Show off your retro game collection!

[jordanbuilds1]

Just wondering if there are any fellow collectors. Feel free to show off your collection! This is also a good place to show off your latest retro game finds and discuss some of your favorites as a kid. Be sure to follow CS and be kind and respectful when discussing games!

[Millios]

Depends on how retro we go
I got a collection of PS2 games including THE spiderman game

[spacepickle]

Here’s my collection;

PS2

Xbox (the original one)

Wii

N64

and these games (plus a couple more I added since this picture)

currently on the lookout for an Xbox 360 at a decent price. 

[BloodShed_Oni]

A little out of date (but no too much )

https://cloud.clz.com/bloodshed/games

[dkoudijs]

This last Christmas I finally put out my collection. About 300 games across 40 years. So Nintendo games NES to the switch. (Some Sega in there as well).

They were all in storage boxes, but if people can put up plates as decoration, then I can put out nice looking game boxes.

I put the amibos in front, to show them off as well. It looks nice and clean, and is on some nice ikea cabinetry.

 

On Friday's I put out one game to showcase it, as its a talking point when people come over. Seems to go over quite well.

We also have all the systems out as display peices under the TV. Video is hooked up, not the power bricks. To hopefully save the power bricks and systems. I have every major Nintendo console except the virtual boy, maybe someday...

 

I do have about 50 PC game boxes as well, but they are in the office and have been up for many years. I tossed a bunch of PC game boxes years ago, and regreat it. Should have just collapsed them for later. Ahh well, I kept the ones I liked.

 

To answer your question, yes there are some collectors out here.

[spacepickle]

1 hour ago, BloodShed_Oni said:

A little out of date (but no too much )

https://cloud.clz.com/bloodshed/games

Oh lord

There are a lot of terrible ways to play quake in this world

[BloodShed_Oni]

8 minutes ago, spacepickle said:

Oh lord

There are a lot of terrible ways to play quake in this world

Quake 2 on PSX is pretty good when you use the mouse.

[X-System]

[X-System]

[vf1000ride]

You guys gotta up your game when you say retro. 

 

Atari 2600 FTW.

[vf1000ride]

As for my PC game collection, here are the ones I have physical media for and not just a steam library.

Spoiler

(1994) Road Rash
(1998) Falcon 4.0
(1998) Redline Racer
(1998) Remington top shot
(1998) Cabelas Big Game Hunter II
(1998) Warbirds 2.01
(1998) Descent Freespace the great war
(1998) MS combat flight sim wwii Europe series
(1999) Dungeon Keeper 2
(2000) Gearhead Garage the virtual mechanic
(2000) Soldier of Fortune
(2000) MS combat flight sim 2 wwii Pacific theater
(2000) Diablo II
(2001) Return to Castle Wolfenstein
(2002) Iron Storm the face of war has changed
(2002) Half life goty edition
(2002) Age of Mythology
(2002) Hotel Giant
(2002) MS combat flight sim 3 battle for Europe
(2003) Tomb Raider the angel of darkness
(2003) Deus EX invisible war
(2004) Half Life II
(2004) MS Flight Sim a century of flight
(2004) Farcry 1
(2005) Civilization iv
(2006) Battlefield 2142
(2006) Hitman Blood money
(2006) Zoo Tycoon 2
(2006) Zoo Tycoon 2, marine mania
(2006) 1701 A.D.
(2006) MS Flight Sim X deluxe edition
(2007) CSI Hard Evidence
(2007) Lost Empire Immortals
(2007) Overlord
(2007) Age of Empires III Gold Edition
(2007) Age of Empires III Asian Dynasties
(2007) Bioshock
(2007) Crysis
(2007) The Orange Box (Half life 2, portal, Team Fortress) /
(2008) Crysis Warhead
(2008) Kings Bounty, the legend
(2008) COD World at War
(2008) Farcry 2
(2008) Defence grid the awakening
(2009) Fear 2
(2009) Farm Frenzy
(2009) Tropico 3
(2009) COD Modern Warfare 2
(2010) COD Black ops 1
(2011) COD Modern Warfare 3
(2011) Assassins Creed I&II ultimate collection
(2011) Portal 2
(2012) COD Black ops 2
(2012) Mass Effect Trilogy
(2012) Bioshock 2
(2013) COD Ghosts
(2014) COD Advanced Warfare
(2015) COD Black ops 3
(2016) COD Infinite Warfare
(2017) COD WWII

 

 

[mrh0twheels]

The 2 oldest things that I personally own at the moment are a Game Boy Advance SP and a PSP. Do those count?

[jordanbuilds1]

this is my quite messy retro setup

[Wardude]

When I was a youngun, these 'retro' games were brand new, state of the art games.  I kept them because I still love to play them.  I also love the art of the boxes and manuals that came with them. Some even came with posters, clothing patches, stickers, etc. I used to have more games, but I have traded and sold some of them over the years. 

I also have a lot of DOS and early Windows compatible PC games, even more than are shown here. The rest are in storage.  

[jordanbuilds1]

On 5/16/2025 at 3:45 PM, Wardude said:

When I was a youngun, these 'retro' games were brand new, state of the art games.  I kept them because I still love to play them.  I also love the art of the boxes and manuals that came with them. Some even came with posters, clothing patches, stickers, etc. I used to have more games, but I have traded and sold some of them over the years. 

I also have a lot of DOS and early Windows compatible PC games, even more than are shown here. The rest are in storage.  

Idc what gen it is, ataris are great consoles.

[thrasher_565]

not updated but some of it. i like orange...

[diegoaccord]

Just a couple of the more important things. Have other stuff, mostly GOATED games, and childhood games not pictured. A bunch of XBOX controllers, and previous gen games.

I have like 15 different Skyrims, including digital PC versions. lol. 

Also a full collection of Tokyo Xtreme Racer/Shutokou Battle. I go to Japan and drive cars on the actual Shuto Expressway, which the games have mapped out turn by turn. 

 

[porina]

Wouldn't say I'm a collector as such, more that I happen to get most of these games while they were current. Does that show my age?

 

I still need to set up what would now be a retro console gaming area.

[jordanbuilds1]

4 hours ago, diegoaccord said:

Just a couple of the more important things. Have other stuff, mostly GOATED games, and childhood games not pictured. A bunch of XBOX controllers, and previous gen games.

I have like 15 different Skyrims, including digital PC versions. lol. 

Also a full collection of Tokyo Xtreme Racer/Shutokou Battle. I go to Japan and drive cars on the actual Shuto Expressway, which the games have mapped out turn by turn. 

 

Yooo the gtr and the mega drive?! Your livin the life man

[jordanbuilds1]

1 hour ago, porina said:

Wouldn't say I'm a collector as such, more that I happen to get most of these games while they were current. Does that show my age?

 

I still need to set up what would now be a retro console gaming area.

To me it’s 1977- 2014

[diegoaccord]

6 hours ago, jordanbuilds1 said:

Yooo the gtr and the mega drive?! Your livin the life man

Just a rental on vacation. 

I'll be taking one of my own cars to Japan this year, though. 

[jordanbuilds1]

2 hours ago, diegoaccord said:

Just a rental on vacation. 

I'll be taking one of my own cars to Japan this year, though. 

My uncle went to Japan for business once. He said he’d take us next time he went but then he divorced from my aunt.

 

 

guess I’ll be paying for my own Japan trip lol

[X-System]

I forgot another one, one of the best games of the 1990s 

 

[David A. Tatum]

I'm afraid I don't have anything all that "photogenic" to share (I actually played my retro games to the point that the boxes, manuals, and often the 5 1/4" disks they were stored on typically fell apart), but I'm a long-time PC gamer.  Played games back when you had to program them, yourself, from the manual ("TI-99/4A Games" for the eponymous TI-99/4A, "Basic Computer Games" or similar titles for the Commodore 64).  Bought a ton of games for my Commodore 64 (memorably Microprose Games like Red Storm Rising and F-19 Stealth Fighter, Infocom titles like Deadline, "educational" games like the Carmen Sandiego games (I still own and regularly use a desk encyclopedia that came with one of those), and so forth).  On the PC, I played things like the original Sid Meier's Pirates!, Tracer Sanction, the King's Quest series, the Space Quest series, the Quest for Glory series, Ancient Art of War (and the Ancient Art of War at Sea), and so on.  With few exceptions, when I can get them to run on a modern system (thank you DosBox and/or Gog.com), I continue to pull these games out and dust them off now and then... (I still have yet to "Win" Deadline, and refuse to use a walkthrough to complete it.  It is my great gaming white whale... though I usually only give it one try a year).

Those are the highlights of what I consider my favorite "retro" games... though my absolute favorite was Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula (sequel to the original Starflight, which is credited as an inspiration for both the Star Control and the Mass Effect series).  So much so that I contributed a short story to an anthology (anthology as in short story collection, not anthology in the gaming definition) set in the Starflight universe, released on its 35th anniversary.

[jordanbuilds1]

Picked this up at GameStop the other day, the game is still freaking broken but still fun never the less