Vicman
09-23-2006, 01:31 AM
I saw this over at NeoGAf. Words just can't describe my feelings....
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=120780
I threw away over a dozen classic consoles and components today. What did I do?? #1 (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4396580&postcount=1)
I had the last bit of stuff to remove from my previous house which is being sold next week, and a lot of it was classic video game stuff. Thanks to a terribly cranky back and a sweaty, tired self, I made a snap decision at the storage facility to just shitcan this stuff once and for all. Now, I adore classic games. That's my era, the one I grew up in. I got the 2600 plus Combat, Breakout, Adventure, Circus Atari and Video Pinball in 1979 and have been in love with video games since. But do I need this stuff anymore? It's been following me around for years in boxes and boxes. Dusty and cobwebbed, maybe I'll pull a console out once a year to hook up to the TV instead of playing an emulator.
And yeah, I can play most of these games on emulators, so it's no huge deal. But I'm also a firm believer in preserving cultural items because once you throw them away, that's it, they don't come back. But **** it. My back was screaming.
Here's what I threw away, all in working order last I checked:
2 x Atari 2600
2 x Atari 5200 (1 two port, 1 four port)
Colecovision with 2 regular controllers and 2 Super Action controllers
Coleco steering wheel
SNES with adapter for SNES/SFC/NES/FAM
Professor SFII add-on for the SNES (allows you to play roms on a real SNES) plus about 1000 disks of roms
2 x Odyssey 2 with voice module
Intellivision mk1 with Intellivoice module
Intellivision mk2 with Intellivision computer + keyboard
Microvision handheld (okay, this was broken)
Fairchild Channel F
Bally Astrocade
In the garbage. For the record, I kept the Vectrex, TurboDuo, Sega CDX and all my games, of course. I'm not that stupid. So, should I burned at the stake in Gamerville, or lauded for throwing out a bunch of dusty plasic boxes which really have no major historical value?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=120780
I threw away over a dozen classic consoles and components today. What did I do?? #1 (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4396580&postcount=1)
I had the last bit of stuff to remove from my previous house which is being sold next week, and a lot of it was classic video game stuff. Thanks to a terribly cranky back and a sweaty, tired self, I made a snap decision at the storage facility to just shitcan this stuff once and for all. Now, I adore classic games. That's my era, the one I grew up in. I got the 2600 plus Combat, Breakout, Adventure, Circus Atari and Video Pinball in 1979 and have been in love with video games since. But do I need this stuff anymore? It's been following me around for years in boxes and boxes. Dusty and cobwebbed, maybe I'll pull a console out once a year to hook up to the TV instead of playing an emulator.
And yeah, I can play most of these games on emulators, so it's no huge deal. But I'm also a firm believer in preserving cultural items because once you throw them away, that's it, they don't come back. But **** it. My back was screaming.
Here's what I threw away, all in working order last I checked:
2 x Atari 2600
2 x Atari 5200 (1 two port, 1 four port)
Colecovision with 2 regular controllers and 2 Super Action controllers
Coleco steering wheel
SNES with adapter for SNES/SFC/NES/FAM
Professor SFII add-on for the SNES (allows you to play roms on a real SNES) plus about 1000 disks of roms
2 x Odyssey 2 with voice module
Intellivision mk1 with Intellivoice module
Intellivision mk2 with Intellivision computer + keyboard
Microvision handheld (okay, this was broken)
Fairchild Channel F
Bally Astrocade
In the garbage. For the record, I kept the Vectrex, TurboDuo, Sega CDX and all my games, of course. I'm not that stupid. So, should I burned at the stake in Gamerville, or lauded for throwing out a bunch of dusty plasic boxes which really have no major historical value?