Man Owns 30,000 Video Games,hoarder or true collector?

[xDragonWarrior]

This is a little old(2009) but still i think i should get your input.This has got to be the biggest Videogame collection i have ever seen,30,000 games and most likely every console made to date(at that time) but is it too much.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSkcvgSheYA

Edited February 6, 2013 by xDragonWarrior

[bojay1997]

That's Joe who owns Digital Press. It's sort of hard to say what's part of his collection and what's store stock, but he is a big collector and a great guy.

[RetroGamer45]

I like games and have many but this collection is too large even by my standards.

[Ghost Soldier]

True Collector gets my vote. If there is organization and the ability to take care of an item its not hoarding. IMO

Edited February 7, 2013 by Ghost Soldier

[jetset]

Awesome vid! I don't care if he's a collector or a hoarder, it was nice to see him giving props to the 2600!

[sqoon]

He has nice organization to his items, something not seen with hoarders.

[+Psionic]

Joe (co-founder of Digital Press and CGE) is definitely not a hoarder.

[+bennybingo]

Hoarders usually don't even know what they have...no less, where they can find it in their house. Joe, on the other hand:

1. owns the digital press store and forum board
    
   
2. has an inventory management system
    
   
3. publishes an accurate price guide across all platforms
    
   
4. he's a co-organizer of CGE since 2000
    
   
5. he's currently in the process of building a comprehensive video game museum.
   

All of that, and he has been fighting the good fight for "retro-gaming" in general all the way back to when it was still considered "state of the art" tech toys.

 

Joe gets my vote for "true collector"....hands down. When it comes to the definition of video game collecting, his picture should be included somewhere in the description.

[Mxyzptlk]

Great video, thanks for showing it. And NO, definitely not a hoarder.

[Greg2600]

Yes Joe is the man, and very humble as well. I've somehow never seen this video! Joe actually has referred to himself as both a collector and a hoarder, too, so ha ha. One thing about his store inventory is that it really is, inventory, not "collection." His most important pieces are set aside for the Video Game Museum. One other thing is he's not a sealed collector, if he has it, he's opened it to play it.

[+bennybingo]

Yes Joe is the man, and very humble as well. I've somehow never seen this video! Joe actually has referred to himself as both a collector and a hoarder, too, so ha ha. One thing about his store inventory is that it really is, inventory, not "collection." His most important pieces are set aside for the Video Game Museum. One other thing is he's not a sealed collector, if he has it, he's opened it to play it.

His collection puts the store inventory to shame...and that's saying A LOT!

[plyboult]

Pathological or compulsive hoarding is a specific type of behavior characterized by:

• acquiring and failing to throw out a large number of items that would appear to have little or no value to others (e.g., papers, notes, flyers, newspapers, clothes)
  
• severe cluttering of the person's home so that it is no longer able to function as a viable living space
  
• significant distress or impairment of work or social life
  

I'd say collecting if we are going by the definition.

[jhd]

For me it comes down to organization of the collection/horde.

 

I, for example, have about 6,000 books in my apartment. If these were just scattered about in random piles, it would be a horde. Rather, they are either shelved (in a systematic way, arranged by subject) or packed in boxes (also organized topically).

 

The same criteria applies to (almost) anything -- I would be hard pressed to imagine a systemized collection of empty take-out food containers, for example.

[xDragonWarrior]

Well guys i didn't mean a hoard(i could think of the correct word to say),i meant is it too many games/consoles.200 consoles is too much in my opinion.

[NIAD]

Hoarder is not a word that can be used to describe collectors like Joe Santulli, Sean Kelly and the other guy from that three-headed beast of a group that runs CGE ... what's his name again? It's such a challenge to collect for just one system, especially CIB, and these guys have been doing it for years across all platforms. I guess it's considerably easier to dedicate the time required when you have made it your day to day job and your means to support yourself and family. Next to being a professional athlete with all the perks that come from that, I wouldn't hesitate to choose being in their shoes. Well, I actually was back in the 80's and early 90's, but I was too young to realize that I was living a dream and wish I would have appreciated that time a lot more.

 

Hoarder - No

Collector - Yes

Obsessed - Definitely... but in a good way that everyone on these forums can appreciate

[Greg2600]

Oliver Hardy?

[MegaManFan]

My collection is maybe a third to half that size and for the most part well organized - the only thing I lack is a bigger house with more storage shelves to have it even MORE well organized. But Joe is a great guy and by no means a "hoarder." A hoarder is someone who becomes a shut-in surrounded by piles of things even he can't identify, who buys five or six of the same thing, who compulsively buys everything he finds at every garage sale or swap meet even if he already has it.

[+Random Terrain]

Well guys i didn't mean a hoard(i could think of the correct word to say),i meant is it too many games/consoles.200 consoles is too much in my opinion.

 

Some people hoard spaces.

[Schizophretard]

I would say true collector but I'm confused by the definition of hoarder. I consider my friend Robert a hoarder but he is well organized. For an example, he keeps all his newspapers and keeps them in organized stacks. Also, he cleans out all his containers and keeps them in separate boxes. You could look in a box and find cleaned empty bottles of the exact same shampoo. You could look in another box and find cleaned out cans of cat food. I would consider the things he saves trash but he treats his trash like I would treat a video game collection. Maybe the defining characteristic is collecting trash but to most people my retro video game collection is trash. They look at it as things that should have been thrown out last century and replaced with more new things. I see treasure and they see used rolls of toilet paper.

[+Gemintronic]

Collector = Hoarder. Maddest obsession I know is to collect toys too precious to play with. Sounds like a form of torture in that movie Hellbound: Hellraiser.

[darthkur]

Did it make anyone else nervous about how those two guys were handling that stuff? Especially the super rare ones.

[+Random Terrain]

Did it make anyone else nervous about how those two guys were handling that stuff? Especially the super rare ones.

 

I was just waiting for them to start kissing. Those brothers seem to be a little too close.

[sqoon]

They are the twins from PBS' Antiques Roadshow. Identical twins are always close. Nothing weird about that.

[+Random Terrain]

Identical twins are always close. Nothing weird about that.

 

It is if they have naked tickle fights. Someone could lose an eye.

[Schizophretard]

Did it make anyone else nervous about how those two guys were handling that stuff? Especially the super rare ones.

 

Yes, if I were Joe I would hit them with a fly swatter as they tried to grab them and say,"Bad clones!". I would also have a Coleco Gemini on the table and say,"This reminds me of you."