Going full circle.. I've done that a few times
The only machines I never let go of are my A1200 and CDTV. A few years ago I was at a point where I found some of the consoles I really like/wanted to own and just bought them again (PC Engine, PCE GT, Neo Geo AES, PS1, PS2 DC). This was to cut back on mass spending on lots of machines I never really used.
But just recently I have found I have a different problem, I am buying more and more games for each of these systems... obsessively! Like I want to have ALL the games or something! I was even buying crap games because they are rare. So now i'm stuck with lots of games I just know I wont play.
I've decided that i'm going to stop mainly because game prices on retro gear are going through the roof. And instead just buy/keep a select few GOOD games, then sell off all my crap but rare games.
Then build a PC dedicated to Retro gaming via Emulation for all the other systems I don't own such as SNES MD etc. Over the last few years emulation of the old 8/16 bit consoles has improved to near perfection. It seems Emulation coders are going away from game hacks and HLE/plug in type of emulation (to keep things running fast on low end PC machines) and instead are going for highly accurate emulation. It means that some emulators now require 3GHz+ to get good speeds, but now they are VERY VERY close to the original hardware in terms of timing accuracy etc.
As a bonus I'll set aside a partition for Steam OS and see what all the fuss is about there
