Collecting Oddities

ElijahElijah
in Collector's Corner

So after scoring some CIBs lately, a few were doubles, and I find myself cherishing the beat-up copy of Guerilla War more, looks like its been through a war.   Usually I go for the minty games, but for some reason, I've fallen for a few of my unminty copies, and feel like selling the minties.  I scored it on ebay for 1 free shipping, and we've been through a lot lately.   Also, no worries when I take the game out of the box. With my mint games, I swear sometimes I take 5 minutes to get it out of the box.

I do have Sealed and Mint games galore, and find myself upgrading on alot of them, but on a few I might be downgrading soon. 

Today I found myself putting the minty Friday the 13th back to pick up a garbled piece of poop label copy.  They were both listed at a buck, so price wasn't the factor.  I think I thought to myself, I can take this camping and not lose any sleep if it gets wet.

I think I'm getting weird or something. 

Pserge would be proud.

Comments

  • NewUser123456789NewUser123456789
    I am.. Crappy looking games need love too.
  • the_wizard_666the_wizard_666
    If you want to do crappy CIBs, I have some filler boxes and manuals, and a couple carts that I haven't heard back from Paul about (maybe he missed the PM? It's been a few weeks...) image
  • Bea_IankBea_Iank
    Originally posted by: PSerge

    I am.. Crappy looking games need love too.




    Amen to that.

    All my games are loose, and most have flaws on the labels and cart case.

    Boxes wouldn't last long on my hands. image
  • jonebonejonebone
    Nah I know exactly what you mean. Oddly enough, some of my favorite games are only 8.5s and I'm not too worried about upgrading them. That's because I know I'll play them at points in the future.



    Now stuff like SNES RPGs or Black Boxes, I'll probably try to get 9.5+ copies of those eventually. I don't really play any of the Black Boxes, and the SNES RPGs are a 1 and done for me. You play it for a few weeks until you beat it, put it away forever (or at least many, many years).
  • nullendingnullending
    For common games I'm trying to get a mint CIB to keep on the shelf, and then have any (crappy or not--as long as it's cheap) loose copy for play. Until I get my loose copy for by CIB games, I just keep the game out of the box so I don't have to keep opening it.
  • VGS_captmorgandrinkerVGS_captmorgandrinker
    I still try to buy any game I see with rental stickers still on them, especially if they're from Mom and Pop type video stores....
  • CrashManCrashMan
    They have a certain charm to them don't they? It's like a piece of history, oh if those carts could talk image
  • nullendingnullending
    I was amazed to see one cart with a rental sticker from California here in Texas. Was pretty neat.
  • NES NickNES Nick
    I have a mix of minty and crap games. One I won't replace is my copy of Little Samson. My girlfriend bought it for me as a gift, it has a tear in the label, but its awesome that she got it for me, so its not going anywhere!
  • recspeczrecspecz
    I like to buy games loaded with stickers. Then I scrub the stickers off the case and make the games look like they came from a home collection. If the games could speak, I would like to think they thank me for getting the rental rape off them.
  • ElijahElijah
    Rental stickers are kind-of hard to come buy, usually if there are stickers, they are game-resell shop stickers that I find. I leave the rental stickers on, and sometimes I take off the resale stickers, if it's for a minty cib, otherwise I just leave them.



    I think rental stickers make a game special. My most cherished cart is the Blades of Steel I used to rent the crap out of from a mom and pop rental shop in my home town. Those kind of things are impossible to replace.
  • recspeczrecspecz
    Originally posted by: jdheins

    I think rental stickers make a game special. My most cherished cart is the Blades of Steel I used to rent the crap out of from a mom and pop rental shop in my home town. Those kind of things are impossible to replace.

    This is sentimental.  I'm talking about winning $100 lots of 250 games where ~50% of them are raped with rental stickers, or at least the VOID residue.

  • ElijahElijah
    Yeah I understand, I don't get much rental stuff, but if I do, It reminds me that the game has passed through maybe hundreds of kids hands, resale stickes, who the hell knows, but if it's a neat one, I don't mind it so much. To each his own of course, I don't think its a bad thing your taking em off.
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