Collectors, what do you collect?

[ISP]

I myself collect most things physical though my Steam library keeps growing and growing.

I have a few odds and ends, I mean I'll grab games for whatever I come across but as for active collecting I am working on both consoles (usually including revisions if I have the space) and games including imports:
Xbox One
PS4
Switch
Wii U
However, with modern systems I am increasingly wary of games that are physical in name only like THPS 5 was.

3DS
DS
GBA
GBC
GB
Game Gear

360
Wii
Xbox
PS2
GameCube
Dreamcast
N64
PS1
SNES
Genesis
NES
Atari 2600

I also like those so-called Plug n Play systems like the ones from Jacks Pacifics but they do take up a far bit of oddly shaped space so I go easy on them and their various revisions. I also like Tiger handhelds and a few of boxed retro PC games mostly from the late 80's/early 90's.

What about you guys? What are you collecting?

[aileron]

I've got some Rush vinyl but not all of them. At first I thought your avatar photo was the cover of 2112, but I looked it up and it isn't. Is that from the liner or the back cover?

[Oslaf]

STDs...

no, seriously:
Hi Guys and Gals, first post here. Haven't really been on any forum/board for a long time but reading through this thread reawakened something in me..

My only "worthy" collection is probably about 100 or so PS1 titles (PAL) that I bought between '96 and 2000 (I bought the PS2 as soon as it came out so kind of stopped buying for PS1 after that).
I wasn't buying with the intention of "collecting", it was just to play the games.. I have a lot less for PS2 and even less for PS3 and 4.

More recently I've started buying SNES cartridges (also PAL) and I'm bidding on the occasional GameBoy game on ebay in hopes to increase my small 20-game collection from my youth (nostalgia more than anything). I never owned a SNES but absolutely love that system and its classic games.

Other than games, I used to buy many Manga but the only series I have completed is Dragon Ball's 42-tankobon set.
I also had a big collection of Official UK Playstation Magazine but my mum chucked them all in the bin.

Recently started buying Vinyls, mainly Prog/Rock from the 70s, but the only "complete set" I'm interested in owning is all Rush vinyls and possibly all Genesis vinyls.

[Matias]

Not much
-Saturn
-Megadrive / Genesis
-BigBox PC
-Xbox
-Xbox360
i also have few ps1,ps2 and Dreamcast games but they are not something i would say i collect

[MadMummy76]

I don't really collect anything physical, well except I got almost the entire catalogue of one gaming magazine. But that is more due to the fact that I used to read it, so I got every issue from 1994 till around 2002 when the magazine changed owners and name, and the old staff got fired. It's roughly 200 issues. But I haven't even touched them since I moved into my current house in 2006.

I wouldn't dare call it a collection yet, but I started purchasing Star Wars Ultimate Collectors Series Lego Sets. So far I only have three, a B-Wing, an X-Wing, and a Y-Wing. I wish they would make an A-wing so I'd have a full set of flyable ships from the original X-Wing game.

I used to collect music videos. In the electronic / trance music genre. I religiously watched and recorded every club rotation on every sunday. (Club rotation was a weekly dance music magazine that aired on German music television VIVA. between 1998 and 2004) Ah the nineties / early 2000s.

I also recorded electronic music from the German version of MTV2 POP, which aired ODC40 (official dance charts). Plus for a short while I even had access to MTV Dance, a special paid version of MTV, which showed exclusively dance music clips around the clock.

Of course had I recorded everything I'd have thousands of clips, but I only kept what I liked at the time. I used to record the entire shows on VHS, then use a VIVO card to transfer the clips I wanted to digital. I still have around 300 music clips from between 1998-2003. I lost some to CD failures. Those old writeable discs were very unreliable. Especially when I lent them to my friends who never returned them

What you think that's weird? You haven't heard the half of it yet. I also used to record female bodybuilding and fitness competitions. That actually made it onto cable TV back in those days. In fact it was a pretty regular feature on Eurosport, until the early 2000s. I don't know what got me hooked, but I remember watching them on TV as far back when I was 10years old. And it wasn't a passing fad either, I still prefer women with plenty of muscle. I still laugh at people who say women with muscles are "manly".

[aileron]

No it isn't at least I didn't take it that way and I mentioned my pen and paper role playing collection. I guess it's supposed to be related to gaming but who cares? Feel free to share

[grayfox313]

I have the Super NT and Super Gameboy 2. Best way to play Gameboy games from the pre-color era. Also, check out My Life in Gaming if you're interested in the best looking setup for any console

[grayfox313]

Mostly Switch. I use Everdrives for retro gaming mostly, but if I do collect anything, it's import titles for the sheer coolness of having them on a shelf

[Gluesponge]

I collect Saturn games, PS1 games (usually because I missed them the first time around), and Dreamcast games. I used to collect SNES/Genesis era games, but I've pretty much gotten all the ones I'd like to play (and can afford) already. The NES was never a system I played (I was a staunch computer gamer back then and up until the Playstation actually did I ever diversify), but I have a Retro Trio3+ and a couple of the NES' arcade ports (Gyruss, Donkey Kong, Burger Time, and so forth.)

I'd like to have gotten a TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine but the games and units are pricey now. I loved the Neo-Geo, but never owned one, so I probably won't start that collection either. Since most of the SNK compilations you can get on PS1/PS2/etc. are of the Neo-Geo games I love, it doesn't make sense to get one (though a Neo-Geo CD would be nice...)

[MadMummy76]

Is this thread only for stuff related to videogames?

Then never mind me.

[Matcam89]

That is a very nice setup!

[Animusisters]

Money and music.

[Trout]

About ten years ago I bought my entire collection of gameboy/GBC games and a Gameboy Color so I could play through all the games again. GBC was my first handheld, so I have fond memories of it; but the non backlit screen made me sell it off after I was done because it was uncomfortable. Call me spoiled. Even had the Ninendo screw driver to change the battery out on Pokemon Yellow.

Now I collect boring stuff, mostly pulp science fiction magazines from 60's-80's like Analog. Does steam games, comics, and books count?

[EternalFaith]

I've never really collected games, I used to only get a few games every year and when I started buying my own titles, Steam and other services were becoming more of an option. I'm not usually interested in owning games physically, I don't own any now aside from the Touhou Project games I have on CD.


I do collect a lot of figures from anime and video games, notably Nendoroid figures which I like for their uniform design and general aesthetic. I also have some Figmas and scale figures, which I'd like to get more into if I had the money. I also like to collect rubber strap-style keychains for different series I like, mostly from Touhou Project.

To a lesser extent, I collect CDs and vinyl, but only for rare releases I can't get easily and imports.

[Ha2400]

I just got into repair/restore of retro games currently have a Sega genesis 2 , dreamcast, and original snes