I used to trade aquire trade aquire. Never owning more then six or seven games. However after I bought GameCube I realized how many hundreds of dollars I had thrown away since NES. I traded in every 64 game I had and the N64 and still couldn't afford the GameCube which was pretty bad. So I worked all summer berry picking to afford my GameCube and SmashBros:Melee.
Honestly I was upset I believe I got like 120$ for my N64 and like four or five games. I realized after getting GameCube that all these years of trading had left me with nothing. Then I wanted to go back and play SNES and N64 and realized heck I didn't have them anymore.
I paid about 100$ per N64 title and sold them back to EBGames for like 30$ it was a loss of 70$ per game. That just wasn't worth it. So today I have all my GameCube games still I have traded in only a hand full of Wii games. I tend to hang onto any game I deem worth value.
In the end I will hoard my games from now on and in 20 years I can still go back and play the games I loved back in the day. I will not repeate the mistake of trading everything in for the latest games. I will instead continue buying new games and consoles and holding onto them.
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
