Quote Originally Posted by treismac View Post
It was awesome, wasn't it?

Merely collecting games you enjoyed from childhood without actually playing them is a perverse form of nostalgia. Games have a purpose. Fulfill that purpose or collect stamps, baseball cards, or some other non-interactable item.

There have been a good bit of apt analogies used to capture something of the stupidity of this dissected NWA cart, but I want to contribute one more. Having a golden NWA cart and rendering it unplayable is like marrying the hottest trophy wife you can afford, and then castrating yourself. She might look good on your arm, but what's the point, man?
For most of these collectors the NWC isn't the game they will play anyway. I owned an NWC for years and plugged it in once I believe and that was before reproductions were available. As people said before at this point it is just a trophy of the hunt. When I wanted to play games I played Halo. When I found something I really wanted I sold The NWC but it went up from 4k to 12k in that time. Today it is more like 20k but I don't regret selling it. It was fun to show off every now and then but that was about it.

This isn't like cutting your wife in half or your dick off. This is putting a hot centerfold poster on the wall of the bedroom and still having a wife. One to look at the other to have fun with. These guys who buy these still play games but many don't play classic games. Box it up or whatever because chances are it wasn't going to be played anyway.