So for the past few weeks I have been thinking about my game room. Primarily the fact that I had just completed the reorganization pace and labeling of my collection while I plan and get shelving made for my upstairs loft.
Because of my reorganization I was able to see exactly what I have where the majority of it was either in boxes at my storage unit apartment or parents house throughout my various jobs and moving prior to the pitches of my first house. This was partly a bad idea as my wife was with me playing with our son and often commenting on how she had not realized the number of games systems and so forth I actually owned lol. She then said that I shouldn't sell everything off. But she knows I have no plans to and was being more sarcastic then anything.
Through this process and possibly even more so once I have displayed and proper access to my games, comics, movies/tv and toys I was honestly surprised at the status of my collection. Not only at the size of it but more so the content. In the past few years it has grown sure but some of the items I now own and enjoy are things that honestly at one point seemed like an unattainable goal.
The varied selection of my games, systems, and general taste in entertainment has evolved greatly since I started as well. Being someone who grew up with Atari then migrated to Nintendo with the NES my 80s and 90s exposure to anything else was limited.
Sure I had the one vision who had a Genesis and I got to play sonic and the bloody mortal kombat. Or the other family member who had a TG-16 and I got to play Bonk. But apart from my first migration away from Nintendo with the PS2 (I really wanted a DVD player as a new college student) I hardly looked back.
However here I am in my early 30s and with in the past six years I have collected played and enjoyed Neo Geo MVS (really took me back to arcades as a teen), the vast Sega library from SMS through the Dream Cast (which I still activity look for Sega games on newer systems) as well as a short dance with Arcade PCBS and super guns.
I look at some of my games such as Snatcher, and Gate of Thunder or even say Metal Storm and think wow these games are extremely fun. Their cult status and ability to endure as fun games and impressive graphical feats for their time holds true.
I organize my comics and look at my more prized issues such as my ASM #1 (sure it looks like a dog ate part of it but it's mine lol) or the Vampirela #1 (Christmas gift from my father after my first deployment) and think wow.
I pick through the remains of childhood toys like my castle grey skull which have seen better days lol and wonder if my own 9 month old son will enjoy it when he is 4-5.
I bring all of this up and name drop a few of my personal treasures items for this reason. Who else here finds themselves taking a step back at their own collection of various collectibles and think wow. Fonding themselves in awe that they own certain items that they owned as a kid or where able to obtain much later that they at one point thought where outside of their reach. Either die to rarity, expense, or extravagance. I find myself being less and less envious of other people's collections at this point and finding more consent with what I already have. Maybe it is because there are fewer and fewer things on my "want list" or maybe I simply learned to be more appreciative of what I currently have without the need to run out and pick up the next interesting or fun looking game or collectible do dad I see or hear about in the latest episode of game sack or so forth.
Once I have my loft complete with shelving I will update the gaming evolution what ever thread. At the moment stacks of lowes boxes are not interesting lol.
Topic: Your Gaming Library (Read 533 times)
