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I've got a gaming related problem, and it's a pretty big one (as far as gaming related problems go at least) so I've decided to turn to the fine folks at AtariAge for advice. The problem is that I literally cannot go a week without seriously contemplating selling my Atari 7800 system and game collection. I've got around $650 invested in it at this point, which is quite a bit of money for me since my usual gaming budget is around $50 a month, and I don't even want to play it most of the time. The reason for that being that 90% of the time I play any game on it I just end up getting frustrated and pissed off; which quickly leads to major regret for all the money I spent on this system and games for it. That's more my problem of not being able to play arcade style games geared towards getting a high score without getting irate than it is anything wrong with the system, and there must be something that I like about the 7800 because I've bought, resold, then later re-bought an Atari 7800 system and all my games for it twice now. I've never had this problem with any other system before and have always been happy with my other system and game purchases, but the Atari 7800 has certainly been a continuous loop of want, regret, want, then more regret for me. I think I keep coming back to this system because it seems like the best way to play Centipede with a trackball, Robotron 2084 with twin joysticks, and a few arcade game ports like Pac-Man Plus and the Speed-Up version of Ms. Pac-Man that as far as I know can't be found on any other system. And I do have fun playing those games sometimes, but more often than not playing anything on the Atari 7800 just results in a whole lot of swearing and wishing I had spent the money on Game Boy or GameCube games instead. When I think about the small mountain of great games that I could have bought for my favorite handheld and boxy home console with the money that I dumped into the 7800 it really does make me want to put the Atari 7800 system and all my games for it up for sale on eBay as soon as possible. So... what do I do? Do I sell off my Atari 7800 setup one last time and firmly tell myself "Never again!", putting the money from the sales into other systems that I know I won't regret spending it on, or do I try to stick with the 7800, accept the financial loss, and know that I'm stuck holding onto something that is going to drive me nuts most of the times I play it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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