Addicted to buying games

I find myself buying games for some far-off collapse of society, where I somehow have electricity and food but must live in a bunker and play video games all day.

Of course that day is never going to come...
 
[quote name='dracula']i have loads of patience for this type of thing. I wait until a game is cheap before getting it.Game prices fall within a year or a year and a half.[/quote]

I do this too, but once games get to that price point, I have a hard time waiting to get it even though I have a ton of unplayed games.
 
I think almost everyone a CAG has this "addiction" or once did.

I bought about 2-3 games a week in my collage days, but now it's down to 1-2 a month.
 
Across all platforms going back to about 1990 (I was given to preferring computers like the Amiga and Atari 800 back in the days when the variance between computers was so minor they were as convenient as consoles) my collection was over 1500 items. However that count is from over a year ago and I've bought at least 100 games since then. The vast majority were $10 or less but it still adds up.

OTOH, there were many years when it either cost me nothing to acquire games or I even made a profit. There used to be a pretty good number of stores in LA County that bought 'used' games. I would often buy a dozen copies on a blowout sale, keep one for myself, and make enough on selling the rest to at least break even on the whole lot. I have a nearly complete Sega Saturn library (for those items that have the slightest interest value for me which excludes sports) but made several thousand dollars profit on the massive BB blowout of Saturn software when the machine was pronounced dead. I'm in profits for the entire cost of the platform including the hardware purchased on the day of launch. I actually went directly from E3 the day they announced they were launching early and was able to find a unit to buy at a TRU even though they hadn't anything on display yet.

Overall, I'd say about 60% of my massive collection was obtained for free.
 
[quote name='Cracka']sabbatical?[/quote]

A vacation, loosely.

edit: the post above this has a great typo.
 
[quote name='epobirs'] However that cunt is from over a year ago and I've bought at least 100 games since then. The vast majority were $10 or less but it still adds up.[/quote]
That is one funny typo :D
 
I barely have a source of income but it's funny because they just completely dominate my life. Any money that I manage to scrounge up is instantly gone by more games. Games, games games. It's all that I'll buy, but this summer will be good because hopefully I'm gonna try to get a summer job to pay for the damn things, and in the meanwhile play the games I haven't finished (loads) and be able to buy more games. I have a wishlist of like 150 games right now, it's just insane.
 
I'm not addicted to buying games anymore, because I realize that I only have so much time to play them. A game that sits in my house never getting played by anybody is worthless in my opinion. I dont buy games that are $5 just because they are cheap. I guess I'm just not a video game disc collector.

My husband, on the other hand, seems addicted to movie based games. I constantly have to stop him from buying crap games like that, usually by looking up game reviews up for him. Or getting him a decent game that will occupy a good chunk of his time. Last month, it was Van Helsing, this month its Riddick *cringes*
 
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