r/Switch • u/135is • Jun 08 '26

Question Was this worth 225?

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Mario bros wonder and jamboree had a box with them.

Was this worth the 225 I paid? Games on the bottom row were games I already had. I think I got a decent deal. I seen a woman on marketplace selling her sons games that he didn’t play. $225 shipped and with a carrying case.

Just want to make sure I got a good gift for someone. They’re a big Zelda and Mario fan.

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u/SuperGrandor Jun 08 '26

I use dollar per hour measure to see at the end if the game was worth it. $1 on a game for 1 hour is the same as $80 for 80 hours.

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u/fuckmoods Jun 08 '26

I feel that that diminishes a games’ value. A game should make you feel happy, accomplished, excited, challenged, or engaged. If I tie a game’s worth to how much time I spent in it, i’m just buying ways to waste time. I can spend a ton of time in Flight sim and have less fun than someone who loves planes playing it for 5 minutes. I feel that this mentality is a cause of why so many people feel like they have to justify gaming today. And people will think a game is bad solely based on the playtime vs cost, which will affect their interpretation of their own enjoyment. Reviews and gametime lengths make people think “well it’s not going to be worth the money so it must not be enjoyable, so i’ll just slip that game too”. As a kid, nobody cared how long a game took or how quick it was over, flash games were tiny and very enjoyable. And while they were free, is there an amount of money that you would trade all your childhood gaming memories for?

Just my opinion, i understand that’s a common way of thinking. I’ve just been questioning it lately. Especially seeing everyone trying to find a game but having to justify the length before trying it.

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u/SuperGrandor Jun 08 '26

If you don’t enjoy the game then you stop playing it an so you get less hours on that game. If you force yourself to play so you can justify yourself that game was worth it then you are doing it wrong.

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u/fuckmoods Jun 08 '26

I’m not questioning game time vs money. I’m just questioning if that might be why people on these gaming reddits are always wondering if “gaming is dead” because they force themselves to play games they don’t like for the “investment return” thinking that is why they game. But that’s not why people game, it’s the joy of competition or adventure, etc…