Why do people do this shit? Is it just mental illness?
What's the purpose of unsealing old games when emulation or console piracy is so easy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrRUKFcnPM
It gives me great joy to know that 50 years from now this shit will no longer have value since all the people who value it will be dead.
>>12899691Nah mate, 20th century gaming is the start of gaming. 500 years from now, people will value physical 90s games more than ever.
>>12899695>500 years from nowWe will not be playing video games.
>>12899691That will probably happen soon with ancient stuff like Atari 2600 and Intellivision. How many people under the age of 50 still collect or even play late '70's to early '80's games now?
>>12899701We will be dead (or you will, I will put my brain in a robot body and live forever). But people will still be playing games.
>>12899717>I will put my brain in a robot body and live foreverPhysical hardware in the year 20xx?Get with the times, old man. My robot will be emulating my brain with full mod support.
>>12899725>he's going to emulate his brainYour personality will be filtered into something unrecognizable. That's assuming it'll even still be your conciousness.
>putting something in a box "destroys" itSounds like OP's the mentally ill one, miss the boat OP? Come on you can admit it. You just feel stupid for failing to buy these back when they were on sale for $10.
>>12899695Yeah, no, anon's right. Games being in collectible condition doesn't mean they're going to be worth a fortune 50 years later.
>>12899964Maybe not 50 years later. 500 years later, people are going to want to see the origin of video games - the ultimate artform. And physical games will have been dead for hundreds of years anyway, so 20th century games will have less competition for collectors along with being historically significant.
>>12899972Like look up incunabula, stuff printed in the earliest stages of printing (up to year 1500). Those books sell for a ton.
>>12899657I think it's a small percentage of people that actually think this is important archival work and then mostly just speculators trying to move money around, same as the comics speculator market of the 90s.
>>12899972Cool so what you're saying is all I need to do is buy a sealed copy of Ocarina of Time,cryogenically freeze myself for 5 centuries and when they thaw me out I can sell it and be rich. Sounds like a great plan!
>>12899974As somebody who collects antique books it's kind of funny when I see people complain about retro prices. People really have no perspective on expensive hobbies.
>>12899657That’s just the way the wind blows Things ain’t what they used to beBut the more things change the more you continue to be a faggot
>>12900032Yes.
>>12900035Yeah, not to mention gaming has easy options for actually playing most old games for cheap/free. Even for collecting it's cheap relative to many things, but for just participating it's a very cheap hobby.
>>12900035>comparing apples to orangesVideo games are mass produced with cheap materials.Show us you book collections.
>>12899725>trusting a third party to emulate your brain instead of using AI vibe coding to decomp your own brainGet with the times grandpa
>>12900152Well yeah, my point was that people who only ever eat apples don't know the value of other fruits, not that all fruits are equally valuable, retard. You can always tell how stupid somebody is when they use this metaphor.
>>12900152NTA but I have well over 10k books. No, I'm not going to show them to you because no one needs to """prove""" anything to a retarded underage like you. Imagine being such an ipad baby that you're not even aware that paper is a cheap material.
