By collecting I mean buying games just to say I have them or play them for 5 minutes and then never play them again. The addiction started circa 2013 with going for CIB SNES games. I'd get my hands on whatever I could that was either at or below market cost. Most the time I would buy them individually. I've built up a sizeable collection over the years. Some of the games I've bought are absolute treasures that I could easily turn around and sell right now and get more than what I paid. Some of them I don't know how long would take to sell. But the bottom line for me is that what I've come to realize is that my money is better spent on real things that I will actually appreciate. My collection has outgrown my living space and I am looking at titles of games that I barely made a dent in. I think the hope was that "eventually" I'd get around to playing them but in reality, "eventually" never came.
So now my collection is gonna be whittled down to just the games I know I will be playing 40 plus years from now if I am still alive. I will be selling off games that I have no interest in. Whatever can't sell individually will get bundled into lots and sold for cheap.
The best comparison I have to collecting video games is this: I like traveling. I LOVE traveling. But would I ever travel to North Korea? Just to say "oh yeah I went there." Likewise would I buy Super Pitfall on the NES a game so broken and pointless I am mad at myself for even paying money for it.
So for me this collecting thing really is just an addiction. My money can be spent on way better things or even better- saved. So I'll be slowly letting them go on EBay over the next couple years. I have a ton of odds and ends between NES, SNES, N64, GC, PS1, PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast, Lynx, Game Boy, and PC that I'll be getting rid of. If there's anything specific you guys are looking for, ask, and I may have it. I have my whole collection on PriceCharting.com but no idea how to post it here.