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14 January 2010, 16:07
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Noobish Newbie
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Bringing memories back to life
Hi everybody, as I'm the perfect exemple of a noobish newbie and don't know where to search if a topic already exists, I risk to post this topic here. Sorry, haven't much experience in forums and hope the staff won't punish me too hard
 I don't know if some of you had the same feeling that in the earlier times when we were young and often with minimal ressources, we couldn't afford any original games and lived happily with our copies. But, then came the time when we began to earn money and suddenly wanted to be able to possess what we couldn't back then. So, are there other geeks like me out there who collect old games? I mainly collect Amiga and CD32 games since 2 years now and have more than 300 games now. This has become a real obsession and I try to collect everything I loved to play at that time and try to collect every CD32 game that exists. Silly? Capitalistic? Senseless? YEAH  but I can't stop!  Anybody feel the same? Last edited by Peilton; 14 January 2010 at 16:17. |
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14 January 2010, 16:20
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uber cool demi god
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If I had the room I would certainly start buying boxed games as I just prefer to have the real thing including manuals, code wheels etc.
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14 January 2010, 16:29
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Noobish Newbie
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 That's exactly what I thought too. Luckily I had the place to dedicate two shelves to Amiga  Some games (like Terrorpods by Psygnosis) remained a great mystery for me until I bought the game with notice and manual to be able to understand them  Also, the box arts on the games always boost my nostalgic feelings; they're so beautiful antique 
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14 January 2010, 16:57
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Turpentine
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Kent, United Kingdom
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I'm very much the same.
I owned very few originals when I originally had an Amiga but now find myself wanting original boxed games. Sadly it seems that many of the well known games are now becoming a little overpriced. I also now tend to play from a backup disk rather than wear out my expensive originals. |
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14 January 2010, 16:59
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Registered User
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Location: Sunny Wales
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Feel free to burn me as a heretic, however I'm really tempted to try and collect all UK release SNES carts and have them on a shelf.
I don't know why but the urge has been getting stronger recently!. |
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14 January 2010, 17:07
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Noobish Newbie
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Leaving the precious disks in their boxes and using a backup disk or WHDLoad to play'em. It seems that a few years ago the prices were pretty high on eBay for Amiga and then everybody began to search their ceilings for games and now they're much cheaper which is a good thing. But I agree that the rare ones are overpriced and it's always surprising to see how much they sell games like Moonstone, Wings of Fury, Bratacas, etc. If I'm not mistaken, the most recent Moonstone in sealed condition was sold over fleabay for more than 300 Australian Dollar! Quote: Originally Posted by Locash Feel free to burn me as a heretic, however I'm really tempted to try and collect all UK release SNES carts and have them on a shelf. I don't know why but the urge has been getting stronger recently!. Hey welcome to the team dude Once you begin, it never stops... Last edited by Peilton; 15 January 2010 at 16:45. |
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15 January 2010, 16:48
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Noobish Newbie
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Location: Luxembourg
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AWESOME!? Are the only geeks on this forum from UK and Luxembourg
 Thought there were more silly collectors like me here 
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19 January 2010, 03:44
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Chiba Japan
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I'd like to start collecting too but there's nowhere to buy Amiga stuff here in Japan, lots of Nintendo though!
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19 January 2010, 07:27
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Hey Stab Master, you in Chiba as well? I know what you mean though, there is hardly any Amiga stuff anywhere except on Yahoo Auction.
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24 January 2010, 11:52
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Registered User
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Location: Chiba Japan
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@ami junkie - yeah, I'm in Chiba, good (and surprising!) to hear from another Amiga fan in Chiba. I haven't really been looking for any Amiga stuff because I've looking into building a mame cabinet but haven't got anywhere yet.
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24 January 2010, 18:38
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The 1 who ribbits
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EAB bringing ppl together, gives me a nice warm fuzzy feeling
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