I think I'm going into a mid life crisis!!! UPDATE!!!

[Hobie-wan]

give mas a break.

Everyone is ribbing extra hard because as pointed out, Mas has been making these "what should I sell to make a bill", "what should I buy", and "what should I buy for my kids" threads every few months for some time now. People give advice, the thread dies, then right back again with the same a short time later.

[mas]

Over a month ago I needed help. I was upset and down at the way my life was. Depressed was more like it. Wrote this post and for a lot of people that I read were harsh and for people who haven't been on racketboy for a long time was kind of giving me a break but like hobbie said I was always doing the same thing over and over and over then I would ask if I should sell or keep. My wife saw a message that one of you guys sent and we had a long talk. I felt a lot better after that and most of you guys were right. I wrote about the same stuff 85% of the time.
I just came on to tell everyone and I wanted to first say thanks to everyone who wrote on this post. It gave me a wake up call. I first got rid of everything I wont play anymore. I made a promise to my wife If I sell I would never get it back. I stayed away from retro game stores, flea markets, and gamestops. I sold my nes collection and my sms collection. All the money took my family on a nice vacation for a week. I downsized all my psp and ps2 to only games that I will really play. I packaged the psp,and ps2 away and just have my dreamcast and wii out.
I haven't bought a game in since july and I feel good. Love my life, job, kids, and I went back to martial arts more and I have been back at the gym.
I forgot I found my 64 in the closet but I sold all my games except the only 4 games I know I will play which is the wcw/wwf aki wrestling games.
I REALLY FEEL GREAT AND THANKS FOR EVERYTHING. I must say even though the wii for a lot of people is a blah system it has a lot of great titles. I would buy Metroid prime trilogy but I think 90.00 for a rerelease from gamestop is a little to much. Plus I'm not a collector anymore and I own Metroid prime 3.
So thank you again and now my life as a casual gamer and not a collector begins.
P.S. should I sell my dreamcast or wii? Or which is better, The dreamcast or colecovision?....... Just kidding

[theclaw]

I'd look into your audio video setup, if you haven't already.
Might revitalize interest in some of the games when their play experience is improved.

[aaron]

i have the tiniest "collection" ever. it's improved my life tenfold since i made the decision to stop hoarding stuff. but that's me. what will YOU DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[ZenErik]

I have maybe 20-ish physical games in my collection now. Feels good. My digital collection is ever expanding, but I feel like I am definitely spending a lot less. Not buying expensive games on forums/eBay and collecting retro games that I MIGHT play in a few years is saving me a lot.

[Menegrothx]

That's not fair. Traveling, getting into bikes or cars, working on a house - these hobbies can be just as interesting and rewarding as playing or collecting video games.

If you have kids, you aren't be able to do any interesting traveling, I can see the fun in tuning cars and driving fast/racing on a track/offroading but I don't see the two as compatible but you must hold video games in low regard if you're willing to compare them to "working on a house".
Video games have the capability to be art and provide you with some of the best experiences of your life.

Here's a somewhat controversial/unpopular opinion, given the demographics of this forum: if many of the "older" folks (=people in their 30s) who are into retro gaming&game collecting who are relatively casual in their gaming habbits would go beyond their comfort zones, forget about "pick up and play" type of games for a while and open their eyes to different video game genres and styles that exist, the world would be a better place, these kinds of threads would be a lot more rare and video games as a medium would receive more of the respect that it rightfully deserves.
(this comment isn't directed at you dsheinem, nor am I implying that those type of retrogames are bad or that younger, modern day casual gamers weren't to blame just as much)

[mas]

i have the tiniest "collection" ever. it's improved my life tenfold since i made the decision to stop hoarding stuff. but that's me. what will YOU DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

? WHAT? WHAT? Austin reference lol. what will I do? I will just play the games that I own, play them on my days off and just focus on the gym, karate and my family. that's all. And train, say my prayers, and take my vitamins BROTHER!!!!!!
I have 20 or so wii games, 4 n64 games, 20 ps2 games, a few psp games and and 60 dreamcast games. I mostly just have a lot of 2d fighters/arcade type shooters or collections for the dreamcast/ps2. I am playing super Mario bros for the wii. It is harder for me than smb for the nes. It's a great game. I just hooked up the 64 and played some wcw revenge. For me those aki wrestling games are just as fun now as it was in 1998. Miss wcw. I play the wrestling games for a few minutes during my work days when I come home and on my days off from work im on super Mario bros. That's all I need for a while. After I beat Mario I'm on to sonic colors.

[elmagicochrisg]

60 dreamcast games

Good boy...

[mas]

i have the tiniest "collection" ever. it's improved my life tenfold since i made the decision to stop hoarding stuff. but that's me. what will YOU DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Just came back from kempo and what I was going to do and just did was my two boys and I just took a test and earned our purple belts in kempo karate. Man I feel great and so proud of my boys.

[SamuraiMegas]

I was about to rage at the last part of the message, then I saw the just kidding part...