Hey, nothing wrong with getting into eBay and selling off a variety of things you will NEVER play again. No harm in that.... but DON'T START TALKING CRAZY!!! I went through a similar phase around the same time period in my life-- I was going off to college and obviously I wasn't taking my collection to the dorm. Too much stuff that I didn't even want touched by other hands-- let alone, stolen. The one thing I took was my Xbox, but even that wasn't much fun (my idiot roommates played Halo and thought it sucked, and then went back to playing their N64 Turok games). So I became distant from gaming. Now, like 4 years later I'm completely back into it. Oddly, the game that got me back into both modern and classic gaming-- Madden 07. I had piles of games to catch up on, so like you gaming had become more of a chore; and those piles can be quite discouraging. But I've always been a sports game nut, so the pick-up-and-play style of gameplay got me back into it (yes, the game is a rehash every year, but the last version I had played was 02). Soon I was finally catching up on PS2 games I missed, like MGS2, and after that I was bringing out the 8, 16, and 32-bit systems for a lot more playtime.
Listen, no one can fault you for getting more into "real life" than video games. Hey, if you have the choice between a real pickup game of basketball and a game of NBA 2K7, I hope you pick the real game every time (if you play NBA Live 07, however, then you should officially be forced to GIVE all your gaming stuff away). But there's always a time and place for video games-- like to replace the wasted hours spent at night in front of the TV. But some people really do just naturally out grow games as they get older (especially games from past generations; sure all of us here are still playing on our SNES, but the average gamer has that in their attic somewhere and only a 360 hooked up to their TV). Just do this for yourself-- if you absolutely must sell off a large portion of your collection, at least do it in a setting where you'll get good value for it. For the average person the easiest way is eBay. Just please don't sell it off quick and easy-- i.e. pawn shop, to friends for cheap, or to some random guy all as one lot. After all the money true collectors put into their collections, I would cry if a nice set like that was just sold off to some guy for dirt cheap.
(As for me, now that I've admitted to my fellow collectors that my passion for classic gaming was reignited by Madden 07, I'll be joining you in selling off all my stuff and regaining respect in a new hobby.)
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