What's your end plan for your collection?

[AceAerosmith]

Simple, what is your plan for your gaming collection/buying as you grow old? What will happen with your stuff when you die?

I realize there are a lot of people who have kids here they will pass it on to but I want to hear from the people who don't and might not have thought about it yet.

As for me, I'm 43, have no kids and won't be having them, so I'm eventually going to thin my collection out as I finish games. I've already stopped buying SNES and N64 games and have whittled the collection down to the games I really enjoy. Eventually I'll sell the systems and games off as I age. In the event that I go sooner rather than later, I told my wife that it all goes on eBay, Craigslist, whatever as long as it doesn't go to the pathetic vultures who know I have it and will cheat her. (One asshole comes to mind.) I want her to get something for it, whatever is left. (I know, I know, I'll be dead. Why should I care? Because there are too many fuckers who'll show up and offer nowhere near what things are worth because she might not know better.)

As for buying games, I'll keep up with current systems as I get old. I don't plan on stopping gaming until I'm gone.

So, what's your plan?



P.S. I tried a search for a thread like this and found nothing. If this is a repeat, my apologies.

[ProjectCamaro]

No real plan, I'll continue to buy them as long as I enjoy it. Then I'll keep my dedicated game room for my son (11 months old) gets older to enjoy and then for his friends and cousins to play. Once I'm dead my wife can give them to our son or sell them, it's really up to her.

[Flojomojo]

I don't mean to be mean, but this sounds like an Onion headline. I'm exactly the same age as you, by the way.

Old Man's Toy Stash Is Only Interesting to Old Man Himself
- not as valuable as he thinks it is

[Tanooki]

^Haha nice headline.

Seriously though. I have one girl who is 2 1/2, and she already likes to see 'Mari'(o) and can barely move him and jump, tries to get at my gb micro a lot when it's in sight. Personally I'm more or less 'done' at this rate because I feel I've been priced out, well willingly priced out. Games are getting hit like comics and sports cards of the 90s and as a kid on a few dollar a week allowance I was shattered having it taken away, and this is super similar. As it is now, I don't actively collect anymore, it's too depressing. If i'm out at a flea market and I find a game cheap worth the bother I won't leave it, that would be dumb, but that's it. If I see something I really want, and I can get it to where it's lower than ebay to a point worth the no returns risk, I'll do that too. Two months back I got Mickey Great Circus Mystery + Spike McFang for $40 total and Spike easily clears that, so I did it.

I'm done with American Nintendo cart games unless the above can be said so I'm at a 'done' status there as I'm fed up with the back biting, competitive bullshit, gold bricking the value of the prices, and the rest as it's being wrecked and I don't won't to go through it again. I did get a famicom converter weeks ago, up to 6 games in hand +2 in the mail overseas now and it's amazing. Games they got much we never got and the denied stuff we didn't get stuff that even felt like that so it's totally fresh a kid like flashback of fun. I have no end plan there, nor an end plan on newer stuff when I find something I like.

Ultimately I'm not a mind reader. I may die holding onto some, all or little of it and my girl will get it. I may decide to just say screw it and let it go eventually too if I get bored of having it.

[ProjectCamaro]

I will add that I won't sell any of my collection. I remember being a kid and going to my grandparent's house, they had an Atari 2600 hooked up in their basement and I loved playing it with my brothers and cousins. This was in the early nineties so it was an old system them but we still loved it because it was different. I hope to be able to give those types of memories to my kids and their friends and cousins.

[Atarileaf]

Mine is going to be on the boat with my body, on fire, as I sail Valhalla style down to the realm of the dead.

[Manhattan Sports Club]

Mine is going to be on the boat with my body, on fire, as I sail Valhalla style down to the realm of the dead.


You can't take this stuff to the grave. If I still have any games with me after death, then my family is entitled to have them and even sell them if they need the money. As for any possible descendants, any sentiment or nostalgia that they may have held for me will be nonexistent for those who did not live with or know me, so they need not be burdened with maintaining my collection.

In the end, I try not to get attached too much to anything in my collection.

[eskobar]

The more than 6,000 games are going for my daughter and hopefully another kid :)

[Atarileaf]

You can't take this stuff to the grave.

I know, it was a joke, I don't actually have any Norse ancestry anyway ;)

[kupomogli]

Maybe I should make my grave before I die. Have the coffin in place before I die and when the coffin is opened it leads to an underground room where I'll have in my will to have all my games placed and my dead body set in the chair there in front of the tv with a controller in my hand.

[SpaceHarrier]

Mine is going to be on the boat with my body, on fire, as I sail Valhalla style down to the realm of the dead.

haha, I came here to post something like this, but more in spirit of, "No tomb for video games and SpaceHarrier. No long, slow sleep of death embalmed. We shall burn, like the heathen kings of old."

I've recently been thinking about my consumption of material goods, and have instituted a 'one in one out' policy for games. I don't think having an ever increasing collection is going to make me significantly happier than I am. That isn't really the topic here, though.

Basically, I don't care. I don't have kids, don't plan on it. Whatever whoever wants to do with my crap after I keel over, more power to 'em. If somehow I live to be a ripe old age and have to move into a 'lonely old man apartment with abusive caretakers' for my last few years, I'm sure I'll be more or less forced to rid myself of most all my possessions.

[Manhattan Sports Club]

I know, it was a joke, I don't actually have any Norse ancestry anyway ;)

My mistake, I wasn't actually addressing what you said. :embarrassed:

But this Norse funeral stuff reminds me of the Game Over screen in Lost Vikings. :D

[Aussie2B]

I don't really care. I love my games, but it's not like they're family heirlooms or something. If there's somebody who wants them and will enjoy them and I'd like him/her to have them, then great, otherwise they'll go to whoever gets my property in general. And if that person has no interest in them, then I'm cool with the stuff getting sold off so that the buyers can enjoy them and the person I left my stuff to can use the money on something that makes him/her happy. That's a win/win in my book. Of course, who knows, maybe I'll sell off a bunch of stuff myself at some point, but I don't see that happening for the foreseeable future.

[Trebuken]

If able and my collection retains value, I will likely sell and do some traveling. Unless the value is substantial enough to pay for cryogenics...

[JSoup]

Scattered to the wind, probably sometime in the next five years. Whenever I get off my ass to do it.

[Clownzilla]

To me my game collection is an art collection and it needs to be enjoyed by my children.

[SpaceHarrier]

Scattered to the wind, probably sometime in the next five years. Whenever I get off my ass to do it.

Are you going to go the digital/emulation route or are you tired of games altogether? Just curious.

[megasdkirby]

Hopefully pass it to my next of kin. If I need to sell off my crap, which will more likely than not be very soon, I will sell off all except those I really like or currently play. Meaning I will mot sell off my Master System, Neo Geo Pocket, or Atari 7800 Collection.

I am willing to sell off my Xbox and Wii stuff, particularly. i barely played with the shit.

[JSoup]

Are you going to go the digital/emulation route or are you tired of games altogether? Just curious.

Both.

[Gamevet]

I'm 46 and my wife and I have no kids.

I'll hold onto my collection for as long as I can, but will probably sell a good portion of it when I'm in my 60s, to help pay for our retirement. I'll probably sell the games I can't play well, once my reflexes have gone to crap and will play the stuff I can still play, that doesn't require good reflexes. I'd probably give the rest of my collection to my nephew, since he seems to be a pretty avid gamer like his uncle. :)

[Lictalon]

I was hoping, by the time I retire, I'll live in a big enough place to dedicate a whole room to retro gaming. Like, I keep all my original NES stuff (with add-ons like R.O.B. and Advantage) packed away now, but I'd just love to set aside a whole room for that. Complete with posters and old copies of Nintendo Power.

No family/kids, so I'll plan on liquidating all this stuff before I pack off to the hospice.

[PizzaKat]

I don't intend on selling it unless Im in dire straits financially, which I doubt cause Im pretty frugal. When Im too old I'll see if anyone I know would want it or sell it and give the money to my next of kin. Who that may be I have no clue. Don't plan to have kids but who knows I might, wife, friend...pet cat?

[xelement5x]

I don't intend on selling it unless Im in dire straits financially, which I doubt cause Im pretty frugal. When Im too old I'll see if anyone I know would want it or sell it and give the money to my next of kin. Who that may be I have no clue. Don't plan to have kids but who knows I might, wife, friend...pet cat?

If that is your cat in your avatar you should definitely take care of it, that's a cute little tuxedo cat. I have 2 cats with similar black and white markings.

[synbiosfan]

I don't intend on selling it unless Im in dire straits financially, which I doubt cause Im pretty frugal.

I was the same way and then I had some unexpected medical bills. I have sold off a few things for bills and used some of the money to get some new games. I never collected thinking of it as an investment but it sure is nice when a hobby can help pay off some debt.

My girlfriend knows that pieces of my collection are valuable, I just think if she grabs a box of random, common NES games first, she'll set everything by the curb.

[Dinorast]

Close before i die, i will open up all my Neo-Geo sealed games and will scrap them completly. This i will put on Youtube as my legacy

I will get 1 million followers of that clip and it will finance my funeral 😂

[BlastProcessing402]

I figure that when I die we'll be too busy avoiding the zombies to be worrying about what to do with my games.

[Tanooki]

...and then you'll die anyways because you won't be able to walk normal, everything will be seen at bad angles, and odds are you'll be fumbling with potted plants in your satchel or wondering why you left the rocket launcher in that one locker that somehow always shows up elsewhere and has the same shit in it anyway. :D

I know I'm creeping more towards and end game on the collection as far as the fluff that fluffs the dust bunnies go. I just boxed up my launch Wii last night along with an added nintendo component cable and 9 games and set them up for sale. Dead weight must go, and the Wii itself is the epitome of that.

[Haoie]

Sell the crap, keep the goodies, game forever!

[thegamezmaster]

My kids are into gaming. I just hope they keep what they want and sell the rest off.

[profholt82]

I'm not sure what the life span is on cartridges, but I know they don't last forever. If I make it another 50 years and still have them (and they are still worth money, which is probably a coin flip), I'll just sell them and give the money to my grandkids or something.

I wonder though, if there will be any interest in old video games 40-50 years from now. The vast majority of people who grew up with them will be elderly, and the antique market is not a big segment of the population, so the values will probably be very small by that time. Not that I really care how much my games are worth, but if I still have them as an old man, chances are that selling them won't bring much.

[Zthun]

I'm starting to lean toward the opinion that digital is better even with the downside of drm. I want to compact my collection as much as possible before I get too old. The more shit you got the worse it is. I figure by the time I'm old enough I can have a giant 10 exobyte hard drive with everything on it. I can just take that with me with some mini holograph device where I can fire it up anywhere. That'll be nice.

[Gamevet]

I'm starting to lean toward the opinion that digital is better even with the downside of drm. I want to compact my collection as much as possible before I get too old. The more shit you got the worse it is. I figure by the time I'm old enough I can have a giant 10 exobyte hard drive with everything on it. I can just take that with me with some mini holograph device where I can fire it up anywhere. That'll be nice.

I was thinking about it the other day. What is going to happen to all of those light-gun games that will only work with a CRT? I'm guessing that my consoles will last much longer than the CRTs will, and that I'll pretty much be stuck with a bunch of light-gun games that won't work with newer display technology.

[Daria]

I'm taking it with me, Egyptian Pharaoh style.

[Niku-Sama]

i'll sell off the excess to fund my retirement, keep the ones that mean a lot to me

[segagamer]

I'm 47 (no wife and no kids) and have already begun selling the games that I have never played, mostly for PS2 and PSP. I will continue to sell games that I can live without and then eventually everything will be sold to gamers who appreciate my collection, which started with the Odyssey 2 and will end with the Xbox 360. There is nothing out there for the current generation that I can't live without. I'm still buying a few retro games here and there but I basically have everything that I could possible want to have in my collection. Anyone want to make me an offer?? Just kidding, for now...

[GamerTheGreek]

I think when I go if I keep things like they are and grow it out if I have no kids I'll donate it in my will to the video game museum. My Atari 8 bit collection is pretty well built and they could use it plus also I have stuff that could be fun odd ball stuff otherwise it would go to any kids saying if u don't want this stuff it can go to the museum.