/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3594620
It sounds like what gets you going is finding good deals, not necessarily video games. I suggest selling the gaming stuff you have, buy a flash cart if you want and then use the left over money to start collecting something not as popular as video games. That way you can still get the thrill of finding that special thing at a low cost, but without the competition.

>>3594620
You need new hobbies.

>>3594620
Start collecting PC, PS2, XBox, DS, or Wii games.

>>3594623
>without the competition

I'm sure you realize, that depending on what he chooses to collect, this could make things better or much much worse. Collectors exist for everything these days

>>3594630
No, he simply needs to adjust his current one

>1998
>"2D games is for babies, I want Crash Bandicooch!"
>classic Nes/Snes games a dime a dozen at EB Games

>2010
>PS2 is SOOO OOOLD, Im gonna sell mine off and get Cawadoody!
>Gamestop LITERALLY giving PS2 games away or they are under 5$

>Last week
>Go to flea market
>We have so many extra copies of PS3 and 360 that will NEVER EVER BE WORTH ANYTHING BETTER SELL THEM FOR 3$.

Its all about timing

>>3594696
The difference is that the Xbox 360 and PS3 games will actually suffer as many need updates or online content and the servers are dead.

>>3594710
That is actually a fair point. I get the distinct feeling that it will take longer for them to attain value but only after a work around is found

>>3594710
Like people are actually going to play them. A lot of people I knew never opened the games they bought for "collection"

>>3594694
That's why I told him not to collect something popular. Video game collecting he runs into millions of people clamoring for the same stuff. But how many people out there are collecting vintage gimp bracelets? Or Rubix Cubes or m.u.s.c.l.e toys or some shit. Clearly video games don't bring him enjoyment, maybe collecting something different will.

I pretty much know exactly how you feel, except for this line.
>but the thrill of occasionally finding a good deal on old videogames is pretty much the only thing that gets me out of the house anymore

I got 8 left for my set, but I know the chance of finding them in the wild is INCREDIBLY slim.

>>3594620
>Where did my life go so wrong.
You decided to be a collector.

>>3594620
Sell it all, buy some flashcarts or emulate and put the money in savings. Enjoy the feeling of greater economic freedom.

Different anon than OP, but should I don't know if I should consider myself a collector or not. I like to go out on the hunt, and I do pick up good deals if I see them, and sometimes I'll splurge and pay a little more than normal for a game I really want. However my goal is not a complete collection for any given system, and I will pass up most trash that I don't care to play.

Different anon than OP, but I don't know if I should consider myself a collector or not. I like to go out on the hunt, and I do pick up good deals if I see them, and sometimes I'll splurge and pay a little more than normal for a game I really want. However my goal is not a complete collection for any given system, and I will pass up most trash that I don't care to play.

>>3594620
Theres no point to collect since most of the games just sit around not getting played

>>3594620
I gave up collecting. The emulator scene is cooler. You have people trying to recreate everything in software. You have great programs like OpenEmu. They are working on Saturn emulation so eventually everything will be emulated. All the games you collected will go down in value again as people give up collecting and get the next thing. It is fine to score some games once in awhile but the collectors, especially e-celebs, are sick people I'd never want to be friends with. LOOK AT MUH GAME COLLECTION, and its a giant faggy wall of games for systems that will eventually break.

>>3594620
New Glarus! Hell yeah!

>>3594620
>be collector
>MAKE it nearly impossible to get good deals on old games anymore

ftfy.

>>3594623
If the thrill of finding special things at low cost is the factor, I suggest OP get a metal detector. Not only do you get exercise outside walking around, you can find plenty of cool stuff if you visit the right places. I found plenty of silver coins and a few rings when I used to do it.

>>3595348
This is true with any hobby though.

>>3595368
Emulating isnt cool tho

>>3595580
Obsessing over old hardware isn't cool either.

>>3595596
We're on a video game board on 4chan. That's a double whammy of uncool; None of us are cool.

>>3595602
Agreed. Play games however you want.

>>3594710
A bunch do, but by no means the majority.

>>3594620
just picked up a neo geo AES with all wires and a controller WITH KOF 95 all for 250....the game alone is 80-120 pounds

150 for the machine....you pay 400 on average for a neo geo aes lol

gonna get a MVS adapter and buy all the metal slugs soon

>>3594685
>>3594685
im already on this....JRPGs i go for.

>>3594739
I think it's a matter of what you personally find interesting.

I mean, I could start buying Beanie Babies or Go-Go's (or whatever the shit they were called in the English speaking world), but they would bring me little joy. Likewise, I think OP probably doesn't want to collect things that he really has no interest in.

>>3594620
meh, i've given up looking for cartridge-based games, it's nearly impossible to find stuff like that for a deal nowadays.
It's best to look for disc-based systems, like PS1/2, XBOX, etcetera if you want any hope of finding neat stuff.
I found a complete black label Final Fantasy Tactics for $15 the other day, i was pretty excited about that.
Sometimes I stumble upon neat Intellivision/Atari boxed games I can pick up on the cheap too.
There's still a lot of neat stuff to collect for, but almost anything Nintendo is probably out the window at this point. You're too late on Genesis stuff too, probably, that really started picking up sometime last year.

Boy, this isn't a very inspiring post, is it?

>>3594739
No one collects that dumb bullshit because it's worthless

I bet you're a fucking rubix cube merchant you SNAKE

>>3594696
>>3594710
I wonder if the quantity of copies made for most last gen games will keep prices low. Anybody have any stats comparing copies produced over time?

>>3594685
GC has already skyrocketed. I swear og xbox is going to take off one of these days. There are so many overlooked gems in there and it was a fairly popular console at the time. Maybe it'll be the next saturn and every game that's even remotely interesting on it will end up costing $50+.

>>3595734
I'm getting in on the Xbox for its exclusives now. It's worth it now before things get out of hand. Next Call of Cthulu I see I'm snapping it up.

>Youtube idiots shit on Atari
>Atari games rock bottom cheap, in box mint
Damn it feels good to be an Atari collecting gangsta.

These days I mostly just eBay.

My paypal is basically exclusively for game stuff.

I'll sell something I don't want to buy something that I do.

>>3594696
I bought so much expensive and rare shit from Gamestop when they were offloading PS1/PS2

>Haunting Ground CIB 5
>The entire .dot hack saga for 5 each
>Rule of Rose 15
>Literally like 70 other games
>Spent like 600 on games that day

The manager was so happy that I bought so much he gave me a shitload of promo stuff and had 2 guys carry the stuff out to my car.

>>3595734
>I swear og xbox is going to take off one of these days.
It could turn out like the game gear. The caps go bad so everyone assumes they're broken and worthless.

>>3595734
>>3595795

Theres a handful of "rare" games on Xbox. Most notoriously is Metal Wolf Chaos, which is JP only anyways. Shit like Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden Black are consistently 10 bucks or less easily. Then stuff like Gun valkyrie is around 15, and the occasional game encroaches 30ish like Panzer Dragoon Orta or Otogi.


GCN just has the standard Nintendo tax. Most GCN games got multiplat releases anyways.

>>3595787
Similar story here
>at EB GAMES in busy mall during Christmas time
>Dreamcast/gamecube/ps2 in full fucking swing
>big old box of ps1 and PC games out front
>buy a stack of them for $80
>get home find games missing/wrong games in cases/cracked disc ect
>bring games back to store and be super polite about it
>manager looks at big disheveled box and sighs heavily knowing hes gonna have to go through the whole fucking box no one gives a shit about
>walks over to it through a sea of people and brings back the whole box
>"merry christmas kid"
>like 100 games

>skullmonkeys
>suikoden 2
>silent hill
>all the resident evils
>MML2
>pandemonium CIB
>tron bonne

>>3595814
People were so free with old gameshit back then
Before playing le retro was a trendy

>>3595753
I thought they were low in value because there's mountains of them and most people who collect them are in their 40's?

>>3595795
Was the OG Xbox known for bad capacitors? I thought that was more of a 90's thing with shady sources of capacitors.

>>3595628
Right and whatever OP is doing obviously isn't making him happy. Video games themselves don't bring him joy and it looks like collecting only frustrates things further. I'm just taking shots in the dark though, who knows what else may interest him.

>>3595562
This is actually a really good idea for him. Dude sounds like he could use some fresh air.

>>3595814
Fuckin' nice.

>>3595819
There was a period like that with everything that eventually became collectible.
Like, comic books were treated like trash a lot at one time, then there was the opposite end with the very retarded prospecting bubble, where the first issue of whatever was labeled (on the cover, typically) as "FIRST COLLECTIBLE ISSUE!!1!", and they're still all worthless to this day, it seeming like they think if you let a comic book become really old, it will magically become valuable like a pristine #1 Action Comics

Film used to be just tossed or destroyed once upon a time, to make room for new film, so while finding Charlie Chaplin reels wasn't hard, because people loved him and the stuff was everywhere, many films are today completely lost because they were just not saved by anyone in those days.

In the 80's and 90's, you could still grab a surplus Soviet SKS rifle from a wooden barrel in a sporting goods store or gun store, and you could easily pay less than $89 for one, with accessories, while these days, they go for like $350 minimum (for perspective, they were frequently below $200 around 2008).

It's pretty much how these things go, nobody treasures them at first after their 'obsolesence', they're cheap for a time, then more people get into the hobby as time goes, more people appreciate it (or it's a cheap weapon and it's useful), supply doesn't grow, but demand does. If you want to be a collector I think that's just one of those things you have to come to terms with, it'll not be cheap, and if you score a deal you should consider yourself lucky.

>>3595753
I think Atari games are so cheap because of E.T. A lot of people assume that since E.T. was a bad game, and it was an Atari game, that all Atari games are bad. Hell, even my local retro store sells the games for less than 5 bucks each and the consoles for about 40 bucks.

>>3595672
>No one collects that dumb bullshit because it's worthless

Spot the reseller scum.

>>3596307
My story gets better. This particular EB games was so tiny and they had the ceiling extended upward and the walls were covered with stuff so high up they had to use ladders and hooks to get anything down. I went back to the the store a week later and apparently the manager was under alot of pressure from upper management to allocate space for an "n-gage" kiosk. I dont think that store is still there anymore.

>>3594620
Collecting paid off for the people who bought games on the cheap
Seriously nigga go buy a complete set of PS3 games and sit on it for 10 years
Then the kiddos who were around when it was THE DOPEST DOPE I EVER SMOKED will be ready to spend real money like people do now for /vr/ approved games
I think the only problem is online features for those ones wont be around anymore
So idk

>>3595734
I know shops which sell xbox games 50p each. If you think it may take off one day then all the more reason to start collecting now.

>>3596272
There's one related to the internal clock that can fuck it up.

>>3596860
>Seriously nigga go buy a complete set of PS3 games and sit on it for 10 years


It didn't work for comic books, it's not gonna work for shiller scum like you.

>>3596272
not sure what brand of caps the xbox used but it was born during the caps plauge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

>>3596829
>n-gage kiosk

>>3594620
Yes. I go to the flea market every week knowing that there's usually nothing there and when there is it's always at Ebay prices. There's always the next to zero chance of someone throwing out something weird that nobody has ever heard of like Sega Pluto. Is it delusional to expect something like that? Yes but you'll never know when someone throws away something else interesting like say a Bung V64.

>>3596578
It's more that the 2600 library is positively massive, and the kind of gameplay they had has a harder time appealing to people who grew up with the NES or 90's PC gaming.

>>3596935

>>3595734
>I swear og xbox is going to take off one of these days

It's already starting. Just look at prices for decent exclusives like Panzer Dragoon or Call of Cthulhu. Even a retro game store near me that used to sell most of their Xbox games in a bargain bin for $1-5 has started moving everything into a case unless its a sports game or some shit.

>>3597317
As one of the easiest consoles to mod when you can load games off the hard drive.

"Collecting" in general can be a great hobby. Add some other interests to your list... nice furniture, vintage clothing, audio equipment, art, etc.

Every thrift store I hit has *something* from my interests that I find. Keeps you going in the long droughts between vidya pickups.

Just try to limit yourself. I have a Flash Cart for things like EVO, but there are a lot of classics out there for cheap and they are still worth collecting, even if they are marginally inflated.

>>3598091
This is a good approach. Sure you're never gonna find Chrono Trigger for cheap anymore, but Faxanadu is fantastic and still a 5 or 6 buck game.

>>3594620
You should take a break from collecting. Maybe later on, you can regain the appreciation in putting value into games, if you actually enjoy them and play them. Otherwise you are no different than a Steam hoarder who buys tons of heavily discounted games during sales that never get played, just to sit there in the library.

>>3598120
Some people need the endorphin rush that comes from spending money.

As long as you don't go overboard, there is really no harm in buying games for the sake of owning them.

>>3598130
Except you rustle the jimmies of the other collectors, making it more expensive for THEM to buy games for the sake of owning them.

>>3598146
Them's kind of the breaks. That is what demand IS. If anyone wants the game just to play it, they still can.

>>3594739

I used to have a paint bucket full to the brim of m.u.s.c.l.e. figures that i bought from the dollar store in the early 90s.

Then we moved and my folks didn't care to pack them. It didn't even have a lid, it was a bucket filled with my fucking toys, you maniacs.

Anyway, except for some must-haves that immediately appeal to me, I generally wait about 3 years to join the latest gaming gen and start snapping up games from Gamestop bargain bins and swap meets. I have a good time doing it. Right now I'm snapping up PS3 and 360 games on the cheap. I also enjoy the advent of online marketplaces for consoles, the availability of FF7 on steam and PSN halved the cost of physical copies and I found a black label for $20 bucks.

The fun is still there, man.

>>3597391
This, go to a pawnshop and see if you can find something neat.

You'd be surprised at how cheap an old police trade-in revolver can be, and how good their condition usually is.

>>3594620
Fuck OP, that one hit home. That's my life in a fucking nutshell.

>>3598183
Aww yeah, 6th gen gaming is affordable right now.

By this time, most of the good games have had patches and fixes, and all the DLC is out, hell, all of it is often in a GOTY package, which, if the game is a few years old, can be found in bins for real cheap, much cheaper than buying at launch for full retail price, and you don't even have to buy DLC, it's free in the box.

Just as an example, I bought Rage (not a perfect game, but honestly not terrible), for like $20 and it came with all the DLC knick knack, shit which would have cost well above that itself at launch.

>>3600148
Even 6th gen is starting to get hit now though. Just look at uncommon titles like Xenosaga III or Wild Arms Alter Code F.

>>3594620
The fate of all collector scum. You don't like or enjoy video games, you're just filthy collector scum.

>>3600195
t. reseller scum

>>3601019
>>3600195
Go outside.
Get some fresh air.