My Game Collection

When I was growing up I owned a lot of video games systems and games. Some I owned at the same time, others at different times and some multiple times. Eventually I one time or another I sold my games or systems to game stores or online in order to buy the newest games. In my lifetime I've owned an NES, a SNES, a Genesis, a Sega CD, a Sega 32X, a Saturn, a N64, a PSone or PSX, a PS2, a Gameboy, a Game Gear, a Gameboy Advance, an Atari, a PSP, a XBOX, and an Xbox 360. Obviously it was a dumb move on my part and in the last 2 years or so I've been slowly trying to rebuild my collection.











Growing up the 1st system my family had was an Atari. I think I was only like 2 or 3 when I started playing it. I don't really have to many memories of it. Most of them are me watching someone else play it. I think it was given to us by my Grandma. I briefly remember playing E.T on it and not knowing what the hell was going on. I still have the Atari but am missing all the cables and games. Hopefully I'll find the games and cables but if not I plan on building an Atari collection. Thinking about it that's really gonna suck some balls if I have to buy all those Atari games again.






When I was about 4 or 5 my parents bought me a Nintendo as a reward for doing chores and being a "tough guy". I remember my mom buying a notebook and putting gold stars in the book every time I did a chore and I remember being afraid to go outside by myself so she put a gold star in the book when I did that too again for being a "tough guy". Anyway, I had a lot of games for the nes. Some of my favorites were the obvious games such as Super Mario Bros. 3, Double Dragon and some of the Mega Man games even though they were hard as hell and made me say my first F word at about age 5 or 6.


Eventually I sold all my games and the system to buy some other game system or games, but I got a new one last year and started rebuilding my collection.


There's a poorly shot picture of most of my NES games I have some classics like all 3 of the Super Mario Bros. games, Zelda, most of the Mega Mans, the Castlevanias Contra 1 and 2, and all the Ninja Turtle games.


Here's a pic of some of my most recent NES purchases I got all 3 Castlevania games at a flea market for about 20 bucks which is a pretty good deal. If your looking to rebuild or just start a retro game collection I'd reccomend checking out some garage sales or flea markets to see if some games are being sold under their premimum price or buy the games in lots or sets on ebay to save some money. If you you buy the game by itself you'll likely being paying a top premium price. I'd say my NES collection is getting pretty exceptable by their a lot more games I need before I'm really proud of it. I don't really have any games in their original packaging except for a sealed copy of River City Ransom so I'm looking to change that.












I also was a big fan of Sega Genesis and I also had a Sega CD growing up. Like the rest of my systems I eventually sold my original and rebought one, but then I sold that one too and bought another one online then sold it again. Then recently I bought 2, yeah I'm an idot. Anyway now I have 2 of the orginal Sega Genesis systems and quite a few games. Sega games are usually alot cheaper then NES and a lot easier to find. I have most of the classics but am still missing a few like Strider. The gems of my collection are my copies of The Punisher and Contra: Hard Corps. I bought both of the games seperately used on Amazon for about 6 dollars a piece. The Punisher usually goes for over 30 dolalrs and Contra at about 20, apparently someone didn't know what they had. I also recently put a bid on an auction with a maximum bid of about 40 bucks because the auction contained ToeJam and Earl which usually sells for about 40 dollars and Earthworm Jim that usually sells for about 10 along with some other games like Shaq Fu. You can never have enough copies of Shaq Fu. To my surprise I won the auction for 20 bucks. I don't know how I did but here's a pic of the haul.
That's all for now I'll make another post with my Snes, Psone, Saturn, N64, Dreamcast, XBOX, and my other collections.

later....