Complete Japanese Mega Drive Game Set

[mactabilis1010]

Nice collection SpaceFlea,I only need 25 games now i hope to finish the collection this year.
Is PRO YAKYU VAN a official release? I could not see this on the wiki for official released games.

[havok666]

Congrats. Yep those Acclaim and Virgin titles and definitely pricey.

[Espio]

Damn where do you get all these from? My local retro store has only a handful of (J)MD games. Id die trying to import em all on ebay or other online sales. Unless I flew down to Japan myself and snagged as many as I could from a retro store there and fly em back.

[SpaceFlea]

Nice collection SpaceFlea,I only need 25 games now i hope to finish the collection this year.
Is PRO YAKYU VAN a official release? I could not see this on the wiki for official released games.

Yes and no.

It was a "not for sale" title that wasn't available at retail and not considered part of the complete set, but it is an official title made by Sega. I'm not certain how one would acquire it originally. Perhaps you had to purchase it directly from Sega, or maybe it was a gift item with another purchase - who knows. It's somewhat of a mystery.

Which games do you need? I stopped collecting and intend to sell off most everything, and I also have duplicates of most the mega rare/expensive games.

Damn where do you get all these from? My local retro store has only a handful of (J)MD games. Id die trying to import em all on ebay or other online sales. Unless I flew down to Japan myself and snagged as many as I could from a retro store there and fly em back.

I bought every one of them off eBay.

[mactabilis1010]

Yes and no.

It was a "not for sale" title that wasn't available at retail and not considered part of the complete set, but it is an official title made by Sega. I'm not certain how one would acquire it originally. Perhaps you had to purchase it directly from Sega, or maybe it was a gift item with another purchase - who knows. It's somewhat of a mystery.

Which games do you need? I stopped collecting and intend to sell off most everything, and I also have duplicates of most the mega rare/expensive games.

Well i left most of the expensive games until last i need True Lies, Spiderman and Venom - Maximum Carnage, Justice League Task Force, Judge Dredd, Batman Forever, Foreman For Real ,Virtual Bart, WWF Raw,Ristar,Chelnov,Eliminate down,NBA jam TE,NBA Pro Basketball 94,The Ooze,Comix zone,Contra hard corps,Battle mania,Battle mania 2,Miracle 9 baseball,Battle Toads,Snow Bros,Slap Fight,Nigel Mansell,Pengo,PRO YAKYU VAN I think that's it

[xelement5x]

I stopped collecting and intend to sell off most everything, and I also have duplicates of most the mega rare/expensive games.

Noooooo!

Create a non-profit entity which you're head of then gradually sell your games to it and claim them as a deduction for the next 20 years so you can optimize your assets.


In all seriousness though it's kind of sad to see you do that, but it is your stuff so I wish you the best. It'd be nice if you did take nice pictures and catalog it all first before selling it though. Are you keeping anything or just switching to something different?

[TrekkiesUnite118]

Out of curiosity why are some of the games in smaller cases?

[SEGA.GENESIS1989]

Out of curiosity why are some of the games in smaller cases?

Some of the Sunsoft releases for the Japanese Mega Drive came in the small cartridge cases that you see in the picture.

[SpaceFlea]

It'd be nice if you did take nice pictures and catalog it all first before selling it though. Are you keeping anything or just switching to something different?

It was my original intent to make a catalog superior to all that currently exist, but I don't have the time to commit to it and have decided (after four years of planning) to abandon it altogether. I am keeping many games: Everything I had as a kid or received as a gift (for nostalgic reasons); And the games I would like to play "someday." All told I'll probably still have, by my estimate, around 800 or so games - which is still a decent collection but far less than the 5,200+ I currently have.

[XGoldenboyX]

Congrats.... very impressive and really nice box art`s

Do you get to play some of those once in a wile or, you just shelf them ?

[SpaceFlea]

Do you get to play some of those once in a wile or, you just shelf them ?

Just shelf 'em. I don't have time to play much which is part of the reason I'm getting rid of 'em.

[Espio]

Just shelf 'em. I don't have time to play much which is part of the reason I'm getting rid of 'em.

Your selling them? If so, where?

[SEGA.GENESIS1989]

It was my original intent to make a catalog superior to all that currently exist, but I don't have the time to commit to it and have decided (after four years of planning) to abandon it altogether. I am keeping many games: Everything I had as a kid or received as a gift (for nostalgic reasons); And the games I would like to play "someday." All told I'll probably still have, by my estimate, around 800 or so games - which is still a decent collection but far less than the 5,200+ I currently have.

It's a shame that you will be unable to properly catalogue all of the Japanese Mega Drive games. Especially when you currently possess all of the titles. But dreams are sometimes meant to remain that ... just dreams. 5200+ titles is quite alot of games! I think you've made the right decsison to sell off most of your collection. I'm curious to know what other gaming consoles you've collected for?

[NostalgicMachine]

Congrats on this awesome collection!

[KillerBean2]

I stopped collecting and intend to sell off most everything, and I also have duplicates of most the mega rare/expensive games.

Sad, but understandable. I've got a complete EU Master System set, and it just sits on the shelf. Purging the collection might seem like madness to some people, but it's often what's needed to get out of the despair of collecting just for the sake of collecting. I really need to sell some of my stuff as well :/

But that aside... It's really cool to see a complete JP MegaDrive collection