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rowlandsw
rowlandsw Posts: 1,166 Member
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So after getting rid of a ton of gaming stuff over the last 20 years I've gotten back into collecting. The oldest system i have is some no-name pong machine from the early 70s and the newest is the xbox one. Getting the consoles is easy, it's getting the games that is hard and folks breaking up complete vintage games to sell everything separately makes it even worse. At christmas i picked up a complete in the box NES with powerpad for about what the retail was.

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  • TheCrawlingChaos
    TheCrawlingChaos Posts: 462 Member
    I very half-heartedly collect some older stuff. I don't really have room right now to store much so I don't buy often. I focus on NES, Genesis, and SNES. A few times I've bought lots of famicom or super famicom games on ebay, so I have a ton of duplicates. If anyone needs 7 copies of Street Fighter 2, or about 1000000 majong games, send them my way.
  • rowlandsw
    rowlandsw Posts: 1,166 Member
    Oh lord you have the majong for famicom too? I bought a random lot on ebay of famicom games and got a few doubles but got a bunch of dragon warrior games including one with a box. I'm not really out of room i'm just out of good ways of displaying them. You can't find shelving units that fit games right as you always end up with a ton of wasted space. So far i've been lucky and scored a few open NES games with shrink wrap still on the rest of the boxes. I have a couple doubles of snes games by accident but one is still factory sealed. Right now my prize is a signed copy of t2 for the NES, it was signed last year in NJ by Robert Patrick. I wanted to get more signed but actors charge so danged much for signatures, one dude wants 80.00 per item.
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    I recently found my SNES I got when I was in 7th grade. The only game I have left is the original Mario Kart.

    I also have a Wii and a PS3 but I'm mostly a PC gamer. My PC is 8 years old so I'm saving for a new PC.
  • rowlandsw
    rowlandsw Posts: 1,166 Member
    Yeah my PC isn't doing so well, i'm looking into a linux or unix based gaming PC as i don't trust windows 10. I need to get to work grinding away at all the games I have, problem is most of them are RPGs so it takes a while to catch up on the old games.
  • TheCrawlingChaos
    TheCrawlingChaos Posts: 462 Member
    rowlandsw wrote: »
    Yeah my PC isn't doing so well, i'm looking into a linux or unix based gaming PC as i don't trust windows 10. I need to get to work grinding away at all the games I have, problem is most of them are RPGs so it takes a while to catch up on the old games.

    I'd make sure you look into the linux thing before spending the time figuring out how to get all that working. The amount of games available in Linux are quite slim compared to Windows. I know Valve has been pushing to get more things on Linux so it's not as dire as it was even a couple of years ago, but it's still not a whole lot there. I have had various Linux distros dual booting on my 2nd PC, but I never actually installed Steam or anything to see what games are like since I already have Windows 10 on that machine anyway and why not just play it on there?

    I've not messed around with many of the more "desktopy" Linux distros in a while so I don't know how easy they make things like installing graphics drivers and stuff, but if you're not familiar with Unix-based systems, looking into that stuff might be worth it as its definitely different, at least with the distros that rely on command prompt stuff like I use. It's not hard to deal with, but from my experience sometimes Linux can be weird for people not used to it.
  • rowlandsw
    rowlandsw Posts: 1,166 Member
    I really want to get a machine to turn into a mame system but man it's enough to make your head spin reading up on it.

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