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Does collecting make sense? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by DegenerationIP@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Hey there,

I had a tech talk about retrogaming on OG Hardware. We ended up with the point that discs, some GBA,(3ds) and Switch games just die and cannot be used anymore.

So i question what is the use in collecting then. Its basically dead money. Its not really a cheap Hobby.

What do you think about it?

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[โ€“] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I personally like having my small collection of games. No idea when any of them will die, but it's at least nice to have them. For price, I'm lucky enough that the vast majority of games I want aren't super expensive at a local game store I like to visit.

That, or are cheap enough at a pawnshop near me. Ty the Tasmanian Tiger for PS2 for under $20 (possibly under $10/I don't remember)? Sign me up! Almost bought it, but decided against it since I wasn't sure how tight the rest of my college financial aid money would be after all my Christmas shopping.

Edit:

I am also skeptical about things like disc rot because I have heard countless times about it but have never met a single person who has ever had it happen to them.

[โ€“] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

At my first job at an ad agency we stored everything on DVD-Rs. A regular task for me was to copy old discs to new discs because they would rot after a while. It was all very stupid.

But those were rewritable discs. Regular ones will live for a long time before showing any signs of rot, if stored properly.

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