Anyone Lose Their Collections to Fire or Natural Disaster?

[VectorGamer]

Has anyone spent a lot of time and effort into their classing gaming collection and have it wiped out by a fire or natural disaster?

[Tempest]

I know a few people who had parts of their collections damaged by flooding (which is my fear as mine is mostly in my basement), but never the whole thing. Telegames lost most of their classic gaming stock in a tornado in the late 90's I think.

 

Tempest

[kevincal]

The house which I live in now, was burglerized back in 2004, less than a week after I moved in! And it's in a really good neighborhood...go figure. They stole about $1,000 worth of my gaming stuff. PS2, Saturn & LOTS of games... Never got any of it back, and didn't file a home owners insurance claim because it would have jacked the rates up. So over time, we would lose out...

[BassGuitari]

I came close to losing a good chunk of my NES collection last summer, when we got something like 16 inches of rain in 24 hours. Fortunately, we had just moved into the house a week earlier so almost everything was still opstairs, but one of the boxes that made it to the basement contained all my NES cartridges (approx. 150 of them). Also fortunately, we were downstairs playing Risk and hiding out from a Tornado warning, so when we started hearing strange watery sounds that we knew we shouldn't have been hearing (= water coming up from the drain), we were able to get most of the things upstairs, including the NES games; had we been upstairs, we may not have known until it was too late. The water would reach a high point of just over a foot.

 

More fortunately, the basement was unfinished so there wasn't much to be destroyed...but cleaning for mold was tedious.

 

But yeah, go figure: we buy our first house, move in, and get flooded after one week. Could have been worse, though.

[STICH666]

The bulk of my collection is ground level. So lets say I get a foot of water, I would lose my Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, 2600, Colecovision, all of my controllers and all of my SNES/N64 games.

[Crazy Climber]

My dog chewed a few of my boxed 2600 games up a few years ago, nothing to valuable.

[STICH666]

My dog chewed a few of my boxed 2600 games up a few years ago, nothing to valuable.

My dog tried to go at my Zapper. It doesn't work anyway.

[Crazy Climber]

My dog chewed a few of my boxed 2600 games up a few years ago, nothing to valuable.

My dog tried to go at my Zapper. It doesn't work anyway.

Here is the topic..

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...=94032&st=0

[NE146]

I lost my entire collection of Die Hard Gamefan magazines (pretty much complete) to a typhoon maybe a decade ago. They were all waterlogged and soaked and by the time I got to them they were moldy and stuck.

[kevincal]

That's a sad thing.. Such a great magazine. And they are worth a good bit too..