Goodbye Old School Consoles - Round 3

Another round of games to sell has come and gone with most of the eBay auctions ending this weekend. This one, as expected, proved the most personally difficult so far as it contains many of my most memorable and favorites games. Round 3 was the Nintendo 64.

One thing I will say, however, is that this is not a complete sell-off of everything like the NES and SNES games were. I plan on keeping my N64 with some of my most-favorite games as I have a couple of friends who are interested in getting together and playing some of the old games. But still, I had the most amount of games from this generation than any other and the majority of them could go.

The complete collection of games that I'm selling.

The above image is of all the games I am selling. There were a few that I only sold because I have the same game on a later version. I have the HD version of Banjo Kazooie and Tooie on the Xbox 360 and I have Diddy Kong Racing on the Nintendo DS. Beyond that, the Turok games were the ones I debated about the most. These games were a lot of fun to play back in the day and have actually aged pretty well when I was play testing them to make sure they still worked. There is also Conker's Bad Fur Day and the only reason I'm selling this game is because I somehow wound up with two copies of it. I'm keeping the copy that has my completed game on it and selling this one.

So, what do my 'customers' consider the gem of the batch? Believe it or not, it's Mario Party 3. This one game sold for more than I ever expected it to. In fact, it's sold for more than any other game so far from any console. When I saw that, I was genuinely shocked. The only game I have left that stands a chance of topping it is Bad Fur Day (which ends this evening and is currently only $13 behind what Mario Party sold for).

Moving forward beyond this point, it's a lot of miscellaneous games from pretty much everything. I've got a good stack of PS2 games which I'm only selling because I have the HD version on PS3. I have a couple of PS3 games, some Gamecube games, a good stack of PC games and other various gaming items. I've looked into the value of what I have and I can say the highlights of my collection have already been sold. The newer stuff isn't worth as much as the older, but I also don't feel like holding onto them for another 15 years to see if their value goes up.

Looking past the actual games, I'll be moving into my collection of Nintendo Power magazines. I started subscribing near the beginning of the SNES era and stopped when the Wii was at it's peak. It's a lot of magazines that, like these old games, are just sitting there taking up space in my shed.

Thanks for reading and I'll catch you next time.
 

• Banjo Kazooie
• Banjo Tooie
• Diddy Kong Racing
• Cruis'n USA
• Mario Party 3
• Turok Dinosaur Hunter
• Turok 2 Seeds of Evil
• Turok 3 Shadow of Oblivion
• Turok Rage Wars
• Star Wars: Shadow of the Empire
• Forsaken 64
• Pilotwings 64
• Shadowgate 64
• Shadow Man
• Conker's Bad Fur Day
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
• NFL Blitz 2000
• Dr. Mario 64
• Body Harvest
• Wipeout
• Hybrid Heaven
• Mission Impossible
• Nuclear Strike 64