Vintage baseball cards, antique coins and rare comic books, originally bought for pennies, now regularly sell for millions of dollars, sending enthusiasts in pursuit of the next hot collectible: retro video games.
Collectors have been able to quickly flip the most coveted titles, making thousands of dollars in profit and fueling concerns of unsustainable hype.
One collector, Donald Brock Jr., who runs the website Columbia Comics , said he had spent about $50,000 buying vintage video games since his first purchase in March. One sealed N.E.S. game cost nearly $1,500. He had its condition graded, and then sold it for more than $12,000.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Atari to open hotels with restaurants in Chicago and seven U.S. cities - Eater Chicago
Chicago is one of eight U.S. cities that will get a hotel branded by Atari , the beloved American-born video game maker, a news release announces . Details are scarce, but construction should begin this year on the first location in Phoenix, Arizona. The hotels will include fine dining restaurants and arcade bars, according to Fortune .
The company has yet to release the addresses of any of the hotel sites and an Atari spokesperson didn't return a message for comment. So it's not a guarantee the Chicago location will be within the city's borders. Maybe there's a proper parcel in suburban Rosemont.
The Best E-Rated Video Games That Your Family Can Play Together
Five video games you can feel good about buying for your kids | The Seattle Times
I love my child more than anything in the world, but her taste in video games leaves a lot of room for improvement. Of course, that’s partly the old man in me that considers the things I liked growing up to be better than the things kids enjoy today. Even with that understanding of my bias, I still look at the games my kid plays and cringe.
With that in mind, here are a handful of video game experiences you can feel good buying for your kids that avoid such pitfalls and are just good for the sake of being good. And as a bonus, my kid enjoyed them, too.
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Atari to open immersive, video game-themed hotels in 8 cities | Fox Business
Gamer World News Entertainment host 'Captain' Rob Steinberg discusses the U.S. Army's use of video games for recruitment and slumping game sales in the final months of 2019.
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On Monday, Atari announced it has plans to open video game-themed hotels in eight cities across the U.S., including Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Texas, and San Jose, Calif.
The Phoenix location is set to be the first location to break ground later this year, according to a press release .
What Video Games Get Right About Motivation | Psychology Today
What to know about what you don't know you know. #1: Intuition is very efficient—if you don't overthink it.
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People who are extremely old like me, born at a time when a typical class would begin with the teacher saying, "All right, students. Take out your cuneiform scroll and let's practice writing the 12 letters of our alphabet," tend to think of video games as a waste of time.
While I won't disagree that some games have very little intrinsic value, the days of spinning a circular joystick to move a dash up and down a screen and hit a square back and forth with an opponent are long over. According to a recent article in the journal American Psychologist, "video games provide youth with immersive and compelling social, cognitive, and emotional experiences.
A Dystopian, David Lynch-Inspired Video Game That Leaves Its Meaning Up to You
Of all the video games to come out of the blossoming in the independent development scene over the past decade, none breach the old preconceptions of how a game looks, feels, or plays like Kentucky Route Zero . Developed by Cardboard Computer, the game began to unfold with the release of its first “act” in 2013, and it’s now hitting the end of that road, with the fifth and final act due out today after a long delay.
Kentucky Route Zero Act V, as well as the TV Edition (the full version of the game for consoles), are now available for various platforms.
Classic Video Games Turn Into Collectibles | PYMNTS.com
Here's a truth about human beings: We'll collect — and resell and profit from — just about anything. And the latest big trend in collectibles combines what amounts to a hat-tip to essentially ancient digital culture with up-to-date eCommerce.
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The general idea, of course, is to buy low and sell high, or, in the words of the report, "quickly flip the most coveted titles, making thousands of dollars in profit and fueling concerns of unsustainable hype. Collectors say that multiple gold copies of Nintendo World Championships — only 26 were distributed, making it one of the rarest N.E.S. games — have reached the six-figure threshold in private sales."
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