[Maru]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I'm slowly developing a retro consoles / games collection. Got the Master System and Ultima 4 for my wife's 30th birthday because she was obsessed with it as a kid .

The games cost as much as the consoles though... I have a mint condition SNES Zelda that was over £70 . Also a mint condition original grey GameBoy in box that's worth a bit.

Considering breaking into my friend's parents house because I know for a fact that there's a cupboard there packed full of his old N64 cartridges, all in brilliant condition, most worth £50+ and I'm pretty sure he has no idea they're worth anything at all .

We literally just took a lot of our retro gear to the resale shops. The only thing i kept was my Genesis (Megadrive) with all the original Sonic games. The rest just collected dust I could display those things in my room, but I barely have enough space for my studio gear and my drafting table... also have a little meditation spot and a place to write in my journal... I did used to have a CRT for playing old games (because old games look like a jaggy mess on an LCD...)... had to leave it when we moved halfway across the country...

A "treat" I would love though, I've said to my husband, is to be able to play a lot of the Japanese classics.. so an important PS1 would be nice. I can read Japanese and enjoy playing imports... I picked up a lot of everyday vocabulary farming in Harvest Moon, and I had my Wii hacked and setup for all that, but the hard drive crashed and I just never got around to changing it out. Also a PSP, but I would just love to own some originals... they make retro consoles that play a few of the older systems, but nothing that plays the PS1 games... my greatest era aside from the Genesis era... imo. Though I did own Phantasy Star Online v2 in Japanese and I could boot it on my DC and play it before they locked it down, and used to have a japanese sub before they finally ported it to here... we could convert our characters with codebreaker hack, so that was awesome ...