Amazing collection, but...
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Bagels
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· Score: 4, Interesting
It seems a bit incomplete in the sense that it's lacking two of the four more modern consoles (at least, he only mentions a PlayStation 2 and a Dreamcast). There are definitely games worthy of collecting on both the XBox and the GameCube. Also, as a collector, has he ever actually played all of the games that he owns? I imagine that that would be pretty much a full time job, though if he can afford all of those gaming devices, he's probably independently wealthy.
This is one hell of a collection, but I can't help but wonder if he does anything to prevent bitrot or is preserving these games in some way. It's cool now, but in 20 years, he will be left with a lot of worthless plastic and silicon.
I'm in the same boat as this guy (although my Vectrex needs some work on the display *grumble*), and I *am* doing something about bitrot.
I'm keeping copies of ROMs for every game I own on my PC, and back them up to whatever off-site media is available reasonably cheap. Started with tape, moved onto CD, and just finished with some DVD-R's of ROMs.
If I keep this up, my game collection will more than outlive me, although I've yet to see any bitrot on any game I own, and some of the original Atari VCS cartridges are 26 years old now.
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One of my friends collects video games and old computers, he has just over 100 now.
Off the top of my head: Amiga 500 Amiga 600 Amiga CDTV Amiga 1200 Amiga CD32 Amstrad CPC464 Amstrad GX4000 Atari 2600 Atari 4800 Atari Falcon Atari Lynx Atari STE Apple Mac Classic BBC Model B BBC Master System Coleco Vision Commodore 64 Commodore 128 Commodore Vic20 Neo Geo Neo Geo Pocket Nintento Famicom Nintendo NES (PAL) Nintendo NES (NTSC) Nintendo Super Famicom Nintendo SNES (NTSC) Nintendo SNES (PAL) Nintendo N64 Nintendo Gameboy Nintendo Gameboy Color Nintendo Gameboy Advance Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP Nintendo Virtual Boy Nintendo Gamecube PC Engine Panasonic 3D0 Panasonic 3D0 (Goldstar Version) Philips CDi Sega Master System Sega Game Gear Sega Mega Drive Sega Genesis Sega Mega CD Sega 32x Sega Saturn Sega Dreamcast Sinclair ZX80 Sinclair ZX81 Sinclair Spectrum Sinclair Spectrum 48K Sinclair Spectrum 48K+ Sinclair Spectrum 128+2 Sony PSX Sony Playstation Sony Playstation 2 Tiger Game.com
This is only arond 75% of what he has, the rest is too obscure for my memory. He also has some really rare stuff like a SNES CD Rom drive that Nintendo succeeded in having banned, the power glove and other fun things.
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1iar_parad0x
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· Score: 3, Interesting
First, I know this is OT. However, it's as OT as the rest of posts....
This reminds me about an interview Richard Feynman gave a long time ago. It was after he finished working at Los Alamos. He was depressed. Everywhere he went, he couldn't understand why people were building things anymore. He had just spent the last 4 years helping build the most destructive weapon known to man. He was sure the world was going to end any day now. Safe to say, he was wrong. We've had apocolyptic doomsayers for a long time. The world didn't end in 1944. It didn't end over Cuba. It hasn't ended over the middle-east. Look, I know there are priorities. However, your post could randomly apply to anything. Certianly death and war is more important than games, the California election, movies, sports, and most everything else.
My guess is that your depressed about something else. So for whatever it is worth, I stop worrying about the world along time ago. I've learned to hate all politicians equally, let vocal religious extremists argue among themselves, and I don't have a preference for the spelling of the word flavor/flavour.
-- What do you mean my sig is repetitive? What do you mean my sig is repetitive? What do you mean....
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It seems a bit incomplete in the sense that it's lacking two of the four more modern consoles (at least, he only mentions a PlayStation 2 and a Dreamcast). There are definitely games worthy of collecting on both the XBox and the GameCube. Also, as a collector, has he ever actually played all of the games that he owns? I imagine that that would be pretty much a full time job, though if he can afford all of those gaming devices, he's probably independently wealthy.
--- Bwah?
This is one hell of a collection, but I can't help but wonder if he does anything to prevent bitrot or is preserving these games in some way. It's cool now, but in 20 years, he will be left with a lot of worthless plastic and silicon.
I can't see the collection in question (And I'll wager no one else can at the moment either) so here's mine, if anyone cares.
It's big, I'm serious.
It's a serious illness - I love hardware. I love playing with it, tinkering with it, hacking it up and putting what I learn online:
GameSX.com
NFG games
The one thing he's missing is a switch so he can hook up more than 2 consoles at a time. Or maybe a TV with more inputs.
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One of my friends collects video games and old computers, he has just over 100 now.
Off the top of my head:
Amiga 500
Amiga 600
Amiga CDTV
Amiga 1200
Amiga CD32
Amstrad CPC464
Amstrad GX4000
Atari 2600
Atari 4800
Atari Falcon
Atari Lynx
Atari STE
Apple Mac Classic
BBC Model B
BBC Master System
Coleco Vision
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Commodore Vic20
Neo Geo
Neo Geo Pocket
Nintento Famicom
Nintendo NES (PAL)
Nintendo NES (NTSC)
Nintendo Super Famicom
Nintendo SNES (NTSC)
Nintendo SNES (PAL)
Nintendo N64
Nintendo Gameboy
Nintendo Gameboy Color
Nintendo Gameboy Advance
Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP
Nintendo Virtual Boy
Nintendo Gamecube
PC Engine
Panasonic 3D0
Panasonic 3D0 (Goldstar Version)
Philips CDi
Sega Master System
Sega Game Gear
Sega Mega Drive
Sega Genesis
Sega Mega CD
Sega 32x
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair Spectrum
Sinclair Spectrum 48K
Sinclair Spectrum 48K+
Sinclair Spectrum 128+2
Sony PSX
Sony Playstation
Sony Playstation 2
Tiger Game.com
This is only arond 75% of what he has, the rest is too obscure for my memory. He also has some really rare stuff like a SNES CD Rom drive that Nintendo succeeded in having banned, the power glove and other fun things.
He is mad
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First, I know this is OT. However, it's as OT as the rest of posts....
This reminds me about an interview Richard Feynman gave a long time ago. It was after he finished working at Los Alamos. He was depressed. Everywhere he went, he couldn't understand why people were building things anymore. He had just spent the last 4 years helping build the most destructive weapon known to man. He was sure the world was going to end any day now. Safe to say, he was wrong. We've had apocolyptic doomsayers for a long time. The world didn't end in 1944. It didn't end over Cuba. It hasn't ended over the middle-east. Look, I know there are priorities. However, your post could randomly apply to anything. Certianly death and war is more important than games, the California election, movies, sports, and most everything else.
My guess is that your depressed about something else. So for whatever it is worth, I stop worrying about the world along time ago. I've learned to hate all politicians equally, let vocal religious extremists argue among themselves, and I don't have a preference for the spelling of the word flavor/flavour.
What do you mean my sig is repetitive? What do you mean my sig is repetitive? What do you mean....