If you added up all the cash you spent on gaming

[cantonarv]

This includes arcades, consoles, games and accessories - i know its pretty hard to work out especially as it goes back many years but could be quite interesting!

I reckon about 10 grand for me

[Beertiger]

A girlfriend

[Cecil Kay]

A girlfriend

A house and a car

[Quexex]

My games collection is worth an esimated 8K and I've spent more than that on it and before

I think 12K total wouldn't sound to bad although that is over 18 years or so it's really not too bad at all - (who am I trying to kid )

[JPickford (retired mod)]

It probably averages about 10quid a week. Not much really.

[Rubber_Johnny]

I just worked it out, and it comes down to £1684, which isn't as much as I'd thought really.

[Super Mr C]

2 cnsoles per generation : £300

roughly 50 games per gen: £2000

X 6 gens (including handhelds) = (300 + 2000) X 6 = roughly £13K

plus also retro collections £1K

Arcade going £500 easily (small amounts over the years)

Roughly under £15K

Now calculate how much you would have spent over your gaming lifetime if you smoked instead - 20 a day.

me = 12years proper (without parents funding games)

12 X ( 52 X(7X£5)) = pack a day for 12 years

= £21,840

Total answer = gaming has saved me nearly £7K and has been good for my health.

[Xevious]

I spent £7,900 on a SNES once, only to get it home and find it didn't work.

[Sigourney Beaver]

I keep meaning to add up my Play order history but I don't have the nerve.

Just on games though, including PCs, I wouldn't be surprised if I was over 10K by now.

[SeanR]

248 Games | Est. Value: $9139

excluding hardware.

[Xevious]

248 Games | Est. Value: $9139

That's the current value, not what you spent on them.

[SeanR]

That's the current value, not what you spent on them.

o rly?

My DC collection:

21 Games | Est. Value: $777

Blue Stinger

Dead or Alive 2

Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles

F1 World Grand Prix

Ferrari F355 Challenge

Metropolis Street Racer

NFL Blitz 2000

Power Stone

Re-Volt

Sega GT

Sega Rally 2: Sega Rally Championship

Sonic Adventure

Soul Calibur

Speed Devils Online Racing

Super Runabout: San Francisco Edition

Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation

Toy Racer

UEFA Striker

V-Rally 2: Expert Edition

Vigilante 8: Second Offense

Virtua Fighter 3tb

£400, are you sure?

[deKay]

This includes arcades, consoles, games and accessories - i know its pretty hard to work out especially as it goes back many years but could be quite interesting!

I reckon about 10 grand for me

A quick estimate puts my figure at around £40,000.

Although that only includes things I actually own at the moment - not stuff I used to have and have now sold.

[Xevious]

o rly?

My DC collection:

£400, are you sure?

You've got that from either 1up or IGN or something similar? Then yes, I'm sure.

Note that it's an "estimated value" based on one person's (possibly incorrect) say-so.

[essell]

Probably about two grand.

[Late]

I spent £7,900 on a SNES once, only to get it home and find it didn't work.

Was it gold plated and encrusted with diamonds?

[matt0]

On consoles probably about £5000 quid since the DC ( that's over the DC, PS2, X-box, Cube, GBA and DS... EDIT: and 360 + NGPC, does that make it better or worse...?). Coupled with BBC Micro games when I was a kid and then Amiga/PC stuff and all those 50p's shovelled into arcade machines I reckon it's somewhere around £8000.

Do I count paying 3 quid each for burnt PS1 games from some dodgy lad at uni? .

[BeeJay]

My gaming outgoings are about £5000 a year. I don't actually spend anything though as the income from games is about the same.

In reality I'd guess I've lost about £3000 to games in my life.

[Lorfarius]

This thread makes me want to cry

[tommygun]

Don't know how much i've spent, but it's lower than what i've spent on fags.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

If I hadn't spent it on gaming, I would have spent it on something else.

If I invested in stock/bonds I'd be rich by now

Then again, what's the fun of being rich if you can't play games.

[hughes]

Anywhere between 2 and 5 grand.

That's over 17 years though.

[Kelthink]

Don't know how much i've spent, but it's lower than what i've spent on fags.

The drink. Don't forget the drink.

[stephen129]

Console

Games

Accessories

NES

£150? (not sure how much my NES cost, it was bought for my sister)

£100

N64

£200

£500

£70

Gamecube

£130

£350

£70

PS2

£90

£50

£30

PC

£500

£150

Gameboy

£100

£100

Gameboy Colour

£100

£200

£25

Gamegear

£100

£80

Total

£3090

Hmm, not great, but could be worse, and it does include the price of a computer.

[Matt]

A lot but not as much as you guys, probally a shade under a grand (never bought a console on launch date though, and ive only bought a few new games)

[carleton]

None of these amounts look that bad really do they? I've spent £2,500 on a porch just this week and I'm not going to get the same enjoyment out of that I'm sure.

A pretty cheap hobby all said.

[Rev]

I've only ever traded in one game and I've got every console that did well over here. The machines themselves were generally christmas presents and I tend to buy things cheap...but I bet it's five grand at least.

[deKay]

None of these amounts look that bad really do they? I've spent £2,500 on a porch just this week and I'm not going to get the same enjoyment out of that I'm sure.

A pretty cheap hobby all said.

You missed my post then?

[Matt]

None of these amounts look that bad really do they? I've spent £2,500 on a porch just this week and I'm not going to get the same enjoyment out of that I'm sure.

A pretty cheap hobby all said.

yeah but its a porch though init, yer need a porch but you dont really need more consoles + games every week

[Sfan]

I'd like to try, more than 10K for sure. I've been gaming for 17 years.

Master System - £70

Megadrive - £189

Mega CD - £220

32X - £150

snes - £150

Lynx - £60

Game gear - £100

Gameboy - £70

Saturn - £150

Dreamcast - £500

Neo Geo - £150

Gamecube - £130

360 - £230

GBA - £100

GBA SP - £70

GBA SP (with brighter screen) - £50

NGPC Color - £60

Jamma Cabinet - £150

Now I currently own over 1000 games. but some have been traded over time

but really low average buying price would be £5.

Theres load of other costs like magazines, arcade credits and promo items.