/vr/ - Retro Games

We can't.

We either suck it up and keep paying outrageous price or we just stop and wait a few years until no one cares about old games and can pay decent prices for them.

Or they end up even more expensive instead.

>>1674003
let's make repros and sell them for the price of the original cart? IIRC earthbound fits on NHL 97'. and some other cheap jap games.

>>1674003
Never pay their outlandish prices, never initiate conversation about them, buy flash carts and mod chips, support translation projects and homebrew communities, support your local game shops if they have fair prices.

Simply don't buy overpriced games...

I really want to buy earthbound, super metroid, demon's crest and megaman X (I missed the chance to get back in the day), and I could because I'm rich, but I just calmly wait until one day I can get them at a fair price, because fuck those reseller faggots.

>>1674003

Stop buying them.

Educate the public about them over charging.

>>1674008
>>1674009
>>1674013
That's just it anons. We can't pay their outlandish prices because we aren't their target consumers.

They monopolise the carts and sell them to gullible hipsters and pretend gamers with rich parents.

>>1674006
Repros (bootlegs) are somewhat dangerous... eventually people won't mention they are repros (or just won't know) and they'll mix into the legit cartridges market.
I don't want to have to systematically open my cartridges to know if they are legit or not...

Ignore SNES games and go collect other retro stuff that isn't retardedly expensive yet.

Just wait until people go "YEAH SEGA SO AWESOME XD" and they become 10 times more expensive.

I can't believe the hipster crowd didn't jump on the genesis yet considering is not quite as popular as the nintendo.

1) Win lottery
2) Buy every copy of Earthbound
3) Resell at low, low prices
4) ???
5) Profit

>>1674023
>One guy alone buys every single copy of your low price Earthbounds using multiple accounts
>He proceeds to sell them 100 times the price he paid for.

There's no stopping it.

>>1674023
More like
1) Win lottery
2) Buy every copy of Earthbound
3) Resell at low, low prices to resellers
4) Resellers continue to overvalue their games
5)???
6) Everybody loses

Step 1: Stop whining about reseller scum.
Step 2: Stop buying overprised games.
Step 3: Advice other people against buying buying overprised games.

>>1674029
>Step 3: Advice other people against buying buying overprised games.
Because it's that easy.

>>1674023
It should be

1)Win lottery
2) Pay absurd money for Nintendo to start making original Earhbound carts again
3) there's no way it can be called "rare" anymore
4)They're now cheap as fuck.

If I won the lottery I'd buy every copy of Earthbound and resell for ten times the price.

It's literally famous in the nerdsphere because of the amount of memes behind it.
OMG GIYGAS IS BREAKING MY MIND WTF RAPE WTF IS THIS A CHILDRENS GAME OR A MASTERPIECE OF ART AND SOUND

>>1674020

Tbat's because the Genesis fucking sucks compared to the SNES

inb muh gunstar heroes, muh hard corps

>>1674031
Or as I said, get flash carts, or if that's beyond your means, emulate. Buy what you want when the opportunity arises, but don't feed the beast. And know the mark of the beast, for it is @@@LOOK!!!@@@RARE!!!@@@

>>1674040
can't handle the blast processing? :^)

>>1674040
>>>/v/

Another thread whining about "reseller scum"? I have a newsflash for you guys THEY ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. The actual problem is the video game collectors, not the kind that buys games in order to PLAY them but the kind that buys games just for the sake of having them sitting on their shelves never to be touched ever again. These collectors are often willing to pay any prise for the games missing from their collection especially if they are in MINT condition.

Now ask yourself this: If YOU were the one selling a copy of Earthbound, Mr. Gimmick or any other overprised game would YOU sell them for those "outrageous prices" people are willing to pay for them (and bitch and whine about here on /vr/) or would you purposely sell them way below their value in order to do the "right thing"? Let's face it doing the latter would be being a dumbass.

>>1674003
Holy shit, this is horrible.

I propose we pool some money, get as many games as we can and copy them, so that, even in the situation where there's hardware shortage, or some malevolent group becomes too active in the market, we would still be able to access the games themselves for historical, research and entertainment purposes.

Oh wait. That's already been done. We're fine! And the resellers and collectors are free to tear each other's throats out, we'd only win.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Neo-Turf-Masters-Neo-Geo-AES-Great-Condition-Fast-Shipping-Us-Version-/271011428096?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3f198a3700

pls

>>1674094
>Save $3 on Shipping when you buy 2 or more items.

>>1674102
And then these assholes charge a flat rate after the first item, so if you buy several carts they're making money off the fucking shipping too.

>inb4 padded envelopes are expensive
>inb4 wut is mah time worth

>>1674094

>stock image

Nigga, if you're trying to sell me something for 20 grand you better have some fucking photographs.

>>1674135

If you're trying to sell something for $20 you better have some photographs. I won't buy anything with a stock photo unless it is a guaranteed new item

>>1674094

This has been listed for AT LEAST two years.

>>1674135
This. What the fuck?

>>1674003
Teach more people about emulation yes even those hipster fags you hate

>>1674040
Musha
your argument is invalidated

ITT: Commies hating the free market.

>>1674020
I aggree.
The Neo Geo scene is the perfect example of this, repros just ravaged the marked in the worst way.

>>1674015
>They monopolise the carts and sell them to gullible hipsters and pretend gamers with rich parents.

Educate them then.

Make a youtube video right now about how much Earthbound should cost.

>>1674183

>>1674003
Collectors are the problem, not resellers. The minute a collector agrees to pay that price it sends ripples across the marketplace and prices raise. This keeps going as long as collectors keep buying. When the buying stops, the prices fall.

>>1674029
>Use Strawman After Strawman
>GTFO

>>1674175
Oh man, the Neo Geo scene is a fucking wreck because of some rich guido with more dollars than sense. Something about him destroying case inserts and carts to increase the value of his private collection or some shit?

Thank FUCK for Chinese pirate carts.

>>1674226

That's new to me. Mind telling me a little more about it?

I don't get you /vr/. Most of you seem to collect retro games yet you get butthurt if someone makes money by selling them to you. Why is this? You seriously don't get the fact that people selling games to you have increased their prices over the years due to the demand for them YOU have caused by collecting them?

Earthbound is a perfect case of a point, its price has increased to ridiculous degrees due to the fact it has become a cult classic everyone must have in their collection and it is people like you that caused the game to get it's cult classic status by constantly praising it and never shutting up about it on the internets in the first place. If you just want to play it just emulate it or buy a flashcart to play it on actual SNES instead of bitching and whining about it being too expensive here. If you absolutely must have a physical copy of it then you just need to suck it up and pay that outrageous price that you are partially responsible for.

>>1674243
>I'm trying to sell you a copy of Earthbound for 100 bucks and it's totally your fault

>>1674249
It is because
you'll pay it

>>1674253
I emulate and use flashcarts

>>1674235
I have no other information, just wisps of memory from an old thread where someone described the mess in detail, with photos of some douchebag with a Lamborghini and Neo Geo stuff, talking about how he was wrecking shit in some deluded quest to increase the rarity of his collection, and some gaming convention drama. It was years ago, well before I bought my Neo Geo, and I own exactly zero AES carts.

>>1674163
>Implying they even play the games
>Implying they aren't turning the carts into fucking hipster bling and wearing them to Starbucks

>>1674243
This

Why do you collectors HAVE to own this game? Who among you have even played it to completion three or more times like your other favorites?

No you just want to stick it on your shelves to get another quick high because your brain is arbitrarily compelling you to own this piece of plastic.

>>1674243
That's not how it works at all though.

The price is inflated artificially. I went into town to sell some games today and literally every single second hand games shop just checks Amazon and eBay and then gives you like a tenth of that price under the pretence that it is sooo expensive to clean a disc and the prices on eBay and Amazon are caused by idiot snowballing. People check eBay and Amazon to see how much they should be listing them on eBay and Amazon, ergo all you have to do to make it impossible to buy a game is list it for an inordinate amount of money and wait for people to go "Oh, my game is valuable after all! Forget all these 99 cent auctions with 2 hours to go. Buy it now, 1 million dollars".

And guess who profits from this, that's right. Resellers. Resellers list shit like this >>1674094 knowing full well it will never sell so that people will play copycat and they can swoop in and sell all of their shit for 10 times the value just because it is lower than the parade of idiots overvaluing their garbage.

Dismantle capitalism. If you don't wanna do that, stop bitching.

>>1674268
>I have autism and have no idea what sentimental value is.

I own my games because they are dear to me.

>>1674268
I have an easier time completing games I actually paid money for. Not that I don't emulate stuff. I just have a higher chance of dropping an emulated game than a real copy.

And it's not like I don't drop game I bought too.