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| turf:
--- Quote from: darko on May 02, 2013, 12:06:00 pm ---I think those of you out there looking to collect for the N64 need to jump on that sooner rather than later. This fall/winter (before Christmas) will likely prove the most expensive time to collect for the system in it's history - depending on what games you're looking for. --- End quote --- I have a question about N64 collecting. Clay Fighter: Sculpter's Cut is closing in on being a $200 game. It was a Blockbuster exclusive. It is expensive as hell. Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine was exclusive to Blockbuster and LucasArts Store. Yet, it is less than $20. Neither is a good game. Someone give me a reason for this. |
| insektmute:
--- Quote from: sin2beta on May 02, 2013, 01:28:44 am ---Yeah, CD systems will reach a point where they just don't work anymore. Lasers burn out after so many hours of use. Even the CDs themselves will stop working. Really old laserdiscs (notoriously the discovision run) suffer from disc rot. CDs are a data encoded label put on a plastic disc. The adhesive on this either starts to go away or reacts with the data label. Either way they'll stop working. Honestly, though, this is a LONG time from now. We are starting to see laser rot on SOME discs from the late 70s. Since then the technology has gotten better as well. My solution. Buy a house with a doomsday bunker and fill it with sega saturn and dreamcast lasers. --- End quote --- Yeah, disc rot is a HUGE problem that's more widespread than the industry would like to let on, and it seems especially prevalent with CD-Rs manufactured in the late '90s/early '00s. I actually ran into this with my physical copy of the Witcher 2, too. The discs never worked quite right to begin with (long story), but last time I tried to use them, there were very visible signs of disc rot going on, and they're effectively unusable now. CDP stepped up and offered everyone free copies of the game on GOG, which is great, but they really didn't acknowledge or take any accountability for the problem. |
| brunauss:
--- Quote from: turf on May 02, 2013, 01:30:53 pm --- --- Quote from: darko on May 02, 2013, 12:06:00 pm ---I think those of you out there looking to collect for the N64 need to jump on that sooner rather than later. This fall/winter (before Christmas) will likely prove the most expensive time to collect for the system in it's history - depending on what games you're looking for. --- End quote --- I have a question about N64 collecting. Clay Fighter: Sculpter's Cut is closing in on being a $200 game. It was a Blockbuster exclusive. It is expensive as hell. Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine was exclusive to Blockbuster and LucasArts Store. Yet, it is less than $20. Neither is a good game. Someone give me a reason for this. --- End quote --- Simple marketing. Clay Fighter hit that novelty sweet spot just right and Indiana Jones was an already established franchise. |
| soera:
I think it has to do with the hype of the game. If Indiana Jones had that hype (I havent even heard of that game personally) it may be in the same boat as Scupltor's cut. |
| torvez:
--- Quote from: sin2beta on May 01, 2013, 09:57:51 pm --- --- Quote from: soera on May 01, 2013, 04:54:53 pm ---Yeah its dino peak thats expensive. Im not too sure its a BB rental only game as it was advertised in Nintendo power quite a bit ... but it was a weirdly timed release (really late in the systems life a full 3 years after the SNES was live in US (August of 94 for the game vs August of 91 for the SNES). The price of games will forever fluctuate. The one thing that is consistent in game collecting is that the variables will continue to change whether it be people selling out, people getting in, people finding multiple copies of something, copies of other stuff getting into a permanent collection, etc. --- End quote --- It was blockbuster only. That much I am sure of. Anyone see the game chasers episode where they find adventures at dinosaur peak at Game X Change for $5 (The Dino and Hoppy price)? --- End quote --- Yes! Actually, when it pops up on the bottom, it says it retails at $300. That was in 2011 (when the episode was uploaded), I don't know if they got that price on ebay or not, but now, in 2013 it goes for around $600+ on ebay. so there is some evidence that prices could definetely go up in the coming years. |
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