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Keep it up! It’s a fun hobby!

I will never be able to justify the price of that game so to make myself feel better I’m convincing myself I don’t need it.

@@hoskat I believe you will own it one day.

@@pedaltheglobe419I hope you are correct.

@@Svankmajer after NES I had a Genesis and ended up also having SEGA channel until the service was discontinued. In college I had a Dreamcast and it is one of my favorite consoles ever!

@@hoskat Haha, okay, I see... for some reason the idea of you as a Nintendo fan boy seeing Sega as the bitter enemy was intriguing. (Either way.. very good video.)

@@Svankmajer I probably would have been a Nintendo fanboy but my grandfather bought me a Genesis for Christmas instead of a SNES. I didn’t have a SNES until I found one at a yard sale in 1996 so I missed out on the SNES library when it was the newest thing. I’ve played through several SNES classics as an adult and definitely know I would have liked it more than the Genesis back in the day if I’d had both.

Thanks for the comment! I still have plans to do additional videos showing off individual parts of my game room. But, I agree with you, everyone can own the same games but their experience with those games can be wildly different and that is what makes the hobby interesting.

Thank you! I do plan on making more NES related videos. I want to do a game room tour in the near future. I had planned to make that video sooner but have just been super busy the past several months.

@@hoskat looking forward to it!

It’s hard to say. Probably not though, it has just gotten so expensive. Maybe if I got a great deal on a big lot that jump started my collection but even then I don’t think I could justify spending the money on the harder to find games.

@@hoskat yeah I started collecting about 8 years ago and down to about 200 games but I don’t ever see myself paying more than $500 for a game. There were only 4 games above that price not including stadium so I thought sure. Now there’s like 15 and most are over $1000 now.

I’m sure I’ll start trying to finish some of those sub-sets soon. It’s such a fun hobby. It is just so overwhelming to me how many variants there are.

Technically you are correct. 😂

I have had to move that bookcase about half a dozen times and was sick of removing all the games so tried to take a shortcut which obviously didn't work out, lol.

I’m in Lexington, KY. How about you? Do you have a list of the games you still need?

@@hoskat Yep. I'm in Ashland KY.

Thank you for watching!

Hopefully I'll do a collection/room tour soon. I focused more on the stories in this video because everyone with a complete collection has the same games so I didn't wan to say "look at my copy of Baseball Stars, it looks just like everyone elses."

Thank you. It feels nice to have finally made it. I plan on making some more collection videos in the new year.

I made them out of 1x6 wood and painted them black.

Thanks for watching!

@@hoskat You're welcome. ^_^

That sounds impossible, lol. Most of my early gaming was done on a tiny 13” TV, but, it was at least color. I never thought about it before but playing on a black and white tv or being color blind would make Fester’s Quest nearly impossible.

Thank you! Do you have a story on how you got Stadium Events? I once saw a PAL copy in a game store for $1,800 but i wanted NTSC and didn’t want to pay $1,800.

​@@hoskat I bought mine in 2006 for &1,750. I paid a "high price", but the one that sold before me sold for $2,500.They had been averaging around the $1,200-$1,500 for some time, but I just got tired of waiting for one. Actually it wasn't the last game for my set. I still had ~100 games left to finish it off. If I don't count SE, the most expensive game I paid for that set was ~$75 or so. It was a great time to collect. I had been actively going for that set since late 1993, and was made fun of from the guys at Funcoland, and flea markets. Before smart phones I had a printed off list in a 3-ring binder, and when I walked around with it people started charging me more money. I honestly think the smartphones killed the fun part of the hobby. I also found a Prototype of SCAT in Maui on my honeymoon in 2004, and a few years ago purchased the Final Fantasy Prototype. I had to have that, because its my favorite game of all time and the reason I got into collecting.

Dude congrats! Probably gonna take me 30 years too!

@@hoskat I purchased the NTSC Stadium Events in 2006 for $1,750. It was a "steal" because the one that sold before mine sold for $2,500. Other than Stadium Events, the highest price I paid for a game in my set was ~$75 for Flintstones 2. I paid $40 for Little Samson when I got it. It wasn't considered nearly as rare as it is now. I actively started collecting for the set in fall of 2993. People were laughing at me in 1994 saying this new thing called Ultra 64 was coming to Japan in 1995 and I should collect those. By fall of 1994 I had acquired 150 games (I was 16 so I had limited funds) and got many of them from flea markets and Funcoland. Bought the vast bulk of the library for under $3 and the rest under $6. In 2019 I got the prototype of my favorite game and the reason I started collecting Final Fantasy (NTSC Proto).

@@BOBSMITH-UA-camStoleMyHandle That's awesome! I wish I had focused more on it in the early 2000's to knock out some of the rarer games when they were "cheap." I don't have any prototypes and at the current prices will definitely never own Stadium Events. I'd gladly pay $1,750 for it today but someone would have to be crazy to sell it for that price and people who don't know the world of NES collecting would call me crazy for paying $1,750 for it, lol

Thank you for the kind words. I hope to find time to make some new videos in the new year!

Thanks for watching!

I would love to do that, can I borrow an extra $15,000 to buy them all? 😂

@@hoskat yes from the bank

Absolutely! I'd love to see it.

Always great to hear from another Kentuckian!

I was so happy. I’d given up hope of ever owning either of those games. Knocking those out pushed me over the edge to go after the rest.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Of course as soon as I released the video I thought of several other fun stories. I may end up making a follow up at some point to tell more stories :)

Many times over the years I thought about giving up dating back to when I had every NES game on a burned CD that I played on my Dreamcast. Definitely so many more conveinent ways to own all the NES games. I'm just hard headed and wanted that physical cartridges :)

I didn't get an SNES until the N64 was already out. I had a Sega Genesis during that generation of game console so I don't have the nostalgia for it like I do with the NES. I only have maybe 30 games for SNES but I do have most of the classics and have played through them (Mario, Mario Kart, Super Castlevania, Super Punch Out, Link to the Past, Donkey Kong Country, etc.)

@@hoskat What made you go with the Genesis then back to the Nintendo again as opposed to the PlayStation or Saturn?

@@John-nb6ep I think the Genesis marketing campaign won me and my brother over which is why we went with Genesis over SNES. We did have N64 and PS1 as well once those came out. The SNES I ended up getting (in 1995) I bought at a yard sale for a few bucks. Many of my friends had SNES so I had played a lot of the games but just never owned one. Looking back on it now the SNES was definitely the superior console to the Genesis.

Hopefully this number grows over time :)

That's a good question. I just saw this morning a guy in our neighborhood is having a yard sale and has tables of NES games. I don't need any of them but still looked and zoomed into every photo to see what he had. I kind of feel like a retired professional athelete. I don't play anymore but still try to keep up with the hobby and can't quite let it go.

@@hoskat I think that describes it all perfectly. Cheers.

I think the stories is what makes the hobby so fun. Anyone can have a copy of Super Mario Bros. 3, but, everyone has a different story of how they acquired the game.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm so glad I don't feel the need to collect variants, there seems to be an endless list of them.