I don't talk about the details of my collection. I will however talk about the one thing that I can not play in my collection at all. I have a part of game code written on computer punch cards. It's just a few computer punch cards that is the middle of the whole game. The reason I grabbed it was because I thought it was interesting. Pretty much everything that I have, I find interesting. I am cheap, I won't buy something for the sake of saying that I own it. It raises the question, why would I buy something that has no use to me, if I only grab stuff that I can only use. Well the answer is quite simple, I grabbed it for a purpose other than playing it. I have a collection of all kind of stuff. Everything that I have is interesting to me. A penny is mostly seen as something worthless today, but 50 years ago a few pennies made the difference if you were going to get a Rib eye or a T-bone.

The majority of the people here have a justified concern for people seeing video games as an investment. There was a set number of games made. There are people here that would love to play all the games. I know that I am one of them. When people are holding on to a game just for the sake of having it, even more so if that game is popular at the moment and is harder to find, it just rubs people the wrong way. If I said that I have one of the NWC grey carts, most people would think it's cool. If I told people that I only have it because it's valuable, they would be upset. It would appear that I have no interest into video games other than the profit I can make off of them. I think that it gets on this subs bad side when you say that you only want something or have something because it's valuable. The whole Amiibo thing doesn't interest me at all. I think Amiibo's are neat, but I know they are not for me. I personally know some people that are big time collectors and all of them are in it because they love video games. Just about every collector that I have met in person is passionate about video games. I have never met a collector that I can't get along with. We always have common ground, we like playing video games.

With that all said, I don't get sealed collecting. I don't think that sealed collecting shouldn't exist, it's just something that I'm not into. I buy games to play. There are people who collect art, you can't do anything with the art other than look at it. I imagine that is what sealed collecting is like. I have bought a few sealed Atari games to open them up. None of them were valuable or in any stretch of the imagination, rare. I say to each their own. If that is what you are into, that's fine. The problem is that the jest of your post goes somewhat against they way people feel about video games here. The more the prices are driven up, the less games that we can buy. The popularity of video games does make them more easier to find, and finding replacement parts are easier now than they ever have been in the past. But the downside to all of this is that there is people that are looking to cash in on video games and will choke the supply for their personal gain. A lot of older collectors like me, were gamers first.

I think with the flood of Amiibo posts here, I think that the amiibo sub should allow posts of peoples finds. My take on Amiibo's is that they have more functions than skylanders, but their fate will remain the same. Nintendo knows exactly what they are doing with them. I have seen stuff like this in the past and I will refrain from drawing parallels to any other collecting that has happened.