Why I own three copies of the same game

Hobby Corner · Retro gaming

It started as an accident. A second copy turned up at a market for the price of a sandwich, and it would have been rude to leave it there. By the third, I had stopped calling it an accident and started calling it a strategy.

The three copies, explained

• The backup copy. For when the first copy fails, which it will not, but still.
• The display copy. For looking at, on a shelf, in good light.
• The playing copy. Its label is held on by hope and a little tape.

The collection in numbers

Games owned

41

Games finished

6

Games bought 'to preserve them'

All of them

Games that need a different cable

Yes

Collecting is just remembering with shelf space.