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When you were young did your parents ever just throw away your video game systems and game boxes?? The proverbial saying "Yeah, my mom threw out my baseball cards when I moved out of the house." Well that saying just doesn't go with baseball cards but VIDEO GAME STUFF AS WELL!!! My parents had collected Atari before I was even born they threw away all of their boxes but a half of one that they used to hold the manuals in Frogger. My parents also gave away a lot of stuff too like the Timex Computer which was used to play video games kind of like a dinosaur of handheld video games. As late as the year 2002 my parents threw away video game boxes particularly my Mother! who deemed that since they were just cardboard they were worth NOTHING! Well MOM your WRONG! Haha Video games are worth way more complete and above all else its just sentimental to say wow! I have a complete in box EARTHBOUND in mint condition like new! (Sadly I don't at this time) Parents from the Atari age just don't understand that video games are of value especially games from there era!!! Sorry for some of you that are on here and are Atari area (but I was born in 1983 so I am still part of that era). My father worked for a place called Lionel Playworld (I so wish he still did, I really need a time machine to stop myself as a kid and my parents). I bet everyone that had parents like mine wishes they had a time machine to go back and give yourself at a young age and your parents a smack in the back of the head! I know some collector's out there they parents did keep everything! But for us collectors who didn't we are picking the slack up now finding anything we can in the box (except for the occasional collector who doesn't care about the boxes-SHAME ON YOU!).
But ANY THOUGHTS?? Let's talk and just relieve the horrible memories and relax and then think about how things have gotten better since!
ALSO SHAME ON PARENTS THAT THROW AWAY STUFF STILL TODAY!!!
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I dunno why I'm experiencing deja vu with my response, but I threw away the boxes to my NES games back in the day.
I've only myself to blame.
Actually, since I wasn't a teen of means, a good portion of my meager collection was second-hand, most of which I got from an independent game-trading shop less than a mile away from my house. I only wish it was staffed by a friendlier bunch of folks. I dreaded asking the clerk any kind of question, 'cuz when I did I'd usually get a look as if I should already know the answer, and that I'm wasting the guy's time.
On the upside, I could play any of the games in the store before buying them.
But, back to the topic: I did my own throwing away of boxes.
Um, I did mention that, right?
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yes u did mention that and more this time! Thanks Zag!
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My dad would ritually throw away toys and such that he considered unplayed-with. He was like a ninja when he did it. Sometimes he would do it after I fell asleep at night, or even wait for me to start my daily one-hour dose of video games. But his favorite time was Sunday mornings, when he would wait for my grandparents to take me and my siblings to church, then rifle through my stuff with a Hefty bag. I lost more cool stuff that way than actually breaking it or getting it stolen (such as my beloved Tron tabletop game).
The worst part? There was no hiding spot safe.
He stopped doing it when around 1992 after my sister and I bought a SNES, but the pain is still real. I NEVER throw away my sons game boxes. I even catalog his games for him.
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