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mojoeskateco:
I'd be sad to see your collection downsized.

You have my favourite collection / set up out of all the collection shots I've seen on this site.

My advice would be:

1. Get insurance

2. If you're still having fun collecting and displaying it then keep doing it.

3. If space is an issue you can always choose to not display everything at once. I recently moved about 200 nes games into a closet to free up space for some other stuff.

4. Don't worry about playing them all. My plan is to play lots of my games when I'm old and retired but I realize I'll probably never play them all.

5. If you don't need the money for something else then keep em

6. If you're going to sell a bunch of your stuff wait until early next year because I'm getting married in November so I'm broke right now and can't afford to buy any of it ;D

7. Do whatever will make you happiest

I'm thinking of doing a purge as well and getting rid of some high value items that aren't worth their price (ie Flintstones 2 for NES). I could sell that and buy something I'll actually play with that $.

Your collection has no filler in it from what I see so it may be hard to get rid of anything.

Good Luck !!

Dravenae:
I think you should do what you want to man, asking other's what you should do is pretty mute and void, as we can only talk for ourselves.

I think if you want to down size your collection mate, just sell the clutter of games that you don't/won't play, or haven't even played or have even a remote interest in playing. Be realistic, and completely honest with yourself. The "I might play it though" factor may come into play, but you have push past that man.

My collection has just reached 300 games. My want list has about 100 - 150 games on it, but I'm being realistic. Anything that's not new that's over 50, I won't be buying the physical copy. I'll just buy a digital download of it if I can, and if I can't, I'll go without. That's my outlook when collecting. I want I Ninja, Conker's Bad Fur Day, and Demon's Crest, but I can't afford to pay near €100 or more, for a used game.

I was going to collect for the Wii U and PS4 this generation, but the more I think about, the more I'm leaning to collecting for just one console, which feels very fucking liberating, I must say. I'm only collecting for PS4 this generation, only buying the MUST HAVE Wii U exclusives (Zelda, Metroid, Xenoblade), leaving everything else to the wayside.

Do what makes you happy man. Life is too short.

EDIT: I thought it worth mentioning that I'm not a collector. I don't buy games that I don't intend on playing. If you're a collector man, keep your stuff.

You said that you live in New Orleans, so with hurricanes and floods being a very real threat, you have to ask yourself; would you rather sell the game and make some money, or keep the game with the chance of that game being damaged and completely worthless? This obviously doesn't apply to any games that you absolutely adore, just to the ones that you're thinking of selling.

Again, I just want to say that I am not a collector, so I can't relate to your felling's towards your collection or collecting in general, so my opinion may be completely mute and void in regards to this topic. I suppose having the opinion of someone on the other side of the collecting poll might be insightful? (LOL).

SnesGuy:
I think everyone goes threw this. Sadly I'm a huge classic RPG fan and that can get expensive.

I'm constantly selling things and just did an almost 200 item purge.
You would have to pry my SNES RPG collection and my Genesis tower from my cold dead fingers.

Besides that It's all novelty to me. Maybe you should just really think about what you want to collect and downsize. I know it can get really out of hand because one item can lead to another and suddenly you're collecting vaguely game related items like figurines/toys/etc.

I constantly have to make myself stop and think about what I'm buying

e_brugal:
Keep your collection, i personally am not seing my collection as an investment and not planning to sell any of them, but what i don't buy is toys, figurines, swords, masks, etc. Those are the ones that reduce the space that you need to display your games.

So if you desided to sell somthing in my opinion only get rid of the memorables things (toys, figurines, sword, masks, etc)

Just an opinion :P

Dravenae:

--- Quote from: SnesGuy on September 01, 2013, 01:07:57 PM ---Maybe you should just really think about what you want to collect and downsize.

--- End quote ---

This is solid advice.

I was planning on collecting for both the SMS and DC, but after the novelty and the excitement wore off, there was only 5-6 games on the SMS I wanted, and 10 games on the DC that I wanted. I couldn't justify the purchase.

SnesGuy's advice falls into the same line as what I was saying, only collecting for one console this generation. It's pretty liberating, thinking that I'm missing out on all the expense of collecting for all three consoles. It means I have more time to play games, collect for the systems I already own, and more money at my disposal. I'm looking forward to a time where my want list consists mainly of PS4 games, with one or two Mega Drive, Game Cube, or PlayStation games thrown in.

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