Originally posted by: wrldstrman

As long as the economy hangs on the prices will only go up and up. We live in the high technology generation and gaming is huge. When I was a kid there was no such thing as video games, the common thing for kids to do was collect baseball, football cards. So of course kids wanted mickey mantel, pete rose etc. but pretty much you could only find those cards at local shops or trading locally. meaning you didnt have a billion people having the chance to buy the card. and there were a lot less people in the world 40 years ago and there arent as many people around that grew up on trading cards as video games. pretty much if you have 10 people really into collecting cards there will be more to go around and will demand less money, if you have 1000 people collecting games there will be less to go around and games will demand more money.

Gaming has taken off into a whole new realm, there is simply no where near the supply of older games as the demand. look how large this site has grown in 5 years, from a handful to close to 10 thousand. Personally Im seeing fewer and fewer people interested in sports these days so there is not a large market for sports items. and as far as stamps, coins, rare history items, that is pretty much the ultra rich peoples game. but video games at this point are still pretty affordable. I mean as time progress and technology increases, who knows if the old games might become like a piccaso painting. Art was the big thing during those ages but gaming is of this generation. Maybe not in my lifetime but in the future i could see old games bringing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

name of the game is supply and demand. and from what ive seen over the past 5 years the supply is getting smaller and smaller and the demand is getting bigger and bigger. With the internet the market has gone from local to worldwide.

I can say yes ive griped about prices in the past, but after really thinking about it most games are pretty dirt cheap today. compared to when atari first came out and the average salary of that time. if you sold new systems at the price the atari was when it came out in the 70s compared to the average income of the time. new systems would be 2 to 4 thousand dollars. My first job the minium wage was 2.65 cents a hour, so a 8 hour shift after taxes got you about 18.00 dollars. the atari was 379.00 dollars so you looking at months salary to buy just the system. and games were a two weeks salary. so you can say games are a lot cheaper today,compared to the 70s even though they seem to be high.