Turbo Grafx Collecting

sonikthehedgehog · 01/29/2013, 03:57 PM

I've always been about completing the set but I just focus on the good games now. I have pretty much everything I want and have moved on to the JP releases.

esteban · 02/02/2013, 06:49 AM

STATUS: Still disturbed by the fecal matter. Gross.

Duo_R · 02/02/2013, 09:55 AM

I think I always assumed that was a helmet. But Esteban's post just made me appreciate the art a little more. A thread where we do some art appreciation (or lack of appreciation) for some of the covers would be awesome.

esteban · 02/03/2013, 08:46 AM

Quote from: Duo_R on 02/02/2013, 09:55 AMI think I always assumed that was a helmet. But Esteban's post just made me appreciate the art a little more. A thread where we do some art appreciation (or lack of appreciation) for some of the covers would be awesome.

Hahhahahahaha. Anyway....

STATUS: Yes, that is L'helmet de NCS, which, as I have established, is standard issue in futuristic racing circuits/worlds/universes.

Gladiator316 · 02/20/2013, 01:59 PM

To me personally collecting just for the sake of having it or bragging to others is a serious waste of time and money...I do have a lot of systems and majority of my games are the big title releases and few in number, but for this system i decided to collect every game only cause there are 94 chip games and i honestly really like playing the bad ones from time to time...unlike the 800+ library for the NES in which maybe 30 or so are good games worth playing.

Dyna138 · 02/21/2013, 01:23 PM

When I first started getting back into the Turbo I was only picking up good games I wanted, but the seed was planted by watching spida1a and his collection videos. I really loved the TG16 when I was younger and it seemed like I was the only one supporting this great system back when anyone cared about was the NES and Genesis. I thought with only a little over 100 games and me already having 40 or so it wouldn't be too hard to finish a complete collection

Yeah right...more than 10 years later I'm still working on it. Real life and limited playtime have slowed me down a little but one day I hope to finish my collection...not to mention actually beat every one of them.

jeffhlewis · 02/21/2013, 01:57 PM

Collecting complete sets is cool and all, but ultimately not all it's cracked up to be. I just finished the U.S. Sega Master System collection. Once I was done with that, I wasn't content so I started collecting the blue label reprints. Once I was done with that, I wasn't content so I started collecting the entire Japanese Mark III set...and so on, and so on. Now that I have all this stuff I never have time to play it. Plus you wind up buying rare turds for crazy amounts of cash (in my case, Buster Douglas Boxing...ugh).

It's a lot more fun to just collect across all of the systems and get the good stuff.

-D- · 02/25/2013, 11:07 PM

I'm just strictly in it to play the games, so my collection is a random mishmash of US & JP releases. I will of course tend to prefer a US version so I can actually read the manual, but if the JP version is quite a bit cheaper then I might get it instead. And I'm mostly in it with this platform for the shmups, and a huge chunk of them are Japanese only, further making me not care about region.

But I am picky about condition and loose hucards. I don't care about spine cards and cardboard boxes, but other than that everything I buy has to have the game, original case, and manual.

xcrement5x · 02/26/2013, 03:35 PM

Quote from: jeffhlewis on 02/21/2013, 01:57 PMCollecting complete sets is cool and all, but ultimately not all it's cracked up to be. I just finished the U.S. Sega Master System collection. Once I was done with that, I wasn't content so I started collecting the blue label reprints. Once I was done with that, I wasn't content so I started collecting the entire Japanese Mark III set...and so on, and so on. Now that I have all this stuff I never have time to play it. Plus you wind up buying rare turds for crazy amounts of cash (in my case, Buster Douglas Boxing...ugh).

It's a lot more fun to just collect across all of the systems and get the good stuff.

Hehe, I did the same thing except with Sega CD games. Complete US set, then variants, now I'm working on getting all the JP and EU exclusives. I have a feeling that eventually I will try and get all the JP titles, since working towards something big like this is kind of fun. Plus, I don't really know of anyone with all the Sega CD/Mega CD games (or anyone who enjoys the system that much really) so I don't feel like I'm plodding down the same old road as everyone else.

That said, I've definitely modified my buying habits for other stuff. No longer am I trying to find one of everything, or just buy it all. I've become a lot more selective about a lot of the things I buy and clearing out things I don't want, need, or will never play.