An End of an Era

[kane_magus]

As of today, I no longer own any video game consoles or associated games. I sold all of that stuff to Lost Ark Video Games in Greensboro, NC. Well, actually, I do still own a Xbox 360, because Lost Ark wouldn't buy the old fat model, a Playstation 2, which I didn't even take out there to bother to try to sell because it was already on its last legs, and an old, modded Playstation 1 that I didn't even take with me to Washington when I moved out there in 2004, let alone to Lost Ark to try to sell. (EDIT) Oh, and I still have a Wii Fit board, even though I no longer have a Wii to connect it to, because I forgot to bring the stupid thing with me when I sold all the other crap. (/EDIT) Everything else is gone, though, including the handheld stuff. And, weirdly, I don't feel too awfully bad about it. I thought it would probably feel like the rough equivalent of selling one's children to do it or some such, but no... nothing all dramatic like that. (EDIT 2) I have to say that going into my Backloggery and tagging all those games with the little "Formerly Owned" ghost was somewhat sad, though. Some of them I had to actually (stealth) add as new games, since they weren't previously even in the list given that I hadn't bothered to update my Backloggery page in forever, only to then mark them as "Formerly Owned." >_> (EDIT 3) And... that was probably very close to the last time I ever even bothered to keep up with my Backloggery page, so... yeah. (/EDIT 3) (/EDIT 2)

Now, though, I still have a ton of old PC games, which Lost Ark also wouldn't buy, that I need to do something with. I'll probably end up selling those individually on eBay or Amazon Marketplace or something. I actually could have done the same for the consoles and console games as well, and probably would have gotten more money out of them in the long run if I'd done so, but I just wanted to unload them somewhere relatively convenient, so that's what I did.

Comments

[rabbitucker.livejournal.com]

NO consoles? At ALL? Not even an 8-bit or 16-bit Nintendo?

*sniff sniff*

The end of an era indeed...

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Well, funny thing is I never owned an original NES in the first place. ^^; I did have one of the original gray Game Boy bricks, but I sold that thing and all the games I had for it decades ago. As for my SNES... I pretty much had to go off and leave it in WA, since I thought I'd have enough space in my suitcase for it and everything else, but I didn't, and sadly something had to be left behind. The thing was already on its last legs (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/488101.html) anyway, though (since I'm pretty sure that was more an issue with the SNES itself than with the EB cartridge, since EB wasn't the only game that glitched out on it). That said, though, if I had brought it back with me, it would have been sold today, along with everything else.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Well, actually, I may have just kept it, for the same reason I kept the PS2.

[dmjewelle.livejournal.com]

Does this mean you're not playing console games anymore? :O

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

While I'm not saying that I'll never buy another game console at some point in the future, for the time being, yeah, it means no more console games for me. Not that that's a big change for me lately, though, since the first time I'd even unpacked those consoles after my move back to NC from WA, let alone turned them on, was when I unpacked them and turned them on a couple days ago just to do factory setting restores and formats of hard drives to wipe all my personal data from them. All of the games I sold were still in the boxes that I'd shipped them in as well.