How many of you went and sold all your games back in the day?

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doctorlaudanum:
I came from a really weird conservative household where video games were absolutely forbidden until my parents finally decided they weren't an affront to God (not exaggerating), so I didn't really get into gaming until my early teens. (Of course, I just went to my neighbor's house and played their games for a few years before then. :P ) By that point, I was just too happy to be finally buying and playing my favorite games to sell them off. ... Didn't stop my little brother from going behind my back and trading them in for pocket change at our local Gamestop, though.

Long story short, I tend to hold onto my games even now. I only ever sell things things when I 1) want to get a new copy in better condition, 2) have duplicates, or 3) need money fast. Even if I lose interest in a game, I often hang on to it because I know I'll usually want to play it again later.

--- Quote from: spencethechef on April 22, 2014, 11:06:19 pm ---You all think you had it bad? My family was all about that charity man. So my mother convinced me when I got my Gamecube at launch time that I should be charitable with my N64. So I was; I donated it and about 30 games to the nursery at our church. That thing went from pristine machinery to dead lump of plastic in a matter of 2 months. It got tossed in the garbage in the yearly spring cleaning push our church makes.

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Yeesh that sucks. I'm sorry that happened to you.

exonerator:
I sold a few PS1/SNES games way back when I was really young, but stopped once I started collecting.

instantreplay:
When I was a kid, a friend of mine who was older gave me his SNES and a bunch of games. I traded all of it into gamestop after a year for like $20 because I was a stupid kid and I didn't know any better. I'm pretty sure if I were to sell all of it today I would be able to get over $300 easily. -curls up into a ball and cries-

Just to give you an idea, here are some of the games he gave me:
-one was a mario rpg game (i've seen it sell for around $50 on ebay)
-a TMNT beat 'em up
-Mario world
-kirby's dream land 3

spac316:
Yeah, I sold and traded not all but a good number of my games back in the day. Mostly so I could buy new ones. I do regret it for the most part and I'm taking the time to find and buy them again.

gartcat:
I sell my games all the time. I used to try to collect for every system like a lot of people do, but it was just taking me in too many directions & I wasn't getting as far as I wanted to with any of them, so decided I was only going to really collect for Game Boy (which has always been my favorite). I probably sold about half of my systems & used a lot of the money to get more games for the GB.

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