A small portion of this was held over from when I was younger, but much of it I had to buy for the first time or re-buy after trading it in previously. I now have every (US) Nintendo home console minus Wii U, at least one revision of each Playstation home console, and Genesis/Dreamcast from Sega. I've put together a solid fifteen to twenty of the best and most nostalgic titles (subjective) for each system, less for Wii and NES. Without further adieu, here's some pictures:
My full desk in the dark with RGB enabled.
The retro corner.
The third-party peripherals shelf.
Left side of the games storage tower.
And the right side.
This is Rift, it's kind of hard to tell from the angle but he's kind of a chonker.
And 8-Bit, his sister/litter mate. Again hard to tell, but she's about a third the size of Rift.
I'll have to edit in a picture of my puppy Ivy later.
Pretty much any of the gaming staples not pictured in my various collections, you can assume I own digitally for PC. Been a fun journey collecting it all, and I'm excited to see what the future of gaming holds.
Not a console I owned as a kid, but it was released in the US exactly one year before my birth, and I do have some early memories of playing it at a friend's house as well as a community center.
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(Yeah, I know I need to vacuum my rug.)
The reason I didn't go nuts with the NES collection is because the games have been resold in so many other forms, and even now come with an NSO subscription. Also because game design was rough at the time, and games that weren't outright bad were stupidly hard/unfair. Not to mention I was almost out of shelf space by the time I chose to add the system.
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(Yeah, I know I need to vacuum my rug.)
The reason I didn't go nuts with the NES collection is because the games have been resold in so many other forms, and even now come with an NSO subscription. Also because game design was rough at the time, and games that weren't outright bad were stupidly hard/unfair. Not to mention I was almost out of shelf space by the time I chose to add the system.
My favorite Nintendo system and the first one I owned after it was gifted to me and my brother by our grandparents. If I was gonna collect every game for any system it'd be this one.
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Not pictured: Super Gameboy, Aero the Acrobat, Extra Innings, Clayfighter, and a 100-in-1 cartridge.
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Not pictured: Super Gameboy, Aero the Acrobat, Extra Innings, Clayfighter, and a 100-in-1 cartridge.
Revolutionary and mind-blowing at the time, but obviously not a console that aged incredibly well. Still playable on a CRT though, and includes plenty of classics in its library.
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My second-favorite Nintendo console, and almost as large a graphical leap as the generation previous.
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(Gameboy player on the bottom console.)
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Not pictured: Action Replay disc. I was lucky enough to find the copy of Smash Bros Melee for three bucks from Goodwill.
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(Gameboy player on the bottom console.)
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Not pictured: Action Replay disc. I was lucky enough to find the copy of Smash Bros Melee for three bucks from Goodwill.
A console I couldn't wait to buy at the time. There ended up being far fewer "must-buys" for the system than I expected though, and far more shovelware.
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(Wii and Switch plugged into 1ms monitor.)
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On the left is the Metroid Prime Trilogy steelbook. Not pictured: Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort.
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(Wii and Switch plugged into 1ms monitor.)
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On the left is the Metroid Prime Trilogy steelbook. Not pictured: Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort.
The library is still being built, but if you didn't own a Wii U (like me) there's already plenty of great titles worth picking up.
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I own a bunch more titles digitally, of course.
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I own a bunch more titles digitally, of course.
The first Playstation console was one that I saved up to buy as a teen, some years after I had played everything N64 had to offer. Like N64, most of the 3D titles don't hold up well today, but unlike N64 the console had any number of great 2D and 2.5D titles as well.
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All the way to the right is the Strider collection, and not pictured are Rayman and Mega Man Legends 2. I only recently acquired a copy of Valkyrie Profile for the first time, with a reproduction case.
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All the way to the right is the Strider collection, and not pictured are Rayman and Mega Man Legends 2. I only recently acquired a copy of Valkyrie Profile for the first time, with a reproduction case.
Insanely popular and with good reason, the PS2's library about as deep as it gets.
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(PS2 connected to CRT.)
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(PS2 connected to CRT.)
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Better engineered than the Xbox 360, but with a much higher price tag at the time, PS3 is seemingly the forgotten cousin of the Playstation family. A few classic titles here and there, but very little that wasn't ported to PS4.
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All the way on the right is the Infamous collection.
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All the way on the right is the Infamous collection.
Into the future now we've got plenty of remasters and remakes, but also new releases with very high production values.
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I do own some digital titles for these systems, mostly those given away for PS+.
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I do own some digital titles for these systems, mostly those given away for PS+.
Not a console I owned as a kid, and not one that I'd say quite measures up to SNES in terms of library, but still semi-nostalgic. The game cases at least were definitely made to last.
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Not pictured: Earthworm Jim and the Genesis 6-Pak.
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Not pictured: Earthworm Jim and the Genesis 6-Pak.
The only other Sega console worth picking up as far as I'm concerned, this one was a somewhat rough concept but with plenty of charm. Lots of memories of Power Stone and Crazy Taxi come to mind.
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The clear case is Marvel vs Capcom. Not pictured are various sports/fishing games.
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The clear case is Marvel vs Capcom. Not pictured are various sports/fishing games.
GBA, N2DS XL, and PS Vita. Let's just say they all have access to the best games on one cartridge.
My full desk in the dark with RGB enabled.
The retro corner.
The third-party peripherals shelf.
Left side of the games storage tower.
And the right side.
This is Rift, it's kind of hard to tell from the angle but he's kind of a chonker.
And 8-Bit, his sister/litter mate. Again hard to tell, but she's about a third the size of Rift.
I'll have to edit in a picture of my puppy Ivy later.
Pretty much any of the gaming staples not pictured in my various collections, you can assume I own digitally for PC. Been a fun journey collecting it all, and I'm excited to see what the future of gaming holds.
