Remember Pogs? Oh yes, that wonderful craze that came about in the early 90's causing you to flush away your hard earned money to play a game that made no sense at all. Maybe it did, I never played. I was busy with another fad, Video Games. While some of my friends were busy showing off their pristine collection of "slammers", I was slamming Final Fantasy 2 into my SNES. Don't remember Pogs? Oh, then you must be the 20 year-old fucktard charging me 35 bucks for Final Fantasy 2 on Ebay!

I got into classic gaming a little while back picking up old games at thrift stores and yard sales here and there. I love playing old games now and often my Xbox and Wii just seem to collect dust while the toaster keeps getting fired up instead. Now that I have gotten to my Super Nintendo Stage I have been wanting to collect a few of the games from my childhood that were "lost" when I left for the Marines. Log onto Ebay, search Earthbound and BAM! 80 bucks. Ok, since when the hell did everyone learn about Earthbound? In 1994 my friends looked at me like a retard when I spent all day playing that game and not Donkey Kong Country. Ok, then, how bout Final Fantasy 3? 40 bucks you say? Fuck you I say it better come in some freaking shrink wrap with a Toys R Us sticker on it.

How have games from my childhood remained the same price or even gone up? The reason is Nintendo has become a collecting game instead of an entertainment game. Video game collecting has become a hobby like collecting Pokemon Cards or Comic Books. Half of these "collectors" were in diapers when I was laying the smack down on Giygas, what the fuck are they interested in these games for? Do they think this is an investment? I could deal with people wanting these games because they want to play them and relive some nostalgia or maybe even a new gamer trying to see what he or she has missed out on. The problem I have is the clowns who collect these games and just place them in plastic on the shelf and drive these prices through the roof. Schleprocks like this guy who is so evil and strange he sounds like a villain straight out of DIE HARD:



Thanks to life-long virgins like this Buffalo Bill knockoff, this is what it will cost me to rebuild not even half of my Super Nintendo Collection:

Super Metorid -$15; Earthbound -$80; FF2 + FF3 - $60; Super Mario World -$10; Chrono Trigger -$70; Secret Of Mana - $45; TMNT Turtles in Time -$25; Link To The Past - $12; Super Mario Kart -$20...SNES System-$60

Total Cost = $397.00 Fuck Me.

Look, I love these games and they just aren't the same on an emulator. I'm going to pay these prices whether I want to or not. I just want to put this message out to all the strange Video Game "collectors" out there. (If you know one please tell them) These games are not meant to be stored on shelves like your comic books or old hair and toe-nail clippings. Play them! For fucks sake break the seal for the first time in your life! Furthermore, these games will be absolutely worthless in 10 years when our nostalgia craze has worn off and all we do is sit around worrying about kids and mortgages. They will sit like a pile of burnt one hundred dollar bills on your shelf next to your fucking worthless Pogs and Pokemon Cards.

That is all.

FNJ wrote:

honestly, if you're just trying to "relive the magic" or whatever, you could just get them on an emulator. I like to consider myself a collector, personally, and would one day love to have a room that looks like this. I don't think it's the same as pogs, and I don't really see anythign wrong with Buffalo Bill in the above vid. Half of the enjoyment that I get out of collecting is the hunt, honestly. To track down a game that I remember from my childhood and see how it's aged or how it stacks up to current games. To be able to have a story, like "I drove all the way to Clifton NJ, the store where AVGN beat the shit out of Captain S and the nostalgia critic, just to get my hands on a game." Sometimes you run across weird little curiosities, and sometimes you actually end up learning stuff you didn't know on your journey.

Look, its just a rant. My real problem is with people who don't even play these games. They just want to collect them like they are baseball cards. They are not collector items! If you check Ebay for a lot of Atari games you will find they are not expensive. and most have no bids at all. This is because that generation has moved on, much like ours will. It's fine to collect things, but it is my opinion that video games are meant for playing and not for shelving. Also, if you don't think anything is wrong with ol Bill in the video then you must be from the Netherlands.