Monday, May 22, 2006

The Black Market of Game Collectors

In one of The Escapist "Best of The Escapist" articles, they were writing about the more unknown side of the gaming community, the game collectors. Often using not completly legal methods to gain hold of their unique prototype cartridges or unreleased hardware, like devkits, these collectors are exclusive and yet romantic.

The story about how games that can't be bougth for all of the money in the world, but is traded for other similiar rarities, or found on the black market, sold by Indonesian sea pirates, is thrilling to say the least. I suggest that anyone for just the slightest passion of gaming culture/history should read through the article, and enjoy it as much as I did.
"I'm just through the looking glass. Just how far does the rabbit hole go?"
Obscurity Below the Radar
Nintendo World Championship
Sonic X-Treme

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