...I think there are stages to collecting. 
There's the "newbie" stage (this is usually the 
stage where people say they've bought a cel for 
too much, to the extent they regret it), 
the "psychotic buying frenzy/envious of others" 
stage, and stages in between, but eventually your 
get to a stage where you look at what you spent 
on cels, a LUXURY item of the utmost degree, and 
feel almost disgusted spending money on plastic. 
After that, you kind of reconcile yourself...any 
hobby has a stage like that, and you realize you 
did it for enjoyment, and STILL get enjoyment 
from what you did collect. However, the desire to 
actively collect is perhaps not still there...for 
me, I'm not into collecting so much anymore...I'm 
just going to get my gallery up and leave it, 
most likely...I like what I have, and I'll keep 
it at that.

I've recently become extremely enamoured of 
games...I was always a Nintendo girl. When I was 
young, we had an Atari 2600 (Pitfall, man, oh 
yeah...and anyone remember that Indiana Jones 
game? Indy was composed of 6 pixels...and a 4 
pixel whip) and an NES. Of course, I only got to 
play the Atari, as my brothers hogged the NES. 
When it finally got old and crappy, I got to play 
it (oh, how I fondly recall the days of screaming 
at a cartridge and blowing into it repeatedly). I 
also had a GameBoy, which I was able to use 
before the NES...my first game was Zelda: Link's 
Awakening. After that, we never had any more 
systems...my parents swore they would never buy 
us any, we had to pay ourself, Being under 10, I 
did not have that type of money. 

So until last year, I was without console...sure, 
I would visit friends, and my middle school years 
were spent t Robin's house with her N64 and two 
games, Mario Kart and Golden Eye. Or whenever I 
saw my cousins I would hijack their SNES to play 
Super Metroid. This was when I was introduced to 
the joys of computers games...my favorites of all 
time still being the Quest for Glory series from 
Sierra. And LucasArts....Dark Forces, ah yes, so 
crappy yet so fun. But even those I didn't have 
much of. And being a loyal Nin-girl, with not 
even enough money to afford THEIR systems, how 
would I ever venture into SEGA land? So only now 
am I learning the joys of Sonic (a game which I 
secretly longed for when it came out) and systems 
such as the Dreamcast.

...basically, this is getting to the point that I 
got a PS2 last year, and am finally getting back 
in the swing...and so, I'm totally into games 
now. They take up my time and money, but not to a 
ludicrous extent, like cels. 

..and I'm prolly gonna buy an NES, so I can once 
again play Megaman games (dude, MM3 was the BEST 
game. Snakeman is TOTALLY my bitch). 

...I think I forgot what my point was...

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...anyone got an old NES they wanna sell me?

-Misha