I was just about to say the same thing.Originally Posted by danny_galaga
It's not as if these collector's are opting to choose between buying sealed games or eating / paying bills. That would just be silly. They're not heroin addicts you know! They're normal people, with families, girlfriends, social lives etc... It just means they're not wasting as much of their time playing the games, and probably have more of a social life than most "Normal" videogame collector's / gamers
Very true. They're there and can be played at any time we choose, which is entirely different to them not being there at all... Having a game there which we choose not to play is entirely different from not having a game to play in the first place. The games are bought with the intention to be used - They just haven't been used yet...
There are probably collector's out there who buy cart only NES games and choose not to play them - How is that any different? I would even bet that there are even collector's out there who enjoy collecting the games for a system which they may not even own!!! I personally enjoy collecting coloured vinyl records, yet I no longer own a record player, but that doesn't mean I can't still collect.
I still don't understand why being a collector of sealed videogames carries such a taboo? It's only within the last few years that it's began to gain acceptance, but even now it's still quite a taboo subject amongst collector's circles.
For example, Jay Leno has a garage full of classic cars and motorcycles which he doesn't use - How is that any different? Yet being a classic car collector isn't taboo. Likewise, stamp collecting is a very popular hobby, yet many stamps are used and / or no longer legal to use or from other countries, but nobody critisizes stamp collector's for their chosen hobby, despite how pointless it may seem to some
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