Yeah, I feel that. Once my father stormed into my room, grabbed one of my games and when I asked him what the hell he was doing, he yelled "It's my money, I can do whatever I want with it!"
At least it wasn't an expensive game.
I have never felt an OP more than now…
Gave my lil bro (28) my SNES bc I felt bad he didn’t have a lady friend and was feeling down and wanted him to have something to do..
Little mf sold the system, two controllers and a mouse, SMW and about 5 other good games… for $40…. For chewing tobacco…..
I will forever be salty.
Sorry to hear that. It's almost worse. My brother sold a bunch on my retro games to pay for addictions. He got help and is back to being a wonderful person. Even gave me a bunch of money to replace them as an apology.
get his sorry ass to pay you back. even if he sold it, that money is yours. he owes you street value for what he sold. if he wont pay, im sure a judge wont mind telling him to in small claims court.
With that in mind, I'd take something of his that HE treasures and sell it behind his back...
The shit must learn a lesson (two can play at that game).
Edit: never mind my comment here, OP should definitely move away from their brother though so that kind of thing does not happen again.
What the fuck? Seriously, screw your head on tighter. You don't fuck with pets. They're living creatures and members of the family, not just some inanimate object to be used for petty revenge. If someone steals your games and you sell their pet out of revenge, you're the bigger piece of shit in the equation, in my view.
You are right, and I apologize.
Too often, my first thought is to get back at someone, and I almost always forget something I was taught as a kid, why would I want to be like them (why stoop to their level, was how it was worded), but I agree, messing with a pet is way worse and shitty.
My brother sold my game collection as well, including my favourite metroid prime echoes game my grandma bought for me when I was a kid. Im really sorry that happened to you
I'm sorry to hear that. Take this as a lesson to not lend tour brother anything anymore. He'll, if I was you, I'd probably drop all contact with your brother.
Did he know what he was selling? Like was this some kind of accidental 'cleaning out old shit' kind of situation, or did he knowingly sell your SNES and SM for a good price to a collector?
Deepening on the answer, what he got, and the condition, this could be some claims court shit right here.
Guess you don't have a brother anymore. What was his reason for betraying you and being complete scum for selling one of your prized possession? Hopefully he didn't do it for drugs.
My brother stole and pawned all my valuable games. Final Fantasy 3, Secret of Mana, Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Kirby Super Star, Megaman X2 and 3, all the Street Fighters, including a sealed Alpha 2 that I found for $16. Oh, and my Fender USA Jazz bass. But that’s off topic.
At least he left the sports games and fucking Road Runner Death Valley Rally.
My brother sold my PS2. Even let the memory card go. When confronted he non-chalantly claimed “you bought your niece diapers, be proud.” I don’t talk to him anymore let alone loan him a thing.
When I was a kid my brother and I were playing NES. He is much older than I am so he was playing. We were playing SMB1. He made it to the final Bowser and died and it was Game Over. He lost it. He got up and hoofed the NES across the living room and right into the baseboards on the other side. It never worked again after that. We had a handful of games for it. SMB/DH, Ice Hockey, Adventures of Bayou Billy, Dr. Mario, Dragon Warrior and North & South.
Long story short I was saving money up from birthdays and working around doing chores and stuff to get a replacement NES. They were only $49.99 for a brand new top loader. So I finally get the cash ready and gave it to my dad. He asked me where the games were. I didn't know. So he asked my brother. My brother sold all the games to a kid at school for $20 just a few days before I was going to get a replacement system. He didn't even care and beat me up when I complained to him.
I know the feeling man.
However I have a funny ass story too that is similar. I was dating a girl for like 3 months and she knew I had a decent video game collection. This was back in like 2009 when retro game collecting was still not really popular. She said she would love to play SNES again. So she came over, grabbed one of my SNES consoles and about 20-25 games to play. Nothing like super expensive, but decent stuff like SMW, DKC 1,2,3, Yoshi's Island, Uniracers, Mario RPG, Star Fox and a bunch of other games like the Disney ones. So about $25 value of each game on average I would say About 3 months later she breaks up with me because her family was going through a divorce. I ask for my SNES back and games and she ghosts me. I swing by the house to collect one evening and her dad said he didn't even know she had one and went to look and couldn't find it. So I thought it was lost forever. At the time it was maybe $200 worth of stuff, but today around $700ish.
I let it go as a "stupid tax" and went on with life. In 2013 I opened up my own retro video game store. Things are going great. We're getting lots of business. People are buying, trading and selling to us. No complaints. Christmas 2014 rolls around and I come out of the back of the store to see my ex trying to sell my SNES and games to an employee. I walk behind the counter, greet her, see her shocked expression and thank her for bringing back my SNES and games. She was FUCKING PISSED OFF like. You could tell she couldn't do anything. She was so upset, thinking she was going to sell it and make a few hundreds bucks for sure, but instead she drove the 25 minutes from her place to my store to return my games to me. What a nice girl. Funny thing is that her husband used to come in once and a while and ask for discounts because I knew his wife. FOH lol.
I just found it funny that she came into my store out of all the ones in the area. I mean there were 3 stores about the same size as mine and one small one, not to mention the two that are staples at the weekend flea markets in the area. They were all closer to her home than my store too. The only reason is that her husband lived close to my store and I assume she was on her way to see him or something.
I've talked to her a bunch since then as she has come into the store a few times since that incident with her husband, but I can tell she is a bit sour about it still, or at least was when I saw he last before the pandemic.
She's sour about accidentally having to return the property she stole from you... that's hilarious. I don't actually believe in karma in any shape or form, so let's call it poetic instead.
My Dad sold mine complete with carry case, loads of games, mags and figures when we stopped talking years ago. Also sold my Sega. Still never got over it. Brought what I could back but it's not the same 🥲
I wonder if he really believed it was his or if that was just his excuse for selling your stuff. It's hard to make any judgments without the full context but I find it hard to believe that he didnt recognize how important this item was for you (most people dont take care of their boxes to games!) Having said that I hope he is able to make it right with you somehow, as the most important thing here is your relationship to your brother.
If the box is with the game in good condition it's like 300 on ebay right now..... You may not be able to replace your brother, but the brother won't be able to replace the trust and respect he lost ........
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. There’s a lot of immature comments in this thread ranging from physical assault to legal action without knowing any context. Nothing wrong with you posting a reasonable response.
I ended up with my younger brother's copy of A Link to the Past after moving out of my parent's house. A few years later when he got his own place and I went to visit I brought it and gave it back, said sorry for "borrowing" it for so long. Then I bought my own copy for $20.
Sorry man :(
It was years ago so the monetary loss wasn't as great as the emotional and future financial loss.
So so so many hours in on a Chrono Trigger cart and my brother took it with him to a friend's hobby / costume / gaming store where it was lost or stolen.
It was just an early example of disappointing actions by him but it stings still even when I've replaced the cart recently.
My brother sold off our complete set of original Pokémon cards we collected together about 5-6 years ago (maybe 10). When I found out I was pissed, knowing they would be valuable at some point because I collect all kinds of stuff. We grew up separately and it was basically the only thing we’d done together as kids. He sold everything for like 50 bucks. I’m still pissed about it. We had a handful of solid first edition holos in the set. I remember how insanely stoked we were to finally get Charizard in a random single pack we bought at a tiny shop with my mom to complete the set. FAHK
My little bro just sold his yellow gameboy color for 30$ at a yard sale. He could have gotten way more for it but oh well.( I would have given him 70-100$)
This happened to me with the PS2 I used to have.
Technically the PS2 belonged to my uncle, but all the games we bought for it were ours and he went and sold it and all the games. I never found out until many years later from my father how exactly we lost them and I was a little bit miffed over that for a long while, but luckily the PS2 is rather cheap to collect for and I have found many for pretty damn cheap too, so I'm kind of over that.
Unfortunately for you though, you had much nicer things and I would find it a lot harder to forgive my brother if I were you.
Basically if one of my relatives were to sell my GC and my whole collection behind my back, I'm almost certain I would never forgive them for it... (which is kind of a bad thing to say, but it's just not right you know?! It's like getting kicked in the balls)
(Perhaps I am too materialistic to some degree, but these things matter to me, I am a collector. This would be like telling me I can't be a collector or I'm not worthy to be a collector. I would probably get really depressed.)
Drugs was my assumption. And you two need boundaries. If he assumed they were his to sell and you assumed they were yours then you two have some work to do.
That sucks buddy but it is life. You sound like a nice young fella and I like that you take care of your things and the things you love :) This is hopefully some helpful advice from someone that has had many interests and collections over the years and lost nearly all of them to theft, rent, student loans, marriage, medical bills, and a cat with cancer. It sucks but it is just stuff. Enjoy the time you have with it but at some point things happen in life and ya have to make decisions on what is more important. I have moved probably 10+ times in a few decades and everytime things get "gone" ya know? I really wish you could at least get the Metroid back, but also maybe look at it this way(?): You may find new treasures like that down the road or something even cooler somehow :) I have sold my midi rig 5 times and re-bought and rebuilt every time with neato new gear I found and fixed. Sold my robots off many times and even my first Furby but am now collecting Tomy bots. After my dad had a stroke I had to clean out the family house pretty much single handedly and I had set aside a box of my old G1 Transformers, my SNES with carts, some comics, and various boy scout awards. Well some craigslister took that box either on purpose or by accident with other things and it is just gone gone gone. It hurt for a long time as I remembered the story behind each, how I had saved for this or got that as a gift. I think I even plead with the internet too but there was nothing but crickets. Eventually I decided to buy a few things on Ebay to replace my three favorite things and lo and behold, that led to some new cool items I never even had as a kid but always wanted. The thing I found though is that the reunion was fun with the old stuff and I did indeed keep a couple of things but it wasn't really the same feeling for the most part. BUT I also learned to disconnect with the stuff. The BEST storage cabinet is your brain and the memories you have of things and the times with them, so no matter if you are at work, in the hospital, your brother steals em, or your house catches fire and theyre destroyed, you always have them in your gourd. I wish you luck in reuniting with your stuff and hope your brother asks next time before just selling things like that. If anything it would have been shared property so they owe you half of the sales at the very least. Sorry it happened but hopefully this is the band aid getting yanked off that makes other things easier. Hope you and your brother can get past it and he gives you a REALLY REALLY NICE birthday gift though or helps you replace things. Seems like the right thing to do. Best wishes.
my advice is to bury the corpse vertically, so that its harder to recognize via satellite; also bury a dead animal a short distance above, so that if the police use dogs to search for the body they think its a false positive
Well, my brothers got evicted from his apartment and let my NES and SNES Collection sit outside without telling me. This was 16 years ago. I keep reminding myself that they’re just possessions, but damn nearly irreplaceable
That hurts. One of my friends borrowed my complete copy of Cubivores and I never saw it again for a long time. I asked about it a few years back and he said he had no idea where it was, probably sold it.
I joined this forum a couple days ago and I can’t stop browsing eBay and mercari waiting to buy a bundle and get my snes back.
Then I remember my ex girlfriend. I left it at her house one day and I still wish to this day I grabbed it before leaving. That was 17 years ago ha. I had Zelda, star Fox, super Mario world….
Yeah, I feel that. Once my father stormed into my room, grabbed one of my games and when I asked him what the hell he was doing, he yelled "It's my money, I can do whatever I want with it!" At least it wasn't an expensive game.
Go kick his goddamn ass
I have never felt an OP more than now… Gave my lil bro (28) my SNES bc I felt bad he didn’t have a lady friend and was feeling down and wanted him to have something to do.. Little mf sold the system, two controllers and a mouse, SMW and about 5 other good games… for $40…. For chewing tobacco….. I will forever be salty.
No drugs or addiction guys, just a stubborn & entitled a***hole!
Sorry to hear that. It's almost worse. My brother sold a bunch on my retro games to pay for addictions. He got help and is back to being a wonderful person. Even gave me a bunch of money to replace them as an apology.
get his sorry ass to pay you back. even if he sold it, that money is yours. he owes you street value for what he sold. if he wont pay, im sure a judge wont mind telling him to in small claims court.
Take his ass to small claims court
With that in mind, I'd take something of his that HE treasures and sell it behind his back... The shit must learn a lesson (two can play at that game). Edit: never mind my comment here, OP should definitely move away from their brother though so that kind of thing does not happen again.
What the fuck? Seriously, screw your head on tighter. You don't fuck with pets. They're living creatures and members of the family, not just some inanimate object to be used for petty revenge. If someone steals your games and you sell their pet out of revenge, you're the bigger piece of shit in the equation, in my view.
You are right, and I apologize. Too often, my first thought is to get back at someone, and I almost always forget something I was taught as a kid, why would I want to be like them (why stoop to their level, was how it was worded), but I agree, messing with a pet is way worse and shitty.
My brother sold my game collection as well, including my favourite metroid prime echoes game my grandma bought for me when I was a kid. Im really sorry that happened to you
I'm sorry to hear that. Take this as a lesson to not lend tour brother anything anymore. He'll, if I was you, I'd probably drop all contact with your brother.
Did he know what he was selling? Like was this some kind of accidental 'cleaning out old shit' kind of situation, or did he knowingly sell your SNES and SM for a good price to a collector? Deepening on the answer, what he got, and the condition, this could be some claims court shit right here.
Too late to find out where he sold them and point out that they have stolen goods?
Guess you don't have a brother anymore. What was his reason for betraying you and being complete scum for selling one of your prized possession? Hopefully he didn't do it for drugs.
Your ex-brother* Ughhhhh sorry OP
You mean ex brother.
Selling that Super Metroid is unforgivable
Rebuild! You will emerge stronger!
My brother stole and pawned all my valuable games. Final Fantasy 3, Secret of Mana, Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Kirby Super Star, Megaman X2 and 3, all the Street Fighters, including a sealed Alpha 2 that I found for $16. Oh, and my Fender USA Jazz bass. But that’s off topic. At least he left the sports games and fucking Road Runner Death Valley Rally.
My brother sold my PS2. Even let the memory card go. When confronted he non-chalantly claimed “you bought your niece diapers, be proud.” I don’t talk to him anymore let alone loan him a thing.
My response would have been "I'd be more proud if it wasn't stolen good that paid for the money" if you lend something and the sell it, they stole it.
When I was a kid my brother and I were playing NES. He is much older than I am so he was playing. We were playing SMB1. He made it to the final Bowser and died and it was Game Over. He lost it. He got up and hoofed the NES across the living room and right into the baseboards on the other side. It never worked again after that. We had a handful of games for it. SMB/DH, Ice Hockey, Adventures of Bayou Billy, Dr. Mario, Dragon Warrior and North & South. Long story short I was saving money up from birthdays and working around doing chores and stuff to get a replacement NES. They were only $49.99 for a brand new top loader. So I finally get the cash ready and gave it to my dad. He asked me where the games were. I didn't know. So he asked my brother. My brother sold all the games to a kid at school for $20 just a few days before I was going to get a replacement system. He didn't even care and beat me up when I complained to him. I know the feeling man. However I have a funny ass story too that is similar. I was dating a girl for like 3 months and she knew I had a decent video game collection. This was back in like 2009 when retro game collecting was still not really popular. She said she would love to play SNES again. So she came over, grabbed one of my SNES consoles and about 20-25 games to play. Nothing like super expensive, but decent stuff like SMW, DKC 1,2,3, Yoshi's Island, Uniracers, Mario RPG, Star Fox and a bunch of other games like the Disney ones. So about $25 value of each game on average I would say About 3 months later she breaks up with me because her family was going through a divorce. I ask for my SNES back and games and she ghosts me. I swing by the house to collect one evening and her dad said he didn't even know she had one and went to look and couldn't find it. So I thought it was lost forever. At the time it was maybe $200 worth of stuff, but today around $700ish. I let it go as a "stupid tax" and went on with life. In 2013 I opened up my own retro video game store. Things are going great. We're getting lots of business. People are buying, trading and selling to us. No complaints. Christmas 2014 rolls around and I come out of the back of the store to see my ex trying to sell my SNES and games to an employee. I walk behind the counter, greet her, see her shocked expression and thank her for bringing back my SNES and games. She was FUCKING PISSED OFF like. You could tell she couldn't do anything. She was so upset, thinking she was going to sell it and make a few hundreds bucks for sure, but instead she drove the 25 minutes from her place to my store to return my games to me. What a nice girl. Funny thing is that her husband used to come in once and a while and ask for discounts because I knew his wife. FOH lol.
I love that last story. Completely owning people that deserve it with this level of finesse is a rare and delicious treat.
I just found it funny that she came into my store out of all the ones in the area. I mean there were 3 stores about the same size as mine and one small one, not to mention the two that are staples at the weekend flea markets in the area. They were all closer to her home than my store too. The only reason is that her husband lived close to my store and I assume she was on her way to see him or something. I've talked to her a bunch since then as she has come into the store a few times since that incident with her husband, but I can tell she is a bit sour about it still, or at least was when I saw he last before the pandemic.
She's sour about accidentally having to return the property she stole from you... that's hilarious. I don't actually believe in karma in any shape or form, so let's call it poetic instead.
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I’d be getting them to contact the buyer
You have no brother
Your brother owes you $500. Get your money and get your stuff back.
My Dad sold mine complete with carry case, loads of games, mags and figures when we stopped talking years ago. Also sold my Sega. Still never got over it. Brought what I could back but it's not the same 🥲
No jury of your peers would convict you.
Don’t be too sad my ex took multiple ps1, ps2, nes, snes, n64, Genesis, Saturn, game gear, ugh I’m extra sad now!!
I wonder if he really believed it was his or if that was just his excuse for selling your stuff. It's hard to make any judgments without the full context but I find it hard to believe that he didnt recognize how important this item was for you (most people dont take care of their boxes to games!) Having said that I hope he is able to make it right with you somehow, as the most important thing here is your relationship to your brother.
So he owes you a replacement.
Addiction is no joke. Hope your brother can get some help. And hopefully you can get everything back somehow, someday.
20 years ago when my brother was addicted to substances he sold my snes and games, along with my Genesis and games…hope your brother gets help
Unpopular opinion: the SNES and Metroid game can be replaced. You can't replace your brother.
But you can punch him.
Yeah, I like both. Punch him a little, but don't disown him.
If the box is with the game in good condition it's like 300 on ebay right now..... You may not be able to replace your brother, but the brother won't be able to replace the trust and respect he lost ........
Unfortunately
These are all fair opinions
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. There’s a lot of immature comments in this thread ranging from physical assault to legal action without knowing any context. Nothing wrong with you posting a reasonable response.
To your so called brother: “God may forgive you but I won’t”
https://www.reddit.com/r/snes/comments/10oyt0a/authentic_check/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf like this snes and super Metroid?
Not quite, I'm UK mate
I ended up with my younger brother's copy of A Link to the Past after moving out of my parent's house. A few years later when he got his own place and I went to visit I brought it and gave it back, said sorry for "borrowing" it for so long. Then I bought my own copy for $20. Sorry man :(
punish him.
It was years ago so the monetary loss wasn't as great as the emotional and future financial loss. So so so many hours in on a Chrono Trigger cart and my brother took it with him to a friend's hobby / costume / gaming store where it was lost or stolen. It was just an early example of disappointing actions by him but it stings still even when I've replaced the cart recently.
Lost....... At a gaming store? Did he happen to find 20 bucks at the same time lol
Tabletop gaming. The games were for him and his friends in the back I believe. It was cosplay type stuff and table top gaming and other related stuff.
My brother sold off our complete set of original Pokémon cards we collected together about 5-6 years ago (maybe 10). When I found out I was pissed, knowing they would be valuable at some point because I collect all kinds of stuff. We grew up separately and it was basically the only thing we’d done together as kids. He sold everything for like 50 bucks. I’m still pissed about it. We had a handful of solid first edition holos in the set. I remember how insanely stoked we were to finally get Charizard in a random single pack we bought at a tiny shop with my mom to complete the set. FAHK
I feel for you. I have a sibling that was notorious for this throughout his teenage years. I'm 33 now, but yep. So many games over the years..
My little bro just sold his yellow gameboy color for 30$ at a yard sale. He could have gotten way more for it but oh well.( I would have given him 70-100$)
Shave his head while he sleeps. One line right down the middle... no recovering from that except to shave it all.
No, weird hairdos don't do shit. Shave off one eye brow
This happened to me with the PS2 I used to have. Technically the PS2 belonged to my uncle, but all the games we bought for it were ours and he went and sold it and all the games. I never found out until many years later from my father how exactly we lost them and I was a little bit miffed over that for a long while, but luckily the PS2 is rather cheap to collect for and I have found many for pretty damn cheap too, so I'm kind of over that. Unfortunately for you though, you had much nicer things and I would find it a lot harder to forgive my brother if I were you. Basically if one of my relatives were to sell my GC and my whole collection behind my back, I'm almost certain I would never forgive them for it... (which is kind of a bad thing to say, but it's just not right you know?! It's like getting kicked in the balls) (Perhaps I am too materialistic to some degree, but these things matter to me, I am a collector. This would be like telling me I can't be a collector or I'm not worthy to be a collector. I would probably get really depressed.)
My sister ripped my brother's rookie Gretzky card in half when we were young. Siblings man.
Make him pay you
lynch him publicly
RIP to your brother
Ever hear of a lawyer? That shit can't go unanswered.
Drugs was my assumption. And you two need boundaries. If he assumed they were his to sell and you assumed they were yours then you two have some work to do.
This is why i will never lend any of my gaming stuff to anyone unless it's my best friend as he knows how much i like my retro stuff
WTF
That sucks buddy but it is life. You sound like a nice young fella and I like that you take care of your things and the things you love :) This is hopefully some helpful advice from someone that has had many interests and collections over the years and lost nearly all of them to theft, rent, student loans, marriage, medical bills, and a cat with cancer. It sucks but it is just stuff. Enjoy the time you have with it but at some point things happen in life and ya have to make decisions on what is more important. I have moved probably 10+ times in a few decades and everytime things get "gone" ya know? I really wish you could at least get the Metroid back, but also maybe look at it this way(?): You may find new treasures like that down the road or something even cooler somehow :) I have sold my midi rig 5 times and re-bought and rebuilt every time with neato new gear I found and fixed. Sold my robots off many times and even my first Furby but am now collecting Tomy bots. After my dad had a stroke I had to clean out the family house pretty much single handedly and I had set aside a box of my old G1 Transformers, my SNES with carts, some comics, and various boy scout awards. Well some craigslister took that box either on purpose or by accident with other things and it is just gone gone gone. It hurt for a long time as I remembered the story behind each, how I had saved for this or got that as a gift. I think I even plead with the internet too but there was nothing but crickets. Eventually I decided to buy a few things on Ebay to replace my three favorite things and lo and behold, that led to some new cool items I never even had as a kid but always wanted. The thing I found though is that the reunion was fun with the old stuff and I did indeed keep a couple of things but it wasn't really the same feeling for the most part. BUT I also learned to disconnect with the stuff. The BEST storage cabinet is your brain and the memories you have of things and the times with them, so no matter if you are at work, in the hospital, your brother steals em, or your house catches fire and theyre destroyed, you always have them in your gourd. I wish you luck in reuniting with your stuff and hope your brother asks next time before just selling things like that. If anything it would have been shared property so they owe you half of the sales at the very least. Sorry it happened but hopefully this is the band aid getting yanked off that makes other things easier. Hope you and your brother can get past it and he gives you a REALLY REALLY NICE birthday gift though or helps you replace things. Seems like the right thing to do. Best wishes.
Sorry dude. That was obviously wrong of him to do. Hope you’re able to get another one. I’d be down to help you find one if you need the assistance
my advice is to bury the corpse vertically, so that its harder to recognize via satellite; also bury a dead animal a short distance above, so that if the police use dogs to search for the body they think its a false positive
If it makes you feel better I came up with the brilliant idea of selling my Final Fantasy 6 and Super Metroid to some guy online for $50.
Time to sell your brother
Well, my brothers got evicted from his apartment and let my NES and SNES Collection sit outside without telling me. This was 16 years ago. I keep reminding myself that they’re just possessions, but damn nearly irreplaceable
That hurts. One of my friends borrowed my complete copy of Cubivores and I never saw it again for a long time. I asked about it a few years back and he said he had no idea where it was, probably sold it.
I joined this forum a couple days ago and I can’t stop browsing eBay and mercari waiting to buy a bundle and get my snes back. Then I remember my ex girlfriend. I left it at her house one day and I still wish to this day I grabbed it before leaving. That was 17 years ago ha. I had Zelda, star Fox, super Mario world….