Do you actually play these things?

Combined, it would have only taken me about one month of working or so to be able to afford all of those consoles, and I only make $15 an hour. I started collecting a long time ago, back in 1991, when the Super Nintendo came out. I was only three years old at the time. I picked up most of the consoles at the Flea Market, and eBay, for really cheap. Even the Playstation 2, Xbox, and Gamecube, combined, only cost me around $200. I don't need to spend money on any thing else, at the moment, until I start paying for a mortgage, which will be some time in the future. And besides, most things money is spent on are perishable, or intangible. I have pretty much stopped my collection, so now I will start saving for the more important things.

That is an incorrect assumption.

I collect them more than anything else. Of course I've played all of them, a little bit, just to see how they are. I should at least build up a small game collection for all of them, to give more reason to own them. Anyways, I have nothing compared to other collectors, who own every single NES, SNES, GEN, games, and more. I play the Nintendo consoles the most.

I don't have time to play video games as much as before, since I work full time at this roofing company. I was thinking of switching to plumbing, but that is unconfirmed. No, not because my avatar is of Mario, but it is better than roofing in the long run. Anyways, I used to play my SNES, N64, and PS1 a lot, back in the days.

Thanks for clearing that Rol

The only difference with me, than others, is that I don't sell off my consoles. On average, I purchased about one, or two, consoles every year, from 1991, until now. With a period that long, it's really not that hard to have a collection that big. To try to finish off my collection, I have been buying more consoles, recently, faster than before, and there are still some consoles I don't have. But, like I said, combine the cost of the collection, and it only amounts to about one more, or more, of working, for me, and I don't make that much money.

I cannot take a photo of my owned game machines because most aren't with me anymore. But here is a list of my gaming history, I include computers here because I did most of my gaming on them.

Atari VCS
Atari 400
Atari 800
Amiga 500
Commodore 64 (bargin basement price)
Amiga 2000
Power PC Mac (yes I played games on a Mac)
Pentium PC
G4 Mac
Another Pentium PC
Wii

I gave up buying games in PC format coz I got annoyed at having to upgrade the chips/graphics cards all the time to play the latest game. At least on a console I know all game will work out of the box.

I would hate to think how much I have spent over the years on gaming.

JRI.

Funny seeing a Wii, stuck in such an ancient game collection.

Because my laptop has some palaeolithic screen-3d-driving-boosting-banana-thingamajig that the game didn't entirely agree with. All the option screens were distorted beyond use, and the game would finally hit a fatal crash when I got to the raggedy-ass ragtag town near the sewers. Luckily I got both copies for under 15€. =P

Ben: I also have Wing Commander 2 and 3. Never got the second to run (I already had a too new computer 8 years ago lol), but number 3 was one of my childhood favorites. 4 CDs full of FMV used to be really cool...

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