Re: Game values

Do you know where I can parts parts for my RCA selectavision???

Thanks,
Joe

solarfox@texas.net wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:49:16 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >Videos can only go up ever so slightly, then downhill from there. Think of
> >how many machines are changing hands right now. Each one of those machines
> >is 'saved' from being junked etc.. if a machine is in someone's living
> >room/gamesroom now, how likely is it that it will get junked? not likely at
> >all so long as the percieved value is 'oooh, that's asteroids, that worth
> >loads, i can't possibly junk that.'
> >
> >so now sit back and think just how many machines are surviving... a butt
> >load.
>
> What you are overlooking, however, is the fact that as it becomes
> increasingly difficult or impossible to get **replacement parts** for these
> machines, the supply of "working" machines _must_ inevitably decrease,
> therefore increasing the value of the ones which remain. You can already
> see this dynamic beginning to work on the old RCA Selectavision
> CED-Videodisc players - five years ago, you couldn't give one of these
> things away; today, even a non-working unit can fetch $50 in some circles
> because certain parts, such as the pickup styli and the DAXI chip, simply
> aren't made anymore and there are no equivalent substitutes.
>
> What will most likely happen, I suspect, is that the value of our
> vector games _will_ begin to increase again - but, unlike the "boom market"
> that's existed in the last few years while everyone's been trying to fill
> out their collections, it will be a slow increase over the long term as the
> games become more _historically_ valuable, and increasingly difficult to
> find in "Near-Mint" condition.
>
> >Nothing can keep going up and up in value. 'collecting' stuff is a
> >relatively new concept, 80's onwards.. nearly everyone you speak to nowadays
> >collects something or other...
> >
> >but speak to someone in the 60's/70's, how many people do you think
> >collected stuff? not many at all..
>
> Er.... huh? Sorry, but you're just plain wrong here. The _kinds_ of
> things people collect may have changed, but there were plenty of people
> collecting things back in the 60's and 70's, and probably a lot earlier
> than that. Stamps and coins being two of the most obvious examples...
>
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