/vr/ - Retro Games

37 Killer Instincts that will never go played.

I hope this guy lost a shit ton of money on this.

>PAL Version

Someone should calculate how much this dumb motherfucker spent to get all these graded.

is killer instinct a rare game or some shit

i have a copy in perfect condition

It's probably the same loser who had 6 unopened cartons of killer instinct on eBay for ages. Or the dumb spastic bought them, opened them and sent them off for grading. It's holySNES or his brother, the worst thing to happen to the retro scene in Australia...faggots...

>>1609150
I can't stand all those faggots, they are on nearly every facebook gaming group.

>>1609109
>14 bids

>$120 postage

>>1609142
Wasn't there a bundle with a SNES at one time?

Am I reseller scum if I buy a sealed copy of an SNES game as soon as I see it, regardless of what it ACTUALLY is?

>>1609185
Yeah, it was bundled with the SNES, it sold pretty well even prior to being bundled with the SNES and it was a rareware game released at a point considered their heyday.

What I'm saying is, Nintendo Tax aside, it's a pretty common game and having 37 copies of it is neither here nor there.

You would still get a decent amount of money for it, though, because of stuff like this.

Thanks for preventing this kind of shit, /vr/.

Fuckin' useless.

I remember playing this back in the day and my dad letting me listen to the "killer" soundtrack on his nice expensive CD player.

Definitely not my favorite fighting game and most of the characters and moves were boring, but it was a good time passer.

I don't know if you guys have had luck with buying games on ebay and craigslist but both seem pretty atrocious. I'll just stick to other online vendors that don't rape you.

>>1609304
Which ones, may I ask?

>>1609330

Off the top of my head, jjgames has very fair prices and they show pictures of the actual items you're purchasing. Lukiegames almost always has good prices on things too.

I've seen some decent deals on ebay, and some that looked too good to be true from sellers with lots of negative feedback or no history at all. I feel like ebay is too much of a gamble, and I don't feel like getting raped by weirdos on craigslist.

Cause encasing games like baseball cards and comics makes them worth thousands, I say, thou$and$!

What a joke.

>>1609401
I've always wondered, is it possible to actually bust a game out of a VGA box without damaging the game itself? I haven't found anything cheap and worthless enough to risk finding out.

>Australia
truly the worst retro game country to live in

cut it open with a dremel
post it on youtube and see people lose their shit

>>1609414
this is meant for >>1609405

This is the only VGA as far as I'm concerned. The collusion and artificial manipulation of prices on "graded" games on eBay is just ridiculous.

>>1609416
>>1609414
Well, that's answered my question. It's nice to know that it is, in fact, possible to play these games once the market no doubt crashes in the future.

>>1609197

Only if you "re-sell" it. Especially at an extortionate price.

The clue is in the name.

>>1609418
I just offer them $1

if they respond I say "well what do you want for a video game I can never play?"

>>1609109

What the fuck does "VGA" mean in the context of this?

>>1609465
http://www.vggrader.com/

>>1609420
Unless, of course, they're stealing the games before sealing up the empty boxes.

>>1609468

>sealing games in acrylic case to never be touched again
>artificially inflating the re-sale prices of a game you can't play unless you're willing to break out power tools to break the fucking case

at least that explains why so many absurdly overpriced things on ebay have those fucking boxes on them but seriously disgusting

Typical reseller trash.

>Killer Instinct
>PAL version

Yeah, good luck with that.

>>1609405
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6f_LCaYons
Around 20:30, seems like its possible.

I think the fact that people are actually bidding on this is what astounds me the most.

>>1609420
Is the retro game market going to go up at all before it crashes?

>I am a serious collector
Besides that, this is horrible.

>>1609570
right now its at $20 per piece, is that too much

>>1609109
>they're ALL 9.5
implying VGA is taken seriously by anyone
oh, there's that guy in OP's pic
how terrible for him

The VGA fad is just a scam made by non-gamer hipsters to rip-off money and fuck off the gaming community.

I guess the beat isn't rare.

>>1609614
The suckers on nintedoage forum take VGA idiocy seriously and quickly lock those who question "grading" bullshit. I guess we know where those in on the VGA scam call home.

>>1609647
Some neckbeard in the comic world applied their model to games and thus became this self-proclaimed "authority" on something they know jack shit about.

nintendo neckbeards are the biggest cancer to the retro community

Could some appraise the value of this?

1/2

>>1609826
Console warriors aren't welcome on /vr/

>>>/v/

>>1609843

The box and the corners are next to perfect, except for some minor scratches on the plastic that can be seen if held towards the light.

Im not selling, im merely curious what it could be worth

>>1609109
>au/itm/
>autism

>mfw I just want to buy a Gamecube and rebuild my collection
>mfw most of the games I used to own are estimated at $20+ with ebay jews selling even higher
Is there ANY chance of games getting cheaper or are they just going to get more expensive as hoarders grab as many as they can?

>>1609875
if it's a good game, what's wrong with 20 dollars? People drop 60 dollars on new releases... that are not necesssarily even great. Anyway, RPGs, Mario, and Zelda are pretty much always going to be higher dollar.

>>1609903
This. 20 bucks for a GC game with case/manual is pretty fair, I'd think. The dollar-a-game boat has long set sail.

>>1609903
>>1609910
i wonder who is behind these post

>>1609875
$20 isn't bad, especially if it's a black label.

>>1609843
>>1609863

Please tell me those signatures are underneath the plastic.

It might be a trick of the light, but they really don't look like they are.

>>1609920
No they arent, its an autographed sealed game.

Are you retarded?

>>1609915
I don't understand the point you're making here.

>>1609903
>>1609910
>>1609917
I wouldn't mind paying $20 for some of the more popular games. (Paper Mario, Double Dash, Smash Bros etc.)
It's just that ebay jews will always try sell for a lot more than that.

>>1609910
Who even bothered to sell games for a dollar anyway?
Shit that's money you find on the street. The fucking plastic and CD is worth more than 1 dollar, ffs.

>>1609929
>are you retarded

Are you?

You got an autograph on the cheap plastic wrap someone would rather rip off so they can seal it in something that will actually protect the box, which is all anyone cares about.

Now all you have is a copy of Quake and some plastic wrap with Romero's signature on it. You could have got him to sign the goddamn box and then put it in a case.

From another thread but: With a quick skim what is this roughly worth total?

http://pastebin.com/CbuzLnH2

It's been sitting in my closet for over half a decade. about 955 individual games, few boxes of unlisted consoles, controllers, and loads of other stuff. Not all retro.

>>1609943

Oh man, i really fucked up.

If only i knew beforehand that sealed copies dont fit in cases.

>>1609957

It being "sealed" doesn't increase it's value at all. It's just some plastic that looks shitty and inevitably turns yellow so it looks even shittier.

How are you incapable of understanding why a signature on the actual box would be worth more (read: something at all) to a buyer? The box and it's contents are what actually matter.

Your item is worth as much as a good condition copy of Quake is worth, to answer your original question. You might be able to sell Romero's signature too if you can find somebody needs to keep a sandwich fresh.

>>1609970

There are hundreds of thousands of opened copies of Quake out there.

But there are just a few with the original factory seal.

Collectors pay for rarity.

These games arent ment to be played. Who cares where the signature if the game is never going to be opened anyhow.

>>1609983

>original factory seal

The factory seal is actually underneath that plastic, sealing the box at both ends.

>Collectors pay for rarity.

Your game would still be factory sealed if you got rid of the plastic it was wrapped in for the sake of keeping it dry during distribution.

>Who cares where the signature

Collectors do. You don't actually have a signature on your game. You have it on the part they'd like to be able to throw in the trash before they put it on display.

>>1609983
>Collectors pay for rarity.

Given that it's sitting on top of the box it was posted in I'm willing to bet the "collector" who paid for it's rarity was you. Enjoy your signed cling wrap.

>>1610021
Bought the game back in the day and packed it away. Just got them signed though.

>>1609109

>>1610021
I really don't know what American collectors pay for anymore. It sure as hell isn't rarity.

>>1610042
"The front label has been scratched off in a checkerboard pattern"

I wonder how rare that is. You don't see those kinds of tearing every day.

>>1609941
>>1609910
You guys are right to some extent, I guess, but I had a good chuckle seeing as I just got back from a flea market this afternoon with the first two .hack games, legaia 2, and silent hill 3 for a buck each. This guy had a whole fuck ton of old stuff and when I asked him about a box full of ps2/xbox games he goes, "games are a dollar." I mean, they're in rough shape and the .hack games are missing the dvds, but still. The dollar-a-game boat is still docked in my port.

>>1609468
Who made them the authorytah?

>>1609468
Who made them the authoritah?

>>1609109

Look at it this way, at least he isn't artificially inflating the price of a good game.

>>1610042
Is it me, or is every copy I have ever seen of Mega Man X3 have a fucked up label? Every single one I've seen has some kind of damage.

>PAL
>actually buying SNES stuff for huge prices

ahaahahahahahahahahaah

He'd be better off with a Commodore or an Atari 2600, that's what we're nostalgic for.
SNES kids were a lucky minority, and they got like half the game US got, which was already a fraction of Japan.

>see OP's pic
>instantly think of all the people who print high grade counterfeit boxes and label stickers to sell reproductions online

I've read that many of them even stress the newly printed material to make it look like it's aged 20 years. I'm sure there is a disturbing amount of meticulously crafted counterfeits being sold for exorbitant amounts of money online.

>>1610102
>dollar-a-game
I also still find $1 games all the time. I'd say buy just about any game you can get at this price. And yeah a box+cover+manual is worth a buck as well. True a lot of it is shitted up but some times you find amazing stuff. I found a factory sealed copy of Paper Mario 64 in a dollar box.

>>1609109
Does anyone else find it a bit odd that these vga wankers, take sealed games, open them for grading, yes, they break the seal on the game and take the contents out, then put it in one of their ugly chunks of plastic grade it and call it a sealed game?

>>1610392
thats pure evil and i really mean that.

>>1609129
Assuming the lowest value price tier on the VGA site and that I understood how this works, this asshole spent $851 getting these all graded.

>>1610275
At the same flea market a while ago I found another guy with dollar ps2 games. I found Suikoden III, IV and V, held them up and said, "buck for these?" He said, "Japanese games are $5." All were in great shape with manuals and NTSC of course. I've been going to this flea market for a couple years. It's all about patience.

>>1610275
>>1610628
By the way, that's an amazing find. Good on ya.

>>1609825
>Some neckbeard in the comic world applied their model to games and thus became this self-proclaimed "authority" on something they know jack shit about.

To be fair, that's usually how it's done.

The goal is to convince every moron out there that you're legit. Once 80% of the people consider you legit, you're legit.

Too legit to quit

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Playstation-2-TOOL-Debug-DTL-T10000H-TESTED-RARE-/321375339035?pt=Video_Games&hash=item4ad376821b

>mfw

all my want

Pardon my ignorance but what does one do with these debug/development kits that warrants the high price tags? Can you make your own games on them or something?

>>1610786
I believe they are also region free but don't quote me on that.

But can the case be broken?

>>1610814
"All creature will die and all the VGA cases will be broken. That's the law of samurai."

i hate this shit man.
people don't even want shit that is below ebay prices, because they couldn't get it for a dollar or some shit.

i put up zelda 1 for 15 and double dash for 25 and no bites. everytime i see these games its like zelda 1 is 25-30 bucks and double dash is 35-40. do people just want dirt cheap games or not at all?

>>1609393
>jjgames
Does jjgames come with boxes/manuals? That's the only reason I'm looking at eBay for games.

>>1609843
fuck what all these fags are saying, this is cool as shit

>>1610042
>1 bid

>>1610820

>>1610743
>the shipping is free but is costly as the system weighs around 50 pounds or so
So, shipping isn't free?

Man and I feel like a dirtbag when I buy games, decide I don't want them before ever even opening them and end up selling them on ebay so somebody else can enjoy them (and try to get most of my money back, not gouge other people)

I don't get these people.

This isn't really price gouging and more just a rare as fuck game but christ I'd give my left nut for a US version of Burning Rangers that's not ungodly expensive. And yes I know I could just get a japanese version but shut up

>>1610867

There are sites with "collectors corner" sections where the listings come with the manual and box.

>>1611303
yeah i know what you mean. i feel pretty bad about that kind of thing, especially when i do it with a limited or collector's edition or anything that goes for a lot because it's special in some (often trivial) way. i've resolved that if i find someone who wants it enough, i'll just give the game to them. you know that joy someone gets when you hand them a game they really wanted and tell them to just take it? i would rather see that and know that they're going to enjoy themselves. i don't need the money

>>1610820

Things like this make me want to get a bunch of materials, counterfeit like 5 of that game, and then sell them on the same site at very cheap prices to annoy that guy.

>Hey you wanted a copy of MetalStorm on the NES?, well FUCK YOU the price has been masturbated up to 50 USD lose
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=metalstorm&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=metalstorm+nes&_sacat=0

>>1612451
....cont
>and that game is not even Uncommon.

VGA you get a better grade the more you pay right? It sure seems like it with pristine as fuck brand new games not even scratches on the shrink wrap only scoring 85 and shit

>>1609843
>>1609863
One cart only copy of Fighting Masters on the Sega Genesis.

>>1612464
could be. i remember one anon saying a while ago that he sent in a copy of some game and got it graded 90, then took it out of the vga case, sent it in again, and got it graded 95
the thing about vga is that they don't have any idea what they're doing, which works for them because it's a scam anyway. just look at these vague, arbitrary grading guidelines
http://www.vggrader.com/grading_scales.aspx

i hate these guys so much, i can't even convey it. where's that picture of the disassembled prototype cart when you need it?

>>1609983
>Collectors pay for rarity.

They pay for rare things that are actually worth something. You sound like one of those guys who would try to sell a cart of Earthbound with half the sticker torn off for $200.

Please tell me that there arent VGA graded mario/duck hunt on ebay.

>The item will likely weight around 20KG
>AU $120.00 Standard Postage
>20 bids
I don't know what to say.

>>1612793

You say it best anon.

when you say nothing at all~

>>1612813
Keith is that you?

>>1610786
ask that lesbian chick ellen page who the developer play station ended up making as good as real nudes.

But the cartridge is black!

ndsv

>$3150
>games no one can ever play

And the worst part is that the only people bidding on this are resellers themselves.

>>1609819
Never gone to Nintendoage. How is it?

>>1609910
$20 for a decent GCN game, complete with box, instructions and a disc that isn't scratched to hell is a good price.
You'll be surprised how many copies of good GCN games there are on the market that are scratched disc only for $20+.

>>1609197
Depends, why did you buy it?
If you bought the game to open it, play it, enjoy it, or even just to preserve it, you're not.
If you bought the game with the intention of flipping it with a markup patched on, yes you are.

>>1615804
I find games with good discs CIB for $1 all the time. Only problem I ever had was a sims box that had an oot disc. Very disappointing.