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Sleep, your Atari/Coleco stuff is amazing.

It's a regular PAL Super Nintendo, albeit very yellowed. It's slightly different to how it should be though, by way a little 50/60hz switch in the back and a bigger cartridge slot. There's a picture of one the colour it's supposed to be on the Street Fighter 2 poster in the picture above.

Shelves needed plz!

I am thinking of selling all this stuff, if only to prove I can. I don't know where to start.

It'd sort of hurt to get rid of it all, but surely that's half the reason to do it. I shouldn't be so attached to what is essentially junk, right?

Maybe get rid of everything that isn't Megadrive. Argh, so difficult! This is why people should never collect shit.

Awwwww, I so feel like I should just fucking doing it, but ouch!

Man if I had a collection like the first guy I would never, ever sell it (was it actually yours forks?). I would, like, build a museum for it, and charge people money to come look, and use that money to not ever get a job and play my video games FOREVER.

and I would wear the FUCK out of the neogeo hats.

not mine. This thread was intended to provide a picture thread for people to throw their fave finds up on, but i like that it's become OUR massive video game collections.

Crikey. Yesterday I decided it was all go, but now I'm fucking scared. Perhaps will go out to a bootfair over this weekend and kick start the whole thing by getting rid of ones I don't care about too much. Then work my way up to ebaying the good'uns.

I dunno Melton. Is there a board where someone would buy large chunks at once? That could make it easier.

Also, would it be possible for you to just keep say 20 games and 5 bits of equipment and resign yourself to losing the rest?

i want to see mm's pictures

yeah me too

Melton, sell it all and use the cash to invest in a quality MAME standup arcade kit and emulate the shit outta those. You'll save space and have a much cooler conversation piece.
http://www.mameworld.net/

If you can get two grand for the kit and kaboodle, that's probably as expensive as it's gonna get.

also can i see pics of your collection, melton, cos it appears the pic no longer works?

'kin'ell, I can't believe I'm doing this. Packed a lot of it away into boxes today to take out over the weekend. I'm not so fussed about the money (though I'm sure not giving it away for free), it's more the fact I'm parting with it all.

Here are a couple of pictures, though they're dead old (even before the ones I posted on here). As it stands there are over 300 Megadrive games and a lot of other bollocks. Every second is killing me, but it's got to happen sooner or later, right?

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Thinking about it now, it's a shame I didn't take some photos right before packing them away as a keepsake, but it's a bit late now.

I'd offer you guys any game of your choice, but I know you'd totally pick the ones I'm planning on making some actual money on. Any games anyone wants and thinks I might have it's worth asking though, cos I'm not a stig.

I'd also really like to give my modded 50/60hz Megadrive and SNES to someone on here. I put a ton of work into them and don't know how to go about selling them, even if they are worth something, so if anyone in the UK wants to play good games at full speed they're welcome to either.

This is fucking surreal.

PS. lay off the Parappa figures. They stay with me :)

It really is an immense collection. Is there a reason (e.g. space, monies) you're selling, or do you just feel it's time to part with it all?

I had quite a bunch of old Nintendo stuff (NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, GBA) and quite a heap of games between them all (though nothing compared to your collection). It sucked selling it, and I regretted it briefly (I really needed the space and got sick of having to carry all the extra boxes whenever moving flat). But I just hit up an emulator every now and then if I really want to play a specific game. With a controller and a way to hook the PC up to your TV, it ain't SO bad.

Of course, chances are I'll just end up buying all the games again on the VC for the Wii...

Damn Melton, good on you!

melton, for a british dude you are MI-T REAL

I never had a huge collection, I just don't have that collector's bug-- I don't need to "complete" things, or hang on to them really. So, pretty much anything I can emulate I sell to collectors, and anything I can't I hang onto until I can emulate it (or, in the case of something like PS/PS2, I just keep the machine and burn whatever game I want to go back to).

Just don't spend all of your collection money on collecting new things. It's a vicious cycle, man! Spend it on expensive booze or something. BUT DON'T COLLECT THE BOOZE! You must drink it.

The new episode of my friend's video game podcast is about big collections. Recommended, especially if you don't mind his stonerific mode of speech:

http://alifewellwasted.com/

where did melton go, anyway?