Never tell your wife how much a 20 year old Volleyball game cost...

[AtariLeaf]

it also helps that she loves playing, and kicks ass on Moon Patrol.

I've known women that love Moon Patrol... Juno First and Gyruss are way up there as well. Ms. Pac and Centipede have always been the old standbys with those of the fairer sex too.

 

With my wife its Frostbite. Christ on a crutch she's good at that game.

[Dryfter]

MY wife already knows the cost of the game (which I don't own yet) and she's fine with it. She knew before we got married that I am a collector and knew it wouldn't change after we got married. She also knows that I keep my priorities in check...important stuff gets paid for and bought first. I save up for the hobby stuff.

 

Keep in mind I said she knew about my hobby, not that she understands it . She knows it makes me happy thought so she's fine with it. I'm lucky in that fashion.

 

As far as the shoes, purses and jewelry comment. Shoes and purses lose value, real jewelry doesn't. Infact, if it's gold, silver, platinum, etc (real precious metal and gems) hold onto it...it's going UP in value.

[DZ-Jay]

it also helps that she loves playing, and kicks ass on Moon Patrol.

I've known women that love Moon Patrol... Juno First and Gyruss are way up there as well. Ms. Pac and Centipede have always been the old standbys with those of the fairer sex too.

 

With my wife its Frostbite. Christ on a crutch she's good at that game.

 

My wife can kick my ass in Q*Bert and Bubble Bobble in MAME. I'm considering getting her a vintage Q*Bert arcade cabinet for her Birthday... you know, for her.

 

-dZ.

[GrandviewCoin]

it also helps that she loves playing, and kicks ass on Moon Patrol.

I've known women that love Moon Patrol... Juno First and Gyruss are way up there as well. Ms. Pac and Centipede have always been the old standbys with those of the fairer sex too.

 

With my wife its Frostbite. Christ on a crutch she's good at that game.

 

My wife can kick my ass in Q*Bert and Bubble Bobble in MAME. I'm considering getting her a vintage Q*Bert arcade cabinet for her Birthday... you know, for her.

 

-dZ.

 

 

Yes Yes, I do say of course for HER!

[Rev]

it also helps that she loves playing, and kicks ass on Moon Patrol.

I've known women that love Moon Patrol... Juno First and Gyruss are way up there as well. Ms. Pac and Centipede have always been the old standbys with those of the fairer sex too.

 

With my wife its Frostbite. Christ on a crutch she's good at that game.

 

My wife can kick my ass in Q*Bert and Bubble Bobble in MAME. I'm considering getting her a vintage Q*Bert arcade cabinet for her Birthday... you know, for her.

 

-dZ.

 

If i could have one Arcade cabinet only, it would be Popeye. Even better would be a Popeye turned into a multicade! I told her before and she is cool with it. I actually had found an original good working Popeye locally for 425.00 but i didnt have the cash that week and it sold before i could get it.

[holygrailvideogames.com]

Trust me on this one.......

 

 

 

She almost had a heart attack and "smacked" me and said i was crazy and needed to sell it!!!

 

 

 

How much did you pay for Spiker?

 

Years ago when I first started collecting for Intellivision I saw a boxed Spiker on eBay for $100. I thought about it for about 30 seconds too long and it was gone. This was before the price sky rocketed.

[Rev]

Trust me on this one.......

 

 

 

She almost had a heart attack and "smacked" me and said i was crazy and needed to sell it!!!

 

 

 

How much did you pay for Spiker?

 

Years ago when I first started collecting for Intellivision I saw a boxed Spiker on eBay for $100. I thought about it for about 30 seconds too long and it was gone. This was before the price sky rocketed.

 

I paid 1,050 for it a few weeks ago, Then another one sold for 1,800 to someone else.

[cradelit]

That does sound a bit naive.

Hell I could make that deal with my wife right now... For all the good it would do me

 

Also, how come her hobbies have to be creative and substantive and yours don't?

All of my hobbies are creative and substantive. To me, a hobby should be a vehicle for one's own growth and development, not something to be passively enjoyed the way a cow enjoys the sunshine (which is what too many people often do). Ideally, I'd choose to be in a relationship with somebody who sees them the same way and is just as passionate as I am about finding those opportunities for self-improvement, even if the particular hobbies she chooses are different from my own. It's possible to achieve that even in classic computing and gaming: look here to see one of the ways I've done it.

 

But that wasn't really my point. I've just noticed that active participants in our little hobby often find themselves severely cutting back on their collections--or getting rid of them entirely--due to pressure from their spouses, especially among those who are newly married. I still think it's possible to avoid these areas of friction if both parties are willing to understand each other and negotiate before they make any long-term commitments.

Yeah, that was my point too (I was just kidding about the other part.. thus the winky face!)

I really don't think it is going to make much difference what "deals" you make going into marriage. The only one that matters is you are stuck with each other and you are both going to have to compromise. You'll just dissagree about what constitutes spending on your hobby and what time is appropriate for spending your X%, or your wife is going to save her X% because (enter whatever obligations come up that are more important to her than to you here) and is going to be bitter if you still spend yours, etc.

 

Basically, I think you are better off finding someone that you get along with in general and who values your opinions and your happiness than to try to force them to adhere to some sort of pre-nup contract about what you are allowed to spend your money on and trying to force them to stick to it. Also, if you marry someone who has a real career and understands what money means that should help too.

[rhindlethereddragon]

Trust me on this one.......

 

 

 

She almost had a heart attack and "smacked" me and said i was crazy and needed to sell it!!!

 

 

 

You don't have to tell your wife or girlfriend how much you've paid for anything, because it's none of their business.

[potatohead]

Well, in our house, the priority is the basics. Pay the bills, stuff some away for when we get old, etc... Above that, we decide what to do, and it's generally been a good thing. Sometimes she needs more money, sometimes I do, and if it's really important, we will work to do what it takes to make it happen.

 

The idea of selling something, just because it has value never really enters the discussion. Well, that's not true. The one time we really had trouble, big trouble, it was back to basics, priorities. Keep the people healthy, sheltered, fed, etc... first. There really is no material thing worth compromising that.

 

IMHO, the biggest thing is to marry with a match of basic values like this, and to think through the consequences of those values as a couple, before commit!

 

So, I could tell mine, and the response would be, "SCORE!!" and a high-five. No worries beyond that.

[Alex.Pace]

Trust me on this one.......

 

 

 

She almost had a heart attack and "smacked" me and said i was crazy and needed to sell it!!!

 

 

 

It is normal: the society teach us that wasting money in shoes, dresses and jewelry is normal and right. It is normal to waste 5000$ in a holiday. It is stupid to spend them in vintage videogames.

You should let her focus that the real waste is in the matters above: only jewelrly can be resold but at a much lesser price.

 

If you buy a Spiker today, be sure that if you resell it on 2020 you'll get surely a lot of money, much more than the price you spent.

 

Vintage rare videogames are a sure investment. They always go up in price as times passes, never down.

[jaybird3rd]

Vintage rare videogames are a sure investment. They always go up in price as times passes, never down.

... unless you're one of those people who spent $100+ on a sealed 2600 Motorodeo a few years ago, only to see them selling for $15 today because a whole bunch of them were discovered in Venezuela.

 

That's a special case, though, so I'd say that you're mostly correct, especially with later Intellivision games like Spiker! which were never produced in large quantities.

[Alex.Pace]

Vintage rare videogames are a sure investment. They always go up in price as times passes, never down.

... unless you're one of those people who spent $100+ on a sealed 2600 Motorodeo a few years ago, only to see them selling for $15 today because a whole bunch of them were discovered in Venezuela.

 

That's a special case, though, so I'd say that you're mostly correct, especially with later Intellivision games like Spiker! which were never produced in large quantities.

 

Well, I am quite sure that nobody will discover hundreds of keyboard component cassettes;)

Of course one must buy at correct price. 1800$ for spiker is too much.

[keilbaca]

it also helps that she loves playing, and kicks ass on Moon Patrol.

I've known women that love Moon Patrol... Juno First and Gyruss are way up there as well. Ms. Pac and Centipede have always been the old standbys with those of the fairer sex too.

 

With my wife its Frostbite. Christ on a crutch she's good at that game.

 

My wife can kick my ass in Q*Bert and Bubble Bobble in MAME. I'm considering getting her a vintage Q*Bert arcade cabinet for her Birthday... you know, for her.

 

-dZ.

 

 

Yes Yes, I do say of course for HER!

 

Have you ever seen Family Guy - Stewie's untold story? In the DVD version (not on TV), Peter gets Lois a Galaga machine for her birthday, then knocks her out of the way, out the window and he starts playing it.

[Atari_Bill]

Trust me on this one.......

 

 

 

She almost had a heart attack and "smacked" me and said i was crazy and needed to sell it!!!

 

 

 

If you buy a Spiker today, be sure that if you resell it on 2020 you'll get surely a lot of money, much more than the price you spent.

 

Vintage rare videogames are a sure investment. They always go up in price as times passes, never down.

 

I don't think that's a given. My bet is still that by 2020 pre NES games will be worth a fraction of today. Honestly, it's a crap shoot. Niether of us know for sure.

[Rex Dart]

If you buy a Spiker today, be sure that if you resell it on 2020 you'll get surely a lot of money, much more than the price you spent.

Vintage rare videogames are a sure investment. They always go up in price as times passes, never down.

I don't think that's a given. My bet is still that by 2020 pre NES games will be worth a fraction of today. Honestly, it's a crap shoot. Niether of us know for sure.

 

True.

The items will certainly become rarer as time goes on, but so will people who give a crap about such items.

[Alex.Pace]

If you buy a Spiker today, be sure that if you resell it on 2020 you'll get surely a lot of money, much more than the price you spent.

Vintage rare videogames are a sure investment. They always go up in price as times passes, never down.

I don't think that's a given. My bet is still that by 2020 pre NES games will be worth a fraction of today. Honestly, it's a crap shoot. Niether of us know for sure.

 

True.

The items will certainly become rarer as time goes on, but so will people who give a crap about such items.

 

I don't agree. Items become rarer and it is sure, but also collectors grow up. Just look the intellivision collecting situation from 2000 to today. Men spiker could be bought at 100$ in 2000, after 11 years it is over 1800$! I bought it at 800$ 3 years ago.

[Rex Dart]

I don't agree. Items become rarer and it is sure, but also collectors grow up.

 

Yes, and then they die.

[Alex.Pace]

I don't agree. Items become rarer and it is sure, but also collectors grow up.

 

Yes, and then they die.

 

I meant they become larger in number. I don't think intellivision collecting depends only by the fact that collectors owned an intellivision when they were children. Assuming this you couldn't explain people who collect old books, coins, stamps, etc..

[Rex Dart]

I meant they become larger in number. I don't think intellivision collecting depends only by the fact that collectors owned an intellivision when they were children. Assuming this you couldn't explain people who collect old books, coins, stamps, etc..

 

Man, NOTHING can explain stamp collectors. We've yet to see how interested the future is in old computer games, though. I could see it swinging either way.

[jaybird3rd]

I meant they become larger in number. I don't think intellivision collecting depends only by the fact that collectors owned an intellivision when they were children

I know that applies to me. I hadn't even seen an Intellivision until my early thirties, but now I own (among other things) a few consoles, an ECS Computer Adaptor and Music Synthesizer keyboard, and 94 original cartridges.

 

However, I already liked 8-bit game systems because I grew up with the Ataris, and the Intellivision intrigued me because it was something different from what I was used to. I wonder if younger people who grew up on the XBox can appreciate these older systems enough to want to collect them on their own ... or to take care of the things in our collections after we're gone.

[Alex.Pace]

I meant they become larger in number. I don't think intellivision collecting depends only by the fact that collectors owned an intellivision when they were children

I know that applies to me. I hadn't even seen an Intellivision until my early thirties, but now I own (among other things) a few consoles, an ECS Computer Adaptor and Music Synthesizer keyboard, and 94 original cartridges.

 

However, I already liked 8-bit game systems because I grew up with the Ataris, and the Intellivision intrigued me because it was something different from what I was used to. I wonder if younger people who grew up on the XBox can appreciate these older systems enough to want to collect them on their own ... or to take care of the things in our collections after we're gone.

 

anyway i want to build an intellivision museum, i don't want my thing scattered about the world. I made a lot of efforts to create a project, I want it survives me.

[Rev]

I would like to think that all this retro gaming stuff will hold some kind of value in 20 to 30 years and beyond. Espescially what is still working by then, How long were these roms supposed to last on the original games? At least there are backups now.

[Koopa64]

Personally, I think the usual suspects and commons across most vintage systems will retain or have their values degrade over the next decade and beyond. For at least a few more years I'm positive prices won't budge much online. Perhaps the only difference we'll see on the way to 2020 is 5th and 6th gen systems will have retro markets established for themselves better, akin to 8 and 16-bit systems right now. By 2020 the N64's rares and valuables will become more recognized and will be worth more and in general, more people will be after the popular titles, increasing their values as well. This happened with the SNES and PS1 over time, same thing will happen to the N64 soon enough and later the GameCube, Xbox and other systems like that.

[Atari_Bill]

If you buy a Spiker today, be sure that if you resell it on 2020 you'll get surely a lot of money, much more than the price you spent.

Vintage rare videogames are a sure investment. They always go up in price as times passes, never down.

I don't think that's a given. My bet is still that by 2020 pre NES games will be worth a fraction of today. Honestly, it's a crap shoot. Niether of us know for sure.

 

True.

The items will certainly become rarer as time goes on, but so will people who give a crap about such items.

 

I don't agree. Items become rarer and it is sure, but also collectors grow up. Just look the intellivision collecting situation from 2000 to today. Men spiker could be bought at 100$ in 2000, after 11 years it is over 1800$! I bought it at 800$ 3 years ago.

 

Believe me, I hope you're the one that's right here. It'd be nice if my collection actually had value in the future. It may be the pessimist in me, but I just don't see it happening.