Greetings to my fellow collectors!

[Venger]

Hi everyone! This is a great forum and one I enjoy reading through daily, though I haven't posted much previously. It is really cool to have a place that is global in scope for those who like to both collect and game. I have been able to import a couple games I wanted thanks to the help of members here who have been top notch to deal with. Thought I would take the opportunity to throw up a post a quick bit about me and with some of my gaming setup.

Anyway, I am from Virginia in the US and have been a gamer for a long time. (Yeah, I like Doritos and Mountain Dew, not just a stereotype) I didn't really start collecting until the Neo Geo AES came out and back then it was extremely expensive to buy a cart and much harder to import. I also collected PS1 and Saturn games, especially JRPG's. When I got into performance cars, I decided I would rather sink my money into that and sold off much of my gaming gear, only keeping what I was currently playing.

After getting married and a place of my own with a dedicated gaming area, I got back into gaming heavily. This time I didn't go the console route initially, but put together a PC. I started playing through all the Infinity Engine games, got into Guild Wars and WoW and played Unreal Tournament heavily. I also am big into ARPG's and have spent thousands of hours with D2, D3, Sacred, PoE and others. After just playing a bunch, I started collecting again, but at first just with original Black Isle games as they were my favorite. I have expanded a bunch since then, but still focus mostly on PC titles as the platform is so vast.

Once my son got old enough and we started gaming together, I jumped in with PS3/Xbox One/PS4/WiiU on the console side. We played a lot of Destiny together and have played a number of FPS and RTS on PC. We are both fairly competitive, he just happens to be much better in most games.

Anyway, here a some pics of my gaming setup and collection:

Most of my relaxed console gaming happens here:



Old school PC Games, some sealed, all complete, from Fallout to Pillars of Eternity. Neo Geo 4-slot MVS Big Red and Capcom Big Blue. The Neo is an original 4 slot and the Big Blue runs the Darksoft CPS2 Multikit that plays all Capcom CPS2 titles. Both are fully 100% restored top to bottom.:



Gaming chair facing an LG 65" OLED (absolutely beautiful picture for gaming) with console A/V setup all under the watchful eye of a cigar puffing Jim Raynor before Blizzard was neutered:



55" LG C9 OLED 4K PC Gaming setup, uses a RTX 3090 and a OC'd X299 etc. Also a PS4 and Switch connected to this setup. At some point I will swap in my PS5, but for now that is connected to a 65" Samsung Q upstairs. The set of Zelda, Fire Emblem and Xenoblade related Amiibo and Borderlands stuff:



Some Monster Hunter, Nier, Fire Emblem and a bunch of Dragon Age stuff:




More games which are next to my son's gaming setup:



Bunch of Souls/Bloodborne and Sekiro stuff from Demon Souls Deluxe to Dark Souls 3 Prestige, Bloodborne pendants and figures and my Sega New Net City with Toshiba PF. It runs a Namco System 256 and was a dedicated Tekken 5 machine back in the day in Japan. Also my Titanfall stuff which I am putting together a display for.




Wasn't easy to get a candy cab in this condition to the east coast, but well worth it.

Here are some closer pics of what has become gaming sprawl:










Anyway, I could go on and on about games both past, present and future, but that's more than enough rambling for now.