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Classic Video Games / Do you worry that disc based retro systems won't work in the future?

« on: May 16, 2018, 06:20:56 pm »

With more moving parts and lasers and memory cards and such do you think say a PS2 would still even be operational in 30 years time?

Is cartridge collecting safer? At least with cartridges there's modern purpose built systems for it i.e. the Retrons etc. so you don't have to rely on a 1985 NES to run the games necessarily.

Do you think dreamcasts and the like have a limited life and will die with age in our lifetime?

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General / I don't think anyone will care about physical media in 20 years.

« on: May 16, 2018, 12:28:16 pm »

The stuff will be worthless but also hard to find because it will be getting chucked out and no one will want to take the time to bother selling it.

There'll be generations of people growing up in an all digital world and it will be like holding onto cassettes and VHS tapes. Archaic, antiquated and eccentric.

We'll be old people all like 'back in my day games were better!' and the pool of people who care about retro will fade to nothing.

I can still see me wanting to play old games in my retirement no matter how crazy most of the world would view that. I'm thinking about what games are truly timeless to play in my last days on Earth, if the consoles even still function 40, 50 years from now.

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General / What systems do you collect for?

« on: May 16, 2018, 10:37:29 am »

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General / Do you think video game collecting is expensive?

« on: May 14, 2018, 03:34:42 pm »

People say it is but given that new releases are $60/£50, picking up older titles to stick into a collection is relatively affordable.

Is it that it's expensive for what it is?

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General / What are you most happy to have in your collection?

« on: May 13, 2018, 01:04:25 pm »

What has the most sentimental value? What do you play the most? What are you just happiest to own?

If you could only keep a handful of items what would they be?

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General / Are you looking forward to E3 this year?

« on: May 12, 2018, 08:54:58 am »

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General / Isn't video game collecting kinda just hoarding?

« on: May 11, 2018, 02:44:28 pm »

I initially thought all those 'game room tours' and stuff on YouTube were super cool and inspirational. 

I am a home owner now and my house is super de-cluttered and very much minimalist and now I kinda shudder at looking at 2,000+ physical games.

I like the idea of collecting games but I don't think it's appealing to own any game I come into contact with just because I don't already have it.

I collect games but only the choicey, sought after, much loved, cool stuff. Not every release ever.

Right now my collection consists only of Fallout: Brotherhood Of Steel, Silent Hill 3 and PaRappa the Rapper 2, all on PS2. The former two from a car boot sale and the latter from a goodwill store.

I want every game in the collection to make me feel fuzzy and blow my mind to have it. I don't want a bunch of common games or an excessively large collection.