I want to understand how swapping the box affects the item’s overall condition rating and scarcity value

disclosing the full truth might lower the resale price and make it harder to sell

Games are meant to be played, not hoarded like some financial asset. Play it and enjoy it, or make it look nice if you’re putting it in a display. Fuck what other people might think, enjoy it for yourself!

Pokémon was my first emulator experience, being able to fast forward and save at will was a huge upgrade. Now I think about it I do sometimes still play on original hardware for fun though!

Oh to have the time for a true authentic experience of every game, I’d love to but I’ve got more games to play than time to play them!

Well I guess we’d consider it artificial by today’s standards. If a modern game tried to claim their game contained X hours worth of content but really you could complete it in much less if it didn’t keep making you repeat parts then we’d judge it much more harshly. Obviously not entirely fair to judge a much older game the same way though!

It is my first time playing it, but I’m definitely nowhere near completing it in an hour! I guess it’s just how games were made longer back in the day, I imagine if I played it repeatedly I’d eventually get quite quick at the bits I knew.

I’m currently playing Quackshot on the Mega Drive, there’s no way of resuming that I can see. I managed to complete the first half in a few hours but the difficulty is really ramping up!

Yep, I’m very much experiencing the artificial lengthening of a game through some absolute troll level design sending me all the way back to the start

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