Your collection - post a photo - show us what'cha got!

Well, I guess it's easier for me as I update the list every time I get a new game. Also, something that helps is when I do add new stuff or edit/delete previous entries I make another post on my friend's forum describing what I did and on what day.

Organization is key. ^^
 
[quote name='aptanor']Well then you're going to hate this, Vinny:
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They're actually everywhere because I just got them, $98 for the whole lot.
Don't you love garage sales?[/QUOTE]

Yes. Yes I do. In fact, I hate it so much that I even hate you now.
 
Guess this qualifies as part of my collection. Just framed a bunch of pictures I ordered. Turned out looking pretty awesome IMO. They are 11x14 and 16x20.
Plan on getting a few more, probably a 12x36 one.

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[quote name='Vinny']Yes. Yes I do. In fact, I hate it so much that I even hate you now.[/QUOTE]
*tee-hee*

Working on getting them organized, promise. Been adding them to the collection list here but there's so god damn many of them D;
 
[quote name='Pookymeister']Guess this qualifies as part of my collection. Just framed a bunch of pictures I ordered. Turned out looking pretty awesome IMO. They are 11x14 and 16x20.
Plan on getting a few more, probably a 12x36 one.

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Love that GoW one. I've been thinking of doing the same thing actually (probably using smaller pictures) but haven't found the time...
 
[quote name='Vinny']Love that GoW one. I've been thinking of doing the same thing actually (probably using smaller pictures) but haven't found the time...[/QUOTE]

Most of the time was spent looking online for the right pictures. Ordering took 10 mins and just grabbed the right size frames at Michaels.
I found some other sweet looking ones, but the dimensions of the images aren't anywhere close to standard size frames....and custom ones would be a bit much.
 
[quote name='Pookymeister']Most of the time was spent looking online for the right pictures. Ordering took 10 mins and just grabbed the right size frames at Michaels.
I found some other sweet looking ones, but the dimensions of the images aren't anywhere close to standard size frames....and custom ones would be a bit much.[/QUOTE]

So are the pictures printed by a commercial printer or were they professionally done?

I have the pictures ready (not printed) but I wanted to do them in wide frames (like 10x6 or 8x4). But no such luck... all frames are the standard picture ratio.
 
I hate to interrupt the photo admiration discussion, but I'd like some suggestions on ways to increase ones collection cheaply. For instance, where all do you guys go to get yours: flea markets, yard sales, closing stores, online shops, auctions, etc., etc.

I'm kind of broke as all hell right now and I'd like to find ways to keep my collection growing...cheaply, ya know. ^^
 
Buy stuff you want when you can afford it. Its not like people here said "hey, I want a video game collection" then went to a flea market the next day and bought everything. You build it over time.
 
I've gotten the very best deals on here and on craigslist, but I get more stuff consistently through ebay or slightly "abusing" the amazon promo credit system for new releases.
 
Prepare for Spring/Summer yard sales. Usually you can't find anything but that one house with that magical 2' x 2' box of SNES/NES/Genesis/3DO/NeoGeo/etc marked for $25 you'll go insane.

You can prepare by learning how to efficiently scour craigslist (multitudes of ways to streamline/automate search).

Personally I found craigslist to be heart breaking; I'm always late by minute for the best deals.

For the time being you could take weekly trips to a local thrift store (best if you can visit when it is freshly restocked). Usually, every once in awhile you'll find a pretty decent deal.

I tend to avoid flea market, rarely do you see anything going under the going rate (damn you internet).
 
[quote name='Tailswisher']I hate to interrupt the photo admiration discussion, but I'd like some suggestions on ways to increase ones collection cheaply. For instance, where all do you guys go to get yours: flea markets, yard sales, closing stores, online shops, auctions, etc., etc.

I'm kind of broke as all hell right now and I'd like to find ways to keep my collection growing...cheaply, ya know. ^^[/QUOTE]

You can pretty much find great games and deals almost anywhere, as long as you're patient.
Flea Markets, Goodwill/resale shops, and independent media resellers are usually the best places to find retro stuff though.

My logic has always been "do I really want this brand new game that I'll finish in a weekend for $60 or 5 older games that I've been wanting to play for years?"

I usually make the right decision. ;)
 
[quote name='dejeckt']Prepare for Spring/Summer yard sales. Usually you can't find anything but that one house with that magical 2' x 2' box of SNES/NES/Genesis/3DO/NeoGeo/etc marked for $25 you'll go insane.

You can prepare by learning how to efficiently scour craigslist (multitudes of ways to streamline/automate search).

Personally I found craigslist to be heart breaking; I'm always late by minute for the best deals.

For the time being you could take weekly trips to a local thrift store (best if you can visit when it is freshly restocked). Usually, every once in awhile you'll find a pretty decent deal.

I tend to avoid flea market, rarely do you see anything going under the going rate (damn you internet).[/QUOTE]

Flea markets are better when they're the large annual or semi-annual kind, but even the weekly ones are worth checking every once in a while. Not everyone is a dedicated booth monkey, and occasionally you'll get a transcendent yardsale type in there (I'll never forget how I scored a gamecube Twilight Princess for $5 in a flea which had no less than three sharkish game sellers of the permanent type). Even some of the dedicated sellers occasionally screw up on their prices or go out of business.
 
we have the swap shop(a series of huge outdoor flea markets) by us.

its open 7 days a week and theres always people who have no idea what prices games are worth.

ive been competing with the locals(including twi CAGs too) for the last 5 or 6 years off and on(its starting to wear thin and im getting sick of going, even when I find things like earthbound and metal warriors for $5 and $3).

anywhere but retail(Play N Trades/Mom N Pop Shops/Ebay/Amazon) is great for old game deals IMO.
 
[quote name='Tailswisher']I hate to interrupt the photo admiration discussion, but I'd like some suggestions on ways to increase ones collection cheaply. For instance, where all do you guys go to get yours: flea markets, yard sales, closing stores, online shops, auctions, etc., etc.

I'm kind of broke as all hell right now and I'd like to find ways to keep my collection growing...cheaply, ya know. ^^[/QUOTE]

I spent a number of years getting 2-3 Playstation 1 games for Birthdays and Christmas in the $20-30 range, and since I continued this in the waning days before the Playstation 2 I got a lot of good stuff like Persona 2, Valkyrie Profile, Parasite Eve 2, etc. Then on top of that I supplemented myself with EB games discount PC software, the yearly computer show, and random stuff like Wild Arms for 25 cents (Thanks Dad--I believe he found me my Run Saber CIB as well...somehow).

I'd say as of late though, yard sales and craigslist are the best. It's just a crapshoot of contacting and checking as many people as possible--and then making a beeline for the folks who really want to get rid of their stuff. In my experience the best deals are in the last generation and earlier now--for the most part TIVs on ps2 and gamecube stuff are low so sometimes it's possible to get a whole box for $40 bucks, flip the key titles online, and trade in the rest during a Gamestop promotion. With the last Gamecube lot I messed with it was an easy $20 in profit and $40 in free credit; MUCH EASIER than searching for store clearance, etc.

Another way you can make out is that not everybody is familiar with complete in box values for nes, snes, and n64; nor do they always know about the value of accessories--such as ps2 memory cards and controllers, n64 controllers, etc. And what else...sometimes you can get a gameboy advance or ds console without a charger for insanely cheap...same goes with gameboy color. Anything where the seller might not know if it works. A bunch of pokemon carts can have dead save batteries so they're something that can be gotten real cheap--only stupid resellers on ebay pay a buttload for dead pokemon carts. :drool:

Something not to be neglected is strategy guides; you can almost always get them for $1 or less because books do not sell fast. Just keep on looking for things to flip (even if you don't want them) and your collection will pay for itself.
 
[quote name='StripesOrBars']we have the swap shop(a series of huge outdoor flea markets) by us.

its open 7 days a week and theres always people who have no idea what prices games are worth.

ive been competing with the locals(including twi CAGs too) for the last 5 or 6 years off and on(its starting to wear thin and im getting sick of going, even when I find things like earthbound and metal warriors for $5 and $3).

anywhere but retail(Play N Trades/Mom N Pop Shops/Ebay/Amazon) is great for old game deals IMO.[/QUOTE]

It's only wearing thin because you don't wake up early enough...muhahaha!
BTW I'll trade you my $1 Ogre Battle for your $5 Earthbound :bouncy:
 
Well, here's a side question: How do you go about using Craigslist when you aren't near any of the search cities and have no idea what area you'd be under? Seriously, I'm an hour and a half from 3 of the search cities. >.<

[Edit: Nevermind, I found out how...just no one in my town uses it. lol]
 
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[quote name='Ash Burton']It's only wearing thin because you don't wake up early enough...muhahaha!
BTW I'll trade you my $1 Ogre Battle for your $5 Earthbound :bouncy:[/QUOTE]

What time do you usually go? I remember finding a copy of Bust a Groove with a price tag of $1. :D
 
[quote name='Tailswisher']I hate to interrupt the photo admiration discussion, but I'd like some suggestions on ways to increase ones collection cheaply. For instance, where all do you guys go to get yours: flea markets, yard sales, closing stores, online shops, auctions, etc., etc.

I'm kind of broke as all hell right now and I'd like to find ways to keep my collection growing...cheaply, ya know. ^^[/QUOTE]

Subscribe to this thread and watch. A lot of us find huge lots at Garage sales. The OP has the old threads linked, so you should be able to still see some of the hauls.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=283481
 
[quote name='Ash Burton']It's only wearing thin because you don't wake up early enough...muhahaha!
BTW I'll trade you my $1 Ogre Battle for your $5 Earthbound :bouncy:[/QUOTE]

haha, yeah waiting in my car at 430 am almost every morning isnt early enough.

i ALWAYS try to get there before everyone so i dont miss out on any deals(which i do every day, sucks).

not sure if you know Sam(fat old frog looking guy that rides around on a scooter) but seeing that guy walking back to his shop with a bunch of CIB mario partys or better things every weekend is driving me crazy.

i also watched him sell some kid mario world snes for $25.

not sure how he does it, but its a weekly thing for him to find treasure/moron buyers.

(he says he collects too, i can only imagine what that guy has)
 
I hate to keep asking questions, but here's an odd one: Where do you all get your cases/manuals for your collections?

I mean, as a kid I tossed my old game boy cases (which I now kick myself for) and so everything before the playstation in my collection doesn't have a case. I'd like to fix that, but the only thing I can think of is to make stuff out of scratch.
 
Oh yeah, I want to punch that guy in his fat face. He has no clue, he does not collect, I've talked to him. He must be selling crack out of his stand though because he prices way over ebay and I never see him move inventory. Few weeks ago the idiot had Mega Man X3 sitting in that wooden box of SNES carts so I waited till he left and bought it off his wife for $15.


[quote name='StripesOrBars']haha, yeah waiting in my car at 430 am almost every morning isnt early enough.

i ALWAYS try to get there before everyone so i dont miss out on any deals(which i do every day, sucks).

not sure if you know Sam(fat old frog looking guy that rides around on a scooter) but seeing that guy walking back to his shop with a bunch of CIB mario partys or better things every weekend is driving me crazy.

i also watched him sell some kid mario world snes for $25.

not sure how he does it, but its a weekly thing for him to find treasure/moron buyers.

(he says he collects too, i can only imagine what that guy has)[/QUOTE]
 
[quote name='Tailswisher']I hate to interrupt the photo admiration discussion, but I'd like some suggestions on ways to increase ones collection cheaply. For instance, where all do you guys go to get yours: flea markets, yard sales, closing stores, online shops, auctions, etc., etc.

I'm kind of broke as all hell right now and I'd like to find ways to keep my collection growing...cheaply, ya know. ^^[/QUOTE]

ive been gaming since i was 4. same for most people here. nobody just woke up and said "hmm...i'd like a game collection", went down to gamestop, walmart, and a garage sale, and filled several bookshelves. you accumulate them over time. game collecting is a big, time consuming hobby because 98% are also gamers who buy most our games to play as well as add to the collection. those of us with a social life and job end up accumulating a backlog. eventually, we have the collections you see here that we can use to build an entire game room.
 
[quote name='Drclaw411']ive been gaming since i was 4. same for most people here. nobody just woke up and said "hmm...i'd like a game collection", went down to gamestop, walmart, and a garage sale, and filled several bookshelves. you accumulate them over time. game collecting is a big, time consuming hobby because 98% are also gamers who buy most our games to play as well as add to the collection. those of us with a social life and job end up accumulating a backlog. eventually, we have the collections you see here that we can use to build an entire game room.[/QUOTE]

Word.
I've been gaming since I was 2, apparently. :lol:

Most of the retro stuff I have was given to me by my parents/other people as I was a kid growing up.
It just occurred to me once I got some Super Nintendo games that the boxes were cool looking and I decided to start keeping them from then on. Lucky me! haha

For the rest of the retro games, I spent my time hunting games down in resale shops/flea markets while others were dropping $50 on XBOX games when I was in college. :D
 
ash: pretty sure thats his sister, nice find on x3!


how i buy games?

i worked for 5 years straight with no life(spent money only on herb and $60 for a new game every now and then).

now i own a house and have some(not much) money saved and heres all these great deals(its not a good thing)!!!

theres also flipping, which is a huge deal and already mentioned.

my advice is save save save save save and then when you have enough money you buy.
 
Ok, so mine's not the most organized, but here's what I've got:

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The first pic is my guide/magazine/art book collection. The second is my sealed game collection. My favorites from that collection are my sealed Skies of Arcadia Legends and Demon's Souls LE!
 
[quote name='punkmaggit']The first pic is my guide/magazine/art book collection. The second is my sealed game collection. My favorites from that collection are my sealed Skies of Arcadia Legends and Demon's Souls LE![/QUOTE]

I wish I didn't open my Demon's Souls. I opened it when it was selling for $130+ and the guide alone was selling for $50+. And I only played it for about 5 hours.
 
[quote name='elessar123']I wish I didn't open my Demon's Souls. I opened it when it was selling for $130+ and the guide alone was selling for $50+. And I only played it for about 5 hours.[/QUOTE]

I did enjoy the game quite thoroughly, but I very much regret opening up my Deluxe Edition copy and not just picking up a regular copy to play through.
 
[quote name='punkmaggit']Ok, so mine's not the most organized, but here's what I've got:

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The first pic is my guide/magazine/art book collection. The second is my sealed game collection. My favorites from that collection are my sealed Skies of Arcadia Legends and Demon's Souls LE![/QUOTE]

1) kudos on having Afrika. i love that game, i thought i was the only cag who had it.

2) 2nd shelf on the brown bookcase. what is the game that comes with that plush? i've seen it in a ton of collections.
 
[quote name='Drclaw411']1) kudos on having Afrika. i love that game, i thought i was the only cag who had it.

2) 2nd shelf on the brown bookcase. what is the game that comes with that plush? i've seen it in a ton of collections.[/QUOTE]

I think you may have inspired me to finally pick up Afrika, thanks.

The game with the plushie is Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2.
 
[quote name='tooshorty6432168']I did enjoy the game quite thoroughly, but I very much regret opening up my Deluxe Edition copy and not just picking up a regular copy to play through.[/QUOTE]
I was lucky and played through the Asian version before it was even announced for a US release, so luckily I knew to keep mine sealed. I also ended up getting a deluxe edition through Goozex so I can read the guide if I want! :D

[quote name='Drclaw411']1) kudos on having Afrika. i love that game, i thought i was the only cag who had it.[/QUOTE]

Thanks! I was eyeing it and it eventually went OOS at Gamestop and online and I wanted to grab a copy before Hitmangaming got all over it. :lol:
 
the only way to describe this thread: holy fuck!!! Some insanely nice collections for sure! I am trying to play catch up on older games which has proven to be tough, didnt have much money when I was a kid so I had very few games. But hey one game at a time and I will get there :) I will post my collection sometime soon :)
 
@skiizim: It's not your fault, when you get that many games they turn into a monolith and communicate with you psychically. I think they're thrumming with happiness now that they have reached the ceiling.
 
[quote name='TooMuchCoolness']I could only see use of that if your planning to opening a game shop or something[/QUOTE]

someones jealous.


no one buys games to play them, nub.
 
No, I agree. Way too organized mess. How do you play a game?

*takes out game, pile falls*

Why not any shelves? Did you waste too much money to do that? It's a good collection otherwise.
 
Oh man, don't ever get a cat. If you had a cat, it would totally jump on top of one those piles and bring everything down on top of you. Then, while you're being crushed by your games, your cat would walk away and lift up it's tail so you saw its asshole.

Yeah, cats are jerks.
 
[quote name='Vinny']Oh man, don't ever get a cat. If you had a cat, it would totally jump on top of one those piles and bring everything down on top of you. Then, while you're being crushed by your games, your cat would walk away and lift up it's tail so you saw its asshole.

Yeah, cats are jerks.[/QUOTE]

:whee:
 
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