Done collecting for a while

[JsGameRoom]

Once I put a couple things into place. I'm going to start going system by system collecting every game for every system.

You may need a second house...

Well right now I have my little brother living with us until he gets on his feet ( He just got out of high school)

Once he moves out, I'm moving the stuff out of the 4th bedroom, and knocking down the wall between bedroom 2 and 3. So then I will have an about 30' by 15' room. Which will be able to house a lot.

[dunpeal2064]

Curious, why do you want to own every game for every system? Obviously there is no way you could play even 1% of them regularly, and with even 2500, there have to be some games you own but don't really like.

Do you collect other stuff, like coins?

[JsGameRoom]

Curious, why do you want to own every game for every system? Obviously there is no way you could play even 1% of them regularly, and with even 2500, there have to be some games you own but don't really like.

Do you collect other stuff, like coins?

Everytime someone asks me why. I say why not?

I love video games, and the thought of being able to relive my child hood memories whenever I want. As well as playing the games my mom could never get me.

And no I don't collect other stuff. Just games. I'm not the guy who just collects everything I see. Just games I've always been a gamer, and at this point in my life Im starting to be able to afford all the games I've ever wanted. So again.



Why not?

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Because it's extremely expensive, takes up tons of room, and you'll never be able to enjoy all of them?

[JsGameRoom]

Because it's extremely expensive, takes up tons of room, and you'll never be able to enjoy all of them?

Money? I can just make more money.

Room? I can build a garage to make more room?

And on the enjoyment? Meh..

I'm into cars too. and I have probably have 1/10th of the money into my collection as I have into my current car. And I've had probably 30 cars...

So relatively speaking gaming is a lot cheaper hobby than my car hobby.

[retrosportsgamer]

I'm with you JsGameRoom - good luck. Look forward to pictures when you've got it all set.

[dunpeal2064]

I understand what you mean. When I as young I got one game ayear, maybe two.

So, once I could afford it, I bought everything.

After about a year of doing that... it just felt childish (to me). Why should I have access to every video game, and barely play them. When I was a kid with only 3 games, I loved those games.

I thought that having the variety would be great, but it was stopping me from really enjoying the games.

I was just curious if yo were a collector, a gamer, or a bit of both. I think right now you are both, but in the direction of collecting over gaming.

There is nothing wrong with it, its your money. I was just curious is all.

[JsGameRoom]

I was just curious if yo were a collector, a gamer, or a bit of both. I think right now you are both, but in the direction of collecting over gaming.

There is nothing wrong with it, its your money. I was just curious is all.

Oh no. I'm a gamer first.

Hell. If you have Ps3 my psn is bigpapapistol and I'm ALWAYS on. And if I'm not on that I'm playing the games, or the woman is.


My ps3 alone is probably on 40+ hours a week. Not to mention all the other gaming.

I bought a capture card for gaming. www.youtube.com/jsgameroom

I need to fix the audio syncing issues, but I'm going to at some point be playing every single game in the collection while recording

[env963]

It's neat to be able to afford every game for every system. But boy you need deep pockets for that. I have 100+ games and i cant even enjoy all of them. Although I can proudly say I have beaten over 50% of them.

[Menegrothx]

Why should I have access to every video game, and barely play them. When I was a kid with only 3 games, I loved those games.

I thought that having the variety would be great, but it was stopping me from really enjoying the games.

I think quite many collectors have this dilemma, I know I do. If you just want to play games and you dont care about materialism, a decent gaming PC and/or modern gen consoles, a bunch of USB controllers and some emulators and youre all set to play 99,8% of games ever released . I used to play through retro games from start to finish one at a time on different emulators, but once I started actually collecting physical copies of those games, I rarely play them for more than for 15-20 minutes. Just to check out that the game works and see what its like, after that I go back to the computer and start looking for more retro games that I should buy Or I might play couple of games at a time few hours a day, but then I loose my intrest or get some new games and I never finish the ones I have started. And its hard to choose what to play when you actually feel like playing when you have 150 unfinished games waiting to be played.
I initially started playing older games so I would know more about video games by playing through all the essential classics that every one who is really into gaming should play. Maybe I should go back to emulators Its a lot cheaper and less stressfull (insurance, space, detoriation, watching over auctions etc..) and I would have money to actually buy some new games every now and then

Its not nice to spend thousands/tens of thousands to a collection and stress every day about scratching your games, bugs eating your magazines/boxes etc and then have it all destroyed by a natural disaster like this guy
http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/ ... ian-floods