RetroGaming

My Dreamcast… I had almost every game downloaded and there was so much choice I never committed to anything and got bored. It taught me a lesson about piracy and the value of attention.

Console, no. But somehow my parents convinced me to give away my copy of Pokémon Blue to one of my cousins. One of the dumbest things I've done, even if It wasn't entirely my fault.

Silver Gameboy advance SP - times were desperate, it ended up in a pawn shop.

Im sorry old friend

On a totally unrelated note, I’m craving Jolly Ranchers

Not a console but I used to have a working Amiga 500 in the 90's which I got rid of in favor of a PC. Wish I'd had held on to that one.

I regnet selling my Atari Jaguar. My Brother and i only had 3 Games If i remember correctly. One was Alien vs Predator and it was a blast. We sold it to buy a PS1.

Donates mine to a children's hospital. NES, SNES, PS1, N64 and PS2 and a whole mess of games. My PS3, Xbox, hacked Xbox and 360 I kept till they all broke so they just got binned and the games given away to family and/or friends.

The only system out of all the consoles I currently want, and have wanted, but have never owned is Atari Jaguar with Jaguar CD. Someday...someday.

My mom made me sell my ps2 (with a ton of games, even with the buzz controllers, microphones, etc.) for 20 bucks. I die inside every time I remember this lol.

She also made me sell my PSP because I "didn't play" with it. Important thing to say: my parents refused to buy me new games, I only had a few and once I completed them I stopped playing...

Trading my Neo Geo AES and some AES games for a modded PSX. Both me and my friend that sold the AES to me are both kicking ourselves.

I made up for it by buying a 2 slot MVS board and consolizing it...and getting a 4 slot MVS cabinet ages later.

I regret all of them, but I needed money so.

Assuming it would still work after all these years, I regret selling my Apple IIc back in the eighties. I miss those simple games and emulators just aren't the same.

Reality is that it wouldn't still work and all those bottom shelf floppies that I used to liberate games would have long since degraded.

I got an NES when I was 12 and my mom told me that I had to get rid of my Colecovision and games because there was "too much clutter." I tried selling it in the classifieds but I got no calls, so I wound up throwing it in the trash.

This series of events haunts me on a regular basis.

My Virtual Boy.

My GameBoy Pocket, which I sold to get a GameBoy Color, which I sold to get a GameBoy Advance.

I do still have my GameBoy Advance, and I've upgraded it with an IPS screen and USBC rechargable battery. I just wish I had kept all my other handhelds so I could upgrade those too.

Never personally sold any of my previously owned consoles, but I did "lose"* my Super Nintendo around 2001 and, sometime in 2011, my older brother messed up my PSone's lid and it "disappeared" shortly afterwards.

* This loss was either my mom or aunt getting rid of it because "nobody is using it anymore, it's just wasting space and gathering dust". The same end my brother's CCE Turbo Game (a brazilian famiclone) had when I was even younger

I regret selling my SNES and all the games I had with it when I was a kid. I needed the money short term but have regretted selling it ever since. So many good childhood memories were had with that console. :(

When I was young my brother wanted to trade in our crystal xbox for money towards an Elite 360.

I made a stink about it because I didn't want to upgrade at the time, and I even ended up setting it up in the attic to try and avoid having it sold.

In the end Dad did end up trading it in... for 20p (good riddance to physical game shops).

Ended up getting my own crystal xbox as an adult, and I did end up playing Halo 3 ODST's multilayer disc religiously. Still, for 20p Dad?!

Probably my OLED Vita, a few years ago. I love handhelds, and a hacked Vita is just a goldmine of content.
Though I'm getting a Switch Lite soon, so that will probably ease my pain a little!

I've been feeling this lately as well. I'll see people post pictures of display cases filled with all their consoles and it makes me regret giving away my old consoles when I bought a new one.

I especially miss my N64.

My Atari 2600 with 80+ games. Only because I saw it sold for like $40k decades later lol.

My modded PS1. It was the first hardware mod I ever did. It was a mess. It booted games sometimes, froze periodically. But, I would love to go back and fix the mod today and play some classics. I do have an unmodded ps1 mini with the attachment screen I have since purchased, but it just isn’t the same.

Also Dreamcast but for a different reason than most. I learned it played burned games by default 10 minutes after I sold it.

My mum made me sell my Gameboy Colour, which was still in great condition, for a 10er at a flea market. Still get sad about it any time I think about it... Was my first ever console and probably the reason green is my favourite colour now.

Mine wasn't a selling console, it was a "I'm sure I can fix this" and it was my old original Fat PS3 with backwards compatibilit. Back when I was first looking into technology as a hobby/passion, my ps3 stopped working, me being ignorant decided "lets take it apart to see if anythings burnt", well I never put it back together again when I was done saying I would do it later, I never ended up doing so, and while I still have what I think is most of the pieces, I'm 80% sure that it is missing pieces, but I also haven't had the time to do a proper once over on it.

Sold my Sega CDX and copy of Snatcher so I could be the first at my Toys R Us to buy the new console coming out in September, the Sony PlayStation. Part of why I did this was reading gaming magazines they released Snatcher for the PSX in Japan with updated graphics, so I figured they would release it in North America as well.

They didn’t :(

But it was cool playing Ridge Racer and Battle Arena Toshiden with most of the neighborhood coming to my house. And I still have the early-release demo disc with the T-Rex demo.

I still shudder over the fact that my mom made me trade in my SNES and a bunch of games for store credit during the N64 era. I can't remember exactly which games or how many were traded, but I know that we only had enough store credit to buy Mario Party. I may need therapy to truly put this behind me.

I still have a bunch of my original consoles: NES, Genesis, Dreamcast. The only I don't still have are my PS1 (original, not the tiny One), N64, and Gamecube. PS upgraded to a PS2, and to be honest I never really played the N64 much. But the GC just kind of fell by the wayside and got lost. It had such amazingly unique games, but just was overlooked (even by me at the time) because it just didn't match up graphically and didn't really have the 1st or 3rd party support it needed.

I have the same regret, I gave my N64 to a family friend in the late 90s. However, I later bouught a replacement N64 with two new-in-box gold controllers so I can still get my GoldenEye fix.

I can't recall a console I sold that I particularly regrets selling, but only because I never really lost out on anything. It's not like I can't still play my favorite games or anything. Also, I eventually reacquired the consoles I sold over time, not particularly out if regret, but out of the desire to share the experience with others in the future.

Though, I did sell a Retron5 that I had, it was the SNES Grey version. While it wasn't exactly a retro console, it was pretty cool being able to consolidate all those retro consoles into one single device, and it looked pretty sleek too. I plan to check out a PolyMega sometime soon, I like their modular console idea a lot.

Super Nintendo - I was in my mid teens and my mother coerced me into giving my Super Nintendo into my cousin, but I have regretted it ever since.

Coincidentally, Super Mario RPG remake is coming out in November and will probably make me feel fine again!

I returned a Gameboy Micro. I really want one now and I could have just kept mine from back then

My mom sent my Wii to family in the Dominican Republic, that was at the peak of Brawl... child me was never so upset.

I regret selling my Wii. It was all set up with homebrew too.

To date, I've never sold one. At times it makes me feel like a hoarder, but in all honesty I do semi-regularly go back and play my old systems.

Edit: and/or repair -- my NES works again.

Shes a 'beaut.

I regret selling off my games and hardware over the years for upgrades. I wish I had my childhood Gameboys still. But alas, it gives me something to collect todat

My parents made me sell my original Gameboy before they would get me a Game Gear. I miss the way it sounded!

Yes and no. I had a modded Sega Saturn with a ram cartridge that I traded in to afford a Dreamcast when it came out. I love the Dreamcast so it wasn't a bad trade, but I do wish I still had the Saturn too.

A few years ago I had to sell my 2DS and my full Pokemon game collection, including a living dex on Alpha Sapphire, to make rent. I tried calling the store back to see if they had the Alpha Sapphire cartridge a month later, but they said it was against policy to allow me to run the games to see what was saved on each cartridge. Losing that one made me really sad.