/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1920253]

People who collect: What makes you collect a specific game? Do you only collect what you like, do you want a complete collection, is it about notability?

For me I mostly collect what interests me or what I should play. I will buy a genuinely bad game if it's not too expensive and is really that noteworthy though, like Pac Man on the 2600.

[Anonymous No.1920306]

I only collect what I like.

I don't see a reason to buy bad games that I won't play.

[Anonymous No.1920350]

I collect what I still play, played, or wanted to play as kid but had no money. Modern trends and the whole "this game is terrible so you should play it" bs trends don't affect what I buy.

[Anonymous No.1920358]

>>1920306

this.

i will get some games if i've never played them before though, mostly to check them out and see what they're about. If i dont care for it much, ill usually end up trading it or selling it.

[Anonymous No.1920367]

>>1920253
I only collect for specific series, like say, Metroid, Zelda or Pokemon. I also collect Rare(ware) games - am only missing a few

[Anonymous No.1922126]

>>1920367
I only go for complete franchises. I also tend to go for genres, like SHMUPS that I will like and Beat em Ups in general.

I tend to skip the stupid prices as well. What I mean is that i go for realistic games, no Neo Geo Saudi Arabia prince tier.

[Anonymous No.1922145]

For older games, I'm out to discover new favorites or recover lost childhood games. For modern stuff I collect exclusives, I like having a collection of games that are unique to that specific system. When I talk about how great I think PS3 is, I'm most definitely talking about the exclusives that make it special to me, the games that give the system its own identity. I think playing games unique to one system is what makes that system worth having in the first place.

[Anonymous No.1922160]

I'm not sure where the cutoff is between "just buying some old games" and actually collecting. I have a decent number of genesis titles, but I wouldn't consider myself a collector. They're all just games I wanted to play

[Anonymous No.1922167]

>>1920306
Quality over Quantity master race.

Of course, even then I still have like 40+ SNES, 30+ NES, ~25 N64, and like 100 PS1 games. Thats only my retro.. I have a shitload of ps2 and ps3.

[Anonymous No.1922173]

>>1920253
someone should buy a bunch of shitty sport nes games and replace the insides with fake and print off a good fake label and sell them

i mean how could anyone even find out?

[Anonymous No.1922180]

>>1920253
There's two things for me really.

>do I like the game or series enough to buy it?
>does this special edition have any cool extras in it?

With the exception of disc games, I don't even care about CiB unless I really like the game, or if it's Japanese since the boxes still seem to be fairly common.

[Anonymous No.1922195]

I used to be indiscriminate with collecting, just buying random CIB games. Now, though, I focus on stuff I really want or specific goals (like, getting all CIB Rockman games or all CIB 1st party Nintendo games for a console or something), in addition to genuine rarities (as in things that are not mass-produced retail copies of games).

[Anonymous No.1922235]

For me I have different goals for each console.

For most systems I'm only looking for specific games that really get my attention, mostly platformers, shmups, and RPGs. Thinking realistically, I'll never own every NES or turgbografx game. There are some games like Magical Chase, or NWC that I'll never own barring some unbelievable act of fate, so there's no point in trying to get everything. However, if I get some games in a lot that I might not have been interested in on their own, I'd gladly play them and put them on the self with the ones I really wanted.

On the other hand for the Dreamcast, I'll buy anything I don't already have. I think getting a complete collection of every NA dreamcast release is a reasonably attainable goal.

[Anonymous No.1922258]

>>1920253
Jrpgs.

Mostly Megaten.

[Gor No.1922363]

>inb4 everdrive or emulator guy jumps in

I don't collect retro vidya, but I do have a building Wii collection. I'm mostly looking to collect the "good" titles that came out, so its about a list of 120 or so games. I'm at 33 games.

[Anonymous No.1922917]

Quanity over Quality.

I'm not much of a retro-collector yet, since I never owned any of the systems back then, so most of my library is gen 5-gen 8 But I plan to start fairly soon when I have some cash to blow.

Just recently I set up a whole set of about 8 wall shelves for each set of games. Each shelf holds up to about 52 standard DVD cases at 3 feet long.

I've decided to cut down on clutter, I'm limiting myself per shelf. In other words, If I hit the max limit of space on that shelf for said game, Thats it. If I really want this new game I'll replace something I already have for it.

So far I've worked a system where its pretty much:

Top shelf: (Currently plush and figures, going to be NES/SNES/Genesis/MEGA, since theres only a handful I'm truly interested in owning.

2nd shelf: N64/PSX/Dreamcast/Saturn
3rd Shelf: Gamecube
4th shelf: Ps2
5th Shelf: Wii/Wii-U/Xbox/Xbox360
6th Shelf: PS3/PS4

7th Shelf: GB/GBC/GBA
8th Shelf: DS/3DS/N3DS/PSP/Vita


Also I should note the games I keep aren't by rarity or CIB or any of that. They're all open and I only keep those I know i'll go back and replay, and or have already replayed and truly enjoy.

The important thing is keep whats important to you. if you collect CIB for value or display, do that, but keep a level collection. Don't fill a whole basement with it.

If you play the games, keep a collection of those you know you love and will want to play again. Just emulate/VC those that might be a one time play.

[Anonymous No.1922918]

>>1922917
*Quality over Quantity

god damn it.

[Anonymous No.1922920]

>>1922917

[Anonymous No.1922925]

>>1922173
But people already do that

[Anonymous No.1922927]

Games can still be bad and fun.

I got sonic 06 years ago just because it was so bad and wanted to experience for myself. Amused myself for hours because of the glitches and shenanigans.

[Anonymous No.1923284]

I collect personal favorites, games I want to play, console exclusives and sequels.

[Anonymous No.1923474]

I stopped collecting when I got pretty much every game I wanted, and that included a lot of rare nes and Snes games (mostly snes) and it doesn't help that many games are now three times as expensive as they were a few years back.

[Anonymous No.1923501]

I buy what I want to play.

[Anonymous No.1923525]

>>1920253
>What makes you collect a specific game?

Eh? What makes me BUY a specific game is fondness for it, curiosity, or its reputation. Same reasons I buy anything else I don't need to live.

[Anonymous No.1924092]

>>1920253
I collect a lot of different things for a lot of different reasons. Obviously I'll collect stuff I like but I'll also take just about anything I can get for a steal. In particular really obscure or really popular. People get butthurt that I have 10 copies of the Mario/Zelda game they just paid $50 but can't deny buying it for $1 was a better deal.

[Anonymous No.1925909]

[Anonymous No.1926025]

>>1925909

I'll give you a hundred bucks for one of those as long as they aren't repros.

[Anonymous No.1926043]

>>1926025
although i posted that with the intent to pretend that specific anon, i'm not. i just saved his photo.

CALLING EARTHBOUND FAG!
i also use it to troll in /v/ sometimes, with the filename 900 DOLLARYOOS.jpg

[Anonymous No.1926047]

>>1925909
VERY RARE L@@K WOW

[Anonymous No.1926073]

I only buy games I want to play. The only series I collect for is metal gear. I have every version of every north American metal gear game. It was a lot easier before it went multiplat. I buy my console of choice version day one then get the alternate versions cheap and used.

[Anonymous No.1926086]

>>1925909
>>1926043
i also saved this pic from the eb anon

[Anonymous No.1926116]

I tend to limit myself to specific genres. My biggest collection is probably PS1, and platformers, rpgs, survival horror at that. Would never even consider trying for a full collection. There is just way too much garbage on the system to bother.

Do like collecting series across multiple consoles. Specifically, Resi, MGS.

[Anonymous No.1926124]

collect, play, repeat.
I go for games that I think I'll enjoy rarely picking up repeats unless I think I can share it

[Anonymous No.1926153]

>>1925909
real talk there was this one autistic guy that frequented the used vidya place I go to. they never had any copies of super mario rpg because he kept buying them, the workers there estimated he had at least 15-20 because he had been buying them for over a decade.

[Anonymous No.1926174]

love imports and japanese games and i'm thinking of starting to collect the famitsu readers 100 favorite games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famitsu#Readers_100_all-time_favorite_games

[Anonymous No.1926665]

I collect whatever is good, and out of nostalgia. I buy up mainly whatever I can remember enjoying when it was new. It could be a game I played at a friends house, or one I rented a couple times, whatever. My mom used to work at a local video rental store part time when I was a kid for a couple years so I would get one free game rental a week while she was employed there.

I played a lot of fucking SNES games back then...

[Anonymous No.1926979]

>>1925909
>A box full of a shitty 2deep4u hipster trash game that sells for 200+ to retards.

I would sell every single copy in that box without hesitation and buy some decent games. Earthbound will never sit in my collection.