Do you keep your old consoles?

[aj3292]

When you buy a new console, do you keep your old ones? If you have a lot of them, what solution do you use for keeping them stored/organized without overwhelming your space? I live in a small apartment and don’t know how I’ll find space for both my current console and a next-gen console.

[SpursforSix]

When you buy a new console, do you keep your old ones? If you have a lot of them, what solution do you use for keeping them stored/organized without overwhelming your space? I live in a small apartment and don’t know how I’ll find space for both my current console and a next-gen console.

Just clean out your rape closet and I think you'll have space for all your old equipment.

[TDMVPDPOY]

pawn it, ebay, whatever... just get rid of it, use them funds to buy new console or whatever

[LaMarcus Bryant]

I keep it for nostalgia purposes. Big cardboard box on a top shelf in my closet.

[baseline bum]

Keep that shit. Gaming on old consoles is cheap and you'll never exhaust the great games on any halfway decent console.

[FrostKing]

Still have NES, Sega and PS1

Let my Mexican friend borrow my old PS2 and without telling me he used it to upgrade to a PS3

I recently gave my old PS3 to my chicks younger brother

My Xbox1 is sitting in my closet collecting dust. I've logged in a handful of times the past 12 months

I use a MacBook but kept my Asus just to have windows for coding purposes

[resistanze]

I hope my NES and 30 games are still at my parent's place....

[Reck]

I dont give a shit for nostalgia tbh.

I always give my old consoles to cousins and such. I may keep certain games though but not for Nostalgia sake. I see it as a once in a lifetime keep sake.

Like for example, I have the original Shenmue game that came with 4 discs including a "passport disc" that was supposed to work online.

[apalisoc_9]

no. but I wish I had my ps1, ps2 and ps3. I miss those badboys.

Lots of memories. Specially ps1 and ps2.

I'm actually thinking of buying an old tv and buy ps1 and ps2.

Was looking at Kijiji (Canadian Craiglist) for some cheap 2000 TV but really cant find one.

[ElNono]

I don’t, tbh, gave most to my nephew. Some of them I can’t even remember where they ended up. After moving I left a lot of the oldies behind.

[Bynumite]

Still got my Sega Master System II and original Game Boy collecting dust in my parents house, my Xbox 360 as well. My brother gave away our PS2 to a friend iirc.

Haven't touched them in years besides the 360 though.

[spurraider21]

Still have my ps2, ps3, and n64 tucked away

[aj3292]

It never occurred to me to keep them for nostalgia reasons. I’m not a very nostalgic person. I just would keep mine because I still like the old games. It kind of surprises me how many people keep theirs, but don’t necessarily use them.

[spurraider21]

i still think N64 is the GOAT party console, and its my go-to anytime my buddies are over

[lefty]

I hope my NES and 30 games are still at my parent's place....
So they still have it?

Or did you end up buying the NES Mini?

[resistanze]

So they still have it?

Or did you end up buying the NES Mini?

No clue tbh. It's either in their basement or gone.

I have retroarch, that's enough for me tbh

[lefty]

No clue tbh. It's either in their basement or gone.

I have retroarch, that's enough for me tbh
https://media1.tenor.com/images/b3d5d12d24479426582a01741912e9de/tenor.gif?itemid=16002000

[spurraider21]

i still have my ps3/ps2/n64 in a box with my parents back in LA. they have storage space and i havent felt the need to ship any of those over to the east coast yet.

[DMC]

I have an Intellivision from the 80's (my first gaming console), original Atari 2600, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo series, all the XBox series and PS series. My son has the older ones. He's a game developer and displays them. I recall having a console called "Odyssey" but don't have it.

[Reck]

I wish I’d kept my Dreamcast. It’s the one console I bought almost every games of.

Gave it away to cousins once I moved on to Sony.

[Xevious]

I'm pretty sure all of my consoles dating back to the Coleco are boxed away either here or at one of my brothers' houses. I was actually in the process of selling off a lot of my Dreamcast, PS2, and 360 games before the crisis hit just to declutter.

[DMC]

I have an Intellivision from the 80's (my first gaming console), original Atari 2600, Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo series, all the XBox series and PS series. My son has the older ones. He's a game developer and displays them. I recall having a console called "Odyssey" but don't have it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Magnavox-Odyssey-2-Console-Set.jpg

This is what I had, my first gaming console (only had tank pong style racing and a generic pac man like game.) Late 70's or early 80's, cannot recall exactly.

[SpursforSix]

This is what I had, my first gaming console (only had tank pong style racing and a generic pac man like game.) Late 70's or early 80's, cannot recall exactly.

You said earlier that your first console was Intellevision.

[koriwhat]

my first console was a genesis... one of my favorites was my 3do though.

[DMC]

You said earlier that your first console was Intellevision.

This didn't belong to me personally and I didn't take it when I left home.

[baseline bum]

my first console was a genesis... one of my favorites was my 3do though.

Damn Genesis was legendary. Hard to believe it didn't sell well in Japan while it crushed here. And then the exact opposite situation with the Saturn.

[koriwhat]

Damn Genesis was legendary. Hard to believe it didn't sell well in Japan while it crushed here. And then the exact opposite situation with the Saturn.

Yeah I loved my genesis but hated when my brother would use it when I wasn't around. Lol

[ElNono]

Wish I've kept my dreamcast

[ElNono]

Tho I recently added a new console to my collection ;) , so don't really have room...

[baseline bum]

Tho I recently added a new console to my collection ;) , so don't really have room...

They made a new Vita?

[ElNono]

They made a new Vita?

damn, you're in the loop

[140]

Tho I recently added a new console to my collection ;) , so don't really have room...

nono pls

[lefty]

Alright imma gonna get a Genesis Mini

[baseline bum]

Alright imma gonna get a Genesis Mini

Don't forget to get the Tower of Power.

https://www.destructoid.com/ul/567119-Sega%20Genesis%20Mini%20Tower%20of%20Power%204.jpg

[lefty]

Don't forget to get the Tower of Power.

https://www.destructoid.com/ul/567119-Sega%20Genesis%20Mini%20Tower%20of%20Power%204.jpg

Nah Im good lol

[SpursforSix]

This didn't belong to me personally and I didn't take it when I left home.

I remember being pretty jealous of my friend with Odyssey. I had the Atari. He didn't have a lot of games but they were all good and made the Atari graphics look like shit. Then Intellivision came out and made both of them look like shit.
Here's the baseball comparions in order of Atari, Odyssey, Intellevision. I remember Odyssey baseball being pretty good.

https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/1/15568/548982-home_run__1978___atari__1.png
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/drC32mUDbPM/hqdefault.jpg
https://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/images/1970s/79_Mattel_Intellivision/Intellivision_games-mlb_baseball_small.jpg

[SpursforSix]

Don't forget to get the Tower of Power.



Bend over, I'll fucking show you the Tower of Power.

[DMC]

I remember being pretty jealous of my friend with Odyssey. I had the Atari. He didn't have a lot of games but they were all good and made the Atari graphics look like shit. Then Intellivision came out and made both of them look like shit.
Here's the baseball comparions in order of Atari, Odyssey, Intellevision. I remember Odyssey baseball being pretty good.

https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/1/15568/548982-home_run__1978___atari__1.png
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/drC32mUDbPM/hqdefault.jpg
https://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/images/1970s/79_Mattel_Intellivision/Intellivision_games-mlb_baseball_small.jpg

Intellevision was the shit but I couldn't get used to that damn controller.

[SpursforSix]

Intellevision was the shit but I couldn't get used to that damn controller.

For real. And you owned one. Imagine having a 2600 and then going to play Intellivision at a friend's house.

It may rival the Atari 5200 for worst controller.

[baseline bum]

It may rival the Atari 5200 for worst controller.

Can't believe that thing didn't fucking center. God Atari was a joke after the 2600.

[SpursforSix]

Can't believe that thing didn't fucking center. God Atari was a joke after the 2600.

What I can't believe is that they actually (presumably) had people trying it out and thinking that was a good idea. And I'm not sure if they had big plans for the keypad but I think I had only one game that used it.
They would have been wayyyyy better off just using the old 2600 joystick. The games themselves were good enough to compete.

As I'm typing this, I remember how hard fucking Joust was because of the controller.