Have you made a bad decision to sell or throw away a console

[segarocks30]

Have you ever just sold a system and you think back and say i want that console back?Well i sure do.When i was a wee youngster,i sold my N64,PS1,and genesis.What the hell was i thinking?! O_O @_@

[Yago]

I have done this before as well. I sold my entire Atari 2600 collection, that I originally owned. Also sold my Colecovision. What a dumb ass I was. Of course I got them all back, but still have thoughts about selling some stuff. That is why I have my collection in storage. That way if I want something I can get it. But I have no intention on making the same mistake twice.

[Jumpman Jr.]

Everything I sold to pawn shops pre-collecting I regret. I sold my NES, with 30 games and SNES with 20 games.
I've got all the games that I sold again now, but still...
I also remember giving N64 games away when I didn't like them anymore. Dang

[Raven1280]

When i got my NES for xmas one year my mother felt bad for my two older cousins becuse they didnt have anything video games. So she gave away my atari 2600 and two paper grocery bags full of games. Then i found out years later that they were fighting over the atari and ripped the video cable out of it. :eek 2: THEY THREW IT ALL AWAY AHHHHHHHH. So for years now ive had to live with the lost of all those games.

[tritium]

yep. gave away my Atari 2600, all my atari games. My nes and all my nes games, my snes and all my snes games. I'v etraded in so much stuff to gamestop. Ultimately I would have been better off keeping everything.

[heybtbm]

In 1989 I sold my NES and 15+ games to buy a Genesis. Best game related decision I ever made.

In 1995 I sold my SNES and 20+ games for $20 at a garage sale. Worst game related decision I ever made.

[jdc]

There have been many times with modern consoles that I dump a system and software to switch to another. It keeps it fresh for me. I've owned two of each of the Xbox, PS2, Cube and DC. The only dump that I regret was the original DC (for the first PS2). I've now re-acquired all of the games that I really liked and found a clean DC console with a brand new drive and controller ports installed. I hardly play it....I want this one to last a good long time. I haven't exactly had a great love affair with my second-time-around Cube...until now. I find myself buying Cube software on a weekly basis. It's so damned cheap now.

I recently made the decision to quit collecting N64. I got rid of my sizeable collection of completes with the exception of all of the games that I REALLY enjoy PLAYING. I still had quite a ways to go to acquire the entire library.....and after calculating the cost to finish, I decided that it wasn't something that I wanted to pursue any further.

[Howie6925]

Back in the day(1995) I had a boxed sega cd/32x and a genesis with an official hard case by sega and 32 games. I traded it all so I could preorder a PS1 one month before it came out and I still had to pay 100 dollars to cover the tax and the little bit that did not cover the cost. That was the biggest reget I ever made(video game related). I had some rare games at the time too.
Like(that I remember) Vay,starwars chess,dark wizard, Lunar and shining force cd plus a bunch of rare genesis games. Any ways I had alot.

[CrimsonNugget]

I don't really regret getting rid of my NES (bleh, didn't like it that much), though I do regret getting rid of a few of my Saturn games. I miss them so much.

[ron_burgundy]

I'm the lucky one I never got rid of any of my game systems. I still have my NES, Genisis, playstation, and my N64. I just stuck them up in the attic when I got a new system and thought I hate all these system they are out of date and worth nothing so I'd think about throwing them out and then descide agenst it. THANK GOD I never throw anything out

You Stay Classy Digital Press,

Ron

[Slimedog]

I regret every system I ever sold. Always been a big RPG fan so getting all those back across Sega CD and Saturn has been a nightmare and I've still got a verrrrrry long way to go. My biggest regret was throwing out all my boxes when I moved. Dozens of RPGs and other really great games for NES, SNES and GB and I tossed the boxes because I decided they took up too much room. To make matters worse, I started collecting less than a year later. What I wouldn't do to be able to send a letter to my past self.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

I sold my original NES, SNES and Genesis collections. Very, very bad choices.

[VG_Maniac]

I bought a brand new Virtual Boy at Toys R Us back in 1997 when Nintendo officially dropped support for the system. Toys R Us was having a clearance sale on all their Virtual boys and games. The Virtual Boy systems were $30 each, and the games were $15 each...including Jack Bros.

Anyway, I bought my Virtual Boy with Mario Tennis. I loved it, but by the time I went back to Toys R Us to buy another game...they were all gone. I searched EVERYWHERE!! Nobody had anymore Virtual Boy games. Since this was in my days before ebay, I figured I had no more use for the system if I couldn't get anymore games for it. So I sold it for $20 at a garage sale. I soon really regreted doing that.

Also, I sold my Sega Saturn and my 8 games for it back in 1999 so I could get the money to buy a Playstation. I only got enough money from the sale to buy a used Playstation which broke down about 5 months later. I ended up getting a new Playstation for Christmas, but the one that had broke was bought with the money I got for selling my Saturn. Thus, I sold my Saturn for NOTHING!!

Luckily, I've since bought everything back that I sold.

[OdSquad64]

hmmm... well um... i might of.. thrown away an Asteroids cabinet... *smacks head on wall* but it wasnt my fault, my dad made me do it :angry: , i didn't want to. Even if it was broken beyond repair, it didn't take up that much room in our basement. You can bet your sweet ass if i still had it it would be a MAME cab by now. Still mad about it, but i'm sure the people around the corner who took it off the curb still have it in their house...

Never sold an old game or console though, so never made a bad decision with that.

[AlexKidd]

The only systems I ever got rid of were a Master System and a Lynx. I sold the sms and at least 15 games for $20. I regretted getting rid of it and now I have two more. When I got my second sms I needed some games for it so I looked at stores in my area and found the guy who bought my system. I bought back some of my own games from him and felt pretty dumb about it.

As for the lynx I never really liked it. I traded it for a gb player which I get a lot more use out of.

[CreamSoda]

I threw away my N64(yeah I was careless with money) to get a PS1 back in around '99 or 2000. What did I do like a week later?! End up getting an Ice Blue N64 system cause I missed it so much! LOL

[Neil Koch]

I 've had just about every system and ended up selling them off. The only one I really regret was my Dreamcast. I had about 100 games, plus most of the periperhals like light gun, joystick, Sega Net keyboard, fishing controller, etc. But the sale did let me pay rent for a couple of months, so the fact that I didn't become homeless probably works out in the end.

[Damaramu]

Yup. To this day, I regret selling my:

TG-16/Turbo Duo w/ 20+ Games

First SNES collection ( I had 15-20 games, CIB, near mint or mint, stuff like Chronotrigger, FF2, FF3, Secret of Mana, etc. My current SNES collection is bigger, but it's all loose except for 4 games.)

First Genesis collection w/ about 20+ games, including a Nomad (I've since rebuilt about 85% of that collection, and then some)

Atari 5200 with about 20+ games.

I'm still kicking my own ass for getting rid of that stuff when I was young and stupid. I'll never make that mistake again. NEVER. :angry: 8-)

[Push Upstairs]

I regret selling my orginial NES system.

I sold it for $50 and included SMB3, its guide, and a think a few games. I felt terrible about it afterward and swore i would never ever sell off my Genesis.

I have since got another NES and SMB3...so that worked out ok.

And i still have my orginial Genesis as well.

[Nez]

Never threw or sold anything. When I got a Nes played the hell out of it. When I got a Snes played the hell out of it and my NES. When I got my N64 I played the hell out of all 3. When I got my PSX I .................

I had no reason to sell them I was still using them to there full potential.

[Nesmaster]

i got a SMS complete in box a few years back for $8... i sold it for 20 and now i really wish i had kept it :(

[§ Gideon §]

Actually... I've done pretty well. The only big thing I've sold was my SNES with maybe ten games in order to buy an N64 for my brother and I on Christmas. At the time, I was in elementary school. My dad had just bought a new computer, and I--like all young kids--was an instant computer genius and made some professional-looking flyers. I posted them around town and made some good money wheelin' and dealin' LOL. Overall, it was a good experience.

Besides, the timing was good. In addition to being near the holidays, the SNES was on its last leg yet decent prices could still be got. Now, ten years later, few of the games I sold are hard to find--and, for the few that are, I don't even want them back. I'm thinkin' of you, Thomas the Tank Engine.

[smokehouse]

I GAVE my copy of Final Fantasy II complete in box with all the manuals and maps to one of my buddy’s cousins after the promise of a $30 payment (this was back in 1994). No money ever came and after a year or so of bugging my friend, I went to his house when he was gone and told his parents I had to get something I had left there earlier. I took 10 of his NES titles and his Game Genie. I then held them for ransom and he never got the payment so I kept everything. It took me years to find another copy of FFII and it wasn’t even complete!

Oh well…Glen W, BURN IN HELL!!!!!!!!

(Boy, now I fell a but better)

[PDorr3]

No I never actualy sold a console, but I came close to. As a kid I tried selling my colecovision for like $20 for the system, $3 per controller, and about $1 per game. Yes I actualy priced the controllers individualy.
Good thing nobody bought it :roll:

[Kepone]

I've done this with a few consoles.

I sold my INTV and games last year to get money to make my rent.

I traded away my 1200XL instead of keeping it. That is how I got the INTV with games though.

I traded away a TI-99/4a for a 7800. It didn't work and afterwards, I found out that the Ti did have some nice ports of games.

Eh well. I'd love to get another INTV and rebuild my boxed Imagic collection. *sigh*

[Chuplayer]

My mom threw out my Apple Plus because I was getting some sort of "syntax error" thing and couldn't get a single thing to run for some reason, and I couldn't figure out how to make it run anything. I'm sure I could've figured it out, though. Just not when I was like 7 years old. Dammit.

I've only ever gotten rid of a few things ever, but I don't regret getting rid of a single one of them.