Scotty W
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How many of you dorks threw away, or traded in rare retro games?
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cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
When Best Buy was offloading all their Saturn games, I narrowed my choice down to two: Sonic R and Panzer Dragoon Saga. Both were $10 each. I chose Sonic R. Great soundtrack.....
clem84
Gold Member
If I have a game in my collection and its street value is more than the sentimental value it has for me, I usually end up getting rid of it.
Last year I sold Suikoden 2 and Valkyrie Profile for PSX. I had had them for a bit more than 10 years. Back then I saw them as being a part of gaming history and that's why I wanted them in my collection.
Now I no longer saw a point in keeping games I didn't really have any intention of playing and knowing they were worth quite a bit, I sold them. Both to the same guy for 1000$. It was definitely better than hoarding them and more or less forgetting I even had them in my possession.
Last year I sold Suikoden 2 and Valkyrie Profile for PSX. I had had them for a bit more than 10 years. Back then I saw them as being a part of gaming history and that's why I wanted them in my collection.
Now I no longer saw a point in keeping games I didn't really have any intention of playing and knowing they were worth quite a bit, I sold them. Both to the same guy for 1000$. It was definitely better than hoarding them and more or less forgetting I even had them in my possession.
StateofMajora
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Unfortunately. I was a dumb kid. I don’t want to talk about what I sold to eb games 
I wish my mom told me fuck no and took all my shit to storage xD
And yeah I threw away n64 and gba boxes like a fucking moron but i’m sure i’m not alone.
In my adult life, hell no, i’ve amassed an massive collection and won’t be getting rid of anything unless under specific circumstances like a new physical version that comes out being better than old and I could make hundreds of dollars on the old copy… but even then I am not pressured to do so.
I did recently sell one game, mushihimesama for 360 for 300 bucks and got a switch copy for 40.
I wish my mom told me fuck no and took all my shit to storage xDAnd yeah I threw away n64 and gba boxes like a fucking moron but i’m sure i’m not alone.
In my adult life, hell no, i’ve amassed an massive collection and won’t be getting rid of anything unless under specific circumstances like a new physical version that comes out being better than old and I could make hundreds of dollars on the old copy… but even then I am not pressured to do so.
I did recently sell one game, mushihimesama for 360 for 300 bucks and got a switch copy for 40.
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TheDreadLord
Member
What?! Are both that valuable? I have both in my collection and didn’t knew that.
V4skunk
Banned
Not personally.
But about 7 years ago I let my youngest brother who was like 16 at the time sell my fully boxed every thing there and mint condition Dreamcast with rare games like Shenmue1+2, Skies of Arcadia etc...all in all about 11 games!
And he got fucking ripped off big time selling it all at a gaming store! £70 for the lot! At the time Shenmue1 used, open and mint condition was £50.
DeadOblivion78
Member
Bold of you to assume I had money as a child buying video games with asian parents.
Mr Branding
Member
Sold 2 mint ps2 slims and a brand new red ps3 super slim with their respective game collections. Recently sold a Soul Sacrifice limited ed. psvita.
No regrets.
No regrets.
penguininthesun
Neo Member
This came with my Gamecube. I traded it into Gamestop for $3 credit because I got stuck in Majora’s Mask. Boy do I regret it.
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cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
Those old-school manuals were prime crapper reading material. I wonder if a scientist could track my teenage eating habits by analyzing the shit particles enshrined between those glossy pages?
When I moved countries, I left behind a massive comic collection and video game collection. My pride and joy was a Neo Geo AES with a boatload of home carts, some pretty good ones too. I also gave specific instructions to my family to just keep it stored in boxes for me as they were left. But did that happen? no. Brings me to tears.
Knightime_X
Member
All of them.
I replaced my bad condition ps1 games with ISOs and the rest with roms \ appropriate media format .
Meh, I regret nothing.
I replaced my bad condition ps1 games with ISOs and the rest with roms \ appropriate media format .
Meh, I regret nothing.
Daniel Thomas MacInnes
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Confession: I sold my US copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga in 2012 when I got married. We needed the money and I received $450 for everything, which was a pretty big number at the time. Today, of course, a full retail copy goes for well over a thousand.
And do you know the zaniest part of that story? It was given to me by a former housemate back in 2001. For FREE. He received it from somebody else, but he never owned a Sega Saturn, so he gave it to me (I had picked up my second Saturn around that time, plus a bunch of games for next to nothing that now command a fortune). At that time, Panzer Saga was selling for $100, which was an unthinkable amount of money for an old videogame at the time, and I did suggest that he sell his copy, but he was very kind and generous and gave it to me.
On a similar note, prices of NBA Action 98 on Saturn skyrocketed to over $700 in the immediate wake of Kobe Bryant's death. That was his very first videogame cover and it became a hot collectable. I do wish I had sold my copy, which I bought new and unwrapped for a whopping $1.99. Since then, prices have come back down to the $35-$60 range, which is still pretty expensive for a sports title, but everything on Saturn is becoming crazy expensive.
And do you know the zaniest part of that story? It was given to me by a former housemate back in 2001. For FREE. He received it from somebody else, but he never owned a Sega Saturn, so he gave it to me (I had picked up my second Saturn around that time, plus a bunch of games for next to nothing that now command a fortune). At that time, Panzer Saga was selling for $100, which was an unthinkable amount of money for an old videogame at the time, and I did suggest that he sell his copy, but he was very kind and generous and gave it to me.
On a similar note, prices of NBA Action 98 on Saturn skyrocketed to over $700 in the immediate wake of Kobe Bryant's death. That was his very first videogame cover and it became a hot collectable. I do wish I had sold my copy, which I bought new and unwrapped for a whopping $1.99. Since then, prices have come back down to the $35-$60 range, which is still pretty expensive for a sports title, but everything on Saturn is becoming crazy expensive.
clem84
Gold Member
I sold S2 for 475 and VP for 525$. This was last summer. I'm assuming the price went up a bit since then. They were both mint and complete.
Oh, those prices are CAD. I guess I should've mentioned it. lol
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Gameplaylover
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I am missing some NES games that i either lend to friends and never got back or traded for some shitty games like Silent Service or Wrestling. I am missing at least the golden Zelda, 2-3 Mega Mans, Maniac Mansion and Castlevania 2.
clem84
Gold Member
There are retro games that I've wanted in my collection for a long time and I can safely say I will never own them because the price eventually got out of reach.
- Dracula X for SNES. (It's the only Castlevania game missing from my collection)
- Chrono Trigger (more than 1500 CAD for a complete mint copy??)
- Mega Man 1 NES
All these games technically I could still get if I wanted to but I can't justify spending that much money just for a piece of cardboard and cartridge I'll be putting on a shelf.
- Dracula X for SNES. (It's the only Castlevania game missing from my collection
)- Chrono Trigger (more than 1500 CAD for a complete mint copy??)
- Mega Man 1 NES
All these games technically I could still get if I wanted to but I can't justify spending that much money just for a piece of cardboard and cartridge I'll be putting on a shelf.
Brigandier
Member
Let's just say I've done some moronic shit.... Worst offenders I sold my sealed Xenogears, Sealed Shenmue 1 and 2 EU DC games and regret it badly.
Zephir
Member
Upset, obviously, but you know the drill...
"You don't use it anymore", "You have so much stuff", "Let the less fortunate enjoy it" and such...
I wasn't allowed to be angry xD
Also, the same above applied for all the toys and plushies I had in my childhood
Let's be clear, I would have donated most of my old stuff myself if asked, but I really wanted to keep a couple of them
Alter_Fridge
Member
Worst is selling off some semi valuable GC games like Twin Snakes, Zelda, Tales of Symphonia, Mario Kart etc about 10 years ago for probably half of what they go for now in PAL regions. Nothing I'd lose sleep over though
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CuteFaceJay
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Wish I was never a broke teen who sold their shit. Heck I've been looking at buying a 2nd hand New 3DS XL and those things are almost £200.
Methos#1975
Member
Didn't throw away, but I sold a pretty immense collection for $3000 back in 2010. Every Dreamcast US release, Saturn with stuff like Radient Silvergun and TFV, Neogeo CD, Supergrafx, etc. Probably easily 15,000 these days.
Sold nearly everything that wasn't nintendo switch or ps4. I was getting ready to move/travel so I pretty much was getting rid of everything from my books, to movies, and video games. I would have rather have kept them but I didn't want to pay for storage when I didn't know when I would ever return back for them. Selling the books hurt more than the games though.