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General / Re: Do you buy games to play or put on your shelf?
« on: May 17, 2018, 11:44:52 am »Both.I don't believe you played that copy of PGA Tour Golf on Genesis.
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Classic Video Games / Re: Do you worry that disc based retro systems won't work in the future?
« on: May 16, 2018, 07:39:30 pm »And people worrying about ps1 and ps2 consoles are just being cheap, These consoles are very cheap to replace and I highly doubt they will increase in value especially with new cd consoles on the rise.It's not the worry that a ps1 or ps2 may break, it's the worry that all ps1s and ps2s will be non-functional given a decade or two.
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Classic Video Games / Re: Do you worry that disc based retro systems won't work in the future?
« on: May 16, 2018, 06:31:14 pm »Well yeah, that is going to happen to all of them, eventually. But what are you going to do? Not own one just because that's going to happen down the road sometime? Clothes wear out, cars break down, houses need repaired; it's no different.I'm just saying man, a world where I can't play Fallout: Brotherhood Of Steel on an original PS2 isn't one I want to live in.
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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?
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 / Re: I don't think anyone will care about physical media in 20 years.
« on: May 16, 2018, 04:29:12 pm »Nah man it's obvious, it's a niche hobby as it is.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.
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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.
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 / Re: Do you think video game collecting is expensive?
« on: May 16, 2018, 09:22:54 am »I found the SWAT PC games at a car boot sale and was super excited to play, especially as they aren't available on Steam.
I am forever grateful that retro PC collecting has not caught on with the masses. There are a handful of very expensive big box games, but they make up like 5% of all PC games. the rest are $20 or less.
PC Gaming is cheaper because old PC games usually need patches or some kind of outdated hardware or software mod function, to not crash, when your trying to play the game on a modern computer. Heck ,PC games would even crash back to windows in the 1990's even while playing them on a 1990's computer. I grew up as a PC only gamer and I can tell you it half the games I had didn't even work on an older computer without some sorta glitch or an error message, onscreen, forcing the game to end with no reason at all.
Alas, they did not work on my modern PC. Never again.
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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?
Is it that it's expensive for what it is?
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Modern Video Games / Re: Top 5 Physical Release Nintendo Switch games.
« on: May 14, 2018, 02:29:17 pm »
1. Super Mario Odyssey
2. Zelda BoTW
3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
4. Skyrim
5. Dragonball Xenoverse 2
Coincidentally, these are the only five physical games I have for the system.
2. Zelda BoTW
3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
4. Skyrim
5. Dragonball Xenoverse 2
Coincidentally, these are the only five physical games I have for the system.
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General / Re: Isn't video game collecting kinda just hoarding?
« on: May 13, 2018, 06:56:14 pm »Im definitely not a horder.That’s exactly what a hoarder would say.
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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?
If you could only keep a handful of items what would they be?
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General / Re: Is there a way you can see absolutely everything you have for a platform?
« on: May 12, 2018, 04:36:28 pm »
Yes, you can turn and look at your shelf 