UHGGGGGGGG!!! NOOOO!!!!

[Evil E]

You guys/gals won't believe this--my parents have had my families old woody Atari 2600 with 40 games in storage for years.I thought, it is about time I took it and hooked it back up for old times sake, so I asked them if I could have it (I am the video game freak of the family afterall). My Dad proceeds to tell me that they "just threw away that old thing" a few weeks ago!!! Can you believe it? I almost cried!! He said " it was so old, it probably didn't even work anymore!! OMG, I thought I was gonna kill them!!! I have had that system since I was like 5 or 6 years old--I am turning 30 in a week!! I am so pissed and frustrated you have no idea!! I had to share my frustration and vent a little. I obviously should have asked for it a long time ago!! I never thought they would just throw something like that away, especially without asking the rest of us first!! DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!!!

[VACRMH]

Damn, that sucks

Reminds me of the time I found someone at work that had some games. Over 100 NES games....

And they threw them away about a month before I talked to them

[Half Japanese]

I thought I was gonna kill them!!!

As long as you pick me up and buy me dinner I'll help you hide the bodies...

[Videogamerdaryll]

I'd be sick to the point of throwing up...

[KJN]

Happened for me a few years ago with my old Luxor Video Entertainment (the Swedish version of the Fairchild Channel F). It was stored away in our basement with lots of games and then just vanished without a trace. The only explanation is that my parents threw it away but ofcourse they dont even remember that we ever had it.

Also won an auction for lots of C64 disks and cartridges (including Last Ninja Remix) a while ago. Seller contacts me and says the reason he was selling is because they where moving but his parents didnt know he was selling so they had just thrown everyting in the garbage without asking.

Havent seen many books about being a parent but I'm sure there is a chapter called "to be a good parent you must throw away your kids stuff stored in the basement without aking first" in them somewhere since every parent seems to be doing it. Or maybee its a parental instinct or something.

[Sotenga]

My sympathies are with you, Evil E. No human deserves to have their Atari 2600, or any game console for that matter, unceremoniously tossed into the dumpster.

I don't have to worry, though. My parents know the price for discarding my NES...

But I love them both, and I know they'd never do that. Still...

[Sylentwulf]

Cat pissed on a COUPLE of my game magazines when I was younger, so my mother threw away the first 5-7 years of nintendo powers (including the original 5 in mint condition)

[Rogmeister]

They probably felt they were breaking it to you gently...next time you see them they'll tell you they also tossed out your comics and baseball cards

[gamegirl79]

Ouch!! I'm so sorry to hear they threw it out.

I had a darth vader model 2600 that I got when I was little. It was in great shape, still in the box with about 25 games, that got thrown out somehow during a move.

Then a few years later my game gear, games, and a Super NES Super Scope 6 got accidentally thrown out while cleaning out the basement.

[Evil E]

I mean, I had like 40 or so games for it also!! They threw out the system and the games!!! I'm starting to boil again.......

[Slipdeath]

my parents threw away all my system boxes

[suppafly]

I think we all have some painful experiences.

Like mine, when my mom left a window open and it rained over my box full of video game magazines. I had to throw away 10+ old EGM´s

[Pantechnicon]

Evil E, I feel your pain.

Way back in the day (1988) I took my beloved first Atari (4-switch woody) and collection of 25 or so games and boxed it all up in my closet prior to leaving for boot camp. When I got out of boot, I was sooo dying to go home and play some Pitfall II or Starmaster. Imagine my shock when the Atari wasn't there. Mom and Dad sold it at garage sale while I was off enjoying the Marine Corps version of hospitality.

Their defense? "We didn't think you wanted it anymore". Right folks, I always take the time to put things I don't want in sealed labelled boxes for safekeeping...

But you know, I have to say that this event was probably the singular impetus for my becoming a collector today. I fely so wronged by my folks that I had to go and somehow make it right. Now my 2600 collection is ten times bigger than what it was, as well as everything else I've accumulated in the last 10 years or so.

I dunno, Evil E. Try and make some lemonade here. Put that rage to work in the thrifts. Worked for me.

[DarkSoul]

My parents threw away all of my Intellivision boxes to save space when I was a youngun'. About 50 of them. Including Dig Dug, Diner, Learning Fun I & II, Commando, and a host of other rares =P

[Jive3D]

That's really harsh. My Grandmother tossed all my dad's baseball cards when he was young so HE KNOWS not to touch ANY of my crap.

I dont know what I would do if someone tossed my game collection.

BUT, If it was my Virtual Boy Collection someone WOULD DIE.

Jees, I thought I was gonna throw up one time my computer crashed and I lost about years worth of Roms that I had collected, but losing the real thing is soo much worse. I feel for you guys.

[Lady Jaye]

Same goes for my dad. His parents threw away his old comic books (silver age DC comics...), so I doubt he'd do that to any of my stuff without asking me first.

I guess that it's a parental reflex to do that... Then again, I doubt my parents would pressure me to remove my stuff away from their house until we live in a bigger place (we're in a one-bedroom apartment that's already filled with stuff).

[bargora]

Yep, went home one day and discovered that the Atari 130XE and all of the carts and discs had been garage saled. HULK SMASH.

[bensenvill]

Its even worse when they throw it out and then you stuble upon it up on ebay. It went for almost 300. I cried like a baby.

~Tj

[Evil E]

I just think about that awesome collection of great 2600 carts, and the old woody (in great shape by the way!) getting dumped and smashed up in some old stinky crappy landfill. At least if they had sold the stuff, someone could still be enjoying it--but sitting in a trashy landfill---grrrrr --here I go again!!