What to do with old retail PC games.

[Too Tall]

I've got a cupboard full of old pc games ranging from crisis to football manager, aside from the members market does anyone know of a site that buys them for a decent price or am I best of ebaying them?

 

[eyetrip]

Don't think you'd have much luck with anything other than Ebay or Gumtree.

Personally, I'd take em to charity shop

 

[smelly_legend]

Africa

 

[pooley]

Another vote for the charity shop..

 

[Mockingbird]

Another vote for the charity shop..

This is where mine went (including Ultima 7 and 8, Crusader: No Remorse, Crusader: No Regret, Little Big Adventure, Big Red Racing, Bioshock, Diablo (1!), Sim City 2000 and the original Secret of Monkey Island complete with pirate-face codewheel)

 

[chaparral]

What to do with old retail PC games.

Most of mine just go straight in the bin..

 

[Rezident]

Ebay.

 

[Too Tall]

Ghost Recon
World In Conflict
Max Payne
Cossacks 2
Far Cry 2
Bioshock
Assassins Creed
Supreme Commander
WW2 Frontline Command
Company of Heroes
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War
Operation Flashpoint
Football Manager 2006
Football Manager 2010
Brothers in Arms - Road to hill 30
F/A-18 Hornet
Lock On Gold
Battlestations Pacific
Battlestations Midway
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Battlefield 1942
COD Black Ops
Call Of Duty

Is the list. might just ebay them as a job lot.

 

[bells]

British Heart Foundation or Cancer Reserch

 

[Fluke?]

I had a purge a few weeks ago and ended up donating better part of 30 fairly recent (and 90% of them bloody good) games to a local charity shop.
I separeted them in to two piles and did a search on ebay to see how much some of the rarer games were going for (XIII etc) most were going for a pittance so donated them too.
I'm now left with a few which think may be worth sticking on ebay:

Bladerunner (big box)
Freelancer
SW KOTOR
Vamp The Masquerade

I also have HL2 and EP1 that I want to donate but cannot think if thats going to cause me a headache if someone tries to use the serial on steam?

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Yeah not a lot tbh
Few bits and bobs like VTM were worth like 20 squiddles but theyve since been released on steam. Might be able to pull a little for them but not a lot unfortunatley.

 

[shatpank81]

Another option?

 

[Fluke?]

Another option?

Nah, thats what the 300 blank cdrs are for

 

[Deus Ex]

Freelancer is a quality game.

For everything else, frisbee practise.

 

[Bickaxe]

I put a load into CEX a few years ago, bought half of them back on Steam since.
Can't part with a few though

 

[theone8181]

Not sure if some of those will have codes when you first used them.

 

[Slam]

I have some too, never considered giving mine to a charity shop - I had assumed that they wouldn't want the hassle of selling PC games (eg being asked if it will work on a new PC)

 

[mame]

I got a surprisingly good £8 for GTA 4 at CEX a few months ago and that's only 1 year newer than your Crysis. I only paid £10 on release from Morrisons. I still think they got them from Woolworths who went under just at that time. I have them all on Steam anyway,

Not sure the implications of selling that on to another person but then I wasn't selling it on to another person.


edit: it's still listed as £5 to buy now. I think I sold it about May at a guess.

 

[MissChief]

I usually give them to my kids or people at work.

 

[Surfer]

Depends on the condition of them and whether they include everything. Not worth selling because as has been said most likely available on steam. put em in polythene bags and put em in attic then wait a few years.