Well, I kinda see it as preserving a legacy. How many originally
shrinked versions of a game will be around in fifty years?
Yeah, of course I understand this view. :) I'd much rather preserve the
whole package though. I like to make scans of the contents for instance,
which is rather hard when
Thanks for the link Lee. I'll try to educate myself in
the Atari in the next couple of days.
About the shrink discussion, I think people have to
find the right balance that works best for themselves.
I'm helplessly torn between the two positions: I love
to preserve games in the original wrap -
Lee K. Seitz wrote:
Yeah, and these discussions have a very familiar ring to them. I was
going to go back and look at our discussion, but discovered the
archive only goes back to late January 2003. I didn't realize we were
losing access to messages as we went along. Glad I'm saving some of
Per-Olof Karlsson wrote:
Well, I kinda see it as preserving a legacy. How many originally
shrinked versions of a game will be around in fifty years?
Yeah, of course I understand this view. :) I'd much rather preserve the
whole package though. I like to make scans of the contents for instance,
There's nothing wrong with being a long message bastard as you put it,
and you voice some very valid points.
Wrap: Since I reshrinked many items myself while working at Babbage's
and Egghead in the late 1980s/early 1990s, I can spot re-wrapped items
from miles away. So I always tear off
Jim Leonard stated:
Also, any comic book collectors on this list: What happened to the
market? I collected Alan Moore books in the 1980s as they came out, and
in the early 1990s they were worth more than $20 a book. Now I couldn't
get more than $1-$2 apiece for them... Did something happen
