Rare Games and Their Collectors

simtastic writes "John Szczepaniak in his article, Obscurity Below the Radar, exposes the underground world of buying, selling, stealing and acquiring rare, one-of-a-kind, and non-public games and gaming hardware. From the article: 'Oftentimes, such groups run the risk of the law, yet still dedicate their lives to the acquisition and recording of things. In trying to uncover this secret realm, I was graciously granted access to some of the more high profile members, including the head of one such community. A renowned American gentleman who wishes to be known only as ASSEMbler, he tells us a little of himself and also the nature of such undocumented people ...'"

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Re:Is Assembler my old roommate?

[rAiNsT0rm]

You made absolutely NO sense with your response. The Gameboy Light is very rare in the US... that would classify it as RARE, like I originally said. All I was saying is that I wasn't talking about the afterburner GBA mod.. but the original Japanese gameboy backlight.

You then go on to snip my reply to make it seem as if I was talking solely about my videogame collection, when clearly I stated in the sentence you FORGOT to include that my collection includes many rare, unreleased, demo, beta, and other titles and items.

Then you actually quote "On at least 10 occasions I had to go to the pawn shop with police and get my stuff back during the course of my freshman year." and state I shoudl have called the cops... ummm, no shit Dick Tracy. I DID.

You seem to think that the average inner-city pawn shop gives a flying fuck about legality... newsflash! they don't! They care about making money and they gave a lame excuse each and every time to the police and nothing was done about it.