WHY I SOLD 80% OF MY COLLECTION
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2019
- I JUST WANTED LESS STUFF! I literally sold game that wasn't playstation, or didnt have some serious sentimental significance.
14k worth of games. Only regret selling 4 of them.
Thank you all for watching and staying with me this long - Ігри
There's a big difference between being a curated collector and a hoarder.
So correct, I accidentally hoarded. Just aquired so much stuff, and alot of it wasn't even for me ya know
Screw it, make some ODE videos! People would love to see them.
I recently sold a lot of stuff off myself. Couple of reasons for me. Got rid of anything i wouldnt play, space reasons and i only wantgaming gold on my shelves.
Wait, go back to "gold"..
Retro Tech, I fully fully understand exactly what you just said, glad your happy with it too
Hi RGA! Appreciate your MO, work & videos.
Awesome channel and awesome videos! I've learned a ton so thanks. I would love to watch a video about Everdrives and/or Optical Emulators. I value your advice and knowledge. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Streamlining the collection can feel really good. Good to see a video, Paul! Hope you’re good mate.
good
Thanks to you, I am getting my gaming set up better organized cord wise. Hope to see more stuff when possible.
Good job buster, an organized setup makes you feel really good
I did something similar to you, except I sold off ALL of my physical collection and instead focused on modding, homebrew, and flashcarts. I did this because I realized that as I became older, I'd have less and less time and money to focus on just purely gaming. When I was in middle school i spent ever scent i had on video games and built up my collection because I had no other responsibilities. Now that i'm in college I have a lot more financial things to worry about compared to back then, so money became a lot tighter.
Would I continue collecting if I had the money for it? Hell yes, without question
But I have to be realistic and realize that these days I can't spend every scent that falls into my hands on video games anymore.
this is so extremely smart and viable, and everdrives are a GREAT way to enjoy these games. You can still enjoy them on original hardware. Also buying an everdrive is usually the price of 1-2 choice games, so its a no brainer
That's awesome man! When I sold my small collection I had as a kid, it was bittersweet. You want other to experience what you felt that first time, but you miss the feeling a bit too. Feels real good after though! congrats and great luck moving forward with the de cluttering.
Thank you, De cluttering has been going pretty well, and i completely understand and know what you're talking about
Literally I'm coming back from new Zealand and I'm selling off so much of my collection. Good for you!
YOOOO YOOOOO YOOOOOO YOOOOO
I agree. I had 158 Dreamcast games, but upon testing them to finally sell them off, i discovered the vast majority were just not fun at all. I only stayed with 16. Im just happy i made alot of cash and most importantly, space.
LMFAO! Thats a wonderfull story. I've been there and understand
Which ones did you keep?
going mimimalist? make more video like this aside from the stuff you do. Love your videos.
Thank you, I'll branch out and make some more different types of videos again, kinda like i used too
Love your videos! Going to continue with you! Not going no where
Thank you so much, I got big plans, I always have, my next 2 ventures are pretty serious
I can totally see how you’ve minimised things a bit. I’ve done the same thing so many times. However I then find myself “rescuing” beat up/damaged consoles and giving them some love but after a while I pack them up and put them in the closet. It’s then sometimes hard to let go of them because you’ve done the work and given a console a new life and you don’t know if it’s future home will take as good care of it as you did. I’ve done it with CRTs too. On my 4th CRT now and found it on the side of the road. It’s stereo and has component. I don’t have any room for it so I don’t know why I do it! I’ll probably keep it for a while then move it on. ☺️
Words cannot convey how well I understand everything you just said
Really appreciate the video. I'm kindof in the same boat right now. Appreciate your insight 👍🎮
I need to do the same thing, and just keep what I really love. in my case I got my first ps2 recently “the best selling console” and realized is not for me like some others. I’ll keep just SNES and N64.
Dude, YES! I'm so happy i'm not the only one who feels this way, thank you for sharing and relating
I subcribed to your channel! i love you because you need 80 versions of king of fighters 😍 i love kof. i have been thinking of selling a lot of my collection, but its a tough choice.
HAHAH, I do need 80 versions of king of fighter, I'd think about selling for a while. and I would pick and choose carefully, theres a few things I regret selling. Very few
I’m not sure if I ever told you this. I have been watching this channel for over a year now and I have to say this is one of my favorite channels on this whole platform.
TBELLY, You have no idea how much everything you just said means to me. I'm at a loss for words.
Great video. Similiar thing with me. Im not really a collector but heavily into gameplay. Once emulation really blew up I sold all my old consoles and games. Currently I run everything from Wii and down on a fully fleshed out emulation PC. Accessibility and features are way beyond original consoles and theres no storage or equipment breakdown, games breaking over time. Save and Load states also allow way more efficient practice of specific sections which has allowed me to master and complete games much quicker. The physical games I own now are from consoles that arent well emulated or emulated at all yet mostly. They are all games I wanted to play at some point. I even beat and sell alot of full priced games to re purchase them later very cheap, when the console dies out. That way I can play through many new games for the price of one game and not have the game sit on the shelf unplayed. With the best new games I will go through them twice. Once on normal, once on the hardest mode but then they sit on the shelf usually. Eventually the games I own will most likely be emulated and sold as well.
omg, i just read your entire comment, and was like "wow, this dude has a great system, he doesnt even need consoles really" and then i saw your name... CONSOLE KILLER! LOL! after talking about emulation, i laughed out loud, but for real, i like your system and its funny that you should say all of this, because i literally just told a friend, "i wanna play drakengard 1, so i'ma buy the strategy guide, and then sell it after i beat the game" lol similar mentality
@@RETROGAMINGARTS ha ha. Nice. I still own over 600 games so I havent always been vigilante with buying, beating and selling over the years. There was alot of games I thought about revisiting sooner but it never happened. Usually once I go through a hardest mode in a new game Im done with it. Some games I only enjoy enough for a single playthrough. I noticed all that money was sitting on my shelf so I try to resell and experience the current games Im interested in that way. When the consoles die out all the games get dirt cheap anyway for the most part. I gained most of my 360 and PS3 games that way. I did play alot more online in the past so that did justify keeping some games. These days single player interests me the most because its easier to see goals being completed. After winning some matches online its difficult for me to really feel like Im driving toward a further goal. Online is very dynamic and different each time so its hard to get a feel for progression in skill. TheConsoleKiller name came about when a friend made that comment since I went through about 9 Xbox 360's. They often only lasted 3 months back then. I had one last under 24 hours. Atleast with RPGs you feel like you got your time and money worth most of the time, ha ha. Some of these new games are such quick kills and dont really have the replay for me. I have so many games in my backlog , old and new, that its hard to justify spending 100s of hours on a single game. Once I beat a game once or on the hardest mode my interest goes to hell.
My interest usually goes after I beat a game once. Most games I've beaten I've only beaten once. And 100s of hours is hard for me to put into a game too. I agree with you. But dude. DUDE. Have you played persona 5? I'm 120+ hours into it. Near the end, and its kept my grasp every step of the way. Its soooooo good omg. I cant even begin to explain. It has so much personality
@@RETROGAMINGARTS If I revisit alot of these modern games it will probably be many many years in the future. I remember them fondly but the motivation to get that kill is just not there, ha ha. I really enjoy adding games to the kill list so sometimes Ill beat a different console port of the same game just to motivate me to revisit a game. Its a little strange. I have to feel like Im doing something different, a harder setting or a different port. RE 4 was one of those games I went through many times over the years. Part of that was do to how mind blowing it was back then, the replayability and unlocks and having way less shit to play back then.
There was another exception with Ninja Gaiden Black which I spent over 600 hours on when going for Mission Mode scoring which was brutally frustrating. I really got into that game. Part of it was because I had major weight lifting injuries and took myself out for 2 years. All my intensity went into really pushing myself in gaming and that was the right game at the right time for me to really invest myself in.
Persona 5 was great. For some reason it took me 140 hours to complete in the menu, ha ha. Im sure that includes running time too but it lasted a LONG time. Even though it did drag at points for me I never really got bored with it. Usually I would hate that kind of story, high school drama type of shit, but the presentation was so good and it was very well written. It remained entertaining.
The Turbo you sold....was it the one with the lighted up Turbo Grafx logo?
About to be part of running a shop and I'm going through the same delmma. I'm just having issues letting go. Wondering what I should turn into stock, and what I wanna keep for myself. I need to get this sorted in the next 4 months. -_-
How are you doing with it? Did you get it sorted out
i have a hard time letting go of games. but good on you Paul. its a tough thing to do if you love video games.
That's why i'm not selling my ps1/ps2 games, I cant let go of them they mean to much to me. But the rest of the stuff is cool, just not as cool as ps1/2
Sounds like you had a difficult dilemma, but at least you found a happy medium. Much as I'd like to keep my whole collection forever, I've accepted that I also will have to give up a lot of what I collected at some point. Long as you have what you want most though, you'll be alright.
What'sup! And we are in 100% agreement
Honestly, I've started to feel very selective about what games I get myself. In fact, it got to the point where I would just buy multiple versions of the same games I like (usually from 5th or 6th generation systems) just to see what differences each version has, instead of buying new games I didn't want. And even then, I feel like I've gotten everything there is to get, so I guess all I can really do now is just mess around with everything I have now.
I'm with ya shnick, also, let's not forget how much emulation is everywhere... I got all my retro stuff on my pstv and I'm SO happy...
@@RETROGAMINGARTS I do use emulation regularly, though I still haven't tried to mod my PSTV.
Sometimes though I do run into a game I want to play, but it does not work properly on an emulator, which would force me to find an actual copy. Thankfully, this hasn't happened with a super expensive game so far.
Paul, your amazing!!!
Thank you for having my back doug, the support is invaluable to me
Collectors turning into minimalist intentional curators 👌✨ luv it
Good job. I support your decision.
Thank you!
I'm trying to be careful myself lol In terms of retro stuff, I currently own a Genesis/SMS, Dreamcast, SNES, N64, PS2, PS1, Consolized Neo Geo MVS and Wii. All I personally want left is an NES (Maybe a Saturn but I don't have a way to justify getting one, really just Panzer Dragoon and Shining Force games), basically my logic is get 1 or 2 physical copies I REALLY want per console, and use a flash cart for anything else. Happy with what I got so far. As well as RGB modding them if needed. Thank god going forward current consoles are pushing towards backwards compatibility for next gen, so I can get rid of my Xbox One and PS4 when next gen comes out.
thats great logic, most cost/space efficient and just equally as fun
You and I have the same thing in common. I see a lot of these guys collecting like CRAZY to complete collections for consoles and stuff. I have only ever bought what I like. I'll never buy a game because it's worth XXX dollars or whatever. I will only collect what I'll legitimately pick up and play. Collecting for the fact of achieving a goal of having everything may be good for some however it's not my cup of tea. This goes for consoles as well. I only buy the consoles I legitimately love to play.
So extreamly well said it's not even funny, I could make a whole video about this right here
@@RETROGAMINGARTS Yessir! Why not? I don't think this is discussed enough actually. I have watched a lot of vids and the only person who has come close to discussing this is John Hancock. He is noble though. He has a ton of stuff and plans to eventually donate it to a museum for the preservation of gaming. That is a justified reason for collecting everything as it has a long term positive benefit for videogaming as a whole.
@@IamMarkSmith "why collect video games?"
may be the title
@@RETROGAMINGARTS That is right to the point. Everyone's videos I watch I take something away from. I think a lot of people can take something positive away from this and possibly even ask this same question to themselves.
@@IamMarkSmith it's a topic i've been wanting to talk about for a VERY long time, so thank you for giving me some push to do it, I've been collecting for literally all my life, but now its getting the the point where its important, but not a main focus. I'm very happy with alot of what i have, and the experiences things have given me, but i've never been the type of person to have alot of stuff. and now i have too much (or had hahaha)
Awesome song! Streets of Rage 2! 🤠🍻
HELL YES!
Good job! Truthfully PS2 for me since it’s backward compatible for PS1 games. One of my fav fighting games is SF ALPHA 3. wish they would’ve port max over cause there were several characters that I want to use on big screen like Eagle.
YOOOOO! OMG!! Did you see my alpha 3 video?! WE LOVE ALPHA 3 HERE OMG!!
RETRO GAMING ARTS I honestly thing it’s one of the best in the entire series. The art and fighting style.
Let freedom ring man. If it makes you feel good then you did the right thing.
HELL YEEA!
sold some of my collection and regretted it. i can look at my collection and go down memory lane. every time i see sega mega cd boxes i drift away.
Shit son, I felt nostalgia reading your comment. I FELT that
10:22 true. i do this too. let other people be stoked about it too 🙂
Good taste with KOF mate! You played the resi 2 remake yet or nah?
Lol nevermind just checked out ya latest uploads and yes you have. Must not have showed up in my sub feed.
I'm all for seeing a video on an optical drive emulator. never heard of them
You got it then
Very cool that you know how to downsize rather than hoarding games/systems
looking back, i wish i didnt sell my vita! thats about the only thing lol, but its in good hands so i dont mind getting another one lol
I had a large xbox original collection, and I decided to sell all of it, games were getting too expensive, and they were getting harder to find, and most games were in bad condition, so I said enough is enough, I'm gonna sell off my collection and replace it with pirated games, now I will be able to build a full set, and I won't have to deal with Scalpers anymore, not to mention selling games for the price you want becomes differcult, and sometimes resort to selling games to scamming retro shops, which is counter productive, collector's don't have money to be throwing down the drain.
I find it weird that you have n64 games on your wall, but don't have the system to play it. Did you get robbed or something? You have and played Blitz 2000 so that means you used to have an n64....Also another question, what's your favorite Blitz out of the 4 that released for the n64? There's Blitz, Blitz 2000, Blitz 2001 and Blitz Special Edition.
Btw i dont know about that optical disc drive emulatoooor. make a video about it please !!!! 🙀
Will do!
I'm able to find cheap rare games. Hell, I got 4x copiesof DBZ BT3 and yesterday I got the $60 bundle out of that I got Hunting Grounds for $5 with SNES system.
What a score!! Nice!
I have been selling off my retro games but keeping my Turbo 16 and Sega Saturn
Hell yes
cool video man!! this is L5zoneD, Triggyz friend!
YOOOOO
Thanks for checking me out in the real world. hahahahaha
If you would have gotten a TurboGrafx CD, you could of played Ys Book 1 and 2. It would of had to be a backup because it i very expensive, but still. Neutopia was a good Zelda clone and that was a Hu-card game. But most of the best RPG's only came out in Japan. It sounds like your too busy to learn a new language so I'll let it slide.
Everdrives plus OG consoles Atari 2600 to Wii, plus Wega KV36FV310 plus Spherex Xbox 5.1 = everything I need.... almost everything. I need a neogeo controller that'll do well for the wii...plus okay maybe a second wii for a retroarch mamebox using my spare KV27FS120... and a good controller for that... But that's about it.
“Fighters and RPG’s speak to me”
We hear the same voices man!
Side note: I know you are a FFXIII fan, have you seen what they did with the Xbox One X 4K upgrade?!? It’s bananas!
WHAT!?? WHAT?!?! Dude i was gunna replay that game on PC so i can get better visual quality out of it, but pretty much now i hafto get an xbox scorpio is what your telling me, DAMN GREAT.. I sold my xbox1 already lmao
RETRO GAMING ARTS yeah need an x for the full experience, man!
Check out this article on eurogamer, gives full details on what they did. It looks stunning!
www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2018-final-fantasy-13-back-compat-analysis
Dito.png, no point to owning loads of things you are never going to want to use or play. Kept my faves for systems despite owning loaders for most
Also, you need a divider on that shelf, its not pleasant for them to bow
I completely agree. I'm happy to learn other people feel the same, oh and i built the shelf 2 years ago(made a video about it too) the wood was bowed to begin with, and it never bothered me. But due to some MAJOR LIFE changes, the shelf may come down
I see all these youtubers with these massive game collections that they keep adding to, and I often wonder why...What's the point? Are they collecting or are they hoarding? I like several of them as people and entertainers, but I have to question their voracity. There doesn't seem to be a common thread or theme with a lot of them. Metal Jesus is a great example. He releases "new pick ups" videos on a monthly basis and it will often be an amalgam of different games for different consoles. He'll have a new PS4 game, a SNES game, a Commodore 64 game, a Sega Saturn game, etc...In my old age I prefer to have a focus and a purpose to my video game collection. I really only buy games for a handful of retro consoles, and they are usually games that I either played in my youth or wanted to play but never got a chance to. I don't need 20 Atari 5200 games that I will absolutely never play.
You and me are on the same page my friend!!
RE4 on Wii is the best RE4 experience.
WHOOPS!
Collecting video games can be very expensive and take up a lot of space. A friend wanted to start buying a lot of Super Nintendo games because those were his favorite games as a kid. Not to collect them but to play them. I told him there was a way to get to play all the SNES games he wanted and not to have to pay a cent to get them and not have to store them. Download a SNES emulator and download ROMs of the games. He did it and said I saved him thousands of dollars. Plus I said no matter how many SNES carts of Chrono Trigger and Super Mario World he buys it is nothing new but exactly the same old game he remembers. I told him there are ROM hacks of these classics that hackers change the games and you can play new different versions of the games. There are fan retranslations of Chrono Trigger closer to the Japanese Super Famicom version and new versions where you can save Schala and one with a completely new area added. A completely playable 1999. I told him there are ROM hacks, at least a dozen of them, that are completely new versions of Super Mario World. The best reason not to get into buying a lot of original carts is you can play the games for free on ROM hacks on your computer with an emulator. I have told a lot of my friends the advantages of ROM hacks and they sold all their video games to get the cash and free up the space. All the Super Nintendo games you ever wanted on one little thumb drive AND completely new versions of old favorites. .
Don't even get me going on rom hacks, because of this story I want to make a video about my vita and show it to you. I got some really cool fan translations on there, and I beat FF6 on gba and it was a rom hack with upgraded sound + color pallet. I'm with you 100%
RETRO GAMING ARTS -glad someone is with me on the hacks. I don't want to discourage those who enjoy the collecting of the actual carts themselves and the thrill of the hunt at garage sales and thrift stores. But for those without money to buy the game carts or the time and patience to search and search for them and just want to play the games, SNES emulators and rom hacks are the way to go. Plus if you want to play RPG's like Final Fantasy V, Dragon Quest V & VI there are no original SNES carts because the games never were released here. A company called Timewalk games did put these games out on repro carts for those who want to play the games on carts on their Super Nintendo but that company is out of business and I have been told their repro game carts sell for over $500 now. So if you want to play those games they are only on ROM hacks with fan translations which can be more faithful to the Japanese Super Famicom game than cleaned up and dialog changed Nintendo releases.
I've had a similar experience, recently. It's very liberating to dump clutter and clear your mind.
liberating is a great word to describe it
those shelves are warped theyre making me dizzy lol
been standing strong for 2 years haha, They're going to eventually hafto go.. you'll find out why in a few months
@@RETROGAMINGARTS cant wait to hear it lol
Watching in 2023 wondering how much it would be worth now
Do you like def jam fight for NY? Its a fighting game
YOOOOOO!!! HELL YEA°
So what were the 4 games you regretted selling?
My hacked ps vita, and I forget the games so maybe I don't regret them. I do regret selling the vita tho, so i bought the exact one i sold lol
@@RETROGAMINGARTS Damn, I was going to ask you about offloading the hacked vita too haha.
Listen to Mario, very few ODE videos that are done right ;) I especially would like too see them...
Then you got it!
The Collections D,:
ARE GONE, SO MUCH IS GONE
Optical drive emulator vid plz
Will do!
I have one game system, 8 games and that's it 😁
did marie kondo get to you as well? haha
Thank you for everything by the way DLH, but marie kondo sounds familliar, i have no idea who she is. I just googled her though, very pretty
@@RETROGAMINGARTS shes in a show on netflix about re-evaluating what things are really necessary and trashing + reorganizing stuff in homes. My whole family started throwing stuff away after watching it, and apparently thats pretty typical.
@@DLH112 LMFAO! Damn son, I've been doing marie kondo without ever even knowing about her... I've always been like that
Bare knuckle 2song🤟
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It's me
Imagine you waited until this year to sell? That 14k would have been like 25k
I actually sold off the last bit of my collection very recently, just made a new vid about it too, lol, and yea, the money was very nice
@@RETROGAMINGARTS nice!
SOD&MOD😁
I feel the opposite about RE4. I thought the controls handled better on ps2. You want to be really mad try the Wii version
soo you started watching the girl show from Netflix i think is called "tidying up" ?? and encouraged you to sell everything? hahah
I dont have Netflix and I dont watch tv or movies (Except southpark, I watch every episode, huge fan)
But I know who your talking about cuz someone else mentioned her LOL, the cute asian girl right?
@@RETROGAMINGARTS yeah that's the one
i need a modded console from you
I will be posting some modded ps2s for sale on instagram and facebook in the future
My only retro consoles are my Gamecube and 3DS, and I only have my 3DS because I can do so much with mods. Other than that I'm fine with Switch and PC. I used to have a pretty big collection of PSX, PS2, GB, GBC, GBA, N64, Dreamcast, Genesis, Wii, and Wii U. But I could get all the games I played on those elsewhere, there just wasn't a point in keeping them.
it sounded like you said when your friends weren't there you were sobbing......i had to rewind it 3 times lmao..i'm a little retarded i guess was funny though
He gets very "feels" when we don't show up and play fighting games with him LOL
Sell it all and just emulate bruh
Bad Apple
Great ear
Why is War Gods on display? That game sucks.
Man oh man, I cant even begin to tell you about the greatness that is wargods