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What's it like to be me? Imagine a thousand people throwing a party inside of your head, and you're stuck outside without a ticket.

I guess I'm more "collector" than gamer these days. Sure I still play my 360/Wii/DS/3DS and so on, and I love them all, but I just don't have the free time to play them like I used to.

I started my gaming life on an old Atari 2600 that my dad bought us for Christmas. I used to frequent the local arcade (early 80's) and I have a passion for anything pinball.

You may not know this but I also help run the Xbox 360 FNF side of business on Dtoid. You can always host or find games to play here: Friday Night Fights Forum Thread

As of this update (1.09.2012) I currently have:

33 Consoles
47 Handhelds
1562 physical copies of various games
155 digital copies of games
Tons of other video game related items

I'm also a huge comic book nerd, here are some of my all-time favorites, in no particular order:


Cerberus the Aardvark


Groo the Wanderer


Howard the Duck


Usagi Yojimbo


BatMan

I also love music, all types really. If I had to pick a favorite album of all time I would have to go with:


The Cure: Disintegration. This album is perfect, from beginning to end.

My daughter is also a gamer of sorts, here she is lavishing in all of her Nintendo plushies:


Oh yea, did I mention that I love Pinball more than any other game ever? Because I totally do.


I also like to doodle when I'm bored, as seen below

I drew that when I was bored.

Sometimes, when I'm not gaming or collecting I'll post blogs, here are a couple recent ones:

ChillyBilly's Hidden Gems - Nano Assault

Tales from the Battlefield - Operation Rolling Hell

My Time so far with Battlefield 3

Take a gander at some of my previous haul blogs

Another ChillyBilly Haul - Occams the Enabler

Another ChillyBilly Haul. Lots and Lots of Nintendo

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Occams & Gareth & Law Oh My!

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles No Spam Edition

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Spring Edition

Funktastic Sent Me A Package an Adventure in Awesome

My Mysterious Encounter with Lenigods Package

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Past 5 Months Part 2

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Past 5 Months Part One

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles This is Just Getting Stupid Now

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Atari Lynx! Atari Lynx!

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Summertime Collecting

Trading With Funktastic an Epic Tale

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles F.Y.E Edition

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles April - May Edition

ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles Florida Edition

The Very First "ChillyBilly's Emporium of Curious Collectibles"

My Post-Summer Christmas Haul

My Guide to Video Game Collecting

My Magnificent May Haul

My Epic Gaming Haul of Epicness

Sweet Goodwill Gaming Haul

My February - April Gaming Haul
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I promise that this post will remain 100% Al-Qaeda free.

You know what I love about the summer? The traditional videogame slump. I love the fact that during the summer I can weeks without having the need to plop down 60 bucks on some AAA title. You know why I love that?

So I can build my collection up of course!

I'm gonna keep the words to a minimum this time around because there will be pictures a plenty.

The first thing that I want to show everyone is this:

You may remember seeing something familiar in my last post (Awesome stuff from Funktastic) but this time it's FRAMED! Damn, doesn't that look sweet? Thank again Funk, I totally owe you one.

Now on to the goodies!

Following tradition I will start with something old then work my up, the first thing we have is:


NES Cleaning Kit I have no idea why I've been wanting one of these but I have and now I own one. Whoop dee doo.

My attempt to own every single damn Game Boy ever is slowly but surely getting there, here we have:

Yellow Game Boy Pocket (FIXED!, thanks Enkido) I'm only missing a couple of colors which I will hopefully have by the next post.


These games came with the above Game Boy Tennis and Donkey Kong Land III


Now before we continue I need to say something to Funk, you are and will always be the ATLUS guy and I promise I am not trying to take that away from you. =)


With that being said;

Snowboard Kids 2 for the N64. This is the first of many ATLUS games that we will see in this post.



Some random N64 games: 007, Hexen, Cruis'n U.S.A and Body Harvest (all Goodwill finds).

Here are a couple Nintendo handheld cases thrown in for fun;


Here are a couple more ATLUS games that I mentioned above;


Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raiden Kuzunoa vs. Abaddon & Eternal Poison

Here are a few more PS2 games;

Maximo & Gungrave


Sonic Mega Collection and Phantom Brave

I've also been trying to grow my Xbox and GameCube collections, here some games that I came across;

Crazy Taxi (Gamecube) & Soul Calibur II (Xbox)

Ninja Gaiden & True Crime L.A

That was it for the GC/PS2/Xbox stuff. On to something a bit more recent.

I was super happy when I found this next item;

Nintendo DS Browser - managed to snag it for under 10 bucks which made me happy.

The next few pics will be Nintendo DS heavy!


Meteos & Phoenix Wright


Bomberman Land Touch and Moon


Rhythm Heaven & the AWESOME Dragon Quest IV (seriously, if you own a DS you need to play this, there is so much for everyone)

Oh look, more ATLUS!

Deep Labrynth & Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor Deep Labrynth is still sealed and only cost $5.00 (F.Y.E had it on clearance).


Advance Wars: Dual Strikeand Spectrobes. I bought Spectrobes at GameStop during their current sale and it only cost me $1.32. I had to get it to go with the wicked stylus that Funktastic sent me.


Here's another I bought during GameStop's sale, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days & From the Abyss

I have no idea why I bought this next game, probably because it was only $5.00 at Toys R Us:

Desktop Tower Defense

Anyone else here a Club Nintendo member? I always forget to use my points but this time I remembered!


Game & Watch Collection 1 Awwwww...they even sent a thank you card. So sweet.

Look what else I got from the Club!



I wanted the Mario poster set but it is currently sold out. I still have over 600 coins so hopefully they will get some more in.

Alright, we're almost done.

Here we have;


De Blob & Mario Super Sluggers - Trauma Center: Second Opinion & Octomania (more ATLUS awesomeness)

I found this at Goodwill for a dollar:

I don't think i'll ever use it but for a dollar I couldn't pass it up.

It was a slow couple months for my PS3 collection;

Disgea 3: Absence of Justice


Last Rebellion

My PSP Collection however fared much, much better;


Yggdra Union, Class of Heroes & Disgea: Afternoon of Darkness


Disgea: Infinite, Disgea 2: Dark Hero Days & Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus


WTF (Work Time Fun), Riviera & Ys: The Ark of Napishtim


Neverland Card Battles

And finally:

Prinny. Can I Really Be The Hero? Special Edition

Ok, just a few more Xbox 360 games then this madness will be all over.

If you haven't played this yet you should;

Singularity So far it's one of my favorite surprises of the year. Singularity is a solid shooter which borrows (heavily) from various AAA titles.

Oh look, more ATLUS games!

Conan (because I lost my other copy), Zoids Assault and Spectral Force 3


I bought these two just last week from GameStop since they had them marked down, WAAAY down. Turok & TimeShift were only $3.99 and will make for some good mindless fun in the coming months.

And here we have the last game of the post. It's an oldie but goody:

Gears of War. I picked this up as well from GameStop's deal for under $5.00. I had loaned my original copy to a friend oh about four years ago and figured I would never see it again so since the price was right I decided to pick it up again.

Well that's about it. I don't think I'll be making another post like this til the fall as I'm gonna take a small break on my collecting to focus on some other stuff.

Happy gaming and have a great night!

~ChillyBilly



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Daaamn! NIS, Atlus represent??

Also, I had no idea there was a sequel to Snowboard kids....I need to acquire it now! (Already have the original)
Yea, NIS/Atlus/Aksys and Xseed are my new addictions.
That's like a +1000 hours of gaming!! Those posters are awesome too. DQIX has become an addiction for me as of late. Great stuff!!
Way to start your blog off with a bang. I had to go switch pants before I continued.

This was another stellar haul and I expected nothing less from you chilly.

I also got those Zelda posters from Club Nintendo and best believe I'm also waiting for those Mario posters.

Also, SNOWBOARD KIDS 2!? OMG I LOVED that and the original game. So many memories..

Also, also, I definitely gotta hit up my local Goodwill. Looks like there are some gems to be found in there.

Great job man.
Jesus christ dude! You like hardcore framed that! >_< Looks slick as hell mate and I'm glad you enjoyed it, hahaha! I've got a number of things that are "frame worthy," but I'll wait until I settle down in my own place before I get to that. Also, no need for the thanks. I should be thanking you for all the DOMO stuff once again! ^_^

Also, what's with this bullshit? =P I swear that the first time I skimmed this when I was in a rush to work that there was no "bolded/larger size text" around! Regardless, the note is duly appreciated . . . but I've got my eye on you . . . >=[ . . . hahaha!

A complete copy of the Nintendo DS Browser is actually somewhat of a rare find nowadays, particularly under $30. Especially since most people don't know that there's a little slot thingy IN ADDITION to the actual DS card.

Goddammit! I have to wait until I go to PAX to get Dragon Quest IX, even though I really want to play it, and I just finish . . . PUZZLE QUEST 2!!! Stupid, shitty Canadian version with it's SUPER UGLY "French" label on it . . . >_< Just like how I had to "import" the USA version of Kingdom Hearts for the slip cover . . . I'm lame, hahaha!

If you don't mind me asking, are the frames you used for the Zelda posters like a generic one or something? If so, are they expensive?

I'm really digging the Atlus and NIS games you've been picking up mate! Can't go wrong with them, as I actually have played a few of them here and there. Depending on how much you're willing to pay/if you want the actually exclusive promo items, you may want to go to the NIS store and pre-order from them for fairly rare swag items.

Dude, let's get serious! Collecting cannot be put "on hold" or taken a "break" from! =P I mean, I'm STILL trying to compile all the swag and stuff I've gotten since like . . . February? It's so big it may have to be 2 posts . . . -_-' Still, hell of an effing post mate! ^_^ Keep it up! d('-'d)
O_O That's a lot of stuff. Nice haul man
Wow, this is hardcore haul! The Club Nintendo posters look great!
Awesome stuff, man. I would love to join club Nintendo, but because I live in Finland I'm apparently not allowed to. Also, I really need to update my collection blog, it's been like half a year since I last did that.
You have some great stuff here and I am jealous as per usual.

However, you have made slighted me sir. That Gameboy is not a Gameboy Color, it is a Gameboy Pocket. If you turn it on it will undoubtedly be black and white and assuredly devoid of color. I know because that was my first ever gaming system, which I still have in working condition to this day.
@Celica: Yea now how do I find the time to play those 1000+ hours worth of games?

@Steezy: Some people have great luck with GoodWill (myself included) and others can't seem to find anything. It's really hit or miss and you have to make an effort to go every couple days to see what's new.

@Funk: Man, how could I NOT frame that bad boy?? And let me tell you, it looks even better in person. You can only imagine how psyched I was when I found that DS Browser just sitting there for 9.99, I almost dropped a brick out of my pants, so hard to find nowadays at a decent price.

The frames I bought were the el-cheapo specials at Michaels Arts & Crafts. The nice thing about Michaels is that their frames are always 40-50% off so I think I paid 10 bucks each for 'em.

The Atlus/Nis stuff has become a must for me lately, that and Aksys and XSeed. Their games are so quirky and goofy and Atlus really caters to the gamer.

I know that I said I was going to put my collecting on hold and I'm really gonna try but you're right, you can never truly stop and I'm sure that before long another of these posts from me will be popping up.

@Doifx: That sucks man, sorry to hear that. I am however looking forward to your post so get to it! =)

@Enkido: Fixed! I have entirely too many Game Boys to keep track of, maybe I'll give some away during this years D-Toid Secret Santa!
That framing is an awesome way to show those posters. I'm pretty jealous that you've got the wall space to do that, mine are still in the cardboard rolls in my closet.

Awesome post, that is a ridiculous number of awesome games.
I love those posters, like... a lot. 'Specially the Darksiders one. Oh yeah, nice games too, I guess... posters > games, at least in this post.
Chilly Billy for pres. I want my GunGrave back! A lot of great stuff up there - I have a ton of 'em outside of the DS games - I never really got into DS collecting for some reason - I'm mainly a PS2 man.

Anyways, keep rocking!
Man what a jackass friend for never returning your Gears...my bad Chilly.

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