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

Goodbye Old School Consoles - Round 2

I've been hanging onto my old consoles since I got them way back when and I've been telling myself it was for nostalgia. These were my childhood and a part of me didn't want to let them go. Now that the first two rounds are complete, I realized I never needed them in the first place. The memories of playing the games and the fun I had playing solo and with friends is better than having the consoles and games themselves. Having them just sit around is only serving one purpose: taking up space.

A second thing I learned is that because I had good taste in games and took care of my stuff, even when I was young, they're worth a lot of dough today! When I started eBay pricing them, I was amazed at the value they came up to. The original Mega Man for the NES was my top game so far coming in at $61, but even some of the ones I figured were common, like Link to the Past, went for over $50.

Anyways, I titled this post round two and it's actually a bit late because most of the second round, the Super Nintendo games, have already sold. Tomorrow, when I get my next batch of monthly free listings, I'm going to list the last 3 games (Donkey Kong Country trilogy) and the console itself online and it will be complete. I didn't list the DKC games with the rest because I wanted to play through them again. After playing some of the first game and all the way through the second, I decided it was enough and I'm ready to sell.

I do have to say, this round began bringing up some hard feelings. This includes my copy of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past which, if you've seen my other posts, was a very special game to me growing up. However, I've decided to part with the original because I also have the GBA version (with Four Swords) which I plan on keeping. So any time I want to play this classic (in a non Minecraft sense) I can fire up my DS (which I'm also keeping) and relive the original.

DKC 3 Time
(flash+disposable camera=bad photo)

Back when the third Donkey Kong Country game came out, Nintendo Power had one of their contests to send in a photo showing your fastest completion time. I played my thumbs off and pulled in a time of 3h37m to 103% complete. I must have made duplicate prints on the photos because I still have a copy. Anyways, I send this in and my name is in one of the issues of Nintendo Power. I know I've got the issue of NP somewhere out in the shed, but that box is still buried. When I run across it, I'll take a snapshot of it as well. It wasn't until my name was published in this list, however, that I realized 103% wasn't "complete", that 105% was. I've since beaten it to that amount by using a code to turn off the checkpoint barrels in the levels (meaning you have to complete an entire level in one shot).

Once I'm through pruning down my games, my Nintendo Power and Strategy Guide collection is next to go. I was a long time subscriber of that magazine from the end of the NES era through the Wii and still have every single one. The oldest of which are in page protectors to keep them clean even... I'm weird, I know.

So, for posterity, here is my complete collection from the Super Nintendo.

• Donkey Kong Country
• Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest
• Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie's Double Trouble
• Mega Man X
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Vegas Stakes
• Super Mario All-Stars
• Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
• Super Mario World
• F-Zero
• SimCity
• SimCity 2000
• Monopoly
• The Magical Quest: staring Mickey Mouse

Next round: the Nintendo 64.

Goodbye Old School Consoles - Round 1

After over 25 years of gaming, I've finally decided to part with my old consoles. It is definitely not an easy decision to make as these games represent much of my childhood, but something that I need to do. I'm not going to get rid of 100% of everything, but the vast majority of it will be sold, especially the oldest generations.

To start things off, I dug out my original Nintendo Entertainment System and fired it up. After sitting in storage for nearly 18 years, the console fired up like it was nothing and worked just fine. In fact, all the games I put in worked good and those with memory still had the old save information. I did have to either blow our or re-insert all of them a few times, but they worked in the end.

It was a lot of fun playing these oldest games of mine again. Lots of memories. Everything is currently up on eBay right now so wish me luck.

For memory's sake, I laid everything out and took photos to remember what I once had. Here is the first phase of my collection sell-off: the NES.

• Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt
• Super Mario Bros. 2
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Kirby's Adventure
• Mega Man 1
• Mega Man 3
• Deja Vu
• Gyromite
• RBI Baseball 3
• Double Dribble
• Blaster Master
• Dr. Mario
• Captain Skyhawk
• Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy
• StarTropics
• Tetris
• The Legend of Zelda
• Zelda II: The Adventures of Link