My collection - please read Disclaimer!

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:48 pm

DISCLAIMER: PLEASE READ

This thread contains pictures of my video games collection. I didn't buy all this recently, it's approx. fourteen years worth of stuff, and the majority is now in storage.
As it's not related to shmups, I've placed it in the 'off topic' section. If you do not wish to see this thread, or it makes you angry, please feel free to click the back button on your browser now. I have no intention of upsetting anyone by posting here - it's just for fun, and has been continued at the request of a few forum members. Please feel free to post your own collections - this isn't a competition, I'm always interested to see the oddities and rarities of others.
This thread is not a personal blog, and therefore will not receive continuous unnecessary bumps. It may, however, receive odd updates now and then if there's something I think is worth adding. In the event you see an update, but still don't wish to view the thread, please continue to participate in the other off-topic threads and ignore this one entirely.
By the way, my penis is huge. Thanks.

A COLLECTION IN PICTURES

First up, July 06 photo's - moving around in a circular motion...

Miyamoto signed Zelda OOT (at London's Virgin Megastore) & Border Down LE (which is complete - is spine inside!)

Blue Dragon 360 with 120gb HD - never bought the game. Messiah chipped Silver PS2 & US Wii.

Breaking up the gaming action for a moment with some figurines:

Took me forever to build that Gundam ship.

Ibara figure set + Area 88 comics (to go with the PCB)8)

Very cool Capcom figures Jin Saotome (MVC) and Ibuki from Third Strike (in school dress.) I have boxed spares of these if anyone want to by some - just PM me an offer.

Little Tomy robot from the 80's. Bought it for 50p last week in a street market. Saw one sold on ebay yesterday at auction for £20!

You gotta believe! This guy talks Japanese to me. I don't know what he's saying though.

Nintendo plastic playing cards from the SFC era. Like new.

Castlevania Hoodie - one of a kind!

Back to the games - recent pics:

My Girlfriend bought me a boxed Sega Model Wondermega & the PC Engine for Christmas last year. Whatta girl!

Some Super Famicom bizness:

Onto the PCB's - only been collecting PCB's since December 07, so a lot of you will see some of your shit here!

First PCB's bought were Progear and Esprade from GaijinPunch.

Brand new Hyper 64 set

The Beautiful Egret 2:

Some of my Posters - I've a ton of old SNK Arcade posters I can put up on request, but they're stored away at the mo.

Crap game, amazing poster:

Surely one of the finest posters ever!

Thanks for looking!

antron · Post by **antron** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:55 pm

niiiiiiiiiice

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:55 pm

Can I see your penis, preferably with 4 year old banana girl clinging on to it?

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:57 pm

antron wrote:niiiiiiiiiice

I concur.

Best part of collection: Wondermega!

(yes I am jealous at that one in particular)...

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 9:58 pm

zinger wrote:Can I see your penis

No sir, you can not see my penis!

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:01 pm

Skykid wrote:
zinger wrote:Can I see your penis
No sir, you can not see my penis!

I agree.

Zinger should have said: Please.

(and ditch the banana girl request - those requests ought to be handled via PM! Bad zinger!

)

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:12 pm

very nice eyecandy.
There's a lot of stuff to explore in some angles, therefore it's even more beautiful that any kind of stuff is mixed up and splattered around in all corners of the room.

Shion · Post by **Shion** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:17 pm

Very nice collection!

And death to all the fig-haters.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:51 pm

I don't know if photobucket allows this, but have you considered to post pics here in their thumbnail form? it would be easier to load and of course everyone who's interested would click pics to enlarge them.

GrimoreLibrarian · Post by **GrimoreLibrarian** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:43 pm

What's a Neo Geo Stick 2?

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 11:56 pm

Basically it's a PS2 neo stick that's identical in build and components to the original, bar tiny L & R buttons on either side of the main four (which never get used anyway.)

Very sweet if you're into SNK fighters but don't buy AES.

bay · Post by **bay** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:33 am

Skykid wrote:
zinger wrote:Can I see your penis
No sir, you can not see my penis!

is this because you have a very small penis, or is it that zinger just has very bad eyesight?

No_not_like_Quake · Post by **No_not_like_Quake** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:38 am

Super Laydock wrote:
antron wrote:niiiiiiiiiice
I concur.

Best part of collection: Wondermega!

(yes I am jealous at that one in particular)...

I agree, it's quite nice, isn't it?

J-Manic · Post by **J-Manic** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:18 am

Sweet fucking collection yo! I'm pretty jealous right now.

I hope you gave your girlfriend something equally pleasureable for the Wondermega and PC Engine.

nimitz · Post by **nimitz** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:08 am

Thats pretty crazy...I can understand why some people may be upset by that kind of collection.

Thankfully emulators are getting better everyday so we don't have to compete with people like you to be able to play these great games. Hopefully one day most of the old games will be public domain and everyone will be able to enjoy these games exactly as they were on the original hardware without having to pay big bucks.

I do have one question though, if these games would all be unplayable (like it will be the case many years from now) would you still keep them simply as "relics"?

CStarFlare · Post by **CStarFlare** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:30 am

nimitz wrote:Hopefully one day most of the old games will be public domain and everyone will be able to enjoy these games exactly as they were on the original hardware without having to pay big bucks.

I don't think the games becoming public domain has anything to do with it. It's more a matter of whenever people get around to emulating them correctly.

It's a sick collection, though I'm a little disappointed that you have the easy version of Elemental Gearbolt. :3

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:11 am

Wondermega: Nice console, but if you've ever owned a MCD or the like, there's bugger all to play on it. Apart from Snatcher & popful mail, sonic CD if you're really up for it - it's a machine devoid of quality titles. The MD part gets more use I reckon.

nimitz wrote:, if these games would all be unplayable (like it will be the case many years from now

Why would they become unplayable. Is there something I don't know about?!

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:40 am

what... no Vampire Killer on MegaDrive skykid?

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:51 am

Strider77 wrote:what... no Vampire Killer on MegaDrive skykid?

I know, still haven't got one. I'm supposed to be in JP early next year - I'm making that prime directive no.1

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:55 pm

That red disclaimer is killing my eyes ! I can't read it like this.
Please change it's color to something more readable ! Thanks very much !

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:03 pm

I scored one of this forum for a surprising 90.00, that was less than I paid for hard corps.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:22 pm

Strider77 wrote:I scored one of this forum for a surprising 90.00, that was less than I paid for hard corps.

That's a great price Strider - I'd pay at least another $40 on that at the mo.

Michaelm - are you serious man?

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:41 pm

Skykid wrote:Michaelm - are you serious man?

Well, if you want me to read it then yeah

bay · Post by **bay** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:52 pm

Michaelm wrote:
Skykid wrote:Michaelm - are you serious man?
Well, if you want me to read it then yeah

Skykid just needs to write a disclaimer about the disclaimer.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:57 pm

Yeah, I was very happy with that price, true it shows some signs of wear on the book and cart but nothing awful esp at 90.00.

All the ones I found before were around 200.00.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 8:11 pm

Strider77 wrote:Yeah, I was very happy with that price, true it shows some signs of wear on the book and cart but nothing awful esp at 90.00.

All the ones I found before were around 200.00.

$200?! It's not that much dude - more around the £60-70 mark on YHJ these days.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:59 pm

Skykid, I got my first supergun in Dec 07, so I've been buying/playing PCBs for the same amount of time. I don't have room to keep everything, but I've had or still have so many of the same titles. The one you have that I most want to get eventually: Progear. Probably my favorite hori after R-Type (which I have).

So I want to ask you: How do you feel about your Saturn collection now that you've started collecting PCBs? Once I got a good set-up for PCBs and emulation, I started looking at my Saturn collection very differently. As you know, the vast majority of the shooters are ports from the arcade. I strongly prefer the PCB when I can afford it/find it, and emulation is just fine for the rest. I've kept a few games for the Saturn, but I just can't get excited any longer about a collection of ports. Do you feel the same way or do you still have a love for that part of your collection (if you ever did)? The Saturn was my first import system and I got it just for shooters, so I will always have a certain nostalgia, but it has really faded.

CStarFlare · Post by **CStarFlare** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:00 pm

Skykid wrote:Why would they become unplayable. Is there something I don't know about?!

Storage media all degrade. Proper storage and handling can slow the process, but eventually the physical compenents begin to age and break down.

I don't know about carts, but I've seen figures of ~50 years for CDs though it's said that due to changes in technology that number isn't constant for every specific disc. Frankly, you probably won't have to worry about it in your lifetime, assuming your passion for video games lasts that long.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 11:51 pm

professor ganson wrote:Skykid, I got my first supergun in Dec 07, so I've been buying/playing PCBs for the same amount of time. I don't have room to keep everything, but I've had or still have so many of the same titles. The one you have that I most want to get eventually: Progear. Probably my favorite hori after R-Type (which I have).

So I want to ask you: How do you feel about your Saturn collection now that you've started collecting PCBs? Once I got a good set-up for PCBs and emulation, I started looking at my Saturn collection very differently. As you know, the vast majority of the shooters are ports from the arcade. I strongly prefer the PCB when I can afford it/find it, and emulation is just fine for the rest. I've kept a few games for the Saturn, but I just can't get excited any longer about a collection of ports. Do you feel the same way or do you still have a love for that part of your collection (if you ever did)? The Saturn was my first import system and I got it just for shooters, so I will always have a certain nostalgia, but it has really faded.

i know exactly how you feel - i'd practically forgotten i had a saturn

to the point where i'm now more accustomed to playing silvergun with 3 buttons (which isn't comfortable). the last saturn game i got was from GP about six months ago and i haven't even loaded it up

nice to see the collection back up dude. i actually wish i'd taken the time to chronicle my collection over the years.

now sell me that DOJ poster before it bio-degrades! time is short!

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:14 am

i too lost all interest in the saturn once i started playing PCBs.. sold it all off years ago.