{"id":87,"date":"2006-03-09T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/87"},"modified":"2009-11-10T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T14:26:28","slug":"how-to-tell-if-you-have-a-game-collecting-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/87\/how-to-tell-if-you-have-a-game-collecting-problem","title":{"rendered":"How to Tell if You Have a Video Game Collecting Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/videogamecollectors.com\/gallery\/Gameroom?page=1\" target=\"new\"><img src='\/wp-content\/colprob_1_small.jpg' alt='A Slight Collecting Problem' class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">How do you know if you have a video game collecting problem?  How about this: when you can&#8217;t even walk on your own floor because every square inch is <a href=\"http:\/\/videogamecollectors.com\/gallery\/Gameroom?page=1\" target=\"new\"><em>covered with games<\/em><\/a>.  Talk about painting yourself in a corner&#8230;with video games.  And my fiance thought <em>I<\/em> had a problem.  The next time your wife complains about your collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/videogamecollectors.com\/gallery\/Gameroom?page=1\" target=\"new\">show her these pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All kidding aside, this is looks like an important library of video games.  I wonder: if this room were discovered like some long-lost vault or tomb in the year 120,402 A.D. by our descendants after World War 15, what would they think of us?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Read an interview with the owner of this collection and see more photos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/103\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you know if you have a video game collecting problem? How about this: when you can&#8217;t even walk on your own floor because every square inch is covered with games. Talk about painting yourself in a corner&#8230;with video games. And my fiance thought I had a problem. The next time your wife complains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-collecting","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}