/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.3991016]

Where do you draw the line /vr/?

[Anonymous No.3991021]

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[Anonymous No.3991030]

>>3991016
How are you gonna say collecting all the colors of the GBC is hoarding but collecting the colors of the N64 controllers is "collecting"? They're like the same size. I agree with those shitty mcdonalds toys though. Unless you have a strong attachment to them.

[Anonymous No.3991038]

>>3991030
because you can play n64 with 4 controllers. You will never use that many GBC

[Anonymous No.3991040]

[Anonymous No.3991047]

>>3991038
You're full of shit if you're pretending you play n64 with 4 controllers or more often enough to justify having all the colors. You can make the same argument for the GBC. You're just a mouth breather.

[Anonymous No.3991049]

>>3991038
Also the N64 controllers are notorious for wearing out so one or two spare can't hurt, while Gameboys are notorious for their durability.

There's nothing sadder than some fool collector hoarding videogame stuff that will never be used and others that would actually use them missing out.

[Anonymous No.3991065]

>>3991047
these aren't my pics. But yeah, I've had four n64 controllers ever since it was the newest Nintendo. used to play lots of 4 player smash, goldeneye, and Mario party. mine aren't different colors though

Did I hit a sore spot for you? maybe you need more friends or family if you can't get 4 players locally.

[Anonymous No.3991087]

>>3991016
>Where do you draw the line /vr/?
1999.
These Sonic McD toys aren't retro. Same with the Gamecube controllers, the Xbox and the Xbox 360.

[Anonymous No.3991093]

>>3991087
Wow what a unique opinion. You really are quite a snowflake!

[Anonymous No.3991102]

ITT: Poorfag collectors jealous of richfag collectors

[Anonymous No.3991103]

>>3991016
The McDonalds things are forgivable. It's weird that you want to collect them in the first place, but it's still a collection.

[Anonymous No.3991110]

>>3991093
>opinions
Those are facts though. I didn't comment on my personal opinion of those non-/vr/ systems.

[Anonymous No.3991127]

>>3991016
I don't give a shit. Grow up and have some self esteem.

[Anonymous No.3991130]

>>3991110
just imagine anon used these for the mcdonalds toys and stop screeching

[Anonymous No.3991137]

>>3991130
Too late, anon. This thread is shit.

[Anonymous No.3991160]

>>3991016
what is the difference between collecting two controller variants versus eight different gameboys? also I find roping the game collection in with the controllers to be completely bizarre. you don't even look at them when you're playing the game for christ's sake.

[Anonymous No.3991163]

>>3991016
It's all collecting as long as it's well organized and not shitting up your home.

[Anonymous No.3991189]

what op didn't realize is this board is all hoarders

[Anonymous No.3991198]

>>3991040
You forgot the template.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.3991234]

>If their collection even one game larger or one category broader than mine they're a hoarder and I hate them

[Anonymous No.3991239]

>>3991234

Pretty much. I think my eyeballs just rolled out of their goddamned sockets.

[Anonymous No.3991246]

>having six McDonalds toys makes you a hoarder
wew

[Anonymous No.3991248]

Collector and hoarder mean the same thing, neither is glamorous.

If you buy something just to have, with no intention of using or playing it, then you're a big shitter.

[Anonymous No.3991256]

>>3991248

>there is no joy in mere possession of a thing.

>said the middle-class shitter who was never even in the same tristate area as poverty

If only we could all be so pure and idealistic as you, Anon!

[Anonymous No.3991258]

>>3991016

If you collect shit you will never play just to "have it" you are a borderline hoarder. If you have multiple copies of shit you will never play and it in no way dissuades you from acquiring even more, you are a full-blown hoarder. And an asshole.

If you use and enjoy everything you acquire, and you acquire only the things you will use, then congrats, you are a normal person with a hobby.

[Anonymous No.3991291]

More than a couple systems is hoarding
Not like u can play them all simultaneously

[Anonymous No.3991308]

>>3991291
Thats a ridiculous statement, and such poor logic. Having a ps2, nes, gamboy and an atari is not hoarding you fucking dumb cunt. Having six ps2s, five gameboys, ten ataris, two famicoms and a nes is more akin to hoarding, but still depends on why you have them.

[Anonymous No.3991319]

>>3991308

I eventually plan to get an N64, GameCube, and PS2 myself.

Maybe a DS as well, if Medusa doesn't pan out.

[Anonymous No.3991321]

When you don't play them.

[Anonymous No.3991323]

>>3991319
Medusa has snakes for hair. So watch out anon. Also, she can turn you to stone by looking at you. So heads up.

[Anonymous No.3991349]

>>3991258
Everything I own I intend to use.

I have 1 of all my consoles, except I have I think 4 super nintendos, but that's because I bought a bunch of shit bundled with them and never bothered to sell them because they're all in junk condition.

My backlog is a daunting task, but it's really just about taking it one game at a time.

[Anonymous No.3991359]

>>3991323

https://github.com/mgba-emu/mgba/commits/medusa

[Anonymous No.3991569]

>>3991016

If the person in question is fat then I prefer the more negative name. Otherwise not. Pretty simple.

[Anonymous No.3993465]

>>3991016
When you stop playing the majority of what you buy.

[Anonymous No.3993485]

>>3991016
Both collectors and hoarders are cancer, these days they are mostly clueless about the things they "collect", just hipsters and "muh retro" showoff fags

[Anonymous No.3993526]

>>3991569
Well that's pretty mean underage edgelord, not sure what fat people ever did to you apart from making you look better.

[Anonymous No.3993546]

At what point do the games that I have become a "collection"? I have like 10 genesis carts. Is there a sooid number to lool out for?

[Anonymous No.3993583]

>>3991047

>Not having four N64 controllers

You're just outing yourself as having no friends bro, four controllers are fucking ESSENTIAL.

[Anonymous No.3993603]

>>3991038
This fag has clearly never hosted a Face Ball 2000 tournament

[Anonymous No.3993618]

>>3991016
>loose carts
>stored in plastic drawers
>collector
Sounds like you might be retarded

>>3991258
I have multiple copies of shit I'll never play and am constantly acquiring even more. That doesn't make me a hoarder. It makes me a well stocked ebay seller.
You know what having only one of things you really enjoy makes you? An assmad little bitch when one breaks and you have to pay the prices I charge. Seriously stupid.

A few years ago this board was full of posts like:
>Yeah brah. I found a DC at a thrift store today for $5. But I already have one so I left it for another bro who would enjoy playing it as the developers originally intended
Today:
>FML. My DC laser died and the cheapest replacement I can find on ebay is $25. Fucking resellers.

[Anonymous No.3993643]

>>3993618
>i am a literal jew for pennies and I'm proud of it
the funny thing is that it's more trouble than it's worth, with a couple of click on /biz/ you can make what this "reseller" is making in 1/10 of the time.

[Anonymous No.3994083]

>>3991349
>Everything I own I intend to use.

Says every single person on every single episode of Hoarders that i've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.3994085]

>>3994083
>watching "reality" TV

Found your problem.

[Anonymous No.3994134]

>>3993643
>/biz/
Epic kek kiddo. But certainly explains why you think making money is impossible.

[Anonymous No.3994143]

>>3994134
It's not hard, just most people don't resort to screwing their own kind for jew money.

[Anonymous No.3994152]

>>3991087
I would be glad if your kind of autist dropped dead overnight. Fucking hell, you are the cancer ofnthis board

[Anonymous No.3994393]

>>3994143
It's obviously hard for you if you resort to /biz/ where people screw their own kind all the time. I don't screw my own kind. Only subhuman scum like hipsters and lazy babies with rich parents.

[Anonymous No.3994414]

>>3991016
Wouldn't keeping the boxes be part of the collector? Like, isn't having a complete set the whole purpose of being a collector?

[Anonymous No.3994429]

Collector
>Buys every installment of a franchise he likes.
Hoarder
>Collects every yearly edition of sports games that he doesn't actually intend to play

[Anonymous No.3994502]

>>3994414
maybe they bought a lot of loosies

[Anonymous No.3994508]

>TFW you own all of those Sega McDonald's toys.
I bought them all from eBay like four years ago for about $12. I don't own any of the second series they did, though. The current Mario toys are pretty good quality.
>TFW you own all the Mario toys because you work at McDonald's.

[Anonymous No.3994513]

>>3991038
>You will never use that many GBC
>not having double dash and smash tournaments at school
pleb

[Anonymous No.3994530]

>>3991248
>Collector and hoarder mean the same thing
Except they don't.
Collecting is the act of obtaining, having, storing(and using, depending on the object) something for the sake of completion, where completion is defined by the collector, as in you might want to collect all Nintendo games games, not necessarily all games ever, or more usually, collect only the games you're interested in.
Hoarding is the act of obtaining, having, storing(but NOT using, even if the object is made to be used) something for the sake of accumulation(the thrill of obtaining never ceases), for the sake of having more(you want even objects you're not interested into because the one you have and are interested into are not enough), even if you already have the object("hurr durr i have 7 identical DMG-01"), often justifying further acquisitions of the same object with it having minor differences("A DMG-01 with a non working led, I don't have it, I must have it!"), and in the worst cases, justifying it even with dumb reasons("i already had 8 DMG-01, but i bought a 9th one cause it was only 2 dollars!, I couldn't leave it there!")

For me, i draw the line at collecting more of the same item for relative non-minor yet not substantial differences depending on the reasons and commitment to it.
Having all colors of the first gameboy cause you must have them all no matter how much it'll cost = hoarding.
Having all colors of the first gameboy cause you casually stumbled on them and they were cheap enough, while also not caring if you don't have them ALL = collecting.

[Anonymous No.3994726]

>>3994513
>giving everyone a GBC to use
>expecting not to be ripped off
tard

[Anonymous No.3994763]

>>3994152
>being this angry over an internet board's rules.

[Anonymous No.3995124]

[Anonymous No.3995129]

So many poor people in here complaining that everyone that has more than them is hoarding.

[Anonymous No.3995132]

>>3995124
This guy gets it.

[Anonymous No.3995136]

>>3995129
It's just like when you compare gear in MMOs. Those who have stuff worse than you is a loser, and those with stuff better than yours is a nerd.

[Anonymous No.3995152]

>>3995124
/thread

[Anonymous No.3995158]

>>3993618

Your post PROVES mine. Particularly, the asshole part.

[Anonymous No.3995190]

>>3991130
I still have the red paratroopa somewhere

[Anonymous No.3995258]

>>3991016
You can make some excuses for yourself but collecting is hoarding no matter how...I know it but i can't stop buying things from time to time...the only thing I do is that I have only a drawer for them so when there is more things than space I sell some shit

[Anonymous No.3995301]

>>3993618
>>FML. My DC laser died and the cheapest replacement I can find on ebay is $25. Fucking resellers.

Dreamcast lasers rarely die. The diode itself is VERY robust. It's built to DVD laser stadards, but operates at less than half the power.

It's more likely the motors die, and both of those motors have standard off the self replacements you can buy from Mouser for under $5 each.

Assuming you can solder two wire, you can repair any "broken" dreamcast for under $15, and it will probably be quieter, as the newer model motors are less noisy than the old 1999 tier ones.

[Anonymous No.3996128]

>>3995301
>Dreamcast lasers rarely die
Cool story bro. Not a single person on /vr/ believes you. Deep down even you know you're full of shit.

[Anonymous No.3996526]

Once you have more than 2 working duplicates of a console and they're in a box never to be plugged in, you have passed the line of hoarding and I hate you.

I could care less about people hoarding games, because flashcarts exist. Unless they're SA-1 chip games.
Then I fucking abhor you.

[Anonymous No.3996572]

>>3991016
why does the "collector" have nothing but shitty knockoff controllers? lol

[Anonymous No.3996590]

>>3996572
They seem pretty legit to me.

[Anonymous No.3996593]

>>3996572
because hes a bandwagon collector who is also a poorfag

[Anonymous No.3996793]

>>3991163
going with this

[Anonymous No.3996843]

>>3991047
you clearly never had an n64. I dont have many friends but fuck. i allways had for just in case for mario kart, and ssb.

[Anonymous No.3996851]

>>3996843
Oh yeah you're right, you have to own all the variations of controllers for the n64 for it to work lol! Fuck off you worthless fucking nigger hoarder.

[Anonymous No.3996860]

>>3996590
Those blue and green N64 controllers below the PS2 ones are anything but legit you dumbass.

[Anonymous No.3996907]

>>3996851

Who would hoard niggers?
I mean, before slavery was illegal, sure.
But now?

[Anonymous No.3997231]

>>3996526
What if?
>it's a really unreliable piece of hardware
>you find an incredible deal
>you have more than on setup
>your kids want to take something with them when they go off to school
All sound like legit reasons why your shit opinion is shit

[Anonymous No.3997561]

>>3994513
> playing the elusive Smash for Game Boy Colour
wew, I didn't know anyone else's uncle worked for Nintendo

[Anonymous No.3997570]

>>3994726
I never even traded Pokemon with anyone because I was afraid I'd never get mine back.

[Anonymous No.3997587]

>Buys video games to display them
Hoarder.

>Buys video games to play them
Collector.

Btw, if you prominently display your rare and expensive games, even if you frequently play them, you're still a hoarder because you're trying to show off.

[Anonymous No.3997678]

>>3997587
nigga collectors don't play shit

[Anonymous No.3998585]

I'm hardly one to talk seeing as I have multiple of each game boy model, plus three TVs, one of them a 27" CRT, sitting unused in a closet.

That said, I'm getting to the point of seeing physical game collections as more clutter than collection. With emulation and moreover flash carts/ODE mods, it's hard to see the value in having your games distributed over several hundred or thousand pieces of plastic as opposed to one cart/card per system. That said, obstacles like imperfect emulation of graphics or sound are a real hindrance to this theory. I'm on the fence about an everdrive n8, for example, on account of it not supporting FC expansion audio (even on a famicom which I find strange). But at that point you could almost justify just buying a one off game, playing it, and then selling it. It's not like you need to own a game forever after you buy it.

[Anonymous No.3999705]

>>3996907
Anyone who wants the government to give them money and free stuff. There's one couple on my street who has a huge collection. They get so much free shit they don't even have to work. In fact they get paid because they don't. Enjoy hoarding plastic you have to pay for with money you have to work a job for you stupid fuck.

[Anonymous No.4001860]

If you are unable to display your collection in an attractive manner, then you are a hoarder.

[Anonymous No.4001885]

Collector: Has only good games
Hoarder: Has any old crap

[Anonymous No.4001901]

>>3997587
I prominently display my rare games but no one comes to my house.

[Anonymous No.4001908]

>>3991047
>all the colors
there are only 4 n64 controllers on the left
there are many more than those 4 colors

[Anonymous No.4001917]

>>3996128
>open dreamcast
>adjust laser pot 1/8th of a turn clockwise
>dreamcast works again

WOW THAT WAS HAAAAAAAAAARD

[Anonymous No.4002074]

>>3995124
50% of /vr/ BTFO

[Anonymous No.4002083]

>>3991087
Are those sonic toys valuable? Saw one at the thrift store 2 weeks ago but thought it was shit.

[Anonymous No.4002087]

>>4002083
>Are those sonic toys valuable?

no.

[Anonymous No.4002090]

I buy things that I don't want or need with the intention of using them for barter. I hate that it's come to this. Am I degenerate?

[Anonymous No.4002092]

Sometimes I forget this site is full of retards
You guys dont even know what a hoarder is

[Anonymous No.4002097]

Collecting is to having a beer as hoarding is to a bottle-slamming alcoholic. Both are essentially the same thing, but 1 has evolved into a parasitic lifestyle.

Personally, I would never collect boxes (just cases and carts) but I could see why someone else would.

[Anonymous No.4002179]

>>4002097
by the way, the pic of what this is, is like a dream come true
It's too bad I don't have and abandoned house and some cool friends

[Anonymous No.4002205]

>>3997587
Uh, hoarders don't show off though. They sit in their house full of piles of shit being a recluse. Have you ever seen a hoarder? It's disgusting and messy. There's is nothing to be proud of showing off

[Anonymous No.4002219]

>>4001917
>saw thread on 4chan
>googled
>shitposted
>still not allowed to play with tools

[Anonymous No.4002239]

>>4002179
>>4002097
>know a guy who had a house like that
>games 24/7
>seems like a bretty gool dood
>he takes his social gaming lifestyle into the business realm
>starts an electronics repair shop
>same deal, business looks like a wreck, people coming and going sleeping on cots playing games drinking all night
>seems like a dream come true
>bites off more than he can chew
>scamming literally hundreds of people out of their consoles because they could only fix half of them and would just be left there by the customer
>cant keep customers happy
>eventually the business starts to crumble
>the owner has to keep up a web of lies to keep the lights on
>blames everyone else for his failure
It was a surreal experience

[Anonymous No.4002268]

>>4002097
I started to hoard books, but caught myself pretty early. Now I only collect hard back (try to get library bindings) so I went from a whole bookcase of sci-fi and shit in paperback to one shelf.

A paperback is like 'I want to read this as cheaply and easily as possible' which has been totally supplanted by audible. Hardback is like 'I love THIS book and want to be able to sit back and enjoy this optimally.'

I felt a similar way with games. I have pretty much just hung onto my childhood games, and picked up some I really wanted like solar jetman and advenures of lolo and crystalis.

I am hanging onto my lightgun games, especially the sega master system ones.

If I just want to play 90% of games I'm going to emulate, but if the planets align I can play one of my childhood favorites for full feels.

[Anonymous No.4002283]

LEFT:
Anything you buy for cheap at garage sales and thrift shops.

RIGHT:
Anything you buy on eBay or at a retro gaming store.

[Anonymous No.4002324]

>>4002283
Obsessing over yard sales and thrift shops just shows stinginess. No other collector market does this. Lunchbox fags would be nothing without the internet, and yard sales/flea markets/thrift stores either have absolutely nothing but sports games because people would rather trade their good games in to gamestop or when you do find something you want it's incredibly rare. The range of interests you'd need to efficiently collect from these places after 2010 implies hoarder mentality, you just hoard old technology for good deals.


Ebay isn't the problem, the memes are, the people willing to pay 90 dollars for smash bros are and the resellers who snipe everything auctioning for a decent price are the worst.

Give it a few more years. The bubble won't burst but itll deflate. Games have nothing on comics or antiques

[Anonymous No.4002353]

I emulate pretty much everything, and games that I think had a big impact on me I try to pick up a copy of if it's around £8 or so. If I play it again it'll be on the emulator again. I feel terrible about doing this but I still feel an attachment to the dozen or so games I've done this with.

Please weigh my sins

[Anonymous No.4002915]

If you have your "collection" stored away in boxes, then youre hoarding.

[Anonymous No.4002920]

>>3991049
> gameboys are notorious for their durability

I didnt know people thought poorly about the gameboy because ot was durable.

[Anonymous No.4003786]

>>4002920
>notorious
Millennials and they're wurds amirite

[Anonymous No.4003867]

>>3996907
>Who would hoard niggers?

I don't know, it ain't my fucking business.

[Anonymous No.4003923]

>>3997587
>I buy cideo games to display and play them

Soooo I'm on the fence?