Seriously, will you STFU newbie? First you diss on my TV, and now you diss on his. No one asked for your opinion, so shut it. <3Quote:
Originally Posted by marwan
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Seriously, will you STFU newbie? First you diss on my TV, and now you diss on his. No one asked for your opinion, so shut it. <3Quote:
Originally Posted by marwan
Dude hes from UAE, they roll like that.
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Originally Posted by Clash!
HA! :)
working now. Very nice. My friends would make a mess of such a room. Do you play the games much or are they more to admire from afar? I don't think I could help myself.
I should go pick one of these up, I live about 25 minutes from WizzywigQuote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
I found the pic of a PSP next to a Vic-20 hillarious.
So yeah, can I come over some time? I got this new cologn you can check out. It's called Clora Formme by Hugo. Seriously, it smells great. Take a big ol' whiff.
Holy shit, I posted this last night, meandered around, and went to sleep. Didn't think it would get this kind of reaction. :eek: Thanks for the compliments... we're both really proud of what we did. It was worth the effort.
I'll reply to everyone in turn...
@Daitokuji: I work in a lab for a food ingredient company in NJ. The money is good for my age, and gets me by. I'm no morphix, believe me.
@kedawa: That is a storage case for PS1 games. The front slides out. She uses it to store her import PS games, she has about 15 or so.
@Videodrone: When I made that directory 4 years ago+, I thought it would be a neat kicker. While I do have some credit card debt, it's been about 3-4 years since I used a credit card to pay for anything game related. Hell, I've pretty much stopped using them, except when I need to charge hotel stays and what not. (Hotel policy for debit cards suck ass, btw) They are the devil, but when I started collecting in college, and was a dumber kid, they were an outlet to fuel the new fire in me.
@nearly everyone: One day I came home, and my GF had it sitting there for me with a bow on its head. It is indeed awesome, and one of the best gifts I've ever gotten. I don't know where she got it, but J-list probably would be a good start if the link Chao doesn't work. To go with the Goomba, there is a Toad plush as well of the same size.
@Michael: I started in 1999 in college, I discovered eBay. I started with a SMS with 10 games. Then I got the big ass Super Mario Bros 2 mug seen on the bookcase. Then I realized Funcoland was selling my beloved NES games for dirt, dirt cheap. It then spiraled out of control from there, half through finding stuff in the wild, half through browsing eBay. At first it was just NES. Then I got all those. Then Genesis was and still is cheap, so I got the games I wanted... and then the rest of the collection seemed easy to get, so I did. Then I just started grabbing everything cheap in sight.
@a few people: As per the description on one of the pics, the size of the TV was limited. I wanted a 36", at least. But there was no room. I knew I had to respect the rest of the room by getting a good TV, so I researched and it came down to a 24" CRT or a 26" LCD, either way I had to have component-ins. If you saw my last TV from the old pics, it was a shit 27" APEX that I'm not even sure had SVideo (it cost $100 new). So I had to go nice.
Being as I could not afford a LCD, I went with the CRT. It is a really nice TV, for not being LCD, big, or HD. Very crisp picture. In the future, I'll upgrade to a LCD HD for sure, as well as a good sound system, but for now, this will do.
@Master of 7s: I do it because I love games. I could take that money and save like one of my friends does. But what does he have to show for it? He'll have a juicy downpayment on a house, for sure, but what does he put in the house? We rent for the time being, and we will buy, just some things which will remain nameless on a public board have to happen first, not to mention I don't trust the housing market right now, especially in overbloating northern NJ... but the point is, I have something to show for it, that I love, can share with my GF, and so on. Not to say what my friend is doing is even remotely stupid, but how I feel is that I want my money spent to show something. In the end, both me and my friend will have mortgage payments for a long time, so ... yeah.
I know I can't take it with me, but I can enjoy it while I have it. In some ways, it's also an investment (take the Nintendo Championship cart, and check completed auctions on eBay for 'nes', and you'll see it just doubled in value). And it's an investment and a collection I can enjoy. I mean, I know I won't get much enjoyment out of some games that just flat out suck, but collecting in itself is a hobby. There is a lot to know, a lot to look for. That was fun too!
@Master: Consider it done. Juiceambi will move one shelf up. :)
@Dragonmaster Dyne: Keep in mind, my average cost per Genesis game is about $3 each. Buying in bulk, scoring cheap games. I'm not paying $20 per thing in my collection, not even close. Aside from the CC debt part of it (which I'm working towards paying off), I paid my own earned cash for my collection. No inheritance here. I guess that's it?
@Revolter: The CGE expo (http://www.cgexpo.com) has a museum with tons of rare and one of kind items. It's as close as you're going to get to one for now. Sadly, they're taking next year off, so you'll have to wait until 2007 to see it again.
Everything is insured fully, and we have a good burglar/fire alarm system. We're too paranoid!
@marwan: The posters are up there because we just had nowhere else to put them. I was in charge of putting them up, and the general concensus from my Gf and our friends is that the spacing was just right. Didn't want to make things too cluttered.
We may need to take all that display stuff off the top, but it was the best place for a mass amount of it. She worked in a Funco for 5 years, I worked and grubbed off of one for the same time (Thank Shin johnpv for that!). We still have 3 boxes of promo and display stuff we couldn't fit. We had to display some of it!
@arjue: While working on the gameroom, we haven't had too much playtime. Now that it's done, it's been getting use. We Love Katamari was the first game I played in there. Once I get a wireless bridge, she'll probably take some time up there to play FFXI. As far as the games, I plan to attack my gaming backlog fully once I finish We <3 and Ninja Gaiden Black, starting with some of the NES games I never got to.
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@Videodrone: When I made that directory 4 years ago+, I thought it would be a neat kicker. While I do have some credit card debt, it's been about 3-4 years since I used a credit card to pay for anything game related. Hell, I've pretty much stopped using them, except when I need to charge hotel stays and what not. (Hotel policy for debit cards suck ass, btw) They are the devil, but when I started collecting in college, and was a dumber kid, they were an outlet to fuel the new fire in me.
I found it to be very ammusing, cause I understand what you mean all to well. Totally know what you mean about the whole college thing. Took me 2-3 years to kick that, but now I have a wife to keep me in line. ;) Good man, not using them anymore.
Thanks much. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
My "games room" consists of a TV, and a PS2 with 5 games stacked up on it.
I win.
God, you're the worst poster on TNL.Quote:
Originally Posted by marwan
Holy shit, that is one seriously impressive collection. I'll never wonder if I have too many games ever again.
She'll make point five past lightspeed. She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schlep