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The Biggest Playstation 1 Collector In The World

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Video game collectors come in all shapes and sizes. Some people want all the games from their childhood or they want to have all games in a series. Going for a full set on a console is not something unique, there are “plenty” collectors out there with a complete collection for the NES, Super Nintendo or any of the other old school systems. For the Playstation 1 however, full sets are very rare because of the enormous amount of games that got released for the system. Jason Dvorak is the only known collector to have a complete NTSC (USA) set for the Playstation 1.
And when we say complete, we mean every game and every variant known to man!

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In too deep.. no regrets

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As I enter my thirties, I find myself having yet another disconcerting notion, pondering the meaning of life and my place in the world etc. I look around me and I see other people – my friends – advancing through life in the expected social fashion, at a rate I can’t quite conceive. Many are doing university courses, starting families, or buying their first home of their own. Then I turn and look at myself and I wonder: “What have I achieved in life?”
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The viral interview that Yahoo stole

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The 4th of july 2011 was a memorable day for PlaystationCollecting.com!
On that day we published the interview with Ahans76, the collector with a full sealed American Playstation 2 set, which to date has had over 150 thousand page views.

The success of the interview showed how a remarkable story can spread like wildfire around the internet, over 800 sites featured a link to our site!

The down side of all this succes was that a major media outlet, Yahoo, saw it fit to STEAL the interview and pretend it was their own work!
As you can see in this blog post on the UK/IR Yahoo, they rewrote the interview with NO quotation, NO link to the original article and worst of all they cut off the copyright from the image.

With this post I hope the internet will name and shame Yahoo and their author Andy McV for copyright infringement and stealing our interview!

As a last remark I wanna thank every reader and every website/blog that featured our article, thanks for all the kind words and reactions :)

 

The King of Collectors: Full Playstation 2 NTSC Library Sealed!

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Header pictureMost kids of the 80’s and after played video games in their youth and some of these kids kept the games of yesteryear for nostalgic reasons. What happens if this kid continues to buy old video games for the sake of having them, for the sake of completion? A video game collector is born!
Now, odds are that you’re a video game collector yourself since you’re reading this intro. Our kind has different types of collectors: people with certain criteria (RPG, sealed, unofficial etc) and completionists. These completionists want every game in the library of a console, which can be a fairly easy feat for some consoles and a near impossible task for others.
Our community member Ahans76 is someone that went for the impossible… and pulled it off!

In this interview we talk with Ahans76, who to our knowledge, is the only collector in the world to have a full NTSC Playstation 2 library!
Read on to find out why he started collecting and how he pulled off this amazing feat.

Oh.. did I mention the entire PS2 library is sealed? Minor detail right? ^^

Game Rave Charity T-shirts for Japan

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As everyone knows Japan, the birthplace of our favorite console, has been struck by a horrible earthquake and tsunami.

Our friends over at Game Rave have set up a charity action of which 100% of the profit goes to a fund for the victims, and we at PlaystationCollecting.com offcourse fully support that initiative!

If you want to be a part of this charitable action, see www.game-rave.com for more information.