Accidental Sale

[bob]

Just a story I felt like sharing and maybe this will prevent somebody else from being careless like me.

I have a list of 10 or so games that I want to find locally.  Real common stuff that pretty much isn't worth the shipping it would cost to get from ebay.  This also gives me games to look out for at thrift and flea markets.

Anyway, one of those games was Atari 2600 River Raid.  After about a year (maybe more) of searching around locally, I finally found one for $1 about a month ago.  Great.

A couple weeks ago, I worked a flea market and set up a booth with a friend to get rid of some house stuff after a spring purge we did.  I had a box of spare Atari stuff that I brought for the sale.  One of the small 2600 consoles, some accessories, games I have in triplicate (at least), and some joysticks.  This box has kind of been my "catch all" for any atari crap I got that I didn't want.  Well, one day, I had put ALL of my joysticks in this box for some dumb reason.  The box sold.

I went to play river raid today and realized I didn't have any joysticks.

I am usually very organized with my cords/AC's/controllers/etc. and I can't believe I didn't put two sticks aside.

[gex]

Organization is critical when you're a hoarder. It's kind of a catch 22 because most people with tons of stuff are disorganized (like myself). I'm pretty sure the same thing has happened to me, except I haven't realized what it is I accidentally got rid of lol

[bob]

Organization is critical when you're a hoarder. It's kind of a catch 22 because most people with tons of stuff are disorganized (like myself). I'm pretty sure the same thing has happened to me, except I haven't realized what it is I accidentally got rid of lol

I am far from a hoarder, i try to keep it lean.  I think that's why I consolidated all the controllers in the one box.  At the time, I wasn't planning on selling it.  The stuff was just sitting there.  Then come flea market time, I said "well, I don't need any of this stuff".  All my other accessories are stored away in an organized box.  Just a misstep on my part.  ugh

[HuMan]

I accidentally sold my silver DOL-001 Gamecube and kept a junkier condition silver DOL-101 Gamecube, still annoyed about that.

[Necromancer]

I use a feka controller anyway, because 2600 sticks are poopy.

[SignOfZeta]

I use a feka controller anyway, because 2600 sticks are poopy.

Indeed. Some 2600 games can take on new life and become almost playable once you have a controller that isn't absolutely terrible.

[bob]

I use a feka controller anyway, because 2600 sticks are poopy.

part of the fun is negotiating those joysticks.  they add an element to already very deep gameplay.

[sirhcman]

I am far from a hoarder

The first step to getting clean is admitting your hoarding tendencies!

[Lost Monkey]

If you are going after Atari sticks, just skip the originals and go with aftermarket ones...

Slik Stik


StarFighter: (good stick, although the one in this pic looks like it was shit out by a bear)

[Lost Monkey]

I've done this twice with the same game BTW - Bonk's Adventure.. Still haven't figured out what happened with the 2nd one... but I think it was in an Express that I sold...

[SignOfZeta]

A hoarder doesn't accidentally sell shit. They rarely sell anything. He's obviously the much more popular "regurgitator" who got to buying and selling so furiously fast that he sold every one of his Atari controllers in a blinding haze of low end commercial vomiting.

The regurgitators drive me crazy, but at least the shit makes it back into circulation. Several of my friends are functional regurgitators. It's possible to live an almost normal life with this condition. Their friends will all have to learn to keep good complete Street Fighter or Bomberman setups around because regurgitators can't be depended upon to own anything they owned two weeks ago when they had every Street Fighter and Bomberman game and controller ever released and all the systems to run them. That was days and days ago. They are into Vectrex and tape decks now. Oh shit, wait, now it's GI Joes and NES. Oh well, that's better than that phase of buying bicycles too small to ride and burnt out JAMMA boards. I hope I'm paying attention if he gets back into Neo Geo and wiskey again. That was a fun month.

[seieienbu]

I use a feka controller anyway, because 2600 sticks are poopy.

part of the fun is negotiating those joysticks.  they add an element to already very deep gameplay.

Dealing with the default Atari controls are a large part of why I didn't like the system as a child.  I'd definitely recommend going for aftermarket controls now that you need new ones.

[SignOfZeta]

Yeah, I don't remember an immovable, fully rubber coated, octagonal joystick with no knob in the arcade versions of any of those game. It wouldn't be as bad though if there were because then at least the weight of the machine would work for you. On the 2600 you just have that puny base to hold meaning that you genuinely need strength just to tell (what looks a lot like) Pac Man to go left.

[TDIRunner]

I sold all of my old Lego sets a while ago.  I had planned on keeping one set, which was the oldest, and  meant something to me.  I was also sort of valuable because of its age.  When I sold the last of my sets, I was down to the smaller stuff that was difficult to sell individually, so I sold it off as a lot to one guy.  I forgot that the set I planned on keeping was in the box and now it's gone forever.  He got a pretty good deal too, because it was priced for the smaller less valuable sets. 

[SignOfZeta]

How the hell does a person keep track of their Legos by set? Are we collectarding that shit now too?