Maybe it is the market, just being completely over-saturated in games/vinyl/toys/etc of anything imaginable, to prices, to the amount of effort it takes to secure things how companies produce them.
This is directed at the retro gaming community as a whole:
Your life isn't going to be any worse because you didn't pre-order some tacky collectors edition of re-release of a game that has been around for 30 years, some new indie retro throwback or some goofy ass toy. That's the worst thing that all these little boutique publishers have done to the hobby. FOMO pre-ordering because everything is limited, embarrassing collector editions full of junk, games that don't even deserve a physical release half the time. Shit most of the desirable games actually get a budget physical release through regular publishers.
How many times have people rushed to pre-order a new retro game only to have to wait a year while it gets a normal release earlier?
Sure it's a bummer to miss out on some cool stuff sometimes but the worst case scenario is that you just buy it digitally, shit if you're patient buy it digitally on sale for pennies on the dollar. Having some exclusive crazy mega-deluxe SE version of a game doesn't make the game any better, in fact it just makes you less likely to actually play the game because you don't want to fuck with the packaging or keep it sealed.
Shit, look at Stealthlurker (RIP) dude's gone and his family is still getting crazy shit in the mail he pre-ordered 2 years ago.
I've been through all this bullshit with games, toys, records etc. Once you realize how ridiculous it is and how little any of this shit actually matters it's easy to keep shit in check.
Buy something you know you're really going to like and enjoy the fuck out of it instead of obsessing over all the shit you don't have or whatever is coming out next. There's only so much time anyways, what is the end goal of the hobby? Owning as much cool shit as possible that you never even used just to show other dorks on the internet? Buying mediocre games to bloat your collection? Pre-ordering yet another game even though you have a decades worth of unplayed shit? Fuck all that.
Next time you think you need to buy something... don't. Instead go to your shelves and get down something you've been meaning to play for god knows how long and sit down and actually play it.
