How long do you think we have before retro videogames are completely unaffordable? Let's say 80s videogames become thousands of dollars each. You can't say this will never happen because it happened to golden age comic books and magic the gathering cards.
>>12540386Get a job
>>12540386It will never happen.
You can just emulate.
>Guy buy collector comic>Too valuable to read, so he tries reading it on an illegal online site>Gets bored after 5 page, quits>Still demands to be seen as the expert on that comic....>Guy buys CIB game>Emulates it>Gets bored by the second levelYou see where I'm going with this. At some point collector shit should be on /biz/.
>>12540386Never because the video game is the code, not the piece of plastic it is stored on.
>>12540386It's already happened with certain games, but its not going to happen to your 2600 Combat cart. Even with comics and cards, the expensive ones are that way for a reason, be it some important milestone or notable popularity. Not everything becomes valuable just because its from olden times.
>>12540642This.There are piles of 16mm films, CED discs and LP records on ebay for pennies. You can hype up a few things on the strength of cultural impact but most of the old shit is worthless.
>>12540386Won't happen, no one cares about the carts, you can play these games in so many ways these days.>>12540579>>Too valuable to read, so he tries reading it on an illegal online siteWhy did you type this in the absolute gayest way you could have. You sound like a music executive in 2000.
>>12540663Yeah? Well you are a homosexual!I wrote it that way to emphasize how insane it is that people will buy something and act like it's a huge thing and still pirate it if they want to play / read it. It's not about loving the thing, it's about wanting to look like you do, or maybe you're an investor (/biz/). I'll sell youtubers fake sealed carts all day, it's not like they open them.
>>12540663>no one cares about the cartsThat's objectively false
I switched to flashcarts and ODEs several years ago. Well worth it, but of course collectors will swear that they can't pick a game to play unless they physically own it...Never pay more than $20 for a computer game.
>>12540386A few weeks before the monetary system falls and everyone will have no money in their accounts.If no one has money you will change it for food or tobacco but i bet you will love that games keep increasing in prices.
>>12540386doesnt matter. collecting games and playing games is a totally different hobby
>>12540386This is what gives women the ick in one photo
>>12540725Does he look like someone that likes women to you?
>>12540579To be fair same thing happens with emulation. Guy collects roms for months and doesn’t finish any of them. I own the few games I do know backwards and forwards though.
>>12540768I've heard that. Very sad. I only get roms individually when I want to try or replay something. Don't have that issue.
>>12540390Not OP but I'm 36 and on my way to attempting to obtain turboneet status. If I succeed I'll never have to work again. I want out if the wage cage
>>12540669I get what you're saying, I don't understand it myself. I own a rare comic and while I do take better care of it than others I still read it. Like damn if I spend $100 on something I am gonna use it.>>12540689Technically yes people care, I am saying on a large scale no one cares. The niche ass community that exists around these are nothing. People who want to play these games have over 9000 other options to play them that are far easier. The only reason to buy carts is because you want the cart. You can come up with a infinite number of reasonings behind that desire but at the end of the day these carts are worthless, all the value is the data they contain which has been endlessly copied to millions of machines around the world.
Nigga just reprint. Let the coomlectors have their dwindling supply of stuff and then just reprint and or emulate the consoles and games.
>>12540725reminder that if it was henry cavill the background would have no impact on his appeal to women
>>12541084>And if my grandma was a dog i'd be a dogHe ain't Henry calvin though my guy,
>>12540579>At some point collector shit should be on /biz/.>implying that anything made before the 2010s hasn't been turned into /biz/ shit.Lolz.
>>12540386They won't. Look at an older equivalent like records or coin collections. They have been falling since the 90's.Buy a Pentium 4 and download exodos. There you go, 10,000 games on real hardware for under $50.>>12540642I remember when FF7 was worth a bit.
>>12540386All collectables will become rarer over time so as long as interest persists the value will rise. Why care about collecting them when you could just be playing them?
>>12540386Just enumerate bro
>>12540594a comic book is the art, not the paper it's printed on
>>12540768"collecting" a rom is zero investment.
