If you had the money & were so inclined...

If you had the money & the time... Would you perhaps be inclined to buy up all the copies you could find of an already rare game, in order to create the illusion that a specific game were actually much rarer than believed?

For example, provided you had the cashflow, would you perhaps buy up every original copy of NWC (NES) you could find, and hoard them? Would this then make any other existing copies rarer? Or increase the value of copies already owned? Likewise, what about sealed copies of games like Chrono Trigger (NTSC U SNES)? Obviously aiming to buy as many copies of NWC as you could is a much easier task as you know exactly how many copies exist, and thus every aquired copy would increase the value of remaining copies owned...

Would anyone be so selfish though? It's a thought which has passed through my mind many a time when watching videogame auctions for rare games such as this, and I think to myself: "If only I had unlimited funds...". I have seen many copies of NWC for sale over the years, and just wondered whether any one person ever considered buying all of them? Especially all of the gold NWC carts, few as they are.

Also, if you were inclinded to do such a thing, and had the funds, would you keep it a secret? Obviously if people caught onto what you were up to then there could be repurcussions amongst the various gaming and collecting communities, so would you perhaps collecct such things in secret and only let on that you owned one copy, when in fact you may actually own multiple copies of a rare game?

 

Id let everyone know i was hoarding them what repocushions can there be. obviously you get people jealous of you because you have X number of game and you would feel a bit of a jammy bugger but i doubt anyone would rob your house for such posessions.

 

This happens all the time, but at the hands of retailers rather than individual gamers. GameQuestDirect is presently holding all the new copies of Chaos Wars in the United States, and isn't otherwise distributing them to their corporate customers. An independent chain in New England was trying to hang on to every copy of Persona 2 that they could. Electronics Boutique most famously was hoarding copies of Xenogears.

What screwed all these retailers was reissues. In the case of EB, when the Greatest Hits edition of Xenogears was released, they denied it existed and continued to price their copies at $50 or more. One of the reasons that I won't shop at Gamestop any more.

 

I guess im hoarding a bit I live in Denmark, and naturally I collect PAL nintendo games. About a year ago, I found out about the "competition cartridge's" First I thought they were US only, and therefore, I had no interest in getteng them (I'm talking about the StarFox Super Weekend and Donkey Kong Country Competition Cartridge) Later I learned the Starwing competition was held in Europe too. This resultet in my interest for the Starwing Competition Cartridge (PAL version)

Every since I found out about the PAL version, I have been searching for these carts. To day I got 5 copies of the Starwing Competition Cartridge...

 

If I had that kind of money, why would I care about increasing the resale value of things I own? By definition I wouldn't need the money, right?

 

Good point graphique...

 

So what's the reason for that ? You like the game so much or what ?

 

I recall watching a tv show back when I was a child. The characters and show are unimportant.

Two guys are lost in the woods and in need of food. The first guy comes up with this great idea. They will hollow out a log and place a bananna inside. A monkey will grab the bananna and making a fist will be unable to pull his hand out where they will grab the monkey and eat him.

To which the second guy replies "If we had banannas we wouldn't need the monkey !"

If you had "unlimited funds" what is the need to control the market on NWCs?

 

Just for show... Cyanist has already given the answer.

IF someone is so rich that doesnt give a f*** about the videogame market he can just hoard anything he/she wishes and see the others cry and strive to obtain something ONLY he/she has in tons resulting to the satisfaction of his/her own gluttony.

 

Why not horde Picassos then ?

Who else with unlimted funds will be impressed that he has some old Nintendo games? I'm sure when he pulls up to the country club in his new Jag and whips out the newest NWC he bought for his collection the other members will just turn green with envy.

No no he has to impress the lowly videogame collectors with his wealth and power. THAT is what drives his ego.

 

I think that's what the world really needs. There are creepy rich people, with fine honorable titles, who collect match box cars, phones (some even limited to cellphones) and various other toys and gadgets. Why no video game obscurities?

(I still think the commissioned replica of "The fallen Madonna (w/ze big boobies)" is a fine sample of something "kinda" like this. Basically, Lord Bath had a replica commissioned of a fictive painting that was a plot device in the British TV Comedy show "'Allo 'Allo" and he put it right up with the rest of his collection of fine arts.)

 

If I had unlimited funds I would do the opposite of what you are talking about. I would have copies produced to tank prices on certain items. Like flood the market with cheap indistinguishable copies of games like Castlevania Dracula X, Radiant Silvergun, NWC, Spiderman Web of Fire, etc etc.

The games were meant to be played, not for some jackass to claim it's worth X dollars and leave on a shelf somewhere.

 

you shouldn't just buy every copy, no, you also have to destroy every copy, except of one. then that game must be considered as a "human forced ultra rarity".

 

The problem here is that its probably not a collector doing this but a business man or shop/company whatever and they want to drive the price up.
If there are 5 known copies of game x and you buy them all at lets say 1000 bucks each, and by time you can sell 1 for 5000 the others are free and pure profit when sold later.

 

I don't see the need to hoard when it comes to games. One of each is fine. That and the fact that I'd be too busy hoarding old cars if I had unlimited funds.

 

Actually yes. I know it might seen strange, but the fact that there are believed to be so few copies, make me want to have a lot of them If I had unlimited funds, I might buy all of them. It's difficult yo explain, but the "rarity factor" makes me want to have more copies although I know I'll probably never get all of them :lol:

 

Thank you. Finally someone gets it. What if hey...

I mean, if you had the money to do this, would you? If not only to create something even rarer rather than for monetry gain? Naturally for many people money isn't everything, and owning something rare is rewarding enough. It would be like one rich billionaire buying every single Bugatti Veyron ever produced, and then destroying all but one of them simply to increase the rarity just for the sake of it...

 

I'd buy the game that the most hard core of collectors cherish more than their own life then rip it and release to the public, :evil: wahahahaha :evil:

Yakumo

 

Double wahahahaha for me! :evil: