Financially? Yes. SNES cartridges have outpaced the stock market for a decade.
You ignore the variant hunter. The variant hunter is a demon. Let’s be honest: Nobody is playing Wayne’s World (SNES) for fun. Nobody is beating Rise of the Robots because they enjoy it. snes full set
Spiritually? If you complete it... you get to stand in a room, look at 721 rectangles of plastic and silicon, and whisper: Financially
"I finally caught them all."
Logistically? No. You will run out of shelf space. You ignore the variant hunter
You are no longer buying games to play them. You are buying plastic obligations . You find yourself bidding $40 on a loose cartridge of Captain Novolin (a diabetes education game starring a super-powered diabetic). You drive 45 minutes to a pawn shop to buy Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon (a game about a microscopic surgeon killing cholesterol).
In the world of retro game collecting, there are casual fans with a dusty console and a copy of Super Mario World . Then, there are the obsessed—those who stare into the abyss of eBay, tracking numbers, and plastic shelf organizers. At the very peak of that obsession sits a mythical beast: The Full Set.