So what type of retro collectors are you guys?

I'm good for just CIB and as long as the box/case, manual and game are original, I would not care if the cartridge tray holder or baggies are reproductions.

>>11851506 (OP)
Loose for anything with a cardboard box (except the little slipcases on Japanese GameCube games). CIB for everything else.

>>11851506 (OP)
I collect longbox ps1 games

>>11851506 (OP)
>sealed collector
No way there's rich people on /vr/

>>11851506 (OP)
i buy a funny obscure game if i see it irl and it's cheap. Otherwise i don't care much about ROM packaging. It's no longer needed because flash carts exist and i mostly play romhacks anyway

I collect screenshots.

I don't collect.

Same way i did when shit was modern. If the loose version is significantly cheaper over complete, i will usually get that. Only ever a handful of games I ever really desire the box for and will go out of the way to get, atleast as far as carts are concerned.

>>11851506 (OP)
Im a
>what can I get for like 5 bucks
Type. Now I've been doing that since the 00s so I have some gems, a lot of sports games and a middling collection. I got turtles in time though

>>11851506 (OP)
Get the games I want to play, don't care about papers or boxes but I want the carts to be clean.

>>11851506 (OP)
Carts I don't mind loose. Disc games must be CIB for me though. I can only imagine some guy named Chet who got a cushy job by being a nepo baby and has a pescetarian diet buying only sealed games.

roms collector

You can get reproduction boxes, cart protector trays, and manuals. Buy a loose real cart and the repro box. It's cool if you're not into that, just felt like mentioning it because money.
For me? I gave away or sold all my physical stuff (15 consoles) and kept only the SNES and its games from childhood. I just get individual roms/isos when I want to play something.

Somewhere between CIB and fully CIB. Any sort of maps, stickers, instruction cards (see: first party SFC), obi, and bonus items (posters, shirts, trinkets, soundtrack, etc) need to be included, but I'm not a stickler for registration cards or AC adapter warnings. That said I don't really buy a lot of CIB games these days, unless it is something relatively cheap.

For carts, i just get them loose and add custom end labels for n64. For discs ill do cib or sometimes full cib if i can find one in good condition. If its a really expensive game sometimes ill just get the game in box with no manual, then get the manual at a later time.

>>11851506 (OP)
I used to buy CIB some years ago when you could get most games for a reasonable price. Nowadays I'm glad if I get an original cart for a non ridiculous price. Recently I bought Pokémon Firered for like 80 Euroshekels cart only, and I got Harvest Moon for SNES in PAL. version for like 70 and it was only so cheap because it's the German version.

>>11851635
I could go with that, after all box is just cardboard. Original is nice but not worth the price nowadays. I am autistic about cartridges being original tho.

>>11851663
How original are you talking here? For the SNES, would you not mind if you bought a game with a swapped back that didn't have the original #, even though the back is still original?

>>11851506 (OP)
Any CD game needs correct case and front label minimum. Genesis and anything else that came in a hard plastic case with a manual I want CIB+manual. All the things that came in cardboard are fine loose. I only get sealed games when they come as part of a purchase, and I actually prefer loose in many instances so I don't have to spend extra for another giant empty box to keep clean and use up space. Original sales receipt is an underrated collector's possession, and I hope it stays that way because it would so fucking gay if people started charging extra for that.

>>11851506 (OP)
Loose collector, hardware only (arcade levers, buttons, crts, flash carts, etc. No game software).

>>11851506 (OP)
When I started collecting (fuckin decades ago) I was just happy to have and play the games. Loose was cheap and boxes and manuals were very rare in comparison but nice to find. I only have a handful of CIB box games but it’s stuff I have an attachment to. Everything else is loose.

i play games, i don't collect plastic

>>11851506 (OP)
>localized game
lol
zero collector's value

>>11851519
I have several that I have picked up over the years. Nothing too fancy, though. Never was into collecting them.

>>11852203
This was me as well. I would have missed out on spur of the moment cool shit i picked up for 5 dollars like Wild Guns, if i had been super anal about waiting to only get a CiB copy. Even helped with new releases like Ocarina of Time where someone traded in a copy at my local game shop about a month after release and it was half the price of a new copy since it was cart only.

All collectors deserve to dangle from a noose. Games are for playing, not stashing in a hoard to collect dust and drive up prices.

The most psychopathic form has to be "sealed" collectors. It's like having a brand new Ferrari and just keeping it in your garage, never once starting it up. It's just taking a game (a thing meant to be played) and preventing it from ever being played. Straight up mental insanity

>>11851506 (OP)
>loose collector
>pristine cartridge
We all know they're paying well over $100 for tonypoops

>>11853124
Gee whiz, genius. It's almost as if people collected these games when they were cheap and abundant so that they could play them when the rest of the world didn't give a shit.

>>11852234
this lmao, I almost exclusively collect japanese games and you can get them CIB for like 2 bucks
only exception is when the localization is an actual improvement

>>11851548
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>>11853124
Poor

Back in the early 00s (when collecting retro wasn't even really a thing yet, just a few of us weirdos still caring about non-current stuff), I only went for CIB.
Nowadays, I'll settle for loose, but I rarely buy stuff anymore.
At least I already own most of my favorite games.

>>11853798
>only exception is when the localization is an actual improvement
>posts a localization with downgraded gameplay

still got my 1 sealed gameboy game. no big deal.

>>11851506 (OP)
CIB. I like reading manuals.