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Growing a retro collection of epicness





Well shoot now we are working on multiple articles at the one time. while we are finishing up our top 10 Mario kart tracks from SNES to Wii I have been avidly scouring the world wide web via e-bay and the likes for retro-ness on any scale. Admittedly at present my retro collection is small, quaint if you will, it really only consists of the following consoles:

Super Nintendo
Nintendo 64
Nintendo Gamecube
Playstation 2

For each console I own a substantial amount of games, most not with boxes which is a shame really. The idea for me grew organically when I started writing about retro games the idea was based on me playing some emulators and bringing back great memories of yesteryear and sharing them with fellow enthusiast's and readers but I feel I need more now and to be frank am not sure of the best way to go about it, I do have a good idea of how to go about it but would extend this invitation to anyone reading to give me advice, and also tips on how to grow my collection, as I already said e-bay was one of my first ports of call and just this morning made my first purchase in F-Zero for SNES for a partly sum of £10 which I thought wasn't too bad. I would assume gumtree and well craigslist for my stateside brethren would be another good option along with second hand stores aka thrift shops to unearth some gems perhaps and even car booting, I suppose what I wouldn't mind knowing is how you all go about growing your collections and what rare games I should really think about adding and which ones i can safely bypass because there will always be the chance to get them, on top of this i would ask what's the best way to store unboxed games hell where the best place to pick up original game boxes, i want to safely store a ever growing collection but also to play the titles as well.



I find myself compiling a healthy list and potential costing's of all the consoles I would like to get my hands on from the original NES to all that Sega gave us including the much coveted game gear and hell even an Atari Jaguar if I can afford it. all in all I reckon this is going to be a gradual but costly exercise but one I am fully committed to, I am assuming any retro gaming enthusiast will be in the thousands of £/$ to have a collection and I am fully committed to have to fork out for what I need to grow it, I would hope along the way I can really grab a bargain or 2



Being a gamer in the UK, Scotland in particular I don't think there are many events to pickup games, I know of 1 coming up in the City of Dundee in September equipped with a playing lounge that I am fully intending on attending stocked with a full wallet to bring home the retro bacon, if any one wants to give their secrets away on what events they have that are worth heading too, comment and let me and anyone else know so we can get in on that action, it would be gratefully appreciated .

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