Is it time to dump the spares?

[Niku-Sama]

I'm gonna shorten some of these quotes just for space reasons

Wow, I wish I had that kind of storage space.
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That said, I do still have some duplicate systems, but I want to keep them. I like the idea of having some backups, some I have at different locations (a few systems stay at my mom's house and they get put to use during visits), and others I keep mostly as collectibles just because they're different models/colors/whatever.
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FPGA systems aren't a factor to me. I still prefer to use original hardware. I'd sooner get MODEs and flash carts and such to replace my games than replace my systems. Not that I want to do that either.

The space thing is a big part of it, i dont have much of it and i have managed to tetris so much into such a small space, even though right now its almost all back in boxes because i dont plan on staying where i am at for very long
I'd keep some OGs but if i want to play on a nice OLED or something in the future i'll probably want to go FPGA, or mainly because its prohibitively expensive to get OG hardware

Getting older and having cleaned out my late parents' house, I've started to get rid of a lot of clutter. I don't want my wife to have to wade through piles of my shit including all my old game systems. I do have duplicate systems but plan on getting rid of them at some point, hopefully before I die. And unless you know you are living in the very last place you want to, it just becomes another pile of stuff you have to lug to your new place. It's amazing how a move makes you decide what's important to you.

Yea i am not planning on dying here, more moves in my future for sure, hopefully one across country to get away from this expensive nothingness

... There is a Wii of some kind in the basement, main floor, and my bedroom, because my wife and I like to play Fortune Street together from time to time. We have an extra Switch to do 2 player Mario Kart Live Home Circuit, amd multiples of a few others like that...

I wish i could find someone to play fortune street with, i really like that game. i wish there were more versions released in the US.

...with how prices have changed over the years more recently, many games would have been good for trades these days.

money is another factor here. while i still might keep a few, variants of hardware like PS1's with RCA out and I/O ports vs the ones with out one or the other, if i sell my a lot of my spares i could get the fancy hi def consoles and still come out ahead

My boat is arriving at that harbor, not that I have many spares anymore. I have two Wii's, one was my original and the other is one I bought from a thrift store. The thrift store one was able to connect to a USB hard drive so I can run homebrew and a ton of GC and Wii games. I guess you can count my DS Lites as "spares", though those were for the kids when these things were at thrifts for cheap. Same goes for the 2DS systems. Now the kids play on computers mostly with Roblox with bouts on the Switch.

I'm debating on the collection as well. There's just a bunch of stuff I don't touch anymore and with the limited space I have now, I'm almost thinking it's time to let someone else have fun with it.

I think about this too but i know if i get rid of it then eventually i'll want to go back to it.

right now i am cataloging my games, i havent made it to the meat and potatoes of the hardware stuff yet but its surprising with amount there is and the value of it at the same time. theres been a fair few games, probably close to 100, that i weeded out as never gonna play, have multiple copies or look like shit. 100 just games, most of them are low value but if they were like $2 ea, thats still giving some one a deal and coming out ahead too.
thats also why i am asking about this and finally starting to catalogue what i have with an app, so i dont get so many duplicates.

Some how i have 4 copies of Namco Museum Vol.1 on PSX.... how?

maybe when this project is done it'll make it all seem not so daunting