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What do you wish to accomplish this year? Use this thread as your goal tracker!

Overall Gaming/Collecting Goals for 2013:

5 Plats/100%'s on PSN - currently at 2
10,000 Gamerscore on XBL - currently at 6,206 G
10 Wii U games - currently at 2
30 Vita games - currently at 23
30 eShop games - currently at 20
40 VCH games - currently at 32
40 3DS games - currently at 33
30 WP7 games - currently at 25
15 360GoD games - currently at 9
45 DSiW games - currently at 36
40 WiiWare games - currently at 31
15 Games For Windows - currently at 17 Accomplished on 01/06/13
25 VC games - currently at 15
160 Wii games - currently at 160 Accomplished on 02/23/13
5 PS1Classics - currently at 2
50 PSN games - currently at 50 Accomplished on 01/09/13
100 PS3 games - currently at 100 Accomplished on 03/12/13
125 XBLA games - currently at 125 Accomplished on 02/14/13
250 Xbox 360 games - currently at 245
40 PSP games - currently at 30
90 DS games - currently at 81
5 Steam games - currently at 1
130 GCN games - currently at 124
40 Xbox games - currently at 32
65 GBA games - currently at 59
30 PS2 games - currently at 21
5 Dreamcast games - currently at 1
25 GBC games - currently at 16
55 N64 games - currently at 46
15 PS1 games - currently at 8
40 SNES games - currently at 30
5 Game Gear games - currently at 3
15 Genesis games - currently at 9
50 NES games - currently at 41
25 Game Boy games - currently at 17
10 PC games - currently at 6

Optional Goals:
Get a New refurbished NES
Get a 500 GB PS3 Slim
Get a New PC Accomplished on 01/06/13
Get a SEGA Saturn

I still haven't finished my 32x collection, so that is always my overriding goal, and the last game I need is Spiderman:  Web of Fire.  I don't know if I'll ever actually pony up the $200+ to buy it, but maybe one day I'll do it.

Other than that, my goals are relatively modest:

300+ PS2 games Finished 11/17
300+ NES games (49 to go)
200+ PS1 games Finished 11/27
100+ DC games (19 to go)
100+ SNES games Finished 1/24
100+ Xbox games Finished 8/31
75+ Gamecube games Finished 11/17
and pass 2500 total games (67 to go)

Other than that, I just want to get back out and actually hunt again.  I stopped going out and searching for games on a regular basis after I found out my wife was pregnant  about a year and a half ago because I didn't know exactly how much it would affect me financially.  Now that I'm back into a financial comfort zone, I feel good getting back in the game.

I want to hopefully finish off a few more systems on my personal list.

I'm close to completing my personal Xbox collection, and then after that i'll probably move on to ps1 and ps2

By the end of 2013:

Need <10 loose NES games to complete my US set
Get a PAL NES
Finish building my PC Engine + CD-ROM² setup

Collecting Goal for 2013:

Complete my Castlevania Collection ( U.S. release), I need:
Castlevania Dracula X
Castlevania Chronicles
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
Castlevania Lords of Shadows
Castlevania: Lords of Shadows 2
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair ( Digital Download)
Castlevania: Judgement
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Castlevania: The Adventure
Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge
Castlevania: Legends
I might throw Kid Dracula into it, since it is considered a spin-off

I will need to buy a nintendo 3DS before I buy these:
Castlevania: Mirror of Fate
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia

Taking a break from the Castlevania Game Search
I have kinda changed my goals recently to Konami Silver Box Games, trying to reach CIB for all of them, this is what I still need to reach my goal:

Contra manual
Lone Ranger manual and cart
Blades of Steel manual
Castlevania I manual and box
Castlevania II manual and box
Castlevania III manual and box
Life Force manual
Bill Elliot's Nascar manual
Gradius Manual
Goonies II manual
Rush n Attack Manual
Top Gun Manual
Laser Invasion Manual
Stinger All
Super C All

I'm torn on whether to set reasonable but still great goals or just shoot for the moon. I'm leaning towards the former, so here goes:

- 1,500 total games (1,336 as of today) Finished on 10/12/2013
- 600 total NES games (542 as of today) Finished on 10/12/2013
- 100 N64 games (53 as of today) Finished on 1/24/2013

I feel like I could come up with more but I'll stick with this for now.

I'm not setting any crazy goal for this year but here is my goal

Get every system I have games for but don't have the console for.  That would be

Sega CD
Sega Pico
Nintendo 3DS
SNK: Neo Geo Pocket Color
Sony PSP
Leapfrog Leapster
Leapfrog Diji
Atari 2600
Magnavox Odyssey 2
Nokia N-Gage

Also want to collect 50 Sega Dreamcast games. Dreamcast is my biggest goal for now.

Since I joined this site late in 2012 I didn't post my goals for the year. So for 2013 I'm shooting for:

100 Licensed NES games (Currently at 71)
Complete main series Final Fantasy library (I, III [VI], VII, VIII, X, XI, XII, XIII)
25 CIB Sega Genesis games (Currently at 3)
10 SNES RPGs (Currently at 6)
10 PS1/2/3 RPGs (PS1 - 10 [Accomplished June 15], PS2 - 5, PS3 - 4)
10 Wii RPGs (Currently at 5)

2013 Goals:

600+ licensed NES games
650+ licensed NES games
Finish up my Taito subset
Finish up my Capcom subset
Finish up my Konami subset
Finish up my Activision subset
Finish up my KOEI subset
Finish up my LJN subset
Get last remaining Baseball NES games
At least one NES Accessory (Power Glove, Vaus Controller, Miracle Piano, ROB, Laserscope)
1+ new console (Vectrex, Jaguar, Neo Geo CD, Master System)
Get second Exertainment Bike Running


!!!!!!!Must stay focused on NES this time!!!!!!

I'd like to CIB some of my genesis orphans and hit 600 NES games.

Mine is the same as last years. Sell the extra clutter.

Setting some easy goals this year.

475 NES Games ( 35 to go )
100 Sega Genesis ( 20 to go )
65 Nintendo DS ( 13 to go )
15 3DS ( 7 to go )

and find a freakin NOMAD.  I have been wanting one FOREVER!!!!!   But can't seem to find one that isn't expensive.

Time to put something here.

Consoles: Mostly the same as last year
Sega CD
Sega 32X
Philips CD-i

Series:
FINISH SUIKODEN COLLECTION (Remaining games: Card Stories (CIB GBA), Genso Suikoden 1 + 2 (PSP), Genso Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki (PSP)
More Harvest Moons
Breath of Fire
Square SNES games

Games:
700 total items (544)
75 PS1 games (62)
75 PS2 games (66)
50 PS3 games (25)
20 PSP games (22)
100 NES games (100+)
75 SNES games (45)
50 N64 games (27)
30 GC games (23)
Pokemon Blue CIB
10 Master System CIBs (4)
50 Genesis games (34)
10 32X CIBs (8 )
25 Saturn games (7)
30 DC games (19)

Turn my boxed Game Boy into a CIB.

I doubt I'll get all of what I'm looking for this year. But a man can dream, right?

Hardware/Accessories:

- Virtual Boy battery pack or AC adapter

- Virtual Boy stand

- 3DS XL saved for 2014



Software:

- Abadox (NES)

- Metal Storm (NES)

- Oregon Trail 40th Anniversary Edition (3DS)

- TMNT IV: Turtles In Time (SNES)

- Tecmo Super Bowl II (Sega Genesis / MD)

- TransFormers: War for Cybertron (PC)

- TransFormers: Fall of Cybertron (PC)

- Kirby's Return to Dream Land (Wii)

- Deadly Creatures (Wii)


- Skylanders Giants:

     - 3DS Game

  
- Giants Characters- Giants:

   - Thumpback
    
     - Ninjini
      
     - Crusher

     - Eye-Brawl


- Giants Characters- New:

      - Pop Fizz (Lightcore)

      - Chill (Lightcore)
    
      - Hex (Lightcore)
      
     - Hot Dog
    
      - Fright Rider

All NES games published by TENGEN

All NES games published by Konami

I don't expect to complete my 32x collection, but i want to get as close to 30 as possible.

If i have enough money left over after my wedding, maybe I'll pick up Web of Fire :)

Goals for 2013:

-Get remaining Nintendo 64 hardware
--Grape console
--Gold controller
--Millennium 2000 controller
-Get a CIB copy of Star Fox 64
-Get a copy of Super Metroid (SNES, cart only OK)
-Keep under 600 games
-Sell off remaining duplicates and unwanted items


I did OK on my goals from last year, so I hope I can knock off a few more this year.

I think my goals will be far more humble this year as my main financial priorities will keep me from squandering too much in gaming related purchases this year. I plan to keep my 3DS collection growing steadily but that may be it for this year. I'm at 93 games now, so 100 is a very reasonable goal - it'll probably end up being closer to 125.

I'm going to keep it simple this year:

100 more Famicom Games
100 more NES Games
50 more SNES Games
25 more N64 Games

Adventure Island IV for the Famicom
Gimmick! for the Famicom
Battle Kid 1 & 2 for the NES
Duck Tales 2 NES
Rescue Rangers 2 NES

Reserved

I'm hoping to reach 500 total. No particular rhyme or reason to how I do it, just want that to be my goal. I'm at 336 right now with two en route from eBay. Definitely feasible.

OK I want to get games to go along with all my orphaned boxes/manuals, cardboard inserts for all my n64 boxes, and if possible get to 200 N64 games. Let's hope I can get these finished.

i want to aim to have at least 5 games for each system that i actually would enjoy. i have a lot of small collections with less than that many total games, and a few with more total but not many i would likely play. i may also do another audit of my collection, my last one was at the 600 games mark and brought me down to nearly 500. i've been better about not buying everything, but i still have some that i wouldn't miss.

Dreamcast - 5/5
Saturn - 2/5
Wii U - 2/5
Xbox - 3/5 (i have 5 total but 2 of them i don't care for much)
Turbo Grafx-16 - 1/5
Vita - 1/5
Gameboy Advance - 1/5 (2 total, don't care about one)

Aiming to reach 50 "worthwhile" SFC games, and Japanese Final Fantasy set for either PS1 or PS2 (excluding XI).  A total of around 25 games.

Update: Got PS1 & PS2 Final Fantasy main sets [FF7, FF7 Int, FF8, FF9; FF10, FF10 Int, FF10-2, FF10-2 Int, FF12, FF12 Int]
Update: Got over 50 SFC games, although have compromised on "worthwhile" a bit.  

As stated in the introduce yourself thread, my goal this year is to get a correct inventory of my collection, get rid of extras and doubles and get my gaming and storage space organized nicely. I plan on documenting my progress in a blog here to keep me motivated along the way.

Would also be nice to complete my dreamcast and intellivision collections, as they are the closest to complete.

Also get both my pinball machines tuned up and working.

Happy new year all!!

I have almost the same goals as you RetroRage.

Get all the Konami silver box games CIB for NES (I have three already)
Get Mega Man 1,2,3,4, and 6 CIB (I have Mega Man 5 CIB, and 2,3,4 cart only)
Get a total of 35 more CIB NES games this year

Find boxes and manuals for:

Fire N Ice
The Jetson's: Cogswells Capers
Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball
Ducktales 2
Bomberman II

EDIT:  Acquired Mega Man 3 CIB!

ACTIVE:
Finish US Mortal Kombat software collection. (Excluding Tiger releases and DLC)
~30 titles to go. Mostly for Sony systems

Work on Mortal Kombat hardware.
I believe i just need a few controllers but i have not confirmed yet.

POTENTIAL:
Finish Pico software
10 left

GOING TO HAPPEN EVEN IF I DON'T TRY:
300 Xbox 360 games
32 left

Lets see I am hoping for another year of NES. Some lets see I am hoping for something like this:
-50 boxed nes games or boxes and manuals for my loose games.
-500 to 600 nes games total

I will be getting some extra money in February if anyone wants to work on something in bulk of sorts. Let me know.

Hit 400 total games. At 345 now (was at 200 something last year and made a goal of 250)

I've reached a point in my collecting where most of my consoles are, for the most part, complete as far as I'm concerned. Most of them are down to a few scant items left on the wishlist that aren't necessarily expensive, yet haven't shown up in local stores, and I'm not in the mood to buy those items off of eBay. Since my spending has decreased due to a combination of that as well as local stores just not having much in stock anymore, I've decided to start buying games online for the platform that I haven't purchased games for in a long time: the Sega Saturn.

My goal is simply to grab as many titles throughout the year as possible from my wishlist. Unfortunately, I can't think of a rigid wishlist. Another unfortunate thing is that I am focusing on the more expensive US-published games, complete in box. As my current Saturn collection contains mostly complete copies and a good mix of common (such as NiGHTS, VF2, and Daytona USA) and rare (such as Dragon Force and Panzer Dragoon Saga), I shouldn't be breaking the bank too hard on this. Hopefully.

SEGA SATURN GAMES PURCHASED IN 2013
- Shinobi Legions
- Fighters Megamix
- Sonic 3D Blast
- Last Bronx

SEGA SATURN GAMES WISHLIST (subject to change without notice)
- Astal
- Burning Rangers
- Clockwork Knight
- Die Hard Arcade
- Enemy Zero
- Golden Axe: The Duel
- Guardian Heroes
- GunGriffon
- Hang-On GP
- House of the Dead
- Legend of Oasis
- Saturn Bomberman
- Sega Ages
- Shining Force III
- Shining the Holy Ark
- Shining Wisdom
- Sky Target
- Virtua Fighter Remix

- Mystaria: The Realms of Lore/Blazing Heroes (?)

My main goal is to collect all US Castlevania games complete.  I've got 15 so far, many more to go.

I'm also working on sealed Lynx games and Majesco Genesis rereleases.  I know, I'm weird :)

...and, your goal's not much different than mine. I've put a lot of effort into documenting the Majesco rereleases and there's a huge thread on SegaAge about them. I've also got my own set of sealed Lynx games I need to finish off, since there's an Atari liquidation place a couple hours from my house that wholesales them.

1.  Pick up at least 12 of the 24 NES games left to complete my licensed set.
2.  Pick up CIB copies of the two Vectrex 3-D games
3.  Pick up at least 20 loose unowned Atari 2600 titles
4.  Pick up remaining Aracadia Supercharger releases CIB
5.  Pick up 10 loose Colecovision titles

Grails:
1. Pick up Vectrex 3-D Imager w/ 3-D Minestorm
2. Pick up Centaur and Medusa pinball machines  ;D

Gonna cross post the collecting related stuff from a similar post I made elsewhere:

Libraries:
-build up the collections of my most currently neglected systems. I have only a handful of games for Game Boy (currently only 5 GB, 2 GBC, and 4 GBA), Turbo Grafx (6), and Sega Master System (7) right now and want to build those up.
-To a lesser extent, I'd like to build up my Atari 2600 (13), Saturn (11) and Dreamcast (10) collections as well.
-Most of the popular Wii titles should start really dropping in price soon, so I'd like to jump on that and built up a better Wii library while the prices are good.
-Nab the top 20 or so most expensive games on the N64. Get that out of the way and on my way to a complete US set!

Hardware
-Get a new Sega CD and built a modest library for that. I briefly had one, but got rid of it for some reason.
-Hori Gamecube GBPlayer controller.
-Get a pong console. Maybe a Telstar or something.
-Get more second generation consoles and built up some modest libraries for them. Colecovision, Intelllivision, Odyssey2, Vectrex, whatever.
-Virtual Boy, perhaps?
-Master System Light Phaser. How else am I going to play Safari Hunt and Rescue Mission?
-More N64 controllers. I only have one!

Misc
-Continue doing what I've been doing with building up the Nintendo side of my library.
-Finish getting the first two or three years or so of Nintendo Power.
-Try and finish re-building my childhood Game Boy, N64, SNES, and NES libraries. I'm pretty close to this one.

EDIT: added a new goal to the list

Secret of Mana 2 Repro
Dragon Quest 3 SNES Repro ( If someone makes it)
Terranigma Repro
Wild Guns (maybe)
Complete Super Ghoul N Ghosts
Dokapon Kingdom
More Genesis
More 3DS
-And-
Sell or get rid of some of the stuff I've been holding on to forever.

1. Systems:

I'd like to pick up at least one of these older systems:
-Magnavox Odyssey (original)
-Emerson Arcadia
-Atari 5200
-Atari 7800

I'd like to have at least 2 of these:
-Sega 32X
-Sega Dreamcast
-Xbox
-Atari Jaguar (longest shot right now)

If the next XBOX or Playstation come out, I want to get in on the ground floor (I haven't owned a system during it's heyday since I got a Game Boy in 1989)  

2. Games:

I'd like to finish off my list of targeted Master System games:
-Fantasy Zone 2
-Power Strike 2 (optional)
-Donald Duck: The Lucky Dime Caper (optional)[/s]

I'd like to add 15 or so titles to my NES collection. I've begun doing some targeted shopping which has helped me keep the quality of my pickups. A more specific goal I have is to complete my NES Mega Man collection (I'm missing 4 and 6).

I think that most of my other collections could use a little bit of expanding, especially the 16 bit stuff.

I'm satisfied with most of my second gen collections except for my Odyssey 2. I would absolutely love to score the big 3 board/video games.

3. Other:

I would like to start selling systems/games that are not essential parts to my collection

I would really like to try to have all of the proper wiring/connectors to run my systems. Right now, I can usually find a way to play but there's too much mixing and matching.

I would absolutely love to pick up a high def TV. I still have an old school TV which is cool for retro stuff, but if I plan to delve in new systems, an HDTV is a must.

Goals:
400 CIB NES Games-Currently (1/28) at 353, this will be the toughest considering how uncommon/expensive the games are getting
Complete my CIB US 32X set-1 game remaining
Complete my NES Konami Silver Box set-3 games remaining

have full sets

ps1 #-z set 448gigs
ps2 #-z set 1.77tbs
GameCube #-z set 665gigs


3DO-Jap 18gigs
3DO-Interactive Multiplayer 40gigs part 1
3DO-Interactive Multiplayer 149gigs part 2

MS-DOS Games 18gigs
eXo-DOS Games 270gigs

Sega-Saturn USA 81gigs
Sega-Saturn JAP 104gigs
Sega-Saturn EUR 67gigs

Xbox 1 part 1 400gigs

 PC-Engine CD / TurboGrafx-CD 132gigs

Need to get

xbox 1 part 2 and part 3
all tosec and old classics
and more i just cant think of the names

So far 12 games over my 500 NES games Total for the year.

Up to 371 of that total and it's only February...Would like to make ALL of my loose carts become CIB too.

Passed both of my collection goals - Over 50 boxed NES Games or Boxes & Manuals for loose games achieved & well over 600 games total in NES/Famicom

Well, let's see. Last year I bought a house and I managed to complete just about one goal as a result. This year I'm more likely to make some goals.

1/10/2014 - Yeah, these goals went no-where. Medical bills suck.

• Increase my Playstation collection to over 100 games with a focus on rpgs and adventure games (Currently 82)

- 85 - FAILED

• Increase my NES collection to at least 85 games (Currently 72)

- FAILED

• Increase my Dreamcast collection to 35 games (Currently 27)

- FAILED

• Increase my Colecovision collection to include some of the best games of the console that I don't have

- FAILED

• Increase my 3DO collection with an emphasis on FMV games, specifically Night Trap.

- FAILED

• Get a Sega Saturn

  - FAILED

• Get an Atari Jaguar

- FAILED

• Start trying to find more boxed games for older system. Most of my collection is currently all loose

- Got a couple
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Goal for the year, reach 1000 total on my collection.   Currently at 883, 117 to go.  Excelsior!  933/1000  67 to go!

Update:  Broke this goal on 03/15/13, sadly 143 of those are Steam entries... Oh well :)

That be a good goal! But as we discussed you did buy the two systems that were last on ur list muwahaha so that's got to be a backwards milestone ;-D

Planned goals for the year are mostly to expand my cartridge collection.

Hoping to get:

1. 100+ Atari 2600 -(So far picked up 3 console variations and 60 or so games)
2. 50-100+ NES  -(Sitting around 29 right now found a good source at a local flee market though so hitting 50 should be easy once i get some cash :P)
3. 20+ SNES
4. 50+ Genesis (Currently at 18)

More Specific Goals:

Would like to complete my .hack collection on the PS2. Might also consider picking up the G.U. series (Only have Part 1: Infection so far :P)

Also would like to complete my Final Fantasy collection for the PS. All i have left to acquire is Final Fantasy Anthology.

New goals since I passed my others:

Get down to between 50 and 10 nes games left to get by June or July maybe August.
By December be down to 1 or 2 NES titles left.

http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=11541.msg167314#msg167314

Tie up my loose ends (collecting wise; see link above

Picked up Castlevania: The Adventure and Castlevania: Circle of the Moon from ebay. So I am moving closer, and closer to my goal

I plan on doing this myself before the end of the year.

150 Atari 8 bit cartridges in my collection ( at 142 now)

Adding any magazines and accessories I can find along the way

This year Im thinking aboot completting my N64 collection (loose cart)

Get All my Final Fantasy Games CIB

Making all my Genesis games CIB. I can deal with SNES carts only. Genesis and Master System must at least have the box.
Want to get a few CIB Super Famicom games.

Updated goals:

*get up to 4800 games total NOW 4900 games is goal
*down to 60 nes games needed by end of July
*down to between 3-10 nes games needed by end of the year

Probably something like:

*50 complete N64 games
*50 complete Dreamcast games
*Get as many Data East/West & Beam Software games as I can
*going for all the pikachu systems

not sure what DE & Beam will entail as far as rarities still need to do some research
n64 and dc i'll just grab games I like or want to try

Up to 465. Looks like I won't have a problem.

Get Xenogears OST,Ys 25th Artbook.

A few more OST's and a few Super Famicom CIB games

I've been slowly collecting for a long time..Never really had any focus.  I would just pick up stuff when i could find it cheap. I Plan to narrow my goals down a little.  (focus on NES, SNES, or n64. Haven't decided yet)

updated my goals, added my Konami Silver Box Goal to my list

I chose to do the same thing, but my focus is on a complete N64 set.  I am 6 games away from halfway there!

There's a pretty good chance I'll be moving somewhere with less space, and as I'm going on to year 3 of this collecting adventure the novelty of hoarding every piece of retro 'ware is beginning to wear off a little bit.  So, I'll probably be parting ways with quite a few things that I don't care I have.  As I should, because I don't need 6 Game Boy Pockets just because they're different colors.

BUT, I'm not done collecting.  Not even close.  I'm just readjusting my mission.  I really enjoy doing NES subsets, which apparently is what all the cool kids are doing these days and in a way the cheapest way to feed the addiction.  Because getting married, saving money to finance a house (psh yeah right), having kids in the next few years...in other words, being an adult and managing priorities is really beginning to take hold and squeezing all my F.U. money.


































Who am I kidding, I'm gonna keep buying everything I see.

That's the spirit!

From a person who has a wife and kids, you can still have some fun money. Just learn to flip some stuff and have the hobby earn you some money to goof around with.

You can also start aiming for title quality instead of quantity. Find fewer, better games.

I went this route about a year ago and haven't looked back since.

What is this sickness that you folks are spreading???

26 MK games left - according to current RFG DB stats. Unfortunately i know there are a few missing.
No new MK hardware picked up.

No progress on Pico.

10 games away on 360.

I hit my goal of 500 games! Now sitting at 502. If I could just find all those boxes and manuals to make them all CIB I'll be set.

500 nes games?

I'm going to set my goals a little lower and looser.

1 - Sega CD console
1 - TG-16 console

3 - Sega CD games (almost anything)
3 - TG-16 games (almost anything)
3 - NES games (specific from my wanted list)
3 - SNES games (specific from my wanted list)
3 - SMS games CIB (specific from my wanted list)
3 - Genesis games CIB (specific from my wanted list)

My goals might seem meager, but it's realistic, and given my current situation I'd be proud and happy if I could pull it off.

Wow, I did most of this MUCH faster than I thought. I finally found a place that sells older stuff.

I'm getting a Sega CD from eBay

From a shop I got;
Sega CD - Flashback with case (no manual)
NES - R.C. Pro-Am, Batman, and Deadly Towers
SNES - Populous
SMS - Alien Syndrome CIB, Golvellius with case (no manual), Time Soldiers with case (no manual)
GEN - Super Thunder Blade CIB, After Burner II with case (no manual), Zoom! CIB

It's the first time in a decade I've seen or bought anything outside of eBay and it was well worth it.

I think it's time to make a goal out of getting rid of some shit. My house is only so big and I already have an entire room dedicated to these things, many of which I will never play.

I need to get CIB legend of Zelda and CIB Ocarina of Time by the end of the year. 

You know, the rfgen white elephant gift exchange is right around the corner......

New Goals for the remainder of the year:
*Get down to less than 50 NES games needed to complete licensed set 10 More To Go - Please Help
*Purchase 1 rare or semi rare NES title boxed or cart only Picked up Ninja Gaiden 3 For Semi-Rare
---Not Important Goals
*Purchase 20 More unique PS1 Titles
*Possibly purchase Panzer Dragoon Saga or Tales of Destiny 1 & 2 or Valkyrie Profile
*Add 20 More Boxed Super Famicom or Famicom games to my growing library.

Just noticed that I'm only 5 away from 500 actual games in my collection, so my immediate goal is to pass that this weekend when I hit yard sales.  After this past week and a "surprise" from Singlebanana on Monday, I now have 502 total games, so that goal's been easily passed.  Thanks to that singular yellow fruit for that.  ;) Other goals I'd like to achieve by the end of the year:
--Hit 200 NES titles: Only 2 to go now, and hoping that the rest of that will come with completing the Tengen NES subset (Only 3 to go on that one: After Burner, Toobin', and Fantasy Zone)  Did this a little while back, with my 212th and most recently purchased title being Hatris.
--Find at least 1 Final Fantasy SNES game for less than $50 that is NOT Mystic Quest.
--Find both a Sega Genesis console and a SNES console, since I only have a RetroN 3 and not the actual consoles at the moment.
--Finally, make both of my copies of Gradius III and Contra III complete: Gradius III just needs a manual, and Contra III
needs both a manual and the cardboard insert for the box.

No worries, a big dent in this number is coming your way sir. :)

One more game to finish off my Konami Silver Box Collection - King's Quest V

Still Working on my Castlevania Collection, picked up Lords of Shadow on ebay over the weekend. So I can mark another one off the list.

Just picked up King's Quest V on ebay, I have accomplished my goal. I now have all Silver Box Konami Games which are either CB or CIB. I am pretty sure only two of them are CB, so all I need to grab are the manuals

I recently discovered that I have a lot of the more expensive Dreamcast games due to one lot I got like 10 years ago on ebay for 60$ (2x Mars Matrix, Bangai-O, D2, Shenmue, Gunbird 2, Tech Romancer, Skies of Arcadia, Project Justice) so I figure I'll go for a complete Dreamcast NA CIB collection which might not be too difficult at this point.

I still ~170 games away though so I reckon I won't be done by end 2013 but I can probably get pretty close by getting a couple of lots on ebay.

Thanks, financially irresponsible past self!

In a similar boat here.

Well 2013 is almost over and I only started to recollect 3rd and 4th generation consoles and games this summer. By the end of 2013, im shooting for 100 NES games. I am currently at 68

hmm. that was too easy. Still a month of 2013 left and I hit my goal.. Well my new goal is to own a Sega Saturn with at least one (hopefully 2) Working Designs titles. I have been eying up copies of Albert Odysee, Shining Wisdom and Magic Knight Rayearth at Crabby's store.

I dont think I have enough time to complete my Capcom and Konami NES subsets.