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  • 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.

    • I know the feeling, even when I never experienced it beforehand (I wasn't the cousin just to be clear).

      Did your cousin at least took care of it?

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. :(

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

  • I have kept most of my Nintendo systems, but I sold my GameCube and now I regret it.

    Games are still playable on my Wii, but I would have modded the GC to load games from a sd card to make it more future proof, as the disk reading part is the most fragile.

  • I semi-sorta regret selling my Gizmondo, but really, anything it can do, the PSP can do better. Plus I've heard the system has been melting in users' hands due to its rubberized shell. It felt great in your hands back in 2008! Maybe not so much now.

    I kinda wish I still had my Atari 7800, too. Not a great system, but Rikki and Vikki suggests that it could have been pushed a lot harder than what we actually got.

  • My mom sent my Wii to family in the Dominican Republic, that was at the peak of Brawl... child me was never so upset.

    • Don't sweat it, Dominican Lou, Wiis are still pretty cheap. I've got like, three. The first was bought at retail price, the second cost me ten bucks. The third was left in a free bin, but the thrift store lady thought it was a mistake and demanded SOMETHING for it. She was happy with two bucks.

  • 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

  • A few years ago I had to sell my 2DS and my full Pokemon game collection, including a living dex on Alpha Sapphire, to make rent. I tried calling the store back to see if they had the Alpha Sapphire cartridge a month later, but they said it was against policy to allow me to run the games to see what was saved on each cartridge. Losing that one made me really sad.

  • 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.

  • I sold my Day 1 PS Vita a long time ago and I'm still pretty sad about that, it's not the same mind you.

    But I have managed to hold onto pretty much every other game console I've ever owned.

  • My brother and I sold our original NES and all of the games, just to buy Donkey Kong Country for our SNES. We got a VHS tape in the mail with a behind the scenes look at the making of the game and previews, and it convinced us to be stupid.

    Granted its a great game and I still have it, but it wasn't worth dumping our NES classics for.

  • Had to burn off a Sega Saturn with a huge collection of games, a Virtual Boy, and a top loader NES back when I was in deep financial trouble. Practically killed me.

  • I still have all mine. But I never play them. I mess with emulators though.

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