Collectors, what do you collect?

[Inkdipper]

I don't really collect anything in particular, but I do hang on to a few things from my past. I have a few game cases on display and all of my music festival stubs for example. Just the few things that have meaning to me. Never really got into properly investing in collecting something like comics or cards (other than pokemon back in the day).

[Turnikman228]

I collect knives, started recently.

Own 8 switchblades currently.

[system11]

Atari 800 games on cassette (180+)
Commodore 64 games on cassette (600+)
Individual titles for Vic 20, ZX81, Amiga which I specifically wanted without creating a 'collection',
Small number of Game & Watch handhelds I used to own as a kid
Megadrive (170+ vast majority Japanese)
Individual titles for PC Engine, Saturn, etc similar to computers above
Arcade PCBs (700+, 120+ carts for arcade systems)
Arcade artwork/manuals (850+ items)
Various arcade machines & pinball machines
PS1/PS2/PS3/PS4/X360 - various stuff, not really a 'collection', just things I bought to play, probably 200-ish

I wish I'd kept hold of some of the many PS1 games I sold years ago. They didn't really have any nostalgia value for me at the time.

[Ultimate Goose]

I have to trim the fat of my dvd/blu-ray collection every now and then lol, it must be managed!

[Ultimate Goose]

I have a modest collection of maybe 20 or so ps1 titles, stuff like dino crisis, parasite eve 2, metal gear sold.
It reminds me to try and find the physical copies of the games I really love these days, like Nier automata.

[Ultimate Goose]

impressive!
a thing of beauty for sure!

[CrassiusCurio]

I used to collect DVD's (+ HD-DVDs) but I have finally given up

[TenaciousJ728]

Not sure if I qualify but I'm a simple person so I only collect anything that I genuinely enjoyed (the enjoyment threshold is not very high), no matter the genre, no matter the system, no matter the means of play. If I picked up a game and liked it, I'll make an attempt to have my own copy.

I grew up with Nintendo consoles but was later introduced to PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Sadly, Sega's presence has been obscure for me as I can count how many of my friends and relatives throughout my lifetime have owned a Sega console with one hand.

Aaaaaaanyway, I own and collect for... (in order of obtaining the console)

• N64
• GameCube
• GBA
• PC
• PSP
• Xbox 360
• Wii
• SNES
• NES
• PSP
• DS
• PS3
• 3DS
• PSvita
• PS2
• PS4
• Xbox
• Genesis/Mega Drive
• Dreamcast
• Gameboy
• Switch
• Arcade

Most of which have sparse and few in games so far, but I can think of a few games I'd shoot for on a whim. Yeah, I fluffed the list with some current consoles.

Say, here's a random question:
How torn do you get when deciding on which console to buy a physical multiplatform title on?

[aileron]

Wow! That's a massive collection. I don't remember Jungle King. https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_d...p?game_id=8258 Scrolling right to left? WTH?

[LoJan7]

I have had 30 at the most but now I only have 12 some auctioned off 1 was stolen believe it or not. I store them at my father's he has a secure location. My absolute favorite is my cocktail table Jungle king machine they only made a few of them because Disney sued them for stealing Tarzans image.

[CuppaJoe]

I inherited my father's collection of virus's. He had a few hundred, all labeled on 3 1/2 inch floppies. Pride in his collection was the Michelangelo Virus. A very fuckin evil virus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel...computer_virus)

[JTuesday]

I'm wondering if there a gap in the market for a company to bring the collectability back with a crowdfunded console that uses carts. Although, pretty much all crowd funded consoles have been a disaster.

[King_Nothing]

I have a collection of consoles and games. I also collected alot of Zelda games but that has tailed off recently, PAL, NTSC, and Japanese copies of most of the games. Consoles I have:

NES
SNES + Analogue Super NT + Super Gameboy Mk.2
N64
Gamecube + Gameboy Player
Wii
Wii U
Switch
Gameboy (OG, Color, Advance, Advance SP)
DS (Lite, DSi, 3DS, 3DSXL, 2DS, New 3DSXL)
PS1
PS2
PS3
PS4
PSP (3000, N1000, E1000)
PS Vita (1000)
Xbox
Xbox 360 (E)
Xbox One (OG, S, X)
Sega Mega Drive (Mk.1, Mk.2)
Sega CD Mk.2
Sega 32x
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast

[ISP]

I'm surprised this hasn't become more notable, games that you can buy physically but cannot play without download updates from the 'net. I think a few Switch games are like this now. I wonder if anyone is tracking this yet?

[Dataanti]

I have only started collecting for about a year, so far its

OG Xbox
GC
N64
PS2
GBA
GBC.

For modern games i have an XB1X and a switch

I think my most unique item is legend of zelda OoC Master quest on the N64