He sums it up with dopamine rush. Every collector I have ever dealt with or seen in passing has an addictive personality or they are compensating for something else. I have a bunch of hardware and games but in the end I haven't paid anything, I have actually been paid for a hobby. One of the things I do when selling a piece of hardware is interview the person on their intent for said hardware. If I hear "are all the serials matching? Case/motherboard/box." I don't even respond, they most likely want to check off a box of having a fully original C64 boxed combo and they can go fuck themselves. The last one I sold (for 60 dollars US) was to a CS teacher who wanted real hardware to run programs on. He was having his students write games or software in emulation and thought it would be neat to run it on the real thing.
He sums it up with dopamine rush. Every collector I have ever dealt with or seen in passing has an addictive personality or they are compensating for something else. I have a bunch of hardware and games but in the end I haven't paid anything, I have actually been paid for a hobby. One of the things I do when selling a piece of hardware is interview the person on their intent for said hardware. If I hear "are all the serials matching? Case/motherboard/box." I don't even respond, they most likely want to check off a box of having a fully original C64 boxed combo and they can go fuck themselves. The last one I sold (for 60 dollars US) was to a CS teacher who wanted real hardware to run programs on. He was having his students write games or software in emulation and thought it would be neat to run it on the real thing.
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