Most PC gamers are looking for cheap deals on RTX 4090s right now. Personally, it’s the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro I’ve got alerts set up for. A 19-year-old graphics card with a total of 128MB of memory, and one that some sellers are trying to ask a grand for. And I’ll tell you for why: firstly, because retro PC gaming is an absolute living nightmare. And secondly, because sellers know that scarcity and specificity let them set their own prices.
The idea’s simple enough: buy a machine from a particular year from PC gaming’s storied past, and
