“I hate when people get tricked into doing stupid stuff like this”.
Video games, like any physical item, can become very valuable on the secondary market. Many retro games are now worth thousands of dollars, and this increased value predictably leads people to treasure and hoard them in the same way comic book collectors do with rare issues from decades past.
Over the years, an entire industry has grown up around this need to acquire and showcase rare games, with organisations like WATA charging a fee to ‘grade’ particular games for the collector’s market.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“I hate when people get tricked into doing stupid stuff like this”.
Video games, like any physical item, can become very valuable on the secondary market. Many retro games are now worth thousands of dollars, and this increased value predictably leads people to treasure and hoard them in the same way comic book collectors do with rare issues from decades past.
Over the years, an entire industry has grown up around this need to acquire and showcase rare games, with organisations like WATA charging a fee to ‘grade’ particular games for the collector’s market.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
