Hey everyone, PushingUpRoses here, and today I’d love to share with you some of my game
and tech collection with you guys.
I don’t have a large collection, but...well, I mean I DO have a lot of stuff that I am
very happy to own but this isn’t going to be an entire garage or wall to wall packed
with STUFF kind of a video.
I mostly collect big box PC games, but in general this room is for a lot of different
collections with the exception of newer games and my record collection which is all upstairs.
As you can see this is my basement, I tried to make it inviting though admittedly I don’t
spend too much time down here.
I do kickbox down here, which is why my stinky old gym shoes are on the floor.
This poster over here is my Highland Sextacy poster from The Guild - a fan bought this
for me and I love it.
Cracks me up.
Everything really starts on this back wall over here, I have some game posters: Lazy
Game Reviews gave me this sweet DOAR poster, and I have my Day of the Tentacle poster signed
by Tim Schafer.
He asked me what I wanted it to say and I just said, “Yo, PushingUpRoses” so he
wrote that.
This little video game flower set was actually a table decoration from a friend’s wedding;
she made them and they are super adorable.
So this King’s Quest V sleeve is...just a sleeve, I do have this game in box with
a different, better cover that a fan sent me, but wanted to keep this one because it’s
so absurd with King Graham floating into the game with his string of kids flying along
with him.
This is an IBM 5150, released in 1981; it does work though I don’t want to turn it
on at the moment; it came with a ton of heavy books and documents and it’s in really great
condition, runs very well.
I especially the mechanical keyboard, it’s so heavy duty.
I don’t use it too often but I recently programmed a few small applications on it
and try to keep it active.
Here starts my PC game collection, I tried to have a theme for some of the shelves but
some of them are just kind of randomly in here.
This is the official book of King’s Quest; Jim Leonard formerly of MobyGames was kind
enough to give this too me and some of the games on the top shelf here.
So many thanks to him.
This a Clue PC game from 1996 by Hasbro, it’s one of my favorite Clue related things; I
think I still have my original CDs for it as well.
A lot of these games were either gifts or found at thrift stores - for example I found
Myst at a random Goodwill among the puzzles and board games.
This shelf I dedicated to a lot of Sierra games and adventure games in general.
And yes, I have multiple copies of KQVI because they were released in different colors.
This shelf I tried to dedicate to edutainment, but also LucasArts?
And Titanic.
This is making me realize I need to organize these a little better, but yes; I adore the
Learning Company games.
I have a lot more just in their jewel cases but my CD collection is in a different room.
Trying to sneak around here to show the bottom shelf, and again, mostly misc.
This is my Frag Master!
It’s a joystick that is supposed to be suited for shooter games from the windows 95 and
98 era.
I haven’t tried it yet myself but I’ve always thought it looked strangely phallic,
like a penis shape INSIDE of a vagina shape; very odd.
I’ve always wanted to do a hardware review on this thing.
This is some of my Clue collection.
I’m a really big Clue fan, I have a lot of the video games and the board games, and
a lot of the young adult chapter books, so...if you have Clue related items you are tempted
to throw away, please think of me first!
I really just have fond memories of playing Clue with my Aunt and I also loved the movies
and those chapter books so I’ve really held onto this love for Clue products.
I also just adore Murder Mystery in general, so it just makes sense.
I love board games, as you can see by the other ones in this stack.
I also like game guides, this one is for Doom.
And I love licensed games, they are just so absurd.
Most of those are upstairs but for some reason Law and Order made its way down here next
to these IBM books.
This lil device is a 3D mouse, the company 3D Connexion made a lot of devices for 3D
modeling software; so the nob you see here, you can move that in any direction, including
up and down, to work with 3D programs.
I’m a big Sonic fan, and the 1st generation genesis was my first console that was not
a computer; sadly I sold my unit and all the games when I was young so this one is NOT
from my childhood, I picked that up in the last few years.
And of course this is the Sonic Mania statue; really enjoyed that game.
I don’t have many Genesis games anymore, but I adore and appreciate the ones I do have,
there’s a few rare Japanese titles in here, and then some of my childhood favorites like
Aladdin, the Lion King, and BALLZ.
Just kidding, that one was not a favorite.
This is a VCR game I found at Savers, it just looked extremely interesting, I thought the
box art was really intriguing so I grabbed that.
It’s called Murder so, how can one resist.
I was mostly interested in this due to it being attached to Ellery Queen, who was a
detective fiction author and most popular in the 30s and 40s, so I can’t wait to pop
this into my VCR in the near future.
Here’s another kind of hodge podge of games.
Discworld is one of my very favorite games that I own in box, it was a gift and I adore
it, I am so happy to have this game.
It makes me smile when I look at it, truly.
This shelf I tried to dedicate to games that I had done a video on, Thimbleweed Park I
got very recently, that’s the new adventure game by Ron Gilbert, of course I have Quest
for Glory V, despite it being maybe the least liked out of this series it’s my favorite;
I had the box when I was young but was thrown away at some point in my teens, THIS one was
a gift from LGR - I am very lucky to know a lot of game collectors because sometimes
they will offer me boxes that they already have or ones that I am really looking for,
so thank you so much LGR, I really really appreciate it.
The Dark Half is also a more rare game that I love having; it’s based on the book by
Stephen King, and Sanitarium is an old favorite of mine as well.
This came in a massive box for some reason, geezus.
I love this screencap from The Dark Half because I swear this character looks like ProJared.
These are my Colonel’s Bequest and Dagger of Amon Ra boxes, they are some of my favorite
boxes in terms of design and artwork, Colonel’s Bequest looks so ominous while Dagger looks
so opulent and colorful, I really love these games, they make me feel very nostalgic and
remind me of my childhood, and I think the back of this box is amazing.
When I was young I actually found these games terrifying but now I love them.
They really sastiate my love for mystery games.
This little compilation I just really wanted to have because it’s so odd; it’s a group
of Sierra games, KQVII, SWAT, SQ6 and Quest for Glory IV, not really sure why these were
put together; at first I thought it was a collection of reject games, but I don’t
recall QFG4 doing poorly, so it’s just a nonsensical collection.
I also have the king’s quest, space quest, and Leisure Suit Larry collections, but I
wanted this one just due to the weird marketing.
This shelf has a lot of loose carts, dreamcast games, and just random finds; a fan very generously
donated this copy of King’s Quest for the Sega Master System, thank you so much for
that, I think this game is really cool to have in box and I was able to use it for the
video I did on it.
Most of the N64 and SNES games are the ones I did have from childhood and the Genesis
carts I found at Disc Replay.
Ugh, Quest 64 was a mistake.
My N64 and SNES consoles are elsewhere but I did manage to keep the ones I originally
had as a kid.
Also Live Aid and a set of Rolling Stones DVDs for some reason.
This is one of my childhood computers - it was built by one of my cousins and it mostly
plays DOS and windows 3.1 games; I love having this because I have fond memories of playing
Treasure Mountain on this computer; at one point it ended up at my Aunt’s business,
and was just sitting in a room for the longest time not getting any use, so I asked if I
could have it and she said yes.
I never really owned this computer, I mostly played it at my Aunt’s house and then later
at her workplace where she kept it but it absolutely is a significant part of my childhood
and it’s a really neat computer with an amazing CTX monitor.
It’s beefy, but lovely quality.
Random weight set.
Thick thighs save lives.
My basement came with this television from the 80s installed in the side of the staircase,
so I put a lil loveseat in front of it and have had older consoles set up over here;
at one point my Genesis was hooked up and it worked pretty nicely.
Ideally I’d want to do more with this area, like put bean bags and get some cozier lighting,
make it really retro looking.
So yeah, this is the majority of my collection; it’s not all here because I have several
things in my room including an Windows 98 compaq and more joysticks and such, but this
is really most of it.
I really appreciate anyone who’s donated or gifted a game to me, thank you so much,
otherwise if you really hit up the thrift stores it’s possible to find a lot of cool
titles.
And if you’re wondering about the shelves, they are the mainstays and I believe I got
them at Walmart - they’ve been really sturdy , haven’t had any issues with them holding
these games and a lot of them are pretty heavy.
Thank you so much for watching, I hope you enjoyed this little collection tour and if
you have questions, leave them in the comments and I will try to answer them.
I know sometimes collection videos can feel like an ego stroke, but I really care about
the pieces in my collection and just wanted to talk about them; I truly am grateful to
have some of these items and hope you found them interesting to hear about.
As always, I’ll see you guys in the next one.