I was once given an ultimatum by an ex gf a few years back. I don't have a huge collection but I still own all of the games and systems I have bought over the years. We were getting ready to move into our own place but she pretty much told me my game collection was not moving with me. She told me to sell it or to find another place to store it. At first I went a long with it and I tried to get my one buddy to hang onto it for me but he couldn't. I was gonna get a storage unit but 30 40 bucks a month or whatever was just too much for me at the time. In the long run I ended up telling her that the games were coming with me and she wouldn't accept that so I told her to go fuck herself pretty much lol. Games are my hobby and a big part of my life. I would never ever give up what I have for a woman. I almost did though. Though I didn't lose it...I came close. Thinking with the wrong head can make you do crazy things....
Tempest Storm Thanks, man,... I'm taking him to another appointment tomorrow,.. his cancer is in remission now, too. I didn't enjoy playing Majora's Mask all that much anyway.
I sold my NES with about 10-15 games for $40 worth of crack cocaine when I was an addict about 10 years ago. (clean/sober for 7+ years now) I want them all back, but it's going to cost me a few hundred bucks and I don't think I'm going to bring myself to doing it. It's really depressing and I think about it almost every time I watch retro gaming videos. To be fair, in 2004-2005 when I did it, all those games were only worth about $40 to my knowledge... if only I knew how much retro gaming was going to take off back then. Ah well... glad to be able to share my story here and even more glad that I am sober.
+JP Roche Life lesson, Brother. When I crave cigarettes or drugs(I quit about 8 years ago) I exercise and play video games. Video games are a mental punching bag. You can forget about your past mistakes, open up your mind and let your imagination run free. You can have fun and not hurt another soul, most importantly, your own... Cheers and stay strong.
I know exactly what you mean, but my drug of choice was heroin. It's amazing on how at the time you know exactly what your doing but it's like your seeing it thru someone else's eyes & u can't stop it from happening. The truth is that I had to replace my addiction with another & recollecting games is much more fun and cheaper than buying quarters @ 150.00 a day.
+Emanuel Goldstein So very true. When I sobered up from Meth (10 years ago) it was my Xbox that saved my mind and my soul, I will never foget what Morrowind did for me.
All these stories about guys selling their collection because of a girl... smh... No girl will ever force me to sell my games and systems. You don't like that I keep my games ? You know where the door is ! Selling my collection is like selling a part of my childhood. No way, son !
you know you're a fucking idiot if you sold your collection for your girlfriend. when I met my girlfriend she loved my collection and she even build my gameroom herself
@@user-it6qf1uy4t she's not really a geek. She games casually due to me but she just likes the fact I collect and play many video games. She also goes to conventions with me and is much more motivated even than me to find what I'm looking for. She told me when she met me and I showed her my games she was like wow. This is amazing but such a collection shouldn't be so messy as I had it so when we moved together she made everything for me. I will show a picture when I'm on pc.
I used to sell a console and the games to buy the newest console. It made sense back then to reduce the cost of getting the new stuff. Only years later did I start wanting to play those older games again and that turned me into a game collector. I would never sell any of my games now. Ever.
I sold my entire game collection once because my now ex wife wanted me to "grow up and stop playing games." She is a hypocrite and plays games herself, but felt that an adult male doesn't need to have hobbies because he should be busy working and keeping his wife happy. My collection sold for over a thousand dollars to game stop, even with their shit cash trade price. My ex wife then took that money and "lost" it. One of the many reasons that bitch is now my ex wife.
I sold my Nintendo collection to pick up a Super Nintendo. I sold my Super Nintendo collection to pick up a N64. I sold my N64 collection to pick up a Playstation 1. I sold my PS1 collection to pick up a Playstation 2. I sold my PS2 collection to pick up an Original Xbox. I sold my Xbox collection to pick up a 360. I sold my 360 collection to pick up a Playstation 4. Now I am spending countless amounts of money to purchase everything I have sold in the past... If I could go back in time, I would BITCH SLAP MYSELF!
I sold my entire Xbox collection to raise some money, and I regret it big time, I saw a Xbox at a pawn shop recently so I may start my collection again, wish me luck
Had my cat badly injured costs 1000+ to get fixed or have the poor cat go with three legs.. i choose to sell my collection asap to get the money i got the 1000 but had to sell all my snes games 100+ alot of them boxed just to get money fast, yes im trying to get the games back but im glad i did because my cat means the world to me :( more than my collection. have got about 1/4 of the games i had back now though :)
There was a PS3 game that I wanted, and I had not yet purchased a PS3. I had saved a bit of money and was just short $40 or so to get the system and the game. So I chose a few Xbox 360 games that I decided I didn't need anymore (I hate getting rid of my games), and that would get me enough to fill the gap. So I took them into Gamestop, and there just happened to be a deal going on, where every two games you brought in you got an additional $20 added on top of them. Most of my games gave me $5 - $15, but with every two games adding $20 on top! How could I not take advantage of that? When I found that out I said, "I'll be right back." Ran home and went through my games again. I had a full stack up to the ceiling and 3/4 of a stack. I took most of them in but a few choice games. It took 4 hours to process it all, and at the finally I ended up with just over $2,000.00 of store credit, that I used for my gaming funds for the next year or so. I was given two roughly 5 ft long receipts that I still have. I have asked them when they will have this deal again, and they adamantly reject that this deal ever happened. Even the lady that helped me for four hours refuses that it ever took place. I feel they must of lost money on this deal and deny its existence. Though I miss my 360 collection, I feel that I lost it in an epic way.
Hey man i was reading other comments above with the same problems!! Why dont you just get a pc and then download anything you want from piratebay or emuparadise!!!!??? And because i know that you gonna say that consoles are better than pc : 2 words free multiplayer
I'm a HUGE Neo Geo and Dreamcast fan. About 10 years ago, I had a pretty sick Neo Geo and Dreamcast collection but had to sell all of it during hard times when I got let go from work and had to pay the bills. I had a mint and boxed Neo Geo CDZ with pretty much every released cd game for it. Everything was in mint condition. No scratches on the discs and all the games had their spine cards. I kept the cd cases in a thin protective plastic sleeve. My Dreamcast collection was just as mint as my Neo Geo collection. I had a boxed and mint Japanese version Dreamcast with about 50 Japanese games which were also in super mint condition all with their spine cards and also kept the cd cases in plastic sleeves. Those are the two collection out of all my other stuff that I seriously regret selling. Worst part is that I found a great job in my career field about two weeks after I sold both of my collections and felt like such a jackass! I kinda jumped the gun on that one but I was just worried about not making ends meet. Life goes on and now I'm starting my Neo Geo collection all over again. This time I'm collecting both the cd version and AES version. So many great memories with the Neo Geo.
In highschool back in 2004 i got in trouble at school and my parents sold all of my games. A playstation, gameboy, sega genisis, and virtual boy 3d. along with all my games, i was so bummed and had so many good games, It was a sad time
I donated my GBA and Gamecube along with all the games I had for them to charity when I thought I wouldn't need them anymore. Years later I started to really collect games and I somewhat started to regret what I did, but I can take comfort in knowing that my games probably brought joy to more unfortunate people and I didn't give away any major rarities.
I'm actually in the process of it right now. For the past 4 years or so, I have obsessively bought at least one CE (and every single steelbook) released for every game I own (sitting at about 1200 games right now, so yeah...). I'd say I have one of the most impressive video game steelbook collections of anyone on TH-cam, actually. Right now, though, I am in the process of selling off every single CE and steelbook that I own. I am switching to standard edition games--for myriad reasons that I discussed in my most recent vlog on here. Some of them being that they are getting too big, too expensive, come with crappy extras, are too fragile, and collecting for the 6th gen and before is just WAY more enjoyable because these things barely existed/didn't exist at all. By switching to only standard edition games, I can force modern game collecting back to being as fun as it used to be! It feels good to re-assert your control over the habit and the compulsion and be able to re-shape it into something that is more enjoyable. I can't imagine 'having' to do it, though; that would honestly just be horrible.
I sold all my old pc games, the old ones in big boxes I had about 100 of them taking up way to much space. I didn't regret it but that's because I can just download them PC is a bit different because you can always play games from yesteryear.
I flipping LOVE the Lunar series(Silver Star Story is the best!), but I only played the Playstation version of both copies. Man, your collection is so epic, HCG!
You should have photoshopped the thumbnail to make it seem as if the only game you kept was Dynamite Dux. Lol! In any case, excellent video as always, Johnny. I'd encourage you to do more of these videos where it's just you telling a story. Reminds me of the old podcast days. Good stuff dude :)
+Philip Alves Southern NJ. I built a man cave in my mom's house when I was 17 and didn't move out till I was 24, back in 04. High water table + plus alot of rain and the basement flooded out...everything was water damaged, the consoles all shorted out..I'm getting depressed just thinking about it
This experience was one of the best things that ever happened to you. We don't appreciate some things in life until we lose them. It made you a better gamer and a better collector.
Your awesome everything you talk about on your channel i can relate to. I had to sell different collections at different points in my life, one of those being divorce, i rarely buy things back but made sure to jump into the next 'thing' in video-games and it always builds back up lol. Life happens i guess i can say that i regretted it but it needed to be done.
Back in the day, my mom used to sold the past generation consoles along with its games as soon as she bought me the most recent system available. That said, until the 6th generation, I constantly had to "sell" my collection every few years. Bad times...
Haha :D right there with you, but thankfully I have come to the point in my life when I can actually afford keeping my old systems, but back in the days I sold my PS1, DS, Gamecube, Wii etc. I am mostly a Sony gamer now but I bought myself a gamecube again and got to replay games like Mario Sunshine and Zelda Wind Waker. I doubt Nintendo will ever be as good as they were during the Gamecube with classics like Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros Melee, Zelda Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, the list goes on
holy shit dude my mom did the same thing. Once i got an Xbox 360 my mom sold my ps2 and along with some games. She thinks that next generation will be compatible with the past generation. -____- AND THEY WERE 2 DIFFERENT CONSOLES from 2 different companies! I did manage to buy another ps2 but it wasn't the same :/ i had the big fat one that i treasured so much and now i have the slick one.
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny!!!!!!! I've known and supported your channel since mine began. I'm sure you know that I sold my ENTIRE third bedroom full of games, consoles and posters etc. I did it to be with Jessica in the U.S. I also walked out on an amazing job, a mortgage, sold my sports car and left my ex partner at this time!!! 3 months ago I decided.... FUCK IT..... I want my retro collection back. Fortunately I have showcased the growth on my channel and now I, feeling really confident and happy that my collection is gaining respect AGIAIN!!! I felt devastated and crippled after it had sunk in that I had sold everything! Thankfully, Jessica is in the UK with me this time. Peace mate..... I love your channel!!
My parents sold all my Nes games, Genesis games and consoles at a rummage while I was at summer camp. The collection was a decent size too. They figured since I had been playing mostly dreamcast, I was done with those games. Still trying to buy back my old collection today, lol.
sold a majority of my poemon games. included diamond, platinum, soul silver, and black. some of my most nostalgic and favorite. still have yet to get those back. i only started keeping them again with black/white 2 onward.
Growing up I had this huge shelf behind my TV where I kept all my boxes, when I got new games I'd take out the instructions and cartridges but just put the boxes on that shelf. After keeping all my NES, SNES & N64 boxes my Mom eventually said I need to get rid of them all they're taking up too much space and collecting dust back there. Here we are years later and OMG I can't believe she made me throw them all away.
I should have (but didn't) clocked the photoshop thumbnail by the fact you can still see your games on the desk reflection! lol. No wonder everyone rushed to watch this though, that is an epic collection of titles. Not something I'd do (collect that many) but I applaud those that do.
YES 😥 I had been dealing with a nasty pain pill addiction since I was 19. But it never truly took hold of me till I was much older “43 now” I had sold every game console out of desperation for more pills. Went through that cycle for 2 decades .. finally found a way to be sober and stay sober now for the last 2 1/2 years .. allowing me to rebuild the collection and keep it 🤟🏽😬 I’m definitely not the only dumb ass to do that.. TMI , but this topic gave me a nasty flashback .. thanks for your content .. love your videos from a fellow game nerd 🤓
I sold a big chunk of my collection back in 2000 to a Funco Land to get some Dreamcast games, I had just gotten a Dreamcast for Christmas and there were some games that I desperately wanted for it. Yes, I later came to regret selling those games even though I absolutely loved my Dreamcast.
I sold my entire n64 and GameCube collection. all my n64 had boxes and Manuel's games ranging from cookers bad fur day to paper mario man now I look back on that and just regret it all.
I've had to sell my collections several times due to moving and needing to travel fairly light. It's a shame, but now I'm older and settled in it's nice to regrow old nostaglic items that I've once had and enjoy them all over again.
I have a similar story to Happy Console Gamer since we are around the same age I think. I understand completly what its like growing up in the 90's and you never consider your collections to really have that kind of value. I used to remember when i got all of my SNES and Nintendo 64 games either by birthdays or christmas presents, the boxes would just go in the trash usually. I never really thought of ever keeping the boxes. Of course back in those days, "Game collecting" really wasn't much of a phenomenon like it is now. As a kid, building a massive collection of games just really wasn't something that I actively seeked out at the time. I just loved playing video games. It wasn't until much later as I got older that I really took time to realize the kind of impact and value in collecting and god damn I must of sold some of my old collections way back in the day probably like 90% of all of my games. I had to purchase computer upgrades for my Computer and back in the day when I was a kid in the late 80's to early 90's i had no money to speak of so most of the games I got were from my parents or my Uncle. I was the gullible little kid on the block that took my entire collections down to a damn tradeNplay store and try and get as much money as I can. I obvously was blown away holding a few hundreds of dollars in my hand at the time, but it can no way in any shape or form replace what I actually got rid of. This included all kinds of console systems, loads and loads games, sega gensis, SNES, NES N64, gameboy, etc. To this day i really reget it and even to this day as I have rebuilt my collection, there are still some old classic games that I used to own that are just so out of my price range now and I probably will never get them back like the Gold PLated Zelda ocarina of time with manual and box, the original earth bound, Clay Fighter, Suikoden II, Aero Fighters for the SNES, the Original Duck hunt and many many more. I also had the full 2600 Atari system obvously before my time but my uncle had one and i sold that thing for like nothing lol. Now its like $2000 or something? Anyways thats my full story. It took me a very long time to rebuild my collection to what it is now and of course I don't usually ever purchase loose carts, I really only collect full case or boxed items. Currently my collection is at around 6000+ games in total. But I am also 36 so ya. Many years.
When the PS1 came out, I had to sell my Genesis and SNES + the game collections I had for it, to get the PS1......years later I got the genesis back but never was able to rebuild the collection, I also rebuilt some of my SNES collection after getting my RetroN3. I recently (about 3 or 4 years ago?) Sold off my PS2 collection except for roughly.....10-15 games...and nearly all of my gamecube collection except for maybe 4 titles......and the sad part is, I didn't get nearly as much as I could have. Ah well, you live and learn.
I did this with my SNES and NES for a Dreamcast. In the past 6 years, got all the classics for SNES and some for NES back. I hear you on this. It felt like the right idea at the time but I missed it shortly after.
Thanks for sharing with us your love for the game! It takes a true game fan to just talk about it without condition! HEH! Anyway... I had quite a few boxed snes/nes/genesis/psx games and because I grew up after 17 years old I had to start working full time and getting bills paid after my dad passed away.. I had Original gold Zelda I and II, Mega Man 1-6. Final Fantasy.. Mega Man x 1-3. Man... FFVII, Seukoden..the loss. But... I wish I hadn't have but times changed. I'm starting to get back some of those now. It's lot' a more expensive for those classics as they are now. Cheers with Root-Beers! Be Happy that you still got GAME! /s : D
I sold my Gamecube and Xbox games collection as I wasn't playing them and was heavily into PC gaming at the time. So glad I kept my Dreamcast and Saturn games. I've eventually rebuilt most of the collection and then some, but there's still a few big hitters I need to spend to reclaim, like Skies of Arcadia Legends.
My collection was stolen from me nearly 45% of it and Earth Bound was one of them i went away to Missippi last year and when i came home my brother has stolen most of my games and traded them in and bought drugs with it we kicked him out the following month he is not allowed to go anywhere near my room or touch any of my games what so ever i even had the door locked and it was broken when i got home i was able to get most back but sadly i can't get back earthbound it was mint condition and sealed to had a few boxed Nes games that were stolen as well.
great topic! I loved your story because I relate. When new systems came out, as a kid, I didn't think I would ever have the urge to play my old stuff. so... for example, when Nintendo 64 came out I pretty much sold my whole collection. games and systems: NES, SNES, genesis, and my game gear. Then I was only playing N64 and PS1. About when ps2, GC, and Xbox came out I started to missed my old games. so much so that I skipped the ps2 generation and started collecting now "retro stuff" again. (thank god for funcoland) I didn't get back into current gen gaming until the Wii launched and then ps3 of course I had to have that. Now I have all the systems again but I really wish I kept my childhood systems. My only regret in life lol.
I love the music in Lunar, I got the Sega CDX for my birthday one year and got Lunar and the other Working Design games too! With all the Night Trap hype, right after it was pulled from stores, I had to have it. My friend had it and was willing to trade it to me....for my entire NES collection. At the time, I gladly gave him my NES with R.O.B. and Zapper, along with about 25 games all for Night Trap, which was only the discs by the way...Looking back, it was a big mistake. Many of my games are now crazy expensive, I'm slowly trying to rebuy all of them to restore my original NES collection.
Man! You really got me! I was like, "WTF?!?! Why!?! If he's having financial trouble I'm sure his fans would have helpped him out!" =D The empty shelves in the thumbnail was a nice touch! Kudos!
I remember just a few years back where I sold alot of my old play station 2 games that I never played, do to my play station not working with memory. Or just I was doing other game systems. I also sold a ton of my d.s game cards as well. And just now I kinda regret that I did that. Because there we're some games I really liked and at my older age can now really enjoy the art style and just how unique these game are now. So now I slowly build it back up :)
Im am bout to sell my collection of over 2000 games and a more :(, Because of needing a a car for my wife and being in a tight spot. I know I will regret it and already amas stuff sells. But thats life I guess
stupid how you need to sell your hobby to get stuff for her, why doesn't she sell her shoes, clothes, bags that she has wasted money on, that will teach her to save for what she needs, and not just show off to others.
Eh, just use emulators and you have it all back but digitally, well the retro ones at least. Don't emulate a 3ds because it's still a current system :P
Artic, downloading a zip file with ROMs inside is not collecting, is not "having" the game and enjoying it. And if you only play on emulators, I should tell you: there's glitches eventually -- YES, still there on any emulator for some games, the color gamma is not the same, the audio does not pass thru the original console DAC making the audio sounds different, your computer/SO will always cause a framedrop eventually (YES, even your i7 extreme whatever), your messenger program will call for attention... want more? The save state will be there and you might not "control yourself" and use it... some instruments on FM/PCM sounds plain wrong (even on Fusion,SNES9x current versions)... anyway, "just use emulators and you have it all back but digitally" does not do anything for real video game players, just my 2 cents :) Have a nice day!
***** I get what you're saying. Emulators aren't perfect as in authenticity no matter what, but when I use emulator, I don't go for that. I think its the same thing why I enjoy PC more than console. I tried out battletoads on emulator just for fun (I also have the real one), and only controller I had was the ps3 controller, so I plugged it in and it worked perfectly. It felt so wrong, but it was just awesome. Performance was great, no dips at all and didn't expect to have any and it was weird, because that happens alot with the real system when there's lot of stuff happening. It did run slightly faster than the real game but not by much and it could be just because it didn't have any slowdowns. Colors were bit off, but thats just nitpicking, but I couldn't tell any difference between the sound in the real one and emulated. I got one strange glitch in one of the bossbattles when I played the game that I have never seen before (and I have played this game a lot), the fight didn't advance like it should and I just hit him continuously and I got points, but nothing changed. After I missed and the boss hit me, things got normal, but he never took any damage from my hits. Then I was thinking how I could record the gameplay and tried shadowplay and again it was just great. No difference in performance at all. So tl:dr I think the real systems has value, but playing with the emulators is just different experience altogether.
Jackson Day I do agree with the HD thing. It's the nicest thing on emulation. But N64 without a real controller it's just weird (of course you can plug it via usb or something) and N64 games weren't meant to be HD. Wiii games in HD are really awesome but setting up the motion controllers on PC can be a headache. That said, I do want to play some HD emulated games sometime. But at least I'll experience the original versions first. =]
I have to say I had a moment where I was feeling something so intensely that I threw out (in the garbage) maybe 60 - 70% of my physical games and yes I regretted it later. So I did mostly the same thing and bought back the games I wanted the most over time including games like Dark Cloud, Legend of Legaia, Dragon Quest VIII, etc. Funny that you mentioned this.
I disagree. The title matches what he is talking about. tho I guess I can agree on the confusion on how some might have thought he sold is current collection
I too sold a huge chunk of my video games because "I wasn't playing them anymore" and I got jack for them at the GameStop I kept selling them to. Now I actually have almost every game I sold to Gamestop and EB games, plus all the games I convinced my brother to buy that I coveted.
I never sold a collection to buy other video game stuff, but I have sold a couple collections. I suffer from what I call Pokémon syndrome, I had to collect every one of whatever it was I was collecting. I collected every limited edition wireless controller for Xbox 360 (39 of them) then sold them to collect something else. I had gathered almost 300 ds games, then got bored with them and sold them as well. now I'm on radio control cars/trucks (30+) love the videos, thanks
Man this kicked up some old memories of my father (who recently passed away, may he rest in peace) who bought me Street Fighter 2 for the SNES and i don't remember what happened to my copy. I think i sold it or something. Anyway, i just want to thank you for making old happy memories with my father come to the surface.
Funny you mentioned about parents throwing out the box/case of games. My mom threw away my Super Metroid box in the garbage and I quickly pulled it out and hid it in a drawer. Even as a kid I know that game was sacred. The manuel was still in it's plastic sleeve and was mint, Still is to this day. I NEVER sell my games, but back in the dreamcast days I bought a SNK (KOF) game for my brother & I. He didn't like it and I then returned it for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure which is amazing. Later on my brother grew to love the look and feel of SNK games and I repurchased KOF.
I recently sold all of my collection. Had many gems from snes to the ps2 .. watching this video gives me hope that someday I may get it all back one piece at a time.
I once sold off my entire PS2 and N64 collections because of how extremely pressed for money I was at the time. Over the past few years I've slowly recovered, but I feel like the sentimental attachment I had to a few of those games can never be replicated.
I had NES, SNES, N64,, GameCube, gameboy, gba with games when I was younger. Each time I got a new system, my mom would talk me into sending my old console and CIB games to my relatives overseas. I even had a Vectrex with a bunch of games that I gave to my older brother whose wife eventually threw it out when cleaning out the house one day. Now I'm slowly building back my original collection and then some.
i sold my old magic the gathering collection back around '08, i used to play a lot of pokemon and i kept my colelction but with magic i litterally sold everything of value, kept the ones they didnt want to buy. and i know that regret feeling cause a few years later i fell back in love with the game and those cards spiked in value and now it would cost double or triple to buy back and not having the money to rebuy it, every year the prices just go higher and higher and i feel so stupid for not keeping it, i could of gotten the money many other ways, hell even mow loans for 5 bucks a lawn, but those are the things that life is about, you learn and become wiser and better. some may collect for value, some may keep it for nostalgia purposes but what ever collection you have it carries a lot of personal attachment to it
i did the same thing when world of Warcraft launched, although i regret more than ever and i have gotten allot of it back i wish more than anything i could have seen the future jaw drop when the WoW craze for me went out and what i had done finally set in. i sold NES, Sega, super, Sega CD, Saturn, n64 everything i had gotten as a child up to that point. i have been collecting harder than ever lately but that was a dark age in my life i cant stand the thought of it. every time i've ever sold anything ive regretted it. thanks for the videos
I sold my collection a few times, simply for financial reasons. I regret it, but I have gotten some classics back, and living abroad has made me appreciate ports and remakes of games a lot more. I definitely feel you man. I sold my NES/Genesis/SNES collection for a PS3 and stuff. The regret took about 6 months to kick in, but it was the last time I would do it.
Although I'm alot younger and hence it wasn't quite the same (I'm 18) I've had a similarly regretful memory. Started initially with the wii craze in which I traded in all of my sizable ps2 library but worse was to come...around the age of 14, 15 I got into clothes, ( hear me out) you know - young guy wants to look cool...and I sold over the next year, my gamecube + all games, my ds + all the games (was so silly and got peanuts for them) in addition to my gameboy colour and gameboy sp and my wii I had saved up a few years before for...luckly I've began to appreciate having a collection and although bi will never get all of it back, the lesson is learnt - KEEP YOUR STUFF
Johnny,you know this episode hits home with me!! Lunar was THAT game for me,sucks that you sold your shit..the moment of weakness strikes and your blinded!LoL but yea I've sold things and really been bummed out! I let a friend borrow my Sega CD and later when I got sent to Military School he sold it on me,I was so pissed when I got back,he traded it for Loaded and NHL Hits!!!!!
As a kid I remembered my parents used to make me throw away my GBA boxes and it always bugged me that I had to do that because I felt like they were art in a way if you really think about it. Also I heard about trading in games and at the time I thought it was cool to make money but I look back and realize how much I wish I still had them to keep in a collection and look back at my awesome memories growing up with video games.
Same here, especially when you didn't have a job. Ebay happened and I started selling some of my collections to get whatever game I wanted to own badly. I also get the mentality, but it will come back to hunt you if you make a wrong decision.
It has crossed my mind when I look at some games in my collection. I could unload many of them for $20 a pop and make a few hundred or maybe thousand, but I really am quite the hoarder so it would kill me to do that, not to mention it's taken a long time to get to what I have now. I haven't actually sold a single game in my life, I still have all the games I had since the 90s from old PC games with those original giant boxes to all my Sega consoles and accessories plus a much larger modern collection of games from the more recent generations. I even kept the games that were terrible because they're still fun memories to look back at. I've come close but I really hope I don't find myself in a situation where I have to sell this stuff. Unless I guess if I stop being interested in it and if I find someone else that would appreciate it more lol.
I sold a few select games before but ended up buying them all back a few years later!! Lol I think if your a gamer your a gamer for life. It would take something larger then life to get me to sell all my stuff now.
Cool video. I still miss a lot of the old games I used to have, I re-bought Ikaruga and Eternal Darkness but not Shadow Hearts, or Mario Tennis, as well as a good amount of other N64/SNES games.. Damn Gamestop
It's very difficult to part with something so important to you that had an impact on your life, I've had that experience not with video games but with toys. I've had to sell quite a handful of transformers figures just to make some money as well as use that money mostly to buy more or pay to go to conventions but at the end of the day it's only when things are so dire and money is desperately needed which is why end up selling the things that are closest to us. It's only when we rediscover them again and we find out why they were special to us to begin with that we can get back that experience.
almost similar to your story I was so excited for Resident Evil 4 to come out on the game cube. I ended up going to GameStop and selling my Sega Cd/32X collection to get just enough for the collector edition with the metal book. I had lunar, and Vay and popfull mail. So many good games ughhhhh.
I did yes, around the mid-2000's I sold or gave away most of my Snes, PS and PS2 collection, sold by beloved Amstrad CPC with over 150 games... I stopped when I was about to sell my GX4000 collection, my missus stopped me and reminded me that i love my games and systems and that I would regret it if I did. She was right. Been re-building the collection ever since.
I sold a huge ps2 collection to a friend of mine and while it made me happy that it would be played as I wasn't playing it at all I did come to regret it several years on. But those games are well loved and appreciated in their new home so I'm not sour about it.
I had to sell off almost my entire collection recently due to being unemployed for a long period of time. Thankfully I'm back to work and I'm going to slowly start piecing my collection back together.
I did sold a big part of my collection, because i wanted to focus my collection. I spent some years buying everything for every system. But i sold the stuff that didn't interested me and re-invest the money into getting games that i would actually play and enjoy instead of just collecting for the sake of collecting. I don't regret it. It actually made me enjoy gaming and my collection, more!
I had a Sega CD and no idea what Lunar was, but I was in a used game shop checking out the Sega CD games, and the girl working there said "hey do you like RPGs?" and popped Lunar in for me to play. You could play games there. I saw the opening movie and thought it looked neat, and yes I do indeed like RPGs... knew nothing about it except I liked the animation and RPGs. Pretty sweet score!
I once had to sell all my original final fantasy games (This was about 5 years ago) starting from FF2 (FFIV) for the SNES to some of my original playstation ff games that did not have the green greatest hits banner on the cover art. I sold them all with manuals and even the chrono trigger with an extra manual I had from Nintendo power. I included the original ff7 figures I imported from japan when the game first came out. The funny thing was I had both an imported version of ff7 and the local one. I bought Final Fantasy 7 from a local store and I had to do the swap disc trick on my playstation to play it. Not sure if many of you remember this trick. When I first had to do this, it would take me a few times before I could get it to work. Playing the game in Japanese was so hard. But I managed to beat it. Other games I sold as part of this was FF tactics, both import version and local, Xenogears, Suikoden I and II, and the Lunar Silver Star Story playstation collectors box you have in the background. I even gave the guy the Lunar Silver Star story Ghaleon hand puppet. thinking about it now, it makes me a bit sad. I had an emergency come up and it was a tough decision to make. Lots of great games and items were sold that day. Only Positive thing about this was that the guy who bought them was buying them to add them to his collection and not sell them on ebay or such thing.
I just sold the bulk of my collection. Mostly NES and SNES games, along with a lot of PS1 and PS2 games. The only thing I kept were a few select SNES games, my copy of Mega Man 2 (my favorite game), a few PS1 RPG's, and my PSP collection (which only amounts to about 15 games). While it's sad to see those games go, I have to admit that I rarely played any of them over the years, and I've just been lugging them around. At any rate, good story HCG, and glad that you've been able to build your collection back up over the years.
I sold my collection at gamedeals 3 years ago, and I saw you ended up with my DQ slime plushes. Glad you got them. I sold well over 30K worth of games, systems and rare collectibles for around 800 bucks when I was desperate for cash and depressed from being divorced. Was a sad time.
i sold a ton of my stuff just last year because things got tight and it looked like my place of work might close its doors. it sucks because i got most of the games for next to nothing when my hometown video store was going out of business (i'm talking ninja gaiden III CIB on NES for 2.50). In a way thought i think it was for the best. I'm in a much better place now with more space and I finally have my own personal game room. It's been fun starting over with the exception of games just continuing to go up in price, but that just makes it that much better when i find a gem or something I used to have that I really enjoyed for cheap at a thrift store or used game shop.
I used to trade in or sell games when I was 10-16 years old. It was the only way that I could afford to get new games that came out. I don't regret it because I wouldn't have been able to experience as many games otherwise. I also sold $500 worth of games to buy a 360 when it first came out. They were games that I didn't care about though so I don't miss them at all.
over the last 3 months I ditched a fairly large collection. I did it before as well, when I sold everything from Atari through Gamecube, and started on PlayStation 1-4. I now either emulate, or play one of my 6 full size arcade games. I haven't regretted it for 1 second on either occasion. Classics are easily played on so many formats anymore, but you can't emulate or recreate the arcade experience. FYI, 4 player Gauntlet Legends with Dark Legacy upgrade, sit down Cruis'n USA, RoboCop, a 60n1 cab, a 19n1 cocktail that I'm currently reworking, an a PC driven, 2 player w trackball multicade with pinball, made out of a pedestal from a Maximum Force/Area 51 showcase cab (the front half). The screen is on a 360° rotating mount, with a 40" LED screen. I don't miss console gaming or collecting one bit.
Yes, I had to sell my entire collection 2.5 years ago when I moved to Canada from Sweden. I calculated the shipping for my collection and it ended up being many thousands of dollars and there would also be the hassle of playing PAL games on NTSC TVs. It was heartbreaking seeing the collection go but fortunately games can always be bought back (even if it's not the original copies that I had as a kid).
Me and my brother sold almost all of our N64 games to GameStop back in the day so we could some new PS2 games and then while cleaning out our garage at one point, I found our old SNES when I was about 14 or 15 and just decided to give it to Goodwill, thinking I was only gonna play the new stuff. Talk about being young and stupid lol. But I have recovered most of my old collection. Just missing a couple now.
I use to collect bongs and pipes, about 60 in my collection. Had them with me for about 20 years. Hit hard times, went to a flea market and sold them cheap so I would be there and gone before any police heard of me selling anything. Liquidated the entire collection in 1 hour.
Ah Noriyuki Iwadare ! My favorite composer of all time with Yoko Shimomura. I just played the remake of this game on PSP which is really really good but I immediately recognized the musics that are playing in background in this video. So epic and awesome.
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I was once given an ultimatum by an ex gf a few years back. I don't have a huge collection but I still own all of the games and systems I have bought over the years. We were getting ready to move into our own place but she pretty much told me my game collection was not moving with me. She told me to sell it or to find another place to store it. At first I went a long with it and I tried to get my one buddy to hang onto it for me but he couldn't. I was gonna get a storage unit but 30 40 bucks a month or whatever was just too much for me at the time. In the long run I ended up telling her that the games were coming with me and she wouldn't accept that so I told her to go fuck herself pretty much lol. Games are my hobby and a big part of my life. I would never ever give up what I have for a woman. I almost did though. Though I didn't lose it...I came close. Thinking with the wrong head can make you do crazy things....
She was a bitch anyways. I almost threw away my hobby for a horrible human being lol.
i think you did the right choice, i would not want to live with someone that wont let me like what i want to like.
Lurch Murphy
My wife does not like video game but she accept my hobby. She only ask that I buy it used and cheap. So that's what I do.
Yeah man , fuck that bitch! Lol
I really like stories like this, makes me smile, thanks for sharing.
I had to sell my copy of Majora's Mask to get gas so I could drive my step-dad to one of his chemo treatments.
that is worth it.
Tempest Storm Thanks, man,... I'm taking him to another appointment tomorrow,.. his cancer is in remission now, too. I didn't enjoy playing Majora's Mask all that much anyway.
Tempest Storm Um,.. Step-dad,... but okay. :)
He prolly has only one more treatment to do,.. I'm taking him for the last time (hopefully) on my birthday in a couple of weeks.
Tempest Storm thanks.
I sold my NES with about 10-15 games for $40 worth of crack cocaine when I was an addict about 10 years ago. (clean/sober for 7+ years now) I want them all back, but it's going to cost me a few hundred bucks and I don't think I'm going to bring myself to doing it. It's really depressing and I think about it almost every time I watch retro gaming videos. To be fair, in 2004-2005 when I did it, all those games were only worth about $40 to my knowledge... if only I knew how much retro gaming was going to take off back then. Ah well... glad to be able to share my story here and even more glad that I am sober.
JP Roche good for you most people cant overcome addiction
+JP Roche Yeah well done man.
+JP Roche Life lesson, Brother. When I crave cigarettes or drugs(I quit about 8 years ago) I exercise and play video games. Video games are a mental punching bag. You can forget about your past mistakes, open up your mind and let your imagination run free. You can have fun and not hurt another soul, most importantly, your own... Cheers and stay strong.
I know exactly what you mean, but my drug of choice was heroin. It's amazing on how at the time you know exactly what your doing but it's like your seeing it thru someone else's eyes & u can't stop it from happening. The truth is that I had to replace my addiction with another & recollecting games is much more fun and cheaper than buying quarters @ 150.00 a day.
+Emanuel Goldstein
So very true. When I sobered up from Meth (10 years ago) it was my Xbox that saved my mind and my soul, I will never foget what Morrowind did for me.
The Thumbnail gave me a heart attack.
Me too!!
All these stories about guys selling their collection because of a girl... smh... No girl will ever force me to sell my games and systems. You don't like that I keep my games ? You know where the door is ! Selling my collection is like selling a part of my childhood. No way, son !
GameDjeenie agreed lol
you know you're a fucking idiot if you sold your collection for your girlfriend. when I met my girlfriend she loved my collection and she even build my gameroom herself
This is the correct attitude for dealing with girls. Just gotta put your foot down and say no to them and they'll actually respect you more.
+drunkensailor112 a dream fially comes true!!!!!!!!!!!!!(i mean geek girlfriend)
Hey could you tell me if she has a friend with the same preferences!?
@@user-it6qf1uy4t she's not really a geek. She games casually due to me but she just likes the fact I collect and play many video games. She also goes to conventions with me and is much more motivated even than me to find what I'm looking for. She told me when she met me and I showed her my games she was like wow. This is amazing but such a collection shouldn't be so messy as I had it so when we moved together she made everything for me. I will show a picture when I'm on pc.
I used to sell a console and the games to buy the newest console. It made sense back then to reduce the cost of getting the new stuff.
Only years later did I start wanting to play those older games again and that turned me into a game collector. I would never sell any of my games now. Ever.
sold my magic card collection in like 1998 for about 300$, would be worth about 10,000$ today
I sold my entire game collection once because my now ex wife wanted me to "grow up and stop playing games." She is a hypocrite and plays games herself, but felt that an adult male doesn't need to have hobbies because he should be busy working and keeping his wife happy. My collection sold for over a thousand dollars to game stop, even with their shit cash trade price. My ex wife then took that money and "lost" it. One of the many reasons that bitch is now my ex wife.
"lost it" Eh? I'm intrigued.
What's that smell?....
dude I hope you've grown some balls now
This is what happens when you let your girl take the lead
Hopper983 I hope you're making that up. you're a pathetic excuse for a man if you really allowed that to happen
I sold my Nintendo collection to pick up a Super Nintendo. I sold my Super Nintendo collection to pick up a N64. I sold my N64 collection to pick up a Playstation 1. I sold my PS1 collection to pick up a Playstation 2. I sold my PS2 collection to pick up an Original Xbox. I sold my Xbox collection to pick up a 360. I sold my 360 collection to pick up a Playstation 4. Now I am spending countless amounts of money to purchase everything I have sold in the past... If I could go back in time, I would BITCH SLAP MYSELF!
+Emanuel Goldstein My life in a nutshell :(
Just don't sell everything again to get the inevitable PS5.
+V Singularity good point.
+Emanuel Goldstein You could still bitchslap yourself now! Make it a double bitchslap for being stupid ok?
+Wheels8504 PlayStation and Xbox are fantastic consoles.
I sold my entire Xbox collection to raise some money, and I regret it big time, I saw a Xbox at a pawn shop recently so I may start my collection again, wish me luck
Had my cat badly injured costs 1000+ to get fixed or have the poor cat go with three legs.. i choose to sell my collection asap to get the money i got the 1000 but had to sell all my snes games 100+ alot of them boxed just to get money fast, yes im trying to get the games back but im glad i did because my cat means the world to me :( more than my collection. have got about 1/4 of the games i had back now though :)
There was a PS3 game that I wanted, and I had not yet purchased a PS3. I had saved a bit of money and was just short $40 or so to get the system and the game. So I chose a few Xbox 360 games that I decided I didn't need anymore (I hate getting rid of my games), and that would get me enough to fill the gap. So I took them into Gamestop, and there just happened to be a deal going on, where every two games you brought in you got an additional $20 added on top of them. Most of my games gave me $5 - $15, but with every two games adding $20 on top! How could I not take advantage of that?
When I found that out I said, "I'll be right back." Ran home and went through my games again. I had a full stack up to the ceiling and 3/4 of a stack. I took most of them in but a few choice games. It took 4 hours to process it all, and at the finally I ended up with just over $2,000.00 of store credit, that I used for my gaming funds for the next year or so. I was given two roughly 5 ft long receipts that I still have.
I have asked them when they will have this deal again, and they adamantly reject that this deal ever happened. Even the lady that helped me for four hours refuses that it ever took place. I feel they must of lost money on this deal and deny its existence.
Though I miss my 360 collection, I feel that I lost it in an epic way.
thats crazy cool dude good deal 360 games r easily recovered 2000 def worth it
Lol they were just furious that they gave you so much Store Credit, thats why they said it never existed.
Hey man i was reading other comments above with the same problems!!
Why dont you just get a pc and then download anything you want from piratebay or emuparadise!!!!???
And because i know that you gonna say that consoles are better than pc : 2 words free multiplayer
You could get those Xbox 360 games now they are cheap
Epic, indeed!
I'm a HUGE Neo Geo and Dreamcast fan. About 10 years ago, I had a pretty sick Neo Geo and Dreamcast collection but had to sell all of it during hard times when I got let go from work and had to pay the bills. I had a mint and boxed Neo Geo CDZ with pretty much every released cd game for it. Everything was in mint condition. No scratches on the discs and all the games had their spine cards. I kept the cd cases in a thin protective plastic sleeve. My Dreamcast collection was just as mint as my Neo Geo collection. I had a boxed and mint Japanese version Dreamcast with about 50 Japanese games which were also in super mint condition all with their spine cards and also kept the cd cases in plastic sleeves. Those are the two collection out of all my other stuff that I seriously regret selling. Worst part is that I found a great job in my career field about two weeks after I sold both of my collections and felt like such a jackass! I kinda jumped the gun on that one but I was just worried about not making ends meet. Life goes on and now I'm starting my Neo Geo collection all over again. This time I'm collecting both the cd version and AES version. So many great memories with the Neo Geo.
In highschool back in 2004 i got in trouble at school and my parents sold all of my games. A playstation, gameboy, sega genisis, and virtual boy 3d. along with all my games, i was so bummed and had so many good games, It was a sad time
I donated my GBA and Gamecube along with all the games I had for them to charity when I thought I wouldn't need them anymore. Years later I started to really collect games and I somewhat started to regret what I did, but I can take comfort in knowing that my games probably brought joy to more unfortunate people and I didn't give away any major rarities.
ExExister
it's better to give away games for charity than selling them for a gold digger girl in a relationship going south
That intro pic got me! I've not sold any of my stuff - I'll be dead before that happens, Once I buy it, that's it-it stays with me....
I'm actually in the process of it right now. For the past 4 years or so, I have obsessively bought at least one CE (and every single steelbook) released for every game I own (sitting at about 1200 games right now, so yeah...). I'd say I have one of the most impressive video game steelbook collections of anyone on TH-cam, actually. Right now, though, I am in the process of selling off every single CE and steelbook that I own. I am switching to standard edition games--for myriad reasons that I discussed in my most recent vlog on here. Some of them being that they are getting too big, too expensive, come with crappy extras, are too fragile, and collecting for the 6th gen and before is just WAY more enjoyable because these things barely existed/didn't exist at all. By switching to only standard edition games, I can force modern game collecting back to being as fun as it used to be!
It feels good to re-assert your control over the habit and the compulsion and be able to re-shape it into something that is more enjoyable. I can't imagine 'having' to do it, though; that would honestly just be horrible.
Compulsion is a bitch! =/
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I sold all my old pc games, the old ones in big boxes I had about 100 of them taking up way to much space. I didn't regret it but that's because I can just download them PC is a bit different because you can always play games from yesteryear.
I flipping LOVE the Lunar series(Silver Star Story is the best!), but I only played the Playstation version of both copies. Man, your collection is so epic, HCG!
You should have photoshopped the thumbnail to make it seem as if the only game you kept was Dynamite Dux. Lol!
In any case, excellent video as always, Johnny. I'd encourage you to do more of these videos where it's just you telling a story. Reminds me of the old podcast days. Good stuff dude :)
Don't you ever scare me like that again.
Selling a collection is better than losing one to a flood...i had 1500+ games, over a dozen consoles...all gone.
+Philip Alves Southern NJ. I built a man cave in my mom's house when I was 17 and didn't move out till I was 24, back in 04. High water table + plus alot of rain and the basement flooded out...everything was water damaged, the consoles all shorted out..I'm getting depressed just thinking about it
Or on a 🔥!!!
This experience was one of the best things that ever happened to you. We don't appreciate some things in life until we lose them. It made you a better gamer and a better collector.
Your awesome everything you talk about on your channel i can relate to. I had to sell different collections at different points in my life, one of those being divorce, i rarely buy things back but made sure to jump into the next 'thing' in video-games and it always builds back up lol. Life happens i guess i can say that i regretted it but it needed to be done.
Back in the day, my mom used to sold the past generation consoles along with its games as soon as she bought me the most recent system available.
That said, until the 6th generation, I constantly had to "sell" my collection every few years.
Bad times...
my mom did the same shit. i hated it.
Haha :D right there with you, but thankfully I have come to the point in my life when I can actually afford keeping my old systems, but back in the days I sold my PS1, DS, Gamecube, Wii etc. I am mostly a Sony gamer now but I bought myself a gamecube again and got to replay games like Mario Sunshine and Zelda Wind Waker. I doubt Nintendo will ever be as good as they were during the Gamecube with classics like Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros Melee, Zelda Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, the list goes on
holy shit dude my mom did the same thing. Once i got an Xbox 360 my mom sold my ps2 and along with some games. She thinks that next generation will be compatible with the past generation. -____- AND THEY WERE 2 DIFFERENT CONSOLES from 2 different companies! I did manage to buy another ps2 but it wasn't the same :/ i had the big fat one that i treasured so much and now i have the slick one.
Oh boy... that's a hard fate, especially if you bought the fat PS2 brand new back then.
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny!!!!!!! I've known and supported your channel since mine began. I'm sure you know that I sold my ENTIRE third bedroom full of games, consoles and posters etc. I did it to be with Jessica in the U.S. I also walked out on an amazing job, a mortgage, sold my sports car and left my ex partner at this time!!! 3 months ago I decided.... FUCK IT..... I want my retro collection back. Fortunately I have showcased the growth on my channel and now I, feeling really confident and happy that my collection is gaining respect AGIAIN!!! I felt devastated and crippled after it had sunk in that I had sold everything! Thankfully, Jessica is in the UK with me this time.
Peace mate..... I love your channel!!
My parents sold all my Nes games, Genesis games and consoles at a rummage while I was at summer camp. The collection was a decent size too. They figured since I had been playing mostly dreamcast, I was done with those games. Still trying to buy back my old collection today, lol.
sold a majority of my poemon games. included diamond, platinum, soul silver, and black. some of my most nostalgic and favorite. still have yet to get those back. i only started keeping them again with black/white 2 onward.
Growing up I had this huge shelf behind my TV where I kept all my boxes, when I got new games I'd take out the instructions and cartridges but just put the boxes on that shelf. After keeping all my NES, SNES & N64 boxes my Mom eventually said I need to get rid of them all they're taking up too much space and collecting dust back there. Here we are years later and OMG I can't believe she made me throw them all away.
OMG what? She threw 'em away? You still have them? You sold them? What happened? Don't leave us hanging.
***** Made me throw them away. Sorry I should of been more clear.
My heart sank when I saw the thumbnail.
I should have (but didn't) clocked the photoshop thumbnail by the fact you can still see your games on the desk reflection! lol. No wonder everyone rushed to watch this though, that is an epic collection of titles. Not something I'd do (collect that many) but I applaud those that do.
YES 😥 I had been dealing with a nasty pain pill addiction since I was 19. But it never truly took hold of me till I was much older “43 now” I had sold every game console out of desperation for more pills. Went through that cycle for 2 decades .. finally found a way to be sober and stay sober now for the last 2 1/2 years .. allowing me to rebuild the collection and keep it 🤟🏽😬 I’m definitely not the only dumb ass to do that.. TMI , but this topic gave me a nasty flashback .. thanks for your content .. love your videos from a fellow game nerd 🤓
I sold a big chunk of my collection back in 2000 to a Funco Land to get some Dreamcast games, I had just gotten a Dreamcast for Christmas and there were some games that I desperately wanted for it. Yes, I later came to regret selling those games even though I absolutely loved my Dreamcast.
what makes it worse is the fact that it was super easy to pirate Dreamcast games onto a cd with a burner.
Ben Kenobi Very true, but the 13 year old me was unaware of that at the time.
I sold my entire n64 and GameCube collection. all my n64 had boxes and Manuel's games ranging from cookers bad fur day to paper mario man now I look back on that and just regret it all.
Badboy2525 you have no one to blame but yourself
I've had to sell my collections several times due to moving and needing to travel fairly light. It's a shame, but now I'm older and settled in it's nice to regrow old nostaglic items that I've once had and enjoy them all over again.
I have a similar story to Happy Console Gamer since we are around the same age I think. I understand completly what its like growing up in the 90's and you never consider your collections to really have that kind of value. I used to remember when i got all of my SNES and Nintendo 64 games either by birthdays or christmas presents, the boxes would just go in the trash usually. I never really thought of ever keeping the boxes. Of course back in those days, "Game collecting" really wasn't much of a phenomenon like it is now. As a kid, building a massive collection of games just really wasn't something that I actively seeked out at the time. I just loved playing video games. It wasn't until much later as I got older that I really took time to realize the kind of impact and value in collecting and god damn I must of sold some of my old collections way back in the day probably like 90% of all of my games. I had to purchase computer upgrades for my Computer and back in the day when I was a kid in the late 80's to early 90's i had no money to speak of so most of the games I got were from my parents or my Uncle. I was the gullible little kid on the block that took my entire collections down to a damn tradeNplay store and try and get as much money as I can. I obvously was blown away holding a few hundreds of dollars in my hand at the time, but it can no way in any shape or form replace what I actually got rid of. This included all kinds of console systems, loads and loads games, sega gensis, SNES, NES N64, gameboy, etc. To this day i really reget it and even to this day as I have rebuilt my collection, there are still some old classic games that I used to own that are just so out of my price range now and I probably will never get them back like the Gold PLated Zelda ocarina of time with manual and box, the original earth bound, Clay Fighter, Suikoden II, Aero Fighters for the SNES, the Original Duck hunt and many many more. I also had the full 2600 Atari system obvously before my time but my uncle had one and i sold that thing for like nothing lol. Now its like $2000 or something? Anyways thats my full story. It took me a very long time to rebuild my collection to what it is now and of course I don't usually ever purchase loose carts, I really only collect full case or boxed items. Currently my collection is at around 6000+ games in total. But I am also 36 so ya. Many years.
I almost shit myself
When the PS1 came out, I had to sell my Genesis and SNES + the game collections I had for it, to get the PS1......years later I got the genesis back but never was able to rebuild the collection, I also rebuilt some of my SNES collection after getting my RetroN3. I recently (about 3 or 4 years ago?) Sold off my PS2 collection except for roughly.....10-15 games...and nearly all of my gamecube collection except for maybe 4 titles......and the sad part is, I didn't get nearly as much as I could have. Ah well, you live and learn.
I saw that you got my old slimes collection from Gamedeals.... It's a relief to know they ended up in good hands.
Oh that’s really cool I always wondered where they came from!
I did this with my SNES and NES for a Dreamcast. In the past 6 years, got all the classics for SNES and some for NES back. I hear you on this. It felt like the right idea at the time but I missed it shortly after.
Thank goodness this wasn't what I thought it was, I can't take anymore bad news from TH-camrs today lol.
Lydomina What other bad news have you heard?
Miten vitussa saan nimen ilman välejä Oh don't worry it wouldn't be bad news to you, I just thinking out loud, sorry :P.
I sold my collection of MegaDrive2 .60 games i lost so as to buy Panasonic3do.This is my TRAGEDY
Thanks for sharing with us your love for the game! It takes a true game fan to just talk about it without condition! HEH! Anyway...
I had quite a few boxed snes/nes/genesis/psx games and because I grew up after 17 years old I had to start working full time and getting bills paid after my dad passed away.. I had Original gold Zelda I and II, Mega Man 1-6. Final Fantasy.. Mega Man x 1-3. Man... FFVII, Seukoden..the loss. But...
I wish I hadn't have but times changed. I'm starting to get back some of those now. It's lot' a more expensive for those classics as they are now.
Cheers with Root-Beers! Be Happy that you still got GAME! /s : D
I sold my Gamecube and Xbox games collection as I wasn't playing them and was heavily into PC gaming at the time. So glad I kept my Dreamcast and Saturn games. I've eventually rebuilt most of the collection and then some, but there's still a few big hitters I need to spend to reclaim, like Skies of Arcadia Legends.
My collection was stolen from me nearly 45% of it and Earth Bound was one of them i went away to Missippi last year and when i came home my brother has stolen most of my games and traded them in and bought drugs with it we kicked him out the following month he is not allowed to go anywhere near my room or touch any of my games what so ever i even had the door locked and it was broken when i got home i was able to get most back but sadly i can't get back earthbound it was mint condition and sealed to had a few boxed Nes games that were stolen as well.
Ugh, dude. I'm sorry to hear that. That makes me want to buy you a copy of earthbound...
JazGalaxy Thanks for the thought :) but yea that made me angry to but what he used the money for made me angryer
*Catching my breath*.. Punctuation!!
earthbound can be bought on wii u for peanuts, can still get it again.
I know but i miss my original copy it's worth money and i like playing on original hardware.
Apparently I "gave" my entire collection of ps2, gamecube, xbox and nintendo 64 games and consoles to my maid.
great topic! I loved your story because I relate. When new systems came out, as a kid, I didn't think I would ever have the urge to play my old stuff. so... for example, when Nintendo 64 came out I pretty much sold my whole collection. games and systems: NES, SNES, genesis, and my game gear. Then I was only playing N64 and PS1. About when ps2, GC, and Xbox came out I started to missed my old games. so much so that I skipped the ps2 generation and started collecting now "retro stuff" again. (thank god for funcoland) I didn't get back into current gen gaming until the Wii launched and then ps3 of course I had to have that. Now I have all the systems again but I really wish I kept my childhood systems. My only regret in life lol.
I love the music in Lunar, I got the Sega CDX for my birthday one year and got Lunar and the other Working Design games too! With all the Night Trap hype, right after it was pulled from stores, I had to have it. My friend had it and was willing to trade it to me....for my entire NES collection. At the time, I gladly gave him my NES with R.O.B. and Zapper, along with about 25 games all for Night Trap, which was only the discs by the way...Looking back, it was a big mistake. Many of my games are now crazy expensive, I'm slowly trying to rebuy all of them to restore my original NES collection.
I feel like ive been rick rolled
awww should use this for april fools joke
Man! You really got me! I was like, "WTF?!?! Why!?! If he's having financial trouble I'm sure his fans would have helpped him out!" =D The empty shelves in the thumbnail was a nice touch! Kudos!
I remember just a few years back where I sold alot of my old play station 2 games that I never played, do to my play station not working with memory. Or just I was doing other game systems.
I also sold a ton of my d.s game cards as well. And just now I kinda regret that I did that. Because there we're some games I really liked and at my older age can now really enjoy the art style and just how unique these game are now. So now I slowly build it back up :)
Im am bout to sell my collection of over 2000 games and a more :(, Because of needing a a car for my wife and being in a tight spot. I know I will regret it and already amas stuff sells. But thats life I guess
Maybe both of their incomes combined are just getting them by?
stupid how you need to sell your hobby to get stuff for her, why doesn't she sell her shoes, clothes, bags that she has wasted money on, that will teach her to save for what she needs, and not just show off to others.
The people responding have obviously never been married
Eh, just use emulators and you have it all back but digitally, well the retro ones at least. Don't emulate a 3ds because it's still a current system :P
Artic, downloading a zip file with ROMs inside is not collecting, is not "having" the game and enjoying it. And if you only play on emulators, I should tell you: there's glitches eventually -- YES, still there on any emulator for some games, the color gamma is not the same, the audio does not pass thru the original console DAC making the audio sounds different, your computer/SO will always cause a framedrop eventually (YES, even your i7 extreme whatever), your messenger program will call for attention... want more? The save state will be there and you might not "control yourself" and use it... some instruments on FM/PCM sounds plain wrong (even on Fusion,SNES9x current versions)... anyway, "just use emulators and you have it all back but digitally" does not do anything for real video game players, just my 2 cents :) Have a nice day!
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I get what you're saying. Emulators aren't perfect as in authenticity no matter what, but when I use emulator, I don't go for that.
I think its the same thing why I enjoy PC more than console. I tried out battletoads on emulator just for fun (I also have the real one), and only controller I had was the ps3 controller, so I plugged it in and it worked perfectly. It felt so wrong, but it was just awesome.
Performance was great, no dips at all and didn't expect to have any and it was weird, because that happens alot with the real system when there's lot of stuff happening. It did run slightly faster than the real game but not by much and it could be just because it didn't have any slowdowns. Colors were bit off, but thats just nitpicking, but I couldn't tell any difference between the sound in the real one and emulated.
I got one strange glitch in one of the bossbattles when I played the game that I have never seen before (and I have played this game a lot), the fight didn't advance like it should and I just hit him continuously and I got points, but nothing changed. After I missed and the boss hit me, things got normal, but he never took any damage from my hits.
Then I was thinking how I could record the gameplay and tried shadowplay and again it was just great. No difference in performance at all.
So tl:dr I think the real systems has value, but playing with the emulators is just different experience altogether.
Not the same feeling. And also, some consoles are hard to emulate.
***** Have you ever played N64 and wii games in HD? soooooo pwetty :D
Jackson Day I do agree with the HD thing. It's the nicest thing on emulation. But N64 without a real controller it's just weird (of course you can plug it via usb or something) and N64 games weren't meant to be HD. Wiii games in HD are really awesome but setting up the motion controllers on PC can be a headache. That said, I do want to play some HD emulated games sometime. But at least I'll experience the original versions first. =]
Funny story! tnx for sharing champ!
yaaa I remember 'masterplayer!' they had so much dope shit we could never afford!...lol :D
I sold: My SNES setup, Genesis setup and Playstation I setup.
Yes I regret it, but DosBox emulators helped soothe the pain.
I have to say I had a moment where I was feeling something so intensely that I threw out (in the garbage) maybe 60 - 70% of my physical games and yes I regretted it later. So I did mostly the same thing and bought back the games I wanted the most over time including games like Dark Cloud, Legend of Legaia, Dragon Quest VIII, etc. Funny that you mentioned this.
sell drugs, not games 😊
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You're a cool guy, but that title was such an attention magnet..
I disagree. The title matches what he is talking about. tho I guess I can agree on the confusion on how some might have thought he sold is current collection
Nah man, it was a clickbait.
I too sold a huge chunk of my video games because "I wasn't playing them anymore" and I got jack for them at the GameStop I kept selling them to.
Now I actually have almost every game I sold to Gamestop and EB games, plus all the games I convinced my brother to buy that I coveted.
I never sold a collection to buy other video game stuff, but I have sold a couple collections. I suffer from what I call Pokémon syndrome, I had to collect every one of whatever it was I was collecting. I collected every limited edition wireless controller for Xbox 360 (39 of them) then sold them to collect something else. I had gathered almost 300 ds games, then got bored with them and sold them as well. now I'm on radio control cars/trucks (30+) love the videos, thanks
The comment section is a lot more interesting than the video.
Haha that was pretty funny seeing the empty shelf clip first thinking noooo
Man this kicked up some old memories of my father (who recently passed away, may he rest in peace) who bought me Street Fighter 2 for the SNES and i don't remember what happened to my copy. I think i sold it or something. Anyway, i just want to thank you for making old happy memories with my father come to the surface.
That show "Hoarders" scared the shit out of me and I winded up selling a ton of DVD's, games, and manga.
Funny you mentioned about parents throwing out the box/case of games. My mom threw away my Super Metroid box in the garbage and I quickly pulled it out and hid it in a drawer. Even as a kid I know that game was sacred. The manuel was still in it's plastic sleeve and was mint, Still is to this day.
I NEVER sell my games, but back in the dreamcast days I bought a SNK (KOF) game for my brother & I. He didn't like it and I then returned it for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure which is amazing. Later on my brother grew to love the look and feel of SNK games and I repurchased KOF.
I recently sold all of my collection. Had many gems from snes to the ps2 .. watching this video gives me hope that someday I may get it all back one piece at a time.
I once sold off my entire PS2 and N64 collections because of how extremely pressed for money I was at the time. Over the past few years I've slowly recovered, but I feel like the sentimental attachment I had to a few of those games can never be replicated.
I had NES, SNES, N64,, GameCube, gameboy, gba with games when I was younger. Each time I got a new system, my mom would talk me into sending my old console and CIB games to my relatives overseas. I even had a Vectrex with a bunch of games that I gave to my older brother whose wife eventually threw it out when cleaning out the house one day. Now I'm slowly building back my original collection and then some.
i sold my old magic the gathering collection back around '08, i used to play a lot of pokemon and i kept my colelction but with magic i litterally sold everything of value, kept the ones they didnt want to buy. and i know that regret feeling cause a few years later i fell back in love with the game and those cards spiked in value and now it would cost double or triple to buy back and not having the money to rebuy it, every year the prices just go higher and higher and i feel so stupid for not keeping it, i could of gotten the money many other ways, hell even mow loans for 5 bucks a lawn, but those are the things that life is about, you learn and become wiser and better.
some may collect for value, some may keep it for nostalgia purposes but what ever collection you have it carries a lot of personal attachment to it
i did the same thing when world of Warcraft launched, although i regret more than ever and i have gotten allot of it back i wish more than anything i could have seen the future jaw drop when the WoW craze for me went out and what i had done finally set in. i sold NES, Sega, super, Sega CD, Saturn, n64 everything i had gotten as a child up to that point. i have been collecting harder than ever lately but that was a dark age in my life i cant stand the thought of it. every time i've ever sold anything ive regretted it. thanks for the videos
I sold my collection a few times, simply for financial reasons. I regret it, but I have gotten some classics back, and living abroad has made me appreciate ports and remakes of games a lot more. I definitely feel you man. I sold my NES/Genesis/SNES collection for a PS3 and stuff. The regret took about 6 months to kick in, but it was the last time I would do it.
Although I'm alot younger and hence it wasn't quite the same (I'm 18) I've had a similarly regretful memory. Started initially with the wii craze in which I traded in all of my sizable ps2 library but worse was to come...around the age of 14, 15 I got into clothes, ( hear me out) you know - young guy wants to look cool...and I sold over the next year, my gamecube + all games, my ds + all the games (was so silly and got peanuts for them) in addition to my gameboy colour and gameboy sp and my wii I had saved up a few years before for...luckly I've began to appreciate having a collection and although bi will never get all of it back, the lesson is learnt - KEEP YOUR STUFF
Johnny,you know this episode hits home with me!! Lunar was THAT game for me,sucks that you sold your shit..the moment of weakness strikes and your blinded!LoL but yea I've sold things and really been bummed out! I let a friend borrow my Sega CD and later when I got sent to Military School he sold it on me,I was so pissed when I got back,he traded it for Loaded and NHL Hits!!!!!
As a kid I remembered my parents used to make me throw away my GBA boxes and it always bugged me that I had to do that because I felt like they were art in a way if you really think about it. Also I heard about trading in games and at the time I thought it was cool to make money but I look back and realize how much I wish I still had them to keep in a collection and look back at my awesome memories growing up with video games.
My first reaction to the : i sold my video game collection was Johnny was either playing a joke or that room was bout to be turned into a nursery
I sold all my ps1 games when I was younger. Years later I regreted it, and the desire to have them back was what got me into collecting
Same here, especially when you didn't have a job. Ebay happened and I started selling some of my collections to get whatever game I wanted to own badly. I also get the mentality, but it will come back to hunt you if you make a wrong decision.
It has crossed my mind when I look at some games in my collection. I could unload many of them for $20 a pop and make a few hundred or maybe thousand, but I really am quite the hoarder so it would kill me to do that, not to mention it's taken a long time to get to what I have now. I haven't actually sold a single game in my life, I still have all the games I had since the 90s from old PC games with those original giant boxes to all my Sega consoles and accessories plus a much larger modern collection of games from the more recent generations. I even kept the games that were terrible because they're still fun memories to look back at. I've come close but I really hope I don't find myself in a situation where I have to sell this stuff. Unless I guess if I stop being interested in it and if I find someone else that would appreciate it more lol.
I sold a few select games before but ended up buying them all back a few years later!! Lol I think if your a gamer your a gamer for life. It would take something larger then life to get me to sell all my stuff now.
Cool video. I still miss a lot of the old games I used to have, I re-bought Ikaruga and Eternal Darkness but not Shadow Hearts, or Mario Tennis, as well as a good amount of other N64/SNES games.. Damn Gamestop
That is an awesome Gillian Seed T-shirt. I just finished Snatcher and it was onr of the best games I have ever played.
It's very difficult to part with something so important to you that had an impact on your life, I've had that experience not with video games but with toys. I've had to sell quite a handful of transformers figures just to make some money as well as use that money mostly to buy more or pay to go to conventions but at the end of the day it's only when things are so dire and money is desperately needed which is why end up selling the things that are closest to us. It's only when we rediscover them again and we find out why they were special to us to begin with that we can get back that experience.
almost similar to your story I was so excited for Resident Evil 4 to come out on the game cube. I ended up going to GameStop and selling my Sega Cd/32X collection to get just enough for the collector edition with the metal book. I had lunar, and Vay and popfull mail. So many good games ughhhhh.
I did yes, around the mid-2000's I sold or gave away most of my Snes, PS and PS2 collection, sold by beloved Amstrad CPC with over 150 games... I stopped when I was about to sell my GX4000 collection, my missus stopped me and reminded me that i love my games and systems and that I would regret it if I did. She was right. Been re-building the collection ever since.
I sold a huge ps2 collection to a friend of mine and while it made me happy that it would be played as I wasn't playing it at all I did come to regret it several years on. But those games are well loved and appreciated in their new home so I'm not sour about it.
I had to sell off almost my entire collection recently due to being unemployed for a long period of time. Thankfully I'm back to work and I'm going to slowly start piecing my collection back together.
I did sold a big part of my collection, because i wanted to focus my collection. I spent some years buying everything for every system.
But i sold the stuff that didn't interested me and re-invest the money into getting games that i would actually play and enjoy instead of just collecting for the sake of collecting. I don't regret it. It actually made me enjoy gaming and my collection, more!
I had a Sega CD and no idea what Lunar was, but I was in a used game shop checking out the Sega CD games, and the girl working there said "hey do you like RPGs?" and popped Lunar in for me to play. You could play games there. I saw the opening movie and thought it looked neat, and yes I do indeed like RPGs... knew nothing about it except I liked the animation and RPGs.
Pretty sweet score!
I once had to sell all my original final fantasy games (This was about 5 years ago) starting from FF2 (FFIV) for the SNES to some of my original playstation ff games that did not have the green greatest hits banner on the cover art. I sold them all with manuals and even the chrono trigger with an extra manual I had from Nintendo power. I included the original ff7 figures I imported from japan when the game first came out. The funny thing was I had both an imported version of ff7 and the local one. I bought Final Fantasy 7 from a local store and I had to do the swap disc trick on my playstation to play it. Not sure if many of you remember this trick. When I first had to do this, it would take me a few times before I could get it to work. Playing the game in Japanese was so hard. But I managed to beat it. Other games I sold as part of this was FF tactics, both import version and local, Xenogears, Suikoden I and II, and the Lunar Silver Star Story playstation collectors box you have in the background. I even gave the guy the Lunar Silver Star story Ghaleon hand puppet. thinking about it now, it makes me a bit sad. I had an emergency come up and it was a tough decision to make. Lots of great games and items were sold that day. Only Positive thing about this was that the guy who bought them was buying them to add them to his collection and not sell them on ebay or such thing.
I just sold the bulk of my collection. Mostly NES and SNES games, along with a lot of PS1 and PS2 games. The only thing I kept were a few select SNES games, my copy of Mega Man 2 (my favorite game), a few PS1 RPG's, and my PSP collection (which only amounts to about 15 games). While it's sad to see those games go, I have to admit that I rarely played any of them over the years, and I've just been lugging them around. At any rate, good story HCG, and glad that you've been able to build your collection back up over the years.
I sold my collection at gamedeals 3 years ago, and I saw you ended up with my DQ slime plushes. Glad you got them. I sold well over 30K worth of games, systems and rare collectibles for around 800 bucks when I was desperate for cash and depressed from being divorced. Was a sad time.
I gave all my snes and N64 collection as a gift some years ago, i really miss the games but iam sure the nowday owners are happy with them.
i sold a ton of my stuff just last year because things got tight and it looked like my place of work might close its doors. it sucks because i got most of the games for next to nothing when my hometown video store was going out of business (i'm talking ninja gaiden III CIB on NES for 2.50). In a way thought i think it was for the best. I'm in a much better place now with more space and I finally have my own personal game room. It's been fun starting over with the exception of games just continuing to go up in price, but that just makes it that much better when i find a gem or something I used to have that I really enjoyed for cheap at a thrift store or used game shop.
I used to trade in or sell games when I was 10-16 years old. It was the only way that I could afford to get new games that came out. I don't regret it because I wouldn't have been able to experience as many games otherwise. I also sold $500 worth of games to buy a 360 when it first came out. They were games that I didn't care about though so I don't miss them at all.
over the last 3 months I ditched a fairly large collection. I did it before as well, when I sold everything from Atari through Gamecube, and started on PlayStation 1-4. I now either emulate, or play one of my 6 full size arcade games. I haven't regretted it for 1 second on either occasion. Classics are easily played on so many formats anymore, but you can't emulate or recreate the arcade experience. FYI, 4 player Gauntlet Legends with Dark Legacy upgrade, sit down Cruis'n USA, RoboCop, a 60n1 cab, a 19n1 cocktail that I'm currently reworking, an a PC driven, 2 player w trackball multicade with pinball, made out of a pedestal from a Maximum Force/Area 51 showcase cab (the front half). The screen is on a 360° rotating mount, with a 40" LED screen. I don't miss console gaming or collecting one bit.
Yes, I had to sell my entire collection 2.5 years ago when I moved to Canada from Sweden. I calculated the shipping for my collection and it ended up being many thousands of dollars and there would also be the hassle of playing PAL games on NTSC TVs. It was heartbreaking seeing the collection go but fortunately games can always be bought back (even if it's not the original copies that I had as a kid).
Me and my brother sold almost all of our N64 games to GameStop back in the day so we could some new PS2 games and then while cleaning out our garage at one point, I found our old SNES when I was about 14 or 15 and just decided to give it to Goodwill, thinking I was only gonna play the new stuff. Talk about being young and stupid lol. But I have recovered most of my old collection. Just missing a couple now.
Hey just wanted to say, love the show! thanks for the entertainment! Do you have Snatcher in your collection?? One of my favorite games!
I use to collect bongs and pipes, about 60 in my collection. Had them with me for about 20 years. Hit hard times, went to a flea market and sold them cheap so I would be there and gone before any police heard of me selling anything. Liquidated the entire collection in 1 hour.
Ah Noriyuki Iwadare ! My favorite composer of all time with Yoko Shimomura. I just played the remake of this game on PSP which is really really good but I immediately recognized the musics that are playing in background in this video. So epic and awesome.