/vr/ - Retro Games

>>423136
I have never parted with any game I have purchased because I treasure them all.

I might also be a pack-rat.

>>423182
Organize it all, call yourself a collector.

I sold my unopened copies of Tales of Symphonia and Skies of Arcadia: Legends because I was starting college and figured I'd never have time to play them between work and school. $25 bucks each.

I still don't know why I fucking did that.

>>423136
>sold so many games as a child
>mfw

>>423136
Why on earth would you sell Lunar 1&2 CIB? Why would you do it at a store instead of ebay? Why, OP, why?

>>423136
that's not that bad of an offer. he could probably get 80 for both on ebay (so like 70 or so after fees)

>onettyi chlorine

no captcha, not earthbound. Lunar.

>>423405
FUCKING FunCoLand!

>>423136
Video game stores aren't looking to rip you off, they are there to give you a fair price, and stay open. You have to see it from their perspective as well, the store has to make a profit and pay rent. Thats harder and harder to do these days because of online shopping and smart phones.

>>423462
Obviously you have never been into a Gamestop ever. Local game stores are much better, but they still overcharge somewhat. Not nearly as bad as eBay prices, but they could be a bit better.

>>423462
I get that all the time when it comes to buying people's magic collections. They expect the store to pay retail on shit that could take months to sell, making negative dollars.
It doesn't work that way.

>>423462

Gamestop is on a whole other level of jewing though. Local game stores are always better when it comes to selling games to them.

GameStop once tried offering me $15 for Xenoblade Chronicles... Jews

>>423475
>Equivocating a local game store with a the Walmart of game stores.

>>423230

I keep a SQL export of my games. Am I a "collector"?

You guys will fucking love this one.

>4 or 5
>My uncle gives me his Genesis model 2 to impress my Aunt
>2 3 buttoned pads and a 6 button
>30 something games with it
>I played the hell out of it each day
>I turn 7
>Make really shitty "friends" in my neighborhood
>Notice carts missing sometimes, at the time I just shrugged it off, nothing I really noticed missing at the time bothered me as much
>The assholes I called "friends" move or I just stopped associating with them
>About 3 months in, nobody to play games with, I get bored
>See an ad in a magazine for the "Spiderman Pinball machine"
>Being the greedy asshole of a kid, I wanted it
>My parents told me I'd have to come up with the $30. Yes, it was a cheap plastic knock off, but how was I to know? I was a moron
>My OTHER Aunt comes by one day. At the time she was a bitchy teenager (who later turned into a bitchy adult who cheated on her husband with a black guy at her friend's wedding)
>She offers me $30 for my Genesis
>Instantgratification.tiff
>I that shit right away
>I don't regret it partially because my Grandmother loves "Columns", and considering my bitchy Aunt lived with her, knew that she'd at least get to play it
>A week later
>Want to ride my bike one day
>"Jerry, you can't go on your bike without pads"
>Go to the store
>Have to buy it with my own money
>No money left, no Genesis
>Eventually I get more money, and the thoughts of Pinball are long gone
>I ask my Aunt if I could buy it back for TRIPLE the price she got it for
>She said it broke
>I said that's fine, and asked for it back
>She said she handed it to a friend of my Mother's who could possibly fix it up
>Great guy and all, he was dating my non bitchy Aunt after she divorced my Uncle who gave me the system in the first place
>They move
>They left it behind
>No more Genesis

And this is why to this day, I've spent all of my extra vidya time dedicated to rebuilding my collection.
Please never raise a kid as retarded as me.

>>423575
what the fuck jerry, what the fuck?

>>423405
I still regret my stupid descisions to this day.
No more nes, no more psx, no more n64 or gamecube.
At least I have emulation...

>>423575

Was moving to 'murica, so I sold my N64, and left behind my PS1/2 stuff (Fuck PAL).

Only took me like 3 months to rebuild my old N64 collection plus better games, but it took me 6 months to build my PS1 collection.

Starting on PS2 now.

Will need to go back to NES and SNES.

TL;DR;

FUCK PAL/NTSC.

>find about about trading in games to gabestop
>Need money for a new bike, decide to bring in ten or so N64, GBC and Gamecube games
>15$

Man I just walked out
I keep all my games anyway, I only ever sold games I have multiple of, or old systems I replaced

>>423419
I was strapped for cash. Thankfully I got over that shit. Also thankfully I still have the games.

At least you guys sold them.
I gave my Saturn and my entire game collection to my younger cousin.
Who destroyed everything.

>>423446
Those assholes have my copy of Valkyrie Profile...

I sold nothing as a kid, all of my games are still here.

instead I have to deal with the fact that I lost half of my gba/ds games from traveling.

>>423715
So did the luggage trolley get attacked by terrorists or are you an idiot?

No i was never retarded enough to do this still have all the games from my childhood

>>423726
>trolley
Pot calling the kettle at 7 bong, no?

>>423692
I'm so sorry bro

>>423573
>I keep a SQL export of my games
I have an Access database to sort all my movies in various ways. But curiously I've never done it with my games; I guess because most of them are primarily in my basement storage units.

>selling games
Don't you ever.

>>423734
Hey, I'm an American here, we call them trolleys all the time. You know that little red train from Mister Roger's Neighborhood? That was a trolley.

>>423726

I was terrible at keeping track of my GBA games. I really did take it everywhere though.

The best ones I lost off the top of my head are Sword of Mana, FFTA, and Circle of the Moon. I don't really mind though, as I beat them all long before losing them.

I dunno, I just don't care as much about the GBA as a handheld. I care way more about the condition of my snes/n64 games

>>423751
>we call them trolleys all the time
Bullshit. What state?

>selling games

Not even once.

Okay, maybe once. I had earthbound with box and strategy guide and everything and a local store fucking offered me $600 credit for it. I would have been stupid to say no. I'll just rebuy it after the bubble pops

>>423751

Yeah we call streetcar-type trolleys trolleys. We don't call luggage carts trolleys

>>423764
Not quoted poster, but that's what we call them in NY.

>>423783
No, we call them "Johnny-up-and-abouts"

You British cunt

>>423764
The deepest of fucking deep backwoods Georgia, where the internet is often unobtainable and technology takes a while to catch on. Admittedly, I stopped hearing that word in favor of words like "train", "bus" or "pushcart", but it still gets used.

I think they use it in San Francisco too; that iconic little red train that pulls tourists around.

>>423802
>Georgia
Nigga, I swear to god if you're even 40 miles near Decatur I will fucking shoot you

>>423642

>tfw when you have dozens of games and emulators downloaded but never play them because it's just not the same

>>423812
Fucking come fight me nerd, I'll bust you up real fast.
no gay shit

>>423405
>nearly 100 NES games
>over 50 SNES games
Traded them all in to Gamestop as a kid so I could get new games as they came out.

I was fucking stupid.

>>423862
I'm getting on my bike in this shitty weather.

I'm going to fuck you up when I find you fucker

>>423405
i sold dragon warrior 1-4 CiB for SNES stuff...
i hate that children are stupid, so many things would be unsold to EB games if i was as smart as i am now...

>>423906
Yeah don't let the pollen obscure your view and get you lost.

>Want new game
>Go to Gamestop to trade in Pokemon Yellow
>get offered $0.13
>"fuck that shit"
>walk out

>FF7 came out
>Wanted it bad but needed the console as well
>mfw me and my brother traded literally everything for one
>2 gameboys, our NES, SNES, a genesis and tons of games
>Shit like Earthbound, Mario RPG, Chrono Trigger
>We where still short and didn't even half enough for a memory card in the end

And we still left it all and took the machine, fuck.

Weeks later we had enough for the card, my brother who could drive at the time went off to buy it, he ended up buying the sequel to Flashback instead, he ended up hating every minute of it and I don't think he even got past the starting area, it took a month before we got enough for another card.

I feel that was punishment for that stuff I traded.

>>423783
Upstate doesn't count as NY

>>423929
>pollen
Please, that yellow shit won't stop me, plus it stopped falling the moment the rain let up

I'll still be shoving my bike up your ass

All these horrifying stories of selling vidya as a child. I am so thankful that even as a little kid I never sold any of it. Everyone always regrets it later after the instant gratification wears off.

>>423963
pics bitches

>>423136

Assuming PSX versions and a fairly priced retailer.

>Lunar = $45 retail
>Lunar 2 = $70 retail
>Very standard, fair offer of 30% of retail = $34.50

$35 is a pretty fair trade in value for a reseller. Most crummier places don't even give the 30% I mentioned, it's more like 10%. If I was behind the counter it would have been my first offer too. Your expectations are unreasonable, sell that shit on eBay instead.

I'd have still haggled though, probably to 50% of retail.

>>423984
My bike's invisible, but it can kick your ass

>>423812
>>423862
>>423906
You guys are funny. You should meet up and play games.

>>424008
>>423984
>>423963
>>423929

You two are gonna fuck aren't you?

>>424040
I'm pretty sure no gay stuff was one of the ground rules.

>>423985
That's what I tried to do. Motherfuckers are pristine.

>>423985
This is why you put easy to sell shit on ebay. They give you a small portion. You should only bother with resellers if no one wants to buy whatever you are selling, they may still take it.

>>424065

>Will pay at least 30% at the drop of a hat at any time you want.
>Small portion

They're businesses, what do you expect? There's an insane amount of overhead when running a business.

Flea market/eBay/Craigslist fags have no excuse though, and they often rip you off the most.

I never sold any of my video games, but my biggest regret involves my genesis. I loved my genesis, and even though I sucked and only had 3 games of which only sonic 1 was any good. Now I don't k ow why, but I never saw adds for any new games or consoles as a kid so I only found out about the N64 when my parents went to a mercury dealer and they had one for the kids to play while the parents shopped for a new car. I had to have one, and did get one. The genesis got packed away, and all my time playing games was on that N64. Well we moved and my Mother made me throw out my genesis, and would not change her mind no matter how much I pleaded. I regret it to this day, and I still wish I had taken it with us without her knowing. I regret it even more than giving my lime green GBC to my cousin when I got a GBA.

But at that moment, I was just a little kid. All I wanted was to play Mario Sunshine and SSB. I still remember looking at my parents and saying: But...but mario... he isn;t on this thing. They said I'd get over it and that this was obviously better. Those games were my world and me and my friends already talked about how much fun we were going to have playing them. But nooooo, the gamecube is for kiddies and your brother is getting older so he has to have the cooler system. On which he bought almost no multiplayer games and you couldn't simply play with 4 players, you had to buy an add on.

Fuck I hate my friendless brother. Despite the fun I had with the PS2, I just know that even though it was a lesser console I would have had a lot more fun with the Gamecube playing SSBM and other games. But he had to ruin that. He had to be a selfish beta who had no opinion and did what the cool kids said he should do despite what he wanted. My Nintendo heart was stomped on that day, and not having grown up with a gamecube still hurts sometimes. That day at the store was one of the saddest moments of my life. I later bought a Wii but the magic those games had as a kid was gone already. I only wish I could've experienced it.

I don't know why I ranted here about this. I was just thinking about this last week, and I guess I just needed to vent.

I remember, a long time ago, me and my brother wanted a Gamecube, but we had to sell our N64 with 4 controllers and all the great games, both LOZ's, SSB, MarioParty/kart/64, F-ZeroX, Starfox64, pokemon Snap/ stadium 1&2, Goldeneye and more. Now as a kid this saddened me, but the thought of getting to play all their sequals on the Gamecube was an exciting one. Then, when we went to the store to buy one, I ran off to look at all the Gamecube games. When I got back to my brother I saw this acne ridden older kid telling my brother/parents the final words of his speech. That the PS2 was the better choice. My parents and brother being the idiots they are believed this smug fucker and bought the PS2. Now this is not a PS2 hate post. I had a lot of fun with it and was exposed to many games I otherwise wouldn't have played.

cont'd

>>424224
Cool story you whiny faggot.

>>424224
I had only the Gamecube throughout it's generation and I have to say, the amount of good games for that thing was abysmal at the time. You probably ended up in the better place with the PS2, you would have been crushed by the Wii if you hadn't gotten experience with another brand and lost that pointless loyalty.
Your brother prevented you from becoming me.

>>424263

gb2/v/

people on craigslist/BST whose definition of lowballing is "me not being able to jew you"

>>424279
hmm maybe. Probably. But I was young, and 4 player multiplayer wasn't that common, and we got the extension thing which made it possible only 2 years or so after that, so me and my friends never really had many multiplayer game afternoons after that. Which really sucked.

Looking back on it I still missed a bunch of quality PS2 games cause like I said, my brother was the one most catered to at that time and if he didn't think it was cool we didn't get it. Never played Shadow of the Collosus or any MGS games for instance, instead GTA, need for speed and Fifa street everywhere.

My brother is a jerk, but luckily others picked up on this and I'm now way better off than he is. I also enjoy a better selection of games while he is still replaying San Andreas. It was fun, but it's now 2013...

>>424374
>still replaying San Andreas
Jeez, get him a used copy of Saints Row 2 or something.

not retro, but the closest i have to the topic at hand

i traded in my copy of metal gear solid: the twin snakes
>mfw my friend told me that shit was worth lods of emone

>>424421
He lied. It goes for about $20-$40 at most. The only reason he said that was because of Gamestop's awful pricing at the time, which jacked up the price because the Gamecube had so few games they knew people would spend shitloads on the few gems.

>2004
>retro vidya collecting boom begins
>mfw I bought SNES for 99 dollars

Oh yeah, I was a moron.

>>424224
Seriously though, it's good that you got over your fanboyness as soon as you did. It can be painful at first, but you can look back on it and laugh.

I went through a similar thing with the N64.

I've never really regretted selling or getting rid of vidya consoles before - mostly because I just rented, I guess.

There was one time we sold our SNES at a garage sale, but that was my fault for not paying attention when she asked me. At least someone else got to use it.

>>424746
After having made a couple of bad mistakes selling stuff, I probably never will again unless someone is pointing a gun at my head.

>>424475

I just sold an SNES for 90 dollars.

You are not the only moron.

I don't get why people don't understand that what they get isn't going to be close to something's "value".

You sell it, they have to sell it again at value, if they give you its value they won't make a profit.

>>424782
But there's value, and then there's ridiculous inflation. Pic highly related.

>>423685
dat shamfur dispray

>>423575
Thanks for letting us know it was a black guy, Jerry...We could have forgiven her for her whorish ways, but with a person with a different skin color? Unforgivable. /sarcasm

Also: Stop with the ridiculous stories. It's like /vr/pasta.

>mfw I sold $4000 worth of videogames over two years on Kijiji last year and this year in order to fund my dream
>tfw I failed to succeed in my dream

NES, SNES, SAT, GB, GBA, DS, PS1, PS2, PS3, GCN, GEN, GG, I sold it all except for a couple pieces. Now it's all gone, all gone... at the very least, my friend recently agreed to sell me back my copy of Megaman X4 for Saturn that I sold to him. That's something...

>>424849
THAT'S WHAT YOU GET, FAGGOT

>>424849
what was your so called dream, a gf?

>>424849
Tell us so we can laugh at you, faggot.

I didn't sell my games, I lost them ALL when my house burned down

>>425010
lol

>>425025
ehehehehhehehehehehehehehehehehuehuehuehuehue
faggot

>>425036

>>425043
I've mostly rebuilt my collection and have added more. Starting to collect Saturn stuff now.

>>424849
was it like a business or something that failed

>>425064

Basically, yes.

>>425076
Tell us a story about your life's failures.

>>425076
that sucks dude. coulda been much worse though for what you lost.

>>424803
I can't wait for the earth bound bubble to pop

>>425087

I also sold half of my non-videogame possessions. My house is pretty bare at the moment. I even sold my computer; I'm writing this message on a $200 netbook I've been using since last year. I can't emulate anything higher than SNES on this thing.

But yeah, I guess it could've been worse.

>>425084

I actually don't want to go in depth about what happened. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't, that's all.

>be 7
>beat Goonies II
>parents tell me about a stand at the mall that trades games
>take game to mall and browse the stand's games
>gold cartridge catches my eye
>The Legend of Zelda for trade + $5
>proud purchase moment

>>425136
understandable - just a case of people wanting to learn from the mistakes of others as far as a business goes. no insults from me toward you, but I've been brainstorming a business myself for a while too.

>>425136
DO IT FAGGOT

>>425136
tell me you opened a foodcart.

also, I'm sorry Anon. At least you have a roof over your head unlike >>425010. Keep your chin up, things will eventually get better for you. Emulating SNES games isn't too bad.

>>425178

Nah, but maybe I should have. There hasn't been a soft pretzel business in my city for like 20 years. That means there's an opening! Or not.

>>425157

Yeah, I've definitely learned from my mistakes. I went in a bit over my head, so my only advice to you would be to make sure you have established capital first, even if it means working a dead end job for 5+ years. It's better than taking out a loan

>Sealed Game Boy and Game Boy Pocket
>Try to sell at vidya store
"Well, I'm going to have to open the packaging to see if they work. I'll give you 20 bucks each if they work."
>They're unopened. Every damn seal and paper in there, even with the Shopko price stickers on the wrap
"And you can take 20 fucks each." I said.

>>425204
>this nigga had to declare bankruptcy
Tell us how you failed yourself, faggot

>>425230
>implying bankruptcy is failure
I know this one company that went through bankruptcy three times to avoid payments, came back with a new name each time.

>>425243
But bankruptcy is failure. And that's pure fraud.

>>424817
>/sarcasm
Fuck off to somewhere else.

>>425230
I sure as hell wouldn't say anything if the entire thread just kept calling me a faggot.

which is a shame because I'm genuinely curious.

>Get PS1
>Be bored of games and plow through 100's of RPG's with older brother quickly
>Start trading games into gamestop
>for years never hold onto games
>can't remember plot/name of game from several titles


This continued for years because we were poor... I'd always beat a game, turn it in for shit money

>>425258
I know what they did was fraud, but for many bankruptcy helps you more than it is bad for you.

>>424210

It's okay, bro. It just got darker and replaced all my shitter magazines.

>got rid of NES and 100-ish carts
>gave away my SNES
>Sold Super Smash Bros and Donkey Kong 64 for practically peanuts at a video game store

I cry myself to sleep

>>424047
It's not gay if the balls don't touch

>Try to sell SNES games when I was a kid at a garage sale
>Parents stop me from doing it

And to this day I have never sold a video game to anyone or traded one for anything.

>>425107
>some big store like BestBuy goes out of business because everybody just buys electronics from Amazon and Newegg
>their mass amounts of unsold 16-bit and 32-bit era games have to get liquidated
>sealed copies of all this shit for fabulous prices

I can dream, right?

>>425415
They don't have those, dude.

They liquidated them years ago.

>>424374
> No MGS

Wait, so your brother thinks GTA is cool, but games where you get to be a badass espionage agent isn't? What a faggot.

Then again, Metal Gear Solid 2...

>>425442
>mfw my local Best Buy still has a sealed copy of Battlefield Vietnam for full retail
you'd be surprised at what's in the storage there

>>424817

go away

>>425468
Mine does too, but does that even count? It's not like old console games.

>>425514
you severely underestimate the laziness of Best Buy employees.

>>423575
Why did you waste my time Jerry

why

>>425415
This really does happen. There was a chain of media warehouse stores that went out of business around me a couple of years ago. They were liquidating tons of games from 16-bit era and up. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything worth buying.

hey anon remember that time you traded your psp for an ounce of weed

>>425621
Yup. Best decision I ever made. It was one of the later models that was difficult to mod, so no big loss.

>>425630
jokes on you, you don't need to flash the firmware anymore

>>425650
Oh well, still have a modded fat PSP. Love that fucking thing.

>>425621
Nigga I stored the weed in the disc tray on the thing, there was no other use for it.

Except playing MHFU, that was a huge ass game to have on a memory stick because of the semi-mandatory installs.

>>425621
This is actually how a majority of PSPs are purchased.

>>425265
Same here. I would love to open up a game store in my town, but I don't know shit about doing it.

>>425621
My mate actually did this, except with his PS3. He never even got the weed.

>>425729
It can be done. 3 different ones have opened in my town over the past 3 years. One of them has turned into a local chain.

I could never do it. Selling games just squicks me.

The only games I've ever sold are shovelware that came bundled with a console I bought off craigslist or something.

>mfw they offer me 75 cents for a boxed DDR game with the dance pad

>>425759
>somehow, letting people bring vidya (potentially with gems) to you for you to buy gives you the squicks

>>425782
But I wouldn't be able to keep them. I'd have to sell them to keep the store afloat. Hurts the soul.

>>425759
yeah, it can happen, it's just tough and requires a lot of work - which is fine.

>>425790
>not keeping the ones you really want and selling the ones you sorta want, but know that they can bring in loadsa dosh
do you even shop management?

>>425802
Just don't have the chops.

>>425621
>remember that time you traded your psp for an ounce of weed
I don't even smoke, but I'll make that trade right now.

>>425621
You could make worse trades

I had collected around 10 duplicates of PC games over the years and decided to sell them off (EB Games). I can't remember which they were, but I know a few of them were selling for around $40 in the shop. The total for all 10 games came to $11 something. That was the first and last time I even bothered trying to sell games at a shop.

>>425621
that sounds like a good deal, i got a quarter for mine.

>>425621
No, but I remember the time I traded a SNES because I owed my dealer for a gram of weed.

>>425854
that's what you get for frontin' you sack of shit.

>>425854
>couldn't scrape $20 together
>sold his SNES
You should be ashamed.

>>425790
Just buy them straight out. Someone brings in a gem, set it in the back or take it home until you get the cash for it, ring it up. That would be one of the main perks of working at a game shop. First dibs yo.

>>425905
I did that a couple of times when I worked at an EB back in the day. Picked up a few of the more obscure PS1 Square RPGs that way. Only ended up paying $10 for each of them. Rang them up as "misc video game accessory"

>>425854
thats what you get for being a stoner moron

>>425923
nah, that's what he gets for being a broke ass piece of shit with no priorities.

>>425876
I was 13, not exactly like I was working full time or anything.

>>425936
yeah, that's probably more like it. some people have their shit straight when they can afford various excess luxuries such as that. some don't.

>>425953
>13
>frontin pot
>parents don't give you money
>parents let you sell snes

are you black?

>>423906
>>423862
sup
lets play sum gamz

>>426000
The SNES I got from a friend some years back, not even sure they knew I had it. And I didn't want to ask my parents for money considering it was my debt.

Not black, just not up to bumming my parents money for drugs.

>>426032
saw too much of that in high school, so glad that I never had any interest in drugs/alcohol/smoking

>>426048
yea... the popularity and partying is really hard to deal with in HS. not to mention the lack of downsides upon graduation.

>>426067
well if you had to blow your cash on pot and smokes and drink when you were in high school I suppose I feel sorry for you. I came out with friends, more money, and no smoking addiction.

>>426192
i didn't really blow my cash. i had a fucking blast with it. good times, man. you can try to make it seem bad if it makes you feel better.

All the game's I've sold were either shitty bargain bin GBC games, or shitty bargain bin XBOX games, with a handful of gamecube and 360 titles tossed into the mix. Never gave any of my games/consoles away except once for my distant cousin's bithday (see below)

Only things I regret was when I gave my GBC away a few years ago (sentimental reasons only, I have two GBA's), and when i sold Clay Fighter 63 1/3 (paid a $1, but I dont own an N64 so I used it to get $4 in credit instead)
I also kinda regret selling Greg Hastings Paintball for the XBOX, but my LGS sells it for $3 so thats not that big of a problem.

I did however throw my original XBOX out after the power supply died, I also threw away my spare PSP 3000 after stepping on it and damaging the screen. That was before either of them could be modded and I had 360, but they're also both easy fixes.

>Buy DS-phat off a friend for $20
>Use it for about 2 1/2 years
>Sell to pawn shop for $25
>Buy DSiXL off same friend for $40

>>423136
I brought in my boxed version of secret of mana, just out of curiosity. The store clerk scanned the box, and could only give me 50 cents for it.

It was ridiculous.

>>426378
>That was before either of them could be modded and I had 360
Did I read this wrong, or did you just say that the 360 was released before the Xbox could be modded?

I had Nes, Snes, Gbc,Gba,Genesis, N64,ps1 and all of them with tons of games.
Had to sell all to pay fucking debts.

>mfw I had to sell them for almost nothing
>mfw it wasn't enough money to pay all the debts
>life =shit

>selling jultidningar with my brother
>Be a retard and always choose the game boy/NGC/etc while brother gets the money atleast x2 the value of any of these things.
>Mfw realizing this years later.

One of those years this happened:
>Get star fox adventures
>Gamecube doesn't ship until mid january
>Doesn't have a memory card
>Shit out of cash
>Mfw

>>423932
okay, this pisses me off.
what year was this?

sold this for 5 dollars

>>430848
You lie, because in the original thread, someone offered much more than that.

I once bought a final fantasy edition wonderswan crystal for 100 bucks, just to own it. I tried to sell it to a game store and they told me they would give me "10 dollars, because that is just some knockoff handheld with a bootlegged final fantasy game"

I later sold it to the owner of the OTHER game store in town, for his own personal collection. Gave me $135 for it, so I ended up coming out on top.

>>431004

Wow, what dipshits.

>>423405
>be 11 in 2002
>have a Game Gear with magnifier and carrying case and 8 games and ac adapter
>get the great idea to sell it on ebay because my grandmother was selling things on there too
>sell it for $20
>regret it for the rest of my life

So in my town, there were 2 game stores- Mario's and Play N Trade

Mario's was a welcoming place to gamers, and priced very fairly, usually below Ebay. They were a Mom n Pop store in a small corner of the mall. This place was like my second home.

Play N Trade was a national chain, and they were unwelcoming and never did price adjusts. They priced games at Ebay average price plus shipping. This place was like Mordor. We don't speak of it.

Now, Play N Trade folded due to shady business practices, and the store was bought by an employee who inherited all the old stock for free. He manages it like a mother fucking saint, pricing all items at market value and doing price adjusts to where he just needs to turn a profit, and runs the store on money from repairing old consoles.

Mario's owners (an elderly couple from Arizona) opened up another branch of the store and are turning it into a chain. They have taken up a new policy of pricing directly from Ebay, and doing zero price adjusts.

>Walk into Play N Trade (Now called Game Changerz)
>Link's Awakening DX (CiB Good+)
>$49.99
>Me "Hey man, can I talk you down a bit on this?"
>Manager "Sure, how's $30 sound?"
>Me "Hmm, could you do $20?"
>Manager "Like $19.99? Sure, if you get another game at full price"
So I bought Link's Awakening and Super Mario Land, all for $25.00

>Walk into Mario's
>Pokemon Gold (Loose Cart NM+)
>$24.99
>Me "Hey could you go to $20 on this?"
>Manager "No price adjusts. You will be hard pressed to find a better deal."
>I pull it up on Amazon for $18
>Manager "Well shipping will put that well over $30"
>Me "I have Amazon Prime. Shipping is free"
>Manager "Well then just get it if it is such a good deal. You have no idea what it will look like"

The management of the store that was so good to me in the past are turning into bastardmen, and the old shithole is becoming a mecca for gamers. What is happening? I feel like times are changing.

>>433402
Life can be quite unpredictable in the marketplace eh?

A Electronics Boutique store gave me a copy of Earthbound for free yesterday as they were trying to get rid of it, I just saw it on the counter and said to myself...mmm it must cost a pair of balls. Eyeballs that is.

I ask them, how much for earthbound?

The employee on the counter says:
It's free, if you buy 50$ worth in games.

Shit, I said to myself, I don't have 50 bucks.

I decide to make a bet to the employee, If I can maintain 3 boxes in the air for one minute I win the game.

He says: If you lose? What do I get?

I'll suck your cock.

The employee whispers to me: You know what? Meet me at the parking lot near the trash at 11 ' o clock, if you suck my cock, I'll give you the game.

I'm gay, and apparently he was gay too.

Guess what? I got to suck cock AND get a FREE, and the employee became my boyfriend.

>>433535
A free earthbound*

>>433535
Boyfriend for one day?

>>433535
Sounds like a fake story but still a better one than most of the ones here.

B-

>>433576
Nope, we got married legally.

>>433643

I need proof of this

a snes copy of earthbound next to a dick getting sucked

>>433535

>>433684
Oh shit!

>be like 12
>rent WWF Wrestlemania for SNES at FunCoLand
>parents ask me if I returned it while I was with a reletive
>said I did, but kept game for myself
>still wonder to this day about it

No local stores here. ;-;

>>433535
Also I have a huge hard on

>>423685
dayum_shame,jpg

>>423772
>>423772
$600? I'd have made that deal too.

>>430995
Doesn't mean I didn't sell it....

>>423405
I miss my Master System, I bought it with so many boxed games when I was only 4 years old.

I can't even find the very same model with a built-in version of Hang On anymore.

My local "retro games shop":

>$15-20 for disgusting, mushy controllers with worn out membranes and all of the food and dead skin scraped out.

>$25 for controllers that didn't need the food and dead skin scraped out, but still needed new membranes

>didn't bother looking at anything else, left

>>434284
That's how Play N Trade used to be. They charged $30 for first party SNES controllers, and had their own off brand ones for $20.

Lucky they folded.

>>434308
play n trade is a franchise and is doing pretty well overall actually

>>434448
Well shit. I know all of the utah stores closed. I think they were all owned by the same uber douche though.

>>433959
>>433770
>>433684
>>433742
>>433574
>>433576
Yes of course I was fucking lying,
I thought the E.B. was a dead giveaway.
Didn't the Electronics Boutique chain get renamed to GameStop since GameStop, Electronics Boutique and Babbages were from the same owners?

>>433684
>>433770
Also, no, I won't do that, I don't own a Earthbound cart, and I'm not gonna suck dick I just wanted people to get a good laugh out of the story.

>eight years old
>tell dad I want to trade in my Genesis/Saturn with all my games for a Playstation
>"No, son. Those might be worth something some day. Tell you what, you're about old enough to receive an allowance for your chores, so we'll do that instead."

I learned that it's a father's responsibility to restrain the retardation of his children.

Pawn Shop in 2006

$300 for The Legend of Dragoon

Went in there one to get some cash for my Xbox and the few games I had for it because I recently learned of Super Starfox Weekend and I had to get it. Offered me $20 for the system and $2 for each game.

Good thing the Albertan government decided to give everyone $400 because they had all this excess oil money a week later or I never would have gotten Super Starfox Weekend.

Come to think of it /vr/. Is there a website that reviews Retro video game shops to fleamarkets? I think /vr/ would benefit this if everyone pitched in and made some sort of info app or even a pastebin.

i guess i get ripped off by my own brother

>never trade in any of my games or systems unless i have extras
>brother took my gba sp with my permission and lost it
>brother traded in a large variety of our n64 and gamecube games
>brother almost borrowed my ds lite to use because he traded in his own
>brother habitually makes poor decisions with his and my own god damn game stuff and almost always regrets it

now i'll never get my fucking copy of four swords back god dammit

dude's five and a half years older then me you'd think he would know better

>>434676
That game is worth money?

>have copy of the 6 in 1 for NES
>guy wants it on Craigslist but wants to talk to me for deal
>meet him
>it was a 15 year old
>he wanted it for 5dolla
>mfw

slapped his shit for driving out halfway across the state

>>425348
this is teal, 2nd best color

>>434754
No.

Okay, Anons, taking this subject in a bit of a reversal, here.

>Looking through Goodwill for PC Peripherals and /diy/-salvage material (And any other intersting knicknacks).
>Find an old-school Game Boy Carry-All Case (The big, white plastic one with the black clips and webstrap.
>"Huh, never thought I'd ever see one of these again..."
>Pick up Carry All Case
>Almost drop Carry All Case due to weight
>"Dafuq? Thing's heavy as fuck..."
>Lightbulb goes off above head.
>"Mine!"
>Inspect price scribbled on case in China Marker
>$3.85
>"Oh hell, yes! Definately mine!"
>Find Fiancee' and open case with her there

The case still had the original strap on it, had the original Game Boy (White Plastic, 4 AA's, B/W Dot Matrix LCD) with the plug for the Game Link Cable still in the socket, still had the battery cover, and had a Link Cable and SMB: 6 Golden Coins in the cartridge slot.

I kept my GBA and all the GB/GBA Games I had as a Teen. (Learned my lesson when my Sis kept stealing my shit and saying "I bought it on eBay...", she tried it with my GBA, and my only response was "Then explain how my initials are carved under the batteries..." Mom checked, and she never stole from me again...because I "Inherited" her entire Manga collection, at parental discretion.) So, basically, I now have an original, Near Mint system on which to play the old cartridges on.

Moral: Always keep your eyes open, you never know when a killer deal will pop up.

>>434756
Not a retro story, but related. I'm from a pretty rough area, I drive +30 miles to this posh community to buy a PS3 on craigslist. I get to this big ass house and ring the door bell and people answer and take me inside. The PS3 is sitting there next to a kid who looks real nervous. So I say "can I see it turn on?" and they tell little Jimmy or whatever to take me to his room to plug it in and turn it on

>>437891
And he plugs it in and everything looks good and he puts in Red Dead Redemption and starts playing ... and there's no sound. And he's trying to pretend like he can hear it but I turn up the volume all the way and nothing is coming out. Finally he admits the sound has gone out and he didn't tell any one. What a little shit!

I was kinda pissed because I'd driven to another town to almost get scammed into buying a bum PS3, but before I could say anything I remembered where I was and if I got mad they're probably have the community's segway police on my ass in a heartbeat so I just walked out and drove all the way back PS3-less.

>>437929
You did nothing bad but... in this story I feel like you're the asshole.
There is a small kid that broke his PS3 and is afraid of telling anyone. And you are afraid to tell his parents like a normal human being what is wrong with the PS3. Also you must really look like a bum that they would call the cummunity police.

>>423575

You have too many aunts.

>>423405
>Sell MVC 2 on the Dreamcast for $15 at Gamecrazy for State of Emergency
>Two years later MVC 2 prices sky rocket
>mfw

>no chance to trade my old vidya as a kid since I lived in a third world shithole
>but left my console and games there when I moved to europe

not sure how to feel

>>438287
>Buying State of Emergency

>>438340
Trust me. I regretted doing that right away. I thought it would be good after seeing the Rockstar logo. I was wrong.

>>438348
It's alright man. I feel that way every time I think about Fable.

>>438348
That feeling is even worse with LA Noire. Holy fuck what a letdown.

>>423136

Man I hate people like you. I worked at a local store and assholes like you came in all the time.

That's like taking a nice car to a dealership and then being surprised that the value is markedly lower than what you'd sell for person to person on kelly blue book.

Nobody is going to come in and buy those games at full value, and they're gonna sit there for forever.

>>438454
Most people are too stupid to realize the concept of turning profits.

>had a mint CIB Chrono Trigger as a kid
>hated the game back then
>traded it for a Mortal Kombat 4 cart with this black kid I met earlier that day
>cart was busted and had all sorts of glitches
>went to his house next day, find out his nigger dad sold all his games (including my cart) to buy booze
>kid's brother comes in and see the MK4 cart with me
>thinks I stole it, black kid says I did it
>nigger brother punches me in the face and take his game back

>>438539
Just a correction, it's MK3, Ultimate edition I think, not 100% sure because I've never been a fan of MK, which only makes the situation worse, I know, I still wonder WTF I was doing.

>>438559
We all did that shit when we were younger. It was harder to get games when you didn't have a job or money to speak of. I ended up doing dumb trades like that too.

>>425505
>>425261
>racism
Fuck off back to /b/

>>424475
I bought one with SMW for 20 Eurodollars two years ago.

>>434685
That's actually a pretty great idea. I'm sure that /vr/ blankets most of the country, and most of us use local shops to buy games.

>>425669
Mine is dying.