/vr/ - Retro Games

Get the GBA version. Not only is it not retardedly expensive like this, but it's actually a tighter game.

Or if you're not retro, get Heavenly Guardian on PS2. It's from the same development team.

>>3274154
The GBA version looks like it's ridiculously expensive too. I'd rather spend a lot of money on SNES game than on a GBA game.

>SD2SNES $199.00
This much

>>3274146
Let's see, the 2GB SD cost $3 and the ROM took up 1MB so ........a fraction of a cent.

>>3274154
Are you kidding me? The GBA game is dogshit.
OP: Pocky & Rocky is an amazing game, especially with a co-op bro. The sequel, though, is really shallow and rushed and its 2-player mode is an obvious afterthought as well.
Both of them run fine on a flash cart though so I'd rather invest in that.

This is one of the main reasons you buy an Everdrive for the SNES OP.

$88 super everdrive

>>3274146
>6 replies
>No actual answers

Good work, gents.

>>3274146
Hard to say, as that's up to you. I like the second a lot more and sprung for that, but I probably wouldn't have gotten the first if I didn't already have it before.

>>3274146
>hay guise
>reseller pretending to ask a legitimate purchasing question
>plz do my research for me =^)

>>3274146
2£ digital copy + emulator

>>3274146
Spent 90 at a con for it.
Had it as a kid but a cousin stole it, loved it so much I spent the cash.
It's a super fun game, really fun co-op and super difficult. Only this year I beat it by myself because I'm an old fart now with no friends and a lot of time on my hands.

Great, great game.

>>3274146
I paid $200 for mine but its CIB. Pocky 2 on the other hand I spent more than double that. These two games are mad expensive as is most of the good games in the SNES library. Take it from me tho, Pocky 2 isn't nearly as good as the first one.

>>3275137
Oh I remember you, the moneybags anon. How's your mansion treating you?

>>3275147
pretty good! hopefully I'll be grabbing a Hagane in the near future ;)

in all seriousness though, I live in a tiny ass apartment in downtown, and I just choose to spend my disposable income on vidya games. Specifically high value SNES ones. Get a job, anon, it really feels good to buy what you want, when you want.

>>3274146
>>3275137
When the fuck did this game get so expensive and why? Back in 2011-12 it was a common ass $20 game.

>>3275226
Ebay policy change
Perceived "rarity"
Eceleb shit

>>3275234
>Ebay policy change
Can you elaborate?

I've often felt like the way they changed auctions so you can set reserve bids caused prices on auctioned games to shoot up (to the point where its almost always cheaper to just go with Buy it Now). I'd like to hear which policy change you're referring to.

>>3275226
Also consider that just about every SNES game has at least doubled in price since 2011, but yeah it was especially bad for less common games like Pocky and Rocky.

>>3274146
Chinese Aliexpress repro for 15 bucks

>>3275137
They really went for maximum edge with with Procky 2 didn't they.

>>3275247
Pre 2013 a fixed price auction and reserves cost money to list. Around $1-$4. Sometimes more depending on the year.
2013 and later you can list fixed price auction for free.

That's why you see reseller scum relist something for months. It's free to do so.

>>3274146

>My local video rental store went out of business when I was 8 years old (1999).
>They were liquidating their inventory and I bought Pocky and Rocky 2 for $5.
>tfw I sold it on eBay 3 months ago for like $280.

>>3275137

>Putting box protector on that way so flaps are on front not back

Paid $80 for a CIB copy in 2011. This game went retarded after gay grumps reviewed it.

>>3275137
>Mexican version of P&R

Guarantee the person you bought that from got the game extremely cheap.

>>3275287
REEEEEEE... But good on you. Been working odd jobs to get path of radiance or gotcha force. Not retro I know but my autism craves to collect.

>>3275602
Mexico seems to be the retro haven. Might actually go and try my luck when I go visit some family.

>>3275602
All pockys sold in the USA were like that. I believe there was a variant without the Spanish text but it's rare and supposedly might not even exist.

>>3275468

I noticed that too, just fixed it you ocd bastard. Also I'm totally not taking this chance to show off my CIB mmx3 as well...

>>3275662
Feels good knowing I got that on release and all of the awakening plebs get to shell out for it.

Only fucking morons dump this kind of money on games. And for what? Too play once, shelf it and let it collect dust, and brag online and too friends you own some rare game noone knows about or even cares about, only other jerk off "collectors". Just buy games that are still cheap if you must. Emulate expensive ones. Anything over $100 for a cart is beyond retarded. But you probably won't listen to me.

I think it was $15 or maybe $20 circa 2008, very good conditions. Lukiegames on ebay was great back then. Got lots of decent games at around $5 too.

I think I'll sell part of my collection now, before the bubble bursts... I prefer playing on my flashcart anyway.

>>3275974

My personal metric is: does the game cost more now than when it was released? If it's a truly great game I'll even factor in inflation.

My limit ends up being about $60 for console games, $30 for handhelds.

>>3275137
What if they both have Mario World in them

>>3274146

I got my P&R1 for free a couple years ago from a friend who was getting rid of most of his collection.

I played it, not a bad game but not my thing. guess I should put it on ebay if its so desired.

>>3275974
Oh no, people spend their money on things they enjoy.
Sweet Jesus, somebody stop them.

>>3277401
My person metric is: does it cost more than a buck? If it's a truly great game I might pay two if I really want it.
And that, my friend, is how I got every game I ever wanted for sweet fuck all long before you saw your first LP.

>>3278068
We're talking about retro games here, gramps. We were listening to CD's when these games came out.

Bought this game some months ago for 20 yurops, it's cart only but it was hard to find for a good price

>>3277401
Yeah, that is about my limit. If it is more than what it sold for new, it's something I will likely A) emulate on the Wii or B) trade up too.

Now as for the thread in general: Sure. I would like to pay $1 or $2 bucks for every game and if I thrift stored everyday and yard-saled every weekend in a few years I could possibly get everything I wanted for that price. But I no longer have weekends off, I have a girlfriend, and I would just rather spend $20-30 on games or more on occasion than spend that much in gas hunting all over creation and maybe not even find stuff I want.

Maybe dropping money I earned on something I like and want to have isn't a "waste" and so long as I ain't paying some astronomical number over what it typically goes for I don't think I am hurting anyone.

To answer OP's question: I paid $60 for Pocky and Rocky about 3 years ago. It was at a con and it was a game I shared with many friends that week,and the good memories are worth paying what was a fair price then and a GREAT price now.

Is it worth like the $100ish bucks it commands now? Well, I would say it breaks my rule of do not pay more than what a new copy sold for and I'd possibly see if I could trade some stuff in to offset the cost.

But I would also say it's hard,it's fun, its challenging and you will probably feel like you got your moneys worth.

>>3278086
I bet you a dollar you grew up on MP3s and have only ever seen a CD not listened to one.

>>3278086
Actually cassettes would have still been the preferred medium for the majority of the SNES life. Isn't it fun to spot the underage

>>3275006
SNES master race

>>3278371
Only if you were poor. CD players became available in 1982. Even my broke ass family had switched over by 85. The SNES was released in NA in 1991.

We were still using cassettes in the car, but we certainly weren't buying any new ones.

Man, now all I can think about is the stupid headphone to cassette adapter and trying to keep a discman from skipping on the way to swim meets.

>>3278408
So only the middle class and lower couldn't afford a CD player that costs a thousand bucks that wad unnecessary because cassettes were vastly cheaper. It must be nice being rich.

>>3278429
Hahaha. Either you're not from the time, or you have a shitty memory. We got our first CD player in the form of an RCA boom box in 85. It was no more than 200 dollars. I would put us in lower middle class. My mother owned her own business in the form of a pottery shop. It never made money. It was just her hobby that she tried to make a go of. Dad worked 2 jobs.

To this day, they have never owned a new vehicle. Never taken a vacation more than a state away, and if it wasn't for military service and 2 pensions, My dad wouldn't have been able to retire.

CD players weren't that expensive. Sony and Phillips had a vested interest in making the player tech available to any manufacture that wanted to churn out cheap product because to this day, they make money on every CD or CD-Rom sold. Yeah, teh CDs themself weren't cheap, but my parents weren't paying for the music. They provided the player because we asked for it, and the kids were buying CDs with money from lawn mowing, babysitting and paper routes.

Except me. I bought games.

>>3278408
No one had CD players in 85 dude. Maybe your rich ass, but definitely not the majority.

>>3278653
and do you think that market share may have increased at all in the 6 years before the SNES was released?

They weren't that expensive. Sure, for a full home theater deck, it was pricey, by for a portable boom box? nah. I have very fond memories of playing Weird Al's Dare to be Stupid on the CD deck while playing SMW. Shit. By 91 the CD player was standard in every car. To even have a cassette deck in the car was weird.

>>3278739
>By 91 the CD player was standard in every car. To even have a cassette deck in the car was weird.
Is this bait? I thought this board was 18+

>>3278747
I graduated in 95. Meaning I started driving in 92. I am very familiar what was in new cars at the time.

>>3278753
I bet you are, anon.

>>3278769
Yeah... not going to get into a bunch of back and forth trying to prove I'm 40 in October. I don't even like to talk about it.

Feels bad, man.

>>3278775
I'm sorry for bringing up bad feels. anon. I just know we didn't have a CD player in the car until well into the 90s, And there were CD players and cassette decks for many, many years as standard. Tape decks were definitely not weird in 1990.

>>3278775
>not going to get into a bunch of back and forth trying to prove I'm 40 in October. I don't even like to talk about it.
ID with timestamp and private info blacked out

>>3278783
Too much work. Don't care. Believe me or don't. I'm playing Punch Out.

>>3278739
So not even true it's hilarious... CD was considered an option ie an extra you paid for in New cars until the early and mid 2000s

>>3274146
I sold mine the other day online for 160. I wanted to use the money to go toward getting the sequel. I'll get it again one day though.

>>3278783
>not requiring time stamped tits
Step it up faggot. What kind of pleb tier /b/tard are you trying to be?

>>3278447
>>3278739
Not him, but there're two things wrong with your post.
One: in 1985, CD players were far, far, FAR more expensive than you're implying, considering that in 1988, the median price for a boombox was $290. I remember that because it caused a huge argument in my family when my sister saved up all her jewgolds and cash from all her charlady work to buy one. My parents were pissed that she'd squandered her money on it rather than saved it or put it towards something else. Like a car. The argument was that my brother bought a car for around that much and that my sister was a dumb cunt for not doing the same.

Secondly, you're forgetting what $200 was back in 1985. Even if a boombox in 1985 did cost only $200 back then (it didn't), that would have been equal to about $450 of today's money. By contrast, cassette decks in 1985 were only around $50 (or around $120 of today's dollaridoos).
It's cute that you're trying so hard to seem older than you are, but at least do some research first, kiddo.

Signed w/much <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3,
someone who actually lived through the 80s

>>3279467
>i only shopped at the white mall
Cool. But those of us who weren't afraid of niggers or mail order got stuff a lot cheaper. I bought a 1972 Lincoln in 86 for $200. Sounds like the overpaying gene runs in your family.

>>3274146
$72.65

>>3275662

>tfw want to buy path of radiance but then I see the price on eBay

>>3283297
>Had a chance to get it for $35
God dammit!!!

>>3274169
Stop being a faggot.