Debating dumping most of my "collection." thoughts?

[bartre]

well, i moved into an apartment recently, and i'm starting to realize that i just have too much stuff.
I'm not in need of cash, i don't have any real debts, other than my student loans, which i'm having no trouble paying.
I just am feeling like there's not a point in having all these games when i'm never going to have time to play them all.
example, I've never beaten super metroid, I have a copy, i could even finish it in about 1/2 an hour from where i stopped playing; I just haven't.
example II, parasite eve has proven to be one of my favorite PSX games, but i've never beaten it, i always get to disc II, then i get distracted by one of my other games and forget what was going on.

so, i'm just curious, what do you fine folks think?
should i purge nigh completely and keep only 10 or so games for a given system?
should i hoard and just keep buying games so i can put them in a box or on a shelf?
should i ditch full systems and keep only 1 or 2, but keep all of the games for those systems?


WHAT DO?

[Tatsujin]

I DO NOT KNOW, HUMAIN!!

[albatross]

keep it all! and box the stuff you wont use - if there is no need to sell then why bother - unless the boxes take up too much space i suppose...

[Sparky]

Nah don't do it man, apartment for now but I bet your goal is to move into a house in time and that's when "man cave" happens. If you don't have the room dump it on your folks until you have the space, as the best times are inviting people over to hang and play in that one room us males eventually get

[albatross]

agreed - no need to sell so figure something out for storage - no regrets!

[PunkicCyborg]

I say keep it all. You never know when you will get the urge to play something you wish you didn't sell and buying it back might be more expensive than what you got it for originally.

[esteban]

Keep it. However, nobody is forcing you to keep buying stuff.

Take a break from purchasing and just play your existing library. I've been doing this for years. It is totally fun. 

[jeffhlewis]

I rent 3 storage units from my apartment building for the sole purpose of not getting rid of anything. If you divest that collection you're going to regret it dude (not to mention that re-acquiring it is going to cost you 4x as much). Buy some Rubbermaid bins and store that shit until you have a bigger place.

[TR0N]

Sell what you don't playing any more and keep the rest.I wouldn't get rid of it all because if you miss playing it,then it can become costly to buy it all again.

[TheClash603]

Sell all of the games on this forum at sharp discount to fellow members.

[_joshuaTurbo]

Sell all of the games on this forum at sharp discount to fellow members.

No, Raffle everything. 

[bartre]

heh, actually for the most part it has already past the point of being 4x more "valuable" than it was when i bought it.
i am toying with the idea of storing it, but i refuse to rent a unit, and my folks wouldn't allow me to store it at their place (they've always been kinda down on the whole gaming thing)
though truth be told, i'm most likely to trim the fat a bit and then do nothing

[PunkicCyborg]

All those pcbs take up too much space, I'll store them at my place for you You can play them when you come down for a nice FL vacation.

[JapanTokei]

Don't dump everything, like everyone already said, you'll regret it later on in your life (when you have some extra time on your hands / disposable income, etc).

I do know the trouble with limited space / not enough time to play them though (that's the situ I'm in now!).  So what I'm doing are forcing myself to cut out most of my "nice to haves".. and only keeping things I want to keep forever, etc..  it's not an easy exercise to choose which goes where, so I used the "will I enjoy playing over and over / will I be able to invest the time to play this title fully, when I will actually have the time to do that??" question.. 

[Necromancer]

should i ditch full systems and keep only 1 or 2, but keep all of the games for those systems?

This.  Trim down to OBEY or GTFO.