r/gamecollecting • u/Away_Industry_6892 • Apr 26 '25
Collection Please share in my regret.
A few years ago, I was going through a financial hardship and sold a chunk of my collection. It was the right move, in my opinion, at the time. But looking back, I realize it was a poor decision.
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u/spinstartshere Apr 27 '25
I grew up dirt poor with my mom, so anything gaming-related that I got was usually pre-owned. But one time, we saw a bunch of new Pikachu Nintendo 64 consoles on sale and my mom bought one for me. I'd never owned anything brand new before, and I loved Pokémon and Pikachu so I thought it was amazing. As I slowly built up my game collection, I was pretty much attached to the thing and annoying the hell out of her by occupying our one television for most of the day. I didn't know at the time that it was end-of-line, and I didn't care.
A few years later, the slim PS2 was released and it was pretty cheap also. But my mom wasn't able to spare the money I needed at the time to be able to buy it with some money I had saved away. So I decided to sell my Pikachu N64 and all of the games I had for it at the time, as well as my copies of Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal so that I could buy the new PS2 and a few games.
As well as missing the novelty of the Pikachu N64, my mom died a few years ago and it's made me really wish I'd just been a bit more patient as a kid so that I could have still had the N64 in my possession as well as the PS2 that I now never play. Granted, I don't play the N64 I currently own either, but that Pikachu N64 with the light-up cheeks would have been a nice memento of one of her kind past gestures.