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I mean at some point someone bought a copy of Super Mario Bros. and held on to it until they were sure it's the last one available and sold it for $2m. What wo
by DoctorOW 5y ago
I mean at some point someone bought a copy of Super Mario Bros. and held on to it until they were sure it's the last one available and sold it for $2m.
What would one buy today to do that? A Playstation? An iPad? It feels like a small complaint that the collectible industry will be struggling. I was just struck by the death of physical media all of a sudden.
- tshaddox 5y agoIt would presumably need to be something that is both wildly popular in its time but also toward the beginning of a huge cultural change. Any old copy of a Call of Duty game is wildly popular, but probably fairly late to become symbolic of the huge cultural change that was video games.