> Imagine in the day after the arcade collapse, and you had all these giant heavy-ass
> cabinets nobody wanted. When the resale value is less than the cost of shipping them,
> it makes selling them difficult if not impossible. If you were a pure business man
> without the nostalgia and love for the game, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to just
> throw that old Computer Space in the dumpster than it is to store it waiting for a
> buyer who can pick it up.
>
> Its the love of the games that keeps them alive now, not economics.
it's not just arcade cabinets, but due to their size they are a good example, even moreso today with the remaining ones as they're not even really economical to operate with the big old CRTs and what was considered 'beautiful' in the 80s and 90s is considered an eyesore today.
that's why a lot of the larger setups are long gone tho, yes.
but on a smaller scale, I managed to pick up a bunch of PS3 games for nothing from a local store, they wanted to clear the shelf-space for other titles so were giving away PS3, Xbox 360 stock they couldn't move, had I not taken that, it would have ended up in a skip too.
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