I was watching some YouTube, trying to find some forgotten gems from retro systems. I ran into one about the Jaguar and decided to watch it.

Well, the fellow said a lot of the games were great, and I was kind of curious about that because I don’t think it’s controversial to say there’s only a handful of decent games on the Jag, but this fellow was rating everything highly.

Later on I sat down to think about it and I realized something… after every game the fellow would say “Oh, and you can get it for about $XX.XX.”

At that point the light-bulb went off and I realized this fellow is probably deriving enjoyment from collecting the Jaguar games, not playing them. To him, if he buys a game, plays it for a few minutes to make sure it works, it’s probably a winner for him.

For me, who is getting Jaguar games from uhhhh a friend, I don’t care about collecting them, I just want some fun stuff to play.

Anyway, I learned my lesson: I’ll believe non-collectors’ opinions more than collectors because they are mostly concerned with gameplay instead of how it looks on the shelf, or how rare and difficult it was to acquire.

P.S. I don’t know how “hot” of a take this is, but I figure it’ll probably hurt the feelings of collectors, so that’s why I prefixed it.