No kidding, right? Like most great accomplishments, it's susceptible to the George Costanza Frogger "dance of death".
It's funny too that there hasn't been anything in the house for years capable of reading the cart, yet I still risk humiliation in front of my somewhat more 'grown up' friends...
But in the end, when my brother modded my Ifrit Triple Triad card in FF8, ruining my bid to collect a full deck, I was done with collecting. My XBox Live gamerscore is pathetic, yet I've logged a disgusting amount of online play. I'm cured!