Video
Game Collection
For the past several years, I've worked toward amassing what I at least think is a pretty substaintal video game collection. As a young kid I really never had any video games short of the $5 handhelds from K-mart - and to be honest, in those early years, I was none the worse either way. But within the last ten years I came to appreciate the console systems of yesteryear and had this quarky aspiration to collect as many as I could. Unfortunately, I let my interest slip several times in the past and have traded in, what is priceless to me now, several systems, games and accessories.
What
I have now is simply a collection of what I was left with after my
massive selloff and my most recent resurance in interest, mainly due to
having quite a few friends that appreciate the classics. Simply put,
there's so much to be said for the fact that you can buy 15 Nintendo
games at a yard sale for $5 and get endless hours of gameplay out of it
by only sacrificing the need for insanely high-tech graphics or you
could go to your local new gamestore and walk out empty handed with
even five times the amount of money. Although it would be unfair for me
to say that I don't treasure the more modern consoles, it is more than
just picking up a few old dusty Master System games - you're picking up
part history. Although at this point, anyone that isn't a gaming
enthusiast is rolling their eyes - consider how prized original 78's
are of The Beatles or Dylan - and then relate it to the fact that even
though you can get Super Mario Bros. on virtually any system ever
released - there's something about playing it in its originally
released format.
Most of my finds have been a conglomeration of really good (and dumb) luck, yard sale finds and pawn shop purchases. I'm not an insane hard-core collector but I do my share of searching locally as much as I can. Being that I do live in Alaska, it does limit whats an expectable find at a garage sale and as great as a resource eBay and other online sources can be, there's something about having a story to go along with your treasured possessions. "I found it on eBay" doesn't stir much for good conversation. From digging working consoles out of dumpsters, finding a working NES with 50 games at a yard sale for $5 to finding the pawn shop dealer that "didn't know what he had" - they've all got great stories behind them. The following is a list of current consoles that I have - including different versions as well as how many of each I have:
| Original NES & NES #2 | Sega Master System | Turbo Grafx |
| Super NES version 1&2 | Sega Genesis version 2&3 | Sony PS1 version 1&2 |
| Nintendo 64 | Sega Saturn | Sony PS2 |
| Nintendo Gamecube | Sega Dreamcast | Sony Playstation 3 |
| Nintendo Wii | Sega Gamegear | Gameboy Micro |
| Original Gameboy | Nintendo Virtual Boy | Nintendo DS Lite |
| Atari Lynx | Sony Playstation Portable | Microsoft Xbox |
| Microsoft Xbox 360 | Sega Nomad | Mattell Intellivision |
| Fairchild Channel-F | Sega CD & 32x addons | Atari 2600 |
| Panasonic 3DO | Goldstar 3DO | Original Gameboy ADV |
And now, for the list of games - which I'm trying to keep as up-to-date as I can. Given that this is the first effort of updating my non-blogged website for over a year, here's to no keeping your fingers crossed:
| Sega
Master System Afterburner Alien Syndrome Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars California Games Choplifter Double Dragon Enduro Racer Fantasy Zone Gangster Town Ghostbusters Ghost House Global Defense Golden Axe Golvellius: Valley of Doom Great Baseball Great Basketball Great Football HangOn /Astro Warrior Hang On / Safari Hunt Kung Fu Kid Lord of the Sword Monopoly (x2) OutRun Parlour Games Pro Wrestling Quartet Rastan R-Type Shooting Gallery Space Harrier Super Wonderboy Thunderblade Walter Payton Football Wonderboy Wonder Boy 3 Zaxxon 3-d Zillion |
Wii
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NES |
Gamecube
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| N64 Banjo-Kazooie Conker's Bad Fur Day Diddy Kong Racing Doom 64 Goldeneye Kirby 64 Legend of Zelda: OoT Legend of Zelda: MM Perfect Dark Rampage 2: Universal Starfox 64 Super Smash Bros. Quest 64 |
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| Gameboy Crystalis Final Fantasy Adventure Final Fantasy Legend 2 Final Fantasy Legend 3 Frogger Kirby's Dreamland Kirby's Dreamland 2 Legend/Zelda: Link's Awken.. Pokemon (Pikachu Ed) Super Mario Land 2 |
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Sega
CD |
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GBA |
DS Bomberman Brain Age 2 Bust-a-Move Children of Mana Dementium: The Ward Drill Spirits Final Fantasy 3 Final Fantasy: WoL GTA: Chinatown Wars Kirby's Canvas Curse Lego Star Wars 2 LRRH: Zombie BBQ Mario Kart DS Nanostray New Super Mario Bros. Puzzle Quest Rune Factory Simcity DS Sonic Rush Super Princess Peach Super Mario 64 - DS Tetris DS |
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| Sega
Saturn Baku Baku Clockwork Knight Cyber Speedway Darius Gaiden Die Hard Arcade Gex Hexen NBA JAM Extreme Night Warriors Panzer Dragoon Quarterback Attack Virtua Fighter 2 Virtual-On |
SNES Bust-A-Move Chronotrigger Clayfighter Donkey Kong Country Earthbound F-zero Final Fantasy 2 Final Fantasy 3 Final Fantasy: MQ Gradius III Illusion of GAIA Kirby Super Star Legend of Zelda : LttP Lemmings Mortal Kombat Pilotwings Populous Primal Rage R-type III Radc'l Ps'co Mchne' Rac. Rocketeer Secret of Mana SimAnt Starfox Street Fighter 2 Turbo Super Empire Strikes... Super Mario Kart Super Mario RPG Super Mario World Super Wrestlemania Wario's Woods Yoshi's Island |
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| PSP 30-Second Hero Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines Daxter Death Jr. FF: Crisis Core GTA: Vice City LittleBIGPlanet |
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| Xbox Dead or Alive 1 Dead or Alive 2 Fable Flatout KOTOR: II Stubbs: The Zombie |
Atari Lynx Checkered Flag Gates of Zendocon Kung Food Ninja Gaiden Rampart |
|
Sega
Genesis |
Intellivision AD&D AD&D: Trea o Tarmin Armor Battle Atlantis Auto Racing B-17 Bomber Baseball Bomb Squad Frogger Happy Trails Horse Racing Las Vegas Poker Lock & Chase NASL Soccer Skiing Space Hawk Space Armada Sub Hunt Venture |
PS2 Burnout 3 Takedown Burnout Dominator Burnout Revenge Destroy All Humans! DDR Max DDR Max 2 Fallout: BoS Final Fantasy X Final FantasyX-2 Final Fantasy XII Fur Fighters Grant Theft Auto 3 GTA: Liberty City Strs. GTA: San Andreas GTA: Vice City Kingdom Hearts Manhunt Malice Prince of Persia Ratchet & Clank Rogue Galaxy Silent Hill 2 Simpsons Road Rage State of Emergency TMNT |
Virtual
Boy |
32x |
Playstation
3 3D Dot Game Heroes Borderlands Darkness Eye of Judgement Final Fantasy XIII inFamous LittleBigPlanet Motorstorm Prototype Sega Gen Collect. Uncharted |
Sega
Game Gear |
Xbox
360 |
Dreamcast |
| Turbo
Grafx |
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| Neo Geo
Pocket Bust-a-Move Pocket Metal Slug 1st Mission |
PS1 |
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| 3DO Alone in the Dark Corpse Killer Daedalus Encount. Guardian War Iron Angle o/t Apo Return Fire Samurai Showdn Super SF2 Turbo Syndicate |