Comment by bluescrn

> There will soon be a market for pre-microtransactions games.

It's already too late to get into the hobby of collecting retro games/hardware. eBay prices have been shooting upwards for a good few years already.

Thankfully, the classics are well-preserved via emulation (and in some cases, FPGA recreations of older hardware). But there's an ever-increasing number of games that simply aren't able to be preserved due having no access to server-side components, and many others lost from the early days of mobile gaming (e.g. 32-bit iOS games from before F2P took over), with no way to run them on modern hardware and no emulation solutions yet, even if the games themselves have survived somewhere.