Help me decide what novelty collection to work on next

[dsheinem]

Ok, so the necrobump of my PS1 longbox collection thread reminded me of how much fun I had collecting a specific set, and I'd like to do another one but can't decide what I want to go with, so your opinion would be valued

I currently have several ideas, each of which has some pros and cons, and each of which includes both cheap and pricey titles. The cool thing about each is that they are the kinds of lists that people here could (likely) help me out with as they are shopping around, bartering trades, etc. The forums were a big help with the longbox collection, and so I know it would be a big help with any of these. I don't just want to hunt everything down on eBay, as there's no fun in that.

Here's what I've narrowed my list of options down to. I'll probably move through all of them eventually, but which one do you think I should tackle first?

The U.S. launch library of every PlayStation system - I already have the PS1 covered, but otherwise I am looking at an additional 50-60 games across the PS2/3/P. I don't think I'll add Vita to this as part of a goal, though I do plan to pick up several of the launch titles for the system.

Every pinball game made for consoles and PC - I probably need about 25-50 titles or so; won't buy "virtually identical" ports like the Williams collection on PS3/360/PC, but would consider most handheld ports to be unique. I'd focus on carts and CIB disc-based games. I'd consider adding imports to this list, too.

Every U.S. N64 cartridge in a color other than grey - I need the large majority of these (about 40 titles), but there are some interesting titles to choose from and it would make for a cool looking shelf. Carts only.

Hard-top box Genesis games - Turrican, Bubsy, etc. come in these. This would be part one of a larger effort to collect all non-red sliding yest still cardboard box Genesis games. There's about 20 games I need, which makes this one quite manageable. CIB obviously

Cardboard-box Sega CD games - The early Sega CD games were in cardboard boxes. There are about 25 of them. I have none. CIB obviously.


So, I am curious to know what you think would be interesting and what you'd most like to see assembled in one place for the inevitable project completion picture

(Oh, and feel free to suggest anything else interesting, even if I end up putting it on the back burner!)

[noiseredux]

I picked pinball because I know very little about pinball games, and find that thread that you and Hobie tend to post in very interesting.

I don't want you to do the PS system launch thing, cuz well... I kind of want to do that myself. Haha.

[dsheinem]

I don't want you to do the PS system launch thing, cuz well... I kind of want to do that myself. Haha.

if anything, the competition would be added incentive!

[BoneSnapDeez]

Honestly, I've never understood the appeal of collecting all the _________ colored games, collecting all the games for one console, etc. I think it's more fun to collect by genre, if you're really passionate about said genre, that is.

So if you really like pinball, go for the pinball games!

[noiseredux]

I don't want you to do the PS system launch thing, cuz well... I kind of want to do that myself. Haha.

if anything, the competition would be added incentive!

I did kind of think of that too, but I'd probably go for PS1 first, THEN PS2, and so on. In phases. So you're already ahead of me (I only have 4/10 of the PS1's... or technically 2/10 if they should be the longbox versions).

[noiseredux]

Honestly, I've never understood the appeal of collecting all the _________ colored games, collecting all the games for one console, etc. I think it's more fun to collect by genre, if you're really passionate about said genre, that is.!

System launch titles are one thing I've always found interesting though (Dave has too, see: his blog). Whether the games are good or bad, it's always interesting to look at this X amount of games and remind yourself the gaming landscape at the moment in history when a new console arrived.

[Hobie-wan]

I voted pinball for sure. I guess you just mean US releases though. Remember that means you need a VB for Galactic Pinball.

[dsheinem]

I voted pinball for sure. I guess you just mean US releases though. Remember that means you need a VB for Galactic Pinball.

I already have Pinball for the CD-i with no intent of ever buying the system.

[noiseredux]

I voted pinball for sure. I guess you just mean US releases though. Remember that means you need a VB for Galactic Pinball.

I'm fairly certain he has a VB.

[dsheinem]

I voted pinball for sure. I guess you just mean US releases though. Remember that means you need a VB for Galactic Pinball.

I'm fairly certain he has a VB.

nope.

The thing is I am more interested in the novelty of the pinball games than I am in playing the games themselves, whereas I feel there'd be more games I'd want to play and more interesting variety across the other categories.

This decision is hard