If you have original childhood games, do you...

[girlracer]

I've done this, my genesis model 1, cd model 2, and 32x all all my original hardware from when i was a kid so i have several games that I wouldn't really play now but I have to keep them.

[alienjesus]

Keep the ones you never liked, just because they were your original childhood games?? I am torn on this issue. I had an NES and a Genesis when I was a kid and friends and relatives would buy games for me as gifts. Some of them I truly hated. I've tried many of them again, and a couple are okay now that I am older and more experienced, but some I still hate.

So do I hold onto them for nostalgia's sake, or sell them and send them along to someone else who might really enjoy and treasure them?

I only had 4 games I really hated as a kid, Back to the Future III, Speedy Gonzales in Cheese Cat-astrophe and Asterix & the Secret Mission for Mega Drive and Pit Fighter for SNES. I sold them all and don't regret it at all. I used the money I made from them, which, admittedly wasn't much at all, to buy a cheap Game Boy game which I enjoyed way more than 4 times as much than any one of those games.

[chupon]

I have several NES carts I just really don't like, including Hook, Goonies II, and Abadox. Hook and Goonies II bore me, and Abadox is obnoxious. I strongly dislike them (hate is probably too strong a word) enough to not want to pick them up.

Ugh... I actually enjoy all those games. Although I prefer the SNES Hook. Keep em.

[Hyp81]

I really didn't like Sparkster for Sega as a kid, either, along with Yoshi's Cookie for the NES. I've come to appreciate those in my old(er) age.

[darthmunky]

What's weird for me is that none of my childhood games were bad. I only got the "best" games and I still have them. (Super Mario World, Mario Paint, DKC, Mario All-Stars, Battletoads, etc.)

[Zing]

What's weird for me is that none of my childhood games were bad. I only got the "best" games and I still have them. (Super Mario World, Mario Paint, DKC, Mario All-Stars, Battletoads, etc.)

Very true. As a kid, I had very limited opportunities to buy games. I ultimately owned only 10 or so NES games, and they were all top tier except one. Most of my gaming was done on rentals.

[BurningDoom]

I have several NES carts I just really don't like, including Hook, Goonies II, and Abadox. Hook and Goonies II bore me, and Abadox is obnoxious. I strongly dislike them (hate is probably too strong a word) enough to not want to pick them up.

Ugh... I actually enjoy all those games. Although I prefer the SNES Hook. Keep em.

I love the SNES Hook! A bit too easy, maybe, but a well polished action-platformer for the SNES.

[Key-Glyph]

I think it's great that you want to put your games in the hands of others who would better enjoy them. What a wonderful motivation! If you can do that, I admire you.

This is such a difficult question. I've been a very sentimental person for my entire life, but there have been times when practicality and logic prevailed without regret. My husband and I have changed apartments roughly three times in the past four years, and there comes a point where you simply cannot imagine packing, transporting, and unpacking four heavy tote boxes of nostalgic VHS tapes, or upwards of a dozen barely liftable boxes of books, ever again, without at least narrowing your stuff down by two thirds.

It feels good to prune. Weeding books is a no-risk situation since there will always be libraries, and in most cases what I've had on VHS I now own on DVD. Giving those things away doesn't negate my ability to ever experience their content again. Clearing out our stuff was nothing but a relief.

Retro games are different, though. You're not guaranteed to be able to find them again once you've let go (or they may no longer be worth the money/effort to acquire). My husband and I developed a policy: we are never to give away any games that are still functional. Ever. We have never gotten rid of a video game or console and not regretted it, and that goes both for emotional regret and logical regret.

If video games were cumbersome or difficult to store, or if I were more casual about the hobby, or less of a sentimental person, it would be a different story. As it is, though, they're just "one of those things" I can't and shouldn't part with, like my old stuffed animals or photographs. You just have to know yourself and what you're most attached to.

[Hyp81]

My husband and I developed a policy: we are never to give away any games that are still functional. Ever. We have never gotten rid of a video game or console and not regretted it, and that goes both for emotional regret and logical regret.

If video games were cumbersome or difficult to store, or if I were more casual about the hobby, or less of a sentimental person, it would be a different story. As it is, though, they're just "one of those things" I can't and shouldn't part with, like my old stuffed animals or photographs. You just have to know yourself and what you're most attached to.

Thanks for the perspective!!

[GameMasterGuy]

I keep mine. There's one I absolutely hate, but it was my second game ever so I keep it. Which game is it?
*takes cover*
Yoshi's Story.