/vr/ - Retro Games

I try displaying my "collection" but I always get anxiety about it get lifted or weathered and throw everything behind shelves. Don't know how this is a comfy gaming set up when it's mostly valuables you occasionally use.

>>7989046
why is everything you own in one corner of the room?

You really shouldn't be pointing blue LEDs at collectables. That includes any RGB lighting that has blue in the mix.

>>7989180
>he doesn't even have a whole room

>>7989203
I'll bite. What does blue do?

>>7989206
Higher energy wavelengths that can fade/bleach colors

>>7989180
2 walls have windows, another wall has 2 doors

>>7989046
Sadly I don't have much of a classic game collection. I lost a lot of things growing up (due to an older brother) and finding out about what I had at the time (threads of fate, tomba, tron bonne, tail concerto, etc.) has put me off from buying old games. It's mostly thanks to ODEs and flash carts that I'm running with original hardware.

I mostly have hardware and a few odd collectibles like imported advertisement posters for games like Cotton 2 and SkyGunner.

>>7989046
What's your youtube channel?

>>7989240
I would love to see that Cotton poster.

Collecting is mental illness

>>7989269
I've posted it before, I'll post it when I get home. Also I had a mild lapse in retardation because it's the boomerang poster, not cotton 2.

>>7989259
They don't have one. They're only imitating their friend simulators

>>7989274
>it's the boomerang poster
Still interested!

Behold, my entire coomlection.

>>7989393
Seek help

I'm too lazy to take a pic since I have shit spread out all over the house. I do have one from 2014, but it's grown a ton since then.

>>7989424
is this mental illness

>>7989431
Thanks for your input.

>Board about playing old video games, of which collecting and enjoying old video games is one way to do so.
>Shitposters trying to turn every board into a contrarian hellhole or /qa/ like ruin every discussion and make it so people who would want to talk about thins, or have done so here for years go elsewhere, leaving them with a shittier version of /b/ and the same tired forced arguments over and over again.

It's happening on every board now. Do people just want this place to die off now? Is your ideal vision of 4chan just a porn free /b/?

>>7989431
no, this is >>7989458

>>7989046
Link for those LED strips?

>>7989474
Theyre the Philips hue strips. I picked them up at Home Depot.

>>7989424
>that project diva controller
I need to get one. I love funky rhythm game controllers so much

>>7989518
I have the super huge one as well.

>>7989431
no, this is >>7989393

>>7989474
>>7989515
What is with you GAYmers and putting these lights in your rooms?

>>7989393
You know right now emulators are better for playing games?
>this will be more accurate in the future
BUY IT IN THE FUTURE

>>7989046
Good Lord. What a shitty pathetic little existence.

>>7990294
Bitches love mood lighting. That's literally it. If a girl doesn't ask you to set the color back to white, she wants to fuck. It's part of the hookup meta.

>>7990308

I used to be a collect cuck.
Long before AVGN ruined the prices of thrift store finds.

Then I realized I had a mental illness and just have it all on my harddrive.
Feels good not to be held down by personal belongings

>>7990359
Yea, having a nice house sure makes me mad. Sure wish I could live in a shack with a bunch of garbage and neon lights. YOU WIN

>>7990380
>hard drive full of roms
Based. Somebody who plays games. Instead of sniping online auctions or filling out bug reports for the MiSTer devs.

>>7989393
Touch grass

>>7990401
>Instead of sniping online auctions
Yeah I'm glad I don't have to resort to this desu
>I'll have this game... if I can just beat out all these other people and pay 500 dollars more than its worth

>>7989046
That's an awful lot of söy in one pic

>>7990518
Wait till you see his twitter account

>>7990543
I'm waiting

>>7990396
The shack with garbage is probably more comfy than any room in your home desu senpai

>>7990626
Lol k

>>7990648
:)

>>7990543
Heh

>>7990516
Is this in a literal janitor closet

Just my Nintendo shit from growing up

>>7991528
is this the basedest post on /vr/

>>7991528
is this the most soi post on /vr/

>>7991536
It's just the cupboard in my old room at my parent's house. I dunno what to tell you man.

>>7989180
his mom doesn't like to bump her head everytime she comes through the door to tell him dinner is ready, so she told him to stack it all up in the corner

>>7991536
He's saving his old games and keeping them in good condition in a cupboard. Not coomlecting games long after you could play the rom for free and putting it display with some action figures and fugly lighting thrown in.

>>7991589
True, but I mean more the Nintendo fetishism

>>7991620
For a second, I thought this was my setup from 10 years ago

why did /vr/ start hating collections?

>>7991959
Around 2016

>>7991959
when they stopped being able to afford them

>>7991959
No, but it's clear when someone is a passionate and oldschool collecter vs. a youtube collecting gaymer.

>>7989046
wassup Jonny Randall

There are those who collect games.

There are those who download entire No-Intro and MAME rom sets.

There are those who download only the roms that they will play or plan to play.

Then there is me, who from 2000-2018 played every single rom in existence and made a text file list of all the games that I actually determined are good in quality and fun to play.

>>7991991
Waddup

>>7992007
Autist here doing the same thing, interested in seeing your file for curiosity purposes.

>>7991990
>youtube collecting gaymer
This isn't even a thing. You made it up.

>>7992127
Hundreds of youtube gaymer reviewers and yet i'm making it up.

I've reduced my collection considerably. All my physical games probably only fill a single row on an average book shelf. Everything else is digital, and my entire GameCube collection is in a spiderman GameCube disc holder.

Some "highlights" of my collection are:

1) A working virtual boy
2) "Now you're playing with power!" Poster that came with the NES
3) an original earthbound cart
4) a donkey Kong poster from the Nintendo club, which is now defunct


When it came to gaming my parents exclusively bought Nintendo products for some reason.

>>7989046
Do you really like P5? That game was such a disapointment to me.

>>7989046
poor taste in merchandise and no sense of a good display

>>7991528
>growing up
>GC, NDS, Wii
zoom zoom you must be 18 to post

>>7991620
>no 360 or Xbone
Makes me wonder about Xbox's retention rate.

The problem with collecting like this is that you're never satisfied with what you have. I gave up years ago.

>>7993406
>The problem with collecting like this is that you're never satisfied with what you have.

100% factual.

>>7993406
I've been satisfied with what I have for 3 to 4 years now, so you're wrong.

>>7993376
People who grew up with those consoles are turning 30

I keep it all in drawers at the moment. Pretty soon I'm going to move it all to the closet since it'll be tidier in there.

I've got a display shelf too, gimme a minute and I'll post it but it's messy right now. I need to reorganize.

>>7993514
Here's the top. I'm thinking that I might leave the bottom half like this with everything turned on its side, and the top half can have everything facing front. Occasionally rotate stuff in and out between bottom (storage) and top (display). Either that or all games on the bottom and maybe put figures/amiibo and handhelds on the top half. I'm really not sure yet.

You can see the N64 games in the first drawer, the rest is in the computer.

>>7993514
>>7993518
And here's the bottom half.

I've also got switch, DS etc but those are on a shelf in a different room.

>>7993492
more like 25

>>7993514
>>7993518
>>7993520
>no burger NES or SNES shit
now that's a collection pleasing to the eyes, those ugly carts are an eyesore

>>7993519
Soul. Fuck these niggers and their shelves.

>>7993530
Thanks. I live in Japan so most of my games are Japanese. I have a few N64 games and a few Gane Boy games from when I lived in America.

>>7989393
>letting other choose what you can play
lol

>>7993519
Seems inconvenient to have to open the computer case to get your other games out of there, but I bet it helps keep the dust off.

>>7993535
Are you that anon who went to a college with people who had some sort of dorm that was bursting at the seams with retro vidya? This was way before /vr/ was made. If I remember correctly, it was reposted in reddit, where someone reported the place to authorities and everyone got kicked out.

>>7993676
Why do those cunts have to always ruin someone's fun for NPC points? Do they also want to report Vodafone for having me have a maximum of 720Kbps download for the past 3 days too? Oh wait, it's a corp, so they won't do shit!

>>7993676
No, and I'm not familiar with that. Why were they kicked out and what did they do that was illegal?

I dropped out of college in the US and came here for school. Met a cute girl, got married, and casually started collecting games again since they're not stupidly expensive here. These days my hobbies include hating all the white guys who sell games on eBay to make up for their poverty wage english teacher jobs.

>>7993837
Kyoto University probably caught wind of the sanitary conditions, and kicked them out. I can't recall exactly. It's been a while. Pic related

>>7993868
lol. Kyoto University is something else. Recently there was a police standoff at those dormitories because members of a terrorist cult have been frequently visiting that dormitory.

>>7993868
>>7993875
Looks peak comfy.

>>7993890

I normally hate that term, but yeah, it does look like a cozy place to play vidya.

>>7993890
This

>>7993868
>>7993875
based

>>7993890
Agreed, leave it to fucking r*ddit to spoil everybody's fun.

>>7994448
Max comf has nothing to do with cancer though

>>7989046

>>7991574
>NOOO!!!1! YOU CAN’T JUST MAKE FUN OF MY HECKIN MULTIGENERATIONAL LIVING SITUATION!!! YOU’RE JUST PLAYING INTO THE GLOBALIST BANKERS CONTROL SCHEME!!!!

>>7992007
poast it poosey

>>7992127
we all know what he’s talking about. He’s talking about the faggots that have a void in their soul and build their identity around a hobby they don’t actually really care for (in this case retro gaming) and amass as many material possessions as it will take to build a semblance of having an actual identity. Its really quite sad come to think of it

>>7993519
holy fuck, whos closet do you live in dude?

>>7994786
sometimes i think i'm doing this and it scares me, but then i remember that it's stupid to worry like that, especially just based off of what people on the internet think

>>7993837
What do you do for a living? Seems like you dodged the English teacher meme bullet.

I suppose its funny that casual is such an insult usually, when it seems like the "right collector" is the one who is just casual about it. Just a few games here and there, not a big deal, doesn't have a full shelf. Half the people really invested in the hobby actually believe it's casual in their mind even though they actually have entire shelves of stuff within dedicated furniture. No hate though, I do it too, I just store stuff in boxes instead.

>>7995483
He 100% is lying to you. There are more than a few giveaways.

>>7993676
Literally never happened. What a fucking retarded child-like mind you have.
REPORTED TO AUTHORITIES
lol wtf? Do you really think like this? Is this your mind on 'le reddit bad'???

>>7993530
>Likes jap looking items
>Clearly has never owned a single one
If you ever touched them you would hate them. This is why idiots like >>7993514 that import stuff daily are retarded.

>>7993526
28, minimum.

I mostly try to limit my collection to games that I'm interested in playing and don't cost absurd prices. Since the Saturn was my first experience with 3D gaming, I've got a real soft spot for it along with PS1. I also got a few loose GBA games, Mario Picross 1+2 for the GB and like 4 DS games.

>>7990516
Soul

>>7995717
I figured this as well, but I'm curious what you think the giveaways are.

>>7995721
dirtbag I don't even live in the west, literally nobody in my country has touched a NES or SNES

>>7995720
Take your meds

>>7995720
>re-posted on cancer
original sauce?

>>7996839
The original was a thread on /v/ back in 2013

>>7997029
Exactly my point.
>/v/eddit
Seems applicable due to anons there having ties. I guess cancer that is triggered by anonymity lurks hard anyway.

>>7989046
>lost genesis, ps1 and ps2 collection during a move
>little bro lost my nes collection when he was in college
>ex gf stole 3/4 of snes collection
I give up. Nearly all of my childhood games and games I collected later are gone. I just use flashcarts and emulators.

>>7989274
Still waiting, my guy

>>7989046
this is one of the few times ive seen one of those neon lights look good

>>7999084
I assume this was 2001-2003

>>7989223
>position the Higher Energy Video Game System prominently on my shelf
>all other consoles fade out of existence in his presence
we won turbros

>>7989393
>getting trolled and memed into buying a FPGA emulator by the same half dozen discord trannies in this board
ishygddt

>>7993514
Those shitty custom PC Engine game cases are the only things in this entire thread that deserved to be called gay