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KEEPING COLLECTIONS

While it’s perfectly possible to enjoy retro games without taking up whole rooms of your house, many of us still choose to follow the path of relentless acquisition in the pursuit of building collections. We recently took the time to examine our own approaches to this, and why we’ve adopted them.

NICK

Here’s a nice and simple question to start us off – to what extent do you consider yourself to be a game collector?

DARRAN

Well I must have around 1,000 physical games across both

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