Is the Video Game Museum going to use graded games?

[Ze_ro]

Please do NOT do this... including VGA graded games in a museum would only bring them legitimacy that they really don't deserve.

--Zero

[digitalpress]

Have you been watching my auctions over the past 3 months? I've been gladly selling off all of the sealed games in my collection and at the store. I'm opening a museum and I don't want sealed games. What I want are pristine quality cases, manuals and discs.

Remember that part of the charter of this museum is interactivity. There is nothing less interactive than a sealed videogame trapped in a block of plastic.

[Buyatari]

I would think that most games in a museum should be mint complete BUT if someone donated a sealed game or a VGA sealed game I could see the right one fitting in just fine.

For example if someone were to donate a sealed or VGA graded sealed Stadium Events I think some people here would enjoy seeing it just like it is even though you can not play it.

[jonebone]

As a sealed game collector, I also agree that they don't serve much of a purpose in a museum. They should be opened and playable for interactive purposes, Mint isn't even a requirement.

The museum should showcase more unique items, like prototypes, displays, retail ads, promo items, etc. Stuff that is actually unique and interesting to the history of games, not just being sealed.

The only thing that I would like about sealed games are price stickers. There's nothing better than a $1,000 game with a $19.99 KB Toys sticker on it. Just a reminder that this hobby was born from nothing but bargain bin sales and a bit of collector passion.

[portnoyd]

buyatari.

You're my boy and all.

But you're a total dick for bumping this. ;P

[JustRob]

So.....buyatari dick-bumped you?

[Buyatari]

buyatari.

You're my boy and all.

But you're a total dick for bumping this. ;P

So I take you are not in favor of a sealed games throughout history retrospective?

[portnoyd]

So.....buyatari dick-bumped you?

The helmet's touched.

So I take you are not in favor of a sealed games throughout history retrospective?

I see what you did thar.

[skaar]

Yay the flame thread came back.

Someone should slab this.

[Griking]

Paintings in a museum need to be authenticated (and some curators have looked silly in the past by not doing so) before they go on display, so why should games be different? Granted, if Joe and company authenticate a game themselves, they certainly have the experience to do so, but I don't think VGA graded games would be looked down upon.

Paintings in a museum need to be authenticated, not graded. Besides, is there really a concern that the museum otherwise might display a bootleg?

[Gameguy]

Slabbing in plastic cases isn't enough.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Paintings in a museum need to be authenticated, not graded. Besides, is there really a concern that the museum otherwise might display a bootleg?

... bootlegs are worth documenting and displaying, too.

[The 1 2 P]

If theres a copy of Tetris DS on display it will probably be a bootleg.