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and sadly at the end of the day if you want the game bad enough to play it, you have to put up and shut up.
Didn't have to be like though...
Well, you know, it all depends on what side of the fence you're sitting on.
You say you've been into the neo for a long time - the high prices shouldn't make a dent in your attitude, and for a while, I didn't see them doing it.
But for a lot of kids that don't have the money to spend on the neo geo, or never got accustomed to the prices, the whole home cart scene is too outrageous for them.
And when you hang out with kids, you start to think like them...
Just because the likes of you and I have benefitted from being around when the prices were 'normal' doesn't make the high prices right.
Generally the prices don't affect me. I'm not interested in 'rare' carton box games like Riding Hero and Super Spy and I don't buy the ludicrously valued English language homecarts. However, the collector mentality of treating homecarts like stamp collecting bothers me greatly as does price hyping/jacking. I cannot condone denying someone the pleasure of enjoying the experience a game offers because another person thinks it makes a great bookend.
But hey, if you don't give two fucks about people getting to play the games because some rich nerd gets a hard on staring at plastic, well that's your perogative.
Ironic really, seeing as you're 'gameplay moderator'.... hmmmmnn...
Let's not get cheeky.
There are many ways to play and I don't complain about any of them: MVS, CD, Emulator (I try not to). As far as gameplay goes, the homecarts are a non-issue now. They have transcended games into something you are ware of as collectibles.
You bought a $500 game because you know it's damn rare.
Some guy paid $400 for Super Spy carton box for the same reason.
Not because they want to use them...
But let's put it in perspective shall we?
I paid $200 over the original 1996 retail price for what is now a rare game. Rare in two senses:
One - it does not appear for sale very often, meaning that those who have copies are keeping them or that the production run was low.
Two - a lot of copies that do appear of this title have sunfaded inserts, which in turn devalues the game and takes mint copies to a premium.
Personally I think I got a bargain at $500 Charlie, and I'd never accuse you of trying to overprice stuff. Also the game is worth it because I, personally, think it's a cracking game and the best in the series. I play and I play it a lot and it's still in the minty condition you sent it in.
There's people out there who pay this kind of money and NEVER play it... the mind boggles...
Yes, they are collectors. They probably also have Lamborghinis they never drive, because they never learned stick shift, and Mickey Mantle cards when they don't know ERA vs. RBI, or The Amazing Spiderman #1 when they can't read english.
They exist in many forms, and regardless of whether they make sense, they will continue to buy stuff and never appreciate them for more than their monetary value.
But for the gamers, let me propose that the Neo CD and Saturn versions of Metal Slug 1 are actually more fun than the homecart version, and even MVS, due to the fact you get combat school, and yes, on the NCD it's in english to boot.
And as for the rest of the games, MVS is the cheaper alternative, and with Shock Boxes and custom inserts, you don't have to think about such eyesores on the shelf like MotW or Metal Slug 4, or KoF 2001. You can have it your way, and at a fraction of the price.
This is already known stuff though. See, people just complain about prices, and how Shawn or FTL is fucking the scene for the people that matter. And these words are a virus, they get in your head, and after a while you rationalize them, but in reality, these ideas are just as false as my Euro Operation Ragnagard.
BTW: You should know that I didn't charge you a penny more for the cart than I was charged by Hakkun when I first bought it from him. I knew, as you knew, that the cart is rare, and often sunfaded.
