What happened to your childhood video games?

[Emperor Megas]

I still have everything that wasn't looted after a house fire, or lost in Katrina, where I had most of the remaining stuff that survived the fire stored away in my mother's backyard shed.

I lost most of my original Genesis, SNES, Vectrex, and Amiga 500 games, as well as most of my system boxes, but managed to keep most or all of my SEGA Master System, SEGA CD, Saturn and 3DO games.

I've long since replaced 95% of the things I'd lost, and always have an eye out for the few things I never reacquired.

I've never been one to toss, give away, sell off or trade my games, and my stuff was never packed away because I never stopped gaming.

[Niku-Sama]

I have most of my games from when i was a kid, some of the ones i didnt like got traded for other games while i was still younger.
more importantly i still have all of my systems, complete, from when i was a kid. cant say many of the games are complete though

[gbpxl]

I still have everything that wasn't looted after a house fire, or lost in Katrina, where I had most of the remaining stuff that survived the fire stored away in my mother's backyard shed.

I lost most of my original Genesis, SNES, Vectrex, and Amiga 500 games, as well as most of my system boxes, but managed to keep most or all of my SEGA Master System, SEGA CD, Saturn and 3DO games.

I've long since replaced 95% of the things I'd lost, and always have an eye out for the few things I never reacquired.

I've never been one to toss, give away, sell off or trade my games, and my stuff was never packed away because I never stopped gaming.

Ive regretted selling or pawning 100% of the games I no longer own :-(

[Aussie2B]

There was one point where I entertained the idea of selling childhood games. It was the late 90s, and I had never gotten into Jurassic Park on SNES. I had just learned of a local independent game store that bought and sold used games (which was a concept I was only vaguely familiar with prior, since everywhere I'd buy games only sold brand-new games). I wanted to know if they had some of the SNES RPGs I had missed out on (that's how I got Lufia II), but I also asked how much they'd pay me for Jurassic Park. I was told $6. The game had been a gift, but I knew it had cost something like $70. I couldn't stomach the idea of exchanging something my mom dropped $70 on for 6 measly bucks, especially when I had barely played it. In retrospect, I think that was a pretty pivotal moment. If they had given me a higher offer, one that I was satisfied with, I wonder what else I would've considered parting with. And many years later I would go on to play Jurassic Park to completion.

That's not to say I've never, ever sold off any games. It's mostly been dupes, but there are some instances where it was the only copy I had. I had a loose copy of Tactics Ogre for PS1 that was heavily scratched, to the point that it would often fail to load or save a file but was otherwise perfectly playable. I sunk 100 hours into the game and was near the end and deep into the bonus dungeon when my husband accidentally formatted the memory card while playing the first, Japan-only King's Field (damn you From Software for putting such an option in the in-game menu to begin with). I had been planning all along to replace my copy of Tactics Ogre with a better condition CIB copy, but I didn't even want to think about the game after losing my file, so I sold my copy and never got a replacement, unless you count the PSP remake.

And much more recently, I decided to clear out a bunch of my Limited Run Games purchases. In some cases, I was just getting rid of cover variants, while retaining one copy, and in many others, I was getting rid of a PS4 version of a game that I kept for Vita. But for some of the PS4 games, I don't have them in any other form, and I honestly don't care. It feels kind of liberating not to cling on to any game that ends up in my collection just because it ended up in my collection. I've been more and more wrapping my mind around the idea of my collection being a temporary thing. Hardware and software can break down, and it's not always worth the effort and expense to repair, especially in a world of flash carts and Raspberry Pis and such. I still hate the idea of trashing any game stuff, so I would always try to find a buyer, but yeah, the idea of trimming my collection isn't so terrible to me anymore. I'm sort of past the whole keeping up with the Jones's mentality of game collecting where everybody is going for the biggest total number of games they can manage, no matter how much shovelware and unplayed games sit in their collections.