Ash Burton
Krauser's Shoe Shiner
- Joined
- Oct 16, 2010
- Posts
- 234
When I first joined this site I did so as a newly minted Neo Geo MVS Arcade cabinet owner. I grew up middle class, and never had the means to own the home system but had fond memories of the Big Red sitting at the corner 7-11. So when I had the chance to pick up a nice arcade I did, and then found this awesome community which helped build my library.
Almost everyone I dealt with was fair in the marketplace, and if there was a cart I was looking for someone would point me in the right direction. I have sold countless games on here but never for profit, merely to fund the next gaming adventure. Often I took loses on deals but to me this was part of the hobby, and most other hobbies cause much greater losses.
So in my time browsing the marketplace, the tech forum and the GD, I began to notice that some of the members on here who were into AES "collecting" looked at the games as trophies rather than the treasure box of sprites that they truly are. There was often drama over price gouging, condition, scams and so on. Most of this drama had been reserved for the AES club, but over the last year or so I have noticed this attitude spilling over into the MVS community.
Perhaps its the countless MVS superguns out there, and now more and more people are buying the MVS games. Maybe it is just the market expanding. But I also notice a lot more people raving about mint kits and whatever, as if MVS kits were designed for home display. To each there own, but stamp collecting gaming used to be a trademark of AES and to me it seems the MVS games are going the same way. Anyone else notice a change, or is this just an overreaction on my part?
Almost everyone I dealt with was fair in the marketplace, and if there was a cart I was looking for someone would point me in the right direction. I have sold countless games on here but never for profit, merely to fund the next gaming adventure. Often I took loses on deals but to me this was part of the hobby, and most other hobbies cause much greater losses.
So in my time browsing the marketplace, the tech forum and the GD, I began to notice that some of the members on here who were into AES "collecting" looked at the games as trophies rather than the treasure box of sprites that they truly are. There was often drama over price gouging, condition, scams and so on. Most of this drama had been reserved for the AES club, but over the last year or so I have noticed this attitude spilling over into the MVS community.
Perhaps its the countless MVS superguns out there, and now more and more people are buying the MVS games. Maybe it is just the market expanding. But I also notice a lot more people raving about mint kits and whatever, as if MVS kits were designed for home display. To each there own, but stamp collecting gaming used to be a trademark of AES and to me it seems the MVS games are going the same way. Anyone else notice a change, or is this just an overreaction on my part?