I didnt realize there was an award for gamer tattoo, is this somewhat recent?
Anyway, here's my gamer tattoos.

DPad Danny - Tattoo Award Added!

KrakenSoup - EB Award Added!

Note: When we created the EB Award, Smash merchandise was allowed to be used one time only. I.e. if you use it as an extra for Earthbound then you can't use it as an extra for Starfox or Mario.

However, now that the series has come so far, I personally think Smash should be it's own award entirely. It's clear that it is a franchise that Nintendo banks on and will continue to release from here on out.

Ok guys, while I was away for a work trip I picked up a few more I hope you all consider legitimate. This is about all I can do until the end of the year  

Complete Cart Only Virtual Boy Set and Complete CIB Virtual Boy Set

This one was surprisingly challenging for me, I began collecting on VB likely 4 years ago and only just recently got the last game I needed, Jack Bros. was the biggest pain of all, but once I secured that I got the last couple. Also, the Mario Tennis box is an authentic Blockbuster display box, so all is good! 



Adventure Island (some might think i'm playing fast and loose with this one, but to be fair, the wonderboy series is related historically, so I felt it would be fair, feel free to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Won... )




Tetris




Tomb Raider




Wario (duplicate copies, other versions, amiibo, etc)

Finally got the last piece of the puzzle for the complete fire emblem set. Darn radiant dawn was harder to get than I thought.

Edit: almost forgot my 5+ pieces of extra bling

It's over!!! At long last I have completed the quest. I did complete side missions along the way, which really just earned me a few prizes here and there, but trading items for Final Fantasy II has me excited. 

For comparison, this was collection in October of 2014:


Since then I have devoted more of my collection money towards FF items, and below is the result.

I apologize for the amount of photos below (and will remove them upon request), but this badge is something I have been after ever since I saw it. I'M OFFICIALLY A SEE D!!!!!











Some older photos of things I also own. 













And that's all besides a few displays from Gamestop. 

Very cool collection!

Jeesh, I didn't even know half of that stuff existed! Most impressive FF collection that I've seen. Keep those pictures up  .

Just wondering is there a award for owning a starlight fun center.

Adventure Island Set Complete- I think the Wonderboy Stuff and Both NES & GB games should be required.


Also picked up a M82 a few months ago

Reposting as this might have been overlooked, was really hoping to get these done  

All awards up to this post have been added! Very nice everyone!

Is this good enough for the GTA badge?



I also have all the PC versions on my Steam account and the PSP ones downloaded on PS Vita.

Also I'm curious, I have all the Metal Gear games on the list plus at least 5 bonus items but for MGSV: GZ/PP I only have digital copies on Steam. Does that count or do I need a physical copy even for a game that recent? 

Is this a kiosk award? If he'd posted this in the kiosk thread, I probably would've given it to him.

Would a Scandinavia complete Black Box set do the trick for the CIB BB award?

I'm not the final word but I'd imagine physical is needed aside maybe for a bonus item or something. Being that the forum tracks things like screw variants and the like, I don't think digital meets the point of the spirit the forum drives at.

I can undertsand that up to a point. Like I have lots of old 90's PC games on steam and gog. I wouldn't ask if those count toward a badge because that'd be stupid. But for a game that just came out last year in a time when physical media is basically dead as far as video games are concerned I don't think it's unreasonable to count it. In a couple of years they're not even going to be releasing physical copies of games anymore. It's gonna be all downloads. What then? 

By mostly dead do you mean still the vast majority of sales? Digital takes up 20 to 30 percent of overall sales of games released at retail. Sounds like you have a bit of tunnel vision, at least as far as consoles and dedicated gaming hardware is concerned. Now for PC games it's different but then again, this forum doesn't require any PC releases for badges either.

In the event you can no longer buy physical games, I'm sure the forum will adapt rules, but considering you can still buy all music on cds and movies on DVD, I fear the wait might be a tad longer then you think  

Also note how you don't need digital only releases such as things like the rebirth Wii games or titles released on Android or ios stores.

Yeah but even the "physical" games that are released aren't complete games that you can just put in your console and play. They require you to connect to the internet and download hours worth of updates and install them. When they shut those servers down those "physical copies" are gonna be useless. You might think the big shift is far off but these things can happen fast. I was working in a movie theater a few years ago. One day I went into work and suddenly there's no more film projectors. All digital. It happened over night. 

Edit: also whats your source for that 20-30% figure? I just did a quick google search and what I found is that last year digital made up 56% of game sales and that number is rising every year. 

http://www.statista.com/statistic...

Yeah that figure is based around the entire digital industry. Games that only release on phones or through services like steam or Psn/live. In the event a game like say, Halo releases digitally and in stores, the physical version usually accounts for 70 or 80 percent. I'd look up the figure but im on mobile but it's easy to find.

Also, most games work fine with no Internet, some are broken yes, I'd wager 90 percent of my Xbox and Ps4 games will be playable in 20 years. Still, you can't tell a vinyl enthusiast that your music collection is the same, to a collector it isn't. Appreciation of a physical object is kind of the main draw.

Also, if they do shut down servers, your digital collection would literally cease to exist the moment your HDD got corrupted or something, which is worse than a disc that can't play for most collectors  

Edit: Got to my computer, here is one example of one of the biggest companies citing about 20 percent of sales back in 2015, expecting them to grow over the course of 4 years. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showt...

Plenty of examples like that exist, when Halo 5 released and under performed tons of people claimed it must be digital sales taking over, but no, those also only accounted for something like 25 percent of sales. Digital will continue to grow, but the market for physical goods will exist for awhile. Keep in mind, these devices are sold in stores for razer thin margins for a retail company. A company like Walmart might sell a PS4 that cost 350 bucks, and only make like 20 bucks off the transaction (out of ass figure but you get the idea). They are willing to sell on thin margins BECAUSE they will profit more so off the software. If any company releases a digital only console, they won't be able to price it nearly as aggressively. Suddenly your 300 dollar console might become 400-500 because otherwise the store sees no benefit to carrying it, ya know?

There's a lot that goes into this stuff, and especially in the US our laws are very behind consumer rights when it comes to digital goods, you don't even legally own your digital collection or have any right to resell it, i'm surprised so many are willing to dump hundreds if not thousands into something they can never loan, sell, or at least retain until the physical object is destroyed, but such is the way of consumerism  

Complete, the North American N64 set a few weeks ago. It took me about 3 years of casually picking up games and looking for bargains. I became a little more aggressive over the summer with my hunt for the last 20 games or so. The goal became to have it completed before September 26 the 20^th anniversary of the console.



Next I have all the Mortal Kombat games. I would say the hardest to acquire was the Wii version of Armageddon. It's probably not the rarest MK game I used to see it everywhere, but when I wanted to purchase it I couldn't find it anywhere at the time. The extras are on the right side of the picture.


Gradius, what a great series. My favorite Gradius games are on the Game Boy and Game Boy Advanced. So far they're the only Gradius games that I have been able to beat. I've had most of these games for awhile but recently picked up the Famicon version of Gradius 2 (because I can now play it via AVS). Next up I plan to acquire the remaining R-Type games I don't own.


And now for the award I've been waiting years for...

X-MEN

I included the 5 Wolverine games in the picture as well.
And now for a few of my X-Men X-tras.

One of my all time favorite comics. In this issue of X-Factor my two favorite X-Men go head to head.

X-Men movies

A few first appearances by popular characters

Complete X-Factor

Near complete run of New Mutants

First 50 issues of Wolverine

I realize this award was recently voted on and may not yet be available. If NA would like any help with awards or designing them I would be willing to do so. I've also submitted a few scans for the database, I realize the mod squad has recently thinned out a bit, so I imagine uploading them is not a priority at the moment. However I do believe there is an award icon for scans as well  .
 

Sweet X-Men collection! I'm a huge fan of X-Factor too!
 

Thanks playa
 

Applying for the EarthBound award.

I have the US version cart
plus extras: Ness and Lucas amiibo figures, Nintendo Force #17, Super Smash Bros. (JPN CIB), and Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun goods- Mr. Saturn accessory case, and Hobonichi Techo planners w/ Saturn Valley and EB Memories covers*
*Iwata-credit paper overlay does not come with the standard cover - I whipped that up myself as a "replacement" for a part of the cover I didn't like.

I got another question about the Sega Gamer award. 
I see Splatterhouse is on that list. Does that mean Splatterhouse 2/3 because as far as I know the first one never came out on any Sega consoles. 
Also I see Sonic on the list. Just plain Sonic. Does that mean any game in the series, or just the first, or all of them?