Is it worth selling old games?

[Dave500]

Hi all!
Just been clearing some shite out and found my xbox 360, PS2 and PS1 consoles and loads of games. Now the question is do I sell them or stuff them away in the attic for 20 years and hope they become valuable. I don't really need the space and for what they are worth on ebay at the minute not worth the money, time and effort selling them.
So what would you guys do?

inb4 play them
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[RhynoCZ]

Not yet, wait.
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[recman]

If you don't need to sell, don't sell.

[grr666]

Why not wait 20 years? I have a chipped ps1 and a PSone plus 160 odd games (100 or so are copies) a 2nd gen ps2 plus about 50
games for that, and a couple of ps3's which are still running on my spare tellies and a ps4 on the ultra HD in the living room
(which looks absolutely fantastic graphically speaking). I will be too arthritic to press the buttons by the time I'm
ready to sell that lot but it's the only way to make any money on it. I'm also buying up cheap PS3 and PS2 titles
whenever I see them going for pennies. One day I will cash this lot in, but another 10 years minimum before I start.
PS1 came out in 94 so it's already over 20 years old
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[CaNsA]

I would sell or donate them.

The PS1 and original Xbox generation of consoles were mass produced to such an extent that you will still be able to buy them for buttons in 20 years time.

They are not like kit of old, Dreamcast and older.

Waste of time storing them in the hope that you will rake in big bucks.

[Dave500]

Thanks for your replies everyone. I think I'm just gonna put them in their boxes and put them back in the loft...as soon as I stop playing crash bandicoot haha. Hopefully they will worth a nice amount but I'm not holding out much hope.
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[chris-red]

[Baffler186]

some are really rare, for example Hogs of War on the PS1. I was searching for it a few years ago and there was nothing on ebay, markets etc. Might be different now but I'd say keep them. I did the same for a load of PS3 games and averaged about £4 per game. Not worth it really, I wish I'd kept them.
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[chris-red]

Also early versions of consoles are worth more, the SCPH1002 (I think) the first version of the PS1 in Europe is worth far more than the later ones that removed the component/parallel out etc.
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[GSTEEL32]

Have ROM websites and emulators not killed the market off?.

I appreciate some titles were rare, but very few were rare AND mainstream, making resell values low (relatively speaking).

I can't see the point, for example, of buying some 80's 8-bit technology, other than an ornament for the man cave.......

Saying that, I played chase hq on an emulator recently. .. twas bants .

[chris-red]

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[dydey90]

I have over 100 Xbox 360 games on disc that I'm not selling because they've cost a lot of money over the years and I could probably only trade them in for tuppence hapenny. I'll keep them, hope that a few are worth daft money in the future and maybe blow the dust of some of the better ones every now and again.
I did sell all my PS2 stuff, got about £45 for my whole collection. Only have the Jak and Daxter series left, so unless somebody realises how truly awesome those games are and offers silly money, I think I'll be keeping those.
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[Piercee100]

The hardware can go for silly prices. The software not so. I collect vintage equipment (Own a 1968 PDP 8) as well as lots of 70's & 80's micro's and they can be worth a fortune. However a games cassette is still 1 pound a go on Ebay. You cant even get a new cassette recorder these days- I know, I've tried. People sometimes collect because they like the box. cartridges are more reliable but take space. I recently was given a CD containing 2000 Spectrum games so I don't have to go through tapes. Most of the classic systems use SD cards now with custom adaptors built by collectors because disks degrade. One SD card can contain everything ever written for systems like the BBC micro, C64 or Speccy and everything is available to download from the web!

Again, I have maybe 100 systems stored in my house and garage and even though packaged well, many fail when brought out of storage for they're first switch on in ten years. Usually capacitors go pop in the power supplies but the boards can corrode, inbuilt Cmos batteries leak, disk and CD drive belts perish and snap.
CD's degrade as well, usually around 20yrs they seem to develop black spots making them unreadable. Cart's can last well if stored properly. Cassettes were not always the best from new and the same with floppy disks.
Who knows what the storage medium will be in the future? But after collecting for the last 25yrs I wonder why I bothered when emulators and replica's can do the same job.

Have you ever tried an old Nes console or Atari 2600 on modern tv's? Most don't even have RF sockets and if they do they don't like the old console's signal and the picture quality is appalling by today's standards. Twenty years from now that will be your composite or Scart socket!
I would say sell now, but write down the titles you enjoyed because you will easily be able to play these in the future at no cost using emulators.
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[Lord Percy]

[chris-red]

[andys675]

[mudcow007]

ive just thrown a dreamcast out, had the lcd memory card too

Oh an Atari Lynx (remember them) hand held dillyo, traded my old 360 games in an bought a Nintendo Wii

CEX will give you about 12p per game

[DrSnoosnoo]

[P.addy]

[DrSnoosnoo]

[chris-red]

I want to buy a dreamcast just for Shemue, I've never played it but it is meant to be excellent.


I just bought a NEW Mega Drive game Pier Solar
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Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
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[P.addy]

I don't have time for other games, I'm literally living on Destiny however that game does look quite immersive.

[chris-red]