How much do you think video gaming has cost you?

[Badger]

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plus the stuff I had as a kid like a spectrum, amiga etc...

[Guest Lord Monty]

Never mind the money, what about the time, the precious time that you can never buy back

Hmmm...now I think about it, if I could buy back all that time I'd probably only use it to play video games

[Salsa Party Animal]

Probably about 10 grand in my lifetime, but who care. I enjoy it.

[Tetchy]

Worked out today that in the last 12 months I have spent £800 on Xb titles alone, about £400 on NGC and £300 on PS2 titles. Man I need a life.

[Popo]

It could be worse... you could be a smoker! I seriously suggest any smokers out there not try to calculate how much you've spent on slowly killing yourself over the years

[Coltrane]

A lot.

Let's put it this way, I doubt I would be in half as much debt if it wasn't for gaming.

But hell..It's been worth it. Compared to a lot of hobbies, you get excellent value for money out of gaming. Usually anyway.

[stonedwal]

~$AU13,600 (£5,650). Keeping in mind the differences between the Aussie dollar and pound over the last few years.

Over half of that is from this generation, mainly because I have some form of income now.

[Jack]

Assume that each game cost me £40. 26 GC games, two 251 memory cards, three pads, a Game Boy Player, a Broadband Adapter, and god knows how many PSO hunter's licences. Fuck me, I've spent £1400 on my GameCube in less than two years. FUCKING HELL.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

You do the maths. And that's not counting PC games, GBA games, Lynx hardware + games and my old Amiga stuff

[Boutros]

I own all of this gen's consoles. I also own most of the last gen's

I recently bought my 2nd Xbox.

I rest my case...

[emjay2kay]

I got to £500 on a gamecube, three games and two RGB cables, and decided I didn't want to add up the rest.

I'll have a proper look tomorrow and see what I come up with. But there is no way I'm telling my parents the final sum.

[amc]

I've just tallied it all up with a breakdown of game specific t.v's, import stuff, perephirals etc.. but my p.c crashed.

About 10,000 in ten years.

my import 64 and 90.00 games from torc etc set me back over a grand in the 1st 3 months of its release.

'Dont look at the screen love you might leave me'

[Rushy]

I worked this out for insurance reasons a year ago, it should stand at about £35,000 now. Scary really when you see it as a figure

[DoctorK]

I hate to think of the total throughout the years starting with various Spectrums, going up to the present day machines.

It's got to be around the £20,000 mark I reckon, I wish I'd kept all of the old systems instead of flogging them, losing loads of money and then having to rebuy them on eBay years later.

[lancashirebambaata]

probably not as much as beer

[Halo]

Difficult to say.

Hardware wise Xbox new was £150, GBA with game at launch was £100, Gamecube at launch was £150 with a game, Megadrive was £100, Playstation was £150 with 6 games, Saturn was £20, Dreamcast was £15, Gameboy Colour was £60, NGPC was £30, GBA Sp was £50, Flash Linker was £100, Gameboy Xchanger was £35, PSone was £30.

£100 + £150 + £100 + £150 + £20 + £15 + £60 + £30 + £50 + £100 + £35 + £30 = Approx £850. Not much, but then add on another 300 games... let's say a conservative estimate of £5 each. £1500 + £850 = approx £2350.

Not really THAT much, but do consider that it's a very conservative estimate. I'm only 16 too.

[df0]

Easily over 16.000 euro.

Software:

over 40 PS2 games a approx. 100 euro (japanese import)

over 70 DC games a 80 euro (japanese import)

over 10 Xbox games a 100 euro (japanese import, not counting Tekki - 500 euro)

over 50 Saturn games a 80 euro (japanese import)

a lot of Commodore 64/Amiga, Vectrex, Mega Drive, TurboGrafx16, Psone, Atari 2600 and so on.

Hardware:

3 PS2's (japanese, 2 pal)

3 Xbox's (2 japanese, 1 pal)

Q (japanese)

GameCube (pal)

SNES, MultiMega, Vectrex, Commodore Amiga's, Commodore 64's, Atari 2600 and so on.

[patriot]

i prefer not to think of something like this. my pc alone cost 1500 without a hard-drive, video card, moniter, cd-writer. I'd like to think of it as money well spent :-]

[Guest kokyu]

Easily over 16.000 euro.

Software:

over 40 PS2 games a approx. 100 euro (japanese import)

over 70 DC games a 80 euro (japanese import)

over 10 Xbox games a 100 euro (japanese import, not counting Tekki - 500 euro)

over 50 Saturn games a 80 euro (japanese import)

a lot of Commodore 64/Amiga, Vectrex, Mega Drive, TurboGrafx16, Psone, Atari 2600 and so on.

Hardware:

3 PS2's (japanese, 2 pal)

3 Xbox's (2 japanese, 1 pal)

Q (japanese)

GameCube (pal)

SNES, MultiMega, Vectrex, Commodore Amiga's, Commodore 64's, Atari 2600 and so on.

What on Earth do you need 2 PAL PS2s and 2 Japanese Xboxes for??

[Hoop]

Link-up, baby!

[Shimmyhill]

Over 20k easily.

Like others have said i spent over 1k alone on Jap N64 games around release time and first few months.

I do trade alot tho (swapped a PC for a JAP DC (then bought another pc a week latrer !!)) so christ knows how much in total.

Still i know someone who has spent that money on 'doing up' his car