benstylus wrote:> I really don't have any anymore. I have owned just about every rare and expensive
> Dreamcast or Saturn game at various points.
>
> Do I wish I kept some of them? Maybe. Sure can't imagine paying today's prices
> for some of them.
> Would be cool to have now that I help furnish the gaming library at OMGCon, but
> honestly anything that fetches over $100 cart or disc only I'd be hard pressed to
> have it available unless we put the systems under lock and key.
>
> 7 events with our stuff being available and I think our only losses so far have been
> a DKC: Tropical Freeze Wii U disc and a single switch joycon (which may just be in
> a box in the storage unit since we had to pack up everything quick this year).
>
> We still have quite a few bafflingly expensive items, but just owning expensive items
> doesn't give me a thrill. I would rather retro games be less expensive and thus
> easier to share and recommend.
>
> Nothing beats running a game room and having a couple guys ask for our copy of Pen
> pen TriIcelon because they saw we had it and just HAD to try it out.
>
> Or having a father ask if we have any OLD tekken games because the new ones are too
> complicated for him, and then seeing him and his son play together for a couple hours.
>
> Or having someone say "I'm looking for ben?" and immediately jumping into an Urban
> Champion grudge match.
>
> Sharing Games > Playing Games > Owning Games > Subscribing to Games
>
> Maybe that's why we all spend so much time in the forums here. Because talking about
> games is kind of a way to share them.
>
>
I can agree to that 100% i still have so many childhood games im missing cause i just can't afford them all at once. So i gotta slowly build up. Maybe prices will come down eventually...