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[Meech17]

I dont collect, but I dont get rid of my consoles either. People are always amazed when they see my dreamcast sitting out. Its amazing how many people dont even know it was thing.

For a several year stint during my teenage years my dad was a mall security guard. This would have been in the late 2000's. He overheard one of his co-workers complaining. He had kids that had grown, and moved out of the house and he had this Dreamcast sitting around. He brought it in with him to work to see what the Gamestop in the mall would give him for it. Even back then they were notorious for offering very little for trades, and they offered his co-worker something like $30-$40 for a Dreamcast, four controllers, a couple of VMUs, and a stack of games, including a lot of classics like Crazy Taxi. My dad said he'd double their offer, and that night came home with a paper bag containing all of the above.

And that's how I spent an entire summer playing Sonic Adventure and it's sequel, and why my ringtone is still Escape From the City

 

[payn]

For a several year stint during my teenage years my dad was a mall security guard. This would have been in the late 2000's. He overheard one of his co-workers complaining. He had kids that had grown, and moved out of the house and he had this Dreamcast sitting around. He brought it in with him to work to see what the Gamestop in the mall would give him for it. Even back then they were notorious for offering very little for trades, and they offered his co-worker something like $30-$40 for a Dreamcast, four controllers, a couple of VMUs, and a stack of games, including a lot of classics like Crazy Taxi. My dad said he'd double their offer, and that night came home with a paper bag containing all of the above.

And that's how I spent an entire summer playing Sonic Adventure and it's sequel, and why my ringtone is still Escape From the City

Teenage years?,,,late 2000's???

 

[Meech17]

Teenage years?,,,late 2000's???

I'm constantly amused that I'm in my early 30's and still one of EN World's Resident 'Young People"

 

[TwoSix]

A very underappreciated console, IMO. I didn't get one until years after the fact (I went in the PS2 direction). There are some great arcade ports on Dreamcast. Record of Lodoss War is also a good RPG for the time.

Soul Calibur is still my pick for best console release game of all time, and a strong contender for best fighting game of all time.

 

[Meech17]

Soul Calibur is still my pick for best console release game of all time, and a strong contender for best fighting game of all time.

Soul Calibur is a lot of fun. I played a lot of it, and Tekken. Soul Calibur was the first fighting game I played that made me want to play it over and over again though.

 

[Ryujin]

Just want to share a bit of exciting news that has nothing to do with gaming - but I finally got a good deal on the Beach Boy's Smile Sessions on vinyl. (I've been searching for about 5 years.)
Are any of you folks collectors about non-RPG stuff?

I don't think that I have enough of any one thing that I could be considered to collect them. Skills maybe? Every now and then I try something new and work at it long enough to be basically proficient. Friends say that if the apocalypse hits, they're heading to my house.

My friend Andy buys and rehabs old consoles. He now has a fair number, though he also donated a bunch of stuff that he snagged to a Youtuber who vlogs about it.

 

[Scribe]

 

[Mad_Jack]

You know that feeling when you're hanging out with a bunch of friends, and they start talking about what a great time they had at this place, and it doesn't sound familiar to you, and then you all come to realize they just didn't invite you when they went somewhere and they kind of forgot you weren't there?

For me, my friends always ask me about things I wasn't there for, because they just assume that I was - I just have an excellent memory and recall the details of things from all the times they talked about it before, so when they say, "Wait, what was it somebody said when we did that thing that one time?" I'm usually the one who answers.
And somehow I end up getting retroactively photoshopped into the memories themselves...
Or even worse, they know that I wasn't there for something, and yet they ask me about it because they think I can legitimately read their minds.

Are any of you folks collectors about non-RPG stuff?

A couple things, mostly just haphazardly. Most are rpg-adjacent.

I collect old D&D non-gaming merch like the candy boxes, the rub-ons, storybooks, the gold box video games, etc.
I collect the old 1980's LJN D&D action figures.
I collect the Ral Partha Official AD&D 2nd Ed. miniatures.
I also collect Rocky Horror merchandise - not the horrible generic crap put out in the past twenty years, but the authentic stuff like the various cast albums of the touring productions, flyers from different shows, fanzines, convention memorabilia, etc. - One of my favorite possessions is a single frame of film cut from a 35mm theater print of Shock Treatment, featuring the character I used to play in that film, given to me by a theater owner in NJ when I went down to perform there...

I also collect interesting scars and great stories about having survived doing really stupid things, lol.
(I have actually seen the back of my skull with my own eyes, lol.)

 

[ichabod]

Are any of you folks collectors about non-RPG stuff?

Hmm. I have about 3,000 dice, but that's kind of RPG stuff. I have moved on from dice and started collecting decks of cards. My game collection also includes board games, card games, and such. Probably 150+ games and expansions. Being obsessed with organization I also collect containers. Everything from big plastic storage boxes and higher end cardboard boxes to weird glass bottles (I have one that looks like a light bulb I really like) and candy tins (especially the D&D candy tin made to look like a d20, that I keep my mini-polyhedral dice in).

 

[trappedslider]

I picked one up with a pile of accessories from a fella I worked with. I remember playing the crap out of the Shinning Force series. that was like Sega's FF tactics.

I do remember somebody seeing it and the exchange was like this.
"Oh...what is this!? Did you pick this up in Japan?"
I've never been to Japan.
"What? When did Dreamcast come out???"
like 1999.
"Well...if not Japan where did you get it?"
It was sold here in America... everywhere.

a lot of the features with the dreamcast were a bit ahead of it's time

I have a small pop funko collection, a MTG collection (valuing around 1000 to 1200), a steam library of games some plushies, a few 1/35 scale tanks