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It won’t be long now, not at all. In about 10 hours of the time I  have begun this blog post, my auction for the Cybervirus Cinciclassic Edition Lynx Cartridge will be complete. In a past life, this might have been a little bit sad, to get rid of something in the collection that realistically, not only will you never buy again, but that you may never even see again. But in this case, not really.

I noted this on Facebook the other day and had about three or four people look at me (from a virtual comment sense) like I had crossed eyes or something, but simply, I do not count myself as a video game collector anymore. Now by no means does this mean that I don’t still love video games, count it as at least a part of who I am (less than before, family does that to you), and still get games that I want to play. It just comes down to a few things.

1. Some of the stuff in my collection is just too expensive to keep. Take this cartridge I’m auctioning, it’s a great example. It may go for well over $100 before it’s all said and done. The last one that was auctioned, based on limited research, went for over $165. I think it’s cool to own it, but it’s just not that cool when you have other needs and you don’t think you will realistically play it soon.
2. When you’re single, you don’t ever believe that you’ll use an excuse like “Well, I have a wife and kids now”. Except one little problem. When you do have the wife and kids, you find that this excuse usually is where it’s at. Anthony’s formula is worth more than my rare game, that’s just how it is.
3. It’s getting harder to play the old stuff on new TV’s and newer hardware. Sad to say but it’s just simpler now to use emulators for a lot of the really old school systems, and in some cases, newer systems too. They give me more options, and with the adapters out now (which I am a huge fan of), you can play with the original controllers and still have that feel. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not 100% all in on everything being digital, but if I can have a way to play it where I control the rights, gray area or not, I can deal with that.
4. Time. This is probably also partially under the “wife and kids” moniker, but there’s not enough time to enjoy it all. There’s time to enjoy bits and pieces, and time in between for some aspects of it, but not to enjoy all of it. It just hits a time where it makes more sense for someone else to have it as part of their own collection.

So if you see me post on a few more cool things I am selling, don’t sweat it, it’s really not that big of a deal. Until I actually have the time to, I don’t know, complete something, I doubt I’ll feel bad about selling that game that I know I won’t get to play soon.