On a recent visit back home, I ended up helping my dad take some measurements in the
basement. Once we were done, I turned around and realized how AMAZING our video
game collection is!
I've said before that my parents were and are gamers. They pretty much went along with most
every gaming purchase I showed interest in. Aside from the CD-i. My parents were very
wise. So as a result, I was that kid that had just about every system.
The great thing now, come 2008, is that we never sold any of our systems, and didn't throw
away most of the boxes. Just about everything you about to see is either actually in the box, or otherwise being
used in my parent's house.
So, for your retro enjoyment, Behold! The Tubatic Family Console Collection!
Turbo CD. I used to use the CD unit by itself as my personal discman. It was cool, but
hands down the worst discman I ever had.
Yep. I have a 32X. I had Doom, rented some fighter game set in space. And that's about
it.
Lots going on in this picture. Notice the TurboExpress, which was fucking genius. I think
my dad still uses it as a portable TV. That gray folded thing on the left. Power Pad. Also,
the box for the case to the PXL camcorder. We kept the box for that, too.
Notice the box on the right. I had soo many Transformers. There's probably two more just
like that one. Notice here the Mario Paint box and the Caleco Vision near the top. Smurfs
was the bomb.
Lethal Enforcers and Super Scope at the top of the heap. Also Super Simon keeping my
mom's PS2 box in check. And take note of the red box near the middle.
That was a basically a tabletop "Game and Watch" style game involving Mario and Buckets
of paint. I played that game ALOT!
I'll have to come back and raid this box. There's another right under it, full of NES
cartridges. Highlight here: Legend of Zelda 1 and 2, in box, gold cartridges. Coolest Boxes
EVER!
And to bring it all home, here's our first Macintosh. Hypercards FTW. We had a cassette
tape memory unit for this rig. Doesn't even do color. And I dare say, it has about 1MB of
HardDrive, if that.
There's a bunch of other stuff in this room that would boggle and amaze you. There's no
trace in these pics of the Captain Power vehicles, our Pong console, or our Commodore64.
Next time I'm back home, I'll see about getting a few more snapshots to tickle your retro.
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Fucking amazing. Your NES boxes look fucking mint dude.
LOL...dude that's ridiculous.
Incredible collection.
what's your misc. dolls?!?!
it's killing me not knowing :p
Dude, you're video game rich.
Our boxes always got trashed when I was a little kid, I'd love to have all the original boxes/manuals to my NES/SNES games...
Awesome, man. I love seeing the collections of people, especially the boxes of the products, whether full or not - I keep all of my boxes today, hoping to have such a collection at some point in the future.
I'd love to see some of the Sega-related stuff in greater detail, if at all possible - was that a Lethal Enforcers box in the fifth photo?
wow. fucking awsome.
Epic. You just garnered so much respect. *sniffle* It's beautiful xD
That is amazing! It kind of pisses me off now that I have some consoles with no boxes and I have no idea where they went. Safe to say I keep all my boxes now too :-)
For some reason the "vase from Aunt Clara" made me lol
0_0
*is jealous*
I'm really jealous! My dad plays games but he was never hardcore at collecting or anything =( I have many good memories of playing on his C64 though when I was younger.
If only everyone uncovered a massive hoard of gaming goodness while clearing out.
Welcome to being my new best friend!
@BlackSheep
Some mysteries are best left unanswered.
@Endaso
I'll see about getting some more detailed pics next time around. Especially the 32X box. If I remember right, it pretty much has screen shots of every game that ever came out for it. sad sad system . . .
Tell Aunt Clara that everyone from Dtoid said hi.
Your parents are wonderful people. Make them have more children so more people can share in your happiness.
Dolls? Or "action figures"?
@NsOmNia91130
Dolls. Misc and Mexico. They're all my mom's, I swear.
. . .
Hey look! There's two versions of the Intellevision in there. heh heh . . .
Screw the boxes, I want Aunt Clara's vase
Box full of YARN!!? That's my favorite system.
Seriously stop making me jealous.
Misc. Dolls = action figures?
I never had a TG-16, that box is huge! I keep most of my system's boxes too, but none of them are in such great shape. You are sitting on an eBay gold mine, my friend.
You need to take everything out and set it up in a big room and take more pics. So we can see it all. Please!
So cool, I wish I still had my old boxes/systems.
@ Welkstar
That's actually the box just for the CD-Drive! So much packaging!
@ Orionsaint
I may do just that! Now that I've realized that I can't play Sonic CD properly on modern consoles, I've got an itch to find and bust open the SEGA CD, which is somewhere in that stack/corner of my parent's basement.