Collection Sizes?

[kid_rondeau]

Apologies if this has come up before...

Last night in the mail I got a near-new copy of the US Vasteel, complete with map, intructions, and double-wide jewel box. I was lucky enough to find it on Schnebay for $65!!

Now that I'm an adult (Ha!) and make more money than I did when I was 12-13 years old (and spent my lawnmower money on used chip games), I've once again decided to acquire every US-released CD and chip game.

I've gotten most of the rare ones already (Mag. Chase, Cotton, Dynast. Hero, DE II, S. Air Zonk, Beyond Sh*ttygate, Terraforming, etc.) but I still have like 50 more to go.

Anyone here have a collection that they're so proud of they want to shout it from the hills? I want to hear about it!

[Necromancer]

I'm proud of my astonishingly large porn horde (the collection is large, not the ladies).

Wait..... you probably meant Turbo related collections.  Well that one isn't quite so impressive, but I'm working on it.  I have a few of the rare titles, and I pick a few games here and there.  I figure that in the next 20 years or so I'll have run out of Turbo stuff to buy, and that's when the professional gin drinking plan comes into play.

[Tatsujin]

never went into US collecting. just like to own Beyond Sh*ttygate and IcftD.

[nat]

I'm proud of my astonishingly large porn horde (the collection is large, not the ladies).

I challenge you for the title of....  Porn Ranger!!!

[Necromancer]

I'm not into dudes (so to speak), but I think the answer your looking for is Austin St. John (thanks to Google).

[vestcoat]

I've been picking up games since 97 and, in addition to a couple dozen PCE chips and discs, I'm about 15 titles away from all of the US releases.  Not counting the holy grails (MC and DH) the games I'm missing are fairly common and I don't think any of them cost more than $30.

I've once again decided to acquire every US-released CD and chip game.

Are you saying that you owned all of them in the past, sold them and are now buying them all once again?  That would be an expensive venture to do on a lark, regardless of your income.

I've gotten most of the rare ones already (Mag. Chase, Cotton, Dynast. Hero, DE II, S. Air Zonk, Beyond Sh*ttygate, Terraforming, etc.) but I still have like 50 more to go.

Did you just pick up that US Dynastic Hero that's been on BIN on ebay?

[merriman_bk]

Before I started selling it off I had about 250 turbografx/pc-engine games in my collection.

[kid_rondeau]

Hey guys,
thanks for the quick replies! To answer some recent questions:

-No, I never used to own every game...I just gave up on the idea for a while.
-No, I didn't buy DH recently; I got it from TZD in 1995 for $40! Woot!

[vestcoat]

-No, I didn't buy DH recently; I got it from TZD in 1995 for $40! Woot!

Well I'll be....
You're one lucky duck.
 

[offsidewing]

Ugh, I had the PCE/Turbo Collecting bug real bad in the late 90's early 00's.  Had I known how rare Beyond Sh!t-o-gate, Magical Chase, Vasteel, Terraforming, and Cotton were going to be (not to mention the PCE rarities) as sought out as they are today, I would have stuffed them in the same box as the RPG's that I refused to part with.

I've owned every US Turbo game at least twice.  Except maybe Impossimole, Tailspin, and Darkwing Duck.  During High School in the early 90's, I worked at a Play it again Sports and it was right next door to a Video Game Exchange.  I trafficked black market Frisbee Golf Discs to the Cheeba puffing VGE Employees and had right of first refusal to every TG-16/Duo item that came into the store.

Sadly, the college years came along (after the Junior Hockey years) and the amassed hardware and software collection evaporated, mostly due to theft.  The only things stolen out of my suave poon palace was all my PCE/Turbo hardware and my Technica VCR that could dub Rental tapes and DVD's.  They left the Playstation and Mini Disc recorder.  Who steals PCE hardware circa July 2000??  My RPG's where on loan at the time and survived.  T

Anyways, I really have nothing to contribute to this post other than I've owned just about every US Turbo release and think it's a worthy quest to collect 'em all.  Even Fighting Street.

[vestcoat]

Sorry to hear about your games.
Was Video Game Exchange in Minnesota?  In Coon Rapids?

[Necromancer]

my suave poon palace

and sorry for your loss offsidewing - that would really suck.

What's with everybody's hate for Beyond Shadowgate?  I didn't think that it was all that bad, actually pretty good for a point and click.  Y'all may disagree, but you're wrong. 

[offsidewing]

No, the VGE slash PIAS was in Ohio.  Both the Video games and the hockey in Ohio leave something to be desired...

<What's with everybody's hate for Beyond Shadowgate?  I didn't think that it was all that bad, actually pretty good for a point and click.  Y'all may disagree, but you're wrong.>

BSG, Beyond ShadowGate (not Big Sucky Game) didn't connect or immediately immerse me the way other Turbo RPG's did.  I think I wanted that game to be as good as Cosmic Fantasy 2,  Dragon Slayer, or DE2 that I admit to being extremely over critical of it in my teens.  Point and click on a console just wasn't my cup of tea either.  There's charm in typing "Ride Batmobile" in King's Quest 2, but a point and click with a control pad, ick.  I've often thought this and will finally say this out loud, if Big Sucky Game, I mean Beyond Shadowgate was released with a Turbo Mouse, it would have been sweet.  The interface would been better, and made me less critical of it.  Now, unless I sell my son's left Kidney on ebay, I'll never be able to dispassionately judge it as a seasoned gamer...

[FM-77]

Perhaps it didn't immense you like other RPGs simply because it isn't an RPG?

[offsidewing]

Perhaps it didn't immense you like other RPGs simply because it isn't an RPG?

It was 15 years ago.  Different Strokes...

My favorite game was Double Dungeons.  At face value, everything about that game sucked except one thing.  2 player co-op.  For me, that in itself transformed the game into something cooler.  Who doesn't like teaming up with a buddy and kicking "Mahagony Table's" ace in Maze 21.