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by br78 4522 days ago
Do you think? Films are only 100 years old and collecting film memorabilia has been popular for some time.

Is it not conceivable that video games might be collected in the same way in 60 or 70 years time?

Young people starting to collect now might rationalising their purchases as a bet that the value of such things will skyrocket by the end of their lifetime. I don't think that's such a crazy bet.
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gradstudent 4522 days ago
> Is it not conceivable that video games might be collected in the same way in 60 or 70 years time?

I'm not arguing against collecting games. I'm saying that paying (almost) six figures for a cart that historically sells for about five times less, a cart that can't even be readily identified, is dumb.

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pmelendez 4522 days ago
>"cart that can't even be readily identified"

The cart can be identified by the switches on the front, also since only 90 cart were produced (and gave away, you couldn't even buy one) makes it collecting value fairly high.

One can disagree about the irrationality of a collector with money, but I wouldn't call stupid something that I don't understand, it's rude and potentially incorrect.

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gradstudent 4522 days ago
> One can disagree about the irrationality of a collector with money, but I wouldn't call stupid something that I don't understand, it's rude and potentially incorrect.

I'm not arguing from a position of ignorance. I've been collecting NES games for close to 20 years. I think I know what's what. But don't take my word for it; see for yourself what the NES collecting community makes of this auction:

http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadi...

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