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You guys still enjoy collecting physical video games in 2025?

i don't have a job

>>723126384
same

I don't have a house to put collections in.

>>723126331 (OP)
Buying something meant for entertainment and keeping it shrinkwrapped IE never played with is fucking gross.
"Toys" should be graded on the stories the owner associates with them not in their physical perfection because that's the actual value of the object itself.

I sold all my shit once emulation became a thing.
>gba games, ps1 games, old computer boxes
its all just random trash that would collect in my room, it also made bringing women home weird.

It's not so much collecting but I just hate digital media. I don't trust storefronts / account security to be around longer than anything else. Hell my n64 games still work like they used. How many playstation, xbox, nintendo stores have lasted that long?

>>723126532
But Anon....those troons you bring over have no interest in your collection, just you. :^)

>>723126331 (OP)
Sold them all to upgrade my PC and emulate them instead. I also needed the space to make room for my manga collection

I still buy jewel case PC games from the 90s and early 2000s occasionally. Not exactly collecting since I actually play them on old computers. Also survival horror games suck.

Yes. I buy physical copies to preserve them to Redump standards. I rarely play them, tho.

>>723126331 (OP)
had to sell the majority of my collection to make rent during the 'rona

i don't miss them as much as i thought they would. i really only miss one game

>>723126532
i have a shitton of books to make it up for the games. women love books and if they outnumber your games they’ll just think it’s cute and nerdy or some shit that you have them

>>723126878
>Vice City Stories on the row above Liberty City Stories
This makes me unreasonably angry. This idiot collects all this shit, and can't even put them in the correct order?

>Fits literally every NTSC video game up to 6th-gen
>Fits millions of books
>Nooooo I need big ass bookshelves full of books and plastic cases

>>723126773
God if i was that far gone i would get a rope to kill myself and get cucked as the troon dove head first into the rope before i did.
>>723126997
I used to collect books but after awhile i stopped doing that as well. As long as the room is sort of clean women really dont care but if you have alot of junk in general its like you got 30 cans of beer on the floor to them. Went the opposite direction recently and just had my bed and shit for my clothes in my room. She acted like i was poor and started bringing over her shit

>>723126331 (OP)
>>723126878
Why do they need multiple copies of the same game? Is it just for selling

>>723127427
Those are some of the most expensive PS2 games

A copy of Kuon alone is like $1000

>>723126331 (OP)
I prefer physical media but retail doesn't price competitively and the manuals don't have any cool stuff in them anymore.

>>723127691
>1k for a PS2 game
Scalpers deserve to have every bone in their body broken

>>723127907
That's not scalpers bro it's just market price

Scalpers are when they buy out the initial stock just to raise prices

>>723128002
Shut up nerd

>decide to collect in 2014
>buy most expensive games first
>easy mode all downhill after that

anyone can have a collection but truly great ones have rare, expensive games

from today

>>723128219
>uk version

this your first time looking up rare games?

>>723126384
>>723126403

Based.

I've been collecting NEETbux since 2009.

>>723126495
This is an inherently millennial thing, no other generation does this

>>723128213
I don't know I'd say I started collecting. I sold most of my games when I moved out, and then even more when I lost my job. After that I'd buy super cheap Xbox 360 games here and there maybe twice a year but just so id have something to fuckin do.

I'd say in 2018 when I started buying PS2 games and got a Retrotink I "started collecting". So I'm still new to it really.

>>723126331 (OP)
I don't really collect physical media, but I also won't buy games if they're digital and cost more than 15€. If I want to buy a 60€ game at launch, it'll be a physical copy.

>>723126331 (OP)
I have pretty bad existential depression so I don't really try to collect too much, its not worth it.

>>723126331 (OP)
>graded games
this isnt collecting, this is a reseller

threads like make so glad i decluttered years ago. got rid of so much crap and shredded so much paper.

>>723126331 (OP)
If I ever won the lottery, I would buy up every single rare sealed copy of every game ever, hold a nationwide event called "collector's fire sell giveaway!", and once every single faggot had assembled, I would lock the doors and proceed to light the entire stash on fire in front of them

>>723128924
Burning them is one thing. The better option is opening them all up and also using a hole puncher on the case.
That makes them still playable to anyone who actually loves video games, but worthless to collectors

>>723128428
>>723126495
You dont get it. You probably dont collect and just armchair criticize. But if release is limited like a LE or Limited run type release, you either buy on release date, pay msrp and store it for when you can get to it (during this time it may end up on a photograph posted on /v/). The other option is buying it scalped for 2x the price minimum when your ready to play. So as much as shrink wrap gives you the ick, its more of an indicator buyer thinks ahead and would rather spend less at the cost of having digicucks hurl insults at him

>>723128219
>buy empty jewel case boxes
>print out game cover
>put blank disc in it
>buy some shrink wrap and a heat gun
>sell 3 dollars of waste for 250 dollars to some cuck who will never open it

>>723128924
>post gif of pigs in a ditch, where they all get roasted.

>>723129015
>hole punch makes it worthless

dont know what era you crawled out from but this just seems out of touch

Yes.

>>723129240
>R-TYPE III

>>723129227
>He doesn't know damaging the case greatly devalues it.
Take a knife and slash it through any case and then have it be graded by that meme grading company, you'll see what I mean.

>>723126878
>grading video games
I spit on TCG faggots for introducing this nonsense to the rest of entertainment

>>723126331 (OP)
>wata games
con artists

>>723129315
Your thinking to extremes. Lets talk average ebay byer/seller not the meme graders. With a hole punched in rule of rose will devalue it $50-$100 at best. I people buy disc only in some situations a little hole punch is a nothing burger

Not since I was a teen, when I became an adult I decided to save every penny in the hopes I can retire a bit earlier

>>723129642
Ill never get the, ill wait till im 50-60 to start living mentallity

>>723129687
Well I can't really live much now either, I'm working 80% of the time
Also I just pirate everything anyway

>>723128302
maybe it is your first time
Rule of Rose is only rare in its PAL edition cause of the idiotic controversy in EU which made it so it only stayed on shelves for a very limited time before being retired in most EU countries, and the UK release was completely canceled never making it to shelves, making te UK version the rarest and most sought after

The NTSC version is only "rare" due to the lack of commercial success, but it's actually not more uncommon than any other game with a similar lack of success, and the only reason it ever got up in price is cause of people selling/buying it thinking this NTSC version was as rare as the PAL or UK one.

>>723129642
I hope you are buying precious metals and other investments or else you'll be working until your death

>>723126331 (OP)
So i'd buy all of that for like 2 dollars.
That's what it's worth.

considering your competition, you'd best take my offer.

>>723130132
Don't break your bank, anon

>>723126331 (OP)
I want a big box of Speedy Eggbert. I have big boxes of LEGO Island and Pajama Sam 1.

>>723129074
I collect, I have 5$ casino chips from every city I've been, but I collect them specifically because each one leads to a story I can tell if I ever show off my "collection".
It just seems retarded to buy an entertainment piece and view and treat it as an investment rather then a stock.

>>723130018
I do invest yes, I work in wealth management actually lol

>>723127127
>NTSC
faggot
>ssd
enjoy your data loss

>>723127127
People that buy sealed and graded games have no genuine interest in actually playing them. It's either a useless decoration to waste space in a shelf or something they intend to flip for profit later. Retro gaming in general is kinda a waste of money but buying games you have no intention of ever playing is just retarded

>>723129880
No one actually cares about PAL ps2 copies due to the 50hz fucking with a lot of games (though some games give you a toggle). So before we even get to why a specific title is rare in the uk, uk titles just dont register on a collectors radar unless your given up on owning the NTSC copy.

Is the UK copy rarer? Sure, but its a inferior version

>find blank ps2 case
>print out cover
>put a blank CD in the case
>seal it in shrink wrap
>have it graded it as a new game
>graders won't break the shrinkwrap to verify there's actually SH2 in there
>sell it to graded autists
Literally what's stopping me from doing this?

>>723130423
That's good. I hope you get what you wish for.

>>723130810
>print out cover
any competent grader can tell the difference
>shrink wrap it
getting similar plastic wrap is actually really difficult. its the reason a lot of bootlegs have that really obvious shrink wrap with the obviously seal. graders will notice from a mile away

>>723131106
So is it a special/expensive machine that game publishers use that makes such a difference to regular shrink wrapping?

>>723130810
I learned from my MTG friend that they have their own marked shrink wrap to prevent this stuff.
Speculators in this arena are all fucking retarded but it's not as if the people producing the thing aren't capable of thinking out an answer to really really obvious fabrication ideas.

They've also figured out a way to get you if you just write yourself a check for a billion dollars, deposit it, and then try and cash out a billion dollars.

>>723127691
you're giving the price for an ungraded copy.

>>723131282
It's the same stuff they print in order to make holographics on cash to prevent counterfeiting.

>>723130774
>but its a inferior version
for the game itself, you're 100% right obviously, people who are after Rule of Rose specifically, they do not care about playing the game, it being 50hz is 100% irrelevant for the collectable value of the item, just its rarity and reason for rarity does.

you have to understand that collecting games as a way to play them or obtain the best version of them(like you said, NTSC copies over PAL, complete or reissued versions with fixed bugs over the original releases, etc) is an entire different world than collecting games cause of their rarity, people collect games for their rarity 99% do not give a fuck if this or that version is better, rarity is all that matters.

>>723130774
Yeah but no collector actually plays their games so it's a moot point

>>723126331 (OP)
Only a few from franchises I really enjoy, I got to a point where having a shelf full of games I'm not playing started feeling pointless

>>723126331 (OP)
No I pirate everything and but merch

>>723126384
Your time has lost its worth and every day the value of that time diminishes and you are proud of that because they give you a paycheck that can buy nintendo games and keep your wife from leaving you and your kids from suffering. You won buddy, congrats.

>>723126331 (OP)
Downloading a rom of the internet to play on a modded console gives you the same exact game-play experience as playing the same exact game but you payed 1000+$ for it.
And possibly an even better experience if you use emulator.

My "collection" is the stuff I had as a kid and it just sits in a box. The consoles themselves are the only valuable thing because of the hardware. If you want to download an old game but play it on the actual hardware, you can do it. Not everything emulates, but even Xbox emulation has started to work.

>>723131665
Good to know.

>>723131454
Based Jet Jaguar enjoyer

>>723126878
Im so glad roms exist so I dont have to pay rip off prices for PS2 games

>>723126331 (OP)
video games are the only faggot medium where most of classics go out of print physically and you can't acquire legal digital copies.

>>723128219
>PAL version
>those pricetags
How come last time i tried to sell my shit nobody gave me above 20€ a piece because
>it's not the NTSC version bro

>>723126331 (OP)
As crazy and mental this shit is. There's still people who pay fucking THOUSANDS for stuff like Funko Pops and Labubu shit.

>>723133780
>but what about
They're all equally deranged anon.

>>723126331 (OP)
The price of these will plump down once the generation that lived and grew with this dies, also disc rot and decay is inevitable.

Pic related, bye bye NGC disc.

>>723134270
Thanks for the heads up.

>>723134270
Let me guess: Twin Snakes?

>>723134809
Nope, Pokeymans XD...

>>723127691
Really GTAs are valuable? They sold millions of those

>>723134270
you're not supposed to keep your discs in the microwave, anon

>>723134270
Cant beat them? Just wait for them to die. Genius aint it?

>>723128428
People collect coins/stamps/sports cards way before millennials exist

>>723134943
Not mine, photo taken from the web. I have all my games plus full romsets and discsets until Gen 6 in two 4TB HDD, I use to emulate and play them.

>>723135150
Full piracy mode ON, so what if I don't have the physical expensive cart of disc that some hoarder jew reseller have?

>>723135346
that's cool, I still got cds I made in 2005

>>723134898
Grim. The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

>>723135807
>>723136178

Nothing better than the freedom of making your own copies, if the original medium decays, then making a new copy of it solves the problem, also that´s the importance for the right of backups and vidya preservation.

https://youtu.be/iXbzktx1KfU

>>723126331 (OP)
Why would you want your house to look like a 2007 Gamestop?

>>723136413
What if I'm into flat chests but also like a decent booty?

>>723136413
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJAWGjnT-_A

>>723136413
That's legal and not piracy

>>723136530
>>723136664
That would be a well-balanced buccaneer

>>723136946
Tell that to Nintendo lawyers.

>>723126331 (OP)
>Graded video games
>Graded video gamds in plastic boxes

Lmaoooo

>>723137236
rocaru copy of gemu is regaru in america
first seru docuturinu
shamefur dispray
grand parent cry

>>723137236
Look it up if you don't believe me

>>723131454
VIRTUAL-ON MENTIONED
THIS THREAD IS NOW PROPERTY OF THE DNA CORPORATION

>>723137350
Arrr, it may be lawful in the lands o’ America, but just ’cause the laws o’ that faraway shore say so, don’t be meanin’ the whole wide world sails by the same code, aye?

The finest bit be watchin’ the hoardin’ dogs, long nose jews and high-born elitists froth with rage when the pirates come a-boardin’!

>>723129240
Unfathomably badass collection

>>723137815
By that logic you can't backup programs that employ UI graphical/sound assets so pretty much every programs that isn't command line exclusive.

I'm happy with my collection

>>723138010
Aye, true — that be Nintendo’s own reckonin’. I ain’t raisin’ a flag in its defence, but try as ye might, ye won’t be turnin’ the minds o’ that crew easy, arr.

So mark me words: spite o’ what Nintendo proclaims, I’ll be makin’ copies o’ the games I hold — lawful or outlawed — an’ even o’ those I ain’t laid hands on, by thunder!

>>723126331 (OP)
I mostly stopped collecting around 2012. The 2008 recession was such a good time for vidya collection.

>>723128360
1. Are you American?
2. Are you white?
3. After answering those, help me be like you because I’m American and White.

>>723126331 (OP)
Yes. I'm a PAL-fag, so games are still relatively cheap.

>>723126331 (OP)
Closest thing I've got to a "physical collection" is a DSi that I cobbled together out of two that I got for cheap, both owned by two kids that thrashed the shit out of them.
Cobbling them together went well but I accidentally ruined the camera cable. Fuck.
That and two R4s. That's it.

Outside of DS/3DS being the only sources of handhelds with resistive touchscreens, there's no reason for anyone to buy/own a "real" system anymore or own real games, especially in the context of a collection.
>your collection will eventually degrade, either battery failure, crumbling label adhesives or disc rot
>you're paying randos (scalpers) for the games and consoles, so none of the money goes to the devs anyway, even in the cases where you'd want them to get the money
>consoles themselves get corrosion, worn slots, yellowing/crumbling plastic, worn motors, crumbly belts, cracking solder, and worn lasers
>you're constantly at risk of a fire/flood/ex/child/infestation wiping your entire collection (hell, just humidity does it, both too little and too much are bad long-term)
>most game/console values don't even outpace inflation, outside of a select few uber-rare games and weirdly specific hardware revisions

>>723126331 (OP)
Just for my own personal satisfaction.

>>723138816 (me)
Correction: one DSi had a working camera, but the plastic lenses were fucked, the other DSi had a camera with a very corroded ribbon cable.
I put the good plastic lenses (covers?) on the final DSi, then put in the good camera cable only for one of the cameras to get jammed and rip out when I readjusted it.
I mean it's not like I'll ever use the cameras, but I just don't like leaving the DSi "half-fixed", I want everything on it to work.
NGL I should've kept that corroded one and tried to clean it up. Too late now though, I guess.

Also I guess I should mention I own a physical copy of Meteos, but I just play the digital version instead so it's more of a slot cover than anything else.

>>723138770
Nice saturn collection

I buy switch 1 and 2 games physically if that counts

>>723137941
Thanks. Most of these were acquired as I grew up, though some were bought after the fact. (luckily, I got most of the retro stuff before Covid hit and made it a scalper's market)

>>723134898
>XD
Fuck off

>>723126384
Lmao

>>723126832
Are you me? Basically the only games I held onto were my Fatal Frame games and personal favourites. I was literally never going to play the PS2 .hack/Persona games ever again realistically so why would I want them sitting around collecting dust when I could sell them and buy something I'd actually use.