When did you start re-collecting?

I never really stopped.
Starting collecting games when I was about 9 or so.
I can't stand getting rid of stuff I own so the collection just built up and built up.
Now, I have...rather a lot.

I'd say the first time I started recollecting was probably when Funcoland still sold used NES games. Remember that little black and white price guide they used to have? All the NES games were under a buck. If I knew then what I know now I woulda grabbed a ton of em'. this was probably around 1996.

Last year I started seriously recollecting. I got a NES in 1989, Genesis in '92, and a SNES at the end of the era somewhere around '96 or '97 for close to nothing at a Funcoland. From the year 2000-2008 I bought no games for those old consoles. I've spent more on SNES stuff this past year but I still pick up the occasional cheap Genesis game.

My collecting began sometime in 2005 when i was looking around in the basement and found my old SNES and it's games down there. I took it upstairs and hooked it up and played the games and thought they were good, so I convinced my cousin to give her old SNES games, and than after a few months started buying games. than somehow late 2007 or early 2008 I remembered SEGA and how great it was playing the Sonic games at my friend's house, so I decided I must buy a Genesis and the Sonic games so i went out and got the Genesis and Sonic games for 25$ and since than I've been spending money on it every month, and as some of you know already I bought Japanese MD1 earlier this month so my Importing is now officially starting:cool:

I've kept all my systems and games since I first got into gaming with the Genesis. I had a Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, PS1 and PS2. I never really got rid of any games or peripherals unless I really hated them. I still have all the games, about 300 in all, and all the good peripherals. I kept all the boxes and packaging too!

A few years back I was feeling regret for never having gotten a Dreamcast since Sega was my first true love. About this time the wife said she would get me a Valentine's Day present in a certain price range and I found a company that was still selling brand new Dreamcasts so I got one. This started a nostalgic game buying binge that hasn't ended yet. I collected about 25 DC games, finished my 32X game collection and picked up a number of games for all my systems I've always wanted, recollected a few I had let go foolishly and picked up an N64 and NES along the way. The NES is the only system I have without its original box and packaging.

Many years ago I had sold off my Game Gear collection completely as a package. Feeling regret about that I built my collection back up to and far beyond what I had had in the past. I have three excellent boxed machines and two more loose ones and probably 60+ boxed games. I still keep an eye out for a few rare games I own loose but would like to find in boxed condition yet.

I've also picked up a Nomad, a CDX and a Sega CD1 (my original unit was a SC2).

One thing I'd still dearly like to recollect that I somehow let go years ago is a programmable Genesis pad I had once. You could enter a given multi-button combo, save it to a special button. Then, when you wanted to make that combo move all you had to do was press that one button. It was invaluable in helping me make progress in Splatterhouse II! Not sure why I ever sold it....