My house looks like a skip

Alter Egotist

How's your things?

Quick one for ye (I have realized after wards this was not quick).

I'm currently transitioning from several rooms in our house and a lockup (ala storage wars) to the box room in my house. It's purely by choice but I have to say deciding what to hold on to is a massive pain in the hole. I've already given away a crazy amount of games and consoles etc since I started. It's biting me in the ass a small bit in the charity shops I've chosen as one has more PS2/XBOX games than CEX's entire stock due to me at the moment and its hard to find anything else! And why the f#ck am I still charity shopping? I guess I love the chase.

Where do other peoples collections lie?

I'm half thinking of just collecting for the systems I had as a kid. (Keeping them rather) NES, SNES, 3DO and XBOX but it doesn't all interest me. I already have most of the NES games and still have a tonne of trade fodder (I've moved onto collecting sealed NES), I still have all my SNES games and my console from my youth. I've acquired a second 3DO to my original from youth and have a third coming (god knows why... it was part of a trade to make up cash if I remember correctly) plus all the games I've gotten over the years and still have my XBOX and a handful of games. Never got into the XBOX much to be fair. It was at a wrong time for me yet halo 2 is still up there as one of my all time favorite games.

My problem is now space and emulation. I've trades lined up for a lottttttt of it but I've come to realize because of emulation it doesn't really hold its own for me to hold onto it. On top of it all I'm gonna start building a hyperspin barcade soon.

My dilemma lies here. My NES collection is my baby. I'll admit that all day long and probably will never part with it. SNES being a close second but that's where my loyalty lies. I'm considering making the box room NES only (I already have major real estate in my dads attic (pretty much all of it) for my original NES set so that would be safe and in theory I'll never get a full sealed NES collection although I'll try. I have the newer consoles under my "desk" on a sled that ill eventually build doors for so they will be all consealed. I have lots of items from the NES era from Nintendo that Im going to put in the box room aswell but I'm wondering will I look back and regret selling or trading the non NES stuff?

I like playing on other retro systems but I have a shield console, an ouya, two handheld emulators etc. etc. So they will always be available to me at better resolution and graphics. I even have the 8bitdo wireless controllers or the equivalent for emulating on so it feels more natural.

Genuinely don't know what to do. I'm completely perplexed at the enormity of fodder I've amassed over the years. Some of it is genuinely gold and Ive some really cool things lined up because of it but who the hell needs multiple multiple copies of sports titles on any console. I was / am a hoarder I guess. Ive known for years I'll never get what I'm looking for in charity shops. It was hard enough to find boxed NES games YEARS ago. Sealed will never ever happen over here in a charity shop and when and if it does I'm likely to be done for indecency as I drop to my knees and begin crying and masturbating simultaneously! ;-)

I guess I'm coming to the terms with the fact that I will only want/need to keep items for the NES/SNES/3DO/XBOX and even then I'm still unsure. I get this type of collecting is not everyone's cup of tea but I'm hoping it'll work for me. I'm genuinely leaning towards just the NES though.

Has anyone else just picked one console or has anyone else sold or traded their collection in bulk only to regret it?

Answers on a postcard please, or even here which would be miles handier to read your responses.

Al.

I'm a big believer in moving stuff on.
Sometimes (a lot of times) your collection can become more of a burden than a thing of joy.
This is coming from a man with 6 pinballs + vids.

A lot of the thrill is in the chase!
I know someday I'll just sell all my stuff and move on.
There is a few bits I know I want to keep though.

Alter Egotist

BrownFinger wrote: »

I'm a big believer in moving stuff on.
Sometimes (a lot of times) your collection can become more of a burden than a thing of joy.
This is coming from a man with 6 pinballs + vids.

A lot of the thrill is in the chase!
I know someday I'll just sell all my stuff and move on.
There is a few bits I know I want to keep though.

Yeah I've half decided since posting this I'm defo gonna keep the lastest gen consoles in my sled and have the doors made for it but might start trading the rest. I've so much retro stuff to display though aswell across all systems. Cant decide if I should mount it on the wall or keep it protected from sunlight.

FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS!

Linoud

I genuinely don't know how to advise you. I'd say just collect for your personal favorites and try narrow it down. Like I'm aiming to just try get a complete Zelda collection at the moment, and expand to games that I'd genuinely intend to play with friends on SNES/N64 etc. I'll also probably aim to complete other game series at a time, but I doubt I'll ever get to the stage where I'll aim to complete an entire library for a system, though if I had to pick one, it'd be N64 personally. >_>;

Sounds like a tough one to decide though, honestly. :L I personally have most of my space taken up by random boxes of consoles or wires. Definitely couldn't imagine it all fitting into a box room either.

In short, I'm no help. Pick your favorite console (s)? and try keep it as low as possible, unless you'd genuinely feel like you'd end up just buying them back down the line. >_>;

geotrig

My games room looks a mess most of the time , mainly as im forever taking **** apart and leave stuff lying around. I have a load of systems and pcbs the pcbs being the hardest to try and store and the systems trying to fit them all in front of tvs . I've downside many times and thinking of trying to again.:eek:
The one thing ive never done is buy lots of random games(i have a good few **** games though),if its a game i want to play I get it otherwise i dont /wont buy it, most systems i have a handfull of games for and dont have much desire to pick up many more ,there will always be the odd game that i want,but everdrives cover most and other stuff i can save up for :pac: ,
The only ones i would not get rid of are the handfull that i had as a kid and my neo-geo stuff .....
actually thats what you should do sell it all and buy the handfull of neo stuff that will barely fill the corner of the box room :pac:
Alot of my other stuff ,posters /figures etc has spread out over the house though ,but i have in recent years just kept it to a min and got rid of stuff.

you could pick alot worse systems to collect for ..nes snes would be my choice also and neo if i could really afford it
re -trading bulk load ive rarely heard of many regreting it afterwards as everything was getable again.

Geo is even storing stuff in my house

CiDeRmAn

Your house looks like a skip!!
Oh no!

CiDeRmAn

geotrig wrote: »

My games room looks a mess most of the time

Me too!
My problem is the room isn't one I'm in as often as I should, and Mrs Ciderman tends to "move" random stuff into it and then forget about it.
Beers are a good reason to send boxes of tape cassettes and unused photo albums to the appropriate location.

The one thing ive never done is buy lots of random games(i have a good few **** games though),if its a game i want to play I get it otherwise i dont /wont buy it, most systems i have a handfull of games for and dont have much desire to pick up many more ,there will always be the odd game that i want,but everdrives cover most and other stuff i can save up for :pac: ,

V important and one I think every regular here agrees with, quality trumps quantity every time.
I'd rather have a select handful of excellent Famicom titles than invest in every cheap cart that pops up on Ebay. Saves on clutter and the good stuff stuff doesn't get lost amongst muck.

re -trading bulk load ive rarely heard of many regreting it afterwards as everything was getable again.

Buying then selling and doing so without regret... tell me more of this!
I buy, sell, instantaneous regret and a swift rebuy... especially with recent titles.

o1s1n

I know how you feel, I've been moving on a lot of stuff over the last few years.

It really does start to feel like a burden at times, especially when you're paying for it monthly to be stored in a lockup :eek:

I reckon once I clear it out (which should hopefully be this month sometime) I'll be getting rid of a lot more gear. Just don't have the space to enjoy it anymore unfortunately.

My main issue is I've a lot of other stuff on top of videogames. Comics, books, toys etc. It really does all add up!

Retr0gamer

I try to keep to games I want to play or have an interest in. I don't see the point in going to cex and buying games just because they are cheap.

Still have way more than I can ever possibly get through though.

Alter Egotist

o1s1n wrote: »

My main issue is I've a lot of other stuff on top of videogames. Comics, books, toys etc. It really does all add up!

Yes this! I admittedly also have a Batman collection (Its now just the elseworld graphic novels, comics from my month of birth and signed items) but yeah... more space you then don't have because of it

Alter Egotist

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Still have way more than I can ever possibly get through though.

And very this. I reckon on the newer consoles alone Ill never get through the amount of games I have both digitally and in physical form. Dont even talk to me about the retro games. Oy Vey

CiDeRmAn

Welcome to the 21st Century, the Age of Stuff

rgfuller

Alter Egotist wrote: »

Where do other peoples collections lie?

Has anyone else just picked one console or has anyone else sold or traded their collection in bulk only to regret it?

Answers on a postcard please, or even here which would be miles handier to read your responses.
Al.

I recently decided to focus my collecting on my own most favourite consoles/machines, so gave up Gameboy, N64 and Gamecube to focus on 3do, cd32 and lynx.

I have a PSP too with game collection, but I think it will go to a good home soon aswell.

To me it feels better to have funds to invest more in those favourites, it also means they can be readily setup, displayed and used without taking over the whole house, the games can be on display without taking over entire rooms filled with bookcases.

It felt good to de-clutter.

Will there be future regrets, I hope not and if there are I will know that what I gave up went into improving what I kept.

Inviere

I'd say streamline the hell out of it, & focus on your favorites, & the stuff you had as a kid etc. Emulate everything else, & anything gold discovered through emulation, buy it up.

CiDeRmAn

And then, sell all your stuff to me on the A&R Marketplace

Alter Egotist

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

And then, sell all your stuff to me on the A&R Marketplace

All the good stuff is already spoken for sir. The vultures have been circling for a while and I've first refusals promised to a few people. ;-)

Tom Mann Centuria

Sold most of my old consoles and games that I had from late teens early adulthood, (where my money was mine and I could spend it on crap). My collections were all very much what CiDeRmAn advised against in a post on the thrad (and I probably would now), cheap and cheerful, quantity over quality. I just wanted numbers and didn't look for quality. So I'd buy for the sake of buying, still had great fun buying and playing but when I looked back on the games I had, there wasn't much there I'd look to play again. So I'm left with my Nintendo snes and n64 in a cupboard and half tonne of atari vcs games with nothing to play them on.

Only retro thing out and played with now are my Spectrums (and PS2 and Gamecube), Retro pie fills in the blanks.

CiDeRmAn

I would say, that a large quantity of quality games is just as fraught.
I've been playing games since the 70's, collecting really since 99 or so, and the collection now is huge.
There's a few terrible games in there, side scrollers from Sega, that sort of thing, but otherwise is mostly killer and no filler.
Problem is, and not really a problem but it kinda is, if I stopped buying games right now I'd still never play properly all of the games I already own, physical games now, not just the occasional SD card or stack of CD/DVD-Rs.
So, you have to accept that there's titles you're never going to get to, like Xenoblade on the Wii/3DS, and games that simply have to be played, Doom and The Last Guardian on the PS4, Super Mario 3D World on the WiiU etc.
I've games that I simply have to finish, like Super Mario Sunshine on the GC.
But there are stacks that will never be completed, but I still don't want to ever sell them!

Alter Egotist

I began the cull today. I'm starting with disk based games and systems. One console in particular today. Sold the higher priced consoles and games for this system to a friend on the cheap. Brought a few car loads (multiple trips) into town to trade in and donated quite a few bags of games to charity shops around the city aswell. I ran into one very very well known "tall fella" that regularly harasses staff in various establishments around the city that retail in electronic goods or even in charity shops if he doesn't get his way. He even offered to buy them directly from me so he could sell them to others. He told me that he'd let me be his partner. Unfortunately I'm married and he's a con man so I donated them anyway and receive a torrent of abuse of how I screwed him over. Only found out afterwards on the next trip in that they have him barred from the shop for being the grade a asshole he generally is to everybody.


All in all a good day. I've become slightly sidetracked from what I meant to message about. Big chunk of stuff from the lock up traded, sold and given away today. Still loads more to go through. As I move further back generations I reckon I'll be less enthusiastic but I'm happy, my buddy is happy but poor mr tall was very cross! I've also half decided I'll just keep the NES and SNES stuff but still might just go NES only. Not a single regret so far anyway and I even play certain games on that console regularly enough!

Onward!

Linoud

Fair play! Let me know if you plan on shifting any Zelda/N64/Gamecube titles or RPGs in general! :L Always on the look out for those, so I am! :] Particularly any JRPGs or N64 titles! >.>; *cough*

I genuinely don't know if I could go through my collection and part with it, not yet anyway. It's not large enough to be a nuisance.. :L Only a few couple of odd consoles and duplicate consoles.. >_>

Inviere

Bloody resellers and scalpers, would it be worth putting as much as you want up on the marketplace here, and donating cash directly to a charity...instead of some ass buying up all your games for cheap and profiting directly?

Plus, I'm sure loads of us here are missing common and regular games and would love to buy them from you

Alter Egotist

Just saw your message. I've promised a load of stuff to people when I eventually get rid and will keep acertain amount for handy trades and future giveaways but I'm sure I could make bundles for here also. I've an arseload of stuff coming at me for the next two weeks both health and life in general wise so my friends are literally meeting me some night to pick through my stuff like the vultures they are so I've that to look forward to!

CiDeRmAn

More important that you continue to look after your health... and play Robotron.

Linoud

Look after yourself first! Maybe a nice night of Rise of the Robots, yeah? >_>