You are no longer buying games to play them. You are buying plastic obligations . You find yourself bidding $40 on a loose cartridge of Captain Novolin (a diabetes education game starring a super-powered diabetic). You drive 45 minutes to a pawn shop to buy Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon (a game about a microscopic surgeon killing cholesterol).
So why spend $15,000–$25,000 (and rising) to own them all? snes full set
Then you sit down, turn on the SNES, and play Super Mario World for the 1,000th time. Because that’s the only one you really needed in the first place. You are no longer buying games to play them
Financially? Yes. SNES cartridges have outpaced the stock market for a decade. You drive 45 minutes to a pawn shop
You will own Shaq Fu . Not because you want to, but because you have to .