Do you keep your old gaming consoles?

[the2real4mafol]

spurgeonryan said:
Keep it. These days all that stuff is so hard to find. One year you see it everywhere and within a year your out of luck.

People were dumping Dreamcast items like crazy a few years back. Now good luck finding that it Saturn stuff in stores. Online sure, but it's getting more expensive.

This past year N64 game prices skyrocketed! Just a few years back I was able to buy the entire library plus some Japanese only games easily. Now that would be a small fortune.

Don't get rid of them, they're priceless. Find something else to dump.

I made a mistake and did not get an Apple II system while I had the chance. Old private schools were dumping them like crazy as they finally cleared out their storage. Now you may find one for a thousand dollars on eBay. Games are another issue. Floppy disks used to be at every pawn shop or thrift shop you see and no one wanted them. Now find even a few games.

Keep it!

I think you may have just pushed me over the fence!  Cos there's something else I didn't say in the OP, but I've really got into emulators lately as well and thing is 5th gen consoles like the Saturn (and any since then, apart from Gamecube for some reason) emulate like crap.

I actually found the Saturn in a carboot sale and got it for £10, which certainly wouldn't be possible now! Anything for the system is rare as hell now and some of the games like Panzer Dragoon literally go for hundreds. Just got Shenmue II on Dreamcast for £52 a few weeks ago and thought that was expensive! Ironically, I think my love for the Dreamcast made me love the Saturn.