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Remember this? The lucky child and pretty much every video game ever printed. RedWolf over at VintageComputing was able to track down the owner and conducted a short email Q&A. "He's a bit reclusive (answering only 10 of 17 questions asked)," writes Red "and not exactly a master at typing the English language (I've had to clean up his answers quite a bit)." Huh, the greatest video game collector evar is not the greatest grammaritarian evar. Imagine that. (Is grammaritarian even a word?)
Vintage Computing and Gaming: What do you do for a living? Videogamecollector: Collect video games, for now.VC&G: About how many games do you have in your collection? Have you ever counted all of them precisely?
VGC: I'm not sure if I really want to know.VC&G: What has driven you to collect so many games?
VGC: It seems to be the rush of finding something I don't have. Or you can call it my addiction.VC&G: Is the young boy in your collection pictures your son? If so, what does he think of your collection and video games in general? Do you ever let him play any of your games?
VGC: Yes, my son plays games. He has a few hundred games in his room that he plays.
A few hundred?! Notice how the Video Game Collector just tosses that out so casually.
Full Interview Here [VintageComputing]
Comments
When is a collection too much? I don't think I'd ever want this many games. I'd never play them all. I'm much happier with the favorites I have. Which actually doesn't even add up to one hundred titles.
If I were to ever make a videogame collection, it would merely be all of my favorite games. Unfortunately, that would require a Super Magicom and several large cartridges, and then the equivalent for the NES (for huge translations like Tales of Phantasia and Seiken Densetsu 3). That said, It'd probably consist of about 50 SNES games, 30 NES games, 20 N64 games, and then some other games thrown around.
Wow. That guy's responses were completely underwhelming.
Yeah, I'll be the first to admit that the interview is quite weak. :) But here's a better one, conducted with one of the collector's closest friends: http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/109 It never ends...
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