/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5828635
>>5831530

The whole speculation and investor market on sealed/graded/first print/launch edition games is just a meme by ignorant boomers coming from other fatigued collecting scenes like comics and toys and their just playing a game of financial hot potato

>>5546718
In my area NES and SNES has really slowed down. A game store near me has the most NES games they've had in years, and it's not moving. There's even rare/uncommon stuff in there, Action 52, Dusty Diamonds, Power Blade, Kickmaster, Mega mans, and they've been there for months now. 2 or maybe 3 years ago though? Those games would have sold in only a day or two tops.

I was selling a bunch of snes doubles I got in a lot, stuff like Contra III, Mario Kart, Turtles in Time, some shooters, sports too etc. You want to know what the very last games that I still had left over at the end of the day that didn't sell? No, it wasn't the cheap sports games, it wasn't the more pricier rare/uncommon games, it wasn't weird $5-$10 games, no. It was the fucking Mario titles. Mario Kart, Mario All stars, Mario world. Nobody wanted them. Weird how the classic, sought after, must have games on the system were the ones people didn't seem to want. Considering how common those are I guess you could only sell Super Mario World only so many times before eventually everyone who wants it probably has it. This was already last year but I still found that very interesting. I think with the NES/SNES classics out normies realize there's other way to play these games besides tracking down old carts and paying out the ass for them. Emulater boxes like raspberry pi or whatever probably contribute to that too. Sellers probably have a harder time convincing people to buy original hardware and original games; why would a normie want to pay $100+ for just a snes and mario world, and then have to find and pay at least $20-$50 for EACH of the other worthwhile games (and worry about aging hardware dying) when they could just buy a cute lil emulator box that has 30 games in one, and they can easily hook it up to their HDTV in their living room? I think for most people that's probably good enough.

I'll just leave this here