Its time to come out... I'm a huge geek and pardon the typos its late and my keyboard is messing up agaj
A cool geek, but a geek non the less. I have been harboring a secret most people would dream of owning.
BUT visting a person with this kind of thing is different then being them and as I will explain below in
the struggles of being a game collector
This is going to sound like a brag but really it isn't.
I own over 500 video games and over 20 consoles
From the first cartrage based console the Magnavox odyssey to this gen Xbox one.
It is alot but considering there are over 10'000 games out there I have quite a ways to go before I can complete my collection.
Now I do own most mainstream consoles as well as a few long consoles.
I own one arcade cabinet which is donkey Kong. I completely refurbished it and made it look brand new.
It is a struggle to maintaine thou. Keeping everything clean. Fixing things that break ( Some of these consoles are over 40 years old ) and parts cost money.
Don't get me started on my famicon and its disc system
( its the Japanese nes but looks completely different and takes different cartridges/discs ) the famicon due to both its age and strange design is a hard thing to constantly run. Parts for it are rare as most of it is made exclusive to it and has not been manufactured for decades.. In Japan. So I got to be careful with it our it could break and those BASTARDS are expensive. Now its disc system is another story. Its like a rube Goldberg thing on the inside of that thing and the discs are a hassle to collect. You used to be able to go to disc rewrite stations in Japan. For a couple of bucks you could rewrite your disc from mario 2 to Zelda. That's bad because I may order a game but the game on the disc may not be the disc I wanted and its now useless to me WHY DOES JAPAN LIKE TENNIS OF THE FAMICON SO MUCH.
And the Sega genesis keeps shit rolling with its two BASTARDS the 32x and the Sega CD. I have a model 1 genesis BUT when these two things were released alot of people had the model 2. So both are designed for it well the 32x is there are 2 models for the Sega CD one for MD 1 and MD 2 the first model sucked ass so I got the MD 2. I also bought this chunk of plastic you slap on the side of the SCD so it looks nicer. But to run the 32x you shove these metal prongs ( which have gotten rare over the years) in to the console so the 32x can shove its fat ads down into the genesis.
The nes was an easy fix, adjust the connectors and clean it up a bit works like a charm. The nes has a shit ton of add ons that I could care less about. I own the ones Nintendo made and I draw the line there.
The virtual boy.... It hold a special place in my heart as I convinced my self it was going to be awesome let me take you back to November 1995...
The virtual boy had been out for almost 3 months and no one was talking about it... Execpt for me. I told my friends " the future is here!" " we are going to experience the future" and me just turned 27 in may I should have known the lack of talk should have meant something. I finally had enough 179'99 was its cost and I was ready. I walked into my local Toys r us to find my virtual boy FOR ONLY 30 BUCKS!!
Happy as can be I strolled into blockbuster about to rent a movie, the cashier noticed something in my arm.
" is that a virtual boy" asked the man. I nodded and he pulled out something that made me internaly squeal.
"We were about to dump this but if you don't tell my manager I can give you this"
Blockbuster used to rent out the virtual boy in this hard plastic case that held it, the controller, the wires and three games ( which included mario tennis, mario clash and Mario land ) I obviously said yes and I took it home and.. It gave me a head ache
Now I own all of the 14 games that were released here in north America.
I plan on continuing this I'm the comments so stay tuned for that
A cool geek, but a geek non the less. I have been harboring a secret most people would dream of owning.
BUT visting a person with this kind of thing is different then being them and as I will explain below in
the struggles of being a game collector
This is going to sound like a brag but really it isn't.
I own over 500 video games and over 20 consoles
From the first cartrage based console the Magnavox odyssey to this gen Xbox one.
It is alot but considering there are over 10'000 games out there I have quite a ways to go before I can complete my collection.
Now I do own most mainstream consoles as well as a few long consoles.
I own one arcade cabinet which is donkey Kong. I completely refurbished it and made it look brand new.
It is a struggle to maintaine thou. Keeping everything clean. Fixing things that break ( Some of these consoles are over 40 years old ) and parts cost money.
Don't get me started on my famicon and its disc system
( its the Japanese nes but looks completely different and takes different cartridges/discs ) the famicon due to both its age and strange design is a hard thing to constantly run. Parts for it are rare as most of it is made exclusive to it and has not been manufactured for decades.. In Japan. So I got to be careful with it our it could break and those BASTARDS are expensive. Now its disc system is another story. Its like a rube Goldberg thing on the inside of that thing and the discs are a hassle to collect. You used to be able to go to disc rewrite stations in Japan. For a couple of bucks you could rewrite your disc from mario 2 to Zelda. That's bad because I may order a game but the game on the disc may not be the disc I wanted and its now useless to me WHY DOES JAPAN LIKE TENNIS OF THE FAMICON SO MUCH.
And the Sega genesis keeps shit rolling with its two BASTARDS the 32x and the Sega CD. I have a model 1 genesis BUT when these two things were released alot of people had the model 2. So both are designed for it well the 32x is there are 2 models for the Sega CD one for MD 1 and MD 2 the first model sucked ass so I got the MD 2. I also bought this chunk of plastic you slap on the side of the SCD so it looks nicer. But to run the 32x you shove these metal prongs ( which have gotten rare over the years) in to the console so the 32x can shove its fat ads down into the genesis.
The nes was an easy fix, adjust the connectors and clean it up a bit works like a charm. The nes has a shit ton of add ons that I could care less about. I own the ones Nintendo made and I draw the line there.
The virtual boy.... It hold a special place in my heart as I convinced my self it was going to be awesome let me take you back to November 1995...
The virtual boy had been out for almost 3 months and no one was talking about it... Execpt for me. I told my friends " the future is here!" " we are going to experience the future" and me just turned 27 in may I should have known the lack of talk should have meant something. I finally had enough 179'99 was its cost and I was ready. I walked into my local Toys r us to find my virtual boy FOR ONLY 30 BUCKS!!
Happy as can be I strolled into blockbuster about to rent a movie, the cashier noticed something in my arm.
" is that a virtual boy" asked the man. I nodded and he pulled out something that made me internaly squeal.
"We were about to dump this but if you don't tell my manager I can give you this"
Blockbuster used to rent out the virtual boy in this hard plastic case that held it, the controller, the wires and three games ( which included mario tennis, mario clash and Mario land ) I obviously said yes and I took it home and.. It gave me a head ache
Now I own all of the 14 games that were released here in north America.
I plan on continuing this I'm the comments so stay tuned for that
