/vr/ - Retro Games

I got a complete copy of the original JP release of Persona on the PS1 for $12 two years ago. Biggest manual I've ever seen on a PS1 game.

Nothing major. Ogre Battle 64, Zelda 64, and superman 64 for free from people who didn't want N64 stuff anymore.

>79 NES games
>NESclone
.Jaguar
>4 games
>TI-99/4a games for some reason
>Big rats nest of Atari and TI controllers

Two months ago at a flea market.
>PCE GT hanging in a stall
>R-Type in the cart slot
>How much?
>$50
>Oh well. Maybe it has some useable parts
>Pull 6 AA batteries out of the battery sack I always carry to flea markets, insert, turn on. lights but blank screen
>No dead pixels at least
>Turn off, re-seat cart, turn on
>R-Type.
>Check controls and dials
>All great but no sound
>Hold my ear to it and adjust sound dial. Still nothing
>Vendor sees what I'm doing
>Problem?
>No sound
>How about $30?
>Seems a bit steep but since you seem like such a nice guy...
How much do you think I can get for this on ebay?

>>1348280
You forgot the Power Pad.

>>1348209
Bet the girl forced the guy to sell his games.

Im in a new town, go to look at the local thrift shops;
>2 dozen pc games
>10 movies on vhs
all for $4

Not exactly /vr/ but almost there,
>Way of the Samurai, Valkyrie Profile 2, Grandia Xtreme, Zone of the Enders 2, Dynasty Warriors 4, 5, Xtreme Legends 4, 5, Ace Combat 5 and Zero, Timesplitters 2, all CIB for 23 dollars off of gamestop like two days ago.

but the best has to be:
>Mega man X, X2, X3 and Soccer for 60 bucks

>>1348214
>Biggest manual I've ever seen on a PS1 game.

That's actually says something. I hate modern manuals, just a folded piece of paper with nothing but warnings and copyright info.

I bought a PS1 game yesterday and it brought back a bunch of feels. I can't articulate it all but games used to seem so much more engrossing. The immersion started in the backseat of your parents car on the way home from the store, reading the back-story, character bios, weapon descriptions and stuff. Scrutinizing every screenshot. Your imagination filling in the blanks.

>>1348380
Probably. I've seen some girl friends/wives do crazy shit. My uncles wife made him sell all of his shit. He used to collect model cars, hotwheels, comics and retro vidya. I remember before I actually started collecting and not long after he got with her, I bought him Uninvited off of eBay. After a couple of years with her, she had him sell everything. He used to be my vidyabro.

>>1349046
This x100. I used to love reading the manuals on the way home. Still remember reading Bionic Commando, SMB2 and SMB3 in the backseat.

>>1349046
91 pages on this beast.

>>1349869
Step it up, Japan.

The US Persona 1 manual is only about 50 pages

>>1349889
I wish I still had my copy of Eternal Blue. I sold the whole thing for $80 back in 2004, because I was hard up for cash. Looking back on it, I wish I'd gone hungry for a while, instead.

my earthbound poster. definitely my rarest item.

>>1349960
Was this promotional?

>>1349973
it was promotional. game stores hung them in their windows, almost all the posters are gone now.

>went to a flea market with my friend Tom looking for a SNES
>look around for an hour or two
>find a few different people selling a SNES
>they all want $60
>find a guy who wants $35
>turn over SNES
>huge hole in the bottom of the console
>go home empty handed
>depressed
>tell another friend my sad story
>"that sucks man, but I got something in my car for you"
>goes into car and grabs a copy of Ice Hockey for NES
>well at least I got something
>go back to my friend Tom's place
>he disappears for a few minutes
>comes back and says "I couldn't find my SNES but you can have all this stuff."
>hands me an NES with about 6 games, an N64 with 4 games, Majora's Mask in box, DK64 in box, Megaman X, and Kirby Super Star
>I'm so happy I could die
>later that night we go meet up with a different friend
>he gets in the car and says "hey anon, do you have a Super Nintendo? I found mine the other day and I'm never gonna play it. You can have it if you want"
>holy shit this is the best day of my life
>go to work the next day and tell a co-worker about my awesome day
>"Do you have a Dreamcast? You can have mine if you want"
>The next day I worked with him he brought in a backpack that contained a Dreamcast and a cd book with about 30 Dreamcast games.
>he even gave me the backpack.


TL;DR in the span of 3 days I received an NES, a SNES, an N64, a Dreamcast, and about 40 games for free from 4 different people.

>Accidentally click on /vr/ instead of /v/ one day
>Learn that retro gaming is a cash cow industry that is going through inflation
>Bubble hasn't burst on retro games yet
>Locate retro store in nearby town
>Go in, scope the place out, take down some numbers
>Go home
>Check ebay
>Numbers are comparable, even factoring in shipping and handling
>Wait a month
>Return to store
>after hours, break in with a garbage bag and commit smash and grab
>Consoles are a die a dozen, grab games as quickly as possible
>return home
>Wait another month
>Begin selling them on ebay about 5$ under the normal selling price
>Faggots jump at them thinking they are getting a steal of a deal
>Crime never gets traced back to me
Damn it feels good to be a gangster

Here's my two favourite deals:
PS2 DTL-H30002 (Debugger) complete with a copy of Vice City, iToy, and a controller. Paid £50.00 (about 80.00$) for the lot, and it was well worth it, considering that it's regionless, and I'd been after one for a while.

Got a bag filled with the following for £7.00 (about 11.50$): Gamecube with some batman game in it (no wires), Sega Master System complete with a controller and light gun, a SCPH-1002 PS1 (no wires), a Dreamcast (no wires), Micro Machines for GBC, and a few other little bits and pieces.

Can't be bothered taking pictures right now, as it's 03:36am. Might do it tomorrow, if I have any spare time.

>>1348339
>How much do you think I can get for this on ebay?
Reseller scum.

>>1350406
My bad: Eyetoy*

>>1349960
You need to scan that

By far my best find
$35 at an estate sale. The lady selling it was at least 60

>>1350326
>mah trollanz, let me show you them

>>1348339
Did you buy the game to play it? Or to flip it?

If the latter, you do realize that behavior is seen as cancerous, is highly frowned upon in /vr/, and will get you labeled as reseller scum

>>1350886
>If the latter, you do realize that behavior is seen as cancerous, is highly frowned upon in /vr/, and will get you labeled as reseller scum

If you try to sell games at all for around their going price you're branded a reseller.

If you're not spending your own money to hand games out to some people for free, they'll call you reseller scum.

This is why I'll never bother to sell any of my stuff here.

I was at a resale shop about 10 years ago. a guy walked in with a basically brand new NES, with the gun and R.O.B. the deluxe set, in box, mint. They went through his stuff and offered him $20 or $30 store credit. I walked over to him while he was browsing and said "turn down their offer and I will give you $50 cash. He said sure. this NES still has the plastic and the manuals, if it was graded it would be 95 or better and R.O.B. works.

>>1350890
I've been talking to a guy through email for a little while now. I was selling some stuff on CL and he responded defensively saying that I "shouldn't use eBay as a price guide" ect. ect. What I was selling is going for around $45-$50. I usually start out around the eBay price because almost instantly, I get haggled. I don't mind dropping the price but even if I had $20 on it, someone would still ask "Would you take $15?". Anyway, we talk through email for a good while and I notice on FB he's selling a couple of games that he told me he got in a deal with a top loader for $20.
>Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers loose
$10
>Gauntlet 2 CIB
$30
I think it's funny that he feels that others who use eBay to get a rough starting price shouldn't yet he can charge over eBay prices, at least in the case of Gauntlet 2 and that's alright.

>Friend moving
>Friend: "Hey man, you want some free stuff?"
>Me: "Yeah ok cool"
>TG16
>TG16CD (With a gear problem, but fixable)
>Turbotap
>Saturn
>PS1
>Slim PS2
>Jaguar + 2 crap games
>Genesis
>Boxed VMU
>GCN mic
>Starfire light gun
>Guncon 2
>Was offered a ROB too, but didn't take it because that would just be robbery

>>1349960

good idea, just need to find a big enough scanner

>>1350890
I'm going to assume you didn't read the first question

There's nothing wrong with selling games; however when you buy games for the sole purpose of reselling, that's when it becomes a dick move

>>1348209
>What's your best get?
i got 500m on /b/

>>1350306
>cool story bro, everyone is a hipster now.

>>1351834
oh yeah? and what was it?

My friend and I went to a thrift shop two days ago. There were a ton of consoles in the back, but in the 'employees only' part. So we go to the front and look at the games in the glass case, where he picks up Contra and Super Contra for $3 a piece. The lady there asks if we knew about their consoles, and we asked when they're going to be put out. She tells us to to talk to the guy in charge of that section (home and gardening for some reason). He wants to get rid of the shit, and says it's $5 for the console, $2.50 per cord, and $5 per controller. That section happened to be half off that day, so I walked away with a working XBox, NES, and Dreamcast for $14. The next (yesterday, not half off), I got a XBox (this time with broken disc drive) N64 (working), and PS2 for $31. He told us to come back Sunday after he's weeded some stuff out and he'll sell us the rest for one price. (At first he offered everything they had for $150, so it'll probably be less than that considering how much sells.) So Wednesday we're going to weed out a little more, and either then or Sunday I'm looking to get the two Gamecubes they have, the Game Gear, and my friend wants the Atari 2600, and we're going to go halfsies on the 20 or so Xboxes they have and the 8 or so PS2s. I didn't even get to see everything they had, so aside from the plethora of controllers and games I did see, there might be a lot more worthwhile stuff to come.

>walked into a retro video game store
>went over to the rare game case
>Snatcher for the Sega CD is sitting in there
>asked the owner what he wanted for the game
>says it's $110
>mention that I unfortunately don't have a Sega CD
>the owner offers me a free Sega CD if I buy Snatcher
>mfw I get home and play my first Sega CD game

I also wound up going back later and buying Lunar 1, 2, and Shining Force CD from that store for $20 each.

>Be 14 years old me
>This chick who used to study with me had Super Mario RPG, Super Mario All Stars + Super Mario World and other rare snes games
>I DESIRED them
>There's a big english test coming up soon
>Chick asks me for help
>"I'll give you anything, ANYTHING"
>Daaaaayyyuuuumm
>I help her study in her house for a week
>Last day, we're alone in her room
>"So, Anon, what do you want in exchange?"
>"SNES GAMES"
>B-but I thought...
>"GAEMS"
>mfw later I understood she wanted the D
>I regret nothing

>>1353647
Son im disappoint. You just missed out on a great opportunity to have a awesome girlfriend who would play videogames with you and blow you too! You faggot!

Go to videotron store (in quebec), look into their tiny tiny old games area, see the usual crap, sports games and boring titles. And then Secret of Mana, for 8$.

Guy at the counter tells me good choice, rings it up, bags it up and wishes me a good time.

>friend still living with his parents, as I do
>his mom hates 'stuff'
>he's worried she'll one day just give away his playstation things like she did with his nes, snes and bunch of top games
>gives me his ps2, 2 controllers, 2 guns, several memory cards, all his ps1 and ps2 games
>also a Panasonic Q
>muh dik

>>1353678
How long ago was this?

>>1348209
My dad once found a PS1 during some kind of community wide garage sale. Came with power cord, composite cable, an original controller, and Frogger. The whole thing was $5.
I've also found a bundle of stuff from some guy cleaning out his day's attic. An Intellivision, over a dozen games with the boxes, 20 Genesis sports games, a bunch of carrying cases for Game Gear and GBA SP, Pac-Man collection on GBA, and fucking Metroid Zero Mission. The whole thing was $40, but he refunded me $25 because the console didn't work. Once I sell the sports games, it'll be maybe $5 or $10 for Metroid and an Intellivision collection. Not bad.

>>1353696
>throwing away your adult children's stuff
Don't people realize that this is a crime?

>>1353742
How so?

I mean, charge the kid rent or something. even self-storage places have it in writing that if you default, they take your stuff and auction it to pay your bill.

Take into consideration that parents are the ones who bought most of that stuff.

>>1353742
>>1353760
if something is in your possesion for a long enough time it becomes yours regardless if you didnt pay for it.
also it was a gift so that makes it yours.
>implying you would report your mom to the police because she sold your genesis

>go to a annual yardsale every year
>this year it was very rainy
>only stop at one yardsale, it is under a huge evergreen.
>see a a bunch of snes and genesis games.
>pick out megaman x, a link to the past, sunset riders, and turtles in time for the snes.
>also get earthworm Jim and xmen 2 for Sega genesis.
>go up and ask how much she wanted for it.
>mfw she said 15 bucks.
>mfw my mother didn't know I was getting them at a steal and chimed in asking her if she would take $10.
>she said yes.

I cried. Pick related, its them.

>>1353647
Ya' blew it.

>>1354576
Moral of this story: Always haggle on prices.

I managed to get a Sega CD down from £30 to £5 once just because I waited. The dude at the car boot sale who was selling it was holding out for a buyer, I offered 15, he said 20, "nope", I walked away, and as he was closing up I passed his stall and he waved me over.

"Look, how does 15 sound?", to which I responded "I only have a fiver left, mate, sorry, take it or leave it." "Deal"

>mfw I get a sega CD with the metal plate in it for £5

>>1354627
I really want to get a Sega CD and maybe a 32X at some point. What would a good going price be, and which is the most reliable model?

>>1354631
The model 1's are the most reliable (I own both the model 1, and 2), but I'm not exactly sure on what the values of them are nowa' days.

>>1354631
whatever you do, make sure your power adapter is correct. if it's the wrong polarity, it will blow the fuse instantly.

>2007ish
>buying dreamcast games on ebay, decent knowledge of value on imports/rares
>know the basic rule: never sell wholelot sales, sell individually for best profit
>come across wholelot auction ending in a few minutes with barely any bids
>scroll not even 10% of the way through the game list. instantly realize that the seller is a fucking moron. auction is worth thousands and thousands of dollars, price sitting at about 500. holyshit.exe
>win the auction for 700 after fight with last minute bidders
>few days later, come home to 3 giant UPS boxes in my room
>every SHUMP from JP (LEs, some wrapped), every rare from PAL/JP you can think of, boxed controllers (flight stick, arcade, virtual on, etc etc etc), everything. cream self
>perfect condition, almost new. play through what I want to play through
>sell it all over time and make more than 10 times profit
>first few auctions alone made 1500 - made double value from selling about 5% of the auction

Was sweet.

>>1355569

>>1355569
Nice job, I hate that you'll get beat up as a reseller scumbagfuckshitdickfag

I love retro gaming, but I'm broke as shit. My income supports my wife and kiddo fine enough, but there's no room for buying up old games I want.

I make my hobby work by buying extra, buying more, buying cheap; fixing broken systems and reselling what I don't want. Always on ebay starting at 99 cents (one cent for some games)

am i scum?
i don't think so

>>1355643
>am i scum?
When you're buying to fix and sell, no.
When you're buying to sell, yes.

So yes.

>>1355646
>When you're buying to fix and sell, no.
>When you're buying to sell, yes.
>>1355643
>I make my hobby work by buying extra, buying more, buying cheap; fixing broken systems...

So I'm scum and I'm not scum?

Buying my dreamcast since the store was trying to clear them out so I got the system for $50 and a lot of awesome games for $10.

>>1353186
pollack pussies

>>1355643
>reseller

uhh... i said i played through everything i wanted to play through. i never keep anything

people with standards and beliefs like that are the scumbags

20 bucks at a garage sale this last summer. Me and one of my friends were having Taco Bell and he stole my food. I was pissed, but later that day we were lookin' around some garage sale and I made him buy me all of it.

>>1355963
Bullshit. Thats been posted withba dofferent story before.

>>1355963
>>1355967
not that guy, but i remember seeing this pic before too.

found a archived thread from /vr/ about how he found it at a garage sale for 20 bucks

>>1349960
lol that pizza

>>1350627
wowweee

>>1354576
that lttp is shiny af

>>1354627
lol cars dont wear shoes or boots dude haha what

this in 1 day of fleamarkets

>>1356020
Im jealous of people that find shit at flea markets. My flea market is a dirty garbage place filled with gross hicks. There are a few places selling games and all they have is sports titles for snes/n64 and then your run of the mill trash games for ps2, xbox, and GC and they charge a flat rate of like 9 dollars on them.

There is this indian fucker who works there that goes around buying all the deece games then sells them for way mroe than market value even if the labels are trashed. Flea markets suck

>>1356020
Where did you go to get such a great haul? I also live in The Netherlands, but I never come across this many great video games. What's your secret?

>>1354671
>model 1s are most reliable
dude wat?
model 1s are slightly more reliable than model 2s.
CDX or X'Eye are the way to go or pic related, of course.

>>1356037
Model 1s and 2s are both pretty unreliable actually. However with Model 1s a lot of things usually go wrong, including the tray, the laser, fuse, caps, etc; while on model 2 99% of the broken machines you can get on ebay only need a new fuse.

>am I scum?
>if you buy to play then maybe later sell, no
>if you buy to fix then sell; depends on what you fixed and how much you charge
>if you buy to sell, definitely yes

FTFY

>>1356123
Buying stuff for cheap and selling it to make a profit? God thats the scummiest shit I've ever heard of.

>Be 16
>Go down to my local flea-market to buy some games
>see a Sega Dreamcast
>WANTWANTWANT
>Asks guy how much
>"For you, $35 with both controllers, the VMU, and 5 games if you want."
>YES.

Greatest console decision I've ever made in my fucking life.

Also,

>Next year
>go down again
>PERFECT condition Resident Evil 2 for Dreamcast
>How much?
>$10 for me since i've bought from him a lot and we're good acquaintances

Fucking awesome.

>>1355569
Kill yourself, you kike.

>>1356345

Envy is an ugly thing.

not /vr/ (for some fucking reason, who thought of those rulings?)
but, i usually sell my stuff for twice what i bought it for.
i bought a shit ton of ps2 games today and i'm going to be selling persona 4 and mvc2 for about 25 bucks each.

Bought it off of some lady selling her son's collection. She wanted $100 but I talked her down to $50. Best score I ever got.

I just finished selling off the last of them. Made over $700. Get mad.

>>1357716

>>1357730
reseller scum? or just poser who doesn't actually owns shit?.

>>1357742

Trolling poser.

>>1357730

One day on craigslist I scored 3 Sega Genesis about 30 boxed games for $30. All I was after was Gunstar Heroes which at the time was going for $30 complete. Not bad.

Model 1 Genesis, Model 1 Sega CD, 32X, all needed wires, all RF shields and a copy of Sol Feace in the disc drive. $20.

Panasonic Fz 1 3do. A lamp fell on it and burnt a crater into it. Cut it out and hot glue in some plexi glass. Gorgeous custom disc window. $15.

Buy a perfect N64 controller for $15. Throws in a free N64 because it had paint marker on it. Sand it, paint it, looks pretty nice.

Meet girl. Get tons of blow jobs. Tell her I like video games. She gives me a box of 40 NES games. Added 20 to my collection and the rest are doubles or non desirables. Get more blow jobs.

Only time I see video games at a garage sale. Tons of complete Genesis games. Score Phantasy Star 2 - 4 for $9 total. All in excellent condition and complete. Contra Hard Corps $3. Final Fantasy IX $5.

>>1354627

>Go to comic con last year
>Went around looking for some deals
>Turn up with decent games, although I overpayed on some of them (Streets of Rage Cib for £10)
>Go up to a stall I haven't seen in a while
>Nothing but crappy Mega Drive games, and controllers all tangled up
>See a box behind the desk
>"Hey" I ask the guy behind the desk "What's in that box"
>He takes out a few things
>Suddenly a Mega Drive, along with a Mega CD
>Blurt out "HOW MUCH FOR THAT?"
>He looks a bit confused, and said £30
>"What about for the thing under it? It should detach"
>He detaches it and gives it to me for £20

>mfw Mega CD model 1 for £5.

I then went to another stall and talked to the guy on there about Sega games and stuff when he noticed I bought a Mega CD.

>>1358335

Shit, I meant £20. Eugh, I'm too tired.

>>1356214

>tfw bought Skies of Arcadia for the Dreamcast for £10

I think it was the greatest decision I've ever made. The game gave me an adventure.

This for $20 about 15 years ago at a yard sale.

>>1355963


Soldiers of Fortune is pretty rad

>>1358335
why is he eating the cigarette that's lit at the filter?

>>1358537
>free pac man