Your Favorite Worthless Items in Your Collection?

[tubeway]

Does anyone have worthless items in their game collection that they really cherish? I'm not really talking about games or systems....

For myself, I have several old Funcoland pricelists that are all worn and marked, and a couple pamphlets from when I got Sega Channel back in the day. Both wouldn't fetch any money on ebay or elsewhere, but both have a lot of sentimental value to me and all the memories associated with frequenting Funcoland in the SNES/Genesis days, and staying up past midnight on school nights to see what new Sega Channel games came online.

[sebastiankirchoff]

I know its a game, but Gameday 2000 is a game that came with my PS1 when I bought it back in 99. Its pretty much trash, and I never played it since I hated sports games since the beginning of my gaming life, but I still keep it because it came with my first game console I ever got (I played PC before that).

I also have a ton of posters that came with NES games that are probably worthless, but I am planning on hanging them up on my wall one day.

[Daria]

I just found my original Shining Force manual in a box at my mom's house. It's missing the cover, half the pages, been written on and obviously well loved. I gave it a good home by slipping it behind the newer manual in my current copy of the game.

[Dangerboy]

My complete game.com collection?

[hellfire]

75% of my n64 games barely have any value at all, however their is a soft spot in my heart for n64, ahhhhh the memories of sitting down and playing great games on the n64, as a matter of fact, im going to go play it right now

[norkusa]

A slightly crushed box for Golgo 13 Top Secret Episode. Bought it new back in '88 or '89 when I was 12 and it was the first game I ever bought with my own money. Besides some 2600 carts, it's one of the only game items I still own that I had as a kid.

[kupomogli]

A couple of really old video game magazines I own.

One of them is a magazine that I bought of the Playstation Magazine(not Official PSM.) I ended up picking one up and it was literally the best gaming magazine I've read. My friend got a subscription to it after I bought it so I ended up reading his, but have always kept that one I picked up.

The other magazines are some really old Nintendo magazines. They're not Nintendo Power and I currently can't remember the names of them(but I never saw again after the second one I bought.) However these had a ton of content. I only own two of them and can't remember which magazine has which games, but they both had reviews and guides of Castlevania 2, Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom, Gilligan's Island, and a couple others. One thing these magazines had that I really wanted once seeing and to this very day the game has remained unreleased was a Magic of Scheherezade 2 ad(and it actually had a few pictures.)

[coreys429]

My complete game.com collection?

Lol, My R Zone stuff. I know I couldn't get any money for it but like the Game.com I enjoy showing people the other side to portable gaming.

[incubus421]

I'm going to go with my original nintendo guide for Final Fantasy III. Yea, I know it usually has some value but mine is nearly in half.
Back cover is missing...all pages are significantly worn. And the first and last 15-20 pages are all ripped out of the binding.
Had it growing up as it was passed down to me from a cousin, I then let many cousins, my brother, etc. borrow it and now it has been reduced to the sad state it is in today. But I still love it!

[tom]

My complete game.com collection?

probably because you don't have this:

[Streetball 21]

I'd have to say

-the one dollar bill EGM sent me a looooong time ago. I kept it, not sure why, maybe cause I'm just weird like that lol -
-my copy of Excitebike for the NES, my first ever game for the NES after Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt

[8bitgamer]

Maximo is one of the least valuable PS2 discs, but it's my favorite game for the system.

[JSoup]

Lets see:

-You know those plastic posters that stick to glass (so the store can put it on the inside of the glass case and you can see the advertisement on top)? The day MarkKart64 was released, the lady at Sears (who was an old friend) took the MK64 plastic advert out and gave it to me for free, alone with my game.
-I have a piece of paper in my Sonic 2 game box with all the codes on it that a friend wrote for me back in 5th grade.
-That same friend gave me a kickass image he drew of Reptile eating Smoke.
-Nintendo Power #101, the first Nintendo Power I ever bought. Had a great article on Tamagotchi GB, which I bought a month later.
-Nintendo Power #30, came from my favorite gameshop before it changed hands and started to suck.
-Harvest Moon (SNES), came from the same gameshop. I think I got both the book and the game on the same day.

[calistarwind]

I still have the receipt for the first game I ever bought from my husband. When we first met he took over the store I thought I was getting but instead he ended up training me. That piece of paper is a symbol of our beginning and how much we both love games.

[JSoup]

I still have the receipt for the first game I ever bought from my husband. When we first met he took over the store I thought I was getting but instead he ended up training me. That piece of paper is a symbol of our beginning and how much we both love games.

That's adorable~

And it reminded me that somewhere around here I have a copy of my receipt from TRU for Game & Watch Gallery when it was new.

[Aussie2B]

Hmmm, that's a tricky question. In terms of the sheer amount of enjoyment I've gotten out of a nearly worthless item, probably my huge collection of Nintendo Power magazines. Every summer I read through a few of them cover to cover, and I still have a mountain more to get through. I often base my summer gaming around what I'm reading too. If I'm reading about a game I own and have never beaten, I'll generally pull it out. When I bought the collection, I spent around 50 bucks on it, but if I tried to sell it, I bet I wouldn't even get that much. You're lucky if you can get a quarter out of each, but just thinking about getting back into them makes me smile. They're an essential part of my summer experience these last few years.

[aaron7]

Heh, lots of it.

I'm really into NES memorbillia due to either having it when I was young or wanting it!

My How to Win at Nintendo games books... have had them since they were new!

My original SMB/DH manual... in giant orange marker in the notes section it says "SUPER MARIO IS HARD"... I was like 3 years old haha

Probably more stuff too... but that's what I can remember now!

[Astrosmash]

I enjoy the five "Game Player's GameTapes" I picked up a few months ago (circa 1989 VHS tapes with tips for NES games). Especially the Double Dragon section of Tape 1, where the announcer tells us to "avoid the statactatas" (I think he meant "stalactites"), and on the Konami special tape where they start giving generic tips for RPGs... while talking about Castelvania.

[VACRMH]

An old, beat up copy of Lufia for SNES. The cart likes to delete saves if it doesn't boot the first time it's turned on, but it has alot of history.

My cousin started me with RPGs by having me rank up in it. Which in turn led me to actually start playing the game. By that time I was hooked and started playing lots of RPGs.

After he passed, I ended up with the copy, and started to play again. My girlfriend for some strange reason really wanted to search for items in the flowers, and I had her do some ranking up for fun. Same thing happened, she started getting into the game and started playing RPGs here and there.

Maybe I'll pass it on to someone someday. It still has my cousin's save on it

[blue lander]

Back in '97 I was at a boarding school where I didn't have any internet access. So over the summer one year, I printed out every classic gaming FAQ and classic gaming website I regularly read and put them all into one huge ass binder. That way I could read them while I was off at school. I still look at it from time to time because it's neat to see the webpages as they were 10 years ago (although you can do the same thing with archive.org).

I also used to have a few xeroxed "fanzines" a classmate of mine printed out back in the late 80's. The guy put a bunch of NES and Gameboy reviews, walkthroughs and cheat codes. Everything was hand written with hand drawn illustrations. It was incredibly crude, but the walkthroughs and cheats were easier to reference than digging them up out of a stack of Nintendo Powers.

Unfortunately, I kept the fanzines along with all my NES era Nintendo Power magazines in a plastic garbage cab in my room. One day the cleaners decided they must be trash and threw them all out...