Quote Originally Posted by Ed Oscuro View Post
This is why you won't have $20K. Tulip craze. Sure, everybody likes tulips and games, but if you get in and out at the wrong points, you're done for. Might as well diversify a bit. Admittedly game prices seem more "stable" than the stock market, but I have the feeling most people are just treading water (i.e. making inflation), and "collect anything because it smells good sealed" is a hopeless investment strategy.
Look there could be millions of copies of one particular game out there. Lets say the original Mario Bros for nes. You can buy a cart for less than a buck on Ebay. This is because most of those people who brought it home from the store ripped the box open and threw it out since they couldn't wait to play the game itself.

Lets face it, no one back then thought to themselves, "Hmm, I think I won't play this game, in fact won't even open it. I'm going to give it to my grandson one day when its worth a lot of money." That's the thing with sealed games. Most are kept sealed by accident. Someone forgot to return it to K-Mart or someone got two copies accidentally for Christmas and one was thrown into the attic. That's why these things are so rare and why they go for so much money, because there are very few left.