So last week we were on vacation...

[A Black Falcon]

And this is why you don't have any money left to buy NEW games.

If it's a game you don't own, it's new. :)

Also, I've bought some new games this year... Neverwinter Nights 2 and Rise of Legends for the PC (as well as the ones that came with my computer, if that counts), some DS games (the ones that weren't used, that is; obviously, since I just got my DS in January, all 11 of the games I have were 2007 purchases), maybe something for GC, etc...

Hey, more power to you and I'm sure your collection is impressive.

From a distance

I just don't like crap clutternig up my shelves. I don't want my glorious Ocarina of Time sharing a shelf with South Park Rally, nor Super Mario RPG having it's value lowered by being placed next to Urban Champion (or worse!).

I likes my retro experiences as much as anyone else, but I have standards . I can go look at my collection and say that any one of these titles belongs there, and I would be happy to pick any one of them up and enjoy it on the spot.

I guess I'm just picky about my collection that way. But if quantity over quality is your thing, you enjoy your SNES Lion King

Well, I don't keep them in their boxes all the time... the boxes go on a box or shelf in the basement or something like that and the carts go in my big bag thing which I keep that stuff in. ... Unfortunately that bag is now not large enough for my whole game collection (with my GC, Sega CD, and PSX CDs in a couple of CD holder things and not in their cases either), but at least it can hold all of the cart system stuff...

Of course, owning it all is impossible. It'd take up too much space and wouldn't be worth the effort (just play the roms... :)). But still, I like to get games anyway, and like the fact that my collection is quite large...

I know that the carts get dirtier just put in piles or in a bag that always seems to collect dirt than they would be kept in their cases all the time, but kept that way they'd take up a huge amount of room (and thus would be immobile) and would be a lot harder to actually USE, so it's not worth it. Cleaning kit or blowing on the things it is. :)

This reminds me of my friend who searches high and low to find incorrectly manufactured in-box Star Wars toys. However, to each their own. For my part, I expand my collection as well but with games I think I'll enjoy playing. Of course sometimes there are bad choices (Quest 64) but I tend to filter the stuff out.

However, there are some who prefer to have a massive collection of whatever they can find. I don't collect figurines and never saw the point in not even taking them out of the box (they say it increases value, and in the very next breath say they would never actually sell them, so it's weird), but some people love having that massive collection of eyes staring at them in the darkness.

I couldn't deny that part of the fun (of buying stuff for old systems like the Genesis or SNES) is simply buying the games and not just playing them, since I could always just play the rom or something, that's true... still though, at least games have more uses than action figures do, for most people. :)