Strange dreams about video game collecting - what are yours?

[Icarus Moonsight]

How about finding a game or system that is some degree of super-duper rare for some insanely cheap price and when you wake up, you realize not only did you not actually get this item, but the item doesn't even exist in waking life? So I guess I can claim that I've owned and played some subconsciously invented stuff that no one else has. Sometimes the games seem poor in quality or broken, but sometimes, they're actually rather good.

I wouldn't dream about finding a heavy mod PC-Engine Duo-RX at a flea market for $5, but the new Sega Nibiru system that just recently launched (as in after Wii/PS3 in time frame) and has been sold out for months and sells for buttloads on net auctions, that's much more likely.

[Compute]

I once found the Fleet Farm catalog for Atari 2600 at Goodwill. Man that was an awesome find.

One of my favorite locations that has occurred a few times is the Younkers/JC Penney store. It's the same store but has a different location, as dreams do. It has all the standard parts, but then there's a "used game" section with shelves and shelves full of loose, used games. Intv, Atari, etc. 2-3 aisles of that, then stacks of unopened..unopened anything. Weird SNES pack-in deals, rare sega peripherals.

[Steve W]

Last night I dreamt that I came across a store with heaps of old games. A bunch of boxed Atari games, but also a bunch of computer stuff too. Mostly they're games I've never heard of before. When I do dream about finding stuff, it's always about obscure games with a bunch of computers and console stuff mixed together and they're always unrecognizable titles. In fact, recently I had one where I found an Intellivision cart that was a sort of BBS terminal emulation kind of thing that (with a modem) would let me access The LogBook by our own Phosphor Dot Fossils. He originally started the LogBook 20 years ago on BBSes, and that knowledge carried over into the dream. Too bad the Intellivision never had a modem.

[frogofdeath]

Had a dream last night in which I came across a boxed Master System for only $3.50! The console and box were in pristine condition, however the shape and color were all wrong from what they should be in reality. Plus, there was one item missing; a controller that also does not exist outside of slumberland. This controller was more like a TV remote, though wired, and had a simple screen integrated into the face, similar to the Dreamcast's VMU screen.

Kept debating whether or not I should spend the $3.50 to pick up this find. For some odd reason, I kept telling myself I did not need the console, because I was convinced it was a Sega Genesis. My wife on the other hand realized it was a Master System, and kept persuading me to pick it up, since the price couldn't be beat.

[8bitmusic]

I still remember having a dream when I was about 5. The newest system out there was an NES, which I spent most of my time playing. I dreamed that my drawer where I kept my video games had most all the games I ever saw at the rental store. I was so excited when I awakened that I ran to my drawer, opened it, saw the handful of games I owned, and let out an extremely dramatic sigh.

[MetallicTuneFilms]

I one had a dream where i've entered a hotel and it turned out to be a HUGE video game store. I remember spotting a Playstation game featuring Doom and other games, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile and other Klonoa titles on PS1. Next to the store had a bunch of black unlicensed gameboy games (similar to Tengen's NES games) and i bought Galaga for the Gameboy Advance. I also had one where i found Megaman 1 and 2 at a thrift.

[markusman64ds]

There are four that I can remember well.

1) I found shelves full of boxed Genesis games. All of them exist though.

2) I was at Wal-Mart and the shelves were really empty, with only a few loose Genesis games on the shelf. One of them had Metroid II artwork and was called Douglas, for some reason.

3) I was at someone's house and found a room with an N64 set up. There were a few games there, but one was gold colored and called Mario Party 99. I actually played it! It booted up without a title screen. Basically, it was Sonic Adventure DX. It played slowly, because I was playing it on N64, and the only level was a long blue road type thing. I wake up and 5 years later the same level is in Sonic Generations. Around the start of Chemical Plant act 2.

4) I was in someone else's house and they had a shelf full of NES games. There was one that didn't exist, but it had no title. In real life I went to someone's house and they had a similar shelf full of NES games.

[SpaceHarrier]

When I was a kid I had a dream I got a game called Cracker Dough. It was essentially a re-skinned Super Mario Bros. clone. When you would hit a block dough would shoot out instead of coins. Yeahhh...

More recently I had a dream I was in a Gamestop right across the street from my house (which doesn't exist, since there are ghetto apartments there). Inside I found a game for the Dreamcast, titled Sonic Total Chaos. It was supposed to be Sonic Adventure 3, essentially. Unfortunately it was missing the front booklet, so I passed on it..

Weird part is at the time I wasn't even aware of Sonic Chaos for the Game Gear.

[Dire 51]

Several years ago, I had a recurring dream about finding and trying to take - by any means necessary - a Splatterhouse arcade cab. Usually it'd be in some super fantastic wonder arcade that only a dream could come up with, but sometimes it would be in some little hole in the wall kind of place, or a school cafeteria, or some other strange location. I remember watching the attract mode several times, and that's where it got very different from the actual arcade game. It seemed like it followed the style of Splatterhouse 2 at times, and it also featured sequences not in any Splatterhouse game ever, although still suitably horrific.

I never succeeded in taking it. Sometimes I'd be stopped by a person, other times by circumstances. Once I did manage to get it - but then it just vanished.

[StarBlazer]

Wow, so strange I'm not the only one. I haven't actively hunted in the wild for 5+ years now and I still have these dreams! Usually coming upon a HUGE score of ultra rare games only to find out that I cant buy them for some reason(not priced, store closing soon...no more purchases that night, register broke down etc..)

I actually found an Emerson Arcadia 2001 in a thrift years ago...buried in with the hair dryers and curling irons ,the games were with the 8 track tapes. It had no price on it (u all know what that means in thrift's) I was told to come back the next day and talk to the manager about a price, I BEGGED to buy it right there, offering 20-30 bucks. No luck. I had to go back the next day. Manager let me have it all for $10. Actually saved me some money, but lost a little sleep worrying if it would still be there the next day.