curl-6 said:
Yeah I'm the same, I keep all my old consoles cos I know someday I'll feel like going back to them to take a trip down memory lane. I actually recently unpacked my Wii U after it being in storage since 2018.
I learned this lesson young when my folks packed away my SNES when we got an N64, and after a year or so I kept asking if I could play the SNES and they were so confused, like "but you have the new one now, why go back to the old one" haha
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Back during the Funcoland days of the 90's, back when gaming was at its peak as far as innovation was concerned, I did like a lot of kids back then. I got rid of that old junk and used the money to fund games for the new console! I mean, after all, who the heck cares about 8 bit when you've got 16? Or 16 when you've got 64!
But that changed for me in my early 20's. I started buying back all that old stuff... and for pennies on the dollar. You should see my NES carts. On the back, the old Funcoland stickers are still there. Ninja Gaiden 3 for seven dollars. Megaman 5 for six. I even got a Sega Saturn in 2002, along with the 3D controller, two regular controllers, Panzer Dragoon 1 and 2, Nights and a buttload of other games for the grand old total of fifty USD. lol. No one wanted retro back then, because my generation, which was the OG's, were still in college and had no use for their stupid childhood. I was just ahead of the curve.