Just called out my regret out of the gate. Selling Little Samson for $80 15 years ago. Oh, the pain. Sold Zombie Nation with it too. Still have my other 1000+ games. Sad I needed the money so much then. Ironically, I’m ready to sell my collection now.
Biggest regret is my GameCube games and Pokemon Sapphire/Leafgreen. I sold Super Smash and Pokemon Stadium 2 to GameStop right before the huge increase which kinda hurts but at the time I thought “it’s been out for decades, how could the price ever increase?”😅 I had poor cousins that I’d give video games to but unfortunately they would sell those games for drugs so I learned it’s better sometimes not to give people things they don’t actually appreciate.
You always gotta purge every now and then, but don’t sleep on gifts to other collectors. I’ve hooked so many people up with cheap Wiis or rom emulators and it always makes me happy hearing their 4 year old son started playing something and now is hooked. Just remember to catalog everything, it’s always annoying when you can’t find something and you don’t remember if you got rid of it
There are teenagers that are collecting NES that never played it as a kid and they are growing their interest from video's or research of the past. It is kind of crazy to think about.
My biggest regret is around 2001 I traded in my entire super Nintendo collection over 250 to 300 games with the console to game crazy to get PlayStation 2 stuff. That Super Nintendo was my very first console I ever got Christmas morning when I was a little kid and I look back on it now kicking myself for literally giving that stuff away for practically nothing in trade in credit. I did that a lot growing up I would always trade in the old stuff for the new stuff and I wish I would’ve kept it all because re-buying your childhood is extremely expensive and I really wanna share those things with my kids but at what cost 😂
I feel you! I have sold so many of my collections, but I think its what pushed me to find ways to get new things I want to start collecting. The cycle never ends bro hahaha
Great show fellas. Funny enough, I recently picked up Crusader of Centy, loose but absolutely mint and authenticated* via a local trade for a few common but good Sega CD games. Keep up the fun content and chill vibes.
I have yet to buy anything I don't just want to add to my collection. I sold games to a store one time in the late 90s, but I wasn't even to my teens at that point.
Video Game systems, and characters are as old as Superman, and even Spider-man, were when I was a kid. Longevity. “Stood the test of time” that’s Mario and Zelda, Sonic….
i intend for my 10 year old son to inherit my collection. asked him the other day if hes sell it and buy something that he likes and he responds with a crazy look and says “no,dad the old stuff is what i like and its ours” 🥹❤️
😅 my only regrets* are* parting with my Pokémon games... not because of the money but because now there to bleeping expensive... And selling a box full of 1980s-2000s loose Hotwheels for 12$ (some of them have sold individually for $12+ 😐🤦♂️
@@pluspixel thankfully in the last few years I've been able to atleast reassemble a bit of my old Hotwheels collection along with adding new ones I've never had before 😅🤣
You know whats the best thing about having a friend who collects gaming everything? They'll sell eventually and probably at a loss. So in theory theyre only renting them off you, before they come to the realization they dont play the games.
Absolutely! I have 2 build a bear pokemon plush and a sealed package of mario kart hotwheels that is on a shelf that my 7 yr old son is NOT allowed to have yet (he has some very well loved duplicates). My husband and I are doing this for him out of personal experience of not having our toys from childhood that we really wish we still had (star wars figures, KITT from Knight Rider, He-Man figures, the original 1983 Cabbage Patch Kids..which I used to own about 13 of them!). We're hoping to save him alot of heartache...and if he grows and doesn't want them, I'm keeping them!
4:50 whoah, no retirement but he's keeping expensive video games in bins? Chris, stop! My grandpa collected model trains as an investment and by the time retirement came around, no one wanted that stuff anymore. That'll happen one day for Go Go Hypergrind too.
Mario, Zelda, Pokemon became franchises like Star Wars and Marvel. Those will be around a long time and will always have collectors. But will people pay thousands of dollars for Go Go Hypergrind or Little Samson 20 years from now? Seems like those are driven up by people wanting complete NES and Gamecube sets.
My biggest regret when I downsized my collection about 6 years ago would have to be Pokemon Box for GameCube. I had it with memory card, stickers, manual, case, GBA cable, and the big outer cardboard box. Luckily, I didn't sell it to just anybody. I traded it to a buddy of mine that still has it. $600 trade value is what I got for it. It's about 6-10 times that much nowadays for the complete package.
Your friend that has the store, I’m sorry I can’t remember his name, has a sickness… but I completely understand where he’s coming from. I won’t even trade anymore let alone sell…😂 my wife hates it. But fuck that…
@@pluspixel When I bought a house in 2011, all the forums were saying the bubble was about to pop, so I sold 95% of my collection, I had a spreadsheet on my old computer, and around 2019 I recalculated it, and a few of the CIB games are now worth what I got out of the entire collection. The rough part is that collection was picked up from 2002-2011 when I was the only person in 3 or 4 counties that cared about older games, now everyone and their grandma is out searching for stuff.
Hit the nail on the coffin lol. Let it slip that Caleb is about the bag. Ol skool guys knew the first video. But, cannot disrespect the grind either. Work hard, play hard.
Facing mortality and realizing just how much STUFF I've accumulated has been eye opening. My kids have no interest in most of my thousands of movies and games. I'm never going to rewatch or replay everything. It's been therapeutic listing and selling the things I'm not going to reuse.
my biggest regret is selling my og 3ds with some games for 75 bucks and then learning later on that it had an ambassador certificate on it and was worth more
I regret not buying Go Go Hypergrind when it was a little over $20 a decade ago, only to find it skyrocketed in price within the past few years. Thankfully I was able to buy it earlier this year and I really enjoy playing it. I also wish I hadn't traded my original Nintendo DS with all the games I had for it, but I've since replaced it with another DS so I guess it's not too bad.
Yup been there a few times unfortunately I have to see a vast majority of my collection again due to moving country hopefully this will be the last time.
I definitely have some games that I would never sell or trade just due to the nostalgia factor and memories I made playing them with my friends and stuff
I wish there was a crash... then I could buy everything else I wanted for my collection at a much cheaper price. For me, it is about having the games - not what they are worth
In the moment it does suck to get rid of games. Sometimes if it's justified to get rid of them then it's easier ex new car/ house/kids. Also it helps the hunt since you have to look for games again
I collect marvel legends… both it marvel legends… have probably 600 or so… maybe more.. I’m giving em to my daughter when she’s old enough… she can do what she wants with em
When i die, my kid can sell my small collection if wanted/ needed, its not like i will use it again. I think it will be a win-win if it goes to a collector and my kid can put the money towards something usefull
I've had Legend of Dragoon since I was a kid and bought in store. Even if someone offers me 200$ I will not sell it. Its a sentimental value to me, aswell Silent Hill series. I am collecting the games i want to play and stumble over that look interesting. Also fun to se potential value on them
I just had this conversation with my dad. He is a diehard rock/heavy metal vinyl collector. He was wondering wat i would do with his collection when his time comes. His face when i said id keep most of it whas priceless. As for my collection. If my kids would one day want to sell it i wouldnt mind
I have decided to collect what i like and grew up with. Got rid of the dreamcast and gifted the gamecube. Keeping playstation 1-3 and vita. I want an original xbox and a genesis
I sold all of my Nintendo N64, Gamecube, 3DS, DS, GBA Collection at the height of the Pandemic and when people were getting 600 dollars a week. I recently just sold my Entire Switch collection, I regret selling but I can always get everything back just gonna take a little time. I love the hunt, Seeing it with my own eyes and holding it in my hands.
I only collect 3 things, PSVita, Switch, and psx ( but mostly long box games ). Only time I’ll grab other system games is stuff I really want, and would actually play like the Yakuza series that’s basically all on the ps4 except Dead Souls which a okay game that in reality isn’t good. I actually expect myself in the future to one day not have internet except with my phone, and just find fun in the physical games and dvds I collect to enjoy.
@@RunWithCurt my kids like to ask me: "dad...how much is your collection worth"??? I think they're prepping for my untimely demise!!! CURSE YOUR SUDDEN BUT INEVITABLE BETRAYAL!!!😅
The guy with the Virtual Boy shirt is everything that is wrong with game collecting in today's world. Not only is he a hypocrite when it comes to people opening game stores near him but the fact that he sees games as stocks and investments tells you he's into gatekeeping.
