Goodwill Hunter
01-04-2003, 09:44 PM
Been having lots of luck picking up long box PSX games lately (one of my current priorities) for next to nothing, along with a lot of standard PSX games as well. It seems that I'm hitting the sweet spot for PSX collecting.
I define the collecting "sweet spot", for a particular system as being when the greatest amount and variety of games are available, for the lowest prices. For people who have been asking how to best expand their collections, spotting and taking advantage of these time periods has been key for me.
The length and onset of these sweet spots seems to vary greatly from system to system, ie: Dreamcast's has come and gone, and N64's hasn't really started yet (come on TRU and Blockbuster!). I remember when the Saturn's started (with Best Buy's $10 blowout) and it seem's the NES's has wound down.
A sweet spot seems to come to an end in one of two ways....either the variety or quantity of games dries up, or as the games are recognized as collectibles, the prices start to go back up. The former seems to have happened to the Dreamcast and Saturn, while the latter is going on with a good part of the NES library.
These sweet spots have been when my collections have really bloomed. 3 years ago I was able to go into a Funcoland and get 50 different NES games I needed for $40. And before that Sega CD games, complete in perfect cases abounded. Now I'm getting almost any PSX game I want (with the exception of RPGs and truly rare titles) for between 2 & 10 dollars, and I'm taking maximum advantage of it.
I can't speak for the rest of the country, but here in the midwest the PSX sweet spot feels like it is in high gear....and I'm thinking the N64 is on deck.
Life is sweet (in spots).....
Rich
I define the collecting "sweet spot", for a particular system as being when the greatest amount and variety of games are available, for the lowest prices. For people who have been asking how to best expand their collections, spotting and taking advantage of these time periods has been key for me.
The length and onset of these sweet spots seems to vary greatly from system to system, ie: Dreamcast's has come and gone, and N64's hasn't really started yet (come on TRU and Blockbuster!). I remember when the Saturn's started (with Best Buy's $10 blowout) and it seem's the NES's has wound down.
A sweet spot seems to come to an end in one of two ways....either the variety or quantity of games dries up, or as the games are recognized as collectibles, the prices start to go back up. The former seems to have happened to the Dreamcast and Saturn, while the latter is going on with a good part of the NES library.
These sweet spots have been when my collections have really bloomed. 3 years ago I was able to go into a Funcoland and get 50 different NES games I needed for $40. And before that Sega CD games, complete in perfect cases abounded. Now I'm getting almost any PSX game I want (with the exception of RPGs and truly rare titles) for between 2 & 10 dollars, and I'm taking maximum advantage of it.
I can't speak for the rest of the country, but here in the midwest the PSX sweet spot feels like it is in high gear....and I'm thinking the N64 is on deck.
Life is sweet (in spots).....
Rich