Hello, My name is Kevin!
Hello, my name is TheLegendOfKevin, or simply Kevin (my irl name). I am new to Nintendo Age, but i have been collecting since 2006. I have sold off my collection 3 times over the years, but after the third time, i promised myself that i would never sell it off again. Selling my collections off were some of the dumbest, yet smartest decisions i ever made. This sounds weird, but selling my collections allowed me to get some of the things that i really wanted right then, and then experience starting a collection and building it up all over again. However, it was also very impulsive to sell of my entire collection that i had been building for years, just for an item that i wanted right at that moment, and couldn't just simply wait for. Currently, i have around 200 games and 11 systems, but my collection is not even comparable to my previous collections. At one point, i had more than four times the ammount of stuff that i have now. I love all of my systems, but i play my playstations the least. My Ps1 gets some use, but my 2, 3 and 4 get very little. My 3 and 4 get virtually no use, and i plan to sell my ps4 in order to get more retro video games that i will play. Besides, i play all of my modern games on PC anyways, and it is a far superior experience compared to the ps4. i have like 8 ps4 games, the box, a charging station for the controllers, and the console/cables, and the manuals - pretty much every thing the ps4 and each of the games came with, along with that charging dock. I am looking to get somewhere in the 500 dollar range for all of this stuff, but i am not sure that it will sell for that much. I can get a lot of retro gaming stuff with 500 dollars though, so i would love to have that much spare cash. I am currently 18, and yes, i have been collecting since i was 8. Before i was 8, all the way back when i was 6, i got my first video game, which was a DS and Super Mario 64 DS. I also had a GameCube. My parents bought me a wii on launch (which they were very lucky to find in stock), and the Wii had virtual console, where i explored many great retro video games. I got on the internet a lot to figure out how to beat these games, because as you probably know, retro games are typically harder than modern games. While doing this, i found out about collecting, and saw different people who had massive collections of games, which absolutely amazed me, and some of these collections still amaze me to this day. A lot of the ones that i saw back then weren't even that great, but they were better than i could ever imagine. I stayed at my grandparent's house a lot during the summer when there was no school as a child, and they went to the flea market every weekend. I started finding retro games at the flea markets, and that is how i started my first collection. The first real retro games i ever owned was an NES, and the Mario trilogy. From there, it just grew and retro gaming/collecting became one of my biggest hobbies. Unlike many people on this forum, i didn't grow up when these systems were new, and i didn't get into collecting like a lot of other people did (many other people get into collecting because they get their old NES down from the attic, or they buy some games that they had as a child, and it grows). But i love retro gaming, and a decade later, I am still very passionate about it. I hope you enjoyed reading my introduction, and a bit of my background.
Comments