Is the Golden Age of Retro Game Collecting Over?

Once a console manufacturer is getting ready to launch its next console, it does everything it possibly can to liquidate any old stock of hardware and games. It is at that point the console is on borrow time. The moment they stop making the console its at that point the console is considered a retro machine. Of course you will still be able to buy the equipment for most likely a year after its final manufacturing date.

So as of now the Playstation 3, the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360 I would considered as being retro and surprisingly also the best time to acquire any of those games you missed first time around.

The trouble is collecting games for any console older than these 3 is nothing short of a nightmare.

Any console from the 1980s is impossible to find working units or games that arent already in the hands of collectors, and those machine you find up for sale are not the pristine units you would hope to find.

Any console from the 1990s has an unrealistic price tag associated with it and it was during this boom era that console and gaming started to impact on other forms of media.

Any console from the 2000s would have already been snapped up by collectors already, as Im certain that during this decade the savvy collector would have kept hold of any games or consoles worth keeping. For instance a good quality Gamecube is proving to be very hard, and the good games are impossible to find.