I’ve been collecting for quite some time. I grew up with the NES and I would always keep my games in alphabetical order in their cardboard boxes. All my friends however, threw out the boxes so I took a note from them and rationalized it as, “Well they still have these black sleeves to protect them, I guess I don’t need the whole box.” And that made complete sense, plus it cut down on the amount of space the games took up. Oh how I wish I could go back to my six year old self and knock some sense into me.

Anyway, the moment I officially started collecting I guess would have to be the months immediately following my sale of the NES and all my games to Funcoland. I didn’t necessarily want to do that, but I wanted a Genesis and my dad wouldn’t allow me to have another video game system considering I had recently gotten Super NES. There was only one course of action I could follow since my appetite had already been whetted from playing Sonic and Toe Jam & Earl a friends house. 2 entire trash bags filled with games got me a 2nd generation Genesis which came with Sonic, a 2nd generation Sega CD which came with Sewer Shark, Toe Jam and Earl, and Streets of Rage. The new acquisition was great, but I knew I had to get my old collections back!

The plan: To someday open my own video game museum. Or something to that nature.

Below is a list of the systems currently in my possession.

American

• Nintendo Entertainment System 1st & 2nd gen
  
• Super Nintendo  2 1st gen, one of which only plays in black &white and 1 2nd gen.
• Nintendo 64
• GameCube
• Wii
• Game Boy x2
• Game Boy Pocket
• Game Boy Pocket Color
• Virtual Boy
• Game Boy Advance
• Game Boy Advance SP x2
• DS Lite, DSi, DSi XL
• 3DS
• Sega Master System x2 1st gen
• Sega Genesis 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gen
  
• Sega CD 1st & 2nd gen
• Sega CDX
• Sega 32x
• Saturn
• Dreamcast
• Game Gear
• Playstation 1st & 2nd gen
• Playstation 2 fat & slim
• Playstation 3 60gb & 250gb Custom Bulletstorm edition
• PSP 1000 & 2000 Darth Vader edition
• PSP Go
• XBOX
• XBOX 360 elite & halo reach edition
• XBOX One
• Turbo Duo
• Turbo Express
• Neo Geo AES System
• Neo Geo Pocket Color
• Atari 5200
• Atari Jaguar
• Lynx
• Panasonic 3DO
• Nokia NGage 1st gen
• Tiger Game.Com

Imports

• Famicom
• Famicom Disk System
• Super Famicom
• Sharp Twin Famicom
• Game Boy Micro FFIV edition
• MSX 2
• Wonderswan Color Final Fantasy edition
• Swan Crystal
• PC-Engine
• PC-FX
• Super GRAFX

There are of course others that I’m still hunting down for affordable prices.

I need a working Vectrex,  and a Sharp X68000. Those are my most wanted at the moment.