we're all dead. The best games we've had are historical and will be remembered forever through all generations. There's video game museums already.

My only issue is counterfeit games, but it seems ebay and others are rather good at punishing it. And it's very illegal in many places, enforced. So I guess it's fine.

>>9698492
>This is really what collections are all about : satisfaction of something accomplished.
lol. no. Collections are all about buying a few mario games on ebay and getting strangers to validate your existence by posting picture of them in the internets.

>>9699578
Maybe for you, not me and many people
For some people it enhances the pride, I don't care personally

I can't afford a physical collection. But I LOVE my Mega Drive (+Everdrive) and shitty $20 CRT. I will never part with any of it.

Currently just collecting and playing through games just to have that sentimental value of owning/playing them as they were intended.
I'll sell most off in time, and stick with flash carts, if even that. I just want to experience the games and enjoy them before passing them on to the next player.

Never selling. I just throw vr stuff out. I really don't need more money

2018 was a bad year for me. I completely ran out of money and wasn't working. I realized I could finally get rid of some of my video game collection that was just sitting around The first sale I made was $200, which was enough to get my bike fixed and I got a job at a local grocery store. I kept selling and working all the way through the pandemic. Now I'm not starving, have a working car, and about half of my colleciton left. Selling has let me connect with a lot of passionate collectors, some of which cleaned up my carts and actually sent me pictures. I felt like I connected with the hobby more through selling. My only regret is not haggling a higher price for a few things - I usually sold in bundles and gave a pretty deep discount for doing so. But overall I'm happy and I sitll have some nice shit, plus my VIP box which is full of stuff I will never sell. Seeing how ridiculous the market is now most hobbyists are priced out of buying anything; I'm glad I got in before that.

I don't regret selling it since it was just stuff taking up space. I do regret buying so many digital games though since there isn't a market for that.

>>9699985
Might have been a little bit believable if you hadn't tried to pretend it's not exactly that for "many people". That's what collecting is for the vast majority of "collectors" and every "rate my collection" thread on the intarwebs is proof of that.

>>9700890
why would you complain about that? would you prefer a situation where games cannot be easily copied and shared but where you can resell your game to some sort of second hand market?

>>9701219
Not him but don’t you feel kinda retarded when you spend money on a non consumable with literally zero value? I do

>>9682119
Fine collection, displayed proudly. I like the podium of favored 64 games. But what is in the box of shame on top of the leftmost shelves?

>>9701275
video games do have value, you don't make profesionnal games for free

>>9682119
Holy shit anon, you have a room like that and you're still audiocucked. I feel sorry for you.

>>9701495
So does music, and I bet you don't give a fuck about 99% of you mp3s.

>>9701563
so what? I'm not the one who complained about not being able to resell digital games

>>9701495
Once your purchase a digital game it has zero market value

>>9676436
I collected a hundred N64 games when they came out and played the shit out of each one. I sold them all years ago, now I just look at at a huge list of roms on my flashcart and play something for a few minutes and get bored.

>>9676746
>N64 stopped working
never heard of this happening before

>>9701867
I'm not the other guy complaining

>>9701995
You misinterpreted my comment and I was clarifying