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Topic: Do we have any "collector's" here? (Read 11039 times)
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schild
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Jain, check your PMs.
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Falconeer
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Does that make me a collector?
To me, yes. If you don't throw that stuff out when you move, or when you marry. If you don't consider selling it, you managed to keep it in nice, clean boxes for all these years and feel bad if they get somehow crushed, then yes you are a collector. |
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schild
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There's a fine line between a collector and a packrat.
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Falconeer
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Right. I'll add on top of what I said that you should actively look for things, and buy/trade them, regardless their use. Spending money to fill shelves (not just boxes in a cellar) is another prerequisite. I spent lots for my unpunched 2nd edition Talisman box. No need to tell, it's still unpunched (<-- the collector!).
CoC's Orient Express was another crazy purchase, but at least I played it (<-- the man).
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schild
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Taolurker even having to ask if it made him a collector was 1. Trolling Mockery, he's not a retard, and 2. a packrat. You don't happen across collecting or a collection. Shit has to have some kind of personal value beyond the box. Not just boxes you're too lazy to throw away.
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taolurker
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I didn't collect them, I saved them. It wasn't an attempt at a collection, it was me retaining the first gaming and first computer systems I owned as keepsakes. If you don't consider selling it, you managed to keep it in nice, clean boxes for all these years and feel bad if they get somehow crushed, then yes you are a collector.
I'll never sell these, have managed to keep them in decent shape (both systems still work), but I don't have a single original box to get crushed. The apple computer ROMs are in diskette trays, and the Atari cartridges are in a wood grained cartridge holder and shoe boxes. I do still have many of the games manuals, though. I was 7 years old when I got the Atari and 11 when I got the Apple. Taolurker even having to ask if it made him a collector was 1. Trolling Mockery, he's not a retard, and 2. a packrat. You don't happen across collecting or a collection. Shit has to have some kind of personal value beyond the box. Not just boxes you're too lazy to throw away.
People who keep things because of personal value doesn't automatically make it a "collection", and because I didn't keep boxes or retain every single game I'd ever owned, I don't consider myself a "collector" and was asking seriously. People who keep boxes are the packrats IMO. My keepsakes only have value to me, which is why I don't count them as a collection, and after seeing all of Falcon's pics I figured I'd ask, but Fuck you very much anyway, Schild, for responding. |
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Moosehands
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Not so much of a game collector as a game accumulator. I think my game library is north of 5000 titles at this point.  Pictures? They'd be pretty boring pictures, since ~3500 of those are in zip archives of ROMs and abandonware. |
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