I have mixed feelings about collecting games. I have a few physical games that are worth a lot of money, like Earthbound, Rez, and Silent Hill 1, but that's because I like them a lot. They're special to me. I can't imagine collecting every single game on a system out of some pack rat instinct.
Like I'd love if there was some kind of public area with tons of retro games and TVs where everyone can enjoy them. I guess like an arcade. It would be cool to bring a friend somewhere to play Contra 3 on SNES on the hardware. I can do it now online with an emulator sure, but there's something fun about hardware and being close to people. Or just looking over a huge shelf of games and picking one out based on the cover art.
Collecting games could be fun as a public thing to be shared. When it's just big piles of shit in a person's basement it only makes me sad. Total waste
There's ways to turn this cool, like archiving .isos of whatever here and then sharing them when nobody cares about it anymore or the companies go bust or such. But anything like this would require work beyond putting up a shelf and clicking buy so it's not happening
I respect the old collectors, like the ones who collected Atari and NES games and gear in the early-2000s. The games were basically being thrown away and cheap. They joined together online to help map out and document all of the games released, the production histories, etc. They had stories and went places IRL to flea markets and garage sales to find this stuff. They wrote about the hidden gems and stuff that people rarely got to play as kids because we couldn't risk our limited gifts/money on risky purchases a lot of the time. Nowadays it's expensive and pointless outside the last archival efforts.
Exactly I'm the same way. When I collect a game or a book it's because it's important to me and my life in some way and I liked it. I'm not going to buy Sesame street for Super Nintendo and hoard plastic just so I can have a "complete collection"
I have mixed feelings about collecting games. I have a few physical games that are worth a lot of money, like Earthbound, Rez, and Silent Hill 1, but that's because I like them a lot. They're special to me. I can't imagine collecting every single game on a system out of some pack rat instinct.
Like I'd love if there was some kind of public area with tons of retro games and TVs where everyone can enjoy them. I guess like an arcade. It would be cool to bring a friend somewhere to play Contra 3 on SNES on the hardware. I can do it now online with an emulator sure, but there's something fun about hardware and being close to people. Or just looking over a huge shelf of games and picking one out based on the cover art.
Collecting games could be fun as a public thing to be shared. When it's just big piles of shit in a person's basement it only makes me sad. Total waste
There are a few retro game museums
And I think it's nice in someone's basement compared to in the landfill
What's the hexbear party line on outdoor g*mers?
outdoor gulag
Ecological restoration projects or smth like that.
There's ways to turn this cool, like archiving .isos of whatever here and then sharing them when nobody cares about it anymore or the companies go bust or such. But anything like this would require work beyond putting up a shelf and clicking buy so it's not happening
I respect the old collectors, like the ones who collected Atari and NES games and gear in the early-2000s. The games were basically being thrown away and cheap. They joined together online to help map out and document all of the games released, the production histories, etc. They had stories and went places IRL to flea markets and garage sales to find this stuff. They wrote about the hidden gems and stuff that people rarely got to play as kids because we couldn't risk our limited gifts/money on risky purchases a lot of the time. Nowadays it's expensive and pointless outside the last archival efforts.
I'd love that. Old school games with a pal in the same room is Good and Cool Gaming.
Exactly I'm the same way. When I collect a game or a book it's because it's important to me and my life in some way and I liked it. I'm not going to buy Sesame street for Super Nintendo and hoard plastic just so I can have a "complete collection"
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