Lost interest in Video Games ;(

[Atarileaf]

I've been through this and did sell my collection years ago, and for less then I should have. I started up last august so its been almost a year and its back up to where it was, actually I think I have more than before.

Those moments hit and from experience I can say that you should put it away and not sell it. Give yourself some time, A LOT of time. You can never regret not selling your collection but you can sure regret it later if you do.

Try to keep your collection the way you want and not what everyone else does. I personally collect for consoles that had nostalgic meaning to me - systems I had when I was young and single, which for me is primarily Atari (2600, 7800, 8-bit), NES and TG-16 and some Genesis.

After marriage I owned a snes, ps1, n64 but none of those systems had any nostalgia for me since I was already well into adulthood when I owned them. Even TG-16 and Genesis are borderline since I was 19 or 20 when they first came out.

Anyway, certain things in life won't go away with the passage of time if they had some meaning, some connection to your past. If you were a true gamer then you'll be a true gamer now and probably forever. I'm not a modern gamer. I can't for the life of me get into shooters, rpg's, or platformers. The only modern game I have is Sims 3 and thats a PC game but for consoles I'm all old school. Since those games mean something to me, to my past, something that reminds me of family, friends, the good old days, they'll always have a special place in my life and to just cast it aside because I'm "grown up" would be denying who I am.

I don't mean to get all "Cats in the Cradle" with this post but gaming isn't just a hobby for many of us, its part of us so getting rid of it, for me, would be like getting rid of old family photos.

Just my opinion anyway.

[phreakindee]

Hey, I was just viewing some of your videos on YouTube a day or two ago, some good stuff there! Still wanting an 8-bit and a Tandy someday...

Anyways, I would have to agree with you wholeheartedly. Games and gaming are becoming more of a nostalgia thing than ever as I get older, along the same lines as old photos indeed.

I had an old friend whom I hadn't seen in a long while over the other day, and I had just recently found some old NES and PC games we used to play. Whipped out the old systems and hooked em up to my HDTV (ha, that was a chore) and played them all afternoon over some grilled chicken, laughing all the way discovering how much so many of those were really lame. Doesn't get much better than that. I collect to gather my old memories, not to amass some huge library - most of mine were either lost, thrown away, or given away. Now I'm slowly gathering what I held dear, and it's like making contact with an old friend again each new old game I find. And sometimes even making contact with an old friend literally, when you find that old cartridge and mention it to someone on Facebook from way back.

[Atarileaf]

Hey, I was just viewing some of your videos on YouTube a day or two ago, some good stuff there! Still wanting an 8-bit and a Tandy someday...

Anyways, I would have to agree with you wholeheartedly. Games and gaming are becoming more of a nostalgia thing than ever as I get older, along the same lines as old photos indeed.

I had an old friend whom I hadn't seen in a long while over the other day, and I had just recently found some old NES and PC games we used to play. Whipped out the old systems and hooked em up to my HDTV (ha, that was a chore) and played them all afternoon over some grilled chicken, laughing all the way discovering how much so many of those were really lame. Doesn't get much better than that. I collect to gather my old memories, not to amass some huge library - most of mine were either lost, thrown away, or given away. Now I'm slowly gathering what I held dear, and it's like making contact with an old friend again each new old game I find. And sometimes even making contact with an old friend literally, when you find that old cartridge and mention it to someone on Facebook from way back.

Yes, thats it exactly. I've had old friends and cousins over and the look on their face when they see the Atari or NES and you see their excitement too just solidifies to me the reason I collect and play. There's nothing better than having friends over and reliving your mutual childhood together

[Steven]

Heh, I've seen this type of posting on all gaming boards seemingly on an annual basis. Didn't read the whole thread but when such feelings crop up, it's a good time to box them up, pick up other hobbies and if you still feel like you couldn't care less about them saaaay, six months later or so, then it's time to consider selling and making a decent buck back.

Sometimes you just need to take a hiatus. Then you come back when the time is right. And if isn't, no big deal. Life goes on with or without video games. Everyone just has to do what works for them personally.

[ReaXan]

I sit on the computer and talk to people about games on internet forums more than I play games. >_>

I am sort of the same way, after I finished college I ventured into a nostalgic mood reading about the NES and the lost gems on forums that I didn't get to play as a kid.

I picked up a NES, 2 games(Journey to Silius and Dragon Fighter) and spent about 3-4 days going through each of them. I enjoyed myself but came out with a totally differnet outlook about my gaming past.

I realized like many people I wish I could go back and redo my gaming past(heck I never got to play Earthbound) but the magic of the NES really was just the magic of childhood. We can't really go back and enjoy a game a 100 percent like a child would. It sucks we had to endure alot of crap games before the internet(Mystery Quest, PaperBoy for me) or ones we maybe missed (Journey to Silius,Shatterhand) but at the same time a majority of good games always found itself in our laps somehow(SMB3,ZELDA,FF7)

I think its best as an adult to keep the old stuff you had for a rainy day(put it in Grandma's closet in a different state so you won't be tempted to sell) but focus on the now and the new advancements in gaming and not have an elitist attitude about it, yet still also apreciate where you came from so you can share that joy with other people.