Collecting goals
I know that these can vary by person, but what are your goals? The entire NES library?
For me, it's mainly the games I had played as a kid but never owned, games my brothers owned but not me, well-known games, and some secondary games I've seen and played, but not necessarily very popular. There's also some games that suck but so funny that I want the cart (i.e. Ghostbusters and Where's Waldo)
I also have a small goal of wanting all the Tengen games eventually. I got 6 so far. A few Famicom titles as well.
For the goal, I mainly want the cartridges in excellent condition. No writing, no stickers, labels intact. I'm not a big box nut, though I do plan on getting the manuals for the respective games. My cart goal will hopefully be reached in the near future.
Enough about me, what about ye?
For me, it's mainly the games I had played as a kid but never owned, games my brothers owned but not me, well-known games, and some secondary games I've seen and played, but not necessarily very popular. There's also some games that suck but so funny that I want the cart (i.e. Ghostbusters and Where's Waldo)
I also have a small goal of wanting all the Tengen games eventually. I got 6 so far. A few Famicom titles as well.
For the goal, I mainly want the cartridges in excellent condition. No writing, no stickers, labels intact. I'm not a big box nut, though I do plan on getting the manuals for the respective games. My cart goal will hopefully be reached in the near future.
Enough about me, what about ye?
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Now I have all the USA carts, but am weeding out the -CAN ones and ones that don't work after cleaning. I am also looking for a couple more test carts and all CIB black box games in *mint* condition. Gray NWC would be nice too....
People with CIB sets are amazing but for me the boxes just get in the way of pulling the cart out to play
People with CIB sets are amazing but for me the boxes just get in the way of pulling the cart out to play.
...unless you're one of those real smart collectors who stores his carts separately
Anyway, I'm going for a full US/NTSC set CIB first. Once I'm 98% done that, I'll go after the PAL exclusives CIB, after which I shall spend the rest of my days casually collecting the mountainous load of Famicom exclusives that our crazy Japanese brethren churned out.
After starting the N64 collection, I figured it would be better off if I got all the boxes to go with them. And after completing the cart-only NES collection, I figured I should get the boxes for them. So now, my ultimate goal is to have boxed collections of NES, SNES and N64. I'm currently 50 games away from a complete boxed N64 set and 200 boxes from a boxed NES set. I'm working on the SNES right now (currently at 250 carts or whatever.
I think down the line I would like to have complete collections for Genesis, Colecovision, Saturn and Sega CD. I already have complete collections for: NES (loose), Sega Master System, Dreamcast, Intellivision, Sega 32X, Virtual Boy... and... I think thats it, but I always forget.
In the future, I may complete one of my following collections, but I doubt it...
Collections started for: Intellivision, Atari 2600, Atari Jaguar w/CD, Collecovision, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Sega 32X, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast, N64, Gamecube, Turbo Grafx 16 w/CD, 3DO, GBA, Sega Gamegear and Virtual Boy.
I collect for NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, PS1, PS2, GameBoy + Advance, and DS. I don't care about other regions or unlicensed games right now so you could probably say that my ultimate goal is to have CIB copies of all US licensed games for these systems, but I likely am not willing to pour enough money into the collection to realize anything near that in my lifetime.
To keep it interesting for me, other than the few games that I originally had for each system I've been trying to collect in roughly chronological order of release. Since the NES comes first out of those systems, it's the one that receives the most focus. I like the history and evolution of games and their packaging/marketing over time. I like to overanalyze aspects of games, and to that end I've begun to use my knowledge of assembly to read code to learn more about them.
I obviously have a long way to go and money has dried up recently, but moving to a higher rent area + a new car + a wife going to grad school + quite a lot of medical bills will do that. I haven't gotten anything new since I got BurgerTime, boxes for 1942 and Kung Fu, and a PS1 game back in March with part of my bonus. Once I have any amount of cash saved up, I'll probably become a little more active on here... I still need 12 CIBs, 3 booklets, and 3 boxes just to complete my CIB set of the first 50 NES games. (I'm trying to get at least 45 of them CIB before starting on the next set of 50)
I am astounded by some of you guys and your ability to sniff out incredible deals and accumulate massive amounts of games rapidly. I'll probably never be one of you, but my hope is to just keep enjoying every game as I get my hands on them at my own pace and have a good time hanging out with friendly, knowledgable, and passionate NES fans in the process.
-Brian
I'm collecting loose NES and collecting cartridge variant information as I go along. My collection's full enough now I need to start collecting scans and getting rid of the physical carts, all but one of each. I've got over 200+ variants and they're accumulating faster now that my set's so near to completion.
Problem is scans are unreliable and tough to couple with other data about the back of the cartridge. I can't reliably get embossment information from a scan, so short of writing it on post-its and sticking it to the grey on the front of the cart before scanning, there's no easy way to do it. I guess I need to import them to Excel and have data alongside the images that way...ugh. Easier just to keep them in file folders. Other option is to keep data-only (no scans) but that makes it impossible to spot wierd new variants like the Ice Hockey color-switch Jason found 6 months ago.