Did you ever think you were the only one??
I was remembering back when I first started collecting and I thought I was the only one that wanted old games. I started collecting in the mid 90's and I remember going into shops and talking to the employees about collecting. They thought I was crazy. They said, "Who would collect these things?". After a while one guy said " You know, there is another guys that started coming here saying he was collecting them too." I was floored. I didn't know what to say. I was happy that I wasn't crazy, and collecting the NES games wasn't something to laugh at. I then realized I had competition when it came to NES games.
After that day I am amazed to see the amount of people joining in our hobby. I also learned that people had been collecting games well before I did. I guess just not around Columbia.
Do you remember when you learned that you weren't alone in collecting? Of course the new collectors never had that chance, because it is more common to find game collectors now. I guess this question is for the people who had been collecting for a while.
After that day I am amazed to see the amount of people joining in our hobby. I also learned that people had been collecting games well before I did. I guess just not around Columbia.
Do you remember when you learned that you weren't alone in collecting? Of course the new collectors never had that chance, because it is more common to find game collectors now. I guess this question is for the people who had been collecting for a while.
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And then, some months later, I discovered NA and also discovered that this same guy was also on NA
I kind of thought I was the only person who was "this crazy" for the first little while. Then I did some searching online and found some forums. Thats when I realized that there was WAY more nutty people than me (at the time, at least).
Yah, your right up there with the best of them on the "nutty list" now!
i didnt get too too crazy until i came to this f*cking site!
Same here! I've blown way more on NES since I found this site. Believe it or not.. before coming here I wasn't really all that worried about condition of my games.
Frisbee, I gotta agree with you about the coniditon thing. Prior to lurking on NA, I wasn't too concerned about the coniditon of my games. I was a cart only guy, and as long as there were no major defects to the cart it went into the collection. Fast forward to "Post NA", and I won't even think about putting something in my collection that isn't complete and at least a 7/10.
I never really thought about it until I started getting outbid by the same people over and over on ebay a decade ago. That's when I started finding collector sites, Usenet, etc. and quickly realized I was late to the party.
Dain, i know exactly how you feel. People who are just now getting into this hobby gotta realize how cheap this stuff used to be and when it started going up five bucks here and ten bucks here it made me almost just want to stop cuz I couldn't get complete games for $1-$3 anymore... and all i could ever find in the wild was 10-yard fight and baseball.
I remember when i started collecting NES in 1998 i'd go into goodwill and there would be stacks of video games, stacks of atari systems and no one was buying them, but hell i was just a kid and the collecting world was SO different. The internet was a foreign object to me and when i finally discovered there were nuts out there like me I too was late to the party
Same here. As an intern in college, I sat at my desk with nothing to do and browsed ebay. I was trying to get every game, not necessarily collect. I remember seeing Stadium Events go for $50, the Panesians for $50, Caltron for $30..etc. I thought, "No way. Who would pay that much for a game?!" Now it makes me sick because I don't have them, and I can't afford them now either! I have an old Funcoland flyer at home from the late '90's that I'm going to scan and show everyone. It will make you laugh or cry, not sure which.
LOL!
Funny 'cause I was thinking the same back in the days....those days are long gone now.
At one point I reached 500 or so...then I decided to sell 95% of it to Al Bailey in Ottawa (some may know Al)
and only keep the rare and my favorite games
At one point I reached 500 or so...then I decided to sell 95% of it to Al Bailey in Ottawa (some may know Al)
and only keep the rare and my favorite games
*clears throat*
This is a great article that was on MTV, there was another good one (written by a collector's wife) that talked about his collecting style, which was shockingly similar to mine (finding out-of-the-way back-alley deals, bulk deals, buying entire stores out of their stock). Wish I still had the bookmark, I think reading that first let me now I wasn't alone in all this.