This is not a beer post, and for that I apologize in advance, but I had nowhere else to share this story.

My basement needed a good cleaning and I needed to free up some shelf space, so I decided it was time to purge some old stuff. I had a ton of old game consoles and video games, but I didn’t really want to go through the hassle of selling them online. My brother had a great idea, donate them to a children’s hospital. I made a few phone calls and found that Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, MD would be happy to take my donation. I took a Saturday afternoon and brought everything up from the basement and started going through what I had.

It took about 2 hours total to get everything out, test the systems, and box them up by console. I did not test all the games, but I have good faith that most will work without issue. After seeing what I had I really began to waver on going through with my decision, but in the end I decided it was best for the children, and these games were doing nothing but collecting dust in my basement. I made the call to Elizabeth at the hospital and setup a time to make the drop-off.

The whole ride into the city I kept wondering if I was doing the right thing. There is a hoarder mentally that goes along with collecting anything, and I was having trouble letting go, but I just kept thinking that this will hopefully make a lot of children happy.

When I arrived I called Elizabeth, and she came down with a cart to get the games. She was really surprised at the amount of stuff I had to donate. She kept stating how happy this was going to make the children, and that reassured me I was making the right decision.

We filled up the cart and she took everything inside. I’ll make sure to check back in a few months and see how the donation worked out, and which games/consoles are doing the best. Here is the list of what I donated, for the gamers out there wondering what I gave up. The Nintendo stuff is not listed as I still need to go through it and decide what I want (if anything) and what I don’t want. I can always make that donation another day.

Hardware

Playstation 4 Playstation 1&2 Contolers 10 Playstation Multitap 1 Playstation Memory Cards 7 Playstation 2 1 Playstation 2 Multitap 1 Playstation 2 Network Adapter 1 Sega Genesis 4 Sega Genesis Controlers 7 Odyssey 2 1 Segan Saturn 1 Segan Saturn Controllers 4 Sega Master System 1 Sega Master System Controller 1

Games

SEGA GENESIS Jurassic Park La Russa Baseball 95 John Madden Football ’93 Sonic & Knuckles Ecco the Dolphin Streets of Rage Taz Mania Sports Talk Football ’93 Pac-Mania Robocop vs. Terminator Mortal Kombat II College ’95 Football X-men 2 Clone Wars Street Fighter II Mortal Kombat Batman Madden ’95 John Madden Football ’93 Ecco the Tides of Time Micro Machines Prime Time Ghouls n Ghosts The Lion King Jurassic Park Rampage Edition Sonic the Hedgehog Super Off-road Toy Story The Lost World: Jurassic Park Virtua Racing Disney’s Aladdin Bill Walsh College Football Sports Talk Football ’93 NFL ’95 Game Genie Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Taz in Escape from Mars Lethal Enforcers Dr. Robotnick’s Mean Bean Machine SEGA MASTER Aztec Adventure Altered Beast Lord of the Sword SEGA SATURN NHL ’97 World Series Baseball II Madden ’98 College Slam FIFA Soccer ’96 Croc Legend of the Gobbos Virtual Open Tennis Ten Pin Alley Hyper 3-D Pinball PLAYSTATION Gran Turismo The Dukes of Hazzard Nascar ’99 Cool Boarders 2001 Ape Escape Crash Team Racing Tony Hawk’s Proskater 4 A Bug’s Life 25 to Life Metal Gear Solid Resident Evil 2 Resident Evil 3 Nemesis Tomb Raider II Medievil Final Fantasy VII Twisted Metal 4 PLAY STATION 2 Starsky and Hutch Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy Rachet & Clank up your Arsenal Rachet & Clank Going Commando Rachet & Clank Prince of Persia the sands of time Maximo Army of Zin Maximo Ghosts to Glory Tony Hawk’s Underground Jak II Katamari Damacy Crash Nitro-Kart Gran Turismo 3 ATV Offroad Fury 2 SS X3 Jak and Daxter Kingdom Hearts Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 Madden 2005 Splashdown Rides Gone Wild ODDESSY 2 Conquest of the World Odyssey 2 Volleyball! K.C. Munchkin! UFO! Baseball! Bowling! Basketball! Showdown in 2100 A.D. Alien Invaders—Plus! Sub Chase! Computer Golf! Crypto-logic!

For those of you who read this far, thanks. Here is the celebration beer I had later that night (It is Indy Beers, after all).