/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1272165
This.
>mfw 3 is my favorite NES Mega Man game

>Shouldn't they reflect both supply and demand?
I think the problem here is that people who complain about Earthbound prices (or any other high priced game) don't understand what "supply" actually means. It's not the total number of cartridges that exist, it's the total number of cartridges that owners are willing to part with. Because there are a large number of owners of Earthbound cartridges who are not willing to part with their copies, like myself, it makes the supply much lower than the number of existing cartridges. And 150,000 copies in North America, while not a terribly low number, still makes if much rarer than other "unpopular at the time JRPG's" like Final Fantasy 6, at 860,000 copies, and Chrono Trigger, at 290,000 copies, both games of which also command higher than average prices for SNES games.

tldr: Yes, Earthbound cartridges are actually worth $200. Deal with it. If you don't want to spend so much money on actual cartridges but still want to play on the real system, get an SD2SNES.

>>1111428
Supply and Demand. It may not be a rare game, but the demand for it is much higher than the supply and people who have the game don't want to give them up unless they can make some money off of it. It's the exact same reason why Final Fantasy 7 is so expensive even though there's over 10 million units sold of the game.