After years of scouring Craigslist and eBay, and
MUCH assistance from the wonderful members of this forum, my MVS full set (all officially released games) is finally complete!
Thanks to everyone that helped make this possible. It was a fun, frustrating, rewarding, expensive, and ultimately satisfying journey. I'd still like to find a couple more kits, maybe an NGDev game or two, and some of my carts are not exactly "collector grade", but that's OK. A lot of these games will now sit on a shelf, but enough will continue to be enjoyed for years to come to have made the effort worthwhile.
FWIW, I wouldn't recommend attempting this in today's crazy market, but if you're almost there good luck grinding it out. It's still chump change compared to those bigtyme AES ballers, I guess
Thankfully no loans were required but I definitely received more than my fair share of luck. Extra special thanks to mjmjr25 for helping me acquire a number of key rarez and for being an all-around great guy. Mike has tirelessly done group buy after group buy for us and deserves our appreciation. The same goes for Todd aka broken, another awesome motherfucker. OK, I'm gonna stop here before this turns into an Oscar acceptance speech. Pics to follow.
Cheers,
Nick