Re:Some thoughts on the $660k copy of Super Mario Bros
by famicomblog on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:55PM
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Author here. Anybody can drop a copy of SMB in "a" toilet, but nobody can drop one in mine. No more can or will be produced.
Of course, nobody wants a copy of SMB that has been dropped in my toilet, but my point wasn't that people are going to suddenly start collecting toilet copies of SMB, but rather that nobody was particularly interested in something as arbitrarily defined as the "highest graded, sealed, hangtab version" of SMB either until someone created a narrative that convinced them it was worth something.
Of course, nobody wants a copy of SMB that has been dropped in my toilet, but my point wasn't that people are going to suddenly start collecting toilet copies of SMB, but rather that nobody was particularly interested in something as arbitrarily defined as the "highest graded, sealed, hangtab version" of SMB either until someone created a narrative that convinced them it was worth something.