Why do you collect artworks?

[Nic 68]

Simple question. What makes you collect artworks?

My line: artists had to make desirable a game on the shelf of a shop. Had to add what limited hardware couldn’t tell. Had to express, expand, flourish what designers, programmers and all the staff built, exploiting our imagination. Being able to own and touch the original art made for all of the above for me was unbelievable when I first began the hobby and today is like the top of a climax of the archaic true video game culture and media collecting and preserving. (Please forgive the usual bad English)

[Ibrahim_UK 88]

The initial reason I started to collect ovga is that my journey in the video game scene was all but complete. I had all the games, store displays, kiosks and competition items I wanted and felt there was nothing left for me to collect. It was a sad feeling as I lost that nostalgic feeling and rush when acquiring a new piece.
When my eyes opened to ovga, the rush and nostalgia returned more strongly than ever. Today I collect for similar reasons to what you pointed to @Nic

[Sanford_US 82]

I never know where to start my response to this question, but now I'd probably say: opportunity. I love the art and I enjoy watching my art collection grow. But some days I am just in awe that this art is available at all. So when I say "opportunity" I sometimes ask myself, how could I not? Or, what would I rather do: keep xyx non-game art item in my collection or sell that and gain a piece of art? Every time I frame it like that, I want more art.

But what caught my interest was a bit of what Ibrahim described. I collected games but felt I was "done" or had it all. So I had lost interest a bit. Art re-sparked that interest and as someone who was always "hunting" for games, art gave me the same thrill to research and collect. Game art is kind of in its infancy (compared to say where sealed and graded games are) and I'm glad to be a part of an early effort like OVGA to share and document these works.

 

 

[Bronty 65]

I knew a bit about art from having collected comics and having read discussions about comic art, but with a couple minor exceptions had never really collected comic art.     I saw Adam list some things for sale back in 2007 and so I bought three pieces of box art from him then, all of which I still own (ren&stimpy time warp, mechanized attack, and battletoads in battlemaniacs).   I worried about whether I had made a bad decision initially, but once the art actually arrived I immediately on sight knew I’d be collecting more as the scale, color and detail in person were so much better than I could have ever imagined.      
 

At the end of the day, I still collect for the same reasons, mostly.    The scale and quality of the artwork makes, to me, other game related collectibles seem totally inadequate in comparison.