Does Anyone Collect Video Games?

[pgen98]

These days gaming is quite commonplace, everyone does it whether casually or far more invested, but do we have any collectors here?

For me, personally, I've been collecting for years, I have 35-40 consoles at this point and well over 2,500 games stemming from the Atari 2600 to the Xbox Series X, including handhelds such as the classic GameBoy, Game Gear, PSP, and so on.  Does anyone else collect video games?

[Absinthe]

I would say I'm more of a casual collector. I play regularly and have approximately 700+ games over multiple generations. I do have all of the major consoles of the last few generations the more recent handhelds. I used to have more, but during a move when I was a teenager, the moving company "lost" two of my boxes - those containing most of my retro consoles and games, all in mint condition. I would love to collect more fervently, but I just don't have the finances or the space at the moment. That's awesome that you have such a varied collection. What's your favorite piece in your collection?

[pgen98]

That's a fairly substantial collection, most definitely! That is very unfortunate that they "lost" your retro consoles, though, I would have absolutely been apoplectic about that one! Likewise, I would love to get back to collecting more fervently, but it's getting prohibitively expensive in the current climate.

Hmm, my favourite piece of my collection...that's a tough one! I would have to say it's the entirety of my Sega Saturn collection. I was a huge fan of the Saturn when it came out, and while it flopped so spectacularly, I love so many of the games that came out for it, and while it's far too expensive to really finish off my collection at this point in time, the games I do have I love and return to quite frequently. Such an underrated console!

[demonskeith]

I keep any game I enjoy, I also have a large collection from my younger days that I guess I keep collecting.

[ash]

Not a collector. I tend to just buy games that I enjoy, which tends to mostly be mainstream games so I don't really have a gaming collection. I also tend to get rid of my old consoles and games.

[pgen98]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, it's what most tend to do, and it makes sense. Unless you're going to go back to them at some point, there's no point in keeping them. I tend to go back to older games a lot, so for me collecting makes sense.