I sell lots of arcade machines so I guess getting rid of them means nothing now. There is just one machine I can't bare to let go... it is stored away in a safe place and never gets used. I wouldn't get much if I sold it anyway.
Hmmm other things it is/was difficult getting rid of:
- My handheld machines (GameGear, Nomad, Wonderswan, Neo Pocket.)
- AmigaCD 32 (Mainly because there's no emu where I can just stick my games in and play.)
- Amiga 2000 (Many great gaming memories... thousands of pirated games from an electrician who came around when I was a kid and said "ooooooooh you have an Amiga?!?!?!? I'll copy heaps of games for you mate!!!!)
- Bondi iMac (Mum's friend borrowed it and broke it... now it just gets an orange light when I try booting it up. No idea what he did!)
MAME machines I have little sympathy for because most are just old PC's shoved into arcade cabinets. I can always replace an old PC and find a cabinet somewhere at minimal cost. Being Australian I'm very lucky regarding monitors because ooooold Aussie TVs (that I collect from the side of the road) are the same as arcade monitors (randomly.) So I guess that's how I deal with it... most things can be replaced, if anything, selling a cabinet I have made motivates me to do it again (and do it better.)