Do you collect distributor boxes?
>>12899547No, I throw away trash like a normal person.
>>12899547>AmericanDadCharacterStanSmithReadsMeterOnFridgeThatPointsBetweenCollectingAndHording.png
>>12899547Fuck no
I have a Majesco Battle Tank game gear shipping box because it got sent to me as the packaging i bought from an online wholesale store.
>exhibit #10,450 of coomlectors not caring about actually playing retro games
>>12899547Where the fuck do you find one of these? Let alone 4 of them?
>>12899680ask the twitter account OP stole it from
>>12899547I don't """collect"" them. But I do have them. Before the age of seething bandwagonner babies shops threw cartons of CIB game away to make room for new stock.
>>12899596I love the mental gymnastic of "he owns stuff? Then he doesn't play video games!" When it's proven that digital hoarders (the kind that buy a lot of indie games on steam sales and the like) are the actual ones that don't play
>>12899718>digital hoardersPlease tell me you're not saying this is as bad as physical hoarding.
>>12899748Buying digital licenses (that you won't even use) is worst than buying physical stuff, yeah
>>12899751Physical stuff clutters your home, takes up actual habitable space, and invites pests. You can't mask that away. Claiming a library of licenses in some DRM software program is no different than holding onto large distribution boxes made of cardboard is not a proper equivalency.
>>12899764This.Stop owning things, it's hazardous.Own nothing, be happy.
>>12899768Yeah, try and play mental gymnastics that distribution cardboard boxes are somehow beneficial to your life and may need them some day. No different than the many nutcases out there with stacks of newspapers and old junk just scattered about. This is how hording usually progresses in people who aren't all theere.
>>12899748It absolutely is worst. Atleast a physical hoarder has the option to sell their shit, as opposed to flushing your money away on tons of downloads that you could have gotten for free and most don't ever bother booting up or play for 5 minutes because it was on some heckin digital sale shit.
>>12899764That's a laff, considering the average pc steamie user sleeps on a stained mattress and has food containers and piss bottles scattered around their gamin zone.
>>12899780We're talking about OP's distribution cardboard boxes anon. That's what I'm referring to.
>>12899776I personally don't care about distribution boxes (and I doubt I could even buy them), but I'm not falling for your "if you own physical, you don't play" fallacy.
>>12899776>>12899797They are interesting depending on how deep into the hobby you are. Just like how an average call of duty player doesn't give a shit about the design documents or interviews on how what they play was made, but someone with a deeper passion for the games beyond just as a way to spend an afternoon, would be interested in those materials. Someone deeply interested in chrono trigger or the 90s game industry in japan? Well here is an example of how those games were shipped to stores, one that survived being tossed away with few remaining. For lack of a better description, it's something a museum would be interested in, because its a sample of something that rarely survived beyond its initial use. If you think it's rubbish, fine, but there are others who may find it an interesting piece in a collection, just like dev systems, not for resale advertising, kiosks, prototypes and stuff from competitions. And the majority who would actually go through with obtaining these pieces are going to care for them as unique pieces of their collection, not just tossed in a pile.
>>12899748It’s as stupid
>>12899780no way. the worst problem with physical hoarding is offloading all the shit onto your kids to deal with when you die. If you just have a few drives with shit on them they wont even see it.
>>12899861You talk as if the very act of owning stuff is unthinkable.The worst part relatives have to deal with is clothes. They can make money off the video game stuff if they are not super lazy, today is easier than ever to sell stuff to thrirsty collectors while not getting scammed with how easy it is to determine average prices.
>>12899861How is that exclusive to just gaming shit? Do your parents own no material possessions that you will one day have to decide what to do with?
>>12899820This. I find these kinds of things a million times more interesting and worthy of collecting and displaying than something like slabbed sealed games. Sealed games are fine and all, but despite their current value, I find them to be the most surface level of collecting. Things that were never meant to be owned by the public, things that were meant to be thrown away, things that were used to promote a game when it came out, things that only shopkeeps or industry people were meant to see, special giveaway prizes, limited distribution items, "true" special/limited editions, obscure merchandise, those are the kinds of things I find to be more interesting collectibles.
>>12899820>Well here is an example of how those games were shipped to storesAh interesting, it turns out they were shipped in a box with the game's name on it.
>>12899748>Please tell me you're not saying this is as bad as physical hoarding.Of course not. """Digital hoarding""" is far worse. Also spotted the digital hoarder.>>12899764>Physical stuff clutters your home, takes up actual habitable space, and invites pests.You don't have a home. You sleep in a racecar bed in your parents house. Of course they don't want you cluttering up their habitable space with toys some youtuber told you to overpay for. The only pest in your parents house is you.>>12899768You missed the part where that invites pests. Can't be truly happy without eating them bugs.
>>12900129>You missed the part where that invites pests. Can't be truly happy without eating them bugs.Yeah having physical belongings might invite "pests", better get rid of it all!
>>12900108
Just emulate them
>>12900517What emulator should I use for my boxes?
>>12899820>For lack of a better description, it's something a museum would be interested in, because its a sample of something that rarely survived beyond its initial use.That's to this expert I'm saving some of my used TP so I can become a billionaire selling it to museums..
>>12899861Anon, lets be real. None of these strange fucks have children lmao.
>>12902131Twilight Princess isn't really that rare unless it's the Japanese gamecube version.
>>12902131I know you're joking, but a lot of museum material is quite literally ancient garbage.
>>12902286A lot of museum material is modern garbage. That doesn't mean any museum will even be interested in the garbage your pushing.
>>12899576Creative. I like it.
