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The Episode 120 rerun will stream at 5pm ET! Join me in the chat!
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pizza pie for lunch today? 🤔

pizza pie for lunch today? 🤔

pizza pie for lunch today? 🤔

Dang!  Caverns of Mars here I come.
 

Would the Professor from Gilligan's Island qualify as a nerd? 🤔

Yes Murray of course! Riptide was cool and I wish it had run longer. I don't want to tell you how old I was when Dwayne Wayne came on the scene, but school was on my mind and to me Dwayne Wayne was "a cool nerd" who embraced his nerdom, felt okay being smart, but at the same time wasn't depicted as a loner - he had friends, was fun to be around and also ended up with Whitley.
Maybe we should do a Riptide rewatch in the forums if it's available for streaming or on YouTube.

I really liked him in the Mandalorian, but now he’s no longer with us. RIP

I really liked him in the Mandalorian, but now he’s no longer with us. RIP

For me it's always been the history. I feel like I've come at this from an interesting trajectory, and from before I could connect with anybody on the internet. I've always been rooted in 2-D gaming. Atari, Nintendo, Sega, and TurboGrafx have been mostly enough to carry me through the 21st century, with the occasional Nintendo Wii, Switch, or VCS game. It's also not necessarily "nostalgia" - I'm not trying to relive the past, I've just always enjoyed playing the games.
That's really cool that you're going to Thailand. I hope you'll share some pics from your travels! 

Thanks, Justin. We have a 2.5 week trip to Thailand coming up in about five weeks.
I'm really hoping that my joy from connecting with retro games will more way more about playing and much less about collecting. I'm trying to reverse that balance I had going on for way too long.

Thanks, Justin. We have a 2.5 week trip to Thailand coming up in about five weeks.
I'm really hoping that my joy from connecting with retro games will more way more about playing and much less about collecting. I'm trying to reverse that balance I had going on for way too long.

"'The flip side is that I will focus my collection on Atari consoles and computers and a little bit on other systems from the 80s" -- welcome to my world! I hope the downsizing goes well and you and your wife enjoy your vacation 🙂

I dropped off the games this afternoon, and received a little belated Christmas gift from the ladies who bought the games.
I have been thinking about buying an Evercade EXP, and today, I was gifted a dust cover for the handheld. I might really need to buy the handheld for my lonely dust cover 😂 I have such a weakness for handheld gaming. The metal Atari sign is cool. She also gave me the AD&D Intellivision cartridge and a 2600 cleaner.

Combination of a couple of things are prompting me to reduce my games collection. My starting point is nearly 5,000 physical games across multiple consoles and handhelds.
First, I started my game collecting knowing that I would have to downsize later. The "later" came a few years earlier than I anticipated 🙂 Like Rick, the collection downsizing is driven by moving to a smaller home later. Now we aren't yet selling the house anytime soon, but I do need to raise some capital to fund college tuition and vacation. I volunteered to my wife that I would reduce my game collection to raise some funds.
Second, during the past year, I learned that what I loved most is all things Atari and the games and systems from the 80s. That realization has helped me to make the decision to reduce the collection of games for systems from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Don't get me wrong. I love all the games for the PlayStations and Xboxes, but in order to raise funds, reduce the clutter, and make room for other stuff in the house, it was best that I reduce my collection. I'm starting with the PlayStation games because they are the most valuable part of my collection. In the coming months, I will need to figure out what to do with the Xbox games.
The flip side is that I will focus my collection on Atari consoles and computers and a little bit on other systems from the 80s, most notably the Amiga which I bought from Rick last year. With shelf space freed up, I can better display my Vectrex, 5200, 7800, and Jaguar games.

I dropped off the games this afternoon, and received a little belated Christmas gift from the ladies who bought the games.
I have been thinking about buying an Evercade EXP, and today, I was gifted a dust cover for the handheld. I might really need to buy the handheld for my lonely dust cover 😂 I have such a weakness for handheld gaming. The metal Atari sign is cool. She also gave me the AD&D Intellivision cartridge and a 2600 cleaner.

Combination of a couple of things are prompting me to reduce my games collection. My starting point is nearly 5,000 physical games across multiple consoles and handhelds.
First, I started my game collecting knowing that I would have to downsize later. The "later" came a few years earlier than I anticipated 🙂 Like Rick, the collection downsizing is driven by moving to a smaller home later. Now we aren't yet selling the house anytime soon, but I do need to raise some capital to fund college tuition and vacation. I volunteered to my wife that I would reduce my game collection to raise some funds.
Second, during the past year, I learned that what I loved most is all things Atari and the games and systems from the 80s. That realization has helped me to make the decision to reduce the collection of games for systems from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Don't get me wrong. I love all the games for the PlayStations and Xboxes, but in order to raise funds, reduce the clutter, and make room for other stuff in the house, it was best that I reduce my collection. I'm starting with the PlayStation games because they are the most valuable part of my collection. In the coming months, I will need to figure out what to do with the Xbox games.
The flip side is that I will focus my collection on Atari consoles and computers and a little bit on other systems from the 80s, most notably the Amiga which I bought from Rick last year. With shelf space freed up, I can better display my Vectrex, 5200, 7800, and Jaguar games.

For me personally, it is a long story, but I'll summarize as follows:  My wife and I have a big house in which we raised children that are all grown and flown.  We would like to move to a smaller home sometime in the near future.  Single story, one we can stay in for a long time.  That means downsizing our stuff across the board. 

Man, I'm so proud and a little bit envious of you!  I need to do the same, but not sure if I can 🙂 
 

@RickR Because of the size and value of my collection, I spoke to Kelsey from Pink Gorilla, and she told me to simply drop it off. I also asked her questions related to taxes. I spoke to one other store owner in the Seattle gaming group, and he told me that he doesn't have the capital to buy my collection.
Because I haven't sold off any of the more valuable pieces and am not simply offloading junk, I am hoping that I will get 55%-60% of market value. That was the guidance that I got from one of the other local store owners.

Happy New Year. 
I hope you share how those sales to the local gaming store go.  I've been contemplating doing that as well, but I don't know how that even works. 
 

Happy New Year, all the best for 2024! 

But it is out!

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Happy belated birthday @Justin 🎂🥳