Dragonyeuw

It's been a few years since I've found anything worth mentioning, though in truth I haven't really looked all that much either. My habits in terms of collecting or even just playing games has really dropped off. I try to manage what I have but there are times I just want to scale it right down to personal favorites.

1 hour ago, Tekdrudge said:

I second this! Those times were magic. Not many people collecting to compete with, and SUPER cheap games or in many situations for me, FREE games. I met random people and stuck up conversations and they found out that I collected old games and would say "Here's my number, call me with week and I'll give you everything I have. I just need to get rid of it."

Those days are gone forever.

Those were truly great days. Games weren't treated like a form of currency so if anyone caught wind that you liked games, you'd often get 'oh those old things? I got about 50 of them in an attic. You can have em for $20'. It was at it's best before it became a 'thing' to collect old games.

Around 2003 I sold off my SNES with a bunch of games. Final fantasy 3, Chrono Trigger, Contra 3, DKC trilogy, Mario world/Kart/ Yoshis Island, Super Metriod and Link to the Past, and lots of other games like that. I was deep into the 6th gen and at the time it seemed like I was over the 8/16 bit era. Going back to the 80s I was always prone to sell off the older gen stuff to fund the new. But this time was different.

Literally the next day, I had a gut-wrenching 'sellers remorse' punch in the pit of her stomach. I even went as far as contacting the buyer( it was local) and offering them more than they paid. Nope, they were holding onto it. So I went onto Amazon and bought a system, then went on a thrift store/garage/ yard sale goose chase tracking down SNES games. This was at a point when they were as commonly found laying unloved at the bottom of a storage bin as something like Wii/Ps2/xbox games were a few years ago. People were giving them away or selling them for relative pennies. 

What's happened in recent years was a push to expand my horizons to other systems I once owned: Saturn, N64, Dreamcast, Genesis, Gamecube. But its led to some unfocus, of 'this game is $2 so why not' purchases which have padded out the collection, but I realize that alot of these games were bought with only casual intent to play 'eventually' and that ship has sailed in many cases. I could do with a good curating and refocusing of what I actually want to play and what merits ownership beyond simple possession for possession sake. I don't have a huge unmanageable collection but some games just don't need to be in it anymore.