Collecting Goals for 2014

[Wempster]

Well I made my goal of get the games for all my orphaned boxes last year worse by getting more boxes so let's try that one more time this year.  Also I am going to get to 175 N64 games. 

[A8scooter]

Would like to get to :

1500 Total Cartridges ( 751 right now )
200 Unique Atari 8 Bit Cart Titles  ( 184 right now )
15 Atari 8 Bit Prototype / Demo Carts  ( 11 right now )
100 NES titles  ( 23 right now )
100 SNES Titles ( 29 right now )
100 Sega Genesis Titles  ( 60 right now ).

[singlebanana]

- Get down to 5 remaining NES games for complete licensed set GOALLLLLLLLL!!!  
- Pick up 10 new 2600 titles 2 remain, but finished Parker Bros. subset!
- Get up to 75 SMS boxed titles (currently 70) GOALLLLLL!!
- Pick up at least 15 new Fami carts and Famicom system games and system acquired  
- Pick up at least 5 loose Colecovision titles 0 so far....

[RobotCowhand]

- Hit 500 CIB Genesis games
- PS1 Release set
- PS2 Release set
- PS3 Release set
- Full Ridge Racer Set
- 50 Sega CD Games

[GrayGhost81]

My goal for this is yeah is to downsize my collection to the point where there is no game on my shelf that I can look at and say "There is no way I'm ever going to play that one." Or "Why am I keeping this game? I didn't like it."

Quality over quantity in other words.

Also I'm wrestling with the idea of purging some of the retro stuff. I never play the physical copies. I'm happy to emulate. Yeah, I'm that asshole now. Deal with it. There's only so much room in my house and showing off my games to guests the once in a blue moon that I have guests is not justifying owning the games.

I think I can cut my collection by about one third this year and without any remorse.

[techwizard]

My goal for this is yeah is to downsize my collection to the point where there is no game on my shelf that I can look at and say "There is no way I'm ever going to play that one." Or "Why am I keeping this game? I didn't like it."

Quality over quantity in other words.

Also I'm wrestling with the idea of purging some of the retro stuff. I never play the physical copies. I'm happy to emulate. Yeah, I'm that asshole now. Deal with it. There's only so much room in my house and showing off my games to guests the once in a blue moon that I have guests is not justifying owning the games.

I think I can cut my collection by about one third this year and without any remorse.

GrayGhost81 used a bad word D:

i'm slowly switching over to quality vs quantity too, already did that with my gamecube collection. also ditched all my intellivision stuff because i never use it ever. the only system i'm not doing that on is N64 which i still want a complete CIB set for

[monkees19]

I have one specific goal in mind. To have my collection real 730 individual pieces of software. I don't mind duplicates too much as long as there is a reason for it. Like I have Final Fantasy IV in four different formats. In its SNES original format, GBA (for portability) DS for the "enhanced" remake and PSP (so I could get The After Years without paying $40 for it)

My reason is this: I had someone ask me if I've actually played all of my games. Sure I said...wait, no I haven't. The majority, sure, but certainly not all. So since I hit my 2013 goal of 600 I needed a new goal. If I played two games a day for say 30 minutes, it would take me an entire calendar year to play them all (hence the 730)

What I'd like to do is document it, track it and make it some sort of public specatacle. Something that I can do to draw attention to some sort of cause. I don't know which one or how to go about doing it but I'd like to do it in a constuctive manner that could maybe raise some money for charity. And I'd get to play my games in the meantime. Win-win!

[JerryGreenwood]

Short-term Goal - Fill out my incomplete shelves.

NES - 21
SNES - 9

Long-term Goal - Start and finish 4 new shelves.

SMS - 17 (CIB) (18 games if 2 are cards)
GEN - 17 (CIB)
NES - 27
SNES - 20

Misc. Goal - Expand Sega CD and PSX library, get missing Sega CD/Genesis/Master System manuals, get box and manual for King's Quest (SMS)

[douglie007]

Goals

off my Wish List:

Finish my Game Gear Collection (under 75 games )
Finish Long Box PS1 collection (under 25 game) 
Finish my Wii Nintendo made games ( 13 is on my list need to update wish list)

Like to get my Wii U games to the double digits

long-term goal - get to the 6500 mark on games and 1000 mark on hardware. 

[GrayGhost81]

Today I'm going to trade out what might be my only noteworthy Sega Genesis game (Rocket Knight Adventures). Thus, the seal has been broken, my goal is to have less than five Genesis games and no hardware (except the Nomad) by the end of this weekend.

[RetroRage]

Not a fan of Sega GrayGhost?

[GrayGhost81]

Not a fan of Sega GrayGhost?

It's not that actually. Saturn and Dreamcast are two of my favorite consoles in fact. It's just that for whatever reason I've almost never had a Genesis hooked up, and thus I never play it. I didn't have one growing up so there's no nostalgia factor. Most of the games I own are junk. Those clamshell cases, although awesome, take up so much space on the shelf it's ridiculous. Last but not least I can emulate on the Dreamcast so I still get that console feel.

I did a lot of work reorganizing my shelves this weekend. It may seem like I'm trolling this thread with "my goal is to get rid of everything" but I think organizing/downsizing is as much part of the hobby as hoarding every single piece of plastic you see out in the world.

So I have three of these shelving units and I'm trying to cut it down to two. I cut down on the Nintendo console cartridges dramatically and pulled all the Genesis stuff. The theme for I'm trying to keep in my head is "only the best." I'm only keeping games that are either must have classics, games I love or have an overwhelming nostalgia factor, or games that are just rare/valuable.

Here's what I did:

Before:
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After:
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I do believe it's a lot cleaner now. I like the way the Nintendo console games are now in chronological order so to speak. Most importantly I have a little room now. I'm not typically getting in new NES carts for example but if I do, I can fit a few more and it still looks nice. Not pictured are my Skylanders figures which I put next to the Dreamcast games and that made it look even better.

[Izret101]

Mortal Kombat

Lol

You laughed but so far it is working!


The first portion of the year i have managed to pick up some goodies and at decent prices!

Mortal Kombat Electronic Pinball sealed. (45 shipped)
Mortal Monday preorder kit (29 shipped)
MK Mythologies Tiger Handheld(PAL) sealed (~40 shipped)
MK Tournament Edition for PS3 complete (~75 shipped)

I've managed to wrap up the bulk of the big ticket US items. I believe i only have 3 items left that could get pricey. 2 of them i have seen go up for auction already this year. Everything i have left to get stateside i should be able to grab for under 10-20$s with patience

[Madir]

A bit late but here are my collecting goals for 2014. I've done almost nothing for my collection in 2013 but maybe this year I'll be more successfull.

Since more than five years my focus will be on finishing my (european) Master System collection:

EUR: Alex Kidd in Miracle World
EUR: Asterix and the Secret Mission (Classic Version)
EUR: Back to the Future Part II
EUR: Bram Stoker's Dracula
EUR: Dragon Crystal
EUR: Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
EUR: Dynamite Duke
EUR: E-SWAT
EUR: F-16 Fighting Falcon (Card Version)
EUR: Flash (Non Classic)
EUR: Incredible Hulk, The (Kixx Release)
EUR: Lion King (The Regiowide one)
EUR: Smurfs Travel the World, The
EUR: Master of Darkness (Classic Edition)
EUR: Masters of Combat
EUR: Maze Hunter 3-D
EUR: Out Run 3-D
EUR: Out Run Europa
EUR: Road Rash (Non Kixx)
EUR: RoboCop versus The Terminator (Classic Version)
EUR: Space Harrier 3D
EUR: Star Wars (Kixx Release)
EUR: Streets of Rage II
EUR: TransBot (Card Version)
EUR: Winter Olympics (Kixx)
EUR: Wonder Boy in Monster World (Classic Version)
EUR: Xenon 2:Megablast (Imageworks)
EUR: Zillion

GER: Marksman Shooting / Trap Shooting / Safari Hunt

IT: Libro della Giungla
IT: Re Leone

ES: Olympic Gold
ES: Rey Leon

FRA: Livre de la Jungle
FRA: Olympic Gold
FRA: Roi Lion
FRA: Ultima IV (with books)

UK: Olympic Gold
UK: Ultima IV (with books)
UK: World Cup USA 94

USA: Alf
USA: Astro Warrior
USA: Great Ice Hockey
USA: Great Soccer
USA: Hang On / Astro Warrior
USA: James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing
USA: King's Quest - Quest for the Crown
USA: Marksman Shooting & Trap Shooting
USA: Reggie Jackson Baseball
USA: Sports Pad Football

Get some minor variations

Every Hartung Game Master Game I can find (Please help me with those!!!)

Everyone is welcome for trading and selling those items!

[CKsGallery]

First Priority: Go through my full collection and update owned list. I know I have a ton of PS1 games not listed on this site.
I just organized full NES collection yesterday so that is up to date.
Counted 64 collection and there are 5 games missing on this site, ughhhh.

Game Goals:
- SNES RPG's
- Quality NES Games
- Been on a Sega Saturn Importing kick lately, so add more of those as well.
- Find out names to some of the Japanese SNES games I own.
- Reach 2,500 games
- Go to more Flea Markets & Yard Sales!