I think the only Limited Edition that I have that is truly limited edition, is the Metal Gear Solid 3 one, though the MSX games did eventually come out again on the PS3 in another Metal Gear collection, though I'm not sure if they are on a physical like the ones on Subsistence on PS2 were. That and the fact that not everyone who ordered the LE ever got one from my understanding.


For me, the collecting bug hit me after 30, while I was in my 20's I wasn't playing that much retro stuff outside of emulation (and that was in my late 20's) and all I cared about is the latest greatest thing that was coming out at the time.Once games started losing that arcade feel,I started going backwards with my gaming desires.

I have Portal on Steam, like the rest of my Steam stuff, it is all stuff either gifted to me, or stuff that was free. After about 20 minutes with Portal, I found it bored me. Yes I love puzzle games, but Portal just didn't cut it for me, within that 20 minutes I was ready to go to sleep out of sheer boredom. I dunno, maybe I like my puzzle games with a bit more color, and pixels perhaps.

Portal, I suppose, qualifies as retro these days, since it came out in about 15 years ago.. It's also one of my top 20 games of all time. The sequel too. I enjoyed the co-op and wish the servers still worked for the PS3 version (I'd like to platinum it).

Never owned many classic puzzle games growing up. I have been playing the Konami Pixel Puzzle Collection on my phone every now and then. That introduced me to picross.

I can't say when I "officially" started collecting. I guess buying an extra NES and my first SNES (didn't have one as a kid) back when you could still get them for reasonable prices marked my collector "career". It was during my first serious paychecks. The SNES I bought, I think, was in 2004. Before that my game purchases were really, really normie. I mean, I bought PAL Lament Of Innocence (the aptly named "Castlevania) for the standard price of 60 €. It was also during then I managed to get a brand new copy of PAL Circle Of The Moon (also officially named "Castlevania").

After that there was my most "serious" phase of retro collecting that lasted about 8 years. Got myself a N64, a brand new GameCube (sold now, unfortunately), Mega Drive, Master System and a whole bunch of Playstations (I have probably four of them). I started with Nintendo and expanded on to others, including home computers. I own a couple of MSXs, at least one Commodore 128 in original box and at least one Amiga 500. There's some exotic ones in there as well. Like some Casio mini computer, if I remember correctly. I've been meaning to do an inventory of my whole collection, but first I'd need to get them all in the same space. Perhaps sell some of it too (you only need so many of the same hardware before it's just silly hoarding).

My serious retro phase kind of stagnated after the work ended and studies were more important. There was little extra to be spent. At this point I bought less retro and more collector's editions of modern games. I never had the illusion most of them were going to be actual collector's items (Dead Space Ultra Limited Edition is probably one of the few LEs that actually live to their name). Instead, I liked their aesthetics, the extra stuff like figurines and such. Repro re-releases also caught my attention more than the originals. I got a little frivolous with it too; I think I paid about 145 € for the Mortal Kombat X Kollector's Edition for PC. I do like the Scorpion figurine that came with it. That's on the top of my shelf still.

My latest retro purchase was probably at least three years ago. I think it was a CIB Off-Road for NES. Since I live in a tiny rented apartment, there's hardly room to keep anything unnecessary. If I ever make it to owning my own house, all of it is going to be properly and lovingly arranged and looked through for clean-up and maintenance.

I never collected for profit foremost. It's a pretty fickle market to begin with. Besides, if one has the savvy and skill of selling things for more than you pay for them, there's probably many better markets for such things. I prefer the idea of preserving something. Being like a custodian or archivist. This idea of preserving isn't just towards games, per se. I have lots of "weird" interests, like digitizing old VHS and Betamax tapes for old commercials, television channel visual styles, layouts and such 

I prefer CIB, because the package and the manuals are part of the experience. This is also why I haven't really been able to buy that many NES games.

Anyone besides me into puzzle games here, what are your favorites. Mine are:

The Puyo Puyo series up till the 4th game, couldn't get into any after that one. The early ones have such a weird insane cast, plus I suck at them, but still love the original 4 in the series.

The Magical Drops, puzzle games that require speed, and less on thinking ahead. Data East was known for quirky games, this is one of their best IMO. The cast are all based off of tarot cards, and the animation while in battle are amazing, though not on the scale of the animation in Puchi Carat during matches.

The Taisen Puzzle Dama/Tokkae Dama series from Konami. Pretty much Puyo Puyo, but instead of 4 or more to match, and try to make chains in, it only requires you to match 3 of the same colored balls to clear them. Short games with not many opponents in them, but they are all pretty damned hard to beat too. Cannot 1 credit anyone of them excpt the one on Saturn based off of the Chibi Maruko-chan anime.

Money Puzzle Idol Exchange, this game confuses me, and is extremely hard to learn for me, yet I still find it incredibly fun to play. There's a Saturn games that is pretty much the same game, but with animals, and instead of stacking coins at the top to make chains, you do it on the bottom of the play area instead. The game is called Moujiya, it is a blatant copy of MPIE, but animal characters replace the human characters of Idol.


Panel de Pon SFC, Yes, I prefer the original SFC version over the Yoshi's Island version, I hate when puzzle games get altered like that. I was fine when I didn't know the truth of the series, but once I found out, it took me long enough, but I retired my Tetris Attack copy (it's not even Tetris) and bought Panel de Pon instead. PdP even has 1 more fight than the US version does, and the original fairy cast is charming.

Puzzle Bobble series, mainly the first 4, a few after, like the DS ones, and one on the PSP, Bust A Move Deluxe. Didn't care much for the 2 PS2 games, hated the artstyle used for them, plus Bub was left out of the first game of the PS2 series, which is blasphemy. And the one on Wii, Bust A Move Plus, is as dull as an overused knife, the game feels absolutely soulless as there's no CPU characters to battle against, unlike the other versions out there.

Arkanoid, though technically I wouldn't call these puzzle games (they are all Breakout clones), I love me some Arkanoid. I also love the Arkanoid mixed with Puzzle Bobble game known as Puchi Carat, an absolutely graphically stunning, and beautiful game. The Taito Zuntata soundtrack for it is a joy to the ears too.

All this typing for a rant about game prices, and I originally put the thing in the wrong section. Clearly thought I was reading English in one of the sections for the native non-English speakers, but instead posted the damned thing anyway without realizing it. Because clearly I thought I clicked Ghost Ship of Fools, then realized after, holy crap, I can't read anything in it anymore. Turns out, I could, just clicked the wrong subsection.

Yeah, I can't remember the last time I played a Castlevania game, I have so many games now (1,271) in the collection, that I have games that seem to hold my attention more these days. Stuff like the Puyo's, the Magical Drops, the SNK fighters (Mortal Kombat who? Nah don't know em anymore).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/merftyc86w4pt0x/My%20Game%20Collection.txt?dl=0

Basically this is my game collection, very few boxed games as I don't really have the space for them. Some are Wii VC and PSN for old stuff for the PS1, like the SF Alpha PS1 games that were released for the PSN, and the Darkstalker games (which I still bought physical import versions of. My pristine copy of Vampire, aka Darkstalkers 1 is such a nice copy, yet the games music doesn't work on it, so that pristine thought was shot to hell). My collecting has slowed down a ton, mainly because I can't get a ride to either Play N Trade or pawn shop I used to hit up often, plus these places don't exactly carry imports, so I Ebay everything retro gaming these days. From almost weekly visits to these places when my ex-girlfriend and I would hang out, and she knew I loved game hunting, to now maybe 2-3 times a year, and buying in bulk, and $100-$200 a pop hardly gets you anything locally, or on Ebay these days as prices have gone batshit crazy on retrogames due to it still being the cool thing to do. That and it seems people took to heart years ago when people would tell them they'd never be able to make a living off of buying cheap/flipping for an insane price games, and that hurts those of us who collect not for profit, but to build a library to keep, enjoy, and let collect dust.

Not sure how long I've full time collected,probably close to 12-13 years now, had a little over 200 games already to start with, as I never sold any game I ever owned through either my money buying them, or the ones my parents got for me, or friends gave me. My room is small, so space isn't big enough for nice bookshelves and stuff like some of those collectors have in their Youtube videos. I have 4 wall mounted shelves, a CD rack on my wall, my PC desk got invaded by retro games, and I have an old dresser that literally has layers, upon layers of games, mostly on the backside, don't need anything slipping off the front side and breaking, ooh like a CD game for PS1 that I spent over a decade trying to find it's Japanese version from a US seller on Ebay (Puchi Carat PS1, JP version, yes took 12 years of searching to finally get one at the right time, those rarely show up on Ebay, while PAL versions are plentiful, but didn't want the PAL version. In 12 years I've seen less than 15 Japanese copies sell on Ebay, and only 3 of them have ever been from US sellers, but always at the worst time, and the first 2 times pricey. Well the 3rd time was the charm, just a hair over $20. I even saw a nice PS1 copy of Money Idol Puzzle Exchange for $26, it showed up at a bad time, copies normally go for over $100.Ah well, I have it on PS3 via PSN, and it is the PS1 version).

When I started collecting, there were a lot of collectors, but man oh man, so many more people have jumped into the ring, and I feel many of them are only in it for profit. Sure some of the long time collectors might do it for profit, but a lot of them did it for love, now the newer collectors, not so much.

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Quote from: Q on January 25, 2021, 22:10
Taitaa olla kuitenkin remake vaan lainausmerkeissä? Ensimmäinen kenttä vaikuttaa kyllä erehdyttävästi Castlevania ykkösen linnalta.

Pitää varoa sen verran samankaltaisuutta, ettei käytä Konamin omaisuutta 

Kirjastosta lainasin alkuperäisen BS:n ja pelasin sitä sen verran, että muistan jatkaa. Sen verran mitä pelasin, tuli erityisesti OoE mieleen.