eBayer sells video game collection because he's getting married

I don't see the big deal so some guy is selling his game systems. It isn't like they are that important, they're just toys not the difference between life and death. I have alot of systems from the 2600 to the current gen systems and besides the current ones I don't play any of them anymore. I have emulators and roms for that, I can't see myself plugging in a nes just for some metroid when I can do the same thing on my PSP. Like someone else said when you grow up your priorities change. I don't believe my wife would ever "make" me sell them mostly because we don't need money that badly and I don't think I would get enough to justify my time fooling with the flea-bay thing anyway.

OMG! She's the devil!

If your girl aint a gamer, or can't at least accept and tolerate your gaming habits then she aint worth it! I have spoken.

Thats a nice gesture of love, but personally I would have told her we can't afford a honeymoon but we're gona play Wii tennis and Halo 2 all night.

Hehe, reading some of these comments shows how many joystiq posters have never had a gf :P

I didn't read the tone that the girl made him sell his games, though it does happen from time to time. More likely they're moving into a smaller place together, and he simply doesn't see the need for his collection. A true succubus that wants to tear him away from his gaming would've made him sell his 360, PS3, Wii, DS, and PSP, which he's stated he will keep.

I can't agree with Dirk more. As your life goes on your priorities change. I used to be extreme hardcore - Civilization all nighters, Starcraft marathons, beating HL1 from top-to-bottom in one sitting, etc. Nowadays I'm quite happy getting some Guitar Hero time in and playing a mission or two of Hitman a week.

There isn't anything in that auction that would indicate that the girl doesn't tolerate his gaming. I would think she does, especially because he's keeping all the new systems!

My girl ain't a gamer, but we do play some games together (Guitar Hero, and most of my DS games). Your don't have to date a gamer to keep playing games :P

After he gets over this infatuation, he's gonna wish he had married someone who doesn't hate everything he is.

Oh, I'm married since 2001, have many old systems and live in a one bedroom apt. The old systems just get stored away. Wife respects me enough to not be bothered with my primary hobby. If this guy is doing it for himself, he wouldn't mention getting married. He hopes she sees the listing and feels bad.

ok here is the senario i think will be played out. 2 years from now he has kids and after what seemed to be a great marrage turns into disaster when he finds out that the kids weren't his and she is in love with the dude at the cinnibon place. then she takes the dude to court and loses all his stuff to the woman he thought was in love with him. news flash THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LOVE. SEXY YES BUT LOVE; NO!!!!!!!!!!!! if i learned anything from my parents marrage, my brother's first girlfriend[a real peace of work]and the thousands of marrages ive seen than i can say marrage is a sham!

@54

You know that I read in Time magazine once that as many as 38% of ALL CHILDREN IN AMERICA have been fathered by another man other than the husband. Also "Love" is nothing more but lust in overdrive. It is only eccentric people who are not influenced by society's lies and smoke screens that figure that out especially if they are under 30 then they are truely a smart individual.

Damn, trading all those games for a single vagina...

If the girl had been the one that came up with that idea, I would have promptly shown her the way to the door and not invited her back.

SG

so basically what your saying is that love is only the 'urge to surge' in overdrive. there is no love between anyone! the only thing you feel is swaping tarter sauce. marrige? pfff the only thing marrage says is that you are legally bound to a person! after that than its basically you having a roommate for life. im only 16 and id rather have something that says we can legally hagout together and have sex. but im not a homosexual. i dont want to have kids and be a couple but i want to hangout and on occation have sex. thats all. all im saying is that marrage is just another way of getting money out of you and marketing off cheap crap to give to your 'lover'. long story short is if you want to 'marry': date someone that shares the same interests thats all cause in 5 years when everything goes down hill than you will say why the #%^& did i sell those!

I can respect what this guy's doing, because I've been there. And women are all that.

But with some years and experience under my belt, I kinda am more inclined to fall for girls who let me play my videogames and if they play them with me...

Well, that's just hot.

I wish him the best, but look at how many comments there are on this.

And I wonder: has she read these comments? I bet neither she nor he has.

Maybe they'll go on, to be fine, upstanding, non-video-game-playing people. But every woman I've been with who really liked me, she didn't care that I played video games. That would be like me not letting her ride her horse.

"Q: Not a question about the auction... but is there anything that you are keeping like a fav game and system Apr-07-07
A: Not of the old stuff. I'm keeping my PS3, Wii, 360, DS, & PSP. I really like the Vectrex, Saturn, & Dreamcast. For Fav games: Nights, Zelda:OoT, Mario64, Super Metroid, KOTOR, & Combat."

In other news, looking at those photos... there is no-where NEAR as many displayed as his inventory suggests, or did he hide a '1/10th of the collection' notice somewhere in there!

I wonder how many of her collections she's sold. Or how many of her hobbies she's given up, you know, bingo, clubbing, etc, so that she can raise some money.

Afterall, marriage is a partnership - if he's broke, she probably is as well, or he doesn't need to sell his games.

Bitch better be selling cookies or sumptn!

As for priorities changing. Fair enough, they do. But for the sake of all that's holy, doesn't he know how much more that collection would be worth in about 20 years?

NO WOMAN WILL EVER MAKE ME SELL OFF GEARS OF WAR!

believe it.

AAHAHAHHAHAHHAA that's the funniest thing i've read in a LONG time. btw, that chick is FUGLY!

#40 lando:
"This guy is definitely dealing with a Succubus"

Hold on, lemme see if I got tree-fiddy.

no woman is worth parting with Panzer Dragoon Saga, Radiant Silvergun, and the AES Metal Slug 3.

dude, once u find a beautiful woman that is as tight as a no. 2 pencil down there like i have ;) u will do anything she asks of u, including parting with ur precious panzer, radiant, and metal slug if u dont ur gonna be yanking ur slug all by your slug by your lonesome while shes in the other room and that is no fun.

If I needed the money for a honeymoon or whatever I would have no problem selling the stuff. After all they are just things, If it came down to it I would rather have the money than some dusty old consoles and games that I never touch. I sold my copy of Panzer Dragoon and used the money for something better. I was just a game disc and When I bought it it was regular price ($50) So if someone wants to pay 5 times that for something I haven't played in about 6 years that's fine with me. I can see that many of you are either too young or immature to realize what love is. That or you have been burned one too many times by a woman to realize that once you have someone you care about that cares about you too then all the silly kid stuff such as video games are not that important anymore.

If I had to trade my classic game collection (excluding current-gen consoles and my PC, just like the guy in this case) to finance a wedding, then I would consider that a fair trade. Just make sure to choose the girl carefully, don't act like a fool, and everything will be fine.

The ironic thing is that the more you love games and your game collection, the more likely it is that a girl will see them as a competitor for your affection, and be outspoken in demanding that you drop the hobby. The moral of the story is to keep priorities in order, and not let games appear to control your life.

@orange.micro:
"dude, once u find a beautiful woman that is as tight as a no. 2 pencil down there like i have ;) u will do anything she asks of u"

If she is as "tight a no.2 pencil down there" then what does that say about you?

For real, so many people who commented to this seem so quick to limit what a woman can offer as just sex. Maybe this is why so many women are turned off by "gamers".

"I don't see why he's selling it for a chick as ugly as his, if the chick was really, REALLY hot then sure. But a plain jane chick like her is not worth getting rid of a large collection :D"

Oh really? Let's see your supermodel girlfriend, dickface. At 415 pounds and 5 chins I'm sure she's a real looker. If you even have one, that is... and sorry but Japanese love pillows don't count.

"Also "Love" is nothing more but lust in overdrive. It is only eccentric people who are not influenced by society's lies and smoke screens that figure that out especially if they are under 30 then they are truely a smart individual."

Haha, could you possibly sound any more bitter? You know what, I'm pretty jaded about love too, but stop acting like you're better than everyone else because you're single. Just because YOU can't get a date who gives a crap about you doesn't mean love doesn't exist. What a pathetically self-aggrandizing notion.

"dude, once u find a beautiful woman that is as tight as a no. 2 pencil down there like i have ;) u will do anything she asks of u, including parting with ur precious panzer, radiant, and metal slug if u dont ur gonna be yanking ur slug all by your slug by your lonesome while shes in the other room and that is no fun."

Where did you find her, a elementary playground? thats just sick...


Congratulations! You have won a webby for the longest run on sentence in the history of sentences. You sir, are a winner at failing.

They should have just played Rez together



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at 71
and whats wrong with a single life? if you want sex than get a hooker. you don't NEED a woman to make you happy. all you need is a great job(follow your dreams) a nice house and be a good person! other than that: you don't NEED a woman! all women do is bring sorrow and ruin you life. if you find one that makes you happy than fine! good for you! but if you want to be alone than thats ok too! as long as you do SOMETHING in your life than thats all that matters. and you my fine friend. at least contribute something that goes with with the topic instead of your excuse to "try to top us" crap. thank you.

51. "Hehe, reading some of these comments shows how many joystiq posters have never had a gf :P"


71. "...Just because YOU can't get a date.."

Hmm...are you guys psychic or do you just favor illogical thinking?

It would be impossible to make an assumption like that off of the statements given.

Bad deal. Women come and go, but video games are forever.


Hope he got a decent prenup to help him buy all of this back when the divorce hits in a few years.

@ 33.

What an idiot!? What a LOSER!? - Chazz Reinhold.

Wedding Crashers.

Anyway, I think he did what he had to do and deserves respect for it. Maybe he needed money for the wedding or whatever. People sell collections all the time.

"and whats wrong with a single life?"

Absolutely nothing. If you had bothered reading what I said, I was attacking the fact that that doofus was acting like he was better than everyone BECAUSE he was single. Good grief, I hate it when people like you try to act all offended because I criticized one person who also happens to be single and you act like I'm attacking every single person who ever lived. I'M SINGLE TOO, genius.

"Hmm...are you guys psychic or do you just favor illogical thinking?"

Hmmm... are you retarded or do you act like a dick on purpose?

I never claimed that was a statement of fact. It was an educated guess based on the poster's attitude. Take 5 seconds to read what he said and you'll see what I mean.

@78 and all


Fine, since we are making "educated guesses" on people I conclude that you are rude and offensive.

But really....

This post is not about us as individuals; it is about a guy selling his game collection. So why even say that? This bothers me because its people like YOU that keep the social status of gamers down. What with terms like "anti-social" or "...Just because YOU can't get a date..". I don't want to be represented, being a gamer, like that.

*sigh* I wish we could live in a world where we would not embarrass ourselves but instead make gaming mainstream even more so. Hence fanboyism. That will probably never happen.

What really bothers me about all of this is that "marriage" and "video game selling" are mentioned at the same time. Given the guy could be selling them because he doesn't want them anymore or needs the money, etc., it just seems too convenient.

And as mentioned before, games are just objects that can be replaced. But the same kind of logic can be applied to significant others as well. When my brother's marriage didn't work out after 7 years, he got tons of the "other fish in the sea" comments. His wife could be replaced as easily as his old N64 in his eyes.

In the end, it all comes down to desire. If the guy wants the girl, he'll do whatever he can to get her. If he wants an atari, he'll do whatever it takes to get the atrari. All about desire.

I would never make a guy of mine do that. Heck, if anything I'd marry him BECAUSE he has a ton of cool, old-school games! :P

All I can say is... Down with oppressive girlfriends! I would make a better population of men, I think.

This particular case doesn't really frustrate me that much, but now and again I stumble upon auctions for old Commodore 64's and Atari's and I send off an e-mail asking why the stuff's being sold. When the seller replies that "My girl friend/wife wants me to sell it", it really pisses me off.

A car I can understand. If a guy's got some sweet, old ride standing around in his garage, it's taking up a lot of space, it's quite expensive to keep and will start falling apart if it's not taken care of. So, selling a car for the marriage is understandable.

Still, keep your damn games! I'm not gonna start some quasi-macho bullshit about not letting a woman control your life, but if anyone is making you sell off valuable relics like these, they are the f-ing devil...