Retrogaming in mainstream news

[vestcoat]

Modern consoles decline, retro craze continues, Portland Expo mentioned, and a "Top 10" rarity list:
http://money.msn.com/investing/dollar20000-for-a-retro-video-game

Reads like a goddamn "rare and valuable" guide from Racketboy. Fortunately the Turbo stayed out of the spotlight. Disturbing to see crap like vg.pricecharting referenced on MSN.

[PunkicCyborg]

Holy shit this thing is TERRIBLY written. Just the Vectrex column, wow just read this part about vectrex
9. "Mr. Boston Clean Sweep"
Format: Vectrex
Highest price ever paid: $7,200

"It takes a special kind of geek to shell out the value of a used car on an unpopular game sponsored by an unpopular liquor and played on an unpopular console.

The Vectrex was a "portable" game console introduced in 1982, just before the video game crash of 1983. It used a controller the size of a cable remote to play black-and-white games consisting mostly of opposing geometric shapes on a cathode-ray-tube screen the size of a stack of iPads. It was crude, cumbersome and not much to look at, but defunct liquor company Mr. Boston saw fit to create custom versions of the game "Clean Sweep" with its logo on the front and the mascot's top hat replacing a vacuum as the game's main character.

Only about five of these games are known to exist today. The Vectrex, however, is much easier to find after its creators put the console and its software into the public domain in the mid-1990s. Anyone who buys a copy of this game will have no problem tracking down a homebrew version of Vectrex to play it on. We're just not sure why they'd want to."

[Necromancer]

Including non-retail games produced in miniscule numbers in a discussion about the value of the retrogame market?  Lame.

[bartre]

y'know, i honestly enjoy this kind of article, but there's a catch
I like to hear talk of the actual game!

that said, i do like the RB articles, but i hate what they do - cause retarded price inflation on games that used to at least be fairly priced.

for example, a local game shop used to charge $45 for a copy of .hack part 4 on ps2.
then the RB article on ps2 games was "updated"
less than a week later they decide to charge $80, and have been sitting on 4 copies of the same game, where you can plainly see the old price sticker underneath the new one.