Why is there no market for sports games collectables? My opinion is because sports games just replace one another with each successive release. It's not like they're different games (ie, a new sport). Sure, once in a while I get nostalgic for "Great Baseball" on the SMS, or "Bases Loaded" or "Tecmo Bowl" on the NES. Heck, I even sometimes think of "Superbowl Sunday" for the C64. But there's not the same factors involved in collecting these games as there are for adventures or RPGs. Why would I want to play Superbowl Sunday when I could play Madden 2007 which is (theoretically) much better? OK, maybe it's not much better, and there's the nostalgia factor like I said before, but it's not the same as it is with adventures and RPGs where theoretically every game is different. If someone has never played Hardball or One on One, they'd probably have no interest to do so except as a matter of curiosity. However, they might very well want to go and play King's Quest 1, especially if they've played King's Quest 7 or whatever.
Stuart -----Original Message----- From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 12:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SWCollect] No market for Macintosh collectables? I was just amazed by this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=51333&item=5703687968 One bid, six games in good condition, $8? I have two questions based on this occurance: 1. Is there just no market for Macintosh software collectables? Why the hell not? 2. Along those lines, how come there's no market for Sports game collectables (any platform)? Normally I'd rack up #2 as the "if it's not an adventure, it's not collectable" mentality that 95% of the software collecting scene shares, but that doesn't explain #1. I'm very confused...! -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) World's largest electronic gaming project: http://www.MobyGames.com/ A delicious slice of the demoscene: http://www.MindCandyDVD.com/ Various oldskool PC rants and ramblings: http://www.oldskool.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
