My Current Game Collecting Status

I've been buying retro video games now for almost a decade, scouring streets, thrift stores and garage sales to find all my childhood classics as well as hidden gems. I've come to a point where I've met a lot of my goals and  I had to reflect to truly refocus, since my energy has been divided on so many other projects. Thank goodness for this blog, I feel, even though I might just be writing for myself, I can visually take a picture of everything I'm doing online.

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Currently I've slowed down physically buying video games.  I've got every game that ever meant anything too me (and I do plan on going further in depth with my collection reflections) and I have a game room that's pretty much done (although, I can't ever seem to have the final arrangement in the room) Still...

I always have to be doing something, so I've found that my other projects have taken what would have been video game buying and collecting time.

Projects
1) Thriftdweller - My video game blog on Youtube. We're currently on break and that's probably the reason why I've slowed down buying. Season 3 is coming soon however! Can't wait! So many ideas!

2) My MAME Arcade - A computer with every game I ever wanted housed in an arcade cabinet. The project is almost done, but the hard work is over. The cabinet is awesome and the computer is set up great. Just waiting for the roms to be downloaded and it's done (more on this later too!)

3) Retro Gamers Winnipeg (RGCW)- my video game convention group for winnipeg (my city). I started it a month ago and it's just blown up with everything I'm doing. Seems a lot of my time gets taken up in it. I've worked on delegating tasks to others and I find that I am having more time to do stuff other than RGCW! We're inching closer to our end goal, a retro video game convention! Can't wait!

4) Team Retro Gamers Canada - A little known side project where I want to collaborate with some other Canadian Youtubers and make somewhat of a central video game hub for canadian retro video game video bloggers. This is early but is launching soon! I might change the name, undecided!