I am a collector. I have collections that are very centralized around gaming. Tomb Raider, Metal Gear, Halo, and Ghost in the Shell have been my focus. I love the accumulation of rare videogame items, which has recently caused me to catch up on my Metal Gear Collection.

Last week I spent around 1000 USD on Metal Gear related items ranging from comic books to videogames. My most expensive single item was a sealed copy of The Document of Metal Gear Solid 2 for Playstation 2. I opened it and started going through its contents without as much as a second thought about the price I had paid to get my hands on it.

Where will this stuff be in the next couple of years? Will my investment come back? Probably not on the opened items, but I have not so much a wish to see the value of the items grow for the purpose of selling them, but to know that it is an item saught after and revered by other gamers. To have something someone else wants is called value. So too is there value in the things I want, and now have.

Metal Gear Solid has my attention for the time being. I have a growing interest to do more, and I'll be spending more money on MG items come the annual San Diego ComiCon 2008. Why not take this desire and interest further? I shouldn't allow the dust to settle.