bmoc wrote:As long as I have access to play the games that I want through emulation or flash carts, I am perfectly content with a small curated retro collection along with the occasional modern game purchase.
Pretty much exactly what I'm looking to do. A modest collection of what I really care about, then flash carts for the rest with a small amount of emulation as well.
Erik_Twice wrote:I think it makes perfect sense and I think you'll be much happier once you do it. After all, what are those sealead games doing for you? Do they really make you happy? I bet you have lots of games that you don't care about, not even in a collecting sense.
Well the thing that sucks about that is if I have means to play the games without the physical copies on real hardware. It's easy for the retro cartridge based consoles because I have flash carts now for most of them. I have a chipped PS1 and was thinking about getting PSIO, so I could part with PS1 games. PS2, GCN and Wii can all be copied to a HDD and played on those consoles using a HDD loader. It gets trickier with modern consoles though. I have a bunch of sealed and/or unplayed games for the Wii U and PS3, but I have no way of playing those games other than legitimate means. I bought those games because I'd like to eventually play them, I just haven't gotten round to it yet. So that's where the decision get's a lot harder.
samsonlonghair wrote:I've been considering this myself. I had to box up my whole collection when I moved, and you know what? I haven't taken the time to unbox most of it. I'm entering a stage of my life when I'm more interested in saving up a down payment to own a home rather than owning a bunch of video games that I don't play anymore.
Most of my NES and Genesis collection has been packed away for a few years now, and I've made do with mostly using flash carts for those systems. Hasn't bothered me in the slightest! And yeah... Huge video game collection or my own house, I'll pick the later every time.
8bit wrote:Here's a great video about a toy collector explaining how he's changed his views on collecting. I think it may help you feel even better about your decision and on how to decide what to keep and not keep. Youtube Link
Thanks for the link. I'll be sure to check that video out as soon as I get the chance. Sounds interesting!
8bit wrote:Also thanks for posting, I'm always trying to keep my own collecting in check, making sure I'm balancing it with my other priorities. One day I'm sure I'll come to some kind of inflection point where I want to do away with a large portion of it. In the meantime, I've been really trying to focus on enjoying what I have, sharing it with friends and my kids, and getting more value out my time with it while I still have it.
You know, it's funny. 10 years ago I would have largely ignored a thread like this. It's amazing that as you go through life you're constantly finding that things that use to be so important to you aren't anymore. So this is the kind of thread that I use to ignore 10 years ago, but it's the kind of thread that I'm interested in today. It's really encouraging to hear that every one else in my age group also came to this decision. It really helps to reinforce my feelings that I'm not making a sacrifice, rather, this is a natural way to feel at my age.
ElkinFencer10 wrote:This has been me since January. Since then, I've made around $1000 worth of trades for games I wanted but hadn't bought and (once this one pending sale goes through and gets finalized) have made close to $5000 selling games. Granted, about $700 of that went to flash carts and the other $4000 went to paying off credit card debt, but still, it feels good to have paid down a considerable chunk of my debt and actually INCREASED my gameplay options thanks to the flash carts.
This is very encouraging to hear! I'm actually about to have all of my credit card debt paid off, which will be the first time I'm without credit card debt since I was 18 years old!
RCBH928 wrote:I don't know how large your collection is, but there are some SNES/Genesis/Dreamcast/NGC/and more games i would like to buy. If you are willing to part with them maybe I can buy them, but not sure if the games you have are the same games I want. If you been hoarding games since 2001, I am guessing many.
But if they are sealed that means you are looking for premium price and I am not into "collecting", I am more into buying used games to play them.
Most of my sealed games are from either the current or last generation. So Wii, Wii U, Switch, PS3, PS4, 3DS. I don't think I have any sealed retro. I don't know how many weeks or months I am from officially opening up shop. And again, I'm not selling everything. But if you or anyone wants a sneak peak just take a look at my Backloggery (link in sig). When I do get everything in order, the Racketboy forums will definitely get first dibs.