/vr/ - Retro Games

Still have it.

A lot of my collection consists of arcade PCBs and undumped or very few of a kind things, so I've no real intention of selling. Don't buy much in the way of retail console software, though, a lot is too expensive for what it is. Cheap stuff, sure, but I don't see myself paying $100 for a single retail game.

sold a bunch of it to pay back tuition

i never really hand one, i would always rent games and by the time i had a job and made my own money emulation became a thing anyways.

>>3676512
same here

>>3676491
I still have a good chunk of my NES stuff.

My Genesis and N64 stuff got stolen or sold my by my idiot younger brothers.

PS1 stuff got lost in a fire.

PS2 stuff I lent out, got most of it back.

SNES I never owned because I was too poor.

>>3676491
just no

>>3676491
have it

The last time I moved. I only kept my N64 because the emulation is shit.

Sold most of my old games recently. Made some nice money and I don't have to lug the shit around when I move. He'll, I'm even deleting digital games I don't play anymore. Feels good.

I got rid of my original collection ten years ago and regretted the decision for years to come. I'll never get rid of my current collection because owning things makes happy. I only collect things that I truly care about, anyway, so it'll never get too big.

Instead of getting rid of the games I loved and bought as a kid I just bought flashcarts and have consoles modded to play everything else. I think the most games I have for a system is like 23 for PS2. The least is like 2 original games for the DC.

doing the "cheaper" option =/ masterrace..

thats like saying i bought a PS4 over a high end gaming computer = Master Race :/

sounds like you just broke needing dem dolla's

>>3676491
I've been selling all my pre-gamecube games. As I get older I'd rather just have a flash cart or emulate because retro vidya is expensive and it takes up a lot of room that I just don't have atm.

i got rid of most of it few years ago.
the only thing i hang onto is artwork books for a few games (i wish there were more desu).
i wouldnt even think about collecting nowadays. way too pricey.
i emulate, everything i want to play i do so on my psp. and frankly i've gotten an immense satisfaction from building up a fantastic selection of games on my 2 x 32gb sticks. almost 60 ps1 games. wouldve cost thousands to buy physically. cba with that. (i am poorfag)

I'm still holding on for the bubbel to burst cause i dont feel as though i hoarded up enough games and consoles back in the early 2000's when prices were low, so im holding onto all my crapola and saving up my megabux for when all the tards sell their shit to buy flashcarts and the speculators get out of the market and i'll be sitting pretty in my big dusty hoard of old games and wires floppin around everywhere and cobbled together shelving to hold my huge crt tv's, i want to get a smaller house so i can use the profits to buy more GAMING JUNK and also it will make my pile of junk look bigger when i smash it into a smaller house pretty cool huh lmao :D

>>3676491

OP here, yeah I got rid of my entire collection!
my entire PS1 collection, all 4 of them (one was pretty scratched) and my 6 NES carts (nes is super retro!) still have my 3 Snes carts though. (cuz snes is so super retro)

Yeah, us retro collectors sure are dweebs, glad I got rid of my enormous collection and purchased like.. one entire flashcart.

>>3676491
Gave most of my DC collection to my nephews years ago. That was a mistake.

Sold my snes+64 because I was broke but if I had any idea how much they would have shot up in price I would of kept them both for at least a few years longer.

Sold my entire Saturn collection to buy bigger more expensive toys.

The only game consoles I kept were my Genesis & NES. Never plan on selling them. Will pass them down to my kid when he is old enough.

>>3676491
I sold all of my stuff years ago on eBay to a resller. I was not willing to wait and sell things individually piece by piece, and settled for about $2000 USD.

I honestly do not miss the games, as emulation allows me to replay them whenever I wish. But I do miss the hardware, strangely enough.

>>3678527

I sold all of my stuff a long time ago (when it was all practically worthless, which was a mistake since I had a lot of stuff that goes for hundreds of dollars now) figuring that I could play anything I wanted through emulation. I never got into gaming through emulation as much I did on consoles, and I figured that I just grew out of it. The "magic" was gone. Later, a few years ago,I started buying consoles and games again, and I enjoy playing them just as much as I used to.

I really can't explain it, but for me at least there really is something about playing on real hardware that contributes to the overall enjoyment of gaming.

>>3677678
You sir, are an imposter. I am the op.
My tale begins about three years ago.
Bolstered by /vr and feeling a bout of nostalgia for something I never had as a kid, I began collecting the sega Saturn. In three years I collected over 100 complete games. As I began to dive further into collecting the more expensive titles of the library, I became frustrated at outrageous prices. After some research I discovered the rhea which plays Saturn games thru an sd card. I was so inept at installing it that I begged for help from the 4chan
Me some guy in Omaha Nebraska got walked through how to install the mod
By some guy in the Netherlands.
What a world we live in he was a helluva guy
Anyway, I was able to play the better games on the Saturn for next to nothing, and soon grew tired of the space my collection was taking. I sold it to buy flashcart s for snes, Genesis and n64
I haven't looked back
The end


Pic. My old collection or part of it anyway

Why do emulators/flashcard folks get so butthurt about people owning games that they have to make threads about it?

>>3678736
Flashcarts r better

My flashcart just came in. How do I offload my collection quickly while making as much money as possible?

>>3678686
Damn, a half-ounce and a box of Saturn games would be fun as hell

>Spending $120 plus per flash cart on emulation machine that isn't a MAME cabinet/Supergun and claiming to be "master race".

You're not even average race.

>sold my N64 and games to build up money
>regretted it almost every day because I loved that console
>got given the crystal blue N64 a several years ago
>it was a sign

Now my N64 collection is bigger than it ever was and there's no way I'm ever giving it, or any other collection for my systems, up. I emulate really rare or stupidly priced games though.

>not holding onto your games for another 20 years, selling it for millions of dollars with retro hyperinflation, and retiring

>>3679034
>retro hyperinflation
say what now?

>>3679043
All the people in their 30s now buying these games will be 50+ and on the verge of death looking desperately to recapture their childhood and willing to throw their life savings away on nostalgic video games from their childhoods

>>3679052
>50
>on the verge of death
u wot

>>3676491
I got rid of most of mine around 90 when I moved to Asia. Started again when I saw the crusties getting interested. That will be gotten rid of by my grandchildren. I had a neo geo "flashcart" before you were born.

ITT: flashcard shills and resellers trying to get their grubby jew paws on more vidya

>>3678558
Yeah, you're right on, and I agree completely.

>>3680342
Thanks.

>>3679052

His point is that Atari games have generally become worthless despite coming from the generation prior to NES. I don't follow Atari prices, but that seems to be a common sentiment, that the Atari collecting fad died down (presumably with only the "true" collectors still going at it).

My game collection is constantly changing, I'll sell some and buy others or buy hardware and flash instead but I kept all my childhood games that will never be sold until I'm dead.

>>3676507
never understood why people do this. Unless you had complete libraries or something it seems pointless. Tuition on the low end for a citizen is over 3000$ a term. And you'll likely be in for over 8 terms, that that's just the start of paying for school if you aren't living at home to go there.

How much money did you honestly get for your little hobby? Not even a dent.

>>3676491
I still have my collection, but I also have flash cartridges for almost every system I own.

>>3678686
I discovered the rhea which plays Saturn games thru an sd card.
It's kind of funny, you could have just used Pseudo Saturn on a Saturn Action Replay cartridge and waited for that VCD slot card that's being worked on to be finished instead of wasting money on the Rhea

>>3678686
>I discovered the rhea which plays Saturn games thru an sd card.
It's kind of funny, you could have just used Pseudo Saturn on a Saturn Action Replay cartridge and waited for that VCD slot card that's being worked on to be finished instead of wasting money on the Rhea

When I bought a Raspberry Pi (the wife loves it!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l1pygd0gw

>>3680802
Those action replays are getting harder to come by. I found a guy in Hong Kong on Facebook who is making clones of them flashed with Pseudo Saturn and selling them for about $30. Going to try to see if I can get him to talk to me in English later.

Made the mistake of selling my snes collection a long time ago. I still miss my games.
Luckly I kept all my sega stuff b/c I shared it with my brother.
Never gonna sell my games again, unless I'm homeless.

>>3680802
> <$150 is a lot of money

You aren't allowed to have an opinion until you're at least 18, sport.

>>3677626
Lol loser

>>3680772
I was $4500 in debt, I got $1500 from the portion I sold. I had already graduated, so there's that...

>>3676491
Why get rid of something that brings you joy. I choose the authentic experience, any day.

>>3677031
The emulation is shit on most consoles, people will defend emulation on Nes and snes when even when tweaked the input delay ruins and experience besides turn based RPGs

>>3678736
Insecurity. They think we wasted money on collections, however many don't realize there are independently wealthy folks here who have money to spend/burn

>>3681632
This, latency is specially bad on MAME.

>>3681637
>mame on my memeberry with bt controller and shit lcd is bad
Shocker!

I'm in the process. I'm getting rid of about 70%-80% of my games and keeping the essentials, and the ones that have personal value beside the game itself (gifts from my parents, for example. Games with rough marks and ugly stickers that tell stories of fights over these games with my younger brother when we were little. Things adults collectors would just rub with alcohol while mumbling how a bad person I was.)

So at the end, what I sell is mostly stuff bought very cheap between 2005 and 2010, and some not so cheap later stuff.

I've been taking my time, selling individually for the right price, and have actually made a little profit. But I can see myself reaching a point where I'll just sell whatever is left for pennies just to save up space, get some quick cash, and make a statement for myself ("I don't need to OWN ALL THIS PLASTIC just to get a fun gaming experience once in a while, I can always revisit them in another format just as convenient")

Really, flashcarts are a godsend.

>>3676491
Yep, I only keep the hardware, not the software. Flashcarts and burned discs are the best.

>>3676491
Basically I've just started getting all my collections together and ready to sell.

Why, well because I'm dying

Yes it sucks but I figure since my family doesn't know shit about video games I might as well get the money from them now so they don't sell them for peanuts.

Spent my entire life collection games and music and now I have to find someone else that will get some enjoyment out of them.

>>3682632
Shit I'm really sorry to hear that, man.

>>3682640
Yeah thanks

It's the way she goes

I am however giving my nieces my boxed NES and all the classics since my sister wants them to have those games growing up like we did.

I have to contact the hospital about a program called Starlight where they give kids in the hospital video games because I think they would like some games, the modern ones at least.

>>3676512
Pretty much the same, I have the games I love, a few others for when friends come over, that's it.

Fuck full set collections, waste of time/money that could be better spent on your house or car, guitars, [insert other fulfilling hobby], etc. If you don't like the games you're buying, why bother?

>>3680729
There's still a pretty good amount of atari games that are worth quite a bit. That's the funny thing about the 2600 library, the games vary from being worth less than a dollar to tens of thousands. For the vast majority of games the supply far outweighs the demand, but with as many companies jumping on the video game fad back in the early 80s ranging from small startups of a couple people to giant multi-million dollar corporations the production runs of games were super inconsistent. That makes for some ridiculously expensive games. But it's true that probably more than half of the games on the 2600 wouldn't fetch more than a dollar or two.

>>3680772
>im always right and only the situations i can imagine can every be a reality
how old are you mate? its just seams imiture to think this way

>>3682758
>3rd grade english
>imiture
Irony: The Post

>>3684153
"Miss! Donny called me the E-word!"
"What's the E-word?"
"Illiterate."

I'm not a collector, but I don't know what I'm going to do with all my games as I'm moving overseas soon.

Thinking I'll get rid of anything I can emulate and bring over just a binder of disks of things I can't.

>>3676491
Never
My drawer of cartridges keeps me warm at night

>buy flashcart
>hoard all of your retro games away and wait for the prices to get even more inflated
>profit

>>3684192

Someday I'll build a fort out of my 200+ boxed mega drive games.

this thread is the "hey! im broke too! lets make each other feel better that we had to sell video games to get out of debt!" thread..

fucking pathetic

>>3676491
Sold it to pay for car repairs and credit card debt. Still in debt, but no so much now.

as a poorfag who plays a shitload of games, i've sold off everything i can emulate over the years. PC can emulate snes well enough? Those are gone. PC can emulate GBA games? those are gone too. PC can emulate N64? See ya bitch (bad call on that one)

It's only recently that i've made enough money to use my actual income to afford to save my games. It helps that there are things like the 3D in the 3DS that won't be easily emulated.

>>3684539
Piracy on an actual 3ds is easy though. Same goes for N64.

Mom tossed all of my retro stuff after u moved out. Came back a month after moving with a big suv to put it all in I borrowed but I was already to late.

>>3684192
My pc, capable of emulating anything better than a pitcher of warm spit, keeps my entire room warm at night. But I have a cabinet that holds something like 30 consoles next to that. My carts are are in boxes in storage. Because they're not a drawer of thrift store sports finds and they're worth more than your education.

Sold £300 pounds worth of gamecube and N64 games to help my family who hit hard times.

Mixed feelings but my only option i think.

Il

>>3684680
Just remind them you're the one picking their retirement home.