a.l.e.x59 on 24 December 2007
Do any of the games that you own, serve more of a purpose as a part of a collection, than to play?
I would say that most of the games that I own are more for collection, than to play, but I definitely play all of the games that I own. I collect different franchises, such as Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Sonic, Crash Bandicoot, Final Fantasy, Halo, Metroid, and Star Fox. Of course I have thoroughly played many of my games, but other games, I have barely touched, and own, for the sake of completing different franchise collections. For example, I own a brand new copy of Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Famicom Disk system, which I will not play, until I get a Famicom Disk System, which I will in the future, by ordering it on eBay, so for the time being, it exists to complete my Mario platform collection. But, the game's existence will serve more for playing, than collecting, after I get my Famicom Disk System, so I guess it isn't really a true "exist for collection" game only, or at least, it wont be.
A game, for collection only, would probably either have to be a brand new, sealed game, or a game that is so bad, you will not play it, but only keep, to complete a collection. Well, I don't like to keep bad games, unless they are so bad, that they are actually humorous to play, and I don't own any sealed games. That copy of Super Mario Bros. 2 is not longer sealed, but it's still new. I opened it to test a Famicom Disk Drive, which did not work. Hey, the game only cost $30. But anyways, I guess I haven't really thorougly played quite a few of my Zelda games, like the Gamecube ones that are actually compilations of older Zelda games, and the Gameboy Advance one, that is more of a port of the SNES Zelda game, so they probably exist more for collection. I also own a lot of sports Mario games, and Mario Party games, that exist, only for my attempt to collect all the Mario games.
What else... What else... I own a bunch of other games that I have played a couple of times, but keep, for their either their high collector's value, or to complete a collection, more than to actually play, like Bubble Bobble Part 2, which is worth a lot of money these days. Sure, it was pretty fun to play, but it's not better than the original, and I bought it only to own all the Bubble Bobble games on the NES, which wasn't that hard at all, since only two exist... Rainbow Islands does not count... I might buy Tengen Tetris for the NES, more for its collector's value, than to actually play, so that might be a future game, that I might own for collection, more than to play. In the future, I might start playing these games more, so that their purpose will be more to play, than to collect, but I'm sort of getting tired of playing video games now, for some reason. I don't know, they just don't seem to fun any more, so there is probably a chance that all the games I have will be for collection purposes only... Who knows...
