Flak Beard wrote:elvis wrote:REPO Man wrote:B) To buy all the original carts of these games would costs far more than the compilation, since many of them are hard to come by.
Like what?
Sonic, Columns, Shinobi, Streets of Rage - these are all $3-5 on eBay.
The PS2 Genesis Collection was $20 and it had 28 Genesis titles. That's roughly 71 cents a game. Actual carts or not, that can't be beat.
The games also look better on my PS2. The Genesis didn't have s-video (without modding) and outputted natively in 320x240.
I agree with Flak Beard, but I can see where others are coming from. But you have to admit that at least $3 a cart, times 30, would cost at least $90, and that's just assuming that each game is only $3, but considering that many of the games are quite hard to find (some), they'd cost more. So... a $20-30 compilation is a savings of at least $60!
But with carts, they're only worth it if they can't be found in any other form. Like, for example, with the PSP Genesis Collection, I don't need to shell out upwards to $50-100 for Phantasy Star 4. I mean, sure there's some issues with the screen (I have an old Model 1000 PSP), but for the mere price of $15, it's a non-issue.
But nowadays, owning the carts and playing them on their native console is a luxury, at least compared to such mediums as the Wii's Virtual Console, commercially available compilations, and so on.
But don't get me wrong, cuz nothing beats the real thing.
