Collecting Nightmare!

[Mad Moham]

This video was posted on the forum back in 2010, but its relevant to this thread too. If you can't view this video, I don't care.

[Bloodreign]

I live in a hurricane prone area too, so that worry weighs on my mind each season. However my personal worry is also space, I'm running out of it, with still a big number of wants, perhaps I set my goals a bit too high (Japanese MD, SFC, FC, GB, PS1, Saturn titles I would love to have so that I no longer have to resort to emulation save for those titles too expensive to buy, or impossible to get) I'm at 1,165 games, I'm not sure how the hell I've managed to get so many in 7-8 years (mind you I was at 300 already when I went full force into collecting). Now mind you, I don't get many 16 bit and 8 bit games boxed, but if I did, I'd have long run out of space. I have gotten creative with storing games, piling games up to a certain height on shelves, and putting more in front of them, it's amazing the shelves over my bed, where my head is, hasn't collapsed and killed me in my sleep yet. I do not pile things on CD cases though, they can't take that kind of pressure compared to carts.

[Chimaera]

Well, since I just went through a huge flood that put 4 feet of water in my house, I think that qualifies. Lol.

I did make sure to save almost all of my Genesis games, though a few sports games fell into the water and had to be chunked. However, I had to store the rest of them in the trunk of my car and for whatever reason, water got in the bottom and water damaged a few of the case inserts (Might & Magic, Ecco: Tides of Time, etc) which was really my stupid fault. Don't ever store valuable stuff in the trunk of your car! I also lost a few PS2 cases (no big deal) and all of my Wii cases (can be replaced) and almost all of my VHS collection (about 50 tapes) and virtually all of my book collection.

The only upside is that now I can rebuild my collections with quality over quantity.

[IrishNinja]

damn, some of ya'll have had it brutal. i lost much of my video game mag collection in a flood down in cutler ridge years ago, i wanna say it was storm related...sold off too much of my sega stuff during a rough time in the early aughts, ive replaced much of it (still working on the master system!), but i can't lie, i wish i had the old game saves from me & friends and the dumb notes i'd write in the manuals, haha.