$17,500 NES Game

[TheVrolok]

More proof that some people just have too much disposable income.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Arkaign

Originally posted by: joesmoke

Originally posted by: Arkaign

Originally posted by: joesmoke
if some lame game like that is worth that much, my old copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga should bring at least 50k

Heh, it's the rarity of this item rather than the quality of the game. Although I'd much rather play tetris than an old (Saturn?) quasi action-rpg.

eh... id rank it top 5 of the games ive played quality-wise. and it was just cool. fuck tetris, dr mario 4eva

Oh I know what you mean, it's just that some games get really dated feeling when you go back, even though they were mind-blowing at the time.

Some of my favorite old games :

Rescue on Fractalus (Atari 8-Bit computers, early LucasFilm game)
Phantasy Star II (Genesis)
Final Fantasy II and III (SNES)
Target : Earth (Genesis)
Actraiser (SNES)
Wonder Boy in Monster World (SMS)
Final Fantasy : Legends (Gameboy)

Which were all really fun, but I'd probably play them for like 60 seconds now before getting bored.

I liked Dr. Mario all right, but the pacing always seemed slow, and I loathed the music lol.

I played through Phantasy Star 2 again not that long ago. I still find it very fun. One of my favourite games of all time.

KT

 

[SilentZero]

I hate seeing stories like this during today's financial climate

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: SilentZero
I hate seeing stories like this during today's financial climate

?

This doesn't remove $17,500 from the economy, the guy who sold it now has $17,500 to go buy a car, pay bills, go on vacation, whatever.

I'll never understand the mentality that judges what someone else does with money that they earn. The guy didn't blow the $ on cocaine or heroin FFS.

Rare things are valuable when they are also sought after, as this is.

Think of it this way, on a good weekend, a busy TGI Fridays will sell $50k-$150k worth of food, drinks, and so forth. Could those same people eat at home for $2-$3/person instead of $20+ a person (a lot more with a couple $7 mixed drinks or $5 beers)? Could they eat at the Wendy's value menu instead? Of course. But in the case of the restaurant, they pay taxes, they pay employees, they pay suppliers, etc, etc, and that money is recirculated through the general economy.

I think that there are two sides to the coin really with consumer spending and so forth in the economy :

(1)- It is bad when someone overextends what they can buy by overusing credit and loans, and when they default on those loans, the write-offs and so on affect everyone to some degree.

(2)- It is also bad if a lot of people save excessively (rare, but it happens), not necessarily for that person as an individual, but for the general economy. I try to save what I can, but it does help everybody when you purchase things, you help the store that sells them, you help the employees who sold it to you, you help the people working for the company that advertises that product, you help the trucker who delivered that product, you help the charity sponsored by one of the companies that benefits from your transaction either directly or indirectly (almost all public corporations are involved in public charities, albeit they could probably do more than they do in most cases), you help the guy working at the truck stop that sold the guy his diesel fuel, it just goes round and round.

Now, it's not as simple as I put it above, but in our country, worrying about some guy spending $17.5k on a video game is a bit misplaced in terms of concern. If you want someone to be put off by, look at people like Bernie Madoff and other parasites who literally don't contribute anything, they merely manipulate and capitalize on other people's hard work for their own gains.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Collectors are such douche bags.

 

[thegimp03]

Wow, that's amazing. I don't think I'd go paying that amount of money for an outdated overpriced video game, but I guess to each his own.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Collectors are such douche bags.

?

I've met a few, and you couldn't be more wrong about the folks I met. Why exactly would you label all collectors 'douche bags'?

 

[lifeobry]

ITT: people that wish they had $17,500 to spend on stupid shit

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: lifeobry
ITT: people that wish they had $17,500 to spend on stupid shit

Yeah, not to mention, it's almost inevitable that most people here have spent at LEAST $17.5k on stupid crap in their lives, albeit not usually all at once, unless it's a car.

Every time you spent more than $5 on a piece of clothing, or anything on an entertainment product, or used A/C or Heating when you could have survived without using it, etc, is wasteful under the most stringently minimalist perspective.

Life should be taken at least a little seriously, but not so much so that you worry / bitch about what someone else has done with the fruits of their labors (or perhaps the fruits of luck for some). Have fun, take care of yourself, and don't let your judgments about others put your panties in a wad.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: Arkaign

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Collectors are such douche bags.

?

I've met a few, and you couldn't be more wrong about the folks I met. Why exactly would you label all collectors 'douche bags'?

I don't mean they're douche bags on a personal level, but there is something wrong with anyone willing to spend that kind of money on a video game.

Edit - damn, I wasted my 5555th post on this.

 

[zebano]

wow, this makes me wonder what M:tG cards are going for now a days... Waaaaay too much money for a cartridge that you can probably find an emulator version of easily.

 

[oogabooga]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: Arkaign

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Collectors are such douche bags.

?

I've met a few, and you couldn't be more wrong about the folks I met. Why exactly would you label all collectors 'douche bags'?

I don't mean they're douche bags on a personal level, but there is something wrong with anyone willing to spend that kind of money on a video game.

Edit - damn, I wasted my 5555th post on this.

when you're rich enough to have all the hookers and blow you want and still have oh say ... 17,500 left over... it's gotta go somewhere, amiright?

plus it's sad but there's a chance it'll only become MORE valuable =\

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer

Originally posted by: Arkaign

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Collectors are such douche bags.

?

I've met a few, and you couldn't be more wrong about the folks I met. Why exactly would you label all collectors 'douche bags'?

I don't mean they're douche bags on a personal level, but there is something wrong with anyone willing to spend that kind of money on a video game.

Edit - damn, I wasted my 5555th post on this.

Well, if it was just willy-nilly wasteful spending, I'd agree, but it's a valuable rarity that is a decent investment. Getting mad about this is futile, when it's no worse than someone buying a valuable painting or relic. In 6 years it will be an antique, and only 26 were ever made in the first place. It also represents the most valuable game ever made for the most ubiquitous gaming console in history, and tens of millions of kids played NES growing up in the mid to late 80's, and a lot of those people (like me) have kids of their own now.

The value truly is in the eye of the beholder. People pay a lot for a piece of costume jewelry that Marilyn Monroe once wore, or for a microphone that recorded an instrument for a '60's Beatles hit, etc.

In a lot of ways, I have much less of a problem with someone spending their money on something like this than of someone buying something that is gone forever after being used (other than the memories). Take those stupid gold-covered ice cream sundaes for $1k!

http://most-expensive.net/ice-cream-sundae

But even to the folks that eat those Sundaes, I say 'it's your $'.