RetroGaming

My Dreamcast… I had almost every game downloaded and there was so much choice I never committed to anything and got bored. It taught me a lesson about piracy and the value of attention.

Silver Gameboy advance SP - times were desperate, it ended up in a pawn shop.

Im sorry old friend

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.

On a totally unrelated note, I’m craving Jolly Ranchers

Assuming it would still work after all these years, I regret selling my Apple IIc back in the eighties. I miss those simple games and emulators just aren't the same.

Reality is that it wouldn't still work and all those bottom shelf floppies that I used to liberate games would have long since degraded.

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...

My modded PS1. It was the first hardware mod I ever did. It was a mess. It booted games sometimes, froze periodically. But, I would love to go back and fix the mod today and play some classics. I do have an unmodded ps1 mini with the attachment screen I have since purchased, but it just isn’t the same.

I got an NES when I was 12 and my mom told me that I had to get rid of my Colecovision and games because there was "too much clutter." I tried selling it in the classifieds but I got no calls, so I wound up throwing it in the trash.

This series of events haunts me on a regular basis.

When I was young my brother wanted to trade in our crystal xbox for money towards an Elite 360.

I made a stink about it because I didn't want to upgrade at the time, and I even ended up setting it up in the attic to try and avoid having it sold.

In the end Dad did end up trading it in... for 20p (good riddance to physical game shops).

Ended up getting my own crystal xbox as an adult, and I did end up playing Halo 3 ODST's multilayer disc religiously. Still, for 20p Dad?!

I regnet selling my Atari Jaguar. My Brother and i only had 3 Games If i remember correctly. One was Alien vs Predator and it was a blast. We sold it to buy a PS1.

Donates mine to a children's hospital. NES, SNES, PS1, N64 and PS2 and a whole mess of games. My PS3, Xbox, hacked Xbox and 360 I kept till they all broke so they just got binned and the games given away to family and/or friends.

The only system out of all the consoles I currently want, and have wanted, but have never owned is Atari Jaguar with Jaguar CD. Someday...someday.

Trading my Neo Geo AES and some AES games for a modded PSX. Both me and my friend that sold the AES to me are both kicking ourselves.

I made up for it by buying a 2 slot MVS board and consolizing it...and getting a 4 slot MVS cabinet ages later.

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.

Not a console but I used to have a working Amiga 500 in the 90's which I got rid of in favor of a PC. Wish I'd had held on to that one.

I regret all of them, but I needed money so.

My Atari 2600 with 80+ games. Only because I saw it sold for like $40k decades later lol.

My mum made me sell my Gameboy Colour, which was still in great condition, for a 10er at a flea market. Still get sad about it any time I think about it... Was my first ever console and probably the reason green is my favourite colour now.

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. :(

Also Dreamcast but for a different reason than most. I learned it played burned games by default 10 minutes after I sold it.

My parents made me sell my original Gameboy before they would get me a Game Gear. I miss the way it sounded!

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.

Sold my Sega CDX and copy of Snatcher so I could be the first at my Toys R Us to buy the new console coming out in September, the Sony PlayStation. Part of why I did this was reading gaming magazines they released Snatcher for the PSX in Japan with updated graphics, so I figured they would release it in North America as well.

They didn’t :(

But it was cool playing Ridge Racer and Battle Arena Toshiden with most of the neighborhood coming to my house. And I still have the early-release demo disc with the T-Rex demo.

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.

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!

Literally all of my nintendo handhelds. My mom made me and my sister get rid of all of them when we bought PSPs. I was young and dumb, and convinced myself it was a fair trade, two GBA SPs and an original DS...

Fuck me, I was stupid. I miss my old Pokémon games.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

My biggest regret was selling my original Game Boy to buy some HotWheels set. I got bored of it and always regretted selling the Game Boy. I recall some pressure from my parents about bad eyesight or something. I learned my lesson: never listen to my parents.

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.

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.

I had curated perfect-to-me PS1 and PS2 game collections, and had the later, smaller versions of both systems. Both whole collections fit in a bread box, but I gave both away to save space. I cannot believe how much I regret that.

i actually regret getting rid of my wii u. it had a solid library of games and i sold it to gamestop to buy overwatch and a couple other games during a steam sale. only years later did i learn that the wii u is probably the best console for playing the entire nintendo catalogue. rip.

I can't recall a console I sold that I particularly regrets selling, but only because I never really lost out on anything. It's not like I can't still play my favorite games or anything. Also, I eventually reacquired the consoles I sold over time, not particularly out if regret, but out of the desire to share the experience with others in the future.

Though, I did sell a Retron5 that I had, it was the SNES Grey version. While it wasn't exactly a retro console, it was pretty cool being able to consolidate all those retro consoles into one single device, and it looked pretty sleek too. I plan to check out a PolyMega sometime soon, I like their modular console idea a lot.

Not retro, but I sold my Nintendo DS, and copy of Platinum and Heart Gold for like $30 in high school. Probably got McDonald's with the money. I regret it so much.