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Post by grolt on Oct 13, 2007 18:09:12 GMT
Hey all, I've been a long time SEGA fan, and over the last few months have really been getting into the SMS. As a child I never had one, but my parents definitely deliberated between the SMS and the NES before settling on the popular alternative. A friend of mine had the SMS though, and it was through extended sittings of Penguin Land and Safari Hunt that I realized there was no better system. How much I'd learn now, though, that those were only two good games for a system of dozens of masterpieces.
The Sega Saturn was the first system I really ponied money for, and I love it to pieces. I'd been collecting for it for years, and since I only needed a handful of titles to complete my boxed collection, it was on to the SMS. Both are similar systems, and in my mind the two best systems - incredibly innovative machines that were virtually only mastered by Sega themselves. Whether it was the 3-D Glasses on the SMS or the NetLink on the Saturn, Sega was always in a creative realm of their own.
So I started collecting SMS a couple months ago and am now at 105 complete games for the US console. I need 9 more, as well as a few boxed peripherals, to gain a complete, all encompassing SMS collection. I was hoping I could find a few titles here from you folks, and in the process find an outlet for me to gab on about that most favorite of 8-bit consoles.
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Post by kungfukid on Oct 13, 2007 18:35:19 GMT
Hey grolt, welcome to the forum. Nice introduction. I'm sure there are loads of members here who will be able to help you out with the games you're still looking for. So is it just the US collection you're going for then? Or are you eventually going to move on to the much more substantial euro catalogue? i'm sure you already know that there are a LOT of great euro games that you can pick up for just a few $.
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Post by Chunkchenko on Oct 13, 2007 19:20:02 GMT
welcome the only sega consoles i had ever owned were the saturn and sms too. ive seen that you've posted a bit already and i hope to enjoy reading more posts from you
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Post by rupert on Oct 13, 2007 19:31:20 GMT
Welcome I still need some US games, mainly common ones, unfortunelty I don't have the ones your looking for. If you want to sell or trade for Euro games then we could defo do buisness
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Post by grolt on Oct 14, 2007 1:26:33 GMT
Hey grolt, welcome to the forum. Nice introduction. I'm sure there are loads of members here who will be able to help you out with the games you're still looking for. So is it just the US collection you're going for then? Or are you eventually going to move on to the much more substantial euro catalogue? i'm sure you already know that there are a LOT of great euro games that you can pick up for just a few $. That's a good question. I'm kind of surprised my SMS hunt is nearly finished, since it took me years worth of searching to do with my Saturn collection what I've done here in a couple months. I've spent a lot of time scouring the net for deals though, so it's definitely been a tiring process! I think after I get a full, complete US collection I will try my hand at the European releases. I might take a break for a bit, maybe finish my 32X collection that I've casually taken up because of the totally minimal library (that and I'm a sucker for failed Sega consoles). It will be awhile before I can match the magnitude of some of your collections displayed on the main page though!
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Post by eday2010 on Oct 14, 2007 1:53:55 GMT
While you are grabbing the US titles, you should grab the titles that were released here in Canada but not in the US. That's what I am currently doing, and am 11 games away. However, since I don't know for sure which games were released here and not in the US, I am trying to get everything that was released before 1991 except Bank Panic and Secret Command, and games from 3rd party publishers except Parker Bros and Epyx, and of course, Rastan
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Post by grolt on Oct 14, 2007 2:59:11 GMT
While you are grabbing the US titles, you should grab the titles that were released here in Canada but not in the US. That's what I am currently doing, and am 11 games away. However, since I don't know for sure which games were released here and not in the US, I am trying to get everything that was released before 1991 except Bank Panic and Secret Command, and games from 3rd party publishers except Parker Bros and Epyx, and of course, Rastan Since I've become a collector late in the game I know nothing of the Canadian only titles. Is there some reading available on this? I'm very pernickity about collecting - while sure, I love the games (or the movies - I have a DVD collection over 800) I think there's also an art to the way they are packaged. The SMS and the Saturn had beautiful big cases and a very consistent design. They look beautiful on a shelf. I hate multi-language Canadianzied DVD covers (THE TERMINATOR * LE TERMINATOR) and those big cumbersome SMS books and backs are nearly as much of a deterrent to me. I know it's all about the games, and I'll get the classics of the system regardless of the packaging, but still, if I'm not going to play the game ever (Sports Pad Football), then it better look nice on my shelf! ;D
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Post by rupert on Oct 14, 2007 9:39:22 GMT
I know what you mean, I'm into the packaging as much as I am playing the game if not more so. The US games are nice in there simplicity but there are some great Euro and indeed Brazillian covers aswell.
Regarding how they look on a shelf, Ive often ponderd sorting mine differently and having all the Classics, Kixx, US activivision, Blue Tec Toy , etc etc together. Rather than how I have it now which is all alphabetical so theres a big jumble of spine colours.
I Know Aypok has his sorted by cover style and Anagrama I think sorts his by part number. How do you arrange yours?
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Post by krooper13 on Oct 14, 2007 11:11:25 GMT
Welcome, I think eday is the man to talk to about the Canadian releases.
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Post by eday2010 on Oct 14, 2007 14:54:52 GMT
The closest reading on Canadian releases is the Overseas Release list at SMS Power. It needs to be updated since I have found releases here that are not noted on that list. Basically we got the games from Europe, and when barcodes were starting to be used, the games here had a Canadian UPC sticker over the original. But we also got games here that the US didn't, such as Out Run 3-D, Dynamite Dux, Battle Out Run, Impossible Mission, Scrable Spirits and a handful of others. Unless you are displaying the back of your games, you won't be able to distinguish a US release from a Euro release unless it's a later US release game like Super Monaco GP that has the Master System 8-bit logo thing on it. Otherwise they all look the same except for the odd game distributed by Irwin up here
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Post by grolt on Oct 14, 2007 17:11:45 GMT
I Know Aypok has his sorted by cover style and Anagrama I think sorts his by part number. How do you arrange yours? Until a few weeks ago I had been displaying them with all the regular Sega brand games first, then the later releases with the 8-Bit Cartridge (Dick Tracy, Columns, etc.) and then all the Activision stuff. Now though, I've just got it in plain jane alphabetical. Once I get everything though, I will pretty it all up. That's interesting about those Canux versions, eday, thanks. I've always wanted a motivation to snap up OutRun 3-D. Do those bar code stickers look just like the ones used for the US Golden Axe Warrior and Sonic? I know the Spider-Man one has a bunch of writing on it too, which is cool. Neat about Hang-On/Safari Hunt in Canada too, I'm going to look for that.
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Post by eday2010 on Oct 14, 2007 17:41:43 GMT
Here's what most of the UPC stickers on Canadian releases look like: There are some that don't say UPC/Canada, but they have the beginning set of numbers for Canadian products (69044). I consider Canadian releases of games rarer than US and Euro releases, since we obviously have a smaller population, so games sold even less here than they did in the US . But I consider Euro releases to be the same as Canadian ones, so they make a good chunk of my collection, which, as long as it has the games I need, is complete to me
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Post by Aypok on Oct 14, 2007 17:58:55 GMT
I Know Aypok has his sorted by cover style Yeah, sort of. :) I seperated out the Classic, Kixx, Tec Toy and card releases (these groups are then ordered alphabetically) - the rest are in normal alphabetical order. It is solely for asthetic reasons. Here are some pictures I took earlier this week, if anyone's interested: Picture 0 (1 MiB) Picture 1 (2.5 MiB) More pictures
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Post by grolt on Oct 14, 2007 18:32:38 GMT
Here's what most of the UPC stickers on Canadian releases look like: Thanks for that great scan...make it real clear now. Funny that it's a Canadian only release for a game called American Baseball. Too bad there was no game called Canadian Curling released only in the States.
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Post by grolt on Oct 14, 2007 18:42:04 GMT
I seperated out the Classic, Kixx, Tec Toy and card releases (these groups are then ordered alphabetically) - the rest are in normal alphabetical order. It is solely for asthetic reasons. What a beast of a collection! Looks great, although I wonder why you didn't go further and grouping other spines that were similar (the plain Sega logo, the 8-bit logo, the Sega Master System logo, etc.). Sorted like that, it would be a thing of true beauty.
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