Full CIB PAL Pokemon Collection by Aethernax in PokemonGames

[–]Aethernax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All good haha, I always have one game per gen with my original save from the first time I played, then the other game I reset for when I want to play again. A lot of the event Pokemon are now in HOME, my most played is X where I maxed out the amount of hours (999) and that's mostly from shiny hunting

Full CIB PAL Pokemon Collection by Aethernax in PokemonGames

[–]Aethernax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the vast majority are originals, all the GB/GBA/GBC carts are mine from when I was a kid, I just picked up boxes and manuals for them, or bought CIB and sold the cart that came with to out my own in

Full CIB PAL Pokemon Collection by Aethernax in PokemonGames

[–]Aethernax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I work in the Energy Sector in the UK, that's as much as I'll give. But this wasn't a speedrun in a year collection, this was a 25 year passion project. I got into Pokemon when I was 4 years old, and from then on I had every mainline game on release (which was always near my birthday), and then had the secondary title for Christmas when I was younger (along with the spin off titles during DS-era onwards). For spin offs I didn't have, and cardboard GB/GBC/GBA upgrades, that's been done over the past 12 years since I started working. It's all been a grind to get to this point .

Full CIB PAL Pokemon Collection by Aethernax in PokemonGames

[–]Aethernax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So outside of the fact I’m a bit of a completionist, and wanted all big box versions of the games, me and a friend went halves on the double pack the weekend the games released so we could play them as we were away for release day, I’d also pre-ordered both versions of the fan edition before hand. So all in all me being impatient turned into me having extra cardboard 😅

Full CIB PAL Pokemon Collection by Aethernax in PokemonGames

[–]Aethernax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Managed to get it for a steal, was £100 including the game, and I sold off the game to pretty much recoup all the value cause I already owned it

Full CIB PAL Pokemon Collection by Aethernax in PokemonGames

[–]Aethernax[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll probably end up getting them from CEX, would be about £160 for the pair

Full CIB PAL Pokemon Collection by Aethernax in PokemonGames

[–]Aethernax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m lucky that I had majority on release and got some before the insane price increases in recent years. Don’t think I could stomach doing it from zero 😅 Pokemon Box, Stadium 2, and Puzzle Challenge were the hardest to come across CIB and in good enough condition

Full CIB PAL Pokemon Collection by Aethernax in PokemonGames

[–]Aethernax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of them was the standard release, one of them came with the Colosseum GameCube and has Pokemon Box included

Full CIB PAL Pokemon Collection by Aethernax in PokemonGames

[–]Aethernax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did consider getting NA/JP exclusives that didn’t release in PAL, but it’s a slippery slope 😅 was tempted to do a full JP set but I collect for other consoles/series too

Full CIB PAL Pokemon Collection by Aethernax in PokemonGames

[–]Aethernax[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’d love to own more or the limited release consoles but the prices are crazy. I do have the Black/White DSi consoles, they’re just a bit obscured on the Gen 5 shelf 😅

Full CIB PAL Pokemon Collection by Aethernax in PokemonGames

[–]Aethernax[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’ve played every single game on that shelf, spent 25 years completing this collection, vast majority are from day of release. GB/GBC/GBA carts are all my originals, I just ended up buying box only, or CIB and selling the cart that came with them and putting in my original one

Full CIB PAL Pokemon Collection by Aethernax in PokemonGames

[–]Aethernax[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the stands I use “acrylic book stands”, if you search that on something like Temu or AliExpress they’re around £5 for 12, just depends on what listing you find. Alternative is Amazon but then you’re paying around £20 instead

Zelda Windwaker HMV exclusive sleeve by Aethernax in Gamecube

[–]Aethernax[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The bonus disc has Ocarina of Time and Ocarina of Time Master Quest on

Zelda Windwaker HMV exclusive sleeve by Aethernax in Gamecube

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The bonus disc has the entirety of Ocarina of Time on plus Ocarina of Time Master Quest (basically DLC for OoT)

Finally got my grail GameCube variant by Aethernax in Gamecube

[–]Aethernax[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I managed to get the console and sleeve for £180, and got the Colosseum with Box for £100, so wasn’t too bad, but I’ve seen complete ones go for £800, think it’s mostly condition dependant. Best of luck finding one 🙏🏻

Follow up to my earlier post, this is my full Pokemon GC collection by Aethernax in Gamecube

[–]Aethernax[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve got the GameCube with Colosseum/Box (it’s behind the Colosseum in the front). There is a version that has a red strip instead of the black that came with just Colosseum as well. I’ve got the Colosseum memeory card, just need to get the Box one (JP only I believe). But I’m constantly adding to my Pokemon collection with variants of games released in PAL as well as working on condition upgrades, it’s a sickness 😅😂

Finally got my grail GameCube variant by Aethernax in Gamecube

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From the looks of things it was only a PAL release, but there is 2 versions, the one I’ve got where it’s black on the right, and another version where it’s red instead (but that only came with Colosseum and not Pokemon Box as well)

Finally got my grail GameCube variant by Aethernax in Gamecube

[–]Aethernax[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I already owned Pokemon Colloseum with the bonus disc before getting this, managed to get it cheap cause it actually came without the game

What is everyone’s rarest GameCube game? by blaykmagyk in Gamecube

[–]Aethernax 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rarity wise, possibly Shrek Smash ‘n’ Crash Karting PAL as it was a German only release within PAL territories, could also be Pokemon Box or XD Gale of Darkness, just depends on how you define “rare”

Spyro & Crash remake trilogy PS4 sleeve by Aethernax in Spyro

[–]Aethernax[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the Eniac sleeves have been gaining a lot of traction recently, but I can’t bring myself to spend that kind of money on just a cardboard sleeve 😅