PS1 console - Sell it or throw it away?

[riley454]

I'm doing a major cleanout at home and am wondering whether its worth trying to sell my PS1 console with 2 controllers and about a dozen games.

How much is it likely to sell for?
What is the best place to advertise it?

Ad and shipping costs taken into consideration, is it worth trying to sell or do I toss it away or donate it to a charitable 2nd hand shop?

[Malenko]

Id take it for cheap, if its too much hassle to ship take it to a church or child's play charity or goodwill or something

[jimmy2x2x]

Get a copy of 'Gradius Gaiden' and make a dedicated bartop out of it

Fantastic game (2nd best Gradius ever IMO) that doesn't use any of the Playstations graphics hardware that dates so many of the stations games

[hypernova]

Which PS1 version?  Some models are considered high quality audio players sought by audiophiles.

[Blanka]

Yes, your PS1 could beat a 500$+ CD player!

[WhereEaglesDare]

Yes, your PS1 could beat a 500$+ CD player!

Depending on the series... and if any "audiophile" is still using CD players then I don't know what think about that.

HARD MEDIA IS DEAD

and making a PS1 dedicated bartop is a pretty good idea.  Get Mortal Kombat Trilogy and hack the controllers that would be awesome...  ***Adding to my "want to have" project list***

[DJ_Izumi]

Make a dedicated Point Blank or Area 51 cab with it. :3

[Blanka]

HARD MEDIA IS DEAD

What a bs. Do you know of any download music service that sounds as good as CD. I won't even compare to SACD, or DTS 24/96. Come over and listen to some SACD tracks here. Your iPod stinks from the day you heard that.

[danny_galaga]

Definitely don't throw it! I nearly cried when a work colleague told me he threw out his Sega Saturn because the controller was broken! Like Malenko said, donate it somewhere if you don't want to bother with ebay etc.

[amendonz]

I agree. Keep it, I sure regret selling all my old consoles over the years

[Mikezilla]

I have all my consoles that I have ever bought. I like having something tangible, and it has all the memories when I was a kid. People have photo albums, I have consoles! 

HARD MEDIA IS DEAD

I cant tell if youre being sarcastic or not. Hard Media will never die. People like me will always exist. When you spend your money, you want to see something in exchange for it. At least I do anyway.  I like having a CD, I like the idea of collecting something, and the sound is WAY better, lyrics, pictures etc. Its like the people that still buy vinyl as opposed to CD's. Thats like saying there wont be any cash, it will just be credits in some account.

[Frigo]

Keep it and mod it for cheap.

[Malenko]

Don't believe any of that "super valuable to audiophiles" nonsense.

There are THOUSANDS of them on E-bay under $20 at this very moment, and have been for years. 

It's funny to watch that urban legend get repeated over and over, though.....

 

well the guy that posted that didnt say it was worth a lot, just in demand for audiophiles. Lets not super derail this thread too, kk?

[DaveMMR]

HARD MEDIA IS DEAD

What a bs. Do you know of any download music service that sounds as good as CD. I won't even compare to SACD, or DTS 24/96. Come over and listen to some SACD tracks here. Your iPod stinks from the day you heard that.

I'm far from an audiophile but I downloaded tracks from Amazon and iTunes with noticeable artifacts.   For portability and storage, MP3's are great - but CD's (and clean vinyl) is far from bested in the sound-quality department. 

[northerngames]

worst case you could throw it my way 

[hypernova]

Don't believe any of that "super valuable to audiophiles" nonsense.

There are THOUSANDS of them on E-bay under $20 at this very moment, and have been for years.  

It's funny to watch that urban legend get repeated over and over, though.....

 

well the guy that posted that didnt say it was worth a lot, just in demand for audiophiles. Lets not super derail this thread too, kk?

And it has to be certain versions.

Point is, you should be able to get at least $10 bucks for little effort.

...So I'm referred to as "the guy"...Guess I don't have much promise of a custom title.

[Malenko]

And it has to be certain versions.

Point is, you should be able to get at least $10 bucks for little effort.

...So I'm referred to as "the guy"...Guess I don't have much promise of a custom title.

"the guy with the annoying animated avatar"

better? 

[WhereEaglesDare]

And it has to be certain versions.

Point is, you should be able to get at least $10 bucks for little effort.

...So I'm referred to as "the guy"...Guess I don't have much promise of a custom title.

"the guy with the annoying animated avatar"

better? 

Sorry, He meant to say "The Guy With the Annoying Animated Avatar"

Malenko, you know that proper nouns need to be capitalized....  What will they all think....  They're gonna laugh at you.

I correct you cuz I care.

[Rick]

Sorry, He meant to say "The Guy With the Annoying Animated Avatar"

Malenko, you know that proper nouns need to be capitalized....  What will they all think....  They're gonna laugh at you.

I correct you cuz I care.

I believe you have improperly capitalized the "W" in "With".

 

[hypernova]

Hey, it's not as bad or trippy as fixedpigs.  That one actually feels like it hurts.

Did you like the guineasaurus rex better?

[WhereEaglesDare]

Sorry, He meant to say "The Guy With the Annoying Animated Avatar"

Malenko, you know that proper nouns need to be capitalized....  What will they all think....  They're gonna laugh at you.

I correct you cuz I care.

I believe you have improperly capitalized the "W" in "With".

 

Youre right I should have never have tried to capitalized that preposition.  Man its a good thing Im just posting a thread on BYOAC and Im not running a nuclear plant or something!

[Malenko]

Sorry, He meant to say "The Guy With the Annoying Animated Avatar"

Malenko, you know that proper nouns need to be capitalized....  What will they all think....  They're gonna laugh at you.

I correct you cuz I care.

I believe you have improperly capitalized the "W" in "With".

 

Youre right I should have never have tried to capitalized that preposition.  Man its a good thing Im just posting a thread on BYOAC and Im not running a nuclear plant or something!

No apostrophe in you're?   Also, none of those were proper nouns, just adjectives. I wasn't giving him a title..... just a description

[hypernova]

Um...I'm right here. 

Sort of.  In a sense, but not really. 

[WhereEaglesDare]

Sorry, He meant to say "The Guy With the Annoying Animated Avatar"

Malenko, you know that proper nouns need to be capitalized....  What will they all think....  They're gonna laugh at you.

I correct you cuz I care.

I believe you have improperly capitalized the "W" in "With".

 

Youre right I should have never have tried to capitalized that preposition.  Man its a good thing Im just posting a thread on BYOAC and Im not running a nuclear plant or something!

No apostrophe in you're?   Also, none of those were proper nouns, just adjectives. I wasn't giving him a title..... just a description

Thank god we were able to set eachother straight!  I would have lost sleep over this incident. 

Stop, Hammer Time!

[Howard_Casto]

Well grammar nazis aside, here is my opinion: 

Neither... you should keep it.  Even with perfect emulation, something just gets lost when you aren't playing on the original console.  Years from now you'll feel the urge to play playstation and kick yourself for getting rid of it.  You also never know what will happen years from now.  The power glove and R.O.B. were worthless trash when they came out.  Now you can't find either on ebay for less than 100 bucks even though they are still just as useless. 

You can put a game console, it's accessories and all your games in a very small box and set it aside.  You'll never miss the space. 

Personally I still have every single console and portable I've ever owned, including games and accessories, save the oddball that broke or something.  I intend to keep it that way.  If nothing else you can put up a nice shelf and put all your old gaming stuff up as decoration.   

[DaveMMR]

Even with perfect emulation, something just gets lost when you aren't playing on the original console.  Years from now you'll feel the urge to play playstation and kick yourself for getting rid of it. 

I seriously regret selling off a lot of my older systems.  I had a Colecovision I sold off with a ton of games and the expansion modules because I "needed the space".  I had a stack of NES games in the original boxes I sold back in the 90's.  I had a Genesis, N64, Sega CD, SNES, Xbox, and Dreamcast all put up on eBay.  It seemed like a good idea at the time but now I wish I hadn't sold them.   I had figured emulation would have me covered.  But for me, it just isn't the same and the money I got for them wasn't anything special.   So right now I'm in the process of buying these consoles back. 

[Frigo]

Even with perfect emulation, something just gets lost when you aren't playing on the original console.  Years from now you'll feel the urge to play playstation and kick yourself for getting rid of it. 

I seriously regret selling off a lot of my older systems.  I had a Colecovision I sold off with a ton of games and the expansion modules because I "needed the space".  I had a stack of NES games in the original boxes I sold back in the 90's.  I had a Genesis, N64, Sega CD, SNES, Xbox, and Dreamcast all put up on eBay.  It seemed like a good idea at the time but now I wish I hadn't sold them.   I had figured emulation would have me covered.  But for me, it just isn't the same and the money I got for them wasn't anything special.   So right now I'm in the process of buying these consoles back. 

Seconded. I don't know how many times I've sold off my game collections, only to collect them all over again years later. Thankfully, with the advent of flash carts, you can get the best of both the emulation and the old school gaming worlds. Why spend 5-10 bucks on a game when for 125.00 you can get a Powerpak and get every NES game to play on your original system?

[Howard_Casto]

I want to get a powerpak, but I'm still a bit off-put by the thing.  The main issue I have with it is most of the best games had oddball chips... oddball chips that make them incompatable with the powerpak unless you hack the rom.  Well that and the lack of a gui.  I would hate to scroll down a big text list of all 500+ nes games.

[DaveMMR]

Even with perfect emulation, something just gets lost when you aren't playing on the original console.  Years from now you'll feel the urge to play playstation and kick yourself for getting rid of it. 

I seriously regret selling off a lot of my older systems.  I had a Colecovision I sold off with a ton of games and the expansion modules because I "needed the space".  I had a stack of NES games in the original boxes I sold back in the 90's.  I had a Genesis, N64, Sega CD, SNES, Xbox, and Dreamcast all put up on eBay.  It seemed like a good idea at the time but now I wish I hadn't sold them.   I had figured emulation would have me covered.  But for me, it just isn't the same and the money I got for them wasn't anything special.   So right now I'm in the process of buying these consoles back. 

Seconded. I don't know how many times I've sold off my game collections, only to collect them all over again years later. Thankfully, with the advent of flash carts, you can get the best of both the emulation and the old school gaming worlds. Why spend 5-10 bucks on a game when for 125.00 you can get a Powerpak and get every NES game to play on your original system?

See I'm that nutty purist that would only want to play the original games on the hardware.   So even if I did do the Powerpak, I'd still search out the actual games.   So much for saving money.

[DJ_Izumi]

That said, you can trash the PS1 and just use a PS2.  It features PS1 hardware inside it but can also do component output where the PS1 can do S-Video at best.   The PS2 is the best PS1 ever.

[DaveMMR]

The PS2 is the best PS1 ever.

...except for this, sadly. 

[northerngames]

That said, you can trash the PS1 and just use a PS2.  It features PS1 hardware inside it but can also do component output where the PS1 can do S-Video at best.   The PS2 is the best PS1 ever.

I have a ps1/ps2 vga box and I must say the ps1 looks sick on it after playing on a regular tv all them years.

after playing it in vga it was like a whole new console again and I probably wil never play the ps1 on a regular tv again after playing it with a vga box.

more then likely it doubles the lines but it does an excellent job at it and I could not tell the difference over true vga becuase the picture and colors are crystal clear.

same thing with the ps2 the vga box does the same qaulity if not better then hooking up to component.

[patm95]

I'd sell it before I throw it away.  If you get anything for it, it should be better than just throwing it away and getting nothing.  Couldn't hurt putting it online and see what it brings?

[Howard_Casto]

I'd sell it before I throw it away.  If you get anything for it, it should be better than just throwing it away and getting nothing.  Couldn't hurt putting it online and see what it brings?

I would GIVE IT AWAY before I would throw it away.  Just because you don't want it, and it's worthless to you doesn't mean somebody else might want it.  Save space in the landfill and keep the ps1 from becoming rare and obscure for collectors.