Collecting all the games

[senseiman]

OK, since my earlier post here about 4 months ago my collection has mushroomed and I've got about 250 different Famicom carts - close to 1/4 of the whole set.  So I've decided to officially make a go at collecting every single one of them.  I'll try to post some pictures and updates on how the endeavor is going.  I'll be in Japan for at least another 3 years so that gives me some time!

[JC]

And then when you move? You'll have to ship them! It's a good goal, though. I plan to do the same, and I've got to pay the shipping costs, too.

[senseiman]

LOL, yeah I can imagine that shipping 1000 plus carts from Japan to North America will be a bit expensive!  Plus I've got a ton of Super Famicom, N64 and PS2 games but I think its definitely worth it!!

I've actually moved from Japan back to Canada twice already in the past, so the cost of shipping isn't that much if you are moving a bunch of other stuff too!

Maybe we can race to see who gets all of them first!!  Up for the challenge?

[manuel]

I don't think shipping will be all that bad.
Your average Famicom cart weighs under 100 grams, so having 1000 carts would come out at around 100kg. Divide that to 5 packets of 20kg each, ship by sea mail and it isn't that expensive.

Good luck collecting all.

The first several hundred are easy. The last 100 or 50 can be a pain I assume.

[corisco]

I'm moving to Brazil in october, after 16 years living in Japan. More than 2000 games and some consoles plus all my other belongins. It's gonna be pretty expensive, specially because Brazil is far more than United States, and takes 3 months to arrive. I'll pay something about 3k us dollars (2 cubic meters).
I'm just wondering if the ship sink.

senseiman, good look collecting all, I stopped at 500 FC action/shooting/racing titles. 1249 is too much to me

[senseiman]

Yeah, Brazil sounds more expensive.  Last time we moved it cost us about 1,000$ US for 1.5 cubic metres from the Kansai area to Vancouver. 

500 FC games is pretty impressive!

I can imagine it will become a pain once I get to a certain point.  Until now it hasn't cost me much because I've been buying "in bulk" from the second hand shops that are getting rid of their surplus but I'm hitting the point of diminishing returns where I'm getting more doubles than ones I need in each pack!.  I think I've got about 10 copies of 4nin uchi mahjong which I'm kind of sick of finding!!

[manuel]

Corisco is moving away from Japan?! *shock*!

I really planned to visit you some time up there in Tokyo. 

[corisco]

Corisco is moving away from Japan?! *shock*!

I really planned to visit you some time up there in Tokyo. 

Yeah, Manuel, I'm moving back to my country. I'm very tired, (body and mind) you know, my job wasn't a kind of job that you feel satisfied. That was hard, dangerous and dirty as hell. Unfortunally, I don't have skills enough to get a good job here, that kind of job the people around you don't care if you are from another country, another race. Here, in Chiba, almost all the people seems to hate foreigners. The ordinary japanese people don't like people from poor countries, like peruvians, brazilians, far east countries, filipinos. I know it very, very well.
I don't hate them, my wife is japanese too, but is too much too me keeping listen some jokes, some stupids questions like "'In Brazil, the people have cars?" or "-In Brazil the violence is everywere, isn't?".
I'm just going back to find some peace, but I like this country

[FamicomFreak]

Good luck on shipping the stuff to Brazil Corisco I know it'll be quite expensive but it'll be worth it. I'm pretty sure you'll be one of the few that'll have a huge collection of games in Brazil but then again, when I went to Peru I saw some serious collectors and the same thing could apply to Brazil.

[corisco]

Thanks a lot, FamicomFreak

Some years ago I had contact with some serious collectors in Brazil with huge collections, but chatting with them I just realized they almost don't play,  just keeping buying and buying, challenging each other, like a competition that the winner is the one who have more stuff. I don't like it.  I really like to play, talk with my friends about how to pass a boss, about a stage, this kind of thing, you know. They keeping talk about worth, prices and about themselves.

I have one peruvian friend in Tokyo, she introduced me into peruvian food,  that is pretty tasty!
Hope to find a peruvian restaurant in Brazil.

[X]

waw. that is so cool. i wish to have that someday