The Sanctuary
Entertainment => Games People Play => Topic started by: Idiosyncrasy on October 12, 2014, 06:21:28 pm
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I have some old console and PC games that I never play anymore, but I can't bring myself to get rid of them. Whether it's console or PC, what do you do with your old video games? Keep, sell, donate, trash?
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Collect. 8)
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They're on the shelf with all my other video games
I need a bigger TV stand
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I had a Gamecube, PS1, PS2, N64, Megadrive, Master System and NES with about a million games.
It was just a pain to move from house to house so I sold them all about 5 years ago
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I keep all my old games and play them from time to time. Sometimes I'd rather play using the original game pad rather than a keyboard..
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I don't remember what happen to most of my old systems my.. I think most of them were probably sold or given away when I had to move.
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Collect them and keep for a couple of years. Those things will be worth hundreds when our laptops become obsolete and we're all using Google Glass.
*source*
I'm a time-traveler
*Doctor Who theme plays*
-Balls
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Donate them here before deleting... a huge archive of old games that's been up for some years now.
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/pc/windows-games/
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I keep them. I'll even occasionally buy video games on the cheap just to add to my collection. I don't even particularly play them.. besides the occassion week or two in the winter time when I go on house lock. I figure I'll have kids that'll appreciate them one day, they may be worth something as an antiquity, or.. I might just want to rock it old school.
Didnt bother reading the other posts to see if anyone else posted the systems they current own, but.. I will nonetheless. Not thaRegular Nintendo (only 1 game, that came with it when I bought it from an antique store.. none other than Mike Tysons Punch Out), Nintendo Wii (Red Anniversary) regular Xbox, and Xbox 360.. I'd like to pick up a few more different ones.. Sega Genesis, SNES, 64, ect.. Blah.
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I keep them. I have a collection of several hundred games now.
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I keep them. I have a collection of several hundred games now.
whats up Tommy L?
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Just put them neatly into bookcases. It's great being surrounded by books and games :)
From google:
(http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/ac75/Mighty-Boosh/PICT0652.jpg)
A lot of people maybe don't have the room for this, but you have to admit it looks nice.
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Just put them neatly into bookcases. It's great being surrounded by books and games :)
From google:
(http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/ac75/Mighty-Boosh/PICT0652.jpg)
A lot of people maybe don't have the room for this, but you have to admit it looks nice.
It was always a problem with Mega Drive and Master System games that they were so big
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Just put them neatly into bookcases. It's great being surrounded by books and games :)
From google:
(http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/ac75/Mighty-Boosh/PICT0652.jpg)
A lot of people maybe don't have the room for this, but you have to admit it looks nice.
Is that also a Jihad Doll on the bottom right?
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I keep them. I have a collection of several hundred games now.
whats up Tommy L?
Not much. How are you doing?
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Donate them here before deleting... a huge archive of old games that's been up for some years now.
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/pc/windows-games/
Ohhhhh dear. I bet Good Old Games doesn't like that site at all. Awesome find. I may have to make this into its own thread.
Just put them neatly into bookcases. It's great being surrounded by books and games :)
From google:
(http://i887.photobucket.com/albums/ac75/Mighty-Boosh/PICT0652.jpg)
A lot of people maybe don't have the room for this, but you have to admit it looks nice.
> No Xbox games or consoles to speak of.
(http://i39.servimg.com/u/f39/14/26/98/51/soniam10.gif)
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Is that also a Jihad Doll on the bottom right?
How do you see a Jihad Doll? Looks like a bag with a strap.
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Ohhhhh dear. I bet Good Old Games doesn't like that site at all. Awesome find. I may have to make this into its own thread.
Yeah. It's pretty wicked. So far I've downloaded dozens of great game ISOs from there and they are all fully working.
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Is that also a Jihad Doll on the bottom right?
How do you see a Jihad Doll? Looks like a bag with a strap.
I see a woman in a Burqa
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We usually keep them but..when i was like 5 we sold the sega gensis and atari it was sad
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We usually keep them but..when i was like 5 we sold the sega gensis and atari it was sad
I had a NES when I was really little. Then my parents bought us a SNES for Christmas one year and mom was like, "Well, now that you guys have a Super Nintendo you don't need the old one!" and gave it away :(
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Story time.
Growing up, I lived about 3.5 - 4 hours away from my grandma on my mom's side. My dad's parents died before I was born. My mom's dad also died before I was born I think, and my grandma remarried. Her husband was my grandpa growing up, but I'm just giving the backstory. He died several years ago.
So, as a child, I remember visiting my grandma once or twice a year, and always looking forward to playing Nintendo. Yes, my grandma played the NES, and she shredded some Mario. She introduced me to video gaming and I played with her before we ever had a system at home. I remember sitting on her couch and literally jerking up the controller to try to get Mario to jump. I eventually got my thumb dexterity.
Eventually I got my own NES, but I liked watching my grandma play. After a while, I got an SNES and started owning that, but my grandma stuck with the NES. Sometime later, we both got N64's. She taught me how to get 120 stars on Mario 64, and I still loved just watching her. She stopped playing the NES, but kept it around. I also got rid of my NES and SNES because they just didn't compare to the N64.
A large portion of my childhood and memories I have with childhood friends revolve around the N64. Mario Kart, Duke Nukem, Goldeneye, Super Smash Brother, and a few others really occupied our time. My grandma, however, only added Yoshi's Story to her collection.
I loved watching her play Yosho's Story. There was something about her and her command of the games. They were just adventure games, but we had a lot of fun with them. Up until the later years, she knew that I would jump out of the car after a 4-hour car ride, run up to the door where she was waiting with the best smile ever, and I would look up at her and say, "Wanna play Nintendo?"
I grew up and went through the stages. Playstation, PS2, Wii, Xbox 360, but I kept my N64. My grandma's interest lessened as her health did, but she lived a good life. The last few years were a little harder.
She passed away a couple years ago shortly after Thanksgiving. I'm so glad she got to meet my son before she passed. While in the hospital, she said something to my mom that I will always remember, but that's another topic for another day. After she passed and we had our time to grieve and celebrate her life, we had to go through her house and figure out what to do with everything.
I went to the back room where we always played Nintendo, and where they had always been, I saw her NES and her N64, with Yoshi's Story in the system. These items, over all others, had the most sentimental value to me and I brought them back with me.
After doing the magic rituals that everyone remembers, I managed to get the NES to fire up and play a bit of Mario! It just made it that much better, but I would have been okay if it didn't work. So now I have an NES again, and now I have two N64's, with two Mario 64 games.
I'm not quite as attached to my other systems and games, but I'm not sure if I'll ever get rid of at least that NES. If not for simply the classic preservation of technology from a different day, I still see so many vivid memories from my childhood, and really the majority of my early bonds with my grandma, when I look at that box.
It's funny how we can attach memories to objects.
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Wow, you had a cool grandma. Heartwarming story :)