I was looking through my PS2 games when I found Madden 2001 and ESPN Basketabll (NBA 2K4). I'm never going to play these games again, but there's no point in trading them in at a GameStop - what can you buy for a dollar? So I'll probably have my old sports games until I throw them out or someone wants them for some reason.

If you have valueless games like this, do you keep them? sell them for a couple bucks? give them away? play them and ignore new sports games? rent and not buy?

Note: I'm not talking Tecmo Bowl or Madden '95 - those games can't be improved on.

I don't buy sports games anymore. In fact, I don't own 1 XBOX360 game.

I rent them all from Blockbuster. I play them as long as I want.
I let them charge my account for the game and when I return it,
it they only charge me $1.50 for re-stocking. No late fees.

I end up making out very well.

I've had 2K7 since it came out. LOL.

I was looking through my PS2 games when I found Madden 2001 and ESPN Basketabll (NBA 2K4). I'm never going to play these games again, but there's no point in trading them in at a GameStop - what can you buy for a dollar? So I'll probably have my old sports games until I throw them out or someone wants them for some reason.

If you have valueless games like this, do you keep them? sell them for a couple bucks? give them away? play them and ignore new sports games? rent and not buy?

Note: I'm not talking Tecmo Bowl or Madden '95 - those games can't be improved on.


I gave all my old games (and a Super NES) to the children of a hispanic guy who washed dishes for me. Goodwill will take stuff like that too. Some kids could care less about updated rosters.

Some kids could care less about updated rosters.

That's poor parenting right there.

Mr. O, the thing is, you can't wait so long. As soon as you are done consistently playing the game, trade it in. I always do that with my Madden and NCAA games. I'll trade them in when I'm done and get about 20 bucks. That's not a bad coupon toward your next game.

I don't buy the new ones. I only have 1 of each (madden, ncaa bball, ncaa football, NHL, nba live, tiger woods, etc). Sure, I'd love to have the new one each year, but I don't play them enough to merit that. I haven't played my Xbox in a few months. Too busy, plus I'm hooked on Warcraft 3 right now.

Back in the day when I did have time though, I would just keep the old ones (assuming you've had them long enough to depreciate to the 1-3 dollar range. Even though the graphics are worse, it's kindof fun to go back and play Barry or something like that. Not a ton, but for a game or two you might want to break out the classic one for a change of pace.

I give all my old games to friends with crappier PCs.