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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I got an NES when I was 12 and my mom told me that I had to get rid of my Colecovision and games because there was "too much clutter." I tried selling it in the classifieds but I got no calls, so I wound up throwing it in the trash.

This series of events haunts me on a regular basis.