MrRed made me think about my childhood. And you know what, Mom? I'm bitter.
You see you made up this rule that I could only have one game system at a time. Which means I had to sell ALL of my NES games, system, and accessories in order to even buy an SNES. Granted, any 10 year-old at the time should have been thankful to own any system, let alone the newest and best one. And let's face it, probably half of my friends remained or became my friends because I had Super Mario World.
This trend continued to the following generation. After doing my "research" (consisting of my Nintendo Power magazines and an infant internet full of low-res images), You made me sell my 30+ SNES games and system in order for me to buy a N64 on launch day. Which in turn was sold with its library when it came time to buy a PS2 before leaving for college.
I'm sure you had good intentions about teaching me the value of money at the time. But Mom, I've grown up now and I can do maths. Your logic is flawed.
Keeping in mind the horror of actually realizing the details has caused me to black out some of my game collection, there are two major issues:
1) I estimate I owned close to a hundred games between the 3 systems. A lot of which, especially in the SNES collection (not even counting Chrono Trigger and FFIII(VI), are worth more than $20 today. Our garage sales never sold any of my games for more than $7.
2) I've never stopped playing them, so I'm still having to buy them back in some form at more than we sold them for.
But Mom, I have the last laugh.
The entire time you told me I couldn't have more than one system, you had forgotten about the Atari 2600 hidden away in my closet. And I can still play MY copy of Combat any time I want, even past my bedtime.
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I had to make a jar in my house when I was a kid to save money and try to get my family to donate money so I could get my first NES (The offer was if I could come up with half the $200, they would get it). So after what seemed like forever, I get it, and I wasn't even allowed to keep it in my own room. Then of course I had to sell it to afford to get a SNES, this was after the Sega Saturn was already out (I would have to go to my friends' house to play SNES and Genesis). It wasn't until the N64 came out, that I sold my SNES and was old enough to have a job by then, to pick one up.
Then I started to work at Sears and steal games, I still have at least 10+ N64 carts somewhere in my room. I made plenty of kids in high school happy when they could get the newest Playstation games for $20 still sealed. (I am going to hell)
I just typed enough up to make my own blog post, but its too late and im too lazy, sorry for taking up so much room.
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I SHOULD'VE BEEN ABLE TO TAKE THOSE AND TRADE THEM IN!!!! NOT HIM!!!!
Knowing that some schmuck out there that has my original copies of SMB, Dragon Warrior, Gumshoe, Castlevania 3, and Gyromite (R.O.B. has never left my side), it just upsets me.
But...I got lucky this time...sort of. I didn't have to sell teh Gamecube now that I got the 360...
Kotua, better late than never on securing your game collection. I guess every kid that collected something (baseball cards, comics) growing up has a similar story, but these are damn expensive baseball cards to buy once, let alone multiple times.