i recently got into, then promptly got out of physical game collecting. Only consoles left are a Genesis and a barely working Dreamcast, but I had a lot more, plus a bunch of games I'd find at local retro stores or eBay. I felt myself sliding into a hole of physical collections just to do it, eventually realizing I was developing a weird elitist hoarding, so I got rid of most of it. I wasn't even playing most of the games.
now I've got a small GPD handheld with custom firmware, two SD cards with literally every game made from like 1980 to 2005, and I play them all the time. Really happy about that, after realizing the games themselves are what's special and cool, not hunks of plastic. Currently going back through the Breath of Fire series. Gonna finally beat Koudelka after that.
i recently got into, then promptly got out of physical game collecting. Only consoles left are a Genesis and a barely working Dreamcast, but I had a lot more, plus a bunch of games I'd find at local retro stores or eBay. I felt myself sliding into a hole of physical collections just to do it, eventually realizing I was developing a weird elitist hoarding, so I got rid of most of it. I wasn't even playing most of the games.
now I've got a small GPD handheld with custom firmware, two SD cards with literally every game made from like 1980 to 2005, and I play them all the time. Really happy about that, after realizing the games themselves are what's special and cool, not hunks of plastic. Currently going back through the Breath of Fire series. Gonna finally beat Koudelka after that.