So how many of you collect classic video games? How many of you want to start collecting classic video games?
 
Since you are on this website I bet you have more than a passing interest in video games. Am I right? Well eventually you are going to want to start amassing a collection of classic titles. It happens to all of us, it'll happen to you.  Collecting video games is easy, storing them is easy, maintaining them is easy and rehabilitating them is easy.
I'll be breaking down the who, what, where, why and mostly the how of classic game collecting.
 
A lot of people believe that the only games worth their time are the newest the biggest the awesome-est and the most game of the year award winning-est games on the market. Those people are severely short sighted. Classic games are viewed through the rose colored glasses of nostalgia. This makes each and every game better, or at least makes you think it is better. Each classic game in your collection will come attached with the story of "how and why" you got it. If your lucky some the games you love will be better than they were originally. (most will be worse) I encourage making your collection a deeply personal effort, don't just try to buy every NES title buy the ones you played. This will help maintain your hunger for classic games.
People will also tell you that you can just play it on an emulator with a PC Gamepad. That's right you can, you can also only drive sport cars in low gears and watch TV in black and white. The truth is that a computer will never stand in for a well maintained game system. Is it cheaper to emulate? Yes. Is it easier to emulate? Yes. Is it worth it? No. Is it the 'same'? Not in a million years.
 
If you want to build a good collection don't listen to the nay sayers just do it. I'll help.