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Jack Burton:
I will agree with that.  Value is a representation of demand.  But it is also a representation of rarity.  Rarity and historical and cultural signifance are not always together.  Kizuna Encounter would be a good example of this.  A bad fighting game that very few people played, but worth thousands because of the rarity.  So both rarity and demand have to be taken into consideration when evaluating a games collectibility.

But I don't like that.  I say that all games are collectible.  It just takes the right person to want a particular game.  Take Pit Fighter, a bad and common game.  I would like to have a board of that game. 

Eh, I think I'm getting too difficult for my own good here.   But I really like this discussion.

paigeoliver:
Neo Carts are small and are part of a collection that is possible to complete, and thus rarity drives value a lot more with things like that. Also, if Kizuna Encounter sells for thousands then how come a complete MACHINE sold on ebay for $99 recently and a complete kit sold for $250 AUS and I can buy a cart right now on ebay for $65?

Jack Burton:
It's only the home AES version of the game that is valuable, which I think there are only about ten known copies of.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: boogieman on May 03, 2008, 03:28:07 am ---

A side note:
I make sohc honda cb750 choppers for my other hobby.  Some motorcycle purists cringe, but I don't really care in that case.  I take a 30 plus year old POS and make it into a one bad mutha (IMO).  I sell the parts that are junk to me but needed for other collectors to get their projects completed (example a stock seat or gauge cluster).  There were literally hundreds of thousands of these made in their ~10 year life span.  Here are my chopper pics: pics
and here is an original: here
granted, the bikes I used were crappy, as in setting outside for years, locked up engines, etc., but there are still purist who cringe at the fact one of the "beloved" cb750 engines are in a chopper.  I would not cut up a pristine example of one, I would sell it and buy several junkers to use, so I can see both sides of these kind of debates.

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no contribution to the debate, but id love to see your choppers (",)  (the link is dead)

Malenko:
I think my original point was missed.

makin a MAME cab is expensive, sellin the board could get him a spinner, lol


personally I think you can MAME anything you want, from PacMan to computer space, so long as its reversable and by reversable I mean you can put it back how it was and no one would ever know it was MAME'd

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