> CcomputerGameCollector wrote: > > I don't think my collection is that impressive yet; it is approaching 70 > pieces, maybe 55 different titles.
I have to ask, then, why go through the trouble of creating the website? Still entranced by this new budding hobby, or some other reason? :-0 I say this because many of the people on this list either buy/sell/trade software for a living (hi Tom!) or have collections in excess of 400 titles -- I would have expected one of them to have broken down by now. Your story sounds very much like mine, just shifted ahead four years. I got into computer games in 1980 when a friend's mom who worked for AT&T brought home an Osborne CPM machine and it had Adventure on it. I'm mostly a PC person because the first computer my family personally owned was a PC in 1985, but I've dabbled in Mac, Amiga, Commodore, and various Apple flavors (II+, IIe, IIgs) before and since. My collection is almost 600 titles of wildly varying quality and genre, half of which I purchased to eventually enter into MobyGames (I'm co-founder). About 100 of these are treasured by me (or others; I don't particular crave RPGs, but I own a few). Like you, I am of the rare breed that collections/enjoys action titles for the PC (not considered a collectable by most collectors, but that doesn't stop me). For example, I was pleased to see we own both own Death Sword and Techno Cop :-). All of my titles are PC, with the exception of 100 unboxed C64 disks (NTSC, not PAL). Some of my highlights in terms of "rarity" (hate that term) include Murder on the Zinderneuf, Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror, and Ulysses and the Golden Fleece. (All for PC, which is what gives them that extra "rare" punch.) Other items treasured by me but probably not by many others include Pinball Construction Set, Music Construction Set, Bank Streem Music Writer (with PC hardware board), Tass Times in Tonetown, Wibarm, Mean Streets, Martian Memorandum, Countdown, World Class Leader Board, Hoverforce, Test Drive 3, Tunnels of Armageddon, Starflight, various Accolade games from 1987-1990 (Bar Games, Gunboat, Blue Angels, Altered Destiny, many others), Wizardry (2nd edition), and finally my favorite RPG of all time, Wasteland (with cluebook!). -- http://www.MobyGames.com/ The world's most comprehensive gaming database project. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
