Nintendo Switch & Opportunity Cost
Welcome back to Free To Play, it's been a while, hasn't it? I stepped back from this series for a bit because I was burnt out on the topics and wanted to try something else for a while. For the most part in thi...
How Do Digital Releases Affect Retrogaming Prices?
Welcome back to Free to Play. In previous entries to this series I have examined both the law of supply and demand as well as digital downloads of classic games, but I've never looked deeper into how digital d...
What Fueled The Rapid Rise in Retro Gaming Prices?
The days of finding lots like this for $50 or less are gone.
Any retro gamer worth their salt is all too aware that lately the price of physical retro gaming hardware has taken off like a crystal meth power...
Free To Play: Game Genres and the Theory of Spontaneous Order
Hello and welcome back to Free To Play. During a chat with this site's chief, Aggro Sky (aka Z), I made an offhand comment about spontaneous order and games to which he had to almost hit me over the head with t...
The Retrogaming Boom, A New Gaming Crash & Business Cycle Theory
Welcome back to Free To Play. I'm a proud retrogamer and a game collector, but lately it's become a chore to collect retro games. I don't possess the kneejerk reaction against emulation that so many retro gamer...
Nintendo And Market Niche
With the news that Nintendo turned a rather nice profit in the last quarter, I had planned a quick rant article about how Nintendo was doing right by being different. However, it occurred to me that I could go...
Call of Duty: Milton Ops or Why Call of Duty Proves The Market Works
"A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the f...
Let’s-A-Go!! Nintendo Says Goodbye to Brazil: A Free Market Analysis
Hello and welcome back to another Free To Play. I normally don't write these articles this frequently but the support you all gave on the last edition was mind-blowing, and a topic came up that I simply had to...
NES Collecting & The Law of Supply & Demand
Hello, and welcome to a new edition of Free To Play. Until now, I've used examples from games that correlate with libertarian philosophy, but today, I'm trying something different. The next few Free To Plays wi...