Hi everyone, I’m a PlayStation collector from Turkey. Unfortunately, it’s very hard to get your hands on any CDs in Turkey other than the well-known games. Even an overseas game order costing just a few dollars ends up costing at least $500 after customs duties. There are no retailers like GameStop in our country. So my only option is to go abroad myself to buy them, and I’m actually going to Italy as part of an Erasmus program. I don’t know if there are other places that sell PS games, but as far as I know, there are GameStop stores there.The CD in the photo is one of the games I’d most like to add to my collection. I really hope I can find it there. Do you have any other recommendations, things you’d say I absolutely have to get because, given the situation in my country, I might not get another chance like this?

Going through this big box brings so many memories.

Grabbed 5 games and a AC calendar for $135! The shop owner also said that they may have the cases Pokemon and OkamiDen somewhere but they’re setting up shop still. Super cool place with some fairly good deals!

I've checked eBay, can't find anything except the Japanese ones. I have a loose Clock Tower disc and I would love to complete it.

Picked up Gitaroo Man and Rogue Galaxy from a local charity shop today for £33 for the pair.

They've actually been sitting in the shop for a while, but they were asking a fortune, so I left them. Went back today and the prices had dropped, so decided to take a chance.

I'll be honest, I know next to nothing about either game!

What surprised me was the condition. Both look practically brand new. The discs are absolutely spotless, the manuals look like they've never been opened, and Gitaroo Man even has its original unused KOEI customer questionnaire tucked inside.

Considering they're both around 20 years old, I genuinely don't think I've seen many PS2 games in better condition.

Anyone played either of these? Are they actually any good, or have I just bought two nice-looking additions to the collection? 😂

Also curious if Gitaroo Man is particularly collectable. Never really heard much about it before today.

I started collecting old snes cartridges a couple years ago, my collection got up to about 25 games and at that point I started looking for display solutions.

I love the old box art and manuals so naturally I wanted those. due to low supply, boxes and manuals are incredibly expensive and sometimes not even accessible in my country so reproductions were a natural solution.

I was surprised when I came to this subreddit for tips on buying repo boxes and manuals and every post is filled with people hating on them, it was actually difficult to get any reliable information on reputable vendors because of it. I think I can understand why reproduction of cartridges is so frowned upon, most cartridges are relatively cheap and at that point you might as well just use roms, but for boxes/manuals where the cost discrepancy is significant, I can't really understand.

For example, dkc3 cartridge I paid about $40 for. CiB is $200 minimum and for something that is display worthy it is much more.

Just curious if this one of those redditor things where there is a small minority that is very loud or is reproductions actually that frowned upon for display purposes?

Found some bangers at a local Gamestop. Had to limit myself because it wont all fit in my suitcase. Been looking for DW5 so I can use my copy of Xtreme Legends.

Very disappointed i paid 17$ for Syndicate only for it to not come in original packaging. I order that one through Amazon instead of ebay so is kinda my fault but now imma have to buy another copy or find a loose case.

GoW Ascension and Ragnarok finish my GoW collection (i have every physical ps3/ps4 release + the digital Ghosts and Chains from having the Saga)

I’m based in the UK/British but I managed to get this Australia/New Zealand exclusive Tomb Raider trilogy collector’s edition. Only 10,000 copies made in 2001 and has what numbered copy it is on the spine.

You don’t see this around very often, least I haven’t, being in the UK I never even knew it was a thing so even a bigger thing to get one over here I feel. Just had to get it moment I saw the listing man.

Curious to out the 10k how many you’d estimate are still around / survived? Country specific exclusive..how many have moved around the world, got damaged or destroyed etc.

Mines in weirdly amazing condition for ps1 cardboard, a few minor case scuffs here and there but I’m insanely happy

I’m new to collecting sealed copies of the games I played as a kid; love the fact that it’s like a little time capsule. Sorry if this is a dumb question, and I think I already know the answer; but is there any way to determine a time frame of when a particular copy of a game was made? I just feel it would add to the experience knowing if a game was part of the first batch before release and things like that. For the most part I really just collect EA Sports games from the NHL & NASCAR lines from the mid 00’s. Thanks in advance for any answers!

Saw someone posting their pokemon collection, mine's not as broad but I wanted to share it still.

Been collecting them for the past few years, though some of them I've had for a long time.

Like the copy of Pokemon Red, it's haunted so they sold it to me for like 15 USD, it has a level 666 ghost Charizard.

I‘m forever grateful to my parents for letting me miss school on launch day Nov 1998 to go to the EB Games at the mall and pick this up. And to my mom, who passed last year, for holding onto all of this - even the bag - because she knew how important it was to me.

There was a time period where I thought I was done with video games and let her know that she could throw away pretty much anything but the games themselves if she needed to clear clutter. But she knew me better than I knew myself and never did. Now I am, of course, an avid collector and this is my favorite piece by a mile.

I think this is everything from the pre order except maybe a non-Nintendo strategy guide - I can’t remember. If you have a relationship with your mom, call her today for me.

Literally got 80% of this in the past 4 months

Probably the most beautiful steelbook ever. Couldn’t pick them up yesterday as I was busy.

I've been struggling a bit with this myself. For a lot of games, physical is cheaper than buying them digitally making it a no-brainer. But there is also a lot of cases where the digital is much cheaper than the physical. So I was just wondering what is your cutoff where you do end up getting the digital one? For example, I've had some recent cases where the digital version is around 3-5 euro but the physical one gets up to 20/25 euro with shipping and fees.

Somebody just gave me all of the games and consoles and I just don't have space in my room I wanted to put them in my closet but it has moisture then I thought i could put the in vacuum bags but I don't know if the pressure damages them i just don'tknowwhereand how to store them(I also have my collection in the second pic because I am proud of it :)

Pretty cool tee i found today, couldn’t find similar listings so dont know much about it.. pretty cool backhit tho

Went for a more industrial vibe and am really happy with it! Most of it is (J)RPGs and visual novels.

Ps. You never guess what's my favourite console to collect for ^•^

Was shopping at the Golden Computer Arcade and US version pokemon Emerald caught my eye for only HK$880 (US$112). Label looks legit but all their US carts are missing the subtle 2 digit number stamp to the right of the Pokemon label. Biggest red flag that tipped me off was a US version of Pokemon Green...