>you will never have a videogame collection like this.The pain is immense.
But I do have a collection like that.
>>12516406Maybe someday.
>>12516406Well true, because I actually play videogames.
>>12516416I imagine you pouting while typing that
>>12516416>implying collecting games means you don't play them
>>12516416/thread
>>12516438>I imagine you pouting while typing that
>>12516406I had a collection like that and sold 90% of it because flash carts and softmods exist. Original hardware is more valuable than original software, even if the market fails to reflect that.
>>12516449Fuck off, wojak posting faggot. Keep that shit in /v/. This thread is already /v/ tier garbage and you're only shitting things up more.
Imagine the shock of finding out games are just code and don't have to be confined in plastic shite
>>12516406This is aesthetically offputting to me, i don't want a room in my house to look like that.
>>12516416OP absolutely BTFO
>>12516406Mmmm, dusty controllers! Good thing he has no intention of using them anyway.
>>12516406Manchild cave
>>1251646298% of these guys never held a soldering iron in their lifetimes. So, why bother using ancient hardware if they need repairs and a stock of spare parts?They just fire up snes9x in a $10,000 computer, "play" for 10 mins, take a photo, post on instagram and then resume normal goyslop gaming
>>12516452>reeeeeeeeeeeeelmao
>>12516406Let me tell you my friend it’s not all it’s cracked up to be you know. 1. I am dreading moving out because transporting it from one house to another would be an absolute nightmare 2. Playing the games and then putting them back in the boxes is very annoying especially when you have box protectors on them all. 3. Sorting them out in alphabetical order is a pain because when you get more games you have to take them all off the shelf and then sort them out and put them all back on. 4. It has become a lifelong obsession and once you have a collection this large you cannot stop. I guess it’s the “CONSOOOM” meme but it’s true, why stop when you’ve almost got it all. 5.you have to dust the games every few weeks because somehow the shelves get filled with dust( this might be a me problem so ignore this point) 7. As a CIB collector you become obsessed with the condition of the boxes to a point of you wont purchase a game if it has a little tear or crease in the box. Don’t even get me started on sunfading. Fuck that. Hate that shit. 8. May God help the person who inherits all this crap. It will take an eternity to sell it all. Or it will probably end up in a dumpster lol.
>>12516521And of course the fucking image is sideways because I’m a phonefaggot. Apologies.
>>12516521yeah I know a guy who's a CIB collector and I'm sure his collection is worth a ton but it sounds like complete misery. I'm trying to get down to 5 systems, less than 100 games, that's my goal.
>>12516406Im betting 60%+ of shitlords that frequent this board have collections like that. The remaining 40% are seething 3rd worlders.
>>12516536Same. Just focusing on NES, Gameboy, Super NES, N64 and Gameboy Color and that’s it. Also another point is running out of space. I have a few hundred gameboy and gameboy color games in storage because I don’t have any room anymore.
>>12516416Yes, the people that went through the trouble to amass vast quantities of gaming shit, especially back when it was worthless, dont actually have any interest in playing games.
>>12516454Yet you confine such code in your computer. How curious.
>>12516406I only collect games I want to play, or games that I've played and liked enough to spend money on.I've only got, like, sixty old games I'd like to get my hands on and then I'd only be buying games to actually play.
>>12516545Correct. It's all preformative.
>>12516541Yeah. I need to get rid of about 8 systems and 150ish games and it's an extremely daunting task. I'm not counting handhelds because they don't take up a ton of space, I really should play them more though.
I will never downsize. Im not going for every yearly sports and gameshow title, but i love having a huge library to pick from.
>>12516521Most people who glorify this don't collect shit, they're just maladaptively coping>>12516540judging by how popular /hhg/ is, they might have 2-4 consoles and about 20~100 games. Everything else is emulation / mini pcs /handhelds.>>12516541N64 boxes are a menace and quickly fill up space because you can't leave them in the open.At least with PS1/PS2 they can be stacked pretty neatly and don't take up much spaceThose cartridge displays at picrel look nice, until they start collecting dust at the bottom. So they need to be stashed vertically or in a drawer
I feel the utmost contempt for collections that are 80% Nintendo and 20% the rest. Specially if it's full of manchild merch.
>>12516521>you have to dust the games every few weeks because somehow the shelves get filled with dustOne thing that prevents dust is getting an old bed sheet and draping it over the top of your game collection. I know that the whole point of having your collection on a shelf like this is so that it can be viewed, but you can just take the sheet off when you want to admire it or show it to people. Dust will collect on the sheet instead of the games underneath. Every few weeks, take the sheet off and wash it. I do this with all of my consoles and electronics.
>>12516416fippy bippy /thread
>>12516406imagine the smell
>>12517029>reading this while my collection is 100% Nintendo and 0% the rest>I'm not even jokingNo manchild merch though, such as the plushies in the OP pic. I only keep games and consoles in my collection. Even I, a 100% Nintendo collector and diagonsed autist, think having plushies and posters or whatever is lame.
>>12516406Why would you want that tacky ugly shit lying aroundI love minimalism
>>12516473Whao dude you got a heckin souldering iron you're a real man now dude!! We did it Reddit!
What do you anons think of replacement game cases? Like retrogamecases or customgamecases stuff. I have a lot of loose cartridges.
>>12516406My videogame collection is 10x the size of this and it fits in the palm of my hand
>>12517332>Show it to peopleLoooool. Who?
>>12517443Minimalism is for women and homosexuals. Be a maxamist.
>>12517454Damn, i didn't know giants were real.
>>12516416>downloads hundreds of roms for each system >scrolls through the list and finds something to play>starts it up, plays for 5 minutes and then goes back to browsing his rom list>i-i actually play games You have zero investment in something that you didn’t spend money on or that you spent peanuts on. It’s why Steamfags all have “collections” of hundreds of games they bought on sale that they’ll never play. Spending a good amount of money on one game at a time and dedicating time specifically to it is the most surefire way to not build a backlog. People with collections that they’ve built up since they were young have played and finished far more games than you ever will. Note: this doesn’t apply to poser collectorfags that just go on ebay and buy up everything they can for future Jewish resale reasons. They’re even bigger subhumans than emulator fags. But someone with a collection of games they’ve built up and finished over the years is definitely a higher tier of human than you.
>>12517458My caregiver during weekly welfare checks.
>>12517479What if i got my childhood collection for peanuts back when olden games were worthless?
>>12517482Did you actually play and finish some of those games, or were you just hoarding and trying to build a big library for bragging purposes? If the former, then, you’re fine.
>>12517479>I have to flagrantly make up a scenario to try to prove my pointMidwit.
>>12517479this argument is so fucking tired and retarded. when i emulate, it's because i really want to play a specific game that i might not have on hand, so i download that game and play it, simple as. maybe some fatties download hundreds of roms and never play them, but not me. any argument in favor of original hardware should prioritize the quirks and ritual of playing on original hardware, not some contrived bullshit about muh investment.
>>12517479>>12517489shit bait or genuinely this fucking stupid? hard to say on this board.>>12517529seen a few retarded faggots like this retard faggot you're replying to. don't worry. this retard faggot also has copies of all the roms to play in their flash carts so they don't damage their originals. and over the last few years there's been an increase of retards collecting old shit, hoping to cash in and only seeing prices going nowhere because they arrived too late and bought a bunch of shit nobody wants to buy at near-new prices for 35 year old cartridges.
>>12516521
>>12516521>>12516524sell, invest the money, get a 2-3 flashcarts instead.
But no one has an issue w someone having a library of books. That will never not be funny to me… because books are even easier to have in one location off of one device since their sizes in code are so small. Maybe 100 dollars and you could have every book ever created on one single hardrive but people still have massive collections of books. No one complains or cares. It’s almost like for our hobby, people are just bitter. I see that and I’m like sure, have a collection. No different to me then if you posted a room w walls that were filled with books.
>>12516406I'll never live in a Gamestop
>>12517479cute strawman bro. the reality is that I emulate because of shit like loading times, dirty cartridge pins and portability. seethe
>>12516521>>12516524>everything in plastic boxes>marxist grey
>>12516406Only to lose it all in a flood or house fire, inevitably.
>>12518006The books market isn't filled with subhuman scalpers like the retro games market.
>>12517479>“,”,’cope by either an ai poster or apple faggot. go back to your /g/eet board.let me spell it out for you, dumb retard:money spent != value gained.owning plastic isnt personality.
>>12518006people collecting books at least read them. once your video game collection is big enough you are probably spending more time looking for certain stuff or organizing your collection than playing it. at the end of the day its just games, meant to be played. not some kind of investment.
>>12518079concerned whites and asians itt are finally learning that cardboard and mold have a long history together.
>>12516406what's stopping you? just get a jobI prefer having a small curated collection of what I enjoy and know I will replay
>>12518068Lol it was that color when I moved in. What’s wrong with black and grey?
>people who own real hardware never play their games!This cope will never not be funny especially since you KNOW individuals using it are terminally online and never actually play video games. They are projecting.
>>12518092>people collecting books at least read them.Lol, no. It's literally the same phenomenon, i dare say worst because at the end of the day, games are baby toys for geeks, but people will buy "recommended reading" or so-called "deep/complicated" novels just as a means to peacock at having sophisticated/big brain tastes.(i suppose gaming does have similar instances)
>>12516406This is just a normal amount of video games. I have this many video games in my closet just from passively buying them to play them as a child. And I regret it enormously because most of them are garbage. I'm genuinely considering throwing them in the trash.
>>12516449>so brain broken by being called out he posts wojak shit
>>12516406I'd do this but i don't want to send all this money then one day I die, then someone come and sell all of this and become rich because of my death.
>>12518458I would burn everything to the ground even if its just out of spite. I dont want zoomers to get anything. They deserve everything bad happening to them and a life of misery.
I keep all of my GBA cartridges in an Intec briefcase ( pic rel not mine ) along with my two GBA SPs.
>>12516406Used to have a collection of that size, minus the cringe figures,Sold it all.My emulation collection basically is just as effective.
>>12518206it's communist shit for millennial cucks
>>12517029Same. It's not that I hate (pre-wii) Nintendo, but there's just something about the people who exclusively or almost-exclusively care about nintendo stuff and act like nothing else even exists. You even see this in the modern era, where nintyfags will act like a game doesn't exist until it finally gets a switch port 10 years later and then suddenly it's the best thing ever, or they'll act like BotW is a super innovative game even though the open world meme had already been beaten to death by that point.
>>12518092topkek, no. "book-tok" is literally a bunch of foids who buy piles of books in order to fill shelves and take instagram photos for updoots without ever having the intention of ever reading them.
>>12516524Do you live in an abandoned office building? Your room looks like an abandoned office building.
>>12516406I have a collection like this. It's CIB but it's fewer games. But it also doesn't have garbage games and filler like Gyromite, Madden 2002-2007, and Battle Chess.
You actually want to play Bubble Bobble 2 for NES?
>>12518308You don't need to reeee twice, anon.
thats too many
>>12517447Thanks for the encouragement my fellow wholesome epic heccing redditor, here's a huggy award for you <3I also have an arc welder if you're interested in tickle torture CBT.I can fix you too.>>12518006Books are really cheap to make and you can comission custom ones. There isn't an appeal to "purity" because most avid readers are womym anyways and they don't have strong hunter-gatherer impulses like men do. It isn't their ball game.Instead, they spend truckloads of money on beauty creams
>>12517479based and true. this really got all the broke ass emulation homos worked up lol.
>>12518082>he doesn't know
>>12517479>You have zero investment in something that you didn’t spend money on or that you spent peanuts on.I've read a lot of great books from the library. Or does your stupid shit only apply to video games?
>>12518483Motherfucking Seto Kaiba
>>12516406Mine is bigger. I mostly got stuff I intended to play (or weird novelties like Bible Adventures), and never sold the games I accumulated since I was a kid. I got a ton of used games I wanted throughout the 90s and 2000s. I'd also buy a ton of random games browsing stores back when old games got really cheap in the mid-2000s I went out.Now my collection is worth tens of thousands, it's crazy how expensive things are now. I mostly play on flashcarts now, I still enjoy having the originals.
>>12518082Does he know?
>>12516406I literally do, though.
>>12516416imagine having this AND playing it
>>12516406>you will never have a videogame colle- ACK!!!
>>12517473You're just a stupid consumer and flaunting trinkets is feminine
