RETROBATES MULL OVER THE SCENE’S MOST INTRIGUING ISSUES
KEEPING COLLECTIONS
The team discuss collecting games
DARRAN JONES
NICK THORPE
TIM EMPEY
While it’s perfectly possible to enjoy retro games without taking up whole rooms of your house, many of us still choose to follow the path of relentless acquisition in the pursuit of building collections. We recently took the time to examine our own approaches to this, and why we’ve adopted them.
NICK
Here’s a nice and simple question to start us off – to what extent do you consider yourself to be a game collector?
DARRAN
Well I must have around 1,000 physical games across both retro and modern systems so I’m absolutely a collector.
NICK
For me, I’ve got about 1,200 games so I’m undeniably a collector. But I’m not 100% happy with the label, as there’s a lot about the collector’s market that I can do without.
TIM
I’m not a collector. I used to be, sort of, in that I kept all the games I’d bought – but it was never about building a collection. But then when I moved to England I just gave away all my PlayStation games to a mate. After that was a cycle of buying and trading in games after I finished them, so I never built up much of a collection ever again. So these days I’m pretty much all about digital downloads, which is just further exacerbated by the likes of Game Pass. I just don’t feel the need to build up a load of stuff that will just end up in boxes, or sitting on a shelf. I don’t often replay games I’ve already finished with.