MShipley88 wrote:I am not buying role-playing publications. I am buying the past.
KingOfPain wrote:MShipley88 wrote:I am not buying role-playing publications. I am buying the past.I can definitely identify with this. But I am specifically buying the past that I wished that I had. My girlfriend still doesnt understand why I still have an Atari 2600.
MShipley88 wrote:Also...mark my words...in a distant time one of you will see my daughter on the future version of Antiques Roadshow with my game collection on proud display. Even the commons will have become rares.
bclarkie wrote:KingOfPain wrote:I can definitely identify with this. But I am specifically buying the past that I wished that I had. My girlfriend still doesnt understand why I still have an Atari 2600. Hell yea, I actually bought a bunch of Atari 2600 games back about 6 years ago on Ebay. I also bought a bunch of Commodore 64 games and accessories too. One of these days I am going to go after Collecovision and Intellivision stuff too.
KingOfPain wrote:I can definitely identify with this. But I am specifically buying the past that I wished that I had. My girlfriend still doesnt understand why I still have an Atari 2600.
MShipley88 wrote: In the best episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard is zapped by an alien space probe and lives the entire life of a member of an alien race in a few hours of real time.
MShipley88 wrote:I am not buying role-playing publications. I am buying the past. In the best episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard is zapped by an alien space probe and lives the entire life of a member of an alien race in a few hours of real time. In the end, Picard picks up the flute that he loved in his alternative life and finds that he now knows how to play it. He plays a favorite song from a life that never happened...it is possibly the most poignant moment of that series. I can identify with that moment. I remember places and people...some of whom never existed. Collecting the old publications gives me the feeling that there is someone else who still remembers the old days. Having the old books on the shelf gives me the comfort that maybe someone else will still remember in years to come. Also...mark my words...in a distant time one of you will see my daughter on the future version of Antiques Roadshow with my game collection on proud display. Even the commons will have become rares.
bbarsh wrote:I think my collection is my version of a photo album. It is my window into a time when gaming was a big part of my life and, more likely than not, something that impacted me in a positive way and got me through. If I did not have that connection, I probably would not be a collector. But then again, this stuff is still cool after 30 years!
Prufrock wrote:On that note, I have decided I will not sell. Just take a break from going after everything that my eye fancies. I would like one day to have the collections some of you have.
bbarsh wrote:Excellent post. I think many of us are in that exact boat. The collection is simply a physical link to specific moments in time that are meaningful for one reason or another.
GraysonAC wrote:bbarsh wrote:Excellent post. I think many of us are in that exact boat. The collection is simply a physical link to specific moments in time that are meaningful for one reason or another.Yup. This is also why, imo, the old D&D books won't keep their values long-term. Very, very, very few folks in their 20's or even early 30's played with the old D&D stuff. At 24, I'm one of the folks that started with D&D, and moved straight to 2nd Edition, without ever playing 1st. So not many of the 1st Edition books have much meaning for me.
grodog wrote:I've always felt the bug to collect moreso when I've been playing in a good game, so I recommend you put your collection to use: gather some friends, roll some characters up, kick down some doors and put those goblins to the sword!
KingOfPain wrote:Prufrock wrote:I started collecting (ebay) in Jan 05. My first purchase was a L3 for $128.00 . Then I found this website and educated myself. Began collecting in earnest. I've spent around $2500 and have around 500 items.So my question is: How do you handle the times when your really not all that excited about collecting?MartinYou started collecting in Jan. 05 and you already have 500 items? Maybe that is part of the problem. I didnt really start collecting until 2000 and since then I have probably acquired around 500 role-playing items (if that). I pick up a few items a month on Ebay and sometimes will find some items at Half-Price Books or Badmike will have a few items that I will buy from him. But for me to stay interested in collecting I have to pace myself. For one I dont have a large cashflow (just bought a house) and the other reason is that I collect so many things. Kind of difficult for me to afford a woodgrain or set of RPGA modules when I just spent $50 dollars on comics and won an auction for an Intellivision. I guess I am just not in any hurry to complete any of my collections because then I am afraid I wont have the collecting bug anymore.Just please think about what you want before doing what one guy I know did. He spent thousands of dollars on his D&D collection which included an almost NM woodgrain, set of shrinkwrapped R and RPGA modules, 1st print Chainmail, a SW orange B3, and every printing of rulebook ever and tons of box sets and modules. He ended up selling everything with the exception of the woodgrain and the orange B3. I know he got his money back but regrets not having the collection now.
Prufrock wrote:I started collecting (ebay) in Jan 05. My first purchase was a L3 for $128.00 . Then I found this website and educated myself. Began collecting in earnest. I've spent around $2500 and have around 500 items.So my question is: How do you handle the times when your really not all that excited about collecting?Martin