Yeah I mean could talk about this all day long but at least in the past it was frowned upon. But maybe a certain age of the games makes it less problematic? 40 years is a long time…
But I too bought a ton of games during the Commodore era, must have hundreds of cassettes and diskettes and a whole bunch of multi game collections too.
At this point it's a real concern how to actually make things survive... I can get load error on some games. Will the collection survive 10 more years?
On the Amiga I've ripped floppies with a Kryoflux ripper where you can get them into adf files for emulators. All my Soundtracker modules and Deluxe Paint art and the AMOS game is throughly backupped! Plus some games I just don't want to lose.
On the C64, nothing yet…
Anyhow I just think it's cool that there are people who're still interested in this era of games.
I have some of my all-time favorites on the Amiga. Turrican 1 and 2 for me are among the absolute best, not quite the level of Super Metroid but they're fantastic, and amazing music. The Digital Illusions (DICE) Pinball Dreams and Pinball Illusions are up there as well, so cool. Dungeon Master is an absolute classic too. I really liked the Bitmap Brothers games too, Gods, Cadaver. Sierra's adventures, I especially like Space Quest 3. And System 3's Ninja Remix! I'm a rabid fanboy of everything The Last Ninja, I can see where they fail but I still love them, at least C64 TLN1, LN2 and Amiga NR. Last Ninja 2 on the Amiga ported by Activision was a joke, hilarious animations. Music was still great though. (There is a Last Ninja collection coming out soon btw! Kickstarter, they're supposedly doing final touches now). Big fan of Rick Dangerous as well, one of the more brutal trial and error games from that era that I've finished.
But there are so many. I'll stop now.