Why did you start collecting?

[NaughtyDogJames]

I'l fill it in for me when it's not 23:26.

[Matt]

Well for me its like I sort of have to collect something.. Iv grown up with crazes of Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Crazy Bones. I collected Pokemon alot a little when i was like 7 and from about 9 onwards it moved onto Yu-Gi-Oh, but with trading cards they ended up sitting there and doing nothing.(I suppose you could say the same thing about collecting games but I'll continue..)

Since I was about 17/18 I thought "Hey! Why not collect the games I loved most as a child and keep them sealed?". Alot harder than I thought.. though my first sealed game I collected was a Black Label Tomb Raider 1 for the Playstation I then thought about all the other games I loved as a child.. which was primarily Crash Bandicoot, Spyro The Dragon, Tomb Raider, MediEvil Etc.. So Iv mainly focused on Crash Bandicoot for now and expanded it towards what Naughty Dog released as I grew older(Jak and Daxter and Uncharted).. so as I grew older with the rest of Naughty Dog's games and decided to make a collection out of them(And the others but Naughty Dog games take priority).

Maybe It's because I don't want to grow up and just be a child again for when life was easy and Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Video Games were more fun.. because let's face it.. the classic games and playing Pokemon on the Gameboy Color was an amazing experience and will be some of the best memories I have whilst growing up!

That's my piece.. looking forward to what everyone else has to say!

[vhal_x]

Okay, I'm on my 3DS right now so my answer probably won't be very good

Spoilered quite a large chunk as I ramble too much

Spoiler!

Ever since I was a little kid, I've always had that collector mentality. An addictive personality.

I've collected Pokemon cards, Pokemon toys, Harry Potter toys, TY Beanie Babies, Me to You bears, pogs, Crazy Bones, Happy Meal toys, Bratz dolls, books, designer handbags/shoes/clothes, makeup, perfume, etc. I don't think there's really a point in my life where I haven't collected something.

Throughout my childhood, I never really had video games. I mean, I had a Gameboy Pocket that my grandparents bought for me (so I could play Pokemon) and an old Sega Master System II that my granda had picked up cheap at a car boot sale.

Eventually, I got a PS1, with a handful of games, and I spent a lot of time on that.

I missed N64s, Gamecubes and many other gens of gaming though. I didn't even have a Gameboy Color.

So after a while, because I didn't ever really have friends nearby (I lived over 20 miles from school), my parents bought me my first PC, and some games for it (The Sims, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, etc), as well as a GBASP.

I still didn't have many games, so eventually got a little bored of gaming.

I preferred to play games whilst at my grans, as my Uncle Jim had a PS2 and a lot more games than me, so I'd spend time before and after school each day playing his PS2 (my gran lived 5 mins from my school, so my parents would drop me off each morning before school and pick me up at night).

In 2005, my Uncle Jim sadly passed away, and I inherited the PS2 and the games. I didn't play them very much after that as I went into a rebellious stage, started drinking with friends, smoking, etc. Being a little dickhead, really.

Eventually I grew out of that, and got back into playing the PS2, and in 2007, for passing my exams, my parents bought me a DS Lite with some games, and my grandparents bought me an Xbox 360 with a handful of games.

This then restarted my love of gaming, and I started to collect standard copy games, although I didn't manage to gain many over the years as I didn't really try hard

Fast forward to 2010, got with Allan, got pregnant, he started to collect CEs (after already collecting normal games, too) and I used to help him look for specific CEs, since I was home all day whilst he was at work (I finished school not long after I got pregnant, not because of that, just because I had finished high school).

Searching for specific CEs all day everyday, understandably, I eventually got interested in them myself, et voila, somewhere between May-June 2011, I started the collect CEs myself, and here we are xx

[Platfus]

My first CE was Assassin's Creed Revelations Collectors edition that I bought on Launch party, because I was huge Assassin's Creed fun, but I only played AC2 and AC Bloodlines, then I bought that CE and then Codex edition. Maybe I will write bigger post later

[Xmo]

I upgraded my coolness level, thats why. lol
Isn't it exciting picking up a CE edition rather than the standard

I started when I bought Assassins Creed Brotherhood jack in the box because it was around $20 and told myself "wait a minute" all the AC games have collector's and limited edition and part of me said I should collect atleast one CE from each game. I started last year and my biggest goal that year was getting the Altair and Ezio Black statues and I couldn't afford whats on ebay. when I searched all google revealed the existence of ebay.co.uk site which is like seeing prophet Jesus in front of me. 3 black editions for 80 gbp, I nearly had a heart attack lol.

[Platfus]

Yeah, main part of my stuff I got in 2012 like Codex edition, Auditore edition, gift edition, black edition and stuff like that.

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[LowlyAssassin]

i thought i already answered on of these somewhere
i call duplicate thread
mos` do your magic and do a thread merge

[KianRockz]

First I started collecting Collectors Editions. The first was the SWTOR CE. After I got the Dishonored Preorder Steelbook and the Borderlands 2 Steelbook from the Ultimate Loot Chest, I started collecting Steels because they looked so awesome.

Now I have a lot of them^^

[vhal_x]

Originally Posted by KianRockz

First I started collecting Collectors Editions. The first was the SWTOR CE. After I got the Dishonored Preorder Steelbook and the Borderlands 2 Steelbook from the Ultimate Loot Chest, I started collecting Steels because they looked so awesome.

Now I have a lot of them^^

That doesn't really answer the question of "Why?" xx

[comaamen86]

been at it for 3 years almost started as i felt like i was missing out on content if i got the standard instead of collectors edition.