/vr/ - Retro Games

>>467362
One of the 5 managers left that hasn't heard of ebay.

>>467362
Wow you lucky faggot

>>467362
I paid $215 for mine
>feelsbadman.png

Paid $215 for mine
>feelsbadman.png

>>467362
Neat. You have the devils own luck.

I know a guy who paid $215 for his.
Bet he feels badman

you lucky motherfucker

>Patchouge Yaphank Medford

WAS ONE TOWN NAME NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU

I haven't been this overwhelmed since I had to go to the Mastics Moriches Shirley Community Library.

You shoulda paid him 20 man. Took advantage of his ignorance after he helped you.

I'm sitting on 500 copies, I just slowly sell them like diamonds, some loser paid me $215

>>467442
>ignorance
What? No. People who pay $300 for a game that isn't even rare are the ignorant ones.

>>467442
He was aware of how much it was worth, I told him when I originally gave him my number.

I also got A Link To The Past did the same price.

>>467362
Holy shit, that's nice.
I mean, the game should really be worth that in the first place, but still.

>no box, no strategy guide

donotwant

He's a bro OP, you should let him know that, buy more stuff from him and let him keep the change or something like that.

This reminds me of when my son bought a copy of this for $215. I'm sure he feels bad man, but that's the least you'd expect, after he disgraced our family.

>partially torn label

Absolutely disgusting.

Every purchase of earthbound which is less than $50 is fighting the inflation

good job OP

>>467663
I will not stand for this injustice any longer. I have a dream that men from all walks of life will be able to buy Earthbound for a reasonable price.

>dat receipt
>mfw i live in medford

get out of my town OP

>>467689
my wallet shares that dream, man

Nice OP, that's $210 cheaper than what some fag I know paid for his. I bet he cries at night.

>>467446

That's not ignorance, though. They pay that price because that's what it goes for.

>>467689

While I love the fact that he managed to get Earthbound for that price, I'm still all about letting the idiots try and scam people with 300+ prices. Let them waste their hipsterbucks, the game ain't that good. Certainly not on the pedestal everyone and their mom seems to place it on.

>>467498
Well, for that price I wouldn't complain.

>>467740

>hipster

Yeah all these people who want the same thing I do are hipsters.

>tfw you live in some shitty 3rd world country where nobody bought that game back in the day

>>467456
a lot of thrift store people are really down to earth most of the time(i've met some real pricks at there too though) and they get most if not all of their stock for free from the people, so kinda see that and actually give back when they can(most of the time), thats why i like shopping there and it promotes recycling.

>>467719
>>467421

Oh you!

>>467760

see >>467496
>>467443
>>467431

>>467756
Not him, but honestly Earthbound isn't that great of a game. I played it for about an hour once. Never longer than that, though. I certainly wouldn't pay more than $5 for it, either.

>>467739
Yes, and the reason that's "what it goes for" is because of ignorant fucks who think it's rare.

If you pay over twenty bucks for Earthbound, you're encouraging eBay scalping fuckstains to charge that much, and are basically the cancer killing retro game collecting.

>>467870

Nintendo not re-releasing it for the VC is apart of the reason.

>>467853

It is a decent game. But it's like when people say, "Majora's Mask is better than OOT", "gen 1 sux!!!!" and all that. I see it everyday.

i know that feel op

>>467362
SUFFOLKBRO!!!! How old are you. Let's see if we went to Longwood together.

>>467901

What is that?

>>467901
I thought those were all sports games.

Never played or herd about it... what am I losing and why should I try it?

>>467362
Thanks for your Soul bro, I'll come for it on your deathbed.

this guy here >>467905
I literally live about 4 minutes from Savers. Monster Mini Golf ftw

Where the fuck are the SNES games in Savers? The only good thing I ever found was a hardcover copy of Infinite Jest for $2

>>467908
they are, someone photoshopped it to earthbound carts

>>467910
>Never played or herd about it

>>467910
>losing
You're losing nothing. It's just an old-school RPG for the SNES with a quirky story. Some people (hipsters) think of it as God's greatest gift to man, but it's honestly not as amazing as people think it is.

If you like playing RPGs with an interesting story you should try it out.

>>467929
Calm your tits, it's not that amazing of a game.
Mother 3 is better anyway.

>>467756

No, but the vast majority of them are. Some genuinely want the thing to have, hold and cherish, then there's the fags who want to pay hundreds of dollars for a piece of plastic so they can say HEY LOOK AT MY EXPENSIVE PLASTIC CARTRIDGE AND BOW DOWN BECAUSE I'M 2KEWL4SKOOL.

>>467362
Not nearly the same level of impressive, but found snes Sparkster and Pocky & Rocky for $8 each at local used game store this week. If it's not chrono trigger or first party they just assume its worthless

>>467928
Honestly, EB, FF4-6, CT and the soulblazer games are the only 16 bit Jrpgs that didn't feel like empty shells. The concept of the MOTHER games is intriguing from an artistic standpoint considering who the creator is, his motivations for making the series, what he aimed to achieve with the games, etc. The backlash against the idea of the game being Hipster is just as trite as the endless praise and circlejerking any mention of this game causes, especially on this board. The LttP vs. LA and EB shaming leads me to believe a lot of people here are younger than 22 and have paranoiac fantasies of tumblr takeovers and that 2009 anti-hipster thought process which renders them almost nothing more but a nerdy, ambivalent philistine. Regardless, I am fit, extroverted, and equipped with a large cock, and I must go attend to my social obligations.

>check ebay
>dem prices

wtf someone explain me why. I guess it has nothing to do with the game in itself, but about what it did/meant in its time or something like that...

>>467985
copy of Earthbound*

Got my copy from a WoW video a long time ago. The giant box that came with the strategy guide too, however the box is bleached white from sun exposure. Other than that, decent condition.

>>467982
faggots

>>467982
completely false hype, it's not "worth" nearly that much but it "goes" for around that.

I dont know who is paying that much, who the actual buyers are, but they're fucking idiots to pay over 10x the game's value (which we'll say is $20).

>>467982
Look at the increase in price on pricecharting over the years despite no real change in rarity. At this point you may as well repro the cart to get it for a better price despite the fact that it isn't a rare game. Uncommon, but not rare.

>>467905

Went to bellport, haha.

oh my cod, 5$ nice luck

>the only person in 2013 who paid for earthbound

>>468017
Damn. Well I'm gonna be going to Savers more often now. They had a sick barber chair there for like 6 months once

>>467689
If only there were some way everyone could play it for free.

>no package
>no manual
>torn lable
4.99 sounds fair

5 bux is all that game is worth.

>itt mad nerds justify their not having EB in their collections by saying "it's not that great" and "forced expensive" when in fact they are just butthurt that one of the most unanimously praised and loved games of that generation will forever remain out of their grasp

This board became hivemindy so fucking quickly

>>468082
some guy on vr was asking for $100+ on one in even worse condition (label was 1/2 torn off)

i swear, this hype...

Go put it up for auction on eBay, wait till the last minute of bid then remove it. Show us how much it was close to being sold for.

DAMN OP what a stroke of luck. Good job getting it for an appropriate price and keeping that inflation down.

Snatched mine at an estate sale a few years ago in a box of assorted vidya. Took it right from the hands of a /v/irgin.

>>467976
You never have played the dragon quest games? What about Lufia 2 (much better than earthbound), or Shining Force series.

All of these games I regard as better than Earthbound or Mother.

>>468121
>one of the most unanimously praised and loved games of that generation

On Rǝddit and Ebay, maybe

>>468143
What is?

Not as good as Battletoads.

>>467976
>I am fit, extroverted, and equipped with a large cock

Wohohoho, you must be a total badass.. professing just how badass you are on the internet, that takes a real badass!

>>468145
Earthbound

>>468165
>MacBook Pro for 99 bucks.

How old/working?

>>468057

That Savers has some pretty good deals sometimes.

I got a Sega Saturn for 35 bucks and my friend got a MacBook Pro for 99 bucks.

>>468173

It was one of the first MacBook Pros, but it worked fine. Just needed a battery and the proper charger.

>>467870

But that's wrong, you dumb ass. Some things get priced higher than others. EB is not the only game this has happened to. If people will pay it, the price goes up.

Same shit happened with Mega Man X2/3, and those games aren't rare at all.

>>467882

Also this.

>>467957

Uh huh. And everyone who's willing to pay that price is clearly a hipster.

>>468165

>Systems not organized by gen or company

Shamefur dispray.

>>468182
Good find then.

Grats, OP. now sell that on ebay and make a cool 100 bucks off it.

>>467362
>go to local game store that used to be incredibly awesome, owner would often take off the price of tax for me, would give me buy 1 get 1 deals randomly, would give me free cheap games sometimes
>ended up selling it to a different team of people
>they turned it into a shitty thrift-esque store with a main focus on vidya, like 1/10th of the collection it had before
>go in the other day
>FFVII, not even black label, $65

laughed hard then felt crushed and left.

>>468210
>only 100
150 ending profit easily if OP was a dick

>>467438
I lol'd.

>>467362
You lucky bastard, OP-kun. I've have mine for years already. But that is some crazy luck.

In related EB bullshit: I've been waiting to post this image cap from an SNK thread. Some guy traded a Neo Geo console plus games for a fucking Earthbound cart.

>>468252

I remember that thread.

He made the right choice in that trade

>>468247
Well the slightly torn cover sticker might make it harder to get that price.

>>468205
Yeah, these are middle class hipsters. Poor hipsters go around talking about Zelda, if you dare ask a hipster about any other game besides nintendo crap, their mind will explode or they will act as though all other games are totally uninteresting.

>>468258
People pay $150 for the box alone.
I'm sure they won't care about a little tear.

>>468252
Holy fucking shit, this is amazing.

>>468289
Fair enough then.

I was riding my bike through the sketchy part of town back when I was fifteen and snagged Earthbound and Lufia II for $5 a pop. Read about there being a block sale in the classifieds that morning. Week later I got Chrono Trigger at the video store across the street for $15 back when FuncoLand wanted $80.

>>468289
I'm going to start making reproductions of Earthbound and scamming the fuck out of hipsters lol

>>468316
Dude, just make reproductions of the boxes. Much harder to figure out you scammed them.

>>468316

Oh yeah, that's totally legal.

>>468335
Hey, if they still work without the game causing the copy protection to happen there's no real difference.
Furthermore, why not flood the shops with copies? It will put down the prices if there's more to be sold.

>>468335
Nobody really cares about snes games anymore, nintendo sure as hell doesn't.

>>468326
How could they tell it's a reproduction cart if you reproduce the actual pcb, also if you could reproduce the whole thing flawlessly and then cellophane wrap it, who the hell would actually unseal it to check it's authenticity?

>>468121
>forever remain out of their grasp
Emulation is a thing. Perhaps you've heard of it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Earthbound-SNES-Super-Nintendo-w-Box-Players-Guide-/111050872004?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item19db25d4c4

>14 bids
>there is 5 days left

And it's USED.

>>468350
>Furthermore, why not flood the shops with copies? It will put down the prices if there's more to be sold.

Err, no it won't. Earthbound isn't expensive because it's rare. It's expensive because that's what people pay for it. Supply doesn't influence the price here.

Not to mention, people will probably be able to tell it's fake.

>>468382
Rare means it's hard to find. It's that word in particular that has caused the spike in pricing.

>>468368
>Started at $50.
It was nice while it lasted.

>>468382
I doubt they could actually tell it's fake..

I would be meticulous about every detail in my reproduction..

Also, if you were going to do cartridge only reproductions, there are actually no serial numbers or anything on snes carts to verify if they are authentic.

>>468397

No it hasn't. People have been using RARE to describe common shit on Ebay for FOREVER, not to mention that EB has been more expensive than most SNES games for a very, very long time now.

Blame 1) the fact that people really want the game and 2) Nintendo hasn't rereleased it.

Do you people have ANY idea what you're even commenting on?

>>468357
I check every cart's PCB, especially if they are expensive.(Not that I would buy this for 200 bucks) Plus there are a few other signs, like faded colors on the label, the back label stamp and the code next to the connector pins.

>>468412
>I doubt they could actually tell it's fake..

Uh, yes, people can tell.

>>468408
How do you check the code on the connector pins? What do these codes mean? I've never seen this code at all.

>>468417
Hipsters aren't people though.

>>468417
Not the average hipster

>>468424
>>468431

Why do you people have such a hard-on for hipsters? It's time to put that word to rest again, because it's lost meaning. Again.

>>468368

Looks great, but I can't see myself spending more than $50 on a single retro game. For that kind of money I could start a decent Sega Saturn collection, or start working on my Wii/Gamecube collection.

Now this is just silly: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Earthbound-Cardboard-Insert-Mint-Complete-CIB-SNES-Nintendo-Super-NES-/160988274824?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item257ba62088&nma=true&si=SJPCwu8ikalX%252FtiX%252Bb2d70ZwtiE%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

>>468424
>>468431
There's no such thing as hipsters.

We're all hipsters.

>>468121

Rented the original cart way back when I was a kid. It was shit. More recently played the entire thing on emulator. It was just as shitty now, too. No dude, the game is crap.

But if you want keep telling yourself it's amazing and flawless in every way and that because some retard is willing to get scammed 300 bucks for a fucking SNES game that there are literally shitpiles of, and even funnier, can enjoy in its entirety for free, feel free to do so.

>>468424
>Oh look it's this argument again

Your plan is not going to work, people can tell.

>>468434
So nobody's real?

>>468434
>>468437
>>468448
>>468431
>>468424
“Hipster” is a term co-opted for use as a meaningless pejorative in order to vaguely call someone else’s authenticity into question and, by extension, claim authenticity for yourself.

It serves no conversational function and imparts no information, save for indicating the opinions and preferences of the speaker.

Meanwhile, a market myth has sprung up around the term, as well as a cultural bogeyman consisting of elusive white 20-somethings who wear certain clothes (but no one will agree on what), listen to certain music (no one can agree on this either), and act a certain way (you’ve probably sensed the pattern on your own).

You can’t define what “that kind of behavior or fashion or lifestyle” actually is, nor will you ever be able to. That’s because you don’t use “hipster” to describe an actual group of people, but to describe a fictional stereotype that is an outlet for literally anything that annoys you.

The twist, of course, is that if it weren’t for your own insecurities, nothing that a “hipster” could do or wear would ever affect you emotionally. But you are insecure about your own authenticity - “Do I wear what I wear because I want to? Do I listen to my music because I truly like it? I’m certainly not like those filthy hipsters!” - so you project those feelings.

Suffice it to say, no one self-identifies as a hipster; the term is always applied to an Other, to separate the authentic Us from the inauthentic, “ironic” Them.

tl;dr: if you believe hipsters exist, you are a plebeian.

>>468421
Sorry, I've been a little vague. I mean this code right here. However, there is even a better method. See these pins? This one has a greenline. For US cartridges, this means it was manufactured in Japan. Mexico-assembled cartridges don't have the greenline, and since all Earthbound carts are made in Mexico...

>>468459
>You can’t define what “that kind of behavior or fashion or lifestyle.

Buying a game that you never intend to play to make yourself cool.

>>468459
That is perfect. Did you write that rant yourself or copypasta? Either way, that nails the whole thing completely. Good on you.

>>468459
Thank you, based copypasta.

>>467362
Not to change the subject, but why would they put the price sticker there!?

>>468459

I recommend reading Christian Lander's Stuff White People Like. It gives you a very good description of what the term hipster means.

>>468439
Labels can be made to look old, circuit boards can be reproduced flawlessly, there's no way this plan is going to fail.

I'm going to start buying many many sports games, reproducing the sticker and have my aunt print them (she owns some fancy sticker printing shit) I'm going to reproduce the pcb in eagle. After I assemble it all and what not, I can emulate the aging process in various ways.

I'm going to be rich.

>>468483
I'd invest in you.

What is a thrift store?

>tfw UK

>>468138
Not the guy you responded to, but I actually don't really like the Lufia games. I think they're okay, but not my kind of game. They feel very generic. And while I do like the Dragon Quest games (nothing gets me in a mood for adventuring quite like them), I honestly do think EarthBound is better than them. The feel of the game, the atmosphere, the quirky humor, the music; all of these things are what make EarthBound one of my favorite RPGs. It's certainly flawed in several regards and I won't say it's God's gift to man; it isn't. A lot of what it does do well appeals to me, though.

That said, anyone paying more than $20 for any SNES game is fucking retarded. As somebody who is a fan of the game series as a whole (including the first game which I think is alright but was pretty much improved upon in every way with the sequel), it pisses me off that you have these hipster fucks who are inflating the price for LOLNERDCRED or whatever the fuck.

Fuck them.
Fuck them for thining that price is reasonable for a 10+ year old game and fuck them for increasing the price to retarded levels.
Fuck them for parroting how great this game is only to raise everyone who plays it expectations to unreasonable levels.

I just want a working copy of EarthBound to play on my SNES. Mostly for collector reasons and partially because I like to play games on the actual systems if I can.

>>468489
What's wrong with that spot? At least it's not directly on the label.

>>468489
Because they're fuckin dum-dums and probably display all the carts in a retarded manner. And obviously they can't into ebay or the internet because of that price. Truly incredible.

>>468510
>tfw UK
>tfw no earthbound
>tfw one decent expo every year
>tfw no retro game shops
>tfw only "thrift store" is cash converters

>>468459
>tl;dr: if you believe hipsters exist, you are a plebeian.

That sounded pretty hipsterish.

>>468483
How the hell would you reproduce this anyway? There are so many variables here...

All legit EB carts look like this on the inside, by the way.

>>468524
You don't understand how repro carts work, do you?

Besides, I'd say a good 90% of people buying EB at $350 on ebay are not bothering to crack the thing open.

>>468530
What expo and where?

>paying a huge amount of money for a piece of plastic with data in it instead of getting the data from your computer

Somewhere, a child begs for food.

>>468518
>And obviously they can't into ebay or the internet because of that price.

Yeah the thread. The manager was aware of how much it was worth before he even knew they had a copy in the back.

>be manager at shitty thrift store

>some 600 stone fedoralord walks in and asks about Earthbound

>tell him to fuck off, I intend to sell that shit for lods of emone

>grow a heart

>give it to him at a low ass price

>go home

>log on to /vr/

>I have no mouth and I must scream

>>468548
>>I have no mouth and I must scream
Now that is a game everyone should try playing once. After you've read the short story, of course.

>>468543
It's a $350 investment, though.
Why the fuck wouldn't you crack it open to see?

Hell, I ask the seller to crack open the casing for any used game I buy off of eBay just to verify it's the real deal, followed by cracking it open myself once I get it.

If I wanted a repo cart, I'd either make one or buy one myself.

>>468545
MCM next month.

>>467362
>Patchogue Yaphank Medford

Congrats, you live in Long Island's asshole.

>>468545
MCM London next month.

>>468559
Even if they are cd roms?

>>468559
What about a sealed package, would you open that up to verify it's authenticity?

If you say yes, you really would risk deprecating the value of your collection to verify it's authenticity?

>>468573
Oh, definitely then. Gotta' rip the full fucking label off of the CD.

no, but i verify the game through other means myself once i get it.

>>468581
I wouldn't worry about that since I actually intent to play the games I buy. So I guess that would be a "yes".

>>468543
Apparently you don't.

All repro carts aren't made from scratch to look exactly like >>468524, they are made using donor carts or look vastly different.

Any collector who knows what they are doing can recognize forged cartridges.

>>468595
>Oh, definitely then. Gotta' rip the full fucking label off of the CD.

It's the only way to tell.

>>468506
It's right where you insert the cartridge. I don't want sticky paper crap rubbing off directly inside of my system.

>>468595
I doubt you would be the buyer of a sealed copy of Earthbound going for 500$ than.

The average dick riding moron who would pay that price is going to treat it like the holy grail and dust fingerprints everyday never opening it.

Which is why my repro business is in full force.

>>468610
Oh, probably not. I want the game, I'm just unwilling to pay the price of it. I assumed at $350, though, it was just the cart that was for sale, not the full thing sealed.

>>467982
There's no "official" way to play it other than the cart, since lawsuity stuff is apparently preventing the game from a VC release. that, and the characters showed up in smash bros.

>>468610
Hah, are you saying you reseal and these morons fall for it?

>>468598
Find donor carts with identical chips?

replicate the pcb using software for making pcb's, send it off to a manufacturer and have a couple hundred, or thousand pcb's made that look identical to the original.. How are you going to tell that's a reproduction?

>>467982
Because those scratch and sniff cards are really what makes the game worth playing.

>>468613
Use rubbing alcohol and a rag to wipe off the excess sticky stuff.

>>468630
Yes, if you reseal a reproduction, they wouldn't dare open it to verify authenticity.

>>468635
Also, I'd like to state that this would not be illegal at all. reproducing the rom chips would be illegal. which is why you do this in the confines of your home.

>>468653
Damn. How much have you hustled hipsters for with that little trick?

>>468635
http://www.snescentral.com/pcbboards.php?chip=SHVC-1J3M-20

This is the PCB board that's used for Earthbound. It's also used for many other SNES RPGs including Chrono Trigger, Romancing SaGa 3, Secret of Evermore and Seiken Densetsu 3. However, it's notably also used for NHL 97, which makes for a perfect donor PCB. The only problem is making the chips look exactly like >>468524, plus the back label stamp.

Pic related, it's NHL 97.

>>467362
>Dat price

Wow, bro. you got ripped off. That games worth like 2 bucks, tops.

>>467362
>4.99

Huh.. thats about how much the game is actually worth

>>467916
a urinal

It's not even that I think it's a great game, it's just the execution and style that makes me NEED it for my collection.

I think the best part about this board is how chill everyone here is (for the most part). On any other board people would be calling "JEW YOU FUCKING JEW BASTARD FUCK YOU" and doxing you based on how many pixels in your picture were #dde3de then burning down your home.

Sage because not related, nice find OP.

>>468912
ding ding ding!

>>468926
>doesn't really collect
Have fun with your mario games bro I'll take some diversity.

>>468936
>collects games he doesn't like

>>468957
>making things up

I said I don't think it's a great game, not that I don't like it.

Please take your /b/ pics back to /b/

>>468930
>furry
>talking about grapes

Is this where the faggots name comes from?

>>468930
yep, see
>>468936


as long as /v/ doesn't come and shit it up, and the ma/vr/icks stay in power as janitors everything should be alright.

>>468964
It's a fucking fox you moron, there's nothing furry about an animal. I bet you see Franklin on TV and automatically assume that anyone who watches it would enjoy fucking a man dressed as a wolf.

OP here

I just want to point out that both that copy of Earthbound and Zelda:ALTTP that I got today have save files named "Jimmy"


Thanks, Jimmy.

>>467749
That's sad

I got mine at a flea market with the label intact for 3 bucks

>>469012
Don't mess with jimmy.

>>468964
Do you know nothing about Aesop's fables? I can't believe anyone would pretend to be that retarded, even to troll.

>>469012
>Thanks, Jimmy.
Jimmy's a bro. Pour one out for him, OP.

Incidentally, this is something I always find fascinating about buying RPGs -- seeing what people named their characters, where they are in the game, etc. It's interesting.

lucky son of a bitch. i paid 163.134383 euros for a copy

>>469041
>buy pokemon game
>look through all pokemon names and items
>determine what kind of person and skill level the previous player was

Usually pretty low, being that they'd sell their pokemon games.

>>469012
>>469041
I got a copy of Gameboy camera at a flea market. It's filled completely with pictures of this kid, his friends and possibly his grandparents. I just can't bring myself to delete them.

>>469084
Someone here, I think it was before /vr/, found their old GB camera they had as a kid and uploaded a bunch of the pictures. It was cute, just a bunch of him and his friends making dumb faces. That's a neat/slightly sad thing you have there.

>>469084
I got one and this kid had taken picture of his junk. I never deleted anything so quick before.

>>469084

Put them on the internet. You know, for archival purposes.

>>468459

This is going right into my pasta file because I'm sick of hearing that word.

yeah man, this is sad. hell i remember around christmas of 97 or so, Best Buy was selling Earthbound for THIRTY DOLLARS!
I remember at my BB having like a wall of them with a sign that said it.

Guess with them liquidating it, must mean it sucked, huh?

OP detected for luckiest guy of all time?

>>469096
>>469096
>>469096
>>469096


>not saving it and fapping the likes of which has never been fapped before

You were GIVEN the greatest fucking gift ever and you fucking throw it away? Wow. May the Games Market never revert to what it once was and continue on in the AAA path that it is.

>>469194

Nah, some guy traded in Earthbound and got a Neo Geo with GAMES.

>>469204
Just the Neo Geo (consolized MVS) is probably worth a few Earthbounds. If we're talking about how much EB SHOULD be worth, we're talking dozens of EBs. Not to mention NG games are always expensive.

>>469084
I like to see stuff like this on old game cartridges, it shows that the previous owner actually played/often liked the game. I'll take that over sealed copies any day.

>>469194
see
>>468252

>>469153
But hipsters are real man.

>>468258

You're fucking retarded because I saw a copy go, cart only, on Ebay for $250 plus shipping with the label completely covered in black permanent marker less than a year ago.

>>469196
I'm not a gay pedo though. Also I like some of the new games.

A LOT of Long Island bros on here and on /v/...

>>467976
saved for delicious pasta

What bugs me about this shit is, you can get the same game in japan, brand new mint in box for <30 dollars

Video game hipsters are the worst.

>>472065

You can get ANY game in japan for cheap. Except Saturn games. JP Saturn games are fucking expensive.

as soon as Nintendo figures a way to get around the issues preventing them from re-releasing here, the cartridge will be $40

>>472065
whats a hipster?

>>472065
source on this girls name? fuck i need to get more of her pics

>>472205
Someone you don't like, who likes the same weird shit as you.

>>469041
Fucking hate when people name their character Ash in EVERY SINGLE POKÉMON GAME.

>>473194
Do they come to your house and play it in your face or something? Why else would you get aggravated by something other people do by themselves?

>>468220
>$65
A green-label FFVII is worth that much?
I bought mine in 2001 for $19, traded it to Gamestop for $10 in credit or so in 2005.
Feels weird. I never would have thought a GH version of anything would be a collectable.

>>473317
Its not. Just people being idiots.

>>473317
tfw getting green label version in 2004 brand fucking new at a record shop.
tfw selling it in 2009 so I wouldn't be stuck on the streets for 45 bucks
tfw finding a black label copy at a swap meet in excellent shape for $5 a few months ago.

Now if only I could get my Mega Man Legends 2 back...

I know I never will

Damn OP I got mine for $215. Feels batman.

>>467663
No it isn't.

The demand is still vastly higher than the supply.

Earthbound is expensive because that's how basic economics work.

hold me..

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/white-hills/video-games/nintendo-64-n64-video-games-for-sale/1005141885

>>468474
Is this real? Eartbound carts were assembled in mexico?

Fuck dat shit.

>>473605
You're assuming too many basic economic principles when the fact of the matter is eBay has isolated buyers and sellers while also consolidating pricing information and its lead to a huge gouging attempt that far exceeds actual demand. It's a gimmick and a bubble.

>>467928
>It's just an old-school RPG [...]
JRPG
>If you like playing RPGs [...]
JRPGs

>>473696
>>>/v/
>>>/jp/

>>468474
Huh, I never noticed that a lot of SNES games were made in Mexico, seems to be just the brown PCB ones.
But two exceptions in my collection with brown PCBs made in Japan are DKC and Harvest Moon, so I don't think what you're saying is accurate.

Just discovered I have a collectibles/retro games shop within a couple miles from my house that only those in the know seem to go to.
Owner gave me the grand tour of the place, thry have a couple arcade machines, pretty much every console under the sun including old C64, Intellivision.
Place even has old boxed PC games.
Oh yea you buy 3 games you get 50% the cheapest title of the 3.
Fair prices, man I was like a kid in a candy store getting shown around the place.
Snagged Chakan, Road Rash 64 and Startropics this trip and a couple 6 button Genesis Pads.
Fair prices too.

>>473784
>made in mexico
>brown PCB's
>brown
>mfw

>>476580
>Chakan, Road Rash 64 and Startropics
Chakan is a good game.

You should track down Startropics 2, it's everything good about the first and then some.

>>467416
>I paid $215 for mine
That's beyond stupid, mister.

>>476609
Yea they didn't have a copy unfortunately.
Used to have it back in the day.
Next time I go, I'll take some pics.
This is just one of their cases, the place is pretty damn huge.
Unfortunately most of the commonly known rare stuff has been snagged already.

Oh hey OP, you're on long island? We should hang out, I also have Earthbound.

Sweet snag by the way. I got my copy for free from a friend who gave me his SNES + a few games.

>>473784
Green PCB Earthbound here, made in mexico.

>>472172
I predicted that shit yesterday nigga!!!

>>476641
>those price tags on the boxes
Ugh, I hate removing those and trying to not damage the box.

>>476679
Yeah, pretty weird. That was very surprising news.

>>476721
They're easy as hell to remove.
Just the old school pricegun tags that have light adhesive.

>>468629
>VC
Check the latest Nintendo Direct. Iwata himself said we're getting it.

>>468270
But what about Bioshock?

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/04/17/earthbound-mother-2-coming-to-north-america-and-europe/

Hopefully this will help lower the price inflation.

>>472205 see >>468479

>>476664

What part ya from?

>long island


well golly, and I thought you could find shit here.

Jeez... a LOT of you are from Long Island

>>468195

you fags realize nintendo is about to re-release it right

>>481065
This thread was made a day before they announced that. Read the dates.

>>467416
>>467421
What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>481537
amateur collectors imo
more money than patience and sense when hunting down a fairly common game

I don't know why, but I get a chuckle out of people who complain about the going price for games.

>It's not that good of a game
>It's not an uncommon game
>It's not even worth $60

What are things people never said about Earthbound until /vr/?

A game gets its pricing from several different reasons. Growing fandom and obscurity were the reasons for Earthbound's raising price. You have people who own the game since release who loved it and won't part, you have others who have heard about it via Smash Brothers or from sites like 4chan, and then you have those who emulate it and want to own a copy themselves. There aren't enough copies for all of that. Not even 150k copies of the game sold, now think, if 1 in every 10 Smash Brothers player wanted to own a piece of that, you begin to see a reason why it's priced as so.

i was actually going to reproduce this game out of a mother two sfc cart till i found it that day. i already reproduced star ocean and tales of phantasia. what should be my next repro. i was thinking mother zero.

>>484227
>Not even 150k copies of the game sold,

Doesn't matter how many sold, it matters how many were made.

Savers is the best. I got Contra for $4, and my friend got Megaman 6 yesterday for $4.
A while ago, I snagged a boxed L'Empreur for $6, and then promptly sold it for $85, because it's a shitty game and wasn't worth keeping.

>>478787
Now see, that is actually close to a SOMEWHAT reasonable price compared to the people that have the Wii and DS games VGA'd for $20K.

>>484227

The game is pulling prices normally reserved for games with like 30k print runs on semi-obscure consoles.

>>469214
Yeah, I also love those carts with names in them.
They make your copy unique, and I always end up imagining what the owner looked like .

My copy of SMB3 has some cool mario stickers, a japanese kid name Takuya put them on the back of the cart.

>>467982

keep in mind that a lot of pricing is automated faggotry

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

 Plebeian  is a term co-opted for use as a meaningless pejorative in order to vaguely call someone elses authenticity into question and, by extension, claim authenticity for yourself.

It serves no conversational function and imparts no information, save for indicating the opinions and preferences of the speaker.

Meanwhile, a market myth has sprung up around the term, as well as a cultural bogeyman consisting of elusive white 20-somethings who wear certain clothes (but no one will agree on what), listen to certain music (no one can agree on this either), and act a certain way (youve probably sensed the pattern on your own).

You cant define what that kind of behavior or fashion or lifestyle actually is, nor will you ever be able to. Thats because you dont use  plebeian  to describe an actual group of people, but to describe a fictional stereotype that is an outlet for literally anything that annoys you.

The twist, of course, is that if it werent for your own insecurities, nothing that a  plebeian  could do or wear would ever affect you emotionally. But you are insecure about your own authenticity - Do I wear what I wear because I want to? Do I listen to my music because I truly like it? Im certainly not like those filthy plebeians ! - so you project those feelings.

Suffice it to say, no one self-identifies as a plebeian ; the term is always applied to an Other, to separate the authentic Us from the inauthentic, ironic Them.

tl;dr: if you believe plebeians exist, you are a plebeian.