Posted By:
Greg EcklundRichard,
As someone who grew up on Nintendo and is still a video gamer, I can definitely see the reasoning behind your video game investment. I still have almost all of my old Nintendo games and continue to buy new ones when I discover a good game that I may have missed when I was a kid.
One caveat however, is that the new discs used by the current systems have huge capacities, and it would be relatively easy for Nintendo to release a compilation disc of all their classic games for their new systems. Capcom recently did this with their Mega Man series, releasing a compilation of the NES Mega Man games (along with Mega Man 7 for SNES and Mega Man 8 for PS1) for PS2, GameCube, and XBox. I have all the NES Mega Man, but I tried the new version on my GameCube, and all the games still play just like they do on the old system. The release of that compilation disc has caused prices for Mega Man NES games to come down substantially from where they were on EBay a few years ago.
There will certainly be people that will pay premiums for the original box and cartridge, but the collections of classic games are something to watch out for.