BANG FOR THE BUCK

[vestcoat]

*yawn*
Well..ah, I have to go buy Samurai Ghost and Time Cruise to complete my Lame-Games-Whose-Sequel-Status-Wasn't-Recognized-In-Their-North-American-Release section.:-"



sorry, I'll stop.

[_joshuaTurbo]

"Last Alert?  No, you nincompoop! That's under 'B' for 'Bad Voice Acting.'"

"Icom Simulations?  They're over in the West Wing."

"Of course Cosmic Fantasy isn't with the RPGs!  It's in the Bankrupt Game Company section under Working Designs!"

Lmao....

wait thats not funny... I keep my games in order somewhat similar.  Like NAMCOT games are next to each other, Konami titles with the cool Konami symbol on the spine together etc etc.

Did Taito put their name/symbol on the spine of any PCE games?

[vestcoat]

Like NAMCOT games are next to each other, Konami titles with the cool Konami symbol on the spine together etc etc.

That's nothing, IIRC, Joe Redifer claims to have separate sections for both Namco and Namcot.

 

[spenoza]

OK, so, let's say someone has an outstandingly poor sum of money with which to start their collections. Let's say, arbitrarily, $35, $50, and $100. What should people buy for these different categories, generally speaking, to get the most of their startup funds?

[Sinistron]

Just ordered two cheap hucards- mostly to complete my Taito platformers section...

You have a "Taito platformers section"? 

Well I use a binder and baseball card sheets that hold 9 for the hucards-
so now my Taito platformer page will be as follows-

Bonze Adventure
Cadash
Don Doko Don
Kiki Kaikai
Liquid Kid
New Zealand Story
Ninja Warriors
Parasol Stars
Rastan Saga II

but it's always tricky changing it up- because then practically ALL of the pages change- for example- Cadash will have to come out of the quests and 1st person RPG page, Kiki Kaikai will have to come out of the overhead action and overhead quests page, and I'll have to painstakingly devise another genre system to make sure that 9 fit snug in each page again.  I have 8 hucards sitting on the side waiting to be included and three more on the way. 

I don't order the CDs as meticulously- just by CD, SCD, and then ACD- alphabetically.

Sometimes the system works perfectly- for example- though I only have four of them so far- there are exactly 9 Sega hucards- and I'll eventually have an all Sega page with:

Afterburner II
Altered Beast
Columns
Fantasy Zone
Out Run
Power Drift
Shinobi
Space Harrier
Thunder Blade

Nice and forking tidy, eh?  :-"

[Sinistron]

OK, so, let's say someone has an outstandingly poor sum of money with which to start their collections. Let's say, arbitrarily, $35, $50, and $100. What should people buy for these different categories, generally speaking, to get the most of their startup funds?

well that all depends on what genres the someone feels most akin to.  Maybe it should be broken into five main genres- Action Puzzle, Platform, Quest/RPGs, Shmups, and Sports- with all other genres as subgenres.

If we can agree on a top five bang for the buck for each genre- one in hucard and one in CD- we may have accomplished the task.

[D-Lite]

OK, so, let's say someone has an outstandingly poor sum of money with which to start their collections. Let's say, arbitrarily, $35, $50, and $100. What should people buy for these different categories, generally speaking, to get the most of their startup funds?

Smells like a new thread.