Some people collect cats. Other people collect bottles of their own excretions. Others start hostels in Romania and collect disemboweled backpackers. All these people are crazy.

Less crazy, but still disconcertingly gung-ho, is Brett Martin. Brett collects pieces of video game memorabilia... over 15,000 of them. That's over 1.6 items a day.

Brett is married to an extremely tolerant woman who apparently indulges him 'investing' the entirety of his income as a games tester into gaming ephemera.

We're a little creeped out by Brett, but also a little bit jealous. He's the ultimate, stone-cold crazy gamer, but ultimately, we love him for it. It's hard not to love a guy who says shit like this:

It was inevitable based on my passion for games. I play them, listen to their music, dream them, have a job testing them, collect their merchandise, and want to design them someday. Oh, and I also ate them in the eighties when Mario had ice cream sandwiches and cereal out. I live them.

Florian Eckhardt

The Land of 10,000 Plastic Marios [Vintage Computing and Gaming]

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