I wouldn't care about people collecting plastic if they weren't up their own asses about doing it.

>>12498605
/thread

/vr/ wasn't like this originally
we even used to have regular pickup threads
now people seethe if someone posts a picture of an old TV instead of an emulator screenshot

>>12498590
>What if a girl saw this?
If a chick bailed over it I wouldnt want to waste my time on her anyway.

>>12498605
>>12498607
samefag

>>12498590
Who actually acts like that pic? The only issue I have is people who want to collect collector's items but get upset they have to pay for them.

>>12498646
>anyone who agrees is a samefag

And you wonder why you're so disliked. It has nothing to do with your collecting

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>>12498650
>doesn't prove it

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>>12498646
Obsessed

>>12498653
nice vpn thoughbeit

>>12498653
owned

People in the Scrimblo 3 thread got upset when I posted a pic of my sealed copy. I've never played the game but MY posts are the REAL game discussion! Pay attention to meeeee!!
I know! I'll tell everyone that collectors are misunderstood and unfairly prosecuted!

>>12498590 (OP) #
Most people aren't seething over physical collections because of some weird stance on physical versus digital
it's more a reaction to what the "hobby" has become
collecting games is supposed to be a means to an end, letting you actually play the games
but we've gone from being able to buy old and unwanted carts at shops and yard sales for a few bucks each to games that were printed in the millions now being sold for $100+ a copy
the hobby has become gentrified over time as collectors and resellers gobble up all the games for their sprawling collections
I have a pretty decent collection myself, and it's crazy how some of the games I own are now worth hundreds
I would never sell any of them unless I was forced to, but as I creep up in age, I do start to wonder if I should do so just so I can free up space and put the money towards better things
as far as degradation, it's just an inevitability with physical media and electronics
we can keep the hardware going for as long as the parts are available, and we can copy and print new media
but eventually, attrition and decay will claim it all, even if it takes generations to do so

>>12498590
I think it's just because of people that like to spam soijaks at everything.

>>12498590
Because old games now have value. Because there's more people in the retrogaming community who were not around when old games were cheap and plentiful. As values go up and as more people involved in the discussion of old games are further removed from the glory days of cheap collecting, the more complaining you see.
Take from that what you will.

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>>12498652
>>12498654
Snore
Typical collector retard trolling because no one cares about his plastic collection

>>12498741
We all have the games, they're all free online.
I still have my original SNES from '92 so this isn't what you think.
The problem is when people disrupt a discussion about a game only to expect everyone to suck them off for buying something from ebay. Who fucking cares?
If they just post their pic and continue the discussion with on-topic insight? That's fine.
If it's in a collector thread? That's fine.

>>12498590
It's simple jealousy. Every time someone makes a thread about real hardware (which has been a lot considering the spammer has taken a liking to this topic and is possibly even OP), you see a bunch of people posting about why these collectors should just emulate or buy flashcarts despite the fact that someone buying real hardware has no noticeable effect on emulation. Why do they care so much that someone bought Color A Dinosaur for $100 when they can play it for free? Nobody likes the investorfags that eventually creep into any hobby, but someone asking how people store their games or just asking to see some cool things that other people own isn't the same as someone posting a shit stained copy of Mario/Duck Hunt and asking if it's worth anything.

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Okay class, let's discuss Bimblo Quest 2!
>I thought level 12 was too hard
>It's a masterclass in platforming design
>I have the original cart and play it on a blown-out CRT so I'm better than all of you
>I didn't realize you had to get two of item x to get through the gate on stage 5
It's okay to be a collector, it's a problem when you use it as an ego thing outside of collector threads.
Look at these sports games I just have lying in a bin - aren't you jelly?!

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It was all me actually.

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>>12498590
they're jealous they can't afford something they want so bad

>>12498747
>phone poster
hello, raj

>>12498647
majority of people here are likee that

>>12498752
It's true on both ends. You have people who are pleased that they were ahead of the curve and accumulated things back before it was trendy and when things were cheap, so you have those who brag about that, and you also have zoomer collectors who have only known a world in which retrogame collecting is a trendy, expensive hobby, so they're proud to show off their collections because they had to pay out the ass for the majority of it, making it a status symbol. And conversely, you have people who want to but can't afford to collect (videogames or anything else) who get mad at people who seem to be flaunting their implied wealth (or at least ability to pass away money on old vidya). There are unironically a LOT more thirdworlders on the internet nowadays than there were even just a decade ago, so you run into them seething about retro collecting as a proxy for seething about firstworlder wealth and wanton spending.
Back in the older days of game collecting, buying and playing went hand in hand, with emulation serving as a great way to play games you couldn't find as well as a way to discover new things to buy. It wasn't until pricecreep that there now seems to be this impression that the two are mutually exclusive, where only emulation gamers actually play games, and collectors only buy games to show off on social media and fill their shelves.
I do think most people can at least agree on their dislike of circlejerking investors, a lot of whom do indeed view games as little more than currency and tools for dickwaving.

>>12498590
I find large collections like that to be kinda tacky, that more games then you will ever realistically play. I have a small curated collection and I still haven't play all of them

>>12498590
Dumb image.
Hoarding disorder is not fun, but a burden to your sanity and time.

>>12499106
>big collection is hoarding even though i dont know what that word means :(((

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>>12499114
>big collection
I have a big collection of Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Star Wars games and Final Fantasy games. I played every single one of them.
Pic related is a collector who just collect, just like hoarding. A miserable individual whose only joy is adding yet another game to his shelf.

>>12499114
It's sad you don't know what a hoarder is.

Well the fact that the spent more on those games than they probably did their house isn't good but that's their business

If somebody doesn’t agree with me they are seething.

>>12498637
>we even used to have regular pickup threads
I remember those.
Golden era /vr/ was quite comfy. It really was an oasis from /v/

>>12498882
Super Soccer is a pretty soulful game and quite fun.
Never played that Capcom one, how is it?

>>12498605
>I wouldn't care about people collecting plastic if they weren't up their own asses about doing it.
The problem with statements like this is this - Any number of innocent things can be considered "up their own asses about it," depending on who is saying that.

What specifically tells you someone is up their own ass about it?

>>12499159
don't worry, neither do you.
>>12499131
>wordswordswords

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>>12498590
It's just jealousy, plain and simple. Everyone would rather own the games that they love instead of running them in a shitty emulator but a lot of people can't because they lack the space, can't afford games at their current prices, or live in a shithole country where these games aren't even available (a lot of posters on this board are literally this worlders). They cope by being angry about it and attacking collectors while pretending that they're better off without this stuff even though they know deep down that they wish they had a large collection.

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>old system displaying a game on an old monitor
Reddit
>old system displaying a game on an old monitor, Japan
Sovl.

>>12499290
I like seeing a game on the monitor because it tells me what your favorite game is, and for the person taking the picture it's better than having reflections

>>12498605
When does that actually happen? Be honest. Because 9 times out of 10 its the opposite direction with people butting in and spazzing out about owning things. The collectors discuss things in related topics amongst themselves and are not going on sperg fests like emus or mister fags or what have you do when they dare spot a picture of something tangible. It's always the opposite.

>>12498752
>The problem is when people disrupt a discussion about a game only to expect everyone to suck them off for buying something from ebay
I have literally never seen this scenario occur once.

>>12499131
How is that any different than stamp, comic or trading card collecting?

>>12499131
Bro most collections are made out of things that can't be "played"
You are missing the point of collecting.

I remember back when I was a child in the 90s none of my friends ever bragged about how many video games they had. I knew people with a lot and I myself had hundreds of games over the years but noone ever bragged about all the shit on their shelf and how rare and valuable it was. Im picturing the kid that shows up at a birthday party trying to show off that his dad bought him a whole wall of toys and demanding you show him timestamped pictures of your collection. What a tool.

>>12499330
>b-back then!!
grow up old man, we're in the now.

My favorite cope is when the schizos pretend to themselves that people don't play the games that they own

>>12499330
30 years in the retro gaming community and I've never seen anyone bragging about their collection. Only the fake collectors on YouTube that are actually just scalpers who are trying to earn a secondary income through YouTube alongside their scalping. Faggots like Pixel Game Squad. Fake collectors.

>>12499345
>30 years in my 4chan containment bubble board and i've never heard anyone talk about their collection, i wonder why?

>>12499259
No...? I used to collect 10+ years ago, but I exclusively emulate now (even though I still have 98% of my collection). Emulation is just plainly better. It's infinitely less cumbersome, it doesn't cost anything, it's quicker and better. Collectors always have to resort to the circular reasoning of "it's legitimate, so it's better, and it's better because it's legitimate". Collecting doesn't have anything to do with actually playing or appreciating games, it only serves as a fulfilment or signal that you're more "legitimate" than someone else. The idea that you like a game more than someone else because you paid money for it is essentially a non-sequitur. Nobody is jealous of owning physical games that they can play for free. The whole thing is ritualistic in a very literal sense. You think that doing something in a certain way opens up a "correct" path that lets you experience emotions that emulation doesn't. And this simply isn't true, as someone who was done both forever. It's a ritual. It's made up.

>>12499350
/o/ has bus riders.
/k/ has nogunz.

/vr/ has _________?

>>12499350
I haven't been on 4chan for 30 years, and you're twisting my words. Faggot.

>>12499351
>Collecting doesn't have anything to do with actually playing or appreciating games, it only serves as a fulfilment or signal that you're more "legitimate" than someone else
If this were the case than collectors wouldn't have entire rooms set up specifics for the act of PLAYING GAMES. You see shelves full of games and you seethe so hard that you always ignore the televisions with dozens of consoles connected to them. What a fucking faggot you are, go back to >>>/lgbt/

>>12498590
Games not being played is a tragedy.

>>12498590
being brazillian instantly invokes this reaction when they see real hardware, they are the eternal poorfags

>>12498590
>seethe
cringe is a better worc

>>12499360
shut up nigger :DDDDDDD

>>12499401
Turn on your monitor.

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>>12499351
The fact you think the act of collecting is the only "legitimacy" to owning the physical items, screams a whole lot that you never understood it to begin with. It's also funny you think physical buyers are out there constantly blustering about owning stuff and it being the supperior option, when it is consistently, without fail, always the emufags that feel the need to boast that their life choices are the true way everyone should experience games. You even fucking did it with your own response. Your attitude is the exact reason hardware fags just completely mentally filter out all of your bitch posting.

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>>12499412

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how fucked this is?

>>12499246
Soccer Shootout is great. Great sound, great UI. I played it a lot. There's an indoor mode where the ball bounces off walls so play only stops for goals or time.. Played it a lot with my brother.

>>12499416
wrong thread, lol

>>12499414
nta but if you own multiple games than you own a collection of games which makes you a collector. What you're seething about is a fantasy you dreamed up about people supposedly not playing with the games that they bought.
>>12499415
That's a cute elephant, thank you for sharing that with me.

>>12499414
>you never understood it to begin with
Okay, enlighten me: what function does collecting games achieve besides a subjective emotional one where you believe it's more real?

>emufags that feel the need to boast that their life choices are the true way
This is just simply not true. The hostility almost always comes from one direction. Emulator fans simply state the factual unbiased advantages of emulation, and this causes collectors to get really upset. It's bizarre. How is me informing people that they can play games in a better way for free worse or more confrontational than calling people poor or jealous or whatever? The whole premise of this thread is to bitch about emulation. I'm not telling people how they can or should spend their money. If you get a subjective emotional response from buying games, don't let me stop you.

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>>12499602
>Okay, enlighten me: what function does collecting games achieve besides a subjective emotional one where you believe it's more real?
Playing games on real hardware is like eating fresh fish. Emulating them is like eating factory farmed fish. If you know anything about emulation than you will understand this analogy.

>The hostility almost always comes from one direction. Emulator fans simply state the factual unbiased advantages of emulation, and this causes collectors to get really upset
Not that anon, but 9 times out of 10 what I see on this board is poorfags having meltdowns because someone else owns something that they want and can't afford.
>play games in a better way
Factory farmed fish
>for free
You can play games on real hardware for free too. I don't own Metal Storm, and yet I was just playing it this morning for free.
>If you get a subjective emotional response from buying games
It's not about the act of buying games, it's about the experience of playing games.

To give you some analogies: I'm going to the cinema, you're watching Netflix. I'm shooting film photography, you're shooting digital. I'm listening to a vinyl record with a proper stereo set, you're streaming on Spotify with a cheap Bluetooth speaker. I'm reading physical books, you're using an e-reader. I'm eating home meals made from scratch, you're eating restaurant food. If you can't understand the difference between playing games on real hardware and emulation than that's a you-problem, stop lashing out whenever you see that someone prefers to eat fresh fish caught from the ocean rather than your factory farmed slop.

>>12499618
>You can play games on real hardware for free too. I don't own Metal Storm, and yet I was just playing it this morning for free.
someone with real hardware but only an everdrive isnt a collector so you just want to move the goalpost.

>>12499618
many of your analogies are retarded anon.

>>12499723
You might have a stroke when you learn this, but most people who own everdrive's already have game collections and just use the everdrive to play games that they don't already own.
>>12499726
How? Clearly you know nothing about emulation.

>>12499602
Emu fags, such as yourself, are the vegans of the hobby. No one gives a shit if you play on an emulator. The reason no one enjoys your presence, is because you are spouting off pointless shit unrelated to the topic.

>hey guis, lets see photos of your childhood bedroom!
>DOOD DID YOU KNOW EMULATORS EXIST??
Yes, retard, we are aware. I take it 90% of the anons that frequent this sess pool have been playing games for 25+ years and are very aware that emulation exists and have used it at one point. Maybe stop bringing it up in topics where it doesn't matter. Go groom some kids on Roblox who may not actually know emulation exists. Bringing it up on this board of all places, specifically in hardware focused threads, is like telling a black about food stamps. They are aware it exists.

>>12498590
Because most of these fags don't actually play games and it raises prices. on the flip side it keeps these preserved so they can... sit in someone's collection and be overpriced.

In the end it's just whatever, the more popular retro gaming is, the better it will be. The more new products we will have, the better emulators, new retro games for old consoles, the more official rereleases. The more the younger generation is exposed to these games the sooner they can break of the slop they play on modern consoles. Retro gaming popular creates accessibility so collectors hoarding stuff as a byproduct is not the worst thing that can happen from the perspective of someone who actually plays games. Worst case has to do with rarer consoles that are hard to emulate becoming very expensive.

>>12499350
>30 years
>4chan

>>12499602
This is some top-tier bait. Holy shit.

>>12498590
i dont think its really collectors. it people who dont play the games at all and kind of see it as an investment. also people like metal jesus have done things to make games more expensive and people like him own like 60 copies or something of a rare game. make a gay top 5 hidden gems on X console video then all of sudden the game triples in price. then he puts out some faggy video like idk what youre talking about dudes.

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>>12498590
>>12498637
Because 9/10 times it's some reseller faggot trying to advertise his stock, and also one of the primary reasons prices have inflated to such a retarded degree, or some dipshit who thinks that owning a lot of video games gives him e-cred.

The only reason to post your collection is in related threads about what games you actually have, like posting your RE collection in a Resident Evil thread, or your Sierra collection in a Sierra thread.

Starting a thread saying "Heh, look at my collection" is faggot behavior. Always has been, always will be.

>>12499750
>Emu fags, such as yourself, are the vegans of the hobby.
That's some top tier projection.

>spends exorbitant amounts on old games he can get for free and cheaper
>deliberately plays on antiquated dying hardware with rampant graphical glitches
>actively attacks anyone with his dipshit purist mindset if they play ports or, god forbid, EMULATORS

Other way around, princess.

>>12499797
more or less
like, sometimes it can give you a quick idea of what they like to play, or help give you an idea of how to set up your own collection
but by and large, they're just guys wanting to flex
you visit any subreddit, and 95% of the posts in any hobby where collecting is involved will just be photos devoid of any real information or even an interesting anecdote

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I know the image that came out saying about 70% of 4chan users being from Israel was doctored, but I swear so many bots just flood the boards to act as contrarians for the topic the board is about.
>v: only talk about woke and tits, never games
>co: ai shit of old cartoons made without any love,
>m: more threads about the females that show up in mecha shows than the machines themselves
And more.
It doesn't make any sense, outside of people just wanting to troll/legit believing the "You will own nothing and be happy" shit. They act like having the carts and stuff will kill your first-born child in the night by abducting them from their crib and sacrificing them to the demon puppetting Shigeru Miyamoto.
I have a decent-sized collection of games right now. I also have a lot of game ROMs and ISOs saved on my computer. I barely touch either one because I don't have enough time to play either, because I'm stuck at work or I have to take care of college shit now, and when I'm done with either I'm too exhausted to think about playing anything. It's not a matter of "Oh you have too much shit and you're depressed", I'm depressed because I don't have the time or energy to interact with the shit I've loved since I was a kid.

>>12499801
>rampant graphical glitches
But enough about emulators.

No point in responding to you anymore since you are clearly too dense to get why no one likes your type spewing shit-to- text in these threads where no one asked for it.

>>12499801
>actively attacks anyone with his dipshit purist mindset if they play ports or, god forbid, EMULATORS
Literally does not happen. It's always emufags shitting themselves over the mere implications of someone using real hardware. Hardwarefags don't give a shit what you are using.

>>12499845
welcome to adulthood, anon
take solace in that you're at least working towards a better life down the road

>>12499845
There aren't bots, just people who post like them.
If you're on a board long enough you get tired of writing out long posts detailing individual things about every game once every few days.
How many times do I really want to give you by breakdown of why "battle system X is better?" Not many. Eventually the regular posters stop caring and give simple throwaway replies unless the thread is of a unique topic or has a little salacious drama in it.

>>12499353
>/vr/ has shitters who either watch a youtube vid or play a game 10 minutes then spend 30 minutes writing posts about why it "sucks" or "rocks."
/o/ main here. I only visit the same three boards, except replace /k/ with /s/.

>>12499910
>Literally does not happen.
i see it constantly on this board,theres post about "not beating the game" if you played on an emulator or how its not the right way because it goes against nature or some shit like that.
like it or not but its true that original hardware purists are the vegan of the retro vidya world,they only get their nutrients (games) in some way perceived as the only right way while the rest use any efficient or cheap way to get them.

>>12499351
trvke

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>>12499971
>you didn't beat the game posting
>he thinks shit posts are serious
No wonder you are angsty.

Even still, the shit posting is far outweighed by emufags butting into every hardware related thread inorder for them to stroke off to not owning stuff and informing strangers of it.

>>12499797
>>12499813
Real

Emulation is simply the better option for the reasons listed in this thread. colon dee

>>12500125
>>you didn't beat the game posting
>>he thinks shit posts are serious
>No wonder you are angsty.
yea,no one eve said it seriously im sure...

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>>12498590
Because it makes them seethe. Plus they're poor fags who couldn't collect all those games themselves. They're usually the pro-piracy types who has a bunch of CD-R's that mess up the laser on their PS1 or Dreamcast.

>>12499351
This is all true but if you like games and playing them, owning physical is good and not bad. These are the actual games after all in their original factory "as intended" format. Not to say that emulating detracts in any meaningful way, thi sis the slippery slope of reasoning people fall into which leads to "emulating means not playing the game". That could have been a reasonable argument 20 years ago but not in the modern day.

Nowadays we are truly blessed with technology that preserves and propagates these games to a larger audience and makes them easier to play on modern technology and provides optional enhancements and whatnot. Both should be embraced and we should always pursue new products and technologies that allows these games to be played in a high quality, true-to-original format; i.e. rereleases, clone consoles, FPGA, emulators, etc.

>>12499247
>What specifically tells you someone is up their own ass about it?
Acting like you're superior to people who emulate games.

>>12498605
lol poorfag

>>12499797
>9/10 times it’s a reseller advertising his stock
You’re a deranged poorfag if you think this

>>12500889
It's not an act, it *is* superior to enjoy the medium the way it was designed to be.

>>12500889
owning arcade hardware is satisfying while you brazillian monkeys play improperly emulated games and i can enjoy the real thing

>>12499351
>Collectors always have to resort to the circular reasoning of "it's legitimate, so it's better, and it's better because it's legitimate".
Physical is better, not because of some legitimacy argument, but because many consoles are just plain better at running the games. Emulation for Saturn and anything after it is shoddy and shitty. Of course you have no idea about this, because you haven’t actually played anything. You are speaking from ignorance.

Emulation isn’t “simpler” either, there’s nothing good about having to use the computer to run a game unless you’re some 22 year old faggot who lives in front of it because it’s the only thing they have. There’s a fuckton of scenarios where having the computer running to play a game isn’t preferable. Not to mention the spinning plates hell of managing games that need fixes and specific settings because durrr it freezes at the level select screen if you don’t patch it uhhhh

>saar don’t you know how to use a computa
The argument isn’t that it’s impossibly hard to emulate, but that it’s not some hassle-free paradise as emutoddlers like to claim, and along with the obvious performance issues there’s plenty of legitimate reasons to disregard emulation.

I emulate older (pre-5th gen) games on my “modern” consoles because they perform decently, I don’t care about them, and they don’t have to run on my PC. I’d rather die than play PS1 on Cuckstation

>>12502070
>Emulation for Saturn and anything after it is shoddy and shitty
Emulation for anything before Saturn is also shoddy and shitty.

>>12500889
I’m not superior to people who emulate games.
I AM superior to people who say emulation is better

>>12500889
Real is always better than fake. Sorry. It's not personal or a moral indictment against you or anything. Grow up.

>>12498652
Unironically, thank you for the reminder.
>t. Schizo

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>>12498741
>Because old games now have value
People keep saying this, but the fact that all games and almost all forms of media are now digital and can be copied ad infinitum renders the original hardly 'valuable'.
But then again I suppose it depends on your point of view, but for me and many others I suspect, it's the content that's important rather than the medium it's in.
But if you want to spend $300 on a cartridge of Pokemon Emerald to put on a shelf then be my guest.

>>12499338
there's nothing new under the sun

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>>12502198
heh, no problem man...

>>12502273
Don't side eye me you little bitch! I'm perfectly normal when I take my meds. I'm gonna find out where that little cartoon hussy lives and show her my pokedex and woman cock.

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>>12502280

>>12499618
>le food analogy
Retard alert.

>>12500882
>poorfag
Says the poorfag who lives with his parents.

>>12498590
You don't want to know the actual reason why because it'll hurt your feelings. And someday someone less kind is going to hit you with it like an autistic bull shark taking down a baby seal.

>>12502607
>i can't give you a reason so let me try sounding extremely condesending instead
fuck off fag

>>12502610
You're gunna be sorry when it happens.

Nta, but I don't feel sorry for niggers like you.

>>12502625
poorfag.

>>12498605
This. The image in the OP should be reversed because it was always the physicalfags saying "you didn't actually beat the game" if you played a ROM instead of paying them $500 for a copy of pokemon yellow with the sticker torn off and dying battery and the screws are stripped. The anti-ROM brigade is just a psyop to inflate physical prices so they can offload their collection of bitrotting junk before it becomes worthless.

>>12498590
anyone that modifies this meme and variations of this meme to fit their hobby are deeply insecure. Grow up

>>12502603
How's that factory farmed fish taste?

>>12502634
This never happened

>>12502604
Sounds like projection. I live on my own. Sorry to hear you live with your parents.

>>12498605
FPBP AND FUCK PAYPIGS

>>12499797
>heh
you inherently believe that collection threads are braggart behavior, which is sour grapes behavior

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>>12499036
i am also a phoneposter

>>12503641
paypigs pay for digital roms, lurk moar

Zoomers and Alphas don't care about this old stuff. So in 5-10 years when the bubble bursts, I will finally buy 3-4 things I always wanted, for cheap.

>>12503641
>PAYPIGS
Without "paypigs", you'd have no games to steal from because no one had the physical copy to upload on the internet you ignorant poorfag.

>>12505617
see >>12503843

>>12505638
Sure, "paypigs" will pay for digital ROMs, but ROMs on the internet by and large have come from people who in some way paid to have access to the game.

>>12504195
...until some hipsterfag alpha makes a youtube video and everyone of those retards starts to buy old shit

>>12502634
>saying "you didn't actually beat the game" if you played a ROM

They're right though.

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>>12505702
You yourself acknowledged we wouldn't have the ROMs without commerce, so clearly the criticism isn't directed at people who buy things. The criticism is directed at people who are paying for data they don't legally own due to a lack of consumer protection for digital game sales. Your oversimplification of the criticism has diluted its meaning.

>>12504195
youre going to have to wait for us milleniboomers to die before this market crashes.
boomers might have all the houses but we have all the retro physical games

>>12505801
uh, yeah, that's a real win there for sure

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>>12498590
>quit having fun

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>>12498639
4change doesn't know any girls in real life, they imagine a single stereotype to cope

>>12502613
I can't think of a single instance where I would be upset by the words of another over their displeasure with me owning things I enjoy.

>>12502209
>and almost all forms of media are now digital and can be copied ad infinitum renders the original hardly 'valuable'.
Digital game distributors would want to flay you alive for spreading that info.

>>12498590
Because it's idiotic to waste money on stuff like that, if you say it will only go up in value, then you should be investing your money the correct way.

>>12507926
Why does the act of strangers buying stuff that doesn't interest you, cause you to seethe with anger?

>>12507926
Don't try and tell me what I'm allowed to enjoy you worthless faggot. No one needs your permission you narcissistic little commie tit

>>12507926
>>12507926
>investing your money the correct way.
I'm very wealthy already, I don't need or care about the 'financial advise' of some retarded thirdworlder from a civilisation far away from where these games were created sold and marketed So what if I could buy your village instead? I don't fucking want it and if you have such great ideas on money how come you're the faggot who can't afford nice things while I'm the faggot that can?

Oh for OP, I dunno honestly I've never really looked up the price of any of it. I own pretty much all the games I have picked up since the early 90s including a lot of stuff I picked up for bulk when rental, gamestop, blockbusters etc shut down. I have all the silent hills, resident evils etc etc, I have no idea how much the rest is worth, I probably have about 1500-2000 titles spread between 8 bits, big box PC, PS1, PS2, PS3,GC, xbox 360, PC CD, PC DVD, PSP, DSI even have a wii somewhere with loads of games (probably the only thing I don't really use). I have all the controllers, light guns, buzzers,dance mats, whatever. I used deal in antiques and bought lots of consoles with all sorts of shit from estate auctions for 10-20 bucks. I have a lot of old computers and a few CRTs. I enjoy it a lot. Once a week I go down and pull something off a shelf and play it for an evening. All these fuckwit newcomingers farting on about emulation just fuck me off, especially because I actiually worked on a couple of emulators for 8 bits.They are just in the end of the day, latecomers with no real love for the subject seething and bitching at people like me because they are sour dry spastic stupid cunts from the third world selling crap aliexpress emulators.My experiences with stuff like mame are mixed but they certainly don't replace the essentials like the star wars arcade cabinet flight yoke and vector display and never will. It's not worth the grief of trying to make light guns, drum kits or whatever work on emulation original is best

>>12507926
what you know about investing could be written on a matchbook and lost without any fear of it being useful to anyone. If I wanted to drop 100K on complete libraries I could and not care. I don;t care about that though and am happy with the room I have for games as are my friends and family. Yes room and I have another one for guns, another huge one for art a cinema room, as well as my own warehourse (leased out), vault, forestry, agricultural land(leased), town and country residences stock and bond portfolios and houses in three countries (frankly a pain in the ass). I own two fucking racehorses worth enough that I could buy you and your extended retlatives to jump up and down naked on my tennis court with clown noses for the rest of your miserable worthless lives..
>>12507926
>investing your money the correct way.
You're a joke. Here's the bad news.You will always be poor because you miss oppoprtunities for value even in things you care or supposedly know about.Every year I have a family get together and the women get to come and pick out some jewlery from collections I bought in bulk when no one wanted gold back when it was 325 an Oz in 1997. I did the same with physical games and picked up the phone when rental/retail was shutting down and made an offer for one of everything they had in stock. You missed out you fucked up, it's why you are poor.I did the same thing with other forms of games, I have a wonderful library of roleplaying game books bought from closure. I got two of my houses overseas and my hownhouse during the 2009 property crash. I got one of my racehorses during covid.I never paid sticker price for anything in my life but faggots like you will always be outside seething in the cold because you are stupid.It's LOVELY to have a nice big load of games on the shelves when I wander down there to have a play.Strangely enough I'm playing warhammer mark of chaos (off retail DVD) on a XP box right now,you know why,because I LIKE OLD GAMES.

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This is as far as I go
>all valueless carts I picked up in japan
>not permanently in place or sealed (they plug into little wall-mount cart slots that I 3d printed)
>all were games I played when new and grew up with, at least for DQ and FF1
>ff2 and 3 were the first games I ever emulated on nesticle in late 1990s
>a friend from elementary school who got me into JRPGs with dragon warrior series died of cancer last year. We played the fuck out of 1-4 back in the day and I was best man at his wedding

Tl;dr
To me this little collection has personal meaning. I own no other retro memorabilia besides arcade cabinets.

>>12498590
Why do you care what others think?

>confirmed for plastic hoarders entire self value being dependent on others to care
Sad

>>12510217
I've never posted my collection anywhere and why would I? It's just the standard hits plus some of my childhood favorites.

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>>12510219
For the same reason people post their other media libraries online, to give a sense of their taste and allowing others to engage in discussions regarding those games. It used to be like that.

>>12509912
>how come you're the faggot who can't afford nice things while I'm the faggot that can?
>not only a faggot, but a retard that doesn't understand capitalism

>>12509938
cope

>>12510219
>still made this thread seeking validation for hours plastic hoard

>>12510461
How did you figure out I made all the threads on this website?

ITT we leared only retard, failures, commies and turdworlders seethe at physical media owners because they just seethe generally anyway.

I have physical hardware, I have flashcarts/ODEs, I buy the games I like.
I cannot fathom just buying literally anything because it's cheap, or because they don't already have it. Every time I see a wall of NES or 2600 games, I can't help but compare it to people who have bookshelves of classic booksets with matching spines. Stuff that was bought for the aesthetic, even though it isn't intended to be a decoration or piece of furniture.

>>12498590
I can confidently assume that "fun" is the last thing that shelf collectors are having. Their dopamine is from clout chasing and e-whoring.

You know who is having fun? A 23 year old cottage core dyke who just made a 45 minute video about setting up a modest PS2 corner and is playing some horrible movie franchise game on a mad catz controller.

Are the my life in gaming faggots still moderators on /vr/???

>>12510570
never posted a single video anywhere
just love my original old games
have a lot more fun than (you)
>seethe

>>12510570
>my life in gaming faggots
literal who and
>>12510570
>clout chasing and e-whoring.
obsessed seething retard who cannot into retro games because missed out

>>12510541
>I can't help but compare it to people who have bookshelves of classic booksets with matching spines
I have a great library of books to including a complete set of 90s penguin classics and all my fav sci fi and fantasy as well as some antqitarian books and first editions and signed. It's nice to have nice things. Sucks to be you. Oh well! Into your pod or mud hut or whatever!

>>12510570
What a bizzare and homosexual comment to make.

>>12499797
>or some dipshit who thinks that owning a lot of video games gives him e-cred.
Countertop Anon plays his games and since someone will argue otherwise without a source it shuts them down pre-emptively.

>>12510648
If you've read them, great. If you're using them as decoration, you're making up for a lack of something.

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>>12510658
Now that modern capitalist consumer culture has made our hunter-gatherer instincts obsolete, we replaced hunting animals with hunting mass produced media intended to be added to your library and enjoyed at your own whim. Someone who lets a game sit on their shelf and plays it ten years later is no different from someone who downloads and plays it the same day on their computer because data doesn't expire and can be enjoyed at the whim of the individual.
>bitrot! discrot! brainrot!
People who purchased physically mass produced media sold under a non-expiring transferrable license are the reason we have ROM backups at all.
>decoration
An idea held by men who suffer choice paralysis and cannot conceive of perusing their library, physical or digital.

>>12510217
>Why do you care what others think?
I care what other think. Thats why I post my collection.

There is no problem the problem is the posers most of whom have collections of games they have never played they only have them because they hear the game is famous and they want it

>>12510805
>needing validation from online strangers for your plastic hoarding obsession
Sad

>>12511194
It's performative compulsion. No different from make up tiktok posting their hoard of garbage. It's a womanly trait

>>12510674
>People who purchased physically mass produced media sold under a non-expiring transferrable license are the reason we have ROM backups at all.
i agree. now dump n upload all your collection to "theromdepot dot com"

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>>12511585
thanks k bai

A resident evil 3 thread died for this