(Brief aside before we begin: post on the group blog from the 13th! It's an overly-technical, highly obscure ramble about a program for getting better looking 8-bit paletted images, and yet another thing I found interesting from the PageMill CD-ROM. Just figured I'd mention that before we get started. I gotta get better at letting folks everywhere know what I've been up to.)
So for well over ten years now, I've been putting off selling my games. The flipside to my dash over the past two years to play everything I own is that I want to see what's worth keeping and what's worth selling—but then I got to the selling part and just put it off. It seemed like a lot of work, and a lot of interacting with people, and ehhhhh. I even got the business card of a local game reseller I encountered at that local geek con thing from January, only to be flat on my ass for most of February.
Anyway, in the last two months before the last Wales trip for a while, I suddenly got a rush of motivation to get this stuff done and start clearing out space in my room. Arguably, the best time to do this financially would've been during the retro game bubble early in the decade, but I'm really not out to gouge anyone and I'm not all that interested in what money I can get for anything. "I know what I have" culture is why assholes sell MP3.com DAM CDs for $60 apiece, and the CD-ROM samplers for $200. No, courtjester116 in Vancouver, Washington, it's not worth that and I don't care if you have 100% positive feedback. You're a prick. I'll give you $10 for it.
Nevertheless, to price stuff out properly, I have been taking stock of what I wanna sell and checking some eBay sale checkers (not what people are listing games at, what they're actually selling at) to see what's worth listing on its own, and I've been weighing my options for the rest as lots. I have a working Model 2 Genesis and a smattering of loose and boxed games, all of which I've tested. I have a coffeemaker box full of mostly loose NES games, most with sleeves and some with manuals. I don't have an NES anymore to test those. I'm also looking to lighten the load on my PS2, GBA, DS, and 3DS collections.
Like I said, I've been in touch with a local guy who buys and sells retro games at various places, and he'll be the first one I let see what I've got. If that falls through, or I just don't like the numbers he gives me (I'm okay with being lowballed in exchange for not having to ship out 200 packages across the country), I'll start listing lots on eBay or through my mom's Marketplace account. Everything will go, and I will enjoy the space and some extra cash.
