Assuming it would still work after all these years, I regret selling my Apple IIc back in the eighties. I miss those simple games and emulators just aren't the same.
Reality is that it wouldn't still work and all those bottom shelf floppies that I used to liberate games would have long since degraded.
My mom made me sell my ps2 (with a ton of games, even with the buzz controllers, microphones, etc.) for 20 bucks. I die inside every time I remember this lol.
She also made me sell my PSP because I "didn't play" with it. Important thing to say: my parents refused to buy me new games, I only had a few and once I completed them I stopped playing...
Silver Gameboy advance SP - times were desperate, it ended up in a pawn shop.
Im sorry old friend
Ouch. I definitely understand that.
My Dreamcast… I had almost every game downloaded and there was so much choice I never committed to anything and got bored. It taught me a lesson about piracy and the value of attention.
Honestly, piracy for retro consoles is morally correct. Unless you're a collector, physical copies offer users no actual benefit beside "the experience," and only serve to wear down cartridge slot pins/plastic and CD drive lasers/belts.
The original developers are getting no money from retro sales, and people are scalping/overcharging retro games like crazy these days. In nearly all cases, the original publisher/developer no longer even offers these games for sales anymore. No proof of offering for sale means no moral claim to a lost sale. If you want to actually play a retro game, it is totally morally correct to just download it.
Of course it goes without saying, if by some miracle you can still purchse the game from the original developer or publisher, please do so. The developers deserve to get paid for their work, Joe Schmuck doesn't deserve to charge $900 USD for Panzer Dragoon Saga (good game, but not for that price).
Also, sidenote, I find a Dreamcast owner complaining about too much choice because of piracy to be highly ironic considering the Dreamcast lost developer support due to fears of lost sales caused by piracy lol.
Know what's funny? The Sims 2 for PC is officially abandonware. It's not for sale on Origin, despite EA still holding all the rights. You can't "legally" get it anywhere BUT from previous owners.
Such an underrated console too!
i gave away my dreamcast. 🤦♂️
You chose... poorly.
When I was young my brother wanted to trade in our crystal xbox for money towards an Elite 360.
I made a stink about it because I didn't want to upgrade at the time, and I even ended up setting it up in the attic to try and avoid having it sold.
In the end Dad did end up trading it in... for 20p (good riddance to physical game shops).
Ended up getting my own crystal xbox as an adult, and I did end up playing Halo 3 ODST's multilayer disc religiously. Still, for 20p Dad?!
I hear your pain. Game shops have always been rip offs with trade ins, and 20p? Can't even get a chocolate bar with that...
Fuck, 20p? My mum gave mine away when I was gone one summer and I was gutted.
How much did you pay for a used crystal boy?
Twenty... pence? What is that, thirty cents in American money? You'd be lucky to get a piece of candy for that price these days. Yeah, Pops really got screwed on that sale. And so did you, by association.
Not a console but I used to have a working Amiga 500 in the 90's which I got rid of in favor of a PC. Wish I'd had held on to that one.
I still shudder over the fact that my mom made me trade in my SNES and a bunch of games for store credit during the N64 era. I can't remember exactly which games or how many were traded, but I know that we only had enough store credit to buy Mario Party. I may need therapy to truly put this behind me.
I regret all of them, but I needed money so.
My modded PS1. It was the first hardware mod I ever did. It was a mess. It booted games sometimes, froze periodically. But, I would love to go back and fix the mod today and play some classics. I do have an unmodded ps1 mini with the attachment screen I have since purchased, but it just isn’t the same.
Console, no. But somehow my parents convinced me to give away my copy of Pokémon Blue to one of my cousins. One of the dumbest things I've done, even if It wasn't entirely my fault.
I know the feeling, even when I never experienced it beforehand (I wasn't the cousin just to be clear).
Did your cousin at least took care of it?
Tbh no clue. Never saw it again, never heard about it again haha.
Never personally sold any of my previously owned consoles, but I did "lose"* my Super Nintendo around 2001 and, sometime in 2011, my older brother messed up my PSone's lid and it "disappeared" shortly afterwards.
* This loss was either my mom or aunt getting rid of it because "nobody is using it anymore, it's just wasting space and gathering dust". The same end my brother's CCE Turbo Game (a brazilian famiclone) had when I was even younger
On a totally unrelated note, I’m craving Jolly Ranchers
Probably my OLED Vita, a few years ago. I love handhelds, and a hacked Vita is just a goldmine of content.
Though I'm getting a Switch Lite soon, so that will probably ease my pain a little!
Literally all of my nintendo handhelds. My mom made me and my sister get rid of all of them when we bought PSPs. I was young and dumb, and convinced myself it was a fair trade, two GBA SPs and an original DS...
Fuck me, I was stupid. I miss my old Pokémon games.
My Virtual Boy.
My GameBoy Pocket, which I sold to get a GameBoy Color, which I sold to get a GameBoy Advance.
I do still have my GameBoy Advance, and I've upgraded it with an IPS screen and USBC rechargable battery. I just wish I had kept all my other handhelds so I could upgrade those too.
I regret getting rid of my Wii, only because that’s the one I’m missing to complete my Nintendo home console collection. I had initially sold it because the Wii U played Wii games, but it would be nice to have it back for a complete set.
I have never sold a console. I have frustratingly lost a few handhelds, which sucks.
I slightly regret not keeping a large CRT, but honestly those things are stupidly heavy and made of glass. I did score some small CRTs at flea markets awhile back, which is more than enough for the novelty.
I ain't getting rid of my PSX.
I've repurchased the consoles I had when I was a kid over the past year.
I still have a bunch of my original consoles: NES, Genesis, Dreamcast. The only I don't still have are my PS1 (original, not the tiny One), N64, and Gamecube. PS upgraded to a PS2, and to be honest I never really played the N64 much. But the GC just kind of fell by the wayside and got lost. It had such amazingly unique games, but just was overlooked (even by me at the time) because it just didn't match up graphically and didn't really have the 1st or 3rd party support it needed.
I have the same regret, I gave my N64 to a family friend in the late 90s. However, I later bouught a replacement N64 with two new-in-box gold controllers so I can still get my GoldenEye fix.
I slightly regret selling my Wii U to get a Switch but I think there's still time to backpedal on that one without it being a huge loss.
I still have all mine. But I never play them. I mess with emulators though.
I've been feeling this lately as well. I'll see people post pictures of display cases filled with all their consoles and it makes me regret giving away my old consoles when I bought a new one.
I especially miss my N64.
One of my old friends dad sold the atari jaguar. With multiple controllers and a pretty full game library. Pretty sure it was worth a pretty penny then too but he didn't think twice about it. Would probably fetch over a grand now for the collection.
I had curated perfect-to-me PS1 and PS2 game collections, and had the later, smaller versions of both systems. Both whole collections fit in a bread box, but I gave both away to save space. I cannot believe how much I regret that.
Not retro, but I sold my Nintendo DS, and copy of Platinum and Heart Gold for like $30 in high school. Probably got McDonald's with the money. I regret it so much.
I'm still holding on to my commodore 64. I'm taking that thing to my grave
i actually regret getting rid of my wii u. it had a solid library of games and i sold it to gamestop to buy overwatch and a couple other games during a steam sale. only years later did i learn that the wii u is probably the best console for playing the entire nintendo catalogue. rip.
Man, that sucks. I recently bought one and I'm having a blast playing on it! It really is the best console to play the nintendo catalogue, it can also play a few DS games lol.
Maybe, one day you can repurchase one ;) I would say that now is the best moment as hacking it is super easy and prices are not that inflated.
Super Nintendo - I was in my mid teens and my mother coerced me into giving my Super Nintendo into my cousin, but I have regretted it ever since.
Coincidentally, Super Mario RPG remake is coming out in November and will probably make me feel fine again!
My Super Nintendo can't Mode 7 properly anymore. I don't know what the problem is... maybe it needs a new graphics chip. Maybe it just needs the chip it's already got soldered down properly. You know how old consoles can be.
My Atari 2600 with 80+ games. Only because I saw it sold for like $40k decades later lol.
Assuming it would still work after all these years, I regret selling my Apple IIc back in the eighties. I miss those simple games and emulators just aren't the same.
Reality is that it wouldn't still work and all those bottom shelf floppies that I used to liberate games would have long since degraded.
My mom made me sell my ps2 (with a ton of games, even with the buzz controllers, microphones, etc.) for 20 bucks. I die inside every time I remember this lol.
She also made me sell my PSP because I "didn't play" with it. Important thing to say: my parents refused to buy me new games, I only had a few and once I completed them I stopped playing...
Silver Gameboy advance SP - times were desperate, it ended up in a pawn shop.
Im sorry old friend
Ouch. I definitely understand that.
My Dreamcast… I had almost every game downloaded and there was so much choice I never committed to anything and got bored. It taught me a lesson about piracy and the value of attention.
Honestly, piracy for retro consoles is morally correct. Unless you're a collector, physical copies offer users no actual benefit beside "the experience," and only serve to wear down cartridge slot pins/plastic and CD drive lasers/belts.
The original developers are getting no money from retro sales, and people are scalping/overcharging retro games like crazy these days. In nearly all cases, the original publisher/developer no longer even offers these games for sales anymore. No proof of offering for sale means no moral claim to a lost sale. If you want to actually play a retro game, it is totally morally correct to just download it.
Of course it goes without saying, if by some miracle you can still purchse the game from the original developer or publisher, please do so. The developers deserve to get paid for their work, Joe Schmuck doesn't deserve to charge $900 USD for Panzer Dragoon Saga (good game, but not for that price).
Also, sidenote, I find a Dreamcast owner complaining about too much choice because of piracy to be highly ironic considering the Dreamcast lost developer support due to fears of lost sales caused by piracy lol.
Know what's funny? The Sims 2 for PC is officially abandonware. It's not for sale on Origin, despite EA still holding all the rights. You can't "legally" get it anywhere BUT from previous owners.
Such an underrated console too!
i gave away my dreamcast. 🤦♂️
You chose... poorly.
When I was young my brother wanted to trade in our crystal xbox for money towards an Elite 360.
I made a stink about it because I didn't want to upgrade at the time, and I even ended up setting it up in the attic to try and avoid having it sold.
In the end Dad did end up trading it in... for 20p (good riddance to physical game shops).
Ended up getting my own crystal xbox as an adult, and I did end up playing Halo 3 ODST's multilayer disc religiously. Still, for 20p Dad?!
I hear your pain. Game shops have always been rip offs with trade ins, and 20p? Can't even get a chocolate bar with that...
Fuck, 20p? My mum gave mine away when I was gone one summer and I was gutted.
How much did you pay for a used crystal boy?
Twenty... pence? What is that, thirty cents in American money? You'd be lucky to get a piece of candy for that price these days. Yeah, Pops really got screwed on that sale. And so did you, by association.
Not a console but I used to have a working Amiga 500 in the 90's which I got rid of in favor of a PC. Wish I'd had held on to that one.
I still shudder over the fact that my mom made me trade in my SNES and a bunch of games for store credit during the N64 era. I can't remember exactly which games or how many were traded, but I know that we only had enough store credit to buy Mario Party. I may need therapy to truly put this behind me.
I regret all of them, but I needed money so.
My modded PS1. It was the first hardware mod I ever did. It was a mess. It booted games sometimes, froze periodically. But, I would love to go back and fix the mod today and play some classics. I do have an unmodded ps1 mini with the attachment screen I have since purchased, but it just isn’t the same.
Console, no. But somehow my parents convinced me to give away my copy of Pokémon Blue to one of my cousins. One of the dumbest things I've done, even if It wasn't entirely my fault.
I know the feeling, even when I never experienced it beforehand (I wasn't the cousin just to be clear).
Did your cousin at least took care of it?
Tbh no clue. Never saw it again, never heard about it again haha.
Never personally sold any of my previously owned consoles, but I did "lose"* my Super Nintendo around 2001 and, sometime in 2011, my older brother messed up my PSone's lid and it "disappeared" shortly afterwards.
* This loss was either my mom or aunt getting rid of it because "nobody is using it anymore, it's just wasting space and gathering dust". The same end my brother's CCE Turbo Game (a brazilian famiclone) had when I was even youngerOn a totally unrelated note, I’m craving Jolly Ranchers
Probably my OLED Vita, a few years ago. I love handhelds, and a hacked Vita is just a goldmine of content.
Though I'm getting a Switch Lite soon, so that will probably ease my pain a little!
Literally all of my nintendo handhelds. My mom made me and my sister get rid of all of them when we bought PSPs. I was young and dumb, and convinced myself it was a fair trade, two GBA SPs and an original DS...
Fuck me, I was stupid. I miss my old Pokémon games.
My Virtual Boy.
My GameBoy Pocket, which I sold to get a GameBoy Color, which I sold to get a GameBoy Advance.
I do still have my GameBoy Advance, and I've upgraded it with an IPS screen and USBC rechargable battery. I just wish I had kept all my other handhelds so I could upgrade those too.
I regret getting rid of my Wii, only because that’s the one I’m missing to complete my Nintendo home console collection. I had initially sold it because the Wii U played Wii games, but it would be nice to have it back for a complete set.
I have never sold a console. I have frustratingly lost a few handhelds, which sucks.
I slightly regret not keeping a large CRT, but honestly those things are stupidly heavy and made of glass. I did score some small CRTs at flea markets awhile back, which is more than enough for the novelty.
I ain't getting rid of my PSX.
I've repurchased the consoles I had when I was a kid over the past year.
I still have a bunch of my original consoles: NES, Genesis, Dreamcast. The only I don't still have are my PS1 (original, not the tiny One), N64, and Gamecube. PS upgraded to a PS2, and to be honest I never really played the N64 much. But the GC just kind of fell by the wayside and got lost. It had such amazingly unique games, but just was overlooked (even by me at the time) because it just didn't match up graphically and didn't really have the 1st or 3rd party support it needed.
I have the same regret, I gave my N64 to a family friend in the late 90s. However, I later bouught a replacement N64 with two new-in-box gold controllers so I can still get my GoldenEye fix.
I slightly regret selling my Wii U to get a Switch but I think there's still time to backpedal on that one without it being a huge loss.
I still have all mine. But I never play them. I mess with emulators though.
I've been feeling this lately as well. I'll see people post pictures of display cases filled with all their consoles and it makes me regret giving away my old consoles when I bought a new one.
I especially miss my N64.
One of my old friends dad sold the atari jaguar. With multiple controllers and a pretty full game library. Pretty sure it was worth a pretty penny then too but he didn't think twice about it. Would probably fetch over a grand now for the collection.
I had curated perfect-to-me PS1 and PS2 game collections, and had the later, smaller versions of both systems. Both whole collections fit in a bread box, but I gave both away to save space. I cannot believe how much I regret that.
Not retro, but I sold my Nintendo DS, and copy of Platinum and Heart Gold for like $30 in high school. Probably got McDonald's with the money. I regret it so much.
I'm still holding on to my commodore 64. I'm taking that thing to my grave
i actually regret getting rid of my wii u. it had a solid library of games and i sold it to gamestop to buy overwatch and a couple other games during a steam sale. only years later did i learn that the wii u is probably the best console for playing the entire nintendo catalogue. rip.
Man, that sucks. I recently bought one and I'm having a blast playing on it! It really is the best console to play the nintendo catalogue, it can also play a few DS games lol.
Maybe, one day you can repurchase one ;) I would say that now is the best moment as hacking it is super easy and prices are not that inflated.
Super Nintendo - I was in my mid teens and my mother coerced me into giving my Super Nintendo into my cousin, but I have regretted it ever since.
Coincidentally, Super Mario RPG remake is coming out in November and will probably make me feel fine again!
My Super Nintendo can't Mode 7 properly anymore. I don't know what the problem is... maybe it needs a new graphics chip. Maybe it just needs the chip it's already got soldered down properly. You know how old consoles can be.
My Atari 2600 with 80+ games. Only because I saw it sold for like $40k decades later lol.