Had an original gameboy and carry case + 8 games stolen from the house once which made me paranoid about doublechecking locks ever since
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I handed out a stack of copies of SMB/Duck Hunt at a vhs swap meet we organized in an attempt to create a chill non-profit driven vibe but some wanker still bought my copy of Dudes for $2 and then put it out on his table for $20. That’s not even that good of a movie!
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It’s not videogames but in middle school I traded away a full set of Magic The Gathering dual lands. Each one sells for like $400 now.
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Will we never be free of the malign influence of Henry
I don’t remember trading games for games. Like ever. Or lending games and not getting them back. I did lend the first Dragonball tankōbon and never got it back. I learned my lesson and henceforth expected everything I lend to someone to be gone forever.
Not having many friends surely helped with minimizing losses. I did manage to receive a free copy of Firemen for SNES (one of the precious few that only saw localization in PAL land). I donated it years later to a youtube review show I dare not name. I think this game is worth something nowadays. Surely not as much as that copy of Elevator Action Returns I sold for 40 bucks on ebay. Or my vast collection of loose GBA games I sold in bulk for less. Or that complete copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga. At least I only paid five bucks for that one.
I am reasonably bad at coming out ahead financially in terms of buying and selling games, surely lost thousands of dollars over the years. But all is not lost. My loss is someone else’s gain. And I’m not doing it for the money. I don’t think. If I would, I’d have lots of regrets. I only have a few.
I realized I am at a point in my life where surrounding myself with lots of plastic cases doesn’t fill me with dread, it fills me with joy. Am I turning into “a collector” now? Oh boy. Maybe. I jokingly refer to those stacks of games as “plastic gold”. I am “an investor”. And I will probably lose a couple thousand dollars more, after I play those stacks and sell everything off again. It’s all a matter of timing. And I have none. But I might have a good time. Will I have regrets? I bet. At least a few.
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I traded all my best pokemon to a friend for some of his trash mons, with the purpose of deleting my save file so I could start over, and then get all the pokemon back once I had progressed far enough.
When the time came to trade back, he decided to hold them ransom unless I sold him my N64 controller pak for some reason. I relented and sold it to him for $6.
My mother found out later and got really angry at him and forced him to give me around $20 for it. I think I ended up buying another one later, which was about $29 at the time.
I can’t remember if he actually gave me the pokemon back
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reminds me of a kid i knew who was such a selfish dickhead, he asked his parents for a second game boy and pokemon red for xmas (having already had a game boy and having got pokemon blue for his birthday) so he wouldn’t have to trade with anyone
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I uh, definitely got a Game Boy Color (already owning a Game Boy Pocket) and a copy of Blue to compliment my existing copy of Red and wound up trading with myself. In my defense I’m not sure if I knew anyone who was into Pokemon at the time.
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he definitely didn’t have that excuse. there were a bunch of us playing pokemon, some of us had even rekindled old friendships from primary school thanks to pokemon trading! and at that time, he was still a part of the friend group (not for much longer, though this was more due to him generally being a boring, unpleasant person, rather than specifically the pokemon thing)
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My parents mistakenly got me blue and yellow thinking they were sequels despite already owning red. I wasn’t complaining but I never even touched blue.
Thinking about all the money I’ve wasted on multiplayer-focused games I’ve purchased over the years despite a long track record of not really playing online multiplayer games.
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boy I do now remember thinking how I was gonna get into Armored Core V/some Fighting Game
lessons in being honest with yourself to be sure
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