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Selling Up?

I've been thinking of doing this for a while now. I have a lot of games, far more than is shown in my Backloggery. Games I beat long ago such as Dreamcast games, PSX games, GC games, MD games, Snes games...etc. I also, for whatever reason just can't get into handheld gaming, my 360 never gets used, my PS3 is a Battlefield 1943 box and my Wii is a glorified emulation machine. PC is where I play most of my games and lord knows I have enough of those to keep me going for the next 5+ years. There are the occasional console games I want to play but they're so infrequent I'm not sure it's worth holding onto the systems.

Part of me wants to collect every machine under the sun but it just ends up being a lot of clutter. It'd be nice to just be free of it all and only have one or two. I wouldn't mind getting rid of my current PC as well, it's a fucking beast right now. Seriously, you could fit a small child in the Akasa Eclipse, an SFF system would be far more ideal.

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