I definitely am not a full set collector (when it comes to video games). I only collect for NES and SNES, and only games that I intend to play. I go for VG+ condition carts and original manuals.
The only full set I'm going for anymore is NES (cart only), and I'm only missing one game (Hot Slots), and I've been missing it for like 4 years. Dunno if I will ever get it or not because I kind of stopped caring.
I was going for SNES too but at around 500 games or so I threw in the towel (even though I have all the good stuff, NFR set, etc, MACS, etc). If I had to do it over again I would only go for some of the select shit I really wanted and got them CIB.
Actively trying to complete, nah, SE is going to be one I could never justify the price for. Aside from that, I've been done since last summer with licensed NES. I've got the full set of carts, and somewhere north of 500 boxes and books.
I keep an eye out still, but it's rare to find something I'm missing, and I don't use ebay (0 of my collection came from it). It was something I have just enjoyed, literally for the last 20 years now.
No eBay? Damn!!
I too completed my loose NTSC NES licensed set without out e Bay. And 6 away from unlicensed. He'll I did most of it without PayPal even. Ask senior members of this site. I was sending checks in the mail up till a few years ago
Not all heroes wear capes.
I just finished my loose licensed set minus SE without using eBay a few months ago. Took me 7 years but made some awesome friends along the way. Found some of the heavy hitters in the wild and also traded other stuff I found in the wild to members here. Couldn't have done it without this community. Definitely had a fun time doing it. I still hope to find an SE in the wild at a garage sale, there's been multiples found in this area, including the sealed one, a CB one and at least 1 or 2 cart only I know of.
I'm still crazy as I ever was. I'm going for full sets of CIB and loose with manuals of NES/SNES/N64 libraries. One for preservation and one for play. I'm also going for a full 2600 set...any condition. Not a lot of people go for it so why the hell not? I know there are several extremely rare games for 2600 that I'll never see but I can still have a goal to collect a full set.
But honestly the NES is tricky with SE. No way in fuck am I going to pay that much for a sports game...let alone two times to actually fully complete my two sets. It's just something I'll never have...I'm fine with that. In my mind it'll be complete without that game.
And while I have bought online (through here or eBay) I am trying to get most of my games locally. Funner to hunt for them.
Now realistically, I know having two full sets of those three libraries is insane, I'm not that far out there that I don't know I'm crazy. Will I actually do it? Probably not. I can see myself getting a full set of N64 but it'll be a mix of CIB and loose. My plan is to collect what I can find to at least have one full set. I'll probably get the loose with manual set done first, then I'll buy duplicates of the CIB games I have so I can get a full loose with manual set. That was always my plan from the start.
In the end its just something to make me happy, keep me going...take my mind off of bigger issues. An escape, just like when I play the games. It's all an escape.
Does anyone else ever fear talking about what they have? I tend not to brag about sets online, because who wants to paint a target on their head?
The odds of someone hunting you down for what would be a difficult to move full set of games is practically nil. And even if their was someone who wanted to, if you are in a different city than them which is highly likely, it'd be too far to be worth their time. It's almost not worth even thinking about. I'd be much more worried about making sure it was insured in case of fire or something similar.
I'm still crazy as I ever was. I'm going for full sets of CIB and loose with manuals of NES/SNES/N64 libraries. One for preservation and one for play. I'm also going for a full 2600 set...any condition. Not a lot of people go for it so why the hell not? I know there are several extremely rare games for 2600 that I'll never see but I can still have a goal to collect a full set.
But honestly the NES is tricky with SE. No way in fuck am I going to pay that much for a sports game...let alone two times to actually fully complete my two sets. It's just something I'll never have...I'm fine with that. In my mind it'll be complete without that game.
And while I have bought online (through here or eBay) I am trying to get most of my games locally. Funner to hunt for them.
Now realistically, I know having two full sets of those three libraries is insane, I'm not that far out there that I don't know I'm crazy. Will I actually do it? Probably not. I can see myself getting a full set of N64 but it'll be a mix of CIB and loose. My plan is to collect what I can find to at least have one full set. I'll probably get the loose with manual set done first, then I'll buy duplicates of the CIB games I have so I can get a full loose with manual set. That was always my plan from the start.
In the end its just something to make me happy, keep me going...take my mind off of bigger issues. An escape, just like when I play the games. It's all an escape.
Cib set, and emulator for playing, not an option?
I've thought about it...but I'd rather have the real thing. I might change my mind once I have one full set though...call it good enough and emulate for playing.
I completed my NES set (710, missing Mah Jong, NWC x 2 and Campus challenge) almost two and half years ago, and been happy with the collection since. Haven't had any thoughts of getting rid of it, since I have a whole room pretty much dedicated for my NES stuff. Not collecting that much anymore though, slowly growing up my Sega Mega Drive collection now, maybe in some time having the full set there, but that's not active hobby atm.
The last set I completed was for the WiiU. The biggest set I've done was the N64.
Right now I'm a little lost. I don't know on what to focus next. Some time ago I was buying a lot of AES games but the games are very expensive. There are a few that I can get for relatively low prices but I don't think are really worth it.
I decided to go for the GBA set of Brazilian games. There are 16 games in total and I have 8. Of the 8 I'm missing, 5 are really easy to buy and 3 I can't find.
Does anyone else ever fear talking about what they have? I tend not to brag about sets online, because who wants to paint a target on their head?
I used to, but then realized my collection is protected by armed guards, 3K Air Force and about 200K Army peeps daily. Now that I am moving soon i need to find a small little town that doesn't care about collecting.
Does anyone else ever fear talking about what they have? I tend not to brag about sets online, because who wants to paint a target on their head?
I'm more concerned in real life rather than online. I'll list things seperately and meet up with strangers in public instead of at my house.
As for full set collecting, I'm only one Just Dance game away from a Wii U set. The only reason I collected a full set was the games were super easy to find for cheap prices and the library is tiny. I almost went for a full SNES set after I had all the tough games but couldn't justify buying 400 filler titles. At this point I am extremely glad I did that. I think full set collecting can often push people over the edge and get them to ditch completely part way through or when they finally obtain everything.
I stared with the mentality of full set collecting from the start. I knew I wanted to do a full NES set. I'm down to 4, of the 776, on NES, and have since finish SNES, N64, GameCube, and 32x. I've being knocking out the harder to find stuff for PS1/2 for a bit now and have almost all of that stuff done. I've toyed with the idea of a full ps2 set but honestly the space it would take up has really turned me off of it. It such a huge amount of space to dedicate to one system. I may try loose original game boy as its would take it so little amount of space and be pretty neat to own.
I think the issue people get into with full sets is they love the idea of it but once they start its pretty daunting and it can get expensive if your not really going to work at it. They jump in head first and its not too long before they realize what they've really gotten into. I see so many people get to like 500 on NES or SNES and its all the cheap games. It becomes a real challenge if your not sprinkling the expensive stuff in as your working on it. If you get to the last 100, and its the 100 most expressive, its going to be pretty much impossible. You've got 3x the value left to get vs the 500-600 games you already have. N64 seems to be the perfect sweet spot for full set collecting. Its relatively small set and its pretty inexpensive to build (loose). There's only a handful of games that break the $100 mark and sculptors cut isn't too super crazy as the most expensive game. It feels like the perfect set to fill that full set itch for most people. Now any cart based set you decide to do CIB is a whole other animal to which I cant speak to, disced based isn't too bad as far as CIB and I'm not sure why you'd ever work on a disc set loose.
I'm a full set guy. I could never really get into coin or stamp collecting, because I know I'll never get a full set. What does a full set even mean for those? I'm a sucker for smartphone games that encourage you to collect stuff, but I uninstall them immediately if I find out that the devs are always adding things to the set. I like how well-defined old video game sets are. But there's always that one expensive game. Even collecting every color of Game Boy Camera, Tiger Game.com games, GBA Video carts, every set has a high end. Drives me bats.
Years ago I tried it for a time with the NES just before the prices started to get really bad closer to a decade ago. After I got like 1/2 through it and space became a concern I started to think a bit, maybe too much, but I came to a realization. It was a huge mistake because I like to play stuff, yet there was so much and most got played to be cleaned, tested to work, and shelved and it felt wasteful.
Only recently have I attempted it again with what would be considered I guess a micro-size set with the Virtual Boy and I'm almost there with the US stuff, plus a few extras.
I'm a full set guy. I could never really get into coin or stamp collecting, because I know I'll never get a full set. What does a full set even mean for those?
I work at a bank and I can tell you there is no end to coin collecting. I see people buy BOXES of pennies and search through them for WEEKS to find nothing. Honestly coin collecting is more "luck" then games.
Going hard and heavy for the massive PS2 set currently setting at just under a thousand CIB games for that set. Gave up on The loose NES set long ago been seting at around 550 for years. Might pick a game I don't have FOR that set every 6 months or so.
I feel that a more common trend people have taken over the last couple years are just accumulating the top playable or hard to find titles for each system.
This is and really has always been me. I have hoped for yeard to one day have a basement game room with a solid collection of my favorite titles. I'll never go for a full set of any console.
This is a really cool way to go. I love to see a collection that is refined and full of nothing but great games, as opposed to having hundreds of junky/shovelware filler. This kind of collection - where you can grab anything randomly off the shelf and you just KNOW it is going to be good, because they ALL are - is much more interesting in my opinion.
Plus, I like more customized collections because they are more different and interesting. If everyone here had a full NES set, all of our collections would be exactly the same. So I like seeing the black box set collector, the "good games" collector, the variant collector, the misprint collector, etc etc. Makes it more interesting!
I couldn't agree/back these sentiments more myself. If I could buy e.g. 1 really good/interesting SNES game with the price of 3 crappy NES ones, why the heck would I rather try buying all the NES ones? It's really been my leading philosophy since the very beginning..
Now the next level, and this may shock you: that refined library of games, all those great pieces of art - what if one had also PLAYED through all of them? That's where I wanna be one day. The funny thing is, while some people might have more money to put towards collecting, or would've scored really good in the early days of collection, we all have the same amount of time so being willing and able to put time to the games you own, those are the real hardcore collectors to me!
I think at the end of the day, it doesn’t make much of a difference if you go for full sets or subsets then moving onto another platform. As long as the passion for games collecting remain strong and that you enjoy doing what you do.
I would say say I used to be a full set collector mentality but in actuality I’m more a “near full set collector”. Usually, I’d get around 90-95% of a full collection, then I’d get bored and move onto another platform of my interest.
What excites me about someone’s collection is the uniqueness of the overall contents rather than the numbers alone. And a true collector in my books, is one that really appreciates what they have, regardless of how full their sets are.
I could probably get 99.9% of a loose gameboy set if I wanted to do it. There are probably well over half of that set is less than $10 and probably less than 5 dollars if I bought in lots, but I just can't bring myself to justify buying gameboy baseball at any price. I am currently collecting as many affordable boxes that I can and the stuff that I like from the gameboy, gameboy advance library.
A couple of mini sets I am interested in is all of the "special" gameboy color/advance carts: cib. Ones with the rumble feature, or RTC, etc. All of the sega titles for the gameboy advance and I'm still interested in many of the puzzle games for the gameboy cib.
I could probably get 99.9% of a loose gameboy set if I wanted to do it. There are probably well over half of that set is less than $10 and probably less than 5 dollars if I bought in lots, but I just can't bring myself to justify buying gameboy baseball at any price. I am currently collecting as many affordable boxes that I can and the stuff that I like from the gameboy, gameboy advance library.
A couple of mini sets I am interested in is all of the "special" gameboy color/advance carts: cib. Ones with the rumble feature, or RTC, etc. All of the sega titles for the gameboy advance and I'm still interested in many of the puzzle games for the gameboy cib.
I'm one game away from finishing a loose GB set, lol. While collecting, I've maintained a list of the top 50 priciest games according to GVN, and the cutoff has always been around $20-$22. That's 456 games under $20ish. And yes, well over half are under $10.
Not a hard set to put together, but it's a fun dance of finding deals and the occasional HTF title. Especially if you like the games. And the Game Boy is the GOAT, right?
I could probably get 99.9% of a loose gameboy set if I wanted to do it. There are probably well over half of that set is less than $10 and probably less than 5 dollars if I bought in lots, but I just can't bring myself to justify buying gameboy baseball at any price. I am currently collecting as many affordable boxes that I can and the stuff that I like from the gameboy, gameboy advance library.
A couple of mini sets I am interested in is all of the "special" gameboy color/advance carts: cib. Ones with the rumble feature, or RTC, etc. All of the sega titles for the gameboy advance and I'm still interested in many of the puzzle games for the gameboy cib.
I'm one game away from finishing a loose GB set, lol. While collecting, I've maintained a list of the top 50 priciest games according to GVN, and the cutoff has always been around $20-$22. That's 456 games under $20ish. And yes, well over half are under $10.
Not a hard set to put together, but it's a fun dance of finding deals and the occasional HTF title. Especially if you like the games. And the Game Boy is the GOAT, right?
I love my gameboy games, but they are pretty high dollar if you are collecting the box for them, which initially I wasn't but am now. The only thing I don't like about gameboy games is that the platforming games are brutally hard to play. The puzzle games are the best though, with hardly any filler amount them.
I will say this that I do believe that the gameboy advance sp 001 IS the best retro console to play retro games. Not only does it have a library of about 2500 games, but you can play many of the best sega titles on it, you can play nearly all of the activision titles on it (anthology), Midway, Atari, even a lot of the best NES games on it.
It also has unique catridges (rumble feature, accelemeter, etc). The system has no flaws at this point.
The gamecube (with the gameboy player) to me was a litle half-baked and wasn't implemented that well. The super gameboy 2 is sweet, but only plays gameboy games. So yeah, I'm expanding my tastes, but gameboy is still my favorite for the best puzzle games on the system.
The only thing I don't like about gameboy games is that the platforming games are brutally hard to play. The puzzle games are the best though, with hardly any filler
Totally agree. I've said this before somewhere on the site: people complain about the GB library being so full of puzzle games, even people like Jeremy Parish, who should know better. But the library is over 1/3 platformers! There are 3 times as many platformers as puzzle games, and that's counting the puzzle-platformers (Burger Time, Crazy Castle, Donkey Kong etc) as puzzle games! There are lots of great platformers (Mario, Kirby, Mega Man, DKL) but sooooo many terrible ones. But as puzzle games go, the puzzle games are top-shelf with very few dogs. People should complain about the side-scrollers!
But I'm getting way off topic. Once I'm done ranking all the GB games I'll be able to share what subsets are worth collecting, rather than the GB full set.
The only thing I don't like about gameboy games is that the platforming games are brutally hard to play. The puzzle games are the best though, with hardly any filler
Totally agree. I've said this before somewhere on the site: people complain about the GB library being so full of puzzle games, even people like Jeremy Parish, who should know better. But the library is over 1/3 platformers! There are 3 times as many platformers as puzzle games, and that's counting the puzzle-platformers (Burger Time, Crazy Castle, Donkey Kong etc) as puzzle games! There are lots of great platformers (Mario, Kirby, Mega Man, DKL) but sooooo many terrible ones. But as puzzle games go, the puzzle games are top-shelf with very few dogs. People should complain about the side-scrollers!
But I'm getting way off topic. Once I'm done ranking all the GB games I'll be able to share what subsets are worth collecting, rather than the GB full set.
I'm winding down on finishing my loose nes set also, or as close as I can be within my income range.
If I had to do it all over again I'm not sure if I'd get them all or just hit the highlights. These games take up SO MUCH space. Sometimes it is hard to justify having them all, but it sure was fun finding them all
I honestly dabble in both full set and "most enjoyable/playable" games by system. The former is more my console library and the latter (with the exception of boxed OG Game Boy) is my handheld library.
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Currently working on NES cart set, Gamecube CIB set, and Japanses N64 CIB sets.
The 3 sets I have finished are "smaller" but they still took effort. Finishing the Sega Pico CIB set took over 10 years and it has 20 games.
I was going for SNES too but at around 500 games or so I threw in the towel (even though I have all the good stuff, NFR set, etc, MACS, etc). If I had to do it over again I would only go for some of the select shit I really wanted and got them CIB.
Actively trying to complete, nah, SE is going to be one I could never justify the price for. Aside from that, I've been done since last summer with licensed NES. I've got the full set of carts, and somewhere north of 500 boxes and books.
I keep an eye out still, but it's rare to find something I'm missing, and I don't use ebay (0 of my collection came from it). It was something I have just enjoyed, literally for the last 20 years now.
No eBay? Damn!!
I too completed my loose NTSC NES licensed set without out e Bay. And 6 away from unlicensed. He'll I did most of it without PayPal even. Ask senior members of this site. I was sending checks in the mail up till a few years ago
Not all heroes wear capes.
I just finished my loose licensed set minus SE without using eBay a few months ago. Took me 7 years but made some awesome friends along the way. Found some of the heavy hitters in the wild and also traded other stuff I found in the wild to members here. Couldn't have done it without this community. Definitely had a fun time doing it. I still hope to find an SE in the wild at a garage sale, there's been multiples found in this area, including the sealed one, a CB one and at least 1 or 2 cart only I know of.
I'm still crazy as I ever was. I'm going for full sets of CIB and loose with manuals of NES/SNES/N64 libraries. One for preservation and one for play. I'm also going for a full 2600 set...any condition. Not a lot of people go for it so why the hell not? I know there are several extremely rare games for 2600 that I'll never see but I can still have a goal to collect a full set.
But honestly the NES is tricky with SE. No way in fuck am I going to pay that much for a sports game...let alone two times to actually fully complete my two sets. It's just something I'll never have...I'm fine with that. In my mind it'll be complete without that game.
And while I have bought online (through here or eBay) I am trying to get most of my games locally. Funner to hunt for them.
Now realistically, I know having two full sets of those three libraries is insane, I'm not that far out there that I don't know I'm crazy. Will I actually do it? Probably not. I can see myself getting a full set of N64 but it'll be a mix of CIB and loose. My plan is to collect what I can find to at least have one full set. I'll probably get the loose with manual set done first, then I'll buy duplicates of the CIB games I have so I can get a full loose with manual set. That was always my plan from the start.
In the end its just something to make me happy, keep me going...take my mind off of bigger issues. An escape, just like when I play the games. It's all an escape.
Cib set, and emulator for playing, not an option?
Does anyone else ever fear talking about what they have? I tend not to brag about sets online, because who wants to paint a target on their head?
**rasing my hand** I thought it was just me
Originally posted by: DarkKobold
Does anyone else ever fear talking about what they have? I tend not to brag about sets online, because who wants to paint a target on their head?
The odds of someone hunting you down for what would be a difficult to move full set of games is practically nil. And even if their was someone who wanted to, if you are in a different city than them which is highly likely, it'd be too far to be worth their time. It's almost not worth even thinking about. I'd be much more worried about making sure it was insured in case of fire or something similar.
I'm still crazy as I ever was. I'm going for full sets of CIB and loose with manuals of NES/SNES/N64 libraries. One for preservation and one for play. I'm also going for a full 2600 set...any condition. Not a lot of people go for it so why the hell not? I know there are several extremely rare games for 2600 that I'll never see but I can still have a goal to collect a full set.
But honestly the NES is tricky with SE. No way in fuck am I going to pay that much for a sports game...let alone two times to actually fully complete my two sets. It's just something I'll never have...I'm fine with that. In my mind it'll be complete without that game.
And while I have bought online (through here or eBay) I am trying to get most of my games locally. Funner to hunt for them.
Now realistically, I know having two full sets of those three libraries is insane, I'm not that far out there that I don't know I'm crazy. Will I actually do it? Probably not. I can see myself getting a full set of N64 but it'll be a mix of CIB and loose. My plan is to collect what I can find to at least have one full set. I'll probably get the loose with manual set done first, then I'll buy duplicates of the CIB games I have so I can get a full loose with manual set. That was always my plan from the start.
In the end its just something to make me happy, keep me going...take my mind off of bigger issues. An escape, just like when I play the games. It's all an escape.
Cib set, and emulator for playing, not an option?
I've thought about it...but I'd rather have the real thing. I might change my mind once I have one full set though...call it good enough and emulate for playing.
Right now I'm a little lost. I don't know on what to focus next. Some time ago I was buying a lot of AES games but the games are very expensive. There are a few that I can get for relatively low prices but I don't think are really worth it.
I decided to go for the GBA set of Brazilian games. There are 16 games in total and I have 8. Of the 8 I'm missing, 5 are really easy to buy and 3 I can't find.
Does anyone else ever fear talking about what they have? I tend not to brag about sets online, because who wants to paint a target on their head?
I used to, but then realized my collection is protected by armed guards, 3K Air Force and about 200K Army peeps daily. Now that I am moving soon i need to find a small little town that doesn't care about collecting.
Does anyone else ever fear talking about what they have? I tend not to brag about sets online, because who wants to paint a target on their head?
I'm more concerned in real life rather than online. I'll list things seperately and meet up with strangers in public instead of at my house.
As for full set collecting, I'm only one Just Dance game away from a Wii U set. The only reason I collected a full set was the games were super easy to find for cheap prices and the library is tiny. I almost went for a full SNES set after I had all the tough games but couldn't justify buying 400 filler titles. At this point I am extremely glad I did that. I think full set collecting can often push people over the edge and get them to ditch completely part way through or when they finally obtain everything.
I think the issue people get into with full sets is they love the idea of it but once they start its pretty daunting and it can get expensive if your not really going to work at it. They jump in head first and its not too long before they realize what they've really gotten into. I see so many people get to like 500 on NES or SNES and its all the cheap games. It becomes a real challenge if your not sprinkling the expensive stuff in as your working on it. If you get to the last 100, and its the 100 most expressive, its going to be pretty much impossible. You've got 3x the value left to get vs the 500-600 games you already have. N64 seems to be the perfect sweet spot for full set collecting. Its relatively small set and its pretty inexpensive to build (loose). There's only a handful of games that break the $100 mark and sculptors cut isn't too super crazy as the most expensive game. It feels like the perfect set to fill that full set itch for most people. Now any cart based set you decide to do CIB is a whole other animal to which I cant speak to, disced based isn't too bad as far as CIB and I'm not sure why you'd ever work on a disc set loose.
Only recently have I attempted it again with what would be considered I guess a micro-size set with the Virtual Boy and I'm almost there with the US stuff, plus a few extras.
I'm a full set guy. I could never really get into coin or stamp collecting, because I know I'll never get a full set. What does a full set even mean for those?
I work at a bank and I can tell you there is no end to coin collecting. I see people buy BOXES of pennies and search through them for WEEKS to find nothing. Honestly coin collecting is more "luck" then games.
I feel that a more common trend people have taken over the last couple years are just accumulating the top playable or hard to find titles for each system.
This is and really has always been me. I have hoped for yeard to one day have a basement game room with a solid collection of my favorite titles. I'll never go for a full set of any console.
This is a really cool way to go. I love to see a collection that is refined and full of nothing but great games, as opposed to having hundreds of junky/shovelware filler. This kind of collection - where you can grab anything randomly off the shelf and you just KNOW it is going to be good, because they ALL are - is much more interesting in my opinion.
Plus, I like more customized collections because they are more different and interesting. If everyone here had a full NES set, all of our collections would be exactly the same. So I like seeing the black box set collector, the "good games" collector, the variant collector, the misprint collector, etc etc. Makes it more interesting!
I couldn't agree/back these sentiments more myself. If I could buy e.g. 1 really good/interesting SNES game with the price of 3 crappy NES ones, why the heck would I rather try buying all the NES ones? It's really been my leading philosophy since the very beginning..
Now the next level, and this may shock you: that refined library of games, all those great pieces of art - what if one had also PLAYED through all of them? That's where I wanna be one day. The funny thing is, while some people might have more money to put towards collecting, or would've scored really good in the early days of collection, we all have the same amount of time so being willing and able to put time to the games you own, those are the real hardcore collectors to me!
I think at the end of the day, it doesn’t make much of a difference if you go for full sets or subsets then moving onto another platform. As long as the passion for games collecting remain strong and that you enjoy doing what you do.
I would say say I used to be a full set collector mentality but in actuality I’m more a “near full set collector”. Usually, I’d get around 90-95% of a full collection, then I’d get bored and move onto another platform of my interest.
What excites me about someone’s collection is the uniqueness of the overall contents rather than the numbers alone. And a true collector in my books, is one that really appreciates what they have, regardless of how full their sets are.
A couple of mini sets I am interested in is all of the "special" gameboy color/advance carts: cib. Ones with the rumble feature, or RTC, etc. All of the sega titles for the gameboy advance and I'm still interested in many of the puzzle games for the gameboy cib.
I could probably get 99.9% of a loose gameboy set if I wanted to do it. There are probably well over half of that set is less than $10 and probably less than 5 dollars if I bought in lots, but I just can't bring myself to justify buying gameboy baseball at any price. I am currently collecting as many affordable boxes that I can and the stuff that I like from the gameboy, gameboy advance library.
A couple of mini sets I am interested in is all of the "special" gameboy color/advance carts: cib. Ones with the rumble feature, or RTC, etc. All of the sega titles for the gameboy advance and I'm still interested in many of the puzzle games for the gameboy cib.
I'm one game away from finishing a loose GB set, lol. While collecting, I've maintained a list of the top 50 priciest games according to GVN, and the cutoff has always been around $20-$22. That's 456 games under $20ish. And yes, well over half are under $10.
Not a hard set to put together, but it's a fun dance of finding deals and the occasional HTF title. Especially if you like the games. And the Game Boy is the GOAT, right?
I could probably get 99.9% of a loose gameboy set if I wanted to do it. There are probably well over half of that set is less than $10 and probably less than 5 dollars if I bought in lots, but I just can't bring myself to justify buying gameboy baseball at any price. I am currently collecting as many affordable boxes that I can and the stuff that I like from the gameboy, gameboy advance library.
A couple of mini sets I am interested in is all of the "special" gameboy color/advance carts: cib. Ones with the rumble feature, or RTC, etc. All of the sega titles for the gameboy advance and I'm still interested in many of the puzzle games for the gameboy cib.
I'm one game away from finishing a loose GB set, lol. While collecting, I've maintained a list of the top 50 priciest games according to GVN, and the cutoff has always been around $20-$22. That's 456 games under $20ish. And yes, well over half are under $10.
Not a hard set to put together, but it's a fun dance of finding deals and the occasional HTF title. Especially if you like the games. And the Game Boy is the GOAT, right?
I love my gameboy games, but they are pretty high dollar if you are collecting the box for them, which initially I wasn't but am now. The only thing I don't like about gameboy games is that the platforming games are brutally hard to play. The puzzle games are the best though, with hardly any filler amount them.
I will say this that I do believe that the gameboy advance sp 001 IS the best retro console to play retro games. Not only does it have a library of about 2500 games, but you can play many of the best sega titles on it, you can play nearly all of the activision titles on it (anthology), Midway, Atari, even a lot of the best NES games on it.
It also has unique catridges (rumble feature, accelemeter, etc). The system has no flaws at this point.
The gamecube (with the gameboy player) to me was a litle half-baked and wasn't implemented that well. The super gameboy 2 is sweet, but only plays gameboy games. So yeah, I'm expanding my tastes, but gameboy is still my favorite for the best puzzle games on the system.
The only thing I don't like about gameboy games is that the platforming games are brutally hard to play. The puzzle games are the best though, with hardly any filler
Totally agree. I've said this before somewhere on the site: people complain about the GB library being so full of puzzle games, even people like Jeremy Parish, who should know better. But the library is over 1/3 platformers! There are 3 times as many platformers as puzzle games, and that's counting the puzzle-platformers (Burger Time, Crazy Castle, Donkey Kong etc) as puzzle games! There are lots of great platformers (Mario, Kirby, Mega Man, DKL) but sooooo many terrible ones. But as puzzle games go, the puzzle games are top-shelf with very few dogs. People should complain about the side-scrollers!
But I'm getting way off topic. Once I'm done ranking all the GB games I'll be able to share what subsets are worth collecting, rather than the GB full set.
The only thing I don't like about gameboy games is that the platforming games are brutally hard to play. The puzzle games are the best though, with hardly any filler
Totally agree. I've said this before somewhere on the site: people complain about the GB library being so full of puzzle games, even people like Jeremy Parish, who should know better. But the library is over 1/3 platformers! There are 3 times as many platformers as puzzle games, and that's counting the puzzle-platformers (Burger Time, Crazy Castle, Donkey Kong etc) as puzzle games! There are lots of great platformers (Mario, Kirby, Mega Man, DKL) but sooooo many terrible ones. But as puzzle games go, the puzzle games are top-shelf with very few dogs. People should complain about the side-scrollers!
But I'm getting way off topic. Once I'm done ranking all the GB games I'll be able to share what subsets are worth collecting, rather than the GB full set.
That would be great
If I had to do it all over again I'm not sure if I'd get them all or just hit the highlights. These games take up SO MUCH space. Sometimes it is hard to justify having them all, but it sure was fun finding them all