5 Grand for a SNES?!

[JoeNewberry]

I've never understood buying games just to keep them in the box. On the one hand, I like the idea of preserving a perfect boxed copy for posterity, but video games are meant to be played. If I spent 5000 dollars for my SNES, I'd feel the urgent need to actually use it to justify that price. I can't imagine paying that and then putting it behind glass just to look at.

I theorize these auctions also drive up the prices of loose games for the rest of us. Sellers assume that if a single boxed Tiny Toons game sells for 100 dollars, the loose copy must be worth at least 20 or 30.