This month’s collector has a particular love for NEC’s TurboGrafx-16

This month’s reader, Pete, is a clever old soul because his impressive videogame collection has grown along with him. “I started with the Atari 2600,” he tells us. “I held onto most of my games, and as I reached my mid-twenties I started to buy older games I missed out during my childhood. So I think that was the tipping point when I also became a collector.

Many of us covet the games we didn’t own growing up, and Pete is no different. In his case, a regular income allowed him to focus on a complete collection for the TurboGrafx-16, a console he used to love playing at his neighbour’s house. “Once I started collecting games in my twenties, I became fascinated with the console again,” he says. “There were only 138 titles released in the United States, so it didn’t feel like an overwhelmingly large amount of games to collect. I decided to try and collect a full set, complete in their flimsy boxes. The games themselves are already on the rare side, so collecting copies with the boxes made it extra challenging.”