What will happen to your game collection after you die?

[vegi-saurus]

I have amassed a lot of Dreamcast goodies and other game related goodies the past few years, and recently wondered where will it all end up after i died. I will probably have it auctioned up with the proceeds going to charity.

What about you guys?

[Nophix]

I have kids.

[Sudo]

I don't really know or care, since I'll be dead.

[Garry Silljo]

I'm building one of those machines like that guy in the Real GhostBusters cartoon so I can take it with me.

[ooXxXoo]

I'm currently in the process of cloning myself, so I don't have to deal with that problem.....

[Damaramu]

Hopefully by that time I'll have kids or grandkids. Who knows what will happen to it all, but I'm sure between now and then I would have gotten my money's worth.

[mailman187666]

If I ever have kids or grandkids....all my gaming stuff will go straight to them, unless I find myself in need of money and need to sell it all before then. If I don't have kids or need to sell it all, it will most likely leave it to the next closest person in my family to either sell or hold onto. I don't actually plan on dying though because I'm pretty sure I'll live forever...right guys? right? no just kidding, I smoke and drink so look for my collection up on e-bay when I'm in my 60s.

[carlcarlson]

I doubt I'll still have any of this stuff by then. Priorities will have taken over by that time.

[rbudrick]

I will have them all melted into a coffin.

Seriously, I would probably have them sold to DP members to pay for my funeral and grave stone. If I die, I'm sure someone hear could get a hold of my wife, if she doesn't get a hold of you first. ;-)

Any proceeds should go to my family for putting up with my insane hobby for so many years.

Perhaps some of my rarest items should go to a museum.

-Rob

[Pantechnicon]

Whatever's left of it by then will go to my kids, whom I hope will have the good sense to recognize its potential as financial fertilizer with which they can either help put my grandchildren through college or at least take them on an absolutely bitchin` trip to Disney World. Either way is fine with me...

I don't even want a tombstone when I'm dead, letting alone that the absolutely last thing I'd want as a memorial to my entire life is a stack of dusty old game carts.

"HERE LIES PAUL, BELOVED HUSBAND AND FATHER. HE MANAGED TO KEEP HIMSELF ENTERTAINED"

Eh...I hope I can do better than that.

[modest9797]

I am young (14), but I will give it to whomever in my family seems most interested and wont just sell it on eBay,

[NES_Rules]

If I were to die before having kids or finding someone to leave it to, my parents would probably just throw it all away, they refuse to believe this stuff has any value whatsoever.

[calgon]

sold and the money would go to charity.

[neist]

I don't really know or care, since I'll be dead.

Thats more or less my thoughts.

[gepeto]

I thought about that for many a moment. I can see my wife looking forward to redoing my room.LOL I can also see some guy coming over to her sale and saying sorry for your loss. 5 bucks no here is 10 for that radiant sivergun.

[guitargary75]

Family will sell it on Ebay.

[Viraneth]

Hopefully, after all that time, we would have found immortal life and space colonies.

[Flack]

I hate to plug the same article again, but:

http://www.digitpress.com/archives/extendedplay_ti99.htm

The gist of the story is, this guy amassed a huge TI-99/4A collection before he died. He thought his grandkids would want it, but they couldn't have cared less. After contacting other family members, old user group members, and trying to sell it on eBay, they finally found my name through a newspaper article, looked me up, and gave it to me.

I know that most of us think that our collections are treasures and that our family members will make a lot of money by selling our collections or will somehow get them to a museum or to fellow collectors, but the fact of the matter is, many of them will see our collections as a burdon and will likely try and simply get rid of it. If you haven't talked with your spouse/girlfriend/family about your collection, maybe you should come up with a contingency plan. For example, my wife knows that in case something happens to me, which of my friends to call and in which order, and what to do with the rest.

For the record, my wife plans on burying me in one of my arcade cabinets. I only wish she were kidding.

[Carey85]

My mother knows what value my stuff has to me, and that said sentimental value dies with me. I told her to make it go away should anything ever happen to me, there's no reason for her to hold onto any of it, she knows the channels to go through to make it a profitable experience.

[Steven]

Like a few others have said, I'd pass it down to my kids (hopefully I will have kids before all is said and done). Don't really have a family heirloom, but my game collection will be something akin to such. The kids would have the legacy of their father's favorite hobby.

[7th lutz]

I will give it to my younger brother. He is a long time classic gamer like I am. He buys old games to this day. He appreciates videogames as much as I do.

[ssjlance]

If I were to die soon, I would leave it between my two brothers and my friend Michael. But, I plan on living forever. So far so good.

[Trevelyan]

I wouldn't think I'd ever sell my collection, I'd like to think my children (well, if I have any) would grow up having access to it & get enjoyment out of it. This prospect seems a decade or more away, so who knows. I doubt I'll lose so much interest as to get rid of it any-which-way, I'd make sure it was off-loaded to someone who would love it or take care of it. I am a sentimental soul!

Money trouble may one day force me to downsize...maybe, but I doubt it...hopefully.

[ProgrammingAce]

Unfortunately i have a whole bin of "destroy upon death" (mostly security schmatics and "tools"). After that, i've spoken with a few friends who will contact my family if i disapear for a while and help them sell off the weird stuff. Hell, even i don't know what some of it is.

[s1lence]

Unfortunately i have a whole bin of "destroy upon death" (mostly security schmatics and "tools"). After that, i've spoken with a few friends who will contact my family if i disapear for a while and help them sell off the weird stuff. Hell, even i don't know what some of it is.

I got dibs on a certain "item" of yours......maybe 2.

Yeah, I know I'm terrible.

My kids will take all the game stuff, they love it, and if not them maybe their kids.

Honestly, I try not to think about it.

[Chuplayer]

I want to be buried with my DC and my favorite games for it.

[Chuplayer]

For the record, my wife plans on burying me in one of my arcade cabinets. I only wish she were kidding.

HOLY SHIT!!! I WANT TO BE BURIED IN A NEO GEO MVS!!!

It'll probably be cheaper than a regular coffin, too.

[strassy]

assuming i don't die an untimely death, i am assuming that I will eventually sell most of what I have some time after I get married...the wife will inevitably be looking for money for a house, or because a baby would be on the way or something, and really, 90% of what I have just sits around. i'll get rid of that and keep the rest.

[Gapporin]

I don't really know or care, since I'll be dead.

Winner winner, chicken dinner.

I hate to sound cold, but I'm not really going to have a need for any of it once I'm gone. And I'm fairly sure I'm not going to have any progeny to pass it on to, and my family won't want it around.

As of now, I propose that it all gets donated to the local Goodwill or organization of like. Who says that finding that special game in the wild for a great deal has to end with this generation?

(I would say the same thing about my vinyl collection, but hopefully by that time laser turntables will finally become marketable and affordable.)

[The 1 2 P]

If the irs is smart, they will auction it off on ebay to make collateral for all my back taxes I owe:)