Vidjya Games: I have a feeling my collection of old games isn’t worth $4 nevermind $40,000

I only had Mario, baseball, Blades of Steel and Tecmo Bowl.

• Extreme video game nerds have waaaaay too much time on their hands and disposable income…
• Check your stash of old video games, there might be a nerd or comic book guy like creatin that will pay you boo-koo bucks for them…
• I’m once again fascinated by our world being out of whack when it comes to some things like ‘Texting Championships’ and vidjya games being worth $40,000.

by Mike Zimmer, Likes killing people

This is the second article I’ve written about video games being worth extreme amounts of cash.  And, it annoys me that I have to do it.

Are you kidding me?  There are games out there that people will pay that much money for?  And, there are people out there that have nothing better to do than to decide a game that Nintendo put out is worth $40,000??? (http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/rare-nintendo-game-is-40-000-windfall/1391148)

I’d go check my stash of old games (trust me, I have them…they may be melting in the attic, but I have them) but I know for a fact that no one wants my old games.  I didn’t have many for the old Nintendo that everyone got for either Christmas or their birthday or they were officially un-cool.  I had the Mario it came with, Duck Hunt (also in the box with the gun that I wound up using as a prop for a school play) and then sports games.  And they were popular sports games like ‘Blades of Steel’ and the absolutely annoyingly poor MLB baseball.

Of course the only real reason I wanted Nintendo was for Tecmo Bowl and other football games.  They all sucked compared to Tecmo Bowl.  And, most baseball games sucked too with the exception ot ‘Baseball Stars’ which was the absolute shit.

The problem is, those are all popular name plates everyone had.  I don’t have a $40,000-game laying around and I’m pissed because of it.  Pissed for one, I’m broke and need the money (not quite broke enough to whore myself out for rent, but damn near) and that some nerd would pay that because he has that much disposable income for something no one else gives a shit about.

Is our world going crazy that a single video game could be worth the same as an extremely rare baseball card from the early 1900′s???  What the hell is that all about?

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