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lorddix
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 Posted - 07/06/2009 : 21:10:01
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For the gamers out there. Would you spend $17,500.00 for a game with about 6 and half minutes of game-play?
$17,500 for this?
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 07/06/2009 : 21:38:43 [Permalink]
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| Were I a game collector, knowing that at some point in time someone's dog would eat one of the other 25 copies of that particular cartridge, I'd be looking at $17,500 as an investment that was almost sure to increase over time. |
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lorddix
New Member
USA
22 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2009 : 21:46:02 [Permalink]
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| Somebody's dog has probably already eaten some of the 26 copies that were produced. According to the wikipedia entry on the game only 12 copies have ever surfaced. |
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Dave W.
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
 Posted - 07/06/2009 : 22:12:01 [Permalink]
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| Yeah, I don't see this as being any different from buying a rare copy of Detective Comics #27 or Amazing Fantasy #15. Of course, at present I think that rare comics collectors outnumber rare video game collectors. But I wonder if in the next 30 years, people looking for rare video games-- say, a Yar's Revenge cartridge for the Atari 2600-- will pay good money for such things. One never knows... |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2009 : 22:47:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by lorddix
For the gamers out there. Would you spend $17,500.00 for a game with about 6 and half minutes of game-play?
$17,500 for this?
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No, I wouldn't.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2009 : 22:55:52 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Originally posted by lorddix
For the gamers out there. Would you spend $17,500.00 for a game with about 6 and half minutes of game-play?
$17,500 for this?
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No, I wouldn't. |
Doesn't this depend on one's disposable income? If I'm investing, a video game isn't where I'm putting my money. But if I were at a certain income level, I would invest in something like a high grade X-Men #1 as an investment. I'm not ready to bite on old video games as being investments, but I am sure that they can be, just like coins, stamps, baseball cards, and comics.
Something I didn't get from the blurb-- can one still play this game? And perhaps compare her scores against the competition?? |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2009 : 02:46:33 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
Originally posted by lorddix
For the gamers out there. Would you spend $17,500.00 for a game with about 6 and half minutes of game-play?
$17,500 for this?
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No, I wouldn't.
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Nor I, even if I were wealthy to afford it.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 07/07/2009 : 06:36:15 [Permalink]
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| There's no accounting for taste. There are all sorts of markets in which one can make a good amount of money from particular collectible commodities, but not everyone is in them for a variety of reasons. I bet there's a market for dog poops which resemble presidents, but I'm not going to invest in them. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 07/07/2009 : 06:42:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Originally posted by Dude
Originally posted by lorddix
For the gamers out there. Would you spend $17,500.00 for a game with about 6 and half minutes of game-play?
$17,500 for this?
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No, I wouldn't. |
Doesn't this depend on one's disposable income? If I'm investing, a video game isn't where I'm putting my money. But if I were at a certain income level, I would invest in something like a high grade X-Men #1 as an investment. I'm not ready to bite on old video games as being investments, but I am sure that they can be, just like coins, stamps, baseball cards, and comics.
Something I didn't get from the blurb-- can one still play this game? And perhaps compare her scores against the competition??
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Well, if you were looking at it from a strictly investment point of view... maybe. But probably not. I think I'd put the money into an IRA before spending it on something as obscure (limited resale market) as an ancient nintendo game.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 07/07/2009 : 06:48:06 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
There's no accounting for taste. There are all sorts of markets in which one can make a good amount of money from particular collectible commodities, but not everyone is in them for a variety of reasons. I bet there's a market for dog poops which resemble presidents, but I'm not going to invest in them.
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Well, there certainly seems to be a lucrative market for this sort of thing. Why not antique video games and dog evidence in artistic, coprolite form?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Would you buy this?
