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    Are we in the last years of Atari/NES collecting era?

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    31 minutes ago, DefaultGen said:

    For everyone who thinks the nostalgia classics are timeless must plays that all will enjoy, just check the latest IGN twitter poll thing: https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1438563571286167552/photo/1

    Rise of the Tomb Raider beat Half-Life 2
    Burnout 3 beat Chrono Trigger
    Skyrim beat Ocarina of Time
    Smash Ultimate beat Super Mario World
    Batman Arkham City beat Super Mario 64
    Apex Legends beat Super Metroid

    These are the opinions of the next big generation that will grow into collectors, lol

    Street Fighter II lost to Pokemon Yellow 🤣

    Are we in the last years of Atari/NES collecting era?

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    1 minute ago, DefaultGen said:

    For everyone who thinks the nostalgia classics are timeless must plays that all will enjoy, just check the latest IGN twitter poll thing: https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1438563571286167552/photo/1

    Rise of the Tomb Raider beat Half-Life 2
    Burnout 3 beat Chrono Trigger
    Skyrim beat Ocarina of Time
    Smash Ultimate beat Super Mario World
    Batman Arkham City beat Super Mario 64
    Apex Legends beat Super Metroid

    These are the opinions of the next big generation that will grow into collectors, lol

    Emotional attachment.

    Get a moment, add emotions and you have a memory burned forever in your brain.

     

    Left column game players can't relate to the equivalent right column games like people who played the latter when they were new, revolutionary compared to other games.

     

    Maybe some of the new vg players will get old cartridges as souvenir, decoration or something like that. But very very few of them will collect for nostalgic reasons. 

    Are we in the last years of Atari/NES collecting era?

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    3 minutes ago, DefaultGen said:

    Back in ye olden days of 6 years ago the sealed guys were too few and isolated, so our squabbles had to be collectors who collect Nintendo tapes vs. collectors who collect even more Nintendo tapes! Now collecting anything but the D A N K seems crazy since only the dankest games will sell for millions.

    People who seek making millions from a game should go fornicate themselves under consent of the king.

    I think people don't get that when a collector sells a cartridge for thousands of dollars it's more of a reward, a serendipity, than a goal. And sometimes just plain luck.

     

    Sorry for not knowing expressions like "dank collecting" it's my first time in a collectors forum. Used to talk about it only with friends and such.

    Are we in the last years of Atari/NES collecting era?

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    43 minutes ago, DefaultGen said:

    A dank collector is a collector that only collects the main stream, power titles whether they be played out, over hyped or genuinely good.

    That's how I intend to start my NES collection without the "sell it all later" part. The classic, most known titles as priorities and if good opportunities come up to buy less known/hyped titles, if grab it.

     

    I don't see myself collecting rare, obscure JP titles after spending hours searching for them.

     

    Thanks for the reply

    Are we in the last years of Atari/NES collecting era?

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    1 minute ago, Hammerfestus said:

    Dank collecting will be the way for sure.  But I think the fact that the system library holds the origins of so many iconic IPs kind of makes it kind of prestigious and it may buoy a good chunk of the greater library.  Dunno about my Jeopardy games though.  

    It’s hard for me to say though because I’ve been here and a part of this world for so long my only real insight into how other collectors are is that subreddit.  If I’m to go by that, DS and GameCube are the hottest thing since sliced bread.  Don’t see those kids posting their NES hauls that often.  

    What "dank collecting" means?

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    Are we in the last years of Atari/NES collecting era?

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    1 hour ago, DefaultGen said:

    I think NES popularity has a ways to fall, but the historically important and iconic Nintendo games will be popular as long as Nintendo is. But the way people look at those old AtariAge boomers collecting their CommaVid games and tracking Spectravideo Compumate serial numbers, all stuff that “no one cares about”, the NES crowd is going to become that. We’re going to still think Myriad 6-in-1 is such a cool story and Minnesota State Lottery is so mysterious and Stadium Events and NWC are the ultra rare grails and no one who is 25 years old in 2040 is going to give one shit about that old man crap.

    Atari people think Atari was the foundation of home gaming, NES people think NES was the foundation of home gaming, SNES people think SNES is where “games really started to get good”, (N64 people… ???).  The cycle goes on.

    I don’t think Zelda or Metroid have anything to worry about because they’ll always have the iconic factor, even if everyone thinks they’re unplayable in a couple decades like people think golden age comics suck. Is anyone under 60 going to care how obscenely rare your sealed Ninja Kid is a couple decades? Doubt it. 

    Totally agree and your comment fits perfectly the intention I had in mind when writing this post.

     

    I'm not saying that people shouldn't start or complete their collections, but that it's important to be conscious of where we're sitting right now in the collection cycle.

     

    Your Zelda/Metroid examples are the kind of historic value I was talking about, because modern systems are still releasing new continuations and stuff. Modern players will have the curiosity to see how these franchises began and emulators can provide that experience with ease. Most of them *maybe* will have no emotional attachment to them after that.

     

    Are we in the last years of Atari/NES collecting era?

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    8 minutes ago, Scrobins said:

    I'm a 90s kid, but my family wasn't particularly wealthy and not enthusiastic about buying me video games

    I can relate a lot to that. My first system was a 2600 clone that an uncle had, grew tired of it and passed to me. A cousin had a 2600 and later a NES clone, we used to rent games and play together when I stayed at her home. Later I got a Sega Genesis given by an aunt. My next door neighbor had a Master System, a NES and then a SNES (loaded parents) and I was almost every day at his house after school, playing the games he rented.

     

    Only at age 30+something I got my own Xbox One but I miss those Atari/NES/Genesis times so damn much.

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    Are we in the last years of Atari/NES collecting era?

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    Let me explain my very personal and amateurish reasons behind the question. You can skip the wall of text if you want but I want to get my facts straight, so it would be nice to keep the discussion around them. The reasons I describe below aren't, in any way, deep and comprehensive, they are more at the generalization's side.

     

    The value of collectible items is mostly based on the emotional attachment that the collector has to these items. Another kind of value they may have is the historic.

     

    So, putting aside the historic value of some items of video game collecting, I think it's rather safe to say that those who grew up playing from the Atari 2600 to the NES era (1977 to 1994ish), are now around their 35~50s. An eight year old kid who got a 2600 on it's release year is now 52 years old!

     

    Here goes another generalist premise: people around their 30s start to change their life focus, mostly to building a family, buying a house and so on. I know, I know... a lot of you do have a collection and kids and mortgage. It seems to me that the users here are more "hardcore" collectors. I may be wrong, no problem.


    Another thing that I've been noticing is that it's getting harder and harder to collect items for low prices, like garage sales or from someone freeing up space in their garages. Just as the games created  emotional bindings on us, the hunting and discovery of rarities or buying cartridges for 50 cents or a dollar also developed an emotional attachment to each collected item leaving the decisions on spending "big money" to the rarest or the last missing items.

     

    Maybe (and I can be wrong about it) today's need to "pay to collect" strategy is killing the fun from collecting and turning it more into a financial decision.

     

    So, to conclude my train of thought: as games are getting more expensive and collecting becomes more a financial decision than a fun activity we may be in the last years of collecting games for sentimental reasons and starting to enter the "historic reasons" motivation.

     

    (feel free to correct my grammar mistakes)

     

     

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    What's new in your collection/Pick-up Thread !!!

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    18 minutes ago, Tanooki said:

    Wow that's one weird Nintendo clone, can't decide if it's an old one or a top loader almost. 😛

    I couldn't even find the maker anywhere in it. Funny thing is that I grew up thinking it was original, while it was stored somewhere. When I found it was a big deception and it's not even working, just gives a black screen.

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