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WhiteOut tastes exactly like you'd expect something called WhiteOut to taste like. *shivers* Most Mountain Dew flavors are pretty awful. They just got lucky with a few, like Code Red, LiveWire and Supernova.

Some of the cans my dad collected still had beer in them. Though typically they were drained out a hole in the bottom so the tab didn't have to be removed. Or the bottle cap in the case of the really old beer cans.

Yo

I can't say I really collect anything, but I'm a book away from owning all of Calvin and Hobbes. But that's three books, so I don't think it's really fair to call it a collection. *shrug*

Sleet wrote:My dad used to collect beer cans. Now they're in our garage. >.>

Sounds lovely.

Dear the past: rock and roll "tapes" are not a good thing to collect. Collect records until they invent digital music.

Sleet wrote:Dear the past: rock and roll "tapes" are not a good thing to collect. Collect records until they invent digital music.

Funny thing


I guess there aren't a lot of tape collectors around. It'll probably be a few years before we can start romanticizing cassettes through nostalgia.

well that's just lazy, using the same punchline twice.

We still have a ton of Beanie Babies lying around somewhere. Not very organized, but I suppose marginally close to a collection

RandomGeekNamedBrent wrote:well that's just lazy, using the same punchline twice.

Beetle Bailey collects reusable punchlines

I collect and rebuild/restore bicycles, and then ride them. I'm a century nut, and i love showing up to an event on something nobody expected. I run a student bike shop at U of M and teach other mechanics too.
I also collect firearms, but i think everyone around here does that haha

CaptainPea wrote:We still have a ton of Beanie Babies lying around somewhere. Not very organized, but I suppose marginally close to a collection

I used to collect those too! I still have them somewhere. A lot of them I still sleep with.

I have all the WOW manga, >//u//< It's pretty wordy for a manga.

...world of warcraft manga?

TPAM collects cookies in his stomach and wonders why he always loses his collection.

Yes! It's about the sunwell. I don't understand it very well but the art is beautiful.

OOooh that is awesome. :3 the sunwell stuff is always cool. ^^

Just hosted the second annual Yoyo BBQ today, so I had a chance to pick up some new throws:




The new additions:

FlintTheSquirrel wrote:

Oh my jjjeeeezzzz. When you said collection, I didn't think THAT extensive. What a showcase.

It's like GameStop in his house! How in the world did you get all that, Flint?!

I am absolutely in awe.

So I'm thinking of starting up coin collecting. A while back my grandmother gave me a beautiful set of Canadian silver minted for the Winter Olympics and I really like stuff like that. Now if only it weren't so expensive...

It's like Gamestop combined with this store near me called Cool Stuff. (They have a good sized collection of really old games and systems, but needs more stock)
though I don't see a Sega Gamegear. do you have one?

Flint, I am so envious right now of you

I collect nothing... Never found it interesting to collect anything. That and I don't see the point of it

FlintTheSquirrel wrote:Just find something you enjoy, and you can collect on em. The whole fun in collecting is seeing the collection grow, if you collect bottle caps, you will feel very joyed every time you find a new addition to your collection that you did not have before. The only thing to worry about in collecting is the expense.

That sounds like hoarding

FlintTheSquirrel wrote:Yes, among the things not shown in the picture are the hand held games, as they do not go well with shelves. We do have those in drawers though.
My main problem with the Sega GameGear is that its screen is impossible to see into when it is sunny, so it is mostly an indoor console.

I wouldn't know. I never played it outside before it broke. My brother has played it in a car before, though.
so, what genesis games do you have? do you have Zombies Ate My Neighbors?

I'm pretty sure I've got my brother's old copy somewhere under my bed. I don't remember anything about it though. the only Genesis games I kind of remember are Mortal Kombat 3 and the old Madden game.
I also see no Sega Pico. not that surprising considering it was a system designed for kids, but I fully remember the games I played on that system.

FlintTheSquirrel wrote:

Flint, are you James Rolfe?

Yes! I've finally come across a copy of Earthbound.

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FlintTheSquirrel wrote: ...my brother wants to call it his collection since it is mostly his money, but it is mostly a family effort. ^^

I like to call it my collection because I fund the 'vast' majority of it.
When you put so much time and money into something, you like to take ownership of it.
But I won't deny, this is absolutely a family effort. We are all a bunch of crazy people.

My father collects Pinball Machines, Slot Machines, Gas Pumps, Cars, and various other antiques.
My mother collects records and movies.
My sister collects books and printed articles.
Flint collects animal figurines, stuffed animals, and cards.

We all go out searching for games, but we keep an eye out for our own interests as well.
I pay for all the games, so I decide which ones we buy and what prices we ask for.

The part of the collection where I don't claim total ownership is the new games.
Both Flint & I buy new games (last 2 shelves), so I can't claim to own the 'entire' collection.
But since I have a job, I find that I end up paying for most of those as well.

Flint has all the time in the world to play them while I'm stuck working !
Hope that clears some things up.

TensaZangetsu wrote:

FlintTheSquirrel wrote:Just find something you enjoy, and you can collect on em. The whole fun in collecting is seeing the collection grow, if you collect bottle caps, you will feel very joyed every time you find a new addition to your collection that you did not have before. The only thing to worry about in collecting is the expense.

That sounds like hoarding

FlintTheSquirrel wrote:It is not hoarding if there is a theme to the whole thing. Our theme is games obviously while Sleet's theme is coins. As long as you have a theme, no problem. :3

Edit: Actually I am quite sure collecting is just the hoarding of a certain object. Still not a bad thing.

Actually the difference is collecting does not interfere with your normal life and hording does. You can still be a hoarder and only collect one thing. Also collecting usually indicates that you take care of the thing your collecting, hoarders do not.

Used to collect cards. (I still have them but nowadays I don't add to the collection)

These days I collect pokemon merchandise, mainly figurines. My sister collects anything got to do with Tigger. I don't know what my brother collects however I'm probably closer to a hoarder than a collector since I've never really taken good care of what I collect.

If it helps, we keep everything very organized and often sell spare copies and doubles.
I keep a mental list of valuable games and systems and buy them when I can get them for cheap.
Reselling allows me to defray the cost of collection somewhat.

A good example of hoarding can be found in the show 'American Pickers'.
They visit people who keep barns full of old junk. Anything from food cans to automobiles.
There is no rhyme or reason to the collection. No organization or association of value.

It remains to be seen if retro-games will be a good investment 10 or 20 years from now.

Therolyn wrote:These days I collect pokemon merchandise, mainly figurines.

I demand pictures!

Esquire Fox wrote:If it helps, we keep everything very organized and often sell spare copies and doubles.
I keep a mental list of valuable games and systems and buy them when I can get them for cheap.
Reselling allows me to defray the cost of collection somewhat.

A good example of hoarding can be found in the show 'American Pickers'.
They visit people who keep barns full of old junk. Anything from food cans to automobiles.
There is no rhyme or reason to the collection. No organization or association of value.

It remains to be seen if retro-games will be a good investment 10 or 20 years from now.

you guys should try to get a Sega Pico. It was made for kids, so a lot of people don't even know it exists. If it's fairly unknown, then if you had one it would probably be somewhat valuable. Plus, it would fit the collection.

Truth be told, I didn't know it existed until you mentioned it.
I'll keep an eyes out for that system. Maybe one of the locals will post an ad.

Sega's first console was the SG-1000. But it was only released in Japan and Australia.
Before that, they just made arcade games, and ports for Atari and Coleco.

Esquire Fox wrote:
It remains to be seen if retro-games will be a good investment 10 or 20 years from now.

The games them selves won't be most likely (other then very very rare ones that never got a port to another system, or sold very little) but the consoles in working order might be worth something, but even then I wouldn't expect them to fetch more then a few hundred to maybe a thousand-ish dollars at most.

Esquire Fox wrote:It remains to be seen if retro-games will be a good investment 10 or 20 years from now.

It depends honestly. If a game is never offered for sale again, or only available in a buggy format for free, some games will retain value, but really the days of being able to set aside releases you find in a game store are over. Even small publishers if a game sells out will offer a few re-releases via reprint runs because they know that they aren't making any extra when a game's value shoots up via reprints.

And before this gen with PSN, XLBA and VC, the only really hard to find games were games that hadn't had proper re-releases. (See Squaresoft's 16-bit catalog), Now with developers looking to get every bit of money they can from a game, you can count on just about anything that's not stuck in copyright hell and fiscally viable to be re-released by someone at some point. Backwards Compatibility and region locks (Or lack of) can also affect a game's value as well as if it's still supported (Like Demon Souls, expect value for that to drop when the servers are finally shut down in a year or so)