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 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.