More accurately titled: Hale's Classic RPG Collection. Granted, not all are RPGs, but most are, or at least they are similiar. Zelda is an adventure game with very few, but some, RPG elements. Pics coming. This page is under construction right now as I fill in each series, and add personal photos of my actual collection.
First up: Two pics of my favorite pieces from my collection: My CIB Earthbound (yes, the scratch and sniff are still in the book!) and my PS1 Lunar collector's editions:
Earthbound
Earthbound...what a game. I initially received a copy when the game was new as a birthday gift. I hated it. I had never heard of it, and it wasn't the RPG I had asked for (either Lufia 2 or another JRPG, neither of which were available through retail where we lived, and online was not yet an option). I ended up playing it half-hardheartedly for a bit, then put it aside. For whatever reason, months later, I decided to give it another go and fell in love. Foolishly, I sold the game a couple of years later to finance other game buying.
The copy shown above is not my original, and the box and game are from one trade and the strategy guide from another. I traded a CIB copy of Mario RPG for the strategy guide, and would do it again in a heartbeat. Having a complete copy of Earthbound is far more important to me.
Lunar: Silver Star Story + Eternal Blue
"Alllex, ohhh Alllllllllllllex!"
Wow. I can still hear those words almost perfectly, uttered by Nall during the intro sequence when I first played Lunar: Silver Star Story on SegaCD. The game was revolutionary for me, at the time: It had anime sequences, it had voice acting, and it was hard. Not brutally insane hard, but hard enough that you had to pay attention during random battles, and trying to move too fast through the game resulted in death and setbacks.
Story wise, this game owned my soul from the outset: I was a huge fantasy reader as a kid, and this story was about a young boy setting out on a quest to help a child hood friend, only to end up following in the footsteps of his hero, the Dragonmaster Dyne.
I beat the game through repeated rentals because thankfully the SegaCD came with built in save space. When Working Designs announced a re-release on the PS1 I knew I had to have it, and convinced my best friend at the time that he did too. His mother phoned Working Designs and pre-ordered the game for us, and they mailed us each demo discs (shown above).
Final Fantasy
Zelda
Dragon Warrior
Shin Megami Tensei
Suikoden
Wild Arms
Breath of Fire
Misc:
Lufia
One-offs
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