r/gamecollecting

HOW TF DID THIS GET INTO THE ELECTORNIC SECTION WHAT BEIEJEBEBRBEENEK 8$ FULLY WORKING AAAAAAAA

Won this from an Instagram contest! Really interesting set of items, especially the single can of Brisk.

Pleasantly surprised about the box design as well.

The hinge is busted but for the cost of a broken model can’t be beat everything else is in pretty good shape

I bought a dude a Series S for all of this. I had to. Gamestop did not like that. I havent gone through it all yet but here are the bangers so far.

Went to the gun range today and picked this up on the way home from a game store I like to stop by at out there. Was surprised at the decent condition of the label/cover-art, how it hadn't peeled off yet, and it even came with the foam insert so I scooped it up for my collection!

I stopped checking Goodwill because most locations either have no games or charge way too much. It’s gotten especially bad since COVID.

There used to be a Goodwill in North Austin with a separate used electronics store that had GameCubes, Wiis, PlayStations, controllers, computers, and more. Sadly, it disappeared around 2022–2023.

Since then, I’ve mostly hunted on eBay and ShopGoodwill, but even those have gotten ridiculous with auction prices and shipping.

Today, I randomly stopped by my local Goodwill and, despite seeing the usual Kinect Adventures and sports games up front, I checked the back DVD/book section. To my surprise, I found around 20 PS2 games for just $2.99 each. I grabbed everything worth taking, even leaving behind a few decent Guitar Hero 1–2 copies.
I called my dad to use his 30% senior discount, and I ended up paying around $40 for everything below.

Got these for $2 total!

I've been loving seeing others collections so I also wanted to share mine x3

The DSi and Pokémon heart gold (CIB) were bagged together, and then the PSP God of war edition was another bagged bundle. The PSP is missing the battery, but it looks brand new. I haven’t had a good find in a long time. I was getting jealous of all the post I’ve been seeing. It was something I almost missed. I decided to switch checkout lines at the last minute, and they had them kind of hidden behind the counter. I went in the afternoon, so I’m surprised they were still there.

context: So Ive been a die hard PC(Steam) gamer for about 15 years now. However after catching wind of the death of physical media, aswell as feeling nothing when looking at my Steam library of 500 games, aswell as insane raising PC costs.. ive decided to pick up back were i left off with gaming, which means using physical media and buying a little cheaper hardware and may be feeling something from my game collection.

Since Sony and basically Microsoft has announced they no longer cared about physical media i figured Nintendo was the last real option(it helps that im a die hard mouse user and the joycons can be that!). So ive bought the switch 2 and some games(which recently arrived), And while yes it feelz great to have the physical box again.. im left extremely disappointed by(what is apparently) today's game boxes...

These are truly appalling to me. I come from a time where you not only got a big clear box with most of it covered in art with alot of promotional screenshots, But also with little booklets inside.
Compared to these where alot is a bright ugly red, and most of the space is used to instead fill it with with like 10 billion labels of branding warnings and caveats.. AND nothing but a cartridge inside.
Its just super ugly af. Dont get me wrong, im glad to actually own my games and see them next to me, But wow does this kinda seem like a psyop to get people out of game ownership...

Just alot of whiplash. Wondering what yall think of all this. Am i just being overdramatic?

And It ofcourse also bothers me that they invented an entirely new concept of "game keycards" to avoid actually putting the game in the box.. Is it really so expensive to just put the game on the cart 0.0 and even if it is, why not still alow it and simply charge a little extra for it, i'd pay 5 or 10 bucks more to actually have the dang game on the cart.

Volume 5 is missing the manual minus front and back page