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Do you let people touch your collection?
14. Oct 2006 at 08:29

I'm kinda anal retentive when it comes to my collection. Not that I have that many games yet (almost 100), but they are all neatly organized. I have them in alphabetical order and all facing the same direction. But everytime someone comes over and wants to play, the insist on looking at every game. And then putting them back in the wrong spot and upside down. Does this drive everyone else crazy? Angry

Also, what kind of feedback do you get from friends/family? My mom and g/f think its a waste of money. Most of my friends think its cool because they all grew up on the NES and it brings back old memories. Cool

Then they claim they are going to get their old systems out and play them. I don't think they ever do...but i'd like to snatch up all their games. Cheesy

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Hounder God Member Offline Only cool people pee their pants Posts: 1264 Illinois Gender:	Re: Do you let people touch your collection? Reply #1 - 14. Oct 2006 at 09:26 Hehe....funny question. I don't let people touch my stuff or at least the rare stuff and any sealed games. Don't want any of that getting ruined. The commons I don't mind.
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parpunk Senior Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 286 Gender:	Re: Do you let people touch your collection? Reply #2 - 14. Oct 2006 at 12:49 Hounder wrote on 14. Oct 2006 at 09:26: Hehe....funny question. I don't let people touch my stuff or at least the rare stuff and any sealed games. Don't want any of that getting ruined. The commons I don't mind. yep same here>>^^
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Reply #3 - 14. Oct 2006 at 13:25

I feel you. All mine are in alpha order and facing the same way. I love when people want to play games, but I don't want them getting the games out so much, I have to much invested in this for them to get messed up. Especially if it is a rare box and manual. It KILLS me when someones does get a game down, and then puts in back in the wrong place, or in the wrong direction. I mean really, they are all facing the same way, is it really that hard to do? Angry

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Nistle Senior Member Offline Posts: 393 Sanford, NC Gender:	Re: Do you let people touch your collection? Reply #4 - 14. Oct 2006 at 21:49 yea it drives me crazy when they look through my games and put something back in the wrong place.
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ThaDuke Junior Member Offline Tanooki Suit Dookie! Posts: 90 Florence, AL Gender:	Re: Do you let people touch your collection? Reply #5 - 15. Oct 2006 at 04:11 Exact same here. All of my games are neatly organized and in alphabetical order. The same goes for my DVD library. I guess I'm not the only one in here with a slight touch of OCD!
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FamicomJL God Member Offline Fami, Fami, Famicom? Posts: 689 Long Island, New York Gender:	Re: Do you let people touch your collection? Reply #6 - 15. Oct 2006 at 18:09 I never let anyone touch my collection...because of the reasons above. People are stupid and lazy sometimes...
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Reply #7 - 16. Oct 2006 at 20:45

I am the messy gamer. I cleaned out underneith my couch and found a prototype that I hadn't seen in a while... I don't really care if anyone goes through my games and stuff.

I also do a lot of electronic projects with video game stuff and I can't stand if anyone moves my or projects or tools. I guess it's more of the fact that the systems and games are just playthings, where the hacking stuff is more "serious".

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NESaholic God Member Offline Obscurist maximus Posts: 2450 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Do you let people touch your collection? Reply #8 - 16. Oct 2006 at 22:56 My rares are mostly in plastic cases so people can look at them behind the plastic, lol j/k. I usually like to do it all myself but don't care that much about the commons like said above.
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wrldstrman Senior Member Offline complete nes game hound Posts: 408 wv Gender:	Re: Do you let people touch your collection? Reply #9 - 17. Oct 2006 at 21:17 I got no friends and my family could care less about even coming downstairs where my games are.So my games go untouched unless me and my boy are playing them.
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Reply #10 - 18. Oct 2006 at 15:45

wrldstrman wrote on 17. Oct 2006 at 21:17:

I got no friends and my family could care less about even coming downstairs where my games are.So my games go untouched unless me and my boy are playing them. Undecided

I'm kindof the same way (although I'm sure you have friends, wrldstrman!) It's not that I wouldn't let anyone touch or play my games, but my friends and family could really care less. Plus, I have so many games now that I can't find anything big enough to house them in one place, so they are boxed up anyways. Once in a blue moon, my wife will want to play Super Mario, but once the first Goomba kills her, she has had enough.

I do have one pet peeve that nobody is mentioned: when others put down or store controllers (especially N64, Dreamcast, and PS1 Dual Shock), I can't stand it when the analog stick has tension on it, ie it's all the way to one side because it's up against something. Drives me crazy. Nobody but me gets why that's bad!

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Reply #11 - 01. Nov 2006 at 18:55

Sealed stuff is totally off limits to people.

Stuff in boxes can be touched, but only I am allowed to take manuals and games out of boxes, so no one else than me can be blamed for any damage that might happen when doing so. (So kind of me)

Everything else is pretty much standing there in a few shelves like a nice library where people can go look through the shelves and find themselves some entertainment.

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Reply #12 - 11. Dec 2006 at 06:10

My whole collection is on display on shelves and book cases. I don't mind if my friends look and play with them however what I hate is when they take a game down to play get tired of it and grab another game without putting the last game back. after a while there over a dozen games on the floor all the contents of the boxes are all over the place mixed with every other game on the floor Angry

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Reply #13 - 11. Dec 2006 at 13:44

The people that I have over all know how anal I am about them...at one point I had them organized by publisher, so they pretty much got me to reshelve things. Right now they're alphabetical so they know where shit goes. I'm constantly rearranging my NES stuff though, so I don't really care too much if my stuff gets touched.

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Jordan MacNamara God Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP/Whatever it is Posts: 1758 Gender:	Re: Do you let people touch your collection? Reply #14 - 11. Dec 2006 at 14:48 First by publisher/developers, then alphabetical. Since it's kind of hard to find the games you're looking for, I can safely say that people won't touch my collection.
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