Games just for collecting purposes

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Just a random question. How many of you have games that you just keep for collecting purposes. For instance, I can't imagine a Pong game would get much play time, but would be a nice machine to have. No reason for my question other that curiosity.
 
I got Asteroids for that reason. It's classic and many people know the game. It never did that much for me but it looks good and is a nice addition to the collection.
 
Several games in my stable started out just like this, neat to have but I thought they didn't have the gameplay to back them up. The more I played them, and watched guests play them, the better they got, now they are all keepers:

Star Castle: I was sitting on a bunch of spare Cinematronics parts from my Armor Attack build. One of my purchases during that build was an untested Star Castle PCB set that ended up working. I planned on swapping both games into the Armor Attack cab, but this came up locally and I gave it a home. After fixing it up and adding it to the gameroom, it gets a lot of play from guests and I've warmed up to it too.

Night Driver sitdown: Got it when I wanted a driving game, any driving game. I thought the fiberglass cab was very neat. After a year of getting the electronics up to snuff, I found the simple game was very addicting, and so have my guests; even the neighborhood kids that saw me working in my garage gave it a chance and really liked it.

Xybots: I got it along with Centipede, it was my second game. I thought it looked like a really old PC game at first, but I eventually appreciated the distinctive cab design, the pioneering controls, and the excellent 2 player co-op gameplay. I sank too much time and money into fixing this beater of a cab, so I can't get rid of it anyhow. The Sharp XM-2001 was the first monitor I ever capped, if I could make it through that when I was starting out I figured had hope of overcoming other difficult electronics work. :)
 
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Just a random question. How many of you have games that you just keep for collecting purposes. For instance, I can't imagine a Pong game would get much play time, but would be a nice machine to have. No reason for my question other that curiosity.

i know a certain aussie gamer that has an original atari pong and has a pong tournament at every arcade party! good fun :D
 
Just a random question. How many of you have games that you just keep for collecting purposes. For instance, I can't imagine a Pong game would get much play time, but would be a nice machine to have. No reason for my question other that curiosity.

I'm at the point where i have eliminated alot of games that were viewed as common and focused on some of the harder to find stuff just to mix it up a bit.

I have a Pong machine that i plan on restoring and when it's all finished, it won't see any more playtime than the rest of my games. The only reason i have it is because it was repaired a couple months ago by the inventor and co-founder of Atari and when he was all done, he hand signed the game. The historical significance of the game means more to me than actually playing it.
 
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My Burgertime gets very little play, and is also on my 48-1 and 60-1, but I can't get rid of it. Not many people have them, and it is by far the coolest cabinet out there. My aracde wouldn't be the same without it.

I also have an asteroids that is mainly there for appearance.
 
I have a Pong machine that i plan on restoring and when it's all finished, it won't see any more playtime than the rest of my games. The only reason i have it is because it was repaired a couple months ago by the inventor and co-founder of Atari and when he was all done, he hand signed the game. The historical significance means more to me than actually playing the game.

That's friggin awesome.. Hard to put a price on that.
 
None, and if I had a Pong machine it would get played.

I can't see owning games I could care less to play, games should be played and not used as 'window dressing", traded away my Atari Football(even though I love it) as it was only being used for a storage table, games sitting not being played makes no sense to me.
 
I had Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Star Castle. They just didn't get played, so they were replaced. I don't have the space to keep games just because they were popular.
 
I'm thinking about it.

I expect an invite to the grand opening :D

I had Space Invaders, Asteroids, and Star Castle. They just didn't get played, so they were replaced. I don't have the space to keep games just because they were popular.

I have to keep my Space Invaders and Asteroids but my Star Castle was not a "keeper" for me.
 
We have talked about this before. A lot of people have games for the "look at me!" factor.

I play the few that I have, and am adding others that people think suck (Super Hang On for instance) because I PLAYED those back when I was a kid. NBA Jam which 95% of the people here hate is the most played game in my lineup. LOVE that game.
 
We have talked about this before. A lot of people have games for the "look at me!" factor.

I play the few that I have, and am adding others that people think suck (Super Hang On for instance) because I PLAYED those back when I was a kid. NBA Jam which 95% of the people here hate is the most played game in my lineup. LOVE that game.

I refuse to add any game I think sucks, and for the record I am one of the 5% that likes NBA Jam.;)
 
We have talked about this before. A lot of people have games for the "look at me!" factor.

I play the few that I have, and am adding others that people think suck (Super Hang On for instance) because I PLAYED those back when I was a kid. NBA Jam which 95% of the people here hate is the most played game in my lineup. LOVE that game.

Sundance would be the poster child for that, right?

I remember when NBA Jam was king at Aladdin's Castle. It stayed covered up.
 
I play the few that I have, and am adding others that people think suck (Super Hang On for instance)

Super Hang-On certainly does not SUCK! It would be hard not to offer up my regular Hang-On if I had the chance. But yes, play and keep what you like and you can't go wrong. Nice to have games are just that...nice to have...but not keepers.
 
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