Why do you collect retro games and consoles

CiDeRmAn

I remember seeing the Master System in The Virgin Megastore back in the day and it seemed to be doing good business, plenty of games on the shelves.
Sega seem to have always done well in europe anyhow.
I never owned one in the first instance, but was fascinated by the carts and cards feature of the first gen Pal Master System.
I eventually got a Master System II and had to keep my eye peeled until I found a Master System, still don't own any cards for it yet, only carts!

Lets hope Retr0 gets sorted with an 8bit Nintendo sometime soon, at least we know what he should get for his next birthday!

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I remember seeing the Master System in The Virgin Megastore back in the day and it seemed to be doing good business, plenty of games on the shelves.

Would that not have been something to do with Virgin being responsible for the sale and distribution of the console in europe?

James Howlett

The future is a dark and scary place, particularly for Ireland. Rising taxes, rising fuel prices, rising mortgage interest rates… the cost of everything is going up while wages go down at a far quicker pace. Discontent is slowly settling in for the long haul.

I expect things to get worse. I expect crime to worsen, riots in the streets etc... Even today good people are robbed/ stabbed/ given random beating and the justice system is too soft to deal with this. Criminals are left off too easily and no matter what conviction is bestowed upon them, they are not long in re-offending again.

I fear the future. Soon we will all be living behind heavy bolt doors and windows with bars on them. We will all be shut out from the world, afraid to go outside, all just content to be left alone in our own little homes so long as the nasty outside world says beyond the heavy hall door. Ireland is no country for old men now, soon it’ll be no country for anyone.

It is indeed a dark and horrible future.

So yeah I’m currently preparing for that dark day to come by stock-piling entertainment products in the form of videogames. Like I said soon it’ll be too dangerous to go outside to your nearest HMV or Gamestop to get new games so eventually I’ll be able to safely live inside my barred up fortress with a rake of old games to entertain me until we pay off our debts and the country returns to a healthy state… hummm on that thought I’m going to need more games…

o1s1n

It's also nice to know that if someone breaks into your house there's no way they'll steal any of this stuff. It's all just old junk

James Howlett

o1s1n wrote: »

It's also nice to know that if someone breaks into your house there's no way they'll steal any of this stuff. It's all just old junk

I always wondered that about robbers;
If they broke into a house, ready to grab as much high value items as they can quickly get away with, would they look at a large retro/ vinyl/ antique collection and go "ah fudge this, I'm only one man" and walk out in disgust.:)

Dr Bob

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Would that not have been something to do with Virgin being responsible for the sale and distribution of the console in europe?

Exactly!
Virgin promoted it pretty well , and usually there'd be something like castle of illusion or Alex kidd on demo as well.
I've been after a set of 3d glasses for a bit , never got to try them back when mates had an SMS.I knew one guy who had an NES back then.Actually it was an early famiclone rather than an official one , famicom design , 128 games built in (including Tengen Tetris! which is why I was so surprised to see how badly the bps [the official one] compares to it), it was a Texet one.Mate still has it actually , but sadly he's as into collecting as me so hes keeping it!.My brother got an NES for christmas when they were at end of life and available for about 50 quid! We'd a few games for it but 2 stood out , rad gravity (which is a terrible platformer but I loved back then) and Maniac mansion , which I picked up for about 3 quid in Electronic Boutique ( I think it may have been virgin games then , its the Dawson st game now).
Those games are still somewhere in my parents house , hopefully!!

Shapey Fiend

I don't really care for clutter so I don't collect. I'd much rather emulate. A Hori arcade stick plugged into a laptop, plugged into a CRT TV serves all my retro gaming needs.

I'd like to get a candy arcade cabinet but it's a luxury I can't really afford.

The Master System apparently did quite well in Europe but on anecdotal evidence I only ever met one kid who owned one, and only one video rental store in town carried the games. I knew about 20 kids who had the NES.

o1s1n

James Howlett wrote: »

I always wondered that about robbers;
If they broke into a house, ready to grab as much high value items as they can quickly get away with, would they look at a large retro/ vinyl/ antique collection and go "ah fudge this, I'm only one man" and walk out in disgust.:)

If people at car boot sales let games and consoles go for nothing as they don't think they're worth anything, I think it's safe to say that robbers will think the same too!

Unless of course the particular thief is a games collector and has broken in to steal all your nice bits..in which case I'll be straight onto this forum pointing fingers!

Atavan-Halen

o1s1n wrote: »

Limits? LIMITS?! They do not exist in this hobby

I think I've reached my limit for the moment. Was organizing all my stuff for a move that might be happening at the end of the month, and my games and 'surplus' controllers alone fill 9 Tesco crates.

I'm also moving at the end of the month and have been packing stuff. Packed away the majority of my games and now there's this gigantic box that's literally half the size of me that's full to the brim with games and a few accesories. Along with a big 'ol box of consoles. This not including console boxes or more consoles in another wardrobe. I seriously have an addiction. The new place will have more space so that can only mean moar games!!!

For me it's like a sense of something missed. Growing up on the PS1 I feel I missed out on the radness of the early 90's. There's a certain charm to older games, something you can't find in modern games. It's a bit hard to explain but I just like playing old stuff! It's also lot's of fun hunting down certain games and having a nice collection.

Retr0gamer

Man you really missed out on the faux 'Rad' of the 90's it was awesome, so many crappy buzz words were made up. It was like the final deaththroes of the 80's. And then Nevermind came out to finish it off and showed us what awesome really meant.

Atavan-Halen

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Man you really missed out on the faux 'Rad' of the 90's it was awesome, so many crappy buzz words were made up. It was like the final deaththroes of the 80's. And then Nevermind came out to finish it off and showed us what awesome really meant.

I know That's why I surround myself with my musty old consoles and musty old people on boards.

Hmm. That sounded a tad inappropriate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkdUkzoeOZU

CiDeRmAn

Sorry but every generation thinks they have the rights to "buzz words" and being that times equivalent of "cool".
Same with music, we look at a decade and conveniently either dis it by talking of the lousy records or say how great it was by focusing on the good stuff, 80's, 90's and 00's all the same in that regard.
Rad being short for Radical and an import from sunny California, kids watching too much "Saved By The Bell" perhaps??
Having been a teen in the 80's and getting into my stride in the 90's I can see that culture had changed, at least superficially but overall it all was much the same, fashions change, people don't.
I do like the high top trainers though, not sure about the acid/stone wash jeans though, nor the mullet...
I was more the high top trainers, loud shirts, baggy jeans and a flat top haircut! No photos though, I think we all know what personal embarrassment that can cause!

Myrddin

They're bodacious man.

yrwhu8jxtni06a

it can be a nuisance,having all this stuff its like having surrogate children,drip feeding each comp/console.

o1s1n

Theo Raspy Sailboat wrote: »

it can be a nuisance,having all this stuff its like having surrogate children,drip feeding each comp/console.

But in the end, like having surrogate children, it's worth the hassle from the love you get back

Cauterize

o1s1n wrote: »

Godness? Feck no, I'm just someone with more money than sense...and a pretty forgiving girlfriend

I was uploading all my photos to my profile over on Retrocollect but I reached a problem where it won't let me rename/delete folders so I gave up. Still, managed to get a lot of photos up before that happened.

http://www.retrocollect.com/Community/o1s1n/My-Photos/

/edit - by 'more money than sense' I didn't mean I'm some rich videogame baron - I just mean I have very little sense

Just as a heads up, this problem should be fixed now if you want to edit/delete your folder names Feel free to get in touch if the problem persists!

gflood

o1s1n wrote: »

Godness? Feck no, I'm just someone with more money than sense...and a pretty forgiving girlfriend

I was uploading all my photos to my profile over on Retrocollect but I reached a problem where it won't let me rename/delete folders so I gave up. Still, managed to get a lot of photos up before that happened.

http://www.retrocollect.com/Community/o1s1n/My-Photos/

/edit - by 'more money than sense' I didn't mean I'm some rich videogame baron - I just mean I have very little sense

The pictures are fantastic, thanks for uploading.