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... I'm not going to spoil it, but the title of the thread is very fitting.

HOLY BARBEQUE, Batman!

That is without a doubt, hands down, THE coolest room I've ever seen in my life! The built in NES bench alone I thought was cool, but as I let the page load... I never this way... but.... OMG!

I looked at that, then I looked at my collection, then I cried.

You know what's funny, though? I bet Gibby looks through all the games and says, "I don't feel like playing any of these games, I'm gonna go rent something."

I hereby pronounce Gibby the "Biggest Nintendo Fan Ever"!

And it seems that Nintendo is only a small part of his total collection...

Wow

Oh man that guy is a freak!!!!!

I wonder what job the guy is doing. That collection has to be worth at least 50000 dollars. No, much more?!... What do you think?
I look at my tiny collection and that's already far over 2000$ until now.
That guy is just insane.
I want to be his heir!

And all that in 25 years of collecting. I wonder where I will be in 25 years from now...

I was browsing his site and took a look at his want list. What does a guy who has all that still want? Halo and Halo 2!

I also noticed he links to NES Files from his front page. Much respect!

wait ..........who's Gibby?

The freak is Gibby.
He's the guy with the huge collection, which this thread is about.

Yeah, i know that but i want to know who the heck he is.Not just that but not like i need to know.

seen that before.............. Not in real life but on

WOW!!!!!!! I my brother tells me I have a lot of games. I would like to see how much he has spent on all those games.

I wouldn't!

I wouldn't!


LOL. I wonder how many games he has...?

I did some math, and the loose NES carts on the upper two shelves in the one image total up to 635 or somewhere around there, I didn't include Famicom carts, or the half shelf below he upper ones, or any boxed ones he may have. but that's a lot of carts.

He says on his main site he has 5503 games. 1420 of which are NES/famicom. I guess quite a few of those are doubles.

I said it already but: Wow.

Let's see, I have about 100-150 now. ...
That will take some years. I doubt he played all the games he owns, though, where I can say I played all of mine.

http://www.nescapades.com/gameroom.htm

... I'm not going to spoil it, but the title of the thread is very fitting.

Woah! Who ever has that room must be rich!

What a huge collection!

That guy deserves to be in the Guinness Records.

Perhaps he is?

But I think there's a bigger collection... it's not private, but that must be bigger.
The archives of the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. I'm sure they have far over 10000 pieces.

Woah!

Oh man, I guess someone found my room

No j/k , jeez he must beemployed at a gming store or somthing. He must have goten some of it from older siblings no doubt

This was taken from the "Collection Journey" from the home page of that site (for those of you who really want to know)...

The Video Game Conspiracy!



My first recollection of video games begins in 1980.



Only 7 at the time one of my friends had gotten this thing called the Atari and wanted me to come over and play games. I had played Pong and the Sears equivelant but to me the description of a console that played different games at home seemed unbelievable.



After playing the 2600 for one day I was Hooked on console gaming forever. This was in mid-spring or so and was forced to live in denial until that following Christmas. My first Atari 2600 was the greatest gift I “at that time” thought there ever could be. Over the next several years my collection grew but the exitement of the Atari faded and eventually I went back to Coin-ops.



History repeated itself in 1986 when another friend had gotten the Nintendo Entertainment System. We spent nights, weekends, summers piled up with our friends playing every game we could. Unlike the Atari it would be almost 2 years “X-mas of ’88” before I got mine.



Eventually I went on to also buy the SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, Sega 32X, & Playstation before I began to “really” collect games. In 1998 I had an estimated 200 games “Mostly Atari”.



Sitting on my couch one day playing some suck ass PSX game I had just bought for $50. I began thinking to myself how of all these systems looking back I still enjoyed my ole NES more than anything I owned. Looking at my dozen or so carts I thought “I have yet to experience all that great system has to give”.



I vowed the next time I went to a used store I would check out some old NES Games. When I did I was amazed at the prices and watched dozens of people bring in garbage bags full of games for trade on one or two used PSX or Saturn games. I started hitting every game store, pawn shop, & flea market buying games left and right $1, $2, $5 each.



Before I knew it my collection had amassed over 100+ carts. I couldn’t believe how many titles there were. Soon I was digging up checklists of every game for every system I owned. I always went in looking for Nintendo games but picked up tons of other games whenever I saw deals. I was sucked into the craze of die-hard collecting.



I was building cabinets, printing lists, constantly looking for games to add to my numbers. “Only 10 more games and I’ll have 500, 1000, etc.” Now sitting in my addition I built onto the house aka “The game room” Staring at my walls of games, shelves of consoles, thousands of dollars. I think …was I crazy? Am I insane? HELL YES!



Damn you Mario, Damn you to hell … you have poisoned my mind & soul & emptied my pockets with your NES!



Alas – I wouldn’t want it any other way

I was wondering, after seeing people posting images of their game collections, if someone out there has truly went out of their way and put together something that can truly blow away anyone else's game collection.

I think I know now.