How do you dispose of your old games

[Hicks]

You can't get rid of old games! They should be treasured, and left to take up space in the loft for years to come

Indeed, in the loft I have a collection of master system, mega drive, mega CD, playstation 1 and a lot of old PC games that came in the huge boxes. I loved buying those big box games rather than digital downloads of today.

[treebeard3]

I mostly buy through steam, but as others said most physical copies aren't worth much unless they're really rare - as others said donating is a good option, most charity shops will be glad to take them.

[Kye_smithh]

I always just keep them, when you trade them in you get barely anything back for most of them apart from a few AAA titles, it's not worth it. Then you can pull them out for the nostalgia in 10 years time

[mobit]

So many games require some sort of registration, that selling games is becoming increasingly redundant. The beauty of Steam is that you should (possibly) be able to re-install your old games in years to come, in order to show your future grand-kids your old-skool games collection.

[ToastQ]

Honestly I never sell any of my old games, I've kept all of them. While I understand money doesn't grow on trees and you might need to sell them to afford others, honestly you get pennies back for them so I don't think it's worth it. This also applies to old consoles as well

[ianduk]

local childrens charitys + childrens hospitals lots of childrens charitys will take them for the unpriveledged kids

[Dashers]

After rummaging around in the loft this week, it turns out I put them in a box in the loft.

[kalniel]

After rummaging around in the loft this week, it turns out I put them in a box in the loft.

Told you

[AlphaA1]

I would say maybe give it away to friends or people near you , I am sure you would find someone happy to get their hands on them.

[WULLAIL]

I usually give mine away to charity shops , some I keep though , I have boxed copies of the original Everquest game and every expansion I played..those I keep.

[esde]

Due to the ever increasing march towards games being registered to a specific person/PC, it is evermore difficult to do anything with surplus PC games.

Prior to this trend, I used to donate them to a charity shop.

[GM91]

If it's not online digitally, i usually sell all my old physical games when i'm done with them or before their sequel releases. Helps recoup some of my money spent to put on my next purchase

[adidan]

I sold a few rarer PS1 titles but not many. I have them all boxed up waiting for my games library in my next house...

[mrmr123]

Usually I would sell them on eBay or something similar. For things like bulk sports game which don't go for much, I'd give them to a charity shop or see if any friends want them. The bin feels like a last resort though. To be honest I like to keep a physical collection of games for console and digital for PC.

[cameraman123]

I'd look into selling them to somebody else. Although you may struggle with some of the cheaper (SPORTS!!!) games. If you've got a few of them, I recommend trading them into somewhere that does trade in credit, you'll get more that way and can put them towards a new game

[Numpti]

I mainly purchase games from steam / download them. It's worth looking on gumtree / local classifieds as you can sometimes sell them for more than you would get for trading them in.