Dreamcast JPN complete Sealed Collection

Yearhhh.. time is what most expensive. I always dream about what masses of money i can get from selling my collection. It took me years to amass this and selling in 1 minute..

my thought's exactly, though the cash would be tempting.

I dont get it? How can you say this is factory sealed when its not. Most look like resealed bought secondhand. Seems misleading to the buyer if your selling yes?

Adol wrote:I posted it on Ebay,just for the fun of it

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280200699828

I once considered doing this "Just for fun", with a stupidly high Buy It Now price. But I really would be devestated to have to sell it if someone did genuinely want to purchase my entire collection. Plus, I really wouldn't know where to start in regards to valuing it all (IGN suggests my collection is apparently worth just below £30,000, but that isn't taking into consideration that about 90% of my collection is factory sealed, so I would personally value it higher!)

killer7 wrote:I dont get it? How can you say this is factory sealed when its not. Most look like resealed bought secondhand. Seems misleading to the buyer if your selling yes?

How do you know? Because of the shrinkwrapped games? Lots of Japanese games were like that

[/How do you know? Because of the shrinkwrapped games? Lots of Japanese games were like that]

True, true, I dont know exactly. But dont DC sealed games of Japanese release have the tear strips too? I have some. The plastic slip cases are sold with second hand DC games from Japan almost everytime. Hence my own collection looks factory sealed, but they are not, only some.
Adol, can you settle this?
If it really is, you are truly a legend in my eyes for sure.
I dont know if I would part with it if I were you. You must have alot of adventures/ memories tied up in obtaining them all.

killer7 wrote:I dont get it? How can you say this is factory sealed when its not. Most look like resealed bought secondhand. Seems misleading to the buyer if your selling yes?

This is not misleading.
To protect the factory sealed games from dust&stuff i put them in outer plastic bags.
But inside of them,they ARE indeed Factory sealed, with seal stripe OF COURSE.
I know what i'm speaking about,being on Ebay for 10 years
You don't build a 2650 feedback with lies & misleading descriptions.

Gemini-Phoenix wrote:

Adol wrote:I posted it on Ebay,just for the fun of it

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280200699828

I once considered doing this "Just for fun", with a stupidly high Buy It Now price. But I really would be devestated to have to sell it if someone did genuinely want to purchase my entire collection. Plus, I really wouldn't know where to start in regards to valuing it all (IGN suggests my collection is apparently worth just below £30,000, but that isn't taking into consideration that about 90% of my collection is factory sealed, so I would personally value it higher!)

Well, i wouldn't cry by selling 5% of my collection.
I still have around 20 other fullsets to take care of.

I would cry if it were sold

Adol, what online retailers would you recommend as your faves?

Hey man, I believe you then about the seals

I added that in description so everyone thinking like you they're resealed, will believe it.
I posted a Border Down pic just for being sure everyone understand my games have seal stripe

I bought my DC games when they were released,so i have no favourites online resellers, except Ebay and Yahoo Japan.

As a collector, I would love to own all of this! If I had the cash, i'd Buy It Now! Lol.

But, saying that, it kind of defeats the object of collecting, as half the thrill is chasing the items in the first place. This is ok for anyone who wants to open them and play or simply for bragging rights of having a complete sealed set, but in my eyes buying a complete collection is... Well, cheating really, if you know what I mean.

What would you say you have personally spent money-wise on obtaining these games over the years? Is the auction price an accurate reflection on the money spent, or did you deliberately set it higher than average to ensure a safe return? (I know you listed it for fun though)

I can't imagine there would be too many serious collector's out there with this kind of cash to buy all in one go! Obviously when you're building up a collection over time, you don't notice small chunks going out on a weekly basis, but when you add up how much we really do spend as collector's, it really is phenomenal! What makes your collection even more amazing is the fact that you've imported everything - It's one thing for a Japanese resident to own a set like this, but for someone living in France, it's impressive!

Gemini-Phoenix wrote:It's one thing for a Japanese resident to own a set like this, but for someone living in France, it's impressive!

That's what amazed me most of time.
I don't think France had a wide game market in 90s. But still Adol managed to grab all this stuff years ago back at the time (without ebay and YJA i guess). Which is simply amazing.

I honestly think we had the best japanese video games import scene in Europe.
There was countless of import shops in France from beginning of 90s up to 2000-2002.

But from 1997,Ebay helped me,and from 1998 Yahoo Japan as well.
However 70% of the SFC fullset was obtained from the French import scene (i had 900 titles from 1997..up to 2006,when i decided to go for the fullset,still 550 to go)

Gemini-phoenix: $20000 is an accurate price,it isn't too big,it isn't too small...i'd accept to sell it maybe for slightly less, i got a 8000€ (11600$ offer) but i'd say no...i'd go for 12000€ (17400$),then i'm ok for a 15% discount But not less,us$ os SO low,i'd go for less than this..
I understand chasing is the most exciting part,but it is too the most frustrating,when you're 10-20 titles near the end..you could be BLOCKED for a year or more finding those missing ones (that's what i'm experiencing with SFC right now)

Besides,i'm 130 titles near finishing the complet ejapanese Saturn fullset (1100-1200 titles),which will make me the owner of every Sega system relative japanese game ever released from Mark 3 to dreamcast ( Mark 3,Game Gear, Megadrive, Mega Cd, 32X, Saturn and Dreamcast), and i'd love that!
The same i did with NEC, owning PC Engine Hucard,CD,SCD,ACD,Supergrafx & PC-FX fullsets

nintendo is quite hard to obtain..i'm 1 title to end the SFC fullset, and i already own N64,DD64..maybe i'd go with Gamecube, and ending Famicom Disk System, but Famicom CIB (1200 titles) is hard to do, and definately not 1 of my goals.
Let alone Gameboy/DS stuff

I'm not into Sony or Microsoft either.

Adol wrote:
I'm not into Sony or Microsoft either.

why? just too many games to handle it or no interest?

Pascal wrote:

Adol wrote:
I'm not into Sony or Microsoft either.

why? just too many games to handle it or no interest?

I think it would take a lifetime to obtain every single PlayStation game complete and used. Impossible to collect sealed I would think. And that would just be PAL or American sets.

@ Adol: I know what you mean in regards to chasing those last few to complete a set. I am currently only four or five sealed N-Gage titles away from a full set, and need just one more Pokemon game to complete my sub-collection. As for my PAL Dreamcast set... They've really dried up recently. When I first started collecting Dreamcast games, they were quite plentiful, and reasonably priced, yet I didn't really have much spare cash. Now the tables have turned, and I have the cash but they are few and far between. Add to that the fact that I am very picky over what regional variations I have, and condition too...

I always knew Adol is a horrible abomination of mankind.

Dark Sol wrote:I always knew Adol is a horrible abomination of mankind.

A legend amongst our circles, and it's a pleasure to have him here amongst the rest of our "Kind"! Lol. An inspiration to us all, and the godfather of our hobby!

Adol wrote:I posted it on Ebay,just for the fun of it

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280200699828

Kotaku really do like showing off pics of your collection, Adol!

http://kotaku.com/358987/buy-every-single-japanese-dreamcast-game-at-once

That's at least the second time your collection has been featured on there since SGH has been going (The first being when Kotaku first reported on this site)


It's also been reported on all over the web, like HERE for example

I also notice that the auction is offering $10 back with a new eBay MasterCard! Lol. I can't imagine anyone being $10 short of $19,999.99!

No interest,this is not my childhood.
My childhood is 8&16 bits,and partly 32 bits.
So yes,PS1 would insterest me a little,but there are way too many games i'm not interested in (thousands,literally) to begin a fullset.

I did Saturn&Dreamcast by respest to Sega, and because i wanted to have all Sega-console based games ever released in Japan.

I'm into Sega,Nintendo,SNK and Nec/Hudson,mainly.
MSX&other stuff as well,but basically few things over 1998 interest me.

Gemini-Phoenix wrote:

Adol wrote:I posted it on Ebay,just for the fun of it

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280200699828

Kotaku really do like showing off pics of your collection, Adol!

http://kotaku.com/358987/buy-every-single-japanese-dreamcast-game-at-once

That's at least the second time your collection has been featured on there since SGH has been going (The first being when Kotaku first reported on this site)


It's also been reported on all over the web, like HERE for example

I also notice that the auction is offering $10 back with a new eBay MasterCard! Lol. I can't imagine anyone being $10 short of $19,999.99!

I appreciate the fact that those guys say it is a "bargain" or "fair price" and not a "stupid insane price" like some other people would say.
Ppl thinking too that " why buying them and not opening them" didn't realize that when you can buy all this,you can buy the few games you want to play as used copies, but well.

On a other $0.2 listing day,i'll post my complete SFC fullset (still need 1 game to go) and PCE fullset (with all hrdwares), just for teasing Let's say $35-40000 each (which is not THAT far from truth)

Amazing Jap Dreamcast Collection

On the bottom picture, what is the full title of the game in bottom left hand corner, i know its Card Captor Sakura ....

It is indeed an awesome collection :-)

It also contrasts well with the number of games released outside of Japan (around 200 each for PAL/US; the Japanese region more than triples either of them), and highlights the proportion of limited/special editions compared with overseas libraries (practically none outside of Japan; even console bundles were incredibly rare - moreso than any other major console, probably).

Dark Sol wrote:I always dream about what masses of money i can get from selling my collection.

I, on the other hand, always dream about *having* lots of money, and using it to buy collections like this. :-) Or alternatively, a little bit at at a time, like I do now.

Also, Adol (or anyone else who knows):

Can you tell me, in the case of the Shenmue Limited Edition for the Japanese Dreamcast: Are the cases under the slip cover surrounded by a spine card (it would be visible from the side)?

It was the case with the Shenmue 2 Limited Edition (not to mention, the non-special editions of Shenmue & Shenmue 2, and the practice of Japanese Dreamcast titles in general). But I can't see from your pictures if this is the case (looks like that might be it a few titles in from the left on the second line of the first picture, in which case I guess the answer is "No spine!").

I've bought a couple over the years, searching for evidence either way. I bought my original copy at release, but not from one of my usual, trusted sellers. I've been paranoid ever since Shenmue 2 came out, because I bought it and it *did* have a spine. I was pretty much ready to agree that it would have been without a card, due to the fact that used copies never have one either, no matter how complete a seller's wares usually are.

Please excuse the off-topic nature of (most of) this post. I asked this question over in Confirmation & Evidence a while back, but no-one who saw it at the time knew the answer.

The Imp wrote:Can you tell me, in the case of the Shenmue Limited Edition for the Japanese Dreamcast: Are the cases under the slip cover surrounded by a spine card (it would be visible from the side)?

No spinecard with the limited first-print.

Sorry,didn't notice your post.
I agree, no spine card for limited first print copies.