Originally posted by kernow
Bollocks!
If that was so, everyone would play MVS or ROMs.
Yeah, hate to break it to you, but ROMs are how a
lot of people are either introduced to, or continually play with, Neo·Geo titles. I'm not saying everyone does this, I'm not necessarily even saying
most people do this, but I am saying a
significant amount of people do.
Personally, I neither condone nor participate in this; I honestly don't have the technical skills to download, install, or run ROMs, especially on this dinosaur-of-a-computer I've got.
And for those that do purchase and collect the pricier NGH AES, I commend you; you are
truely hardcore: spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a game -- say, Metal Slug, for example -- that could be just as easily purchased for much less in another legitimate cartridge format.
Heck,
I used to be a NGH AES collector myself, until I went the way of the MVS. I know the joys of owning a brand new, never played home cartridge. However, and this could just have been
me, but part of the fun I had collecting that stuff was knowing that I was one of a select few to have this very special type of game. There was definitely an air of superiority there, which the MVS scene doesn't have quite as much.
Originally posted by dolphinATX
You buy the home carts because they are limited productions, but even if you paid, let's say, $400.00 for an English Metal Slug 3, it should still be for the game and not if it's going to increase in value.
See, I collect baseball cards (vintage t206 ect.) but I don't buy them for their monetary value; [rather], for the historical aspect of the card. I have a PSA 7 t206 Ty Cobb I got for $986.00 (U.S.D.) and it's worth more now, I know, but all I care for is that I will be able to pass on a century-year-old piece of history to my kids, not that when I give it to them or [if I] decide to sell it if I am going to get my purchase price back or turn a profit.
Make sense?
I see how that makes sense, but I also see how that doesn't make sense. Using your analogy, let's say you were considering the purchase of a Babe Ruth card for $1,000.00 (U.S.D.) that you
knew would be worth only $1.99 (U.S.D.) after you purchased it, and there would be
no way to ever recover your financial loss by either selling or trading this card. Would you still buy it? Probably not.
Same thing with the Neo·Geo and, for that matter, life in general. We're always weighing our options, trying to get the most for our money, and thinking ahead at least somewhat in terms of how better or worse off we'll be in the end. Again, nothing necessarily wrong with that; it's just the way things are.
"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Life Goes On..."
Before I'm given teh ban, though, know that I distinguished between NGH AES and MVS in that poll. If it's NGH AES, I'm in it for the big bucks, but if it's MVS we're talkin' about, it's all about teh playability.
