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6913353 No.6913353 [Reply] [Original]

Can I get some collector's advice...

During lockdown, I've been collecting Sega Master System games. There's this one game I saw on eBay for $250 that I wasn't really looking for but would be great in the collection with some of the other titles I have from the same series.

The game is just an 8-bit port of its superior 16-bit counterpart, which is currently available for $50. Quality isn't an issue with either title.

How do you think I should play this? The 8-bit game is definitely worth $250 but the 16-bit counterpart is higher quality and cheaper... Would you buy the cheaper title and be happy with quality or would you get the rarer title, which is a better fit for the collection?

>> No.6913385
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6913385

>spending 250 on a game

>> No.6913390

>>6913385

Just what I needed to see. Thank you.

>> No.6913394

>>6913353
You mean the Sega system?

>> No.6913403

>>6913353
Are you talking about Streets of Rage 2?

If the game is cheaper and better on the Mega Drive then to me it seems a no brainer. And yes i'm a coomlector.

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>>6913353
It's called the SEGA System you fool.

>> No.6914480

>>6913353
I'm not someone who collects but who plays. I would go with the cheaper and better, but also say that if you really want to play the other one, then consider buying a flash cart. It's way cheaper than 250 and it would play way more than just one game.

I don't want to hamper your collecting, but sometimes it's easier to think of many carts as just being fancy usb drives with tiny storage space and no write capacity. You really are paying for the cart shape and the label, most of the time anyway. I'd sooner buy the manual and box or an artbook so that I could appreciate those aesthetic elements. They mean more to me personally than a cartridge.

>> No.6915160

>>6913403

>> No.6915173

>collector

mental illness

>> No.6915196

>>6913353
Retro Video games are currently at their peak price as those who have nostalgia for them are now old enough to have spending money. In twenty years those games will go the same way that model trains currently are. A market glut as the collectors die out and there is no new clientele.

>> No.6915459

>>6913353
Eat shit

>> No.6915765

>>6913453
Nah. Literally says master system on the console.

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>>6915765

>> No.6917389

>>6913353
buy the one you would enjoy playing more, not because you would buy it to play it (that's retarded) but because you should take the most pride in owning games that are actually good.

>> No.6917402

>>6917389
>not because you would buy it to play it (that's retarded
this is your brain on collecting

>> No.6917410

>>6917402
if you want to play a game you can pirate it, retardo. imagine spending over $20 on a game just to play it.

>> No.6917425

>>6917410
that's good. buy it to have it, get the dopamine rush for unwrapping the package and placing it on the shelf before that joy fades from memory and you look for the next piece. then one day you die and all your crap is either thrown in the garbage or sold for cash. think about why you're even doing what you're doing if you aren't playing the games

>> No.6917434

>>6917425
>buy it to have it
that is the point of collecting, yes. anyone that wants to play a game can pirate it. the problems you have with collecting are not exclusive to vidya collectors.

>> No.6917441

>>6917434
buying to have something that doesn't have a function is pointless. It's just a shelf piece. it's decoration. you want to display your love of video games through decoration? try framing a poster or something. it would be far cheaper, and look better.

and I don't havea problem with collectors. I collect books and I READ my books. other people collect retro games and PLAY retro games. you literally fucking said it would be retarded to collect a game to play it. you're fucked

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>>6913353
That 250 will double in 5 years time. Retro games are one of the soundest investments you can make right now, especially if you get your games professionally appraised.

>> No.6917446

>>6917441
>you literally fucking said it would be retarded to collect a game to play it.
because it is, because when you want to play it you can do so for $0.00. if it's good you buy it to collect afterwards.

>> No.6917447

>>6917446
you're wasting your money. i hope you wake up and realize it one day

>> No.6917458

>>6917447
i hardly collect games at all, i use flash carts or softmods for most games. i don't think i've spent even $100 total on the games i bought after playing them. i'm not OP dropping $250 on single games.
it's a bigger waste of money to buy games because of the belief a real copy is the only way to play them, plenty of retards out there think that. they hear people mention emulators or flash carts and they try to bury it in the back of their minds, forget it exists, because it's easier to keep spending money like they always have and pretend it's the best way. those people are wasting their money.