Have you ever purposefully horded stuff away?

[Macabre]

Not really off topic since I was thinking of doing this with some DC/sega stuff.

I realized that I have a tendency to "rotate" back to some of my older hobbies that I've forgotten about or lost interest in, simply by relocating some stuff related to those hobbies.

For example, I used to play mtg a lot around a decade ago, but haven't really put much in to the game until just recently when I re-found my decks & collection.

Its fun again, although I'm unsure for how long it will hold my appetite.

When the Sega Saturn came out, I actually had all of my genesis/32x/cd stuff stored away in a foot locker that I had completely forgotten about until I moved from home to school, and found it when taking things with me. It completely revitalized my love for that system simply because I had forgotten about it for so long.



I'm thinking about doing this on purpose now. I don't like the idea of ditching 100% of my sega stuff and games, but I have many backup systems, and an impressive library, as well as specific games that I play often...

What I was thinking was storing 98% of my collection, and leaving basically a skeleton crew of games out for each system, for example just PSO for DC, just battle garegga for Saturn, and maybe a cartridge or two for just the basic genesis unit (no upgrades).

That way, after a decade, I will have had my fill with the current generation systems, and then be able to fall back in love with my Sega awesomeness again..



Input?

[pcwzrd13]

I don't know if I'd go as far as storing stuff away but I do find myself losing interest in systems all the time. I usually just don't play them for a while and then something will make me want to play them again. Usually it's something like watching a YouTube video or reading an article about that system and it makes me want to play it again. This is one of the reasons I started Dreamcast Live. It keeps things fresh and interesting with the Dreamcast and gives me incentive to try new games or refreshes my interest in games I haven't played in a while. A great example would be the current competition game, Wetrix+. It's a really fun and addictive puzzle game that I might never have taken a second look at if it wasn't suggested to me for a competition. Anyway, I don't see much point in boxing up the systems. Why not just take a break from playing them for a while? Wait until something sparks your interest again.

[dark]

I am the same way as pcwzrd.

I'd also like to get in on these dclive contests as soon as I get myself a tv
Sounds like a fun incentive to replay my fav dc games, and show off at the same time

[pcwzrd13]

I'd also like to get in on these dclive contests as soon as I get myself a tv
Sounds like a fun incentive to replay my fav dc games, and show off at the same time

The more the merrier! We could always use some more participants. and yes, a TV would be required.

[daniel116]

I lended my dreamcast for a friend so he can finish shenmue and it took him so long to give it back to me that when I finally did get it back it felt like I was using the dreamcast for the first time again, what a wonderful feeling!

[DCUltrapro]

I have issues like this too lol, quite often I will have to go rummaging for something again and I'll come across my old comic binders or collectors cards binders or an old console I haven't used in years. For instance recently I had my Jaguar out again because I went through my boxes and I ended up purchasing a truck load of stuff for it, now I'm going back to my Saturn and that's going to be positioned in the living room now strategically so I can get some play in on that as I have just bought Guardian Heroes, Alien Trilogy and Metal Black, and I have master system and mega drive emulators on my DC so I am never far from any of them but I always end up rotating the console I'm interested in that's not either my DC or 360 lol, both of those will be forever in pride of place

[Neohound]

I have definitely got the hoarding gene, one step away from a squirrel. Especially Dreamcast stuff, I packed everything I owned into boxes in the loft around 2003 only to dig them out a few years later when Under Defeat got released. They went back in the loft only to see the light of day again when I joined DC-Talk. Now I've got more space, I think I'll always have a Dreamcast set up though.

I've got loads of Home movie cine films from the 1990's. I only get them out occasionally so they don't get boring and still seem interesting to watch.

[DCUltrapro]

lol, wow home movie cine films? does that mean the kind of home movie films that you have to run via a massive cinema style projector? that reminds me of the bit in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation when Griswald gets stuck in the attic, is freezing and goes in a box to find clothes, finds old home movies and sits there in an old womans nighty with gloves on watching old family vids... awesome lol

I horde my DC stuff but I refuse to buy games I consider to be shit or something I won't ever play. So for example I wont buy a game like buzz lightyear or 101 dalmations, or Japanese dating sims, I don't care about getting a full collection, just a nice, consistently awesome one will do me same for all my other consoles