and maybe you can start moving into being a sealed snob
I hate sealed games.
They just...defeat the whole purpose of games. I have no problem with people seeking CIB/mint games with all the inserts and whatnot. Atleast the games are opened and you can actually play them. But a sealed game is...sealed. If you've never looked inside, how do you know that the cart (or what you
think is a cart) is a cart of the actual game of the box it's in? Or that it works? The truth is that you can't know 100% because nobody has ever opened it and looked inside.
I found a sealed PSone game at my local flea market about a month ago (not
that special, I know) and not for a second was I thinking about leaving it sealed. I wouldn't even leave a 25 year old sealed game sealed. Especially if it's that old, I'd still want to open it and see what's actually inside. It's like a small trip to the past, you know. Opening a sealed NES game now would (for just a moment) transport you back to when NES games were still being sold and when people were still opening them. It's like going back in time. (
)
To some extent I can understand people who collect sealed action figures. Those usually come in see-through boxes so you can
atleast look at the doll and know that it's there.
But a sealed NES/SNES/Atari game is just money down the drain imo.
(Please don't take this too seriously because obviously I realise that a sealed game will never loose its value so it's not
really money down the drain seeing you can always sell it for the same amount or even more)
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