Hello, I was just thinking yesterday how many games get thrown out every day. There are videos all over YouTube about GameStop Dumpster diving. I just hate when people throw away video especially older video games. I wish people understood the value of the games. I just want to go to every house in my neighborhood and say do you have any video games that you are going to throw out.
lol, in Latvia most of us got a famiclone when we were like 5 years old. ( About 10 years ago). But then, when you didn't use it for a week or longer, your parents would just throw it without saying anything to you ( Probably thinking, that you have grown up). It happened to 2 of my friends and I live in a small city. So sad when games get thrown out, it's just like throwing out paintings.
I believe that the defunct UK game shop Gamestation destroyed its stock of retro games before it was sold. I was a bloody shame as some Gamestations had a brilliant retro selection!
I was thinking about that too. Like how many broken game consoles (that can be fixed relatively easily) are sitting in landfills. Then I stop thinking about it, because it makes me sad.
I was diving in the trashcan of the 2 Gamestops in my previous city every Sunday morning. It was perfect, it was all of their trash for the week, and nobody was there until noon. I took SOOO much stuff. Now I live in Chicago and most people here live in trashcans so I don't want to disturb their home.
I still haven't fully forgiven my parents for chucking away my NES and SNES without my consent. And then my dad lost my N64 when I went to uni. Grrr!
I throw away 100's of games each year but they are all sports games or war simulations For cartridge games I gut the cartridge and keep them for replacements or home brew games printed on to PCBs.
If you know how to fix broken consoles, go see your local independent used game store, they may well trade you stuff for repairs, I have done a few SNES fuse fixes, RROD fixes etc for a guy I know in return for stuff I want of his.
lol - i am going to make you puke a little .... i threw away (as in : tore up the box, took the disk/cart, stuck it in a bin) -at least- 500 games in a cleaning fit. The GBA Castlevania games and metroid games were amongst those - i'd just reached "BIN ALL THIS STUFF" stage of cleaning madness. I still don't regret it - whole collection was a fecking millstone - glad it's all gone.
man, could have at least put it all in a box and sold it as a box of junk or something. At least when I throw away games it's sports shit which should exist in the first place IMO.
I did that for some of the previous batches where some went to sick (ill) people but i just got to the point that i needed to purge
Ive got the people at the local landfill to keep an eye out for certain things that come in. I bung them a few quid and they grab what they think i might like. Got a few peoples collections that way.
As a member of the gaming community I revoke you of your gamer card. Can't believe more people aren't shaming you for being that wasteful.
My 2nd NES collection from around 1996-98 were entirely found from the garbage. It was about 30 games.
Yeah, I tossed all the boxes from the Game Boy games I got. Too bad, cause I could probably sell the first three Pokemon games for like $500 apiece complete (may be an exaggeration). I literally would have paid you to ship that. If you get the urge again, put it in a box, and I'll give you my address.
If I see another copy of International Superstar Soccer or F1 World Gand Prix in Cash Converters I'll buy them and throw them away my self.
Bin in my games room is constantly full of shit old games that make their way to the tip; there are only so many copies of Fifa 2005 a person can own!
Fun fact: I spent way too long looking for copies of FIFA 2005 for the review I did. I kinda expected that for the PS1 since it was the last game released for it stateside, but I had to go to like 4 stores to find a PS2 copy of it! It was only like $2.50, but I had to look in more than one place!
