> > Do you think these oldtimers believed the games would regain value down the road or > > something? 80s games were going for $50-100 at auctions back in the 90s when nobody > > wanted them, and now they've kinda leveled off at that 300-400 range (fully > working, > > nice condition). Hardly worth the thousands you'd have spent on storage over all > > those years, I'd say. > > Sure, but if you own the storage place free and clear it's a pretty minimal expense. > And given the value has tripled since the 90s it's a fair bet it'll be up again in 10 > or 20 years. There is after all a finite number of machines and many of the parts are > no longer made.
I know the last auction I went to, about 5 years ago, the cheapest was a non working asteroids game for about $300, the ones I wanted went for $800 which was Discs of Tron or a screwed up Missile Command for $550, which I didn't test but it need a trackball at very least.
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