Is there an official games you own..

[Ite]

..thread? If so give me a link and delete this thread.

 

If not we can start it here.

Edited August 4, 2005 by Ite

[Mindfield]

I think such a thread might spawn very, very long posts for some people here...

 

I could attach an Excel spreadsheet of my Atari stuff, but that's about as far as I'd go -- listing 770 games and counting in one message is probably way too long, and my collection isn't a patch on what some people here have.

[Ite]

I didn't even know 770 different games even existed, Where did you get them all?

[video game addict]

how bout official games you don't have thread!

 

(it might be a tad bit shorter)

[Mindfield]

I didn't even know 770 different games even existed, Where did you get them all?

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They're not all unique; the 770 number consists of label variations, Brazilian pirates, and "state vars" (one for loose, one for boxed/CIB, one for sealed, since I try and collect all three types). Of those, there are 450 unique titles in my collection -- but probably about three or four dozen of those also include North American and Brazilian pirates, as well as Sears titles where the title was changed and pirate multicarts. (There's no clean or easy way to get Excel to differentiate them and count them out, especially when some of the multicarts contain NTSC converted releases of PAL exclusive games that were never otherwise released in NTSC)

[shadow460]

I guess we could highlight our collections, maybe. Perhaps we could list stuff we own that doesn't really go into a topic like "what rarity 10's do you have?"

 

Long story short, I've got between 70 and 80 carts, all different in some way (I have no dupes).

Most of the 7800 carts were boxed, and all have instructions.

 

I'm collecting for gameplay, and some rarity.

Highlights include:

four versions of Atlantis, all easy to get (all three Atlantis 1 picture labels and the Activision Classics CD).

both versions of Frogger, soon to be all three when 7800 Frogger is finished

Sears picture label Night Driver and Missile Command carts

Sealed Commie Mutants.

 

I consider the prizes of my entire gaming collection to be a stock Voodoo 5 5500, the Saturn version of Virtual On (rarity 4 in itself) with a Twin Stick, and that ProSystem over there.

[Mindfield]

3 Atlantis picture labels? I'm only aware of 4 variations: Pic (day), pic (night), text, and blue. Atlantis II is technically the same as the night pic label, but it doesn't quite count since it's unbelievably rare.

 

With regards to my collection -- not huge like some here, but decent:

 

2600:

Total: 771

Unique: 451

Sealed: 27

CIB: 102

Brazilians: 55

 

Highlights: Complete (loose) sets (titles, not necessarily including all lvars) of Activision, 20th Century Fox, Parker Bros., Froggo, Absolute, Zellers (well, shortly -- the last one I need is in the mail), Coleco, CBS, Data Age, M-Network, Sega, Telesys, US Games, and a few smaller ones. A sealed Beat 'em & Eat 'em. and a CIB Beat 'em & Eat 'em/Lady in Wading (though the Lady in Wading end doesn't work, which is unfortunately common with this double-ender). The first 4 Supercharger games CIB (2-4 are still sealed). I'm also glad I got a copy of Holiday Qb and Climber 5, the first homebrews I've owned (but not the last).

 

7800:

Total: 37

Unique: 26

Sealed: 6

CIB: 11

 

Highlights: Nothing particularly special.

 

Lynx:

Total: 51

Unique: 50

Sealed: 1

CIB: 19

 

Highlights: Boxed Lynx I and II units; most if not all of the accessories and a ton of large carrying cases, several small carrying cases, ComLynx cables, AC adapters, battery packs, etc.

 

Jaguar:

Total: 26

Sealed: 0

CIB: 23

Boxed: 2 (both missing manuals)

 

Highlights: Minty, CIB Jag hardware. Entire collection (except Cybermorph, which is the pack-in with the system) is boxed, almost all CIB, most minty (many were sealed until I opened them). The only notably rare titles are Atari Karts and Attack of the Mutant Penguins, but also CIB copies of Tempest 2000, AvP, Doom, Wolf3D and Iron Solder, which covers most of the best games at least.

 

Colecovision/ADAM:

 

Not much to tell here. I sold my entire Colecovision collection, but shortly afterwards acquired a mint, CIB ADAM system. The box is a little worn but the contents are showroom-mint. Got a few ADAM Data Paks and a small handful of common carts lying around. Eventually I'll rebuild the cart collection.

 

Misc:

3DO: CIB system, 13 games, most CIB, all boxed.

Atari ST: Loose 1040STfm.

Atari Porftolio (the computer, not the cart binder, though I have one of those too): CIB system, 3x 64k memory cards (two were factory sealed), CIB parallel adapter.

 

Also half a closet full of loose and boxed hardware of varying sorts.

Edited August 5, 2005 by Mindfield

[ZylonBane]

..thread? If so give me a link and delete this thread.

How about an official beat the crap...

 

...out of people who do this, thread?

[shadow460]

I stand beaten the crap out of. Oh my, it stinks.

 

Seems the second run of Atlantis had a different night pic than the third. It looks more like it was drawn on the cart than photographed.

 

I forgot the blue label...that makes eight variations. Dig a round the forum (I can't remember where it is) and you'll find two different Atlantis silver with text labels.

 

I've seen both variations of the silver Imagic text label, but they were on Star Voyager.

Edited August 5, 2005 by shadow460

[sku_u]

I didn't even know 770 different games even existed

 

They do and then some. I currently have 2131 Atari VCS carts, not counting duplicates.

[Ite]

Impossible there aren't that many out.

[video game addict]

I didn't even know 770 different games even existed

 

They do and then some. I currently have 2131 Atari VCS carts, counting LVAR.

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2K+ is pretty impressive number, but any real idea how many unique game roms you own? Some Brailian carts I'm sure are unique, or hacked roms from US games, but then still there are many dups that are nothing more than a new case or label for the same old game.

 

I'm up to around 500, but even I still have some overlap, Sears versions of Atari, and those Red box titles like Q*bert & DK, DKJR, Mouse Trap, etc. Various reissued games. I try not to get very many variations but still some enter in.

 

I would guess out of the 500 I own, I'm around 400 unique of actual roms, that number would be higher if I counted re-titled games as unique titles. Dodge'em vs Dodger Cars for example.

 

I think I have a pretty decent sized collection, and still it seems so small compared to 2131 But damn that's got to be a whole hell of alot of dups when you get down to it!

[Mindfield]

Impossible there aren't that many out.

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In total, if you count all North American releases, all PAL releases (including those unique PAL titles that never got officially released in NTSC format, as well as rebrands, multicart packs, etc.), all Brazilian, European and Taiwanese pirates (including multicarts), Japanese releases, French SECAM releases (though they're few), all label variations (including post-crash re-releases and the like), all modern homebrews, hacks and reproductions, then yeah... there really are somewhere between 2-3,000 or so.

[sku_u]

2K+ is pretty impressive number, but any real idea how many unique game roms you own?  Some Brailian carts I'm sure are unique, or hacked roms from US games, but then still there are many dups that are nothing more than a new case or label for the same old game.

 

 

It depends on what you consider unique. I put together a list a while back that included clones where gameplay or graphics were altered, but did not count things like hacking out a company logo or hacking in a company logo and out of what I had, it ended up totalling 1,127 "unique" games. Of those about 500 or so were Brazillian, about 100 are of unknown origin and around 200 were PAL. Where it gets complicated there is that I have around a dozen pirate systems with builtin games that had unique roms that I included in the rom list, but not in my cartridge list. AFAIK most of them have been dumped already (and I doubt more than a few hardcore ROM collectors would be interested in looking at the code of a game where pitfall harry was substituted for a girl since people here do graphical hacks on a regular basis). Based on what I do not have that I know exists, there are at least 3500 different cartridges floating around out there and maybe more. I'm sure someone with more collecting longevity like Marco or Rick could probably come up with a more accurate number than me, though.

[sku_u]

Impossible there aren't that many out.

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In total, if you count all North American releases, all PAL releases (including those unique PAL titles that never got officially released in NTSC format, as well as rebrands, multicart packs, etc.), all Brazilian, European and Taiwanese pirates (including multicarts), Japanese releases, French SECAM releases (though they're few), all label variations (including post-crash re-releases and the like), all modern homebrews, hacks and reproductions, then yeah... there really are somewhere between 2-3,000 or so.

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You forgot to mention Turkish carts. I have seen three of those and am sure there are more.

 

If you start including modern hacks, Hozer releases and reproductions, you're probably pushing 4000+.

[Mindfield]

You forgot to mention Turkish carts.  I have seen three of those and am sure there are more.

 

If you start including modern hacks, Hozer releases and reproductions, you're probably pushing 4000+.

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Ah yes... I remember a thread about them last year or so. Those were kinda funky.

 

I still prefer the funky-ass spellings on those Zellers-like carts with names that sound like a Netherlander trying to spell them phonetically.

[sku_u]

I still prefer the funky-ass spellings on those Zellers-like carts with names that sound like a Netherlander trying to spell them phonetically. 

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I have one of those called Reefer Raat.

 

[Mindfield]

I have one of those called Reefer Raat.

 

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Isn't that the one where you run through a maze, bumping into walls searching for munchies?

[Famicoman]

I think that an owned games thread is a bad idea. It would be a combo of the "Thrifts Finds" thread, and the "Game rooms" Thread. It would be quite hectic.