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[-] redditron_2000_4@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

My Dreamcast… I had almost every game downloaded and there was so much choice I never committed to anything and got bored. It taught me a lesson about piracy and the value of attention.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Honestly, piracy for retro consoles is morally correct. Unless you're a collector, physical copies offer users no actual benefit beside "the experience," and only serve to wear down cartridge slot pins/plastic and CD drive lasers/belts.

The original developers are getting no money from retro sales, and people are scalping/overcharging retro games like crazy these days. In nearly all cases, the original publisher/developer no longer even offers these games for sales anymore. No proof of offering for sale means no moral claim to a lost sale. If you want to actually play a retro game, it is totally morally correct to just download it.

Of course it goes without saying, if by some miracle you can still purchse the game from the original developer or publisher, please do so. The developers deserve to get paid for their work, Joe Schmuck doesn't deserve to charge $900 USD for Panzer Dragoon Saga (good game, but not for that price).

Also, sidenote, I find a Dreamcast owner complaining about too much choice because of piracy to be highly ironic considering the Dreamcast lost developer support due to fears of lost sales caused by piracy lol.

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[-] HiddenRetro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Such an underrated console too!

[-] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

i gave away my dreamcast. 🤦‍♂️

[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

You chose... poorly.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Silver Gameboy advance SP - times were desperate, it ended up in a pawn shop.

Im sorry old friend

[-] HiddenRetro@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ouch. I definitely understand that.

[-] eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.net 8 points 1 year ago

Console, no. But somehow my parents convinced me to give away my copy of Pokémon Blue to one of my cousins. One of the dumbest things I've done, even if It wasn't entirely my fault.

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

On a totally unrelated note, I’m craving Jolly Ranchers

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Assuming it would still work after all these years, I regret selling my Apple IIc back in the eighties. I miss those simple games and emulators just aren't the same.

Reality is that it wouldn't still work and all those bottom shelf floppies that I used to liberate games would have long since degraded.

[-] BananaMangoShake@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My mom made me sell my ps2 (with a ton of games, even with the buzz controllers, microphones, etc.) for 20 bucks. I die inside every time I remember this lol.

She also made me sell my PSP because I "didn't play" with it. Important thing to say: my parents refused to buy me new games, I only had a few and once I completed them I stopped playing...

[-] MXX53@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

My modded PS1. It was the first hardware mod I ever did. It was a mess. It booted games sometimes, froze periodically. But, I would love to go back and fix the mod today and play some classics. I do have an unmodded ps1 mini with the attachment screen I have since purchased, but it just isn’t the same.

[-] gljo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I got an NES when I was 12 and my mom told me that I had to get rid of my Colecovision and games because there was "too much clutter." I tried selling it in the classifieds but I got no calls, so I wound up throwing it in the trash.

This series of events haunts me on a regular basis.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Not a console but I used to have a working Amiga 500 in the 90's which I got rid of in favor of a PC. Wish I'd had held on to that one.

[-] LazyBane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

When I was young my brother wanted to trade in our crystal xbox for money towards an Elite 360.

I made a stink about it because I didn't want to upgrade at the time, and I even ended up setting it up in the attic to try and avoid having it sold.

In the end Dad did end up trading it in... for 20p (good riddance to physical game shops).

Ended up getting my own crystal xbox as an adult, and I did end up playing Halo 3 ODST's multilayer disc religiously. Still, for 20p Dad?!

[-] Retrograde@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Fuck, 20p? My mum gave mine away when I was gone one summer and I was gutted.

How much did you pay for a used crystal boy?

[-] Circadian@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hear your pain. Game shops have always been rip offs with trade ins, and 20p? Can't even get a chocolate bar with that...

[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Twenty... pence? What is that, thirty cents in American money? You'd be lucky to get a piece of candy for that price these days. Yeah, Pops really got screwed on that sale. And so did you, by association.

[-] zoriel@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I regnet selling my Atari Jaguar. My Brother and i only had 3 Games If i remember correctly. One was Alien vs Predator and it was a blast. We sold it to buy a PS1.

[-] Squiglet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I regret all of them, but I needed money so.

[-] donuts@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I still shudder over the fact that my mom made me trade in my SNES and a bunch of games for store credit during the N64 era. I can't remember exactly which games or how many were traded, but I know that we only had enough store credit to buy Mario Party. I may need therapy to truly put this behind me.

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Donates mine to a children's hospital. NES, SNES, PS1, N64 and PS2 and a whole mess of games. My PS3, Xbox, hacked Xbox and 360 I kept till they all broke so they just got binned and the games given away to family and/or friends.

The only system out of all the consoles I currently want, and have wanted, but have never owned is Atari Jaguar with Jaguar CD. Someday...someday.

[-] goombakid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Trading my Neo Geo AES and some AES games for a modded PSX. Both me and my friend that sold the AES to me are both kicking ourselves.

I made up for it by buying a 2 slot MVS board and consolizing it...and getting a 4 slot MVS cabinet ages later.

[-] Pika@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Mine wasn't a selling console, it was a "I'm sure I can fix this" and it was my old original Fat PS3 with backwards compatibilit. Back when I was first looking into technology as a hobby/passion, my ps3 stopped working, me being ignorant decided "lets take it apart to see if anythings burnt", well I never put it back together again when I was done saying I would do it later, I never ended up doing so, and while I still have what I think is most of the pieces, I'm 80% sure that it is missing pieces, but I also haven't had the time to do a proper once over on it.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

To this day I have my Atari 2600 and the CRT TV I played on as a kid.

I wish it were easier to find cheap carts.

[-] InterSynth@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Probably my OLED Vita, a few years ago. I love handhelds, and a hacked Vita is just a goldmine of content.
Though I'm getting a Switch Lite soon, so that will probably ease my pain a little!

[-] ThtCrzyBstrd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Literally all of my nintendo handhelds. My mom made me and my sister get rid of all of them when we bought PSPs. I was young and dumb, and convinced myself it was a fair trade, two GBA SPs and an original DS...

Fuck me, I was stupid. I miss my old Pokémon games.

[-] Voyajer@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I've repurchased the consoles I had when I was a kid over the past year.

[-] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Sold my Sega CDX and copy of Snatcher so I could be the first at my Toys R Us to buy the new console coming out in September, the Sony PlayStation. Part of why I did this was reading gaming magazines they released Snatcher for the PSX in Japan with updated graphics, so I figured they would release it in North America as well.

They didn’t :(

But it was cool playing Ridge Racer and Battle Arena Toshiden with most of the neighborhood coming to my house. And I still have the early-release demo disc with the T-Rex demo.

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[-] turbodrooler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My parents made me sell my original Gameboy before they would get me a Game Gear. I miss the way it sounded!

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Never personally sold any of my previously owned consoles, but I did "lose"* my Super Nintendo around 2001 and, sometime in 2011, my older brother messed up my PSone's lid and it "disappeared" shortly afterwards.

* This loss was either my mom or aunt getting rid of it because "nobody is using it anymore, it's just wasting space and gathering dust". The same end my brother's CCE Turbo Game (a brazilian famiclone) had when I was even younger

[-] JIMMERZ@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I regret selling my SNES and all the games I had with it when I was a kid. I needed the money short term but have regretted selling it ever since. So many good childhood memories were had with that console. :(

[-] Hikyuri@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My mum made me sell my Gameboy Colour, which was still in great condition, for a 10er at a flea market. Still get sad about it any time I think about it... Was my first ever console and probably the reason green is my favourite colour now.

[-] DarthYoshiBoy@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

My Virtual Boy.

My GameBoy Pocket, which I sold to get a GameBoy Color, which I sold to get a GameBoy Advance.

I do still have my GameBoy Advance, and I've upgraded it with an IPS screen and USBC rechargable battery. I just wish I had kept all my other handhelds so I could upgrade those too.

[-] DharkStare@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've been feeling this lately as well. I'll see people post pictures of display cases filled with all their consoles and it makes me regret giving away my old consoles when I bought a new one.

I especially miss my N64.

[-] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

My Atari 2600 with 80+ games. Only because I saw it sold for like $40k decades later lol.

[-] Jakorat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm still holding on to my commodore 64. I'm taking that thing to my grave

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I can't recall a console I sold that I particularly regrets selling, but only because I never really lost out on anything. It's not like I can't still play my favorite games or anything. Also, I eventually reacquired the consoles I sold over time, not particularly out if regret, but out of the desire to share the experience with others in the future.

Though, I did sell a Retron5 that I had, it was the SNES Grey version. While it wasn't exactly a retro console, it was pretty cool being able to consolidate all those retro consoles into one single device, and it looked pretty sleek too. I plan to check out a PolyMega sometime soon, I like their modular console idea a lot.

[-] iluminae@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Super Nintendo - I was in my mid teens and my mother coerced me into giving my Super Nintendo into my cousin, but I have regretted it ever since.

Coincidentally, Super Mario RPG remake is coming out in November and will probably make me feel fine again!

[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

My Super Nintendo can't Mode 7 properly anymore. I don't know what the problem is... maybe it needs a new graphics chip. Maybe it just needs the chip it's already got soldered down properly. You know how old consoles can be.

[-] Irv@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I returned a Gameboy Micro. I really want one now and I could have just kept mine from back then

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[-] hoodlem@hoodlem.me 2 points 1 year ago

I regret selling my Wii. It was all set up with homebrew too.

[-] Darc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Also Dreamcast but for a different reason than most. I learned it played burned games by default 10 minutes after I sold it.

[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It gets better, homeskillet. The system can be augmented with an ODE (optical drive emulator), opening the door to tons of games. Even Atomiswave games, which are basically the same as Dreamcast games, but not released for the Dreamcast!

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To date, I've never sold one. At times it makes me feel like a hoarder, but in all honesty I do semi-regularly go back and play my old systems.

Edit: and/or repair -- my NES works again.

Shes a 'beaut.

I regret selling off my games and hardware over the years for upgrades. I wish I had my childhood Gameboys still. But alas, it gives me something to collect todat

[-] JasSmith@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

My biggest regret was selling my original Game Boy to buy some HotWheels set. I got bored of it and always regretted selling the Game Boy. I recall some pressure from my parents about bad eyesight or something. I learned my lesson: never listen to my parents.

[-] ilovetacos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes and no. I had a modded Sega Saturn with a ram cartridge that I traded in to afford a Dreamcast when it came out. I love the Dreamcast so it wasn't a bad trade, but I do wish I still had the Saturn too.

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