Totally agree, all this 'value' is just air and probably very temporary.
I wonder, how much my loose Conker with cat piss on it and a bad label is worth?
I tend to disagree... Zegers "Extreme Collectors" series proves that toys & memorabilia are perfectly healthy, in many cases even a century after their release. Video games fit both categories and seeing the digital revolution, with electronica flooding your everyday life on the whole and electronic entertainment being an assertive part of it, well, they won't lack on popularity evermore. Bet people laughed at collecting Black Americana, too. Video games will make the same transition, from toy to pop-art in a quarter of a century.
...video games are not art entirely.
There is art in video games, there are also plenty of other things...video games are not art entirely.
Any medium can produce art, however our current analytical tools rely too much on film criticism.
care to elaborate on how computers are the "very basis of our own existence"? I don't think in binary...as computers, the general-purpose electronic devices, became the very basis of our own existence.
I don't think in binary...
I'll do some research as greedo suggested... but I'd like to point out real quick in response to oliver that what makes us human (and seperates us from animals) is our ability to think/reflect. The "human condition" is of course way more, I should have known that...
I'd like to point out real quick in response to oliver that what makes us human (and seperates us from animals) is our ability to think/reflect.
Nah, just that video game criticism currently uses film criticism techniques, hence its no wonder when someone asked Ebert about video games, he trashed them... he's a film critic, what the fuck does he know?Hahaha... which makes Arthur Danto (art), Kenneth Frampton & Collin Rowe (architecture) & Paul Virilio (urbanism) all film critics, I suppose? Them & countless others (Giedion, Venturi, both Smithsons, Pawley, Posener, Banham) are the basis of current analysis methods you would-be intellectual, with regular boffin-outings.
Admittedly, it could be that, when all is cleverly said and quirkily done, your posts are meant to be a deconstructed ng.com-membership, where the contrivances are a deliberate and ironic parsing of an unreal digital world set within a virtual forum. If so, kudos, but you should be careful what you wish for - after all, your brilliant deconstruction is my dumb unravelling.
I can understand the desire to have a full collection but in all honesty I think if i could snap my fingers and have them all in an instant I wouldn't, wanting them is half the fun. If you get everything you want straight away it soon leaves you feeling empty.
Unfortunately that was what I used to have, sold them off a while ago. Sitting on nothing at the moment. Got a wee NGPC collect but again they are just commons (11 boxed, 5 loose). I'd love to have my old collection back.
PS What part of the UK you from Missile?