This is the fate that will befall your retro game collections.

Cool, I cashed out and only play pirated games on flashcarts/modded CD consoles.

>>4174025
>thing has market value: gets sold
>thing has no market value: gets in the trash bin

What's the problem?

The thing is that /vr/ is a fucking hypocrite that will artistically screech when millennials get interested in their shit but at the same time fantasizes about the day when they will be able to get their kids into their old shit they love so much. You disgust me.

>>4174060
It's almost like this is a board full of different people with different opinions or something.

>>4174025
Too different of collectables to make that assumption.

>>4174034

We're gonna be talking about 2050-2070. Is any of these old snes games gonna have any market value? The price for games are driven up by 30 something "collectors" trying to reclaim their childhood. No one will give a shit about these games by then.

>>4174025
>implying I will have grandchildren

What did your grandparents collect, /vr/?

My grandpa collected Shirley Temple VHSs, McDonalds Toys, and a shitton of paintable statues and figurines.

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>>4174070
What are "opinions"?

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>>4174025

>grandchildren

MY SIDES

>>4174110
My grandmother likes religious iconography.
Tons of figurines of the Buddhas, Jesus, Ganesha et al. It's pretty aesthetic actually and I'd be glad to inherit such a collection.

>>4174025

I've decided since a long time ago that I'm not going to have kids. If I did decide to, I'd adopt, but I don't think that will ever strike my fancy, and that's also hard to do as a single man.

>>4174335
>I've decided since a long time ago that I'm not going to have kids
that wasnt something you decided. that was your destiny

>>4174025
Old expensive music records are still expensive, even before vinyl "revival"

>>4174343
Maybe I grew to accept it, but either way, I'm fine with it. Since the day I realized I was only interested in 2D, I knew shit was fucked.

>>4174070
Ah, the classic 4chan is not one person excuse.

>>4174025

'Grown Children'

How appropriately worded.

>>4174060
>phoneposter complaining about anything
opinion discarded

>>4174468
How do you know that is a phone poster?

>>4174025
If your children or grandchildren don't want it then sell it all off to a collector and use the proceeds to enjoy your retirement.

>>4174025
I want Hummel figurines

Good. I want to be buried with my collection.
Hopefully my grandchildren won't be hipsters or reseller scum.

>>4174110
Mine used to collect old toys, on rain days she let us play with them but if she saw us playing with them on sunny days she used to hit our hands with a wooden spoon.

>>4174025
Is it just me or does granny have twenty inch pythons

>>4174025
I know this board is less autistic than the others, but honestly, this doesn't apply to anyone here; instead of sitting in their basements arguing about PS4 vs Switch or PC, they're in their basements arguing over Sega vs Nintendo.

>>4174571
PS4 and SEGA are clearly superior though

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>>4174574
>PS4
>superior

>>4174430
Just saying it's "classic" doesn't discredit it at all. How about you use some real arguments you fucking faggot

>>4174582
I can't think of a single switch game I want that isn't BotW and even then it doesn't look that great
>he's a pcfag
have fun destroying your experience of video games

>>4174025
And that's fine with me. I'm actively against younger people getting intro retro.

>>4174589
Shut your facehole, Sony cockroach.

>>4174541
https://youtu.be/SKbUJFFcdqg

>>4174592
Why? It's not for you to decide.

>>4174343
There are people who don't want kids.

>>4174073
Possibly, like how barely anyone cares about 2600 games. Probably has something to do with the more primitive nature of the 2600 though.

>>4174073
Nah course not this shit is only worth stuff now as collection pieces cos the people who where children when they came out, are now adults with jobs, in 30 years time theyll be cheap as fuck again when we start dying and our kids are selling this stuff off cheap.

>>4174073
It's probably going to be like dealing with old cars. For a while, 40s and 50s era cars held a lot of value because the people who grew up with them bought them on nostalgia. Now, they're not as in as high of demand anymore because most of the people who were alive and could drive back then have already died or been rendered incapable of driving, while 70s and 80s vehicles have very much appreciated in value (For instance, I own an old 70s Trans Am, when I bought it from a guy in the 90s, I paid about $6500 for it, and now one in good condition with original parts are regularly going for upwards of $50k at shows.).

When the people who grew up with old games start to die off, "ancient" NES and SNES games will almost certainly drop in value outside of being museum collectables.

>>4174110
Guns. The funny thing about guns though is they ALWAYS hold their value unlike a lot of other stuff. When grandpa passed away, I inherited his old K98, still has the walnut stock and stamps from the factory, but all his other service weapons went to other branches of the family.

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>>4174565
>Is it just me or does granny have twenty inch pythons

>>4174702

nice. My grandfather was an aircraft engineer in the pacific in ww2. I inherited the bomb control console & a complete front gun turret (minus guns unfortunately) from a b29 liberator bomber.

>>4174430
>>4174584
See, this is why I love 4chan. Everyone disagrees with everyone else all the time. It's like the anti-hugbox.

Why on Earth would I have kids in this day and age?
I'll probably sell all my stuff when I get to the point where I know I'll die soon or get really bored of it. If I die before that, who gives a shit?

>>4174734
This. Kids are shit and spoliled as ever. Worlds over populated anyway. Chances are yours will have something wrong with it, least if yoy adopt you can pick a healthy one.

>>4174073
Collecting anything solely because you think it'll increase in market value is retarded and literally a scam.

>2050
>"h-here my child these are old 20th century vidcons"
>"but Dad, possessions are haram in our 3d printer islamic communism, we're reporting you to the Imam"
>executed by firing squad for owning vidcons

>>4174734
>If I die before that, who gives a shit?

thats pretty much my attitude. its not going to make any difference what happens when your dead. Retro game collectors always go on about these almost mythical estate sales where they scoop up untold bargians for next to nothing. Guess what, thats whats going to happen to you later on.

>>4174025
>I don't now how to handle legacy
Makes you wonder how this is only a problem in a 300yo country.

>>4174668
>why
Because they (mostly) don't get them but still play them because they're currently in. I don't want my childhood to be reduced to a meme for bandwagoners with no emotional attachment to the era to jump into.
>It's not for you to decide.
Sure, but OP is implying we all want this stuff to be passed to new generations of gamers.

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>>4174761
I call this bullshit, I never grew up in the japanese and european computers era but I still find them tons of fun. Emotional attachment my ass, they are toys not works of art.

I cashed out on all my retro just as the digital download thing was starting up "oh shit, value will decrease now that these games can be bought again"

What a sucker i was

>>4174025
Fuck my grandchildren, I intend to be enshrined in my retro collection.

My mother collects art and was at the right time right place to obtain some obscenely expensive work over the years which only inflates in price. In comparison I have 2 rooms stacked floor to ceiling with plastic japanese mecha & old vidya games which will be thrown out like trash when i'm gone.

>>4174838
>>4174025

Im so glad I never fell for the plastic crap disease.

>>4174797
But games are art.

>>4174473
Because autistic was spellcorrected to artistic.

>>4174797
>he's not emotionally attached to his old toys that reminds him of a time when life was simpler

>>4174838

So throw them out yourself, now. They're already trash after all.

I mean, the mecha, not the games. The games are playable of course.

>>4174761
>mostly
Glad you used that. I'm part of what's outside mostly and I genuinely enjoy them instead of posturing. The crowd you're talking about are usually in their late 20's who only play Mario and Zelda.

>>4174867
No, games are not art.

>>4175076
No such thing as simpler times. You didn't have the perspective to understand the chaos around you as a child.

>>4174863
Then why are you here? ROMfags need to leave.

>>4174025
>Uber lel! My grandpa gave me FF III. Like, who needs that shit when youhave FF 30

>>4174025
Yeah nobody gives a shit about that garbage, I don't blame them. Even if it's worth money it's not worth the time trying to find a buyer or boxing all that shit up so it won't break when you send it across country. I'd just donate it to Goodwill and be done with it.

>>4175098
>no such thing as simpler times

>if its not a drawing or musical piece it cant be art

Whatever you fucking snob

>>4175146
>nobody gives a shit
RRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHT...

>it's 2050
>bitcoin bubble still hasn't popped, some third world countries even adopted it as their currency
>most people born in the 70's are dead, about half from the 80's
>Kids don't even really play video games, but instead experience them like choose your own adventure movies, no exception
>they laugh at you because you had to put in all the effort of learning controls to enjoy something
>a tear in your eye appears and you go back to your 40 year old desktop since they too have gone the wayside
>check the news
>twitch streamer wins nomination for your countries leader

>>4175098
>No such thing as simpler times. You didn't have the perspective to understand the chaos around you as a child.
It was simpler <to you> because you were a child, anon.

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>>4174301
You and me both anon.

>>4175160
Nobody on this board gives a shit*

>>4174060
Uh, early Gen Y here and this IS my shit. Get out (z)ombie.

>>4175951
HahahaHA, guess the pre-alzheimer's kickin' in and forgot reading comprehension. My bad.

>>4174301
Came to say this, lmfao I already got a vasectomy when I was 28 - you think any of the loons here would make good parents?

>>4174025
I love the image in my head of future generations keeping Grandpa's collection of antique erotic bishoujo statues in a china cabinet for posterity.

>>4174582
>>4174589
>not owning ps4 xbone and switch
You don't even have to be a richfag desu

>>4175989
>american consoles
stupid goy

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In a few years we'll have some programs on history channel and similar with millenials rating retro media.
Or maybe we already do...

>>4174073
I am the Anon to which you are answering.

I think 90s video games will have the same value in 2050 than the original Beatles or Rolling Stones records now. They are our rock and roll.

Don't forget many huge franchises who still exist today, and will keep on existing, are based on these retro games.

>>4176069
And no, those who buy old Beatles records are not just grumpy 70-year-olds.

>>4176069

Not the best example since Beatles records aren't actually worth that much due to overabundance.

>>4175169
That's what I said.

>>4175160
Games are meant for fun. Art is found in literature, paintings, sculptures, and movies. Games can never be artistic because they only have one purpose: to win a set objective.

>>4175951
What exactly is your shit? The GBC, Dreamcast, and PSone are also my shit.

>>4176052
It's only a matter of time before a youtube e-celeb gets "discovered" and offered his own cable show. They already had a show about some guy going around buying old toys.

>>4176141
That's already happened on the food network to some youtuber chef lady.

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>>4176080
Video games may not be worth too much either for the same reason, but it will not be worth nothing.

>>4176102
>Games can never be artistic because they only have one purpose: to win a set objective.

There is more than just the "game" part in a video game. That is why people will watch other people play for hours, without using the game themselves. It's not like playing checkers or bingo.

>>4174025

Then they can sell them or throw them out. I don't give a fuck OP. I'll be dead.

>>4174747

/co/mrade here

This man speaks the truth. I'm embarrassed so many people still fall for it though

>>4176202
/toy/ here.

I'll be laughing at ALL of you once beanie babies make a comeback.

>>4174025

That's fine - it will be like baseball cards are today. I'll be dead, or near death. This is MY collection, with my own personal attachments to it, so no one should care about it other than me. There is almost no chance they will feel the same.

My only hope is that they get a little bit of monetary value out of it. Not much to be expected, but maybe something small to make them happy. Which is the whole point.

>>4174025
I don't want children, I enjoy my free life.
In my testament I have already stated that all my belongings are to be sold on online auctions and the money that's left is to be donated to charity.

>>4174025
>not having any respect for your parents' things

y'know how I can tell the author of that article is white?

>>4174713
>>4174794
>>4176169
heh

>>4176202
/co/ knows more about this than anybody

look up "comic book speculator crash" if you want to read about retardation and an industry intentionally destroying itself

>>4176432
Have you ever lost a relative? Most things they owned are pure clutter, literal junk, and just end up into piles and piles of cardboard boxes and bin bags that you're forced to throw away when you sell the house.

If you're particularly sentimental, you'll keep four of five boxes, not more.

I kept all the original games I've received or bought since the NES days and bought flashcarts for any games I might have missed. I sort of feel bad for the retards that "collect" video games.

>>4176102
Games usually contain most of if not all of those things in one package. Literature in the character interactions, original music, cutscenes (movies), and sculpted worlds to explore. At the very least they are a medium for art to be expressed through.

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>>4174025
>/v/irgins
>grandchildren

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>>4174025
i ll take my shit to my grave just like people used to do. No problem.

>>4176579
/vr/gins

>>4174025
>im butthurt because i missed the boat
kek

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>>4174025
>Your grandchildren
>grandchildren
>children

>>4176659
The only ones with kids will be the cha/vr/apists.

>>4176575
>>4176193
Found the /v/tard. That's where the industry is headed as of now. Games come with bloated cutscenes and long dialogue because you have 30 something film school grads who couldn't be a director/screenwriter, so now they're seeping into videogame development because it's accessible. Then they'll make a middle-brow plot with a few philosophical ideas ripped off from someone who is unknown to the manchild gaming market, and turn it into a "cinematic experience" with minimal button input. The GED educated crowd eats it up like hot shit and wants more of it. That's not what games used to be about. Games used to be about fun and fun only. The video in videogames never stood for a fucking movie. Ebert was right. Stop with this "trying to be artistic" and 2deep4u horseshit that these art degree millennials are failing at in a medium that is meant for having a good time.
Go read a book or a movie if you want a story, but you won't because you're either lazy or an average IQ manchild with an attention disorder.

I'd love to have a pile of nerd crap from the early 20th century

>>4176579

I'm expecting a kid by February

>>4176386
I never understood why baseball cards were ever popular to begin with. Just some dude's picture on a piece of cardboard, why did kids go apeshit for that?

>>4177013
I'm so sorry.

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>>4174702
>tfw your grandparents and great grandparents left behind lots of guns, too, but one of your bastard non-blood related uncles took them all.

>>4174073
No. Look at a perfect case example, comics of the 40s compared to comics of the 90s, the reproduction of the digital age will make a lot of this shit irrelevant. And attitudes will shift, kids are entitled and used to getting shit for free or cheaper, every single generation. Ours literally got away without ever paying for music again. Games are next.

Also for a closer comparison look at shit like Pulp novels. They were hot shit as a collectors item for decades, then all the people that liked them started dying and they became worthless. We're probably at a strong point in the bubble and it's not going down anytime soon, but eventually it will.

>you will live long enough to bestow onto your kids your own version of the now worthless baseball card.

>>4177025

Kids will ask the same questions when we're gone. Just because video games are popular now does not mean they always will be, decades from now. The argument could be that they are interactive, but that does not mean they will care or understand.

I assume baseball cards were popular because of all the old guys trying to reclaim lost youth - they were a cheap collectible for kids back then. The same reason why many collect video games today - it makes them personally happy. However as the baseball card collectors die off, most cards become worthless monetarily. The same will happen with video games.

>>4174073
Fucking good, I don't collect to sell. I collect to own, so dirt cheap prices make me happy

>>4176815
Or play a game cause it's interactive and you want to feel like part of the story/world.

Faggot.

>>4174110
My grandpa had like a 10 foot long model train village in his house. He liked putting together model stuff like that.

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>>4179468
>Or play a game cause it's interactive and you want to feel like part of the story/world.
What if he's not an immersion-toddler?

>>4179496
What the hell's going on on the right?

>>4179501
Just a man going back to the roots in Resident Evil 7

>>4179501
modern gaming

>>4179501

Whatever it is, it still looks more appealing than playing CAVE shooters.

>>4175018
How artistic do you even gotta be to ducking notice that?

>>4181471
I think the true sign of an autist would be someone who can't do basic reading comprehension and not notice a blatantly wrong word in the sentence.

>>4181531
And that's why no one pays you to think.

>>4175967
I know a friend of mine who comes to /vr/ to read up on people's opinions of games so he can recommend things for his son. He says it's one thing to look on a site and see someone singing some game's praise, it's another to know people actually liked it. He doesn't trust YouTube reviewers. Actually one of the few fathers I really respect. Good friend of mine growing up. Proud of him.

>>4174110
He collected traditional liquors. My gramps was the shit.

>>4174110
Franklin Mint collector's plates and sweatshirts.

>>4174073
most old console games will have CEASED TO FUNCTION by 2050 and the few functional pieces left will very likely have some value

It's honestly a little outdated, those teacups are ant-sized, the glasses are alright, you probably don't need more than one or two tea kettles, especially considering glass infuser-style kettles work better than porcelain and the porcelain coating's going to wear off. Would def chuck everything from the lower shelf, that's just going to take up space and collect dust.

>>4181814
>source: my ass

I've witnessed this borderline hoarding nonsense too many times. So much unwanted junk to be added to a landfill somewhere. Don't collect "stuff" guys, sell it while it has any value and only keep what you treasure most. We don't need to preserve everything in existence.

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>>4174025
Wrong.
Children are raised in a culture that prominently features video games. It's not like all that crockery. Think of it more like if your grandfather had a collection of priceless vintage filmstock and movie memorabilia. Given how big movies are in general culture such a collection would be appreciated even if it doesn't hold specific, detailed interest.

I haven't spent years building a respectable NES collection including several rare and hard to find games for some descendant to trash it all. Luckily, the major position that video games occupy in the minds of this and future generations guarantee that I will be a true hero to whoever inherits my stuff.

If you don't agree then maybe you collected for the wrong console? Pic related lol

>>4174698
you can already see the value of some nes games decreasing from a few years ago, most of the stuff is worth less than the new value

>>4182894
NES games will rise in value again. True collectors know to wait for the maximal value of their stuff to be revealed then get get to laugh at the peasantry who panicked and sold off treasures at basement prices at the first hint of a downturn. I'll be laughing at most here in a decade or two.

>>4177060
how do you even let that happen, sounds pretty fucking beta to me.

>These guns are mine
>o-ohkay

>>4182863
Depends, modern moviegoers usually don't care much about movies from the 40s and 50s. In 30 years kids will probably not care about NES, SNES or even PS4 games either because they'll be playing the xXx_BoxXx_One-Hundred with CoD36.

>>4183597
Safe to assume his uncle is much older than him.
If he would have said anything, his uncle would play the age card and he'd have to have a damn good reason right then and there to get it from him.

t. youngest child, raised like a doormat

>>4183753
I would have just went to my dad if that was the case I know my dad wouldn't let someone who isnt even related by blood pull that kind of shit

>Kids want all the things in their lives
>Suddenly bitch when it's given to them
That's pretty ungrateful

>>4183778
what are you talking about

>>4183783
The op image

>>4174025
Implying I won't be playing with my retro shit until the day I die, then beyond that, why would I care?

>>4176815
Sonic 2 is art.

>>4183778
Grown children want stable income and an affordable place to live. Mom's china collection doesn't really compare.

>>4183725
The collecting mania only touches a minority of people, but it exists because the somewhat ignorant majority still values the medium as a whole.

It's like in a religion, there is a minority of extremists because a majority of peaceful believers exists, and pushes religion down your throat.

>>4183597

I've got a few relatives, blood and not, eyeing my dad's vintage motorcycles, so much so that not only are they left to me in the will, but there are explicit instructions on how they are to be transported asap to a locked safehouse far away from any and all relatives until ownership is officially transferred to me. All because the same relatives pulled similar shit when my grandfather passed.

its amazing what money will do to family

>>4184230
Yeah, shit's crazy. My mom's got cancer and her brother is sitting on half a million dollarydoos and she cut off contact with him because he didn't even once offer to help her pay for her medical bills while he's buying new cars left and right.

>>4174025
Either they get sold, or they don't. It's impossible to predict how long interest in something will remain.

Film from the early 1900s is still of interest to anyone with a serious passion for film.

Hell, there are books from half a millenia ago that are still required reading any literature enthusiast.

Is your bigbox copy of Doom going to be cherished in the home of your great grandson? Fuck no, but it might just get sold to a multi-millionaire collector some time.

>>4174110
Coca Cola memorabilia, Boyd's Bears, and model cars. I don't care about any of them at all.

My dad and stepdad are both gun hoarders, and I'm the only one of my siblings who isn't an uptight urban leftist faggot so one of these days I'm going to be inheriting a couple hundred guns between the two of them. That'll be pretty sweet