Busting Wax

Besides being an avid card collector, I also spend a lot of my free time playing video games. Not surprisingly, the two hobbies have some overlap — there’s a group of people who collect video games. There are rare versions of Nintendo games worth thousands of dollars. A mint copy of Final Fantasy III for the Super Nintendo (unopened, of course!) will fetch a pretty penny on eBay.

I, myself, don’t really collect games. I’ve got a couple old games I’ve held on to for nostalgia’s sake, but they’re not worth much. I don’t see the purpose of buying a game I don’t intend on playing.

But today, over at Joystiq, I saw a collision of two of my hobbies I’m not exactly comfortable with — graded video games:

I personally don’t mind graded cards. They have a place in our hobby, especially with vintage cards, for archival purposes. But graded games? That doesn’t jive with me.

Do. Not. Want.