What makes your collection special?

Lindsay Lohan

So - we've all seen the EPeen threads here containing pages and pages of awesome stuff that make us ashamed of our tiny 32" LCD screen with no exteral speakers. What I'd like to see instead is what are the few items in your collection that really make it special? What do you have that instantly starts conversations when folks visit?

For me, it's my recent acquisitions for my Atari 2600. I have a small (to me, large to the wife) collection of about 100 games for my Atari, but recently thanks to a great trade I managed to start getting into homebrew titles - recent releases made by hobbyists which rival the quality of any commerical titles. I show them off to everybody and they are always amazed that people are still releasing Atari games.

Here's what I have so far:

Group shot with my system:


And a few highlights...
Gingerbread Man and Wolfenstein VCS (I LOVE the artwork on these!)



My two (limited edition/numbered) Christmas Carts



And finally Melbourne Tatty - not my favorite game (that honor goes to Toyshop Trouble), but the materials included with punchout figures are just nifty



So what are the gems of your collections?

Raslin

I still have a Sega CD, Saturn, and Gamegear.

Also, a ~50 stack of NES games with some fairly rare titles.

harvest

I have Earthbound

Davoid

I think the only strange thing I have is one of the debug Mario All Star carts

Lemming

While not mine, my brother managed to get both gold editions of the N64 Zeldas.

Davoid

I have both gold 64 Zeldas, LttP, Zelda 1 and 2 gold, an intellivision with the full library, and a neo geo with a ton of japanese games that I cannot understand and don't care to

Dodge Aspen

Nothing too special, and I'm sure not what the OP had in mind, but Racing Gears Advance is pretty bitchin, and I don't think too many people have that. It's a shame, really.

Karenna

I have an unopened, still in original packaging Ultima 2.

But honestly, the true gem of my collection is the beat-to-shit, dog-chewed, moth-eaten, baby-drooled-upon copy of The Bard's Tale for Apple IIc. Sucker still works, and I pull it out to play every so often to relive the glory days...

cj iwakura

I wouldn't call these especially rare, but I'm still proud of owning them:



These, I consider gold:

The very last Saturn game ever released in the US, Magic Knight Rayearth, and a very rare Sonic Team platformer on the left, Burning Rangers.

DisruptorX2

My collection is very large, but not especially rare. Many of the rarer games I own are either greatest hits versions or part of compilations.

I'm proud of these, though:

Original boxes from when they were first released.

davincie

I used to have an developer edition (I think) of Goldeneye for the N64 with levels and multiplayer characters I have never seen anywhere else, not even as characters you could unlock with the gamegear. However I got jealous of those perfect stats in all the singleplayer missions and all the unlockables that profile had so I deleted it and made my one, still the dumbest thing I ever did in my opinion. Otherwise I only have a couple of special editions of games and stuff you get with them.

YodaTuna

I have the official Bioshock faceplate for my 360. Pretty cool.

Willeth

I have a complete Vib Ribbon for PS1, which is hard to find as a complete package IIRC, and a copy of Mario Sunshine signed by Shigeru Miyamoto. Slightly damaged

Chance

Nothing, really. If my epeen is to be judged by my video game collection alone then it is tiny and flaccid - the victim of cold water shrinkage and cruel insubstantial genes.

I've got like 30 PS2 titles and 6 for PS3, but I guess what makes it special is they're all games that I really love, and wouldn't want to have missing from my collection.

I wish I'd kept all my old SNES stuff ... >.<

Ziggymon

Viewpoint and Garou, Mark of the Wolves for the AES,

Starwing Competition cart SNES

Snatcher Mega CD

Metal Gear Solid Gamecube console

Border Down Limited Edition

Radient Silvergun

Ltd Zelda Silver Ds console

Rez PAL Dreamcast

Just off the top of my head.

LewieP

I have a review copy of SOTC....



...Somewhere....

Captain K

where is Jazz


the dude fucking owns a S.T.U.N. Runner coin-op

Willeth

LewieP wrote: »

I have a review copy of SOTC....



...Somewhere....

Dude, you won an award for BioShock. Don't be so coy.

LewieP

Aha, yeah, that too.

Edit:

This is me receiving the "Holy Shit will you just look at that Eyes of Jesus Award" on behalf of the rest of my team at 2k Games at the Way of the Rodent Awards.

yalborap

Hmm...I suppose what really separates my collection from most is my GP2X.

Also my 30-something 2600 collection. Which is abnormal, given I'm perhaps half the age of the 2600. Wait, just did the math, I was half its age last year. Now I'm one year off. Point is, it's way before my time.

I've also got a Game Gear and NGPC lying around, and wish I still had my Gameboy Pocket.

Peewi

I've got the collector's edition of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade and the limited edition of Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker (includes Ocarina of Time and Master Quest). Technically WW belongs to my cousin, but he hasn't said anything about wanting it back.

Mattitude

My Saturn Games Are special to me, because it was my first console.
and I have a few games for it.

Apologies for poor quality photos, they're all I have.

Vulpine

My collection's relatively small, but I like it. Current highlights include my PAL copy of Rez for the Dreamcast, the Sonic Adventure 2 birthday pack, and a PAL Turbografx complete in box.

Djiem

I have a pretty basic collection, but here are some of my highlights:





Oh and I've got a Famulator, a GCN freeloader and a "modded" (if you call modding the act of ripping out two plastic bits) SNES so I can play them all.



The only thing really special with that 4th one, FFTA2, is that I got it on launch day in Japan by pure coincidence, so that's cool to me.

GiantRobo

I used to have the tin for RTCW, till my mom threw it away.

RainbowDespair

I used to have a pretty decent Saturn & PS2 import collection until I decided that I wasn't using it anymore and sold it. Some of the highlights were Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers, Chinese language editions (my second language) of both Siren 2 and Sakura Taisen remake, and Summon Night 3 (quite possibly the best Strategy/RPG ever IMO).

Senshi

Unfortunately, my collection is miniscule. I have the CDs for Total Annihilation Gold, but the original packaging is long gone. My DS collection is fairly standard, and my PSP collection is... Well, it's Disgaea and Vice City Stories. whoop-di-fucking-do.

UnbreakableVow

I have Klonoa and Tactics Ogre for PS1. I don't even like strategy games, but I knew TO was rare, so I traded a Final Fantasy III (VI) SNES cart to someone for it. Eventually got another copy of FFIII (IV).

Lindsay Lohan

Djiem wrote: »

I have a pretty basic collection, but here are some of my highlights:

What is this game? I just can't place it...

UnbreakableVow

Herby wrote: »

Djiem wrote: »

I have a pretty basic collection, but here are some of my highlights:

What is this game? I just can't place it...

I think it's called Kurururururururin.

Djiem

Kururin Squash. It's a game where you control some rotating ship around, and you must not hit the walls or obstacles. You can control the spin and direction of the rotation, and it has awesome multiplayer.

LewieP

I always wanted to play one of those games.

Waka Laka

One of my all time favourites went missing the last time I moved house. A signed copy of Metal Gear Solid with Hideo Kojima's signature.

All is not lost though, I still have the entire Rare team's sigs



Yeah yeah I know I've shown it more than once.

I also managed to grab Guardian Heroes, Burning Rangers and Panzer Dragoon Saga.

Lindsay Lohan

That's really awesome - so many signatures! I actually hadn't seen it before.

I should add I'm VERY VERY jealous of the folks with Saturn collections - I only got to play the console once or twice in my life and loved it. I always wanted to try Burning Rangers. I would be fearful of my life if I tried to bring another console into the house though - and I'm really trying to focus on finishing my Atari collection off (to the point that I have all the good, non-incredibly-rare titles) and then starting more on the homebrew side of things.

Mx. Quill

I've got the Pokemon Pearl and Phantom Hourglass styli, the Crisis Core UMD case, and three of nine Tales of Symphonia cards given away in a Nintendo contest I didn't enter. Only 100 people won, but figures I ended up with one of Colette instead of Kratos or Zelos. The other two are of Raine and Regal.

That's it, really.

Oh, also a Zelda heart meter shirt, a FFCC shirt (ironic, since I disliked FFCC), and I used to have an Ocarina of Time shirt 7 years or so ago but lost track of it. Pity, it had a badass picture of adult Link aiming his bow at onlookers.

gneGne

I had a Diablo 2 t-shirt but I solded it

SimBen

This baby.







I should probably also mention that I somehow ended up with two copies of SMB1 alone, two copies of SMB1/Duck Hunt, one copy of Duck Hunt alone, and two copies of Rad Racer without actually buying any of those.

LewieP

Seiken Densetsu 3?

contraband

i have c.e. wow and bc, not that i play them anymore :< panda status up in this bitch, you can grind for years but you'll never have that~

the coolest thing i have is my saturn, and a copy of guardian heroes.

SimBen

LewieP wrote: »

Seiken Densetsu 3?

Indeed.

Djiem

contraband wrote: »

the coolest thing i have is my saturn, and a copy of guardian heroes.

Nice. I only managed to get GH in japanese on eBay, english version was way too expensive.