New "World Record" Largest Game Collection
Has anyone heard of this guy? His collection doesn't look like it compares to Joel Hopkins (The Last Gamer) in terms of super collectors who show off what they have, although Joel said something about not wanting to go through the hassle of Guinness auditing again to reclaim the record.
What stuck out to me was the news report shows almost no Nintendo carts (at least the news people didn't find them), it's so many stacks of modern Xbox and Wii and Playstation games! It could be bad camerawork by the newspeople but it sure looks... underwhelming. I thought it would be interesting if nothing else because he's a game collector with a room that looks virtually the opposite of what many of our rooms look like.
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The walls of game boxes/carts just looks dull as hell.
I do think it's far easier to build massive collections relying on cheap current gen consoles than older consoles. Subsequent console generations like the Wii, 360, PS2, PS3, DS, and etc have had insanely massive libraries compared to their 8 and 16 bit counterparts. If you're just aiming for numbers, maxing out those sets would get you to his numbers quickly. That said, the reporter was just showing the cliff notes. We don't know how massive his actual collection is.
With all that ps3, ps2, wii and xbox sports garbage with it, the avg value of his games must be about thirty cents.
If he didn't buy them new, it sounds like he just raided every gamestore's giveaway bin.
We need to track this guy down and demand an itemized list of his full collection, so we may properly judge and assign scorn and/or praise. Local news footage is not doing it justice! Find this man, he's got to be on twitter or Instagram, surely!
No way I could do that.
I feel the reality of who actually has the largest collection is either Last Gamer, or possibly DreamTR?
I feel the reality of who actually has the largest collection is either Last Gamer, or possibly DreamTR?
Ultimately the worlds biggest collection title becomes less meaningful every year that passes, just like having the biggest collection of comic books is an altogether meaningless title compared to who has the most key issues collectors are actually interested in.
I think someone is probably lurking in the shadows with the real largest collection. Joel has the same taste in Sega AM2 arcade games and 90s pinball as I do, so his game room will always be the best
I feel the reality of who actually has the largest collection is either Last Gamer, or possibly DreamTR?
Pretty sure DreamTR is somewhere around ~18K (though he seems to be much more focused on owning pinball machines and arcade cabinets in recent years which requires a LOT more attention and resources to own each individual one than individual software video games) and Last Gamer has claimed to be somewhere around 25-30K and possibly could re-take the WR title if he decided that he wanted to (as long as he was being truthful about that claim).
On the other hand, the guy isn't really doing himself any favours... I spent a little time this morning (bored at work) searching for ANY sign of this guy or his collection online, and basically found nothing. Not an Instagram or a Twitter or a Youtube, nothing... I know some people are very private about their collections, for whatever reason they may have, but obviously going out of your way to claim the record kinda precludes that. You'd think he would have some online presence. Anyone else find anything on this guy?
To be fair to the dude, local TV news is the LAST place on Earth I would expect to see a detailed and comprehensive account of an 20,000 plus game collection.
Super true. The crew that was here the other day couldn't care less about the actual collection. They just wanted to hear numbers, dollar value, buzz words, etc.
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On the other hand, the guy isn't really doing himself any favours... I spent a little time this morning (bored at work) searching for ANY sign of this guy or his collection online, and basically found nothing. Not an Instagram or a Twitter or a Youtube, nothing... I know some people are very private about their collections, for whatever reason they may have, but obviously going out of your way to claim the record kinda precludes that. You'd think he would have some online presence. Anyone else find anything on this guy?
That IS really odd. Usually the MO is, 1) be independently wealthy 2) buy up everything rare, expensive, full sets within months 3) create a huge sprawl that could shame most stores 4) show off on Instagram and Youtube and try to be instafamous for 15 mins.
It's impressive. Well displayed? Nah. But frankly looking at the general setup, seeing how full his family is (multiple kids and a wife), and the total amount - I imagine he's having trouble fitting it all in what is potentially not a huge house otherwise. Granted he SEEMS to have gone for quantity over quality, but we really don't KNOW that, given the shortness of the video.
It's pretty odd that he's not online that anyone can tell, but that's the beauty of anonymity - he could very well be one of us and simply not very talkative; maybe he uses online strictly for finding and buying games.
All power to him, IMO. He's accomplished something I'm sure any of us would be proud of.
Yeah I mean they really don't go into detail on exactly what he has, and granted they mostly show newer stuff (outside of the small focus on some Sega stuff) and the NDS stuff we can see, but if he legit has 20k+ games there's surely no way he's not sitting on a stack of NES/SNES/N64 etc. carts. The video's not particularly well done so it's hard to tell but it seems that while the news anchor is speaking dude's pointing at a wall of cart-only games. At the back I can see rows of Game Boy games as well (if my eyes serve me well at this late hour).
It's impressive. Well displayed? Nah. But frankly looking at the general setup, seeing how full his family is (multiple kids and a wife), and the total amount - I imagine he's having trouble fitting it all in what is potentially not a huge house otherwise. Granted he SEEMS to have gone for quantity over quality, but we really don't KNOW that, given the shortness of the video.
It's pretty odd that he's not online that anyone can tell, but that's the beauty of anonymity - he could very well be one of us and simply not very talkative; maybe he uses online strictly for finding and buying games.
All power to him, IMO. He's accomplished something I'm sure any of us would be proud of.
Yeah it's actually my collection and that's me, gg everyone
Just looks plain and boring, I think the only gameroom I've ever seen that actually looked nice was superNESmans.
The walls of game boxes/carts just looks dull as hell.
Exactly. Almost every game collection room looks just as exciting as this guy's. He just happened to collect enough games and wants to be in an actual record book so he took the initiative to do that.
Also calm down people. Then overlap of attention whores and game collectors is large. Many of you will sell their left lung just to get the latest boring expensive item and slap it on Instagram to get them likes and their friend's approval. He just made it official.
If you find yourself doing this get help now before you become like this poor schmuck.
To display a collection properly it takes thousands of dollars and space which some people don't have. Joel collection looks awesome but Joel is also wealthy and has the time to reorganize his room multiple times for the wow effect which I love but the Japanese games doesn't appeal to me as a collector.
Either way lets give this guy some praise. He doesn't have to broadcast on social media to show off I mean share his collection. I for one don't and would never.
Congrats to the new record holder, must be fun to enjoy a library like that.
I don't get the need for this kind of collecting besides the fact you are keeping game companies in business. I just see a typical guy liking video games seeing the hype and then buying all the new release games as they come out and not even to the level of a pedigree. I find it very odd and lacking quality but I'm sure he's happy with his collection.
The previous world record holder's collection (Joel) was much more impressive, in my opinion. When owning a large collection, it's not just about quantity, it's about how they are displayed, the love and respect you are giving each one, what the games mean to us and our culture and why they are important, and things like that. To do that properly requires an incredible amount of infrastructure in terms of storage and space and requires challenges that many won't think of at first such as insurance, persistent threat of theft, overcoming pressures over a long period of time from various forces telling you to stop, and things like that. Sorry but "ha ha i have a lot of games and running out of storage space lolz hope i can find space on the wall for the plaque in my dimly lit cave lolz" is not very impressive to me to just build up a high quantity and makes me roll my eyes. It's not very good representative for the idea of showing love to the games. If you become a world record holder like that in my opinion you basically become a spokesman to the rest of the world of what this hobby and the people in it are all about. Someone like that with such an important role needs to represent this hobby (and therefore us) way better than what I just saw.
Agreed! Thelastgamer (Joel) has the most visually impressive collection in the world, bar none! While he might not have all the super rare titles like John Hancock, his gameroom looks like a commercial setting and is incredibly well setup!
Joel needs to get his ass in gear and get his record back! If I was him, I'd just sell Tetris for the Megadrive and would buy up all the remaining games he needs to complete his other collections (minus the other super rare ones). Then again I doubt he's really in need of money either lol!
"Maybe you think he's a legend like Zelda to have all that Metal Gear sitting around his house. If his Final Fantasy or Call of Duty was to have a world of software-craft creating a Mass Effect, his Goldeneye for collecting his one Guinness Mari-over (??) even if it's gala-gotta have taken him longer than a Fortnite to build such a super galaxy of titles. It's no Bioshock that dude's got game ya'll."
CNN being in touch with the kids yo.
Also I really hope this guy has some Nintendo Room of Doom and he comes out of the woodwork and he's like "Dude we were in my game room for 30 minutes, then we shot like 2 minutes in the overflow hallway and that's all they used for the report!". I just wanna see the rest, it's a world record!