As a kid, I wanted a PS2 so badIy when they were newly released. My parents then finally decided to buy one. Then one day, I came back from school only to realize that my N64, SNES, and all the games were missing. My parents threw them away stating that they were old tech and only dust collectors. I still played on my Nintendos sometimes but apparently it wasn't enough. Any anons with the same experience?

throw away their display china with the same logic lol lmao

That was child abuse.

>>11797252
Not a bad idea lol. Though, I first need to buy them new plates before I can toss their China stating that they were only dust collectors.

>>11797262
get paper plates

>>11797261
My aunt was a hoarder back then. Maybe this affected my parents?

Nah. My parents actually respected my property since the majority of my games were either bought by or gifted to me. I still have all my old consoles except for my first gameboy with a broken screen.

>>11797241 (OP)
Did they also kick you out the moment you turned 18?

>>11797295
That's good to hear

>>11797305
No

I still have my childhood consoles, but my mom threw away all of the original boxes that were in mint condition too.
And also all of my early 90's huge Lego boxes as well. Pisses me off just thinking how rare those would be today.

>>11797241 (OP)
No, my parents loved me

>>11797241 (OP)
My mom gave 40 of my PS2 games (not the PS2) to some illegal immigrant family in like 2006 because she's an enormous mark and the beanmom guilt tripped her. The same lady later "borrowed" $1200 from my mom and has not been seen since. There is zero chance those kids gave a fuck about their new copy of Armored Core 3 or Persona (assuming they werent instantly pawned)
A few years ago she threw out my Trinitron when I paid her to store stuff in a corner of her unused garage for a month. She refused to admit it at first, but eventually budged, and switched over to "it was old and bad, you can buy a better one at Costco"
Yes I'm bitter

>>11797471
I wish that hadn't happened anon

>>11797345
That sucks. But hey, at least you still have your consoles.

>>11797241 (OP)
My mom never threw my stuff away, but she did ask every 6 months or so things like "do you even use your nintendo anymore, maybe it's time to throw it away", just along with other random stuff in my room, she didn't specifically try to get rid of my nintendo. And I think after she asked like 20 times over the years I just said yeah I guess so, just chuck it out. And now I wish I never threw that stuff away. I had heaps of gaming magazines and I remember throwing them out and not really wanting to but doing it anyway for some reason.

>>11797241 (OP)
The only system I had thrown away, which I allowed because I was a retarded child, was my first NES. It started developing the blinking screen, cartridge reading problem, and being long before we had any form of internet, me and my dad couldnt figure out how to fix it. My dad did know his way around electronics and to his credit, he did open it up and try and figure out the issue, but he lost patience and just told me he would buy me another second hand system if we could throw this one away (he doesnt like keeping stuff around that is "broken").

To this day, it still haunts me, especially after learning about what a simple fix it could have been. I ended up buying like 12 NES systems in the decades after when I would see them for cheap, but I still mourn for my original.

Other then that, I wish I still had some of the console/game boxes I had that got thrown out in the excitement of opening up gifts on Christmas morning/birthdays.


I did once however catch my mom once trying to throw out a bag with some of my old action figures. A friend in high school told me how his parents threw out him and his brothers entire childhood game collection.

>>11797241 (OP)
You just unlocked an incredibly painful memory.
>2001
>had a little room in my parent's suburban house
>kept it very clean and organized despite being a retarded 10 year old
>had a CRT with an N64, DC and GCN hooked up, but I had my older brother's SNES and around 15 games in a drawer with a bunch of toys
>come home from school one day, go into my drawer to get some toys
>it's empty
>my dad apparently went into my room, dumped the entire drawer into a garbage bag and put it in the dumpster, trash guys took it away before I got home
>he was "cleaning" and thought I didn't play with toys anymore because I was muh big boy now (this apparently gave him the right to throw away 90% of the frivolities I had)
I had a bunch of the good stuff too: ALttP, DKC, SF2, everything. A bunch of cool toys too, including some Beetleborgs shit. I never forgave him for that.

>>11797561
I would have more respect for your dad if he had sold the stuff for drug money.

I will never understand the mentality of throwing out your kids stuff. Like sure, toddler and infant stuff in one think, but hell some people still had toys from when they were a baby like a stuffed animal that they have a strong attachment to and keep for years.

But stuff from your childhood? Hell no. Do these parents not even think how devastating it is to a kid to suddenly have all of, what to them is, their worldly possessions, in a point in their life when they are incapable of buying new things for themselves? Yeah Timmy, sorry I decided to throw out something that meant something in your short life without even discussing it with you first.

And then if you do convince your kids to part with stuff, dont fucking throw it out, have them sell it and learn some life experiences/get some cash, or at the very least get them to donate the stuff to a source THEY decide on, not you the parent.

>>11797564
I agree. At least that I could understand. The fucked up part is, you'd think he did this because he was some kind of clean freak or military type, but he finds any reason possible to keep old garbage like broken camping equipment from the 80s and worthless chipped china and porcelain covered in rat shit and piss in his garage now. You can't get him to throw away anything now, but apparently my cool stuff tucked away and hurting absolutely nobody was too much of a burden on his mind. Boomers are mentally retarded man. I truly believe most of them were put here as hostile NPCs to torture us.

>>11797581
>And then if you do convince your kids to part with stuff, dont fucking throw it out, have them sell it and learn some life experiences/get some cash, or at the very least get them to donate the stuff to a source THEY decide on, not you the parent.
There is a very specific group of parents that do this, the ones who grew up in 50s and early 60s households with a buttclench father who was a total dick, and they do this stuff because of some retarded "my dad was a douche, so I need to be a douche too" mentality. I wouldn't see anything wrong with explaining to your son, "you're becoming a man now, maybe you should think about selling some of those toys and making money to save up for your first car" or something. That would be good and guideful parenting. Instead, they actively wanted to hurt you. They're obsessed with control because they were forced to wear tighty whities until they were 18 and poop with the bathroom door open, so they couldn't fathom the thought of not being a complete fucking faggot to their own kids. Such is the life of people who grew up saying the pledge of allegiance to a TV at 7 years old and subsequently dropping acid and smoking weed and not taking showers by the time they got to college.

>>11797241 (OP)
Dad used to sell my consoles for drug/booze money. Story was he kept loaning them out to his one friend who was also an alcoholic loser and he sold them. I put two and two together in my early teens.
>1 NES
>2 SNES
>1 Game Boy
>2 Genesis (1st model and a 2nd model)
>Countless games

>>11797604
Your dad is dead now, isn't he

>>11797594
God damn you just described both of my parents better than I've been able to internally kek

>>11797471
Still have all original systems and games to this day but I had a bunch of stuff I collected later on, when I moved to college for a few years they "cleaned my room". My dad did that whole laugh smile when I asked where the nes was, "don't know what you are talking about", and then later, hur hur well you weren't using it anyway.
My mom threw some other thing out I was fixing, "no I swear I didn't touching anything", then 5 minutes later "it was old and broken", hay I thought you said 5 minutes ago that you swear you didn't touch it. Can you stop going on about this, I've got a headache.
Threw out 486 motherboards because neighbor said old computers are outdated.
I actually honestly think a whole bunch of retro games were thrown out because they saw an episode of some tv show.
Its the whole just bald face lie to your face with no remorse, its like boomers don't have empathy unless its some dumbass neighbor then they want to do the world for them. Its like they know they are doing something wrong but want to hide it.
Good thing they made space so they could store shitty old paintings and old lamps from garage sales.

I'm over it now, PAL nes's arent much use and I've got real cool stuff now. I think there is enough hardware for anyone to get what they want pretty cheap with most newer people just using emulators.

>>11797594
I know my parents barely had any toys, I didn't really care back then but looking back I noticed that I would never see my old toys after christmas. My parents still to this day make comments if they see a kid with a lot of toys. Back then you made your own toys with sticks or just found a ball but kids had more freedom too.

>>11797540
>I had heaps of gaming magazines and I remember throwing them out and not really wanting to but doing it anyway for some reason.
Lol same. I threw them out myself many years ago because it was nothing special for me during the days but now I regret it.

>>11797594
>and poop with the bathroom door open
nobody was forced to this outside of a stephen king character origin.

can't relate, my parents have always been gamers too.our family pc in the living room kept getting upgrades specifically so my mom could play crpgs, and when my younger brother fucked our NES by putting a quarter in the cartridge slot because he was a retarded toddler, my dad was excited to have an excuse to buy us a genesis so he could play street fighter II.

i got grounded from the genesis for a week for beating story mode on SF2 before he did, though.

>>11797620
>>11797686
My dad grew up in the 50s, and he told me how his dad would take the belt to him if he misbehaved and my mom told me that one time he confided in her how his mother traumatized him at a young age by pretending to choke on a fish bone during a meal and also would tie him to a bed post when he was acting up.

>>11797638
I remember once my dad took one of my older computers I used for DOS games, hooked up to a monitor mind you, not like in a closet or something, and took it to work for god knows why to use it for something, didnt ask me if it was ok, then he eventually just threw it out when he was done using it. Then to add insult to injury, I had this big Kirby re-usable decal on the case that was a store display I had gotten when the store was done with it. He had torn it off and saved that to give back to me, but he somehow stepped on it, so it had a big crease down the middle of it now.

Later on though, he did actually get me an old 80s IBM XT computer and monitor from someone he worked with, so maybe he felt bad about it.

No my mom kept all my gaming stuff for me during my crackhead phase. Told me she got rid of them then years later surprised me with a big box of my old SNES and N64 games and a big binder of first edition Pokemon cards I hadn't seen since 6th grade. Have it all still and never plan on selling it now that I'm in a better mental place. They still bring me a lot of joy and I'm thankful for her hanging on to it all

>>11797241 (OP)
Nope. I've got only myself to blame. I sold them and bought some DVDs. Worst decision I've made other than letting her get away from me.

>>11797750
>Worst decision I've made other than letting >her get away from me.

I know how you feel anon, I hope you manage to get the next one

>box for the PC versions of Resident Evil 2 and Duke Nukem 3D Carribean Life literally hung as trophies on a beam close to the ceiling in my bedroom
>one day my mom just decides to take them down and throw them away

It's not like they were just laying around as trash or under the bed, they were on fucking display. WTF is this compulsion moms have. Even at the time (20 years ago) those boxes cost 50bucks each, which at the time made them really expensive for old games stuff.

>>11797241 (OP)
yes and now I have a hoarding problem

>2012, moving out
>mom says anything I don’t pack to take with me will be put in storage
>take the Dreamcast, leave behind my NES, Master System, Genesis, N64, PS1, and GBA and all of the games for each
>get settled in and have more space than I realized
>ask mom when I can come get them (two days have passed)
>”you didn’t want them so they went in the dumpster, you should have taken them with you if you wanted them”
It’s only recently I’ve let myself collect retro stuff again.

>>11797241 (OP)
No nothing wuz throwing away instead mom wanted to gave me a gba back years ago but I refused to bad they seem to go away 4 dollars nao

My parents didn't do this, but I can understand why a large number of that generation do this shit.
>be some boomer growing up in the 50's/60's
>never thought baseball cards would ever become valuable, just shove them in bike tire spokes so they make clacking noise
>become a teenager
>all these toys and comics from your younger days are now just embarrassing junk taking up space, throw them all away
>become adult
>literally everything you've been carrying with you is now junk you don't want
>need car and career, start a family, who has time for a fucking frisbee or yoyo?
>throw it all away, get rid of all old junk
>outside of your favorite music albums, you lose interest in old albums and no one wants them, throw them away
>if it's old, it's probably junk, only new stuff matters
>collecting is merely a hobby, nothing else
>old hardware is just out-dated and inferior to the new stuff
>only old vehicles should be preserved and taken care of
>nothing old is valuable unless it's over 100 years old
Both their generation and generations prior to them grew up under this system. They didn't have the internet, so there wasn't an easy source of buyers for old collectables, and in many cases they were completely unaware anyone would be willing to pay for it. It happened to them, so they expect it will be the same for the next generation. Boomers are stuck in the era they grew up in, and have a hard time understanding the world has changed and they need to change to adapt to it.

I fucking hate this thread, I thought this was normal, I feel so bitter and miserable now.

>>11797725
Like seeing shit like this makes me feel SO FUCKING BITTER, worst thread on this board

>>11797241 (OP)
hell yeah bad parents thread

my father sold the nes knockoff i had for money
he also took back the bike he gifted me
he broke the crt from the commodore 64 i was gifted while driving back home with it (supposedly, probably sold it too, idk)
he also tried to teach me the binary number system completely incorrectly when i expressed interest in computers