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BUMPED2002 posted...

Little did I know, I have over 200 games combined between the 3 systems and I do not want to even calculate how much I have spent on these games.

$60*200=$12,000. It gets a bit more nuanced than that in that you likely didn't pay the full $60 for all of them and $70 has become the norm in the last couple of years, but it's a reasonable estimate for the maximum you could have spent.

BUMPED2002 posted...

I could have invested that money or made better use of it at the very least.

$12,000 since November 2006 is only about $675 a year (and again, this is the maximum). If you've been making $7.50/hour working full time that whole time (and you've probably made more than that), you've made a total of about $275,000. You could have invested the money instead, certainly, but in the grand scheme of things it's not all that much. Meanwhile, that money has given you tens of thousands of hours of entertainment in those 18 years, to which end I don't actually know that you could have made better use of it.