I love me some classic gaming action.  Unfortunately it takes up a lot of space, so stuff gets disconnected and put in closets and then just takes up space and never gets used.

Also, I have a couple hundred non-played games even if we just look at stuff for consoles released in the last 12 years.   I am catching up on my backlog, but that’s still a lot to think about.

So:

Game systems I’m planning to keep around:  The Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, Xbox, 360, Gamecube, Wii, TurboDuo, GBA, DS, and PSP.   Maybe some extremely select titles for earlier systems, but ye gods, that’s still a lot of systems being held on to.  I’ll have to do some title trimming – how many racing games do I need?  Do I REALLY need to keep Darkstalkers and Vampire Savior for the Saturn when I have the Vampire Compilation disc for PS2?  That kind of thing.

What’s not being held on to (actual progress!):

Sold, paid-for, and shipped: The Atari 5200 and all carts, the Intellivision & all carts.  All the Commodore 64 and Colecovision carts.  Most of the random LCD handheld games.

Sold and waiting on payment: The Atari 7800 and all its carts.

Put-up on eBay and waiting for bids: All the Atari 2600 and NES carts.

Once those are gone I’ll have met my goal of reclaiming 1/4th of one closet.

That leaves, and some of these will take some thought:

Master System.  Famicom.  Genesis & Megadrive.  SNES and Super Famicom.  3DO, Jaguar, Jaguar CD, N64, Virtual Boy, 32X (Ok, I only have one game, and no system), Atari 8-bit, SegaCD…  Lynx.  Game Gear.

Those will be more tricky.  All the arcade compilations have made dropping pre-NES systems not too painful, and I didn’t own a NES until it started showing up in thrift stores, so I don’t have much attachment there…  but starting from the Genesis on it’s going to be a bit harder to sell off in bulk.

Oh, the terrible problems modern fanboys must face, oh the anguish, oh the suffering.