/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5716610
So they don't have to admit they bought it off ebay.

thread's over here, senpai
>>5705081

>>5716610
I literally made a thread about it few days ago. People are so fucking ashamed of spending so much money on these they choose to lie.

I think part of it is the legacy of the enviable time when retro video game stuff COULD be found in the trash but I have a friend who's been a garbage man since he was like 20 back in the early 2000s. It's a very lucrative line of work BTW, even not counting the valuable stuff you find but he only found the occasional console with a hand full of games even back then and that's a literal garbage man who's job it is to see everyone's garbage

>>5716693
I've been following some people on Instagram for the past 6 years and some of the more serious collectors go to swapmeets and garage sales constantly and find a handful of good items.

One guy I follow is a garbage man in New Jersey and at least once a month he posts a photo of a trash bag filled with games. Mostly it's casual filler stuff like Sports games or just boxes for N64 games but even those are crazy to just throw away. He's posted photos of a rough but complete boxed NES console and one was a grocery bag filled with water damaged SNES games, the only 'L@@k RARE" one being SMRPG with a scraped label.

tl;dr it does happen but not to the extent people make it seem like it happens. But it DOES happen and you don't need to be skeptical of everything but yeah you aren't finding a sealed copy of Harvest moon at goodwill.

>>5716693
My dad used to work for a garbage processing facility and he found two nes controllers (one broken) and a couple of yugioh cards. So I guess it depends on where you are.

>>5716610
>Why the fuck do people do this?
They think making up a story on finding free video games makes them a hero and that idiots will give them clicks.

>>5716616
fpbp

>>5716616
This.

I have purchased my fair share of cheap stuff from the goodwill but no one is just throwing this shit out.

Normies instinctively get that, "This is old so of course its worth outrageous amounts of money on ebay".

Thats why flea malls and retro shops have copies of pokemon and atari 2600s that are eternally entombed on a shelf in a store.

They dont want to admit that they just spent 300$ on a game boy game while at the same time crying about their student loan dept that needs to be forgiven.

>>5716610
parasites, that's why.

the not so short version of the story.

hipsters and E-posers, cokraches who got attracted by the retro gaming community, and like SJWs (sorry for the analogy), they infiltrated it, revisioned their own rules, took over, and now they completly destroyed the retro game sphere.

look at these parasites, they know what they are doing, and they had no issue shoving it in our faces.

>>5716885
The guy on the right's face fills me with boundless rage.

I find hidden gems™ all the goddamn time at non goodwill thrift stores.

I have a 3 day weekend every few months so me and the wife will hit up all the thrift stores, flea markets and antique shops within 30 minutes of our house. We find some gold on occasion like games, systems, legos, fun merch, ect for very cheap. I'm a bit of a handyman so I will come across clearly broken consoles for free (or for a few bucks) and fully refurbish them. We never spend any more than $5 a game and I have found some seriously valuable things. I'm not a re-seller though so I will either keep it or trade it to a friend with similar hobbies. In the last 5 years I have found:
>pristine Secret of mana for $5
>CIB Final fantasy 2
>CIB earthworm jim for PC
>CIB NES Kirby
>a few Megaman carts for under $5
>assorted vintage game promo shirts

>>5716984
I also wanted to mention another thing I do when I'm feeling saucy is open up every cd case and DVD case in the store and look for mismatched discs. Some stores have many thousands of movies and cd's for sale and you would be ASTONISHED as to what you can find by doing this.

>>5716984
I went thrift shopping with my mother recently. We went to a few "old lady" stores that I wouldn't go to by myself, the ones filled with knick-knacks and fabrics.
The media section had a decent selection of old PC games, not picked through like goodwill.

>>5716984
I found CIB Mario 3 at a Goodwill. Not the stores, but the "last chance" places where they dump their random shit and sell it for a dollar a pound. Cost me like 5 cents.

>>5716610
Show me a Pic of your taint and I'll join your patreon.

>>5716753
Turn him in for keks and post screen shots, it's likely he's not supposed to do that. Extra points for Facebook campaign about them not respecting privacy and stealing identities.

>>5716610
A buddy of mine threw out all his game systems and all the games from when he was a kid when he remodeled his house. Tons of SNES through GameCube and PS2 stuff just tossed into the dumpster.

I kind of regret not taking it all but at the same time it would have just been junk laying around my place instead.

>>5717208
I had this upper middle class neighbor that was spoiled to all hell. We were good friends for a long time but fuck man, could he be obnoxious when he showed off his parents money. He would get 4 Christmas worth of presents every year and owned huge collections for almost every NTSC system with everything from peripherals, strategy guides, accessories, ect. He had everything worth playing and a full blown battlestation at 13 years old.

He was super protective of his shit too and we all respected his property as best we could but he was still strictly against any kind of borrowing. I remember being super jealous one day when I came over he had all of his games laid out on the floor to count them and the number was around 350 when I only had around 25 games total. I remember asking him to call me if he ever sold any of them.

Ran into him a few years ago and the fucker got married and divorced to the first piece of ass that came his way and now he's totally different. Bankruptcy changes a man. I asked him about his collection and he just kind of shrugged and said he sold it all at a yard sale for almost nothing like 10 years ago. I was told by another friend my face turned bright red when he told me this.

>>5716610
They do it for clicks, and apparently it works because you zoomers are fascinated with watching other people do things and then posting about it on the Internet.

Everyday the eceleb trash grows. The end is nigh.

>>5717480
I just read about it here. I aint giving them any clicks.

You can actually find consoles in the trash sometimes. That's how I got my gameboy with games and a PS2.
Instagram sóybois wouldn't touch that shit though

>>5716753
>boxes for N64 games but even those are crazy to just throw away
They are just paper boxes. There's no actual reason for normal people to keep that shit.

>>5716885
>those soulless sanpaku eyes

they both need to be liquidated

>>5717409
That story is a fucking tragedy. I knew a kid across the street that was like that and it pissed me off to no end.

>>5717042
Goodwill outlets are fucking crazy. It's like a black friday every day for poor people. There's always tons of people who clearly go there and stand there most of the day filling up their carts with stuff to flip online. They even cover their carts up with blankets and shit so no one can steal their stuff.

That said I've found some great finds there. Got a Commodore CRT and a Tandy Pocket PC in great shape.

>>5717409
Since you write like a 12yo redditard I'm guessing the last part is what you hope will happen in 10 years

This is totally generational.
When dear old mom and dad decide to have a yard sale and your old shit is in the boxes, you're probably 24-28. You left home, or discarded those toys and your parents are putting it out there.
SNES games (for instance) at yard sales started teetering out of random finds around 2008. Those kids are now in their 30's. Mom and dad, if they aren't dead already did whatever they were going to do with those games, and some collector or reseller has already bought them.
There are far less parents and grandparents out there with old games in their closets to even discover. With every passing day, the likelihood drops like a stone. The likelihood that they would not only find them, but throw them in the garbage is almost nil.
There are special cases where something like a shut-in has died, and 90% of the contents of his home were tossed out by whatever contractors were hired to clean it. In those cases, I'd wager most of the games found are either resold by whoever finds them, or given to the next-of-kin. A small amount probably gets thrown out with the rest of the garbage unnoticed.

It just isn't plausible.

>>5717979
What the fuck do you even mean? This shit happened back in the 90s you absolute faggot.

My story is perfectly understandable to anyone without a brain injury. He had everything he ever wanted and took it all for granted.

>>5717975
Pro-tip: Those aren't poor people.

>>5718034
It's more than understandable. Anyone without a brain injury who was a kid in the 90's doesn't write shit like " I was told by another friend my face turned bright red when he told me this." So I understand that you're LARPing or have a brain injury. Since you brought that up I'll apologize for calling you a LARPer and offer my condolences for the brain injury. We good?

>>5716610
I got an OG Xbox out of the dumpster a few years ago, most of the controllers were fairly trashed, no a/v cord, and when I turned it on it orange ringed.
I opened it up, noticed the fan was getting caught, stopped that, and put it back together.

It probably happens, but not at a high frequency.

>>5716937
i know anon, i wanna rip his fucking pig face!

>>5716937
It's surreal, I have no idea who that guy is but that is easily the most punchable face I've ever seen

I always thought stories of people "finding" games were bogus then I literally found copies of Viewtiful Joe and Onimusha Dawn of Dreams stuck in a storm drain.

Obviously the cases were shot but the games worked.

>>5718295
>being that faggot that starts random fights on anonymous message board with weak ass bait
Life not treating you so well lately is it? I hope it all turns around for you.
>a kid in the 90's doesn't write shit like " I was told by another friend my face turned bright red when he told me this."
Everyone knows that before the 2000's no one had any friends, especially ones that make Simpson references. You are more than welcome to not believe anything you hear on the internet but you are also welcome to fuck right off.

I don't know but I briefly worked at electronic recycling center. you found consoles almost every week, but usually it was ps1s/ps2s. and xboxes. It's hard to imagine how much people throw away without seeing it.

>>5718867
>being that faggot who LARPs on anonymous message board
>being that faggot who double LARPs on anonymous message board trying to explain away his retardation
You sound very mad kiddo

>>5720114
You're fooling yourself at this point.

>>5720114
You sound like a smug little dipshit.

>>5716610
Legit found a windows 98 computer in the trashsite yesterday with parts ive wanted for ages, still to test them but fingers crossed

>>5720195
>i'm fooling anyone at this point
kek

>>5720226
If you could accurately judge someones age and intelligence simply by reading a shitpost wouldn't you be a bit smug?
And you kids need to get your shit in order about my size. In one thread I'm a fat blob. In another I'm a little shit. It's almost like you kids are projecting or something.

>>5720592
>still thinks he's even close
Yikes, At this point I'm thinking probably older than you. I was a goddamn teenager in 1995 you dummy.
> you kids need to get your shit in order about my size
Are you a paranoid schizophrenic? You expect some kind of uniformity from random people on the internet? I think you have some delusions of your own there buddy. Sounds just like I imagine though, you probably start pointless internet fights to feel good about yourself on here a lot.

>>5720609
>outing yourself as an youngling with "yikes"
There are two possibilities here sport. You're a dumb kid or a dumb adult with brain damage. Why do you even try to pretend at this point.

>>5720884
Still no, you're been very wrong this whole time. Do you ever wonder why you get insulted every day on here?
>It must be them, not me

>>5720884
>he uses a word
>he must be 12
>I can tell by the pixels
Fucking moron

>>5717983
yea, you're more likely to find "whale" finds in warehouses. I've heard sony has a crazy amount of back inventory but they aren't going to release that shit unless the whole company is liquidated. Hell sega was never liquidated, they probably have dreamcasts sitting around. The same goes for other big retailers. There's always some inventory that just gets lost, but with the rise of automation, that is going to become way less common. I would believe a "I found this box of 200 sealed copies of gekido" more than "i found this box of n64 games on the street" at this point.

>>5721294
>irony: the post

>>5721295
>b-b-but: the post

>>5722298
>empty accusations of lying with no evidence presented whatsoever =/= being called out for being an obnoxious shitposter and then acting like an obnoxious shitposter

Thanks for the worthless replies.

>>5716610
Smashhhhhhh that subscribe button. More hidden gems to come

>>5721328
I see boxes of uncracked dreamcast peripherals up for sale often enough to believe that's possible.

>>5716885
I cant wait for god damn reaction faces to fucking die. Jesus fucking christ

>>5722751
I can only imagine how many puffs from your inhaler it would take you to say that IRL. All while desperately fumbling to evade the whole thing about you being an underage ESL shitposter. Your mothers must be so proud of you.

I was a scrapper for a while, collecting aluminium. People threw away video games all the time. You're a retard for thinking otherwise.

Now I work at a car dealership/thrift store/pawn shop combo. People literally sell thousands of dollars worth of shit for 20 bucks just so they can buy a scrap of heroin.

America is a country that voted for trump and refuses to vaccinate children. Yes, people really are this retarded.

>>5722878
>i was a reddiitard for a time and still am and super retarded

>>5723269

>implying

Do you even know what 8.8 is?

>>5716610
Because they're selling a fantasy that people want to buy into.
Never forget that you live in a market society. If there's a market for it, someone will sell it. (Even if only indirectly, for ad-revenue or social status)

>>5722878
my neighbors been hauling scrap for idk about 10+ years and afaik they've never once came across a single game console. tons of dead computers, but never consoles and games. cool story tho.

>>5725068
I used to work at a video game repair shop in Denver. The boss was a certified crazy man trying to pay off his gambling debts.

"Oh' we couldn't fix your 360 and we may have made the problem worse by baking it in an oven so we had it sent off to another state to be fixed, its their problem now!"

Every day was so surreal, the back room was floor to ceiling broken consoles. I think his repair "methods" only fixed about a third of the consoles that came through there.

>>5723707
>literally fucking reddit spaces everything
>implying
8.8 could be your age or IQ

>>5716610
Dude, this happens all the time.
Just because old vidya is the hipster fad of today, doesn't mean grandma won't throw out little Mikey's old toys on her next cleaning frenzy.
I literally found hundreds of dollars worth of vidya in teh trash during my time.

>>5726006

What the fuck are "reddit spaces?"

>>5716984
You must live on one of the costs, I feel like everyone around where I live just eats their old shit or something

>>5726135
Double return after every line of text. You're basically outing yourself as a Redditor every time you post.

>>5727723
I bet you think :) originated from reddit too.

>>5716610
>Hey guys, look at all these epic retro games and consoles my girlfriend just found in the trash!
ftfy

>>5727723

Dude, how fucking old are you?
Never mind the fact that what you said doesnt even make any fucking sense. Like, that correlation is profoundly retarded, but for fucks sake, You're literally taught in fucking JR Highschool to double return. Not only that, but you have to do it for all 4 years of Highschool AND in fucking college.

Fuck off, retard.

>>5726135
The lines pacing you learned to misuse by growing up on reddit

>>5727731
No one thinks that redditot but it's a common excuse for younglings to pretend reddit spacing was a thing before reddit. Reddit spacing did, in fact, originate on reddit. Double spacing after ever sentence was never a real thing until your kind started shitting up the internet with it.

>>5716610
I found an Atari 2600 with about 30 games in the dumpster at my storage once.

>>5716610
since the internet, there are no more bargains, any schlub can find out what something is worth. so if it's a bargain, its because the seller doesn't care or didn't bother to look up the value.

>>5728017
you went to high school? yep found the redditor.

You'd be surprised. I work in a retro shop and these people brought in a couple thousand dollars worth of things last week just to check if it was worth anything before they tossed them. It was something like (All CIB) SM64 (meh condition), Pkmn Stadium 1 and 2, Castlevania 4, Harvest Moon, a copy of Earthbound with a guide and an unfortunately messy box, among other things. Just bananas what people will throw away

>>5728029

lol

u

mad

:)

>>5716885
EH, I like them both better than that faggot Spawn Wave. At least Riggs does some cool technical videos.

>>5728764
>people laugh at me because they're mad

>>5728029

>growing up on reddit

I'm twenty-fucking-six

>>5730529
26 going on 12 redditard
wew lad

I live in a 3 world country and was able to get a game a watch for 3 dollars that worth around 300 and a Nokia-n gage brannew in box for 50 due to this colector needing to sell his stuff in a country that no one has money in that and 50 bucks for a 3do not the cheesesteak finds but probably the rarest hear in the states I went to the fle market and got a 20 games for 3 bucks but they are all common over all as long as your going in hopes of finding boxed earthbound going to fle market can still be fun just not a goldmine that these YouTube show make it out to seem i stop collecting for system that I don’t all ready own and do it once in a while to treat my self probably spend around 100 a month on retro games but only if the deals are good

>>5716610
My mother recently almost threw out all the SNES/N64 games she had in my parent's house (I'm in an apartment and don't have room for all of them). If it weren't for my little brother stopping her she would have succeeded. We don't have a lot of rare SNES games but we easily have at least $200 of N64 games, and when I brought that up she just said "trying to sell them online is too much of a hassle."
That being said most of those people who say that shit are definitely lying and just bought them off eBay.

>>5730769
>>5728065
>>5727723

>"Everyone I disagree with is an underage redditor I can tell from the words and spacing"
>"You can't deny it either because thats just what and underage redditor would say"
>"I'm tired of these underage Redditors coming on here ruining MY website, now watch me derail this thread about videogames with te same old tired accusations."

Jesus Christ, you must be a miserable person.

>>5730874
>all those people are the problem not me
topkek

>>5731019
>nothing of value to add: the post
And? This is a board about retro video games, not a game of "everyone must be from reddit and I can prove it by sucking all these dicks"

>>5731031
>mad redditor is mad

>>5722878
>America is a country that voted for trump and refuses to vaccinate children. Yes, people really are this retarded.
Vaccine compliance is over 90% and Trump is unironically the best president we've had in over 40 years.

>>5731967
T.hanks rich person

>>5730874
Not even samefag, because one of those posts was me and the other two aren't. You have to go back.

>>5731981
Not even.

>>5731990
all the same though, fuck off unless you're gonna talk vidya gaems

https://youtu.be/LSLanZYRSdg?t=211

>>5732243
Just stop. You’re a douche and multiple people have pointed it out.
>let’s just talk video games guys
You fucked that up by responding to standard-issue harassment instead of continuing to talk about games, retard

/v/-tier thread

>>5728770
>liking MJR
>guy who doesn't know shit about video games and just collects because it's "cool"

>>5732243
>fuck off unless you're gonna talk vidya gaems
>spent the better part of a week trying to convince 4chan he's not a redditot
Take your own advice kiddo. It's time for you to go back.

>>5731059

You're not even talking to the same person.

Look at the unique poster count next time, redditfag.

>>5732903
>you're not even talking to the same redditor

>give a shit about it like this projecting redditor
lol. What an assmad faggot.

>>5732862
>Too stupid to realize they're the problem by not talking about retro vidya
Could you just try a little bit to stay on topic instead of being such a defensive cunt? Like share some memories or personal anecdotes or are you afraid someone will call you a faggot redditor too?

>>5733780
>Too stupid to realize they're the problem by not talking about retro vidya
>Doesn't talk about retro video games
teh ironing. Time to go back reddittot

>>5716857
incredibly based

We had a really crappy trash pickup service at my old apt because it was hard for the trucks to get to so it would sit there on the curb for weeks. The tenants started to leave stuff that wasn't trash out for people to just pick up or trade so it turned into kind of a hub for used stuff. I would find really good condition older PSX games sometimes.

>Gran tourismo
>C:12 resistance
>THPS 1
>A few tall box games
>MK3
>wing commander
>alien trilogy
And some assorted sports trash and a barbie game

>>5733897
I suppose you're correct in that way, it was a mistake giving you the attention you're starved for. But nice try though, blaming me for your decision to shit up a perfectly good thread. Maybe if you talk about some video games you found in the trash you'll feel better about yourself.

>>5734407
>a shitthread about people who lie on the internet
>a perfectly good thread about video games
lololol

>Watching the latest LGR video
>Literally entire shipping pallets of hardware so rare it never shows up on ebay or has even a footnote on wikipedia
>All sealed in plastic, could likely be sold online for thousands
>I've driven past that place a dozen times and never knew
>Now everyone knows
Fucking hell.

>>5735782
>see post
>watch video
>warehouse full of old garbage
>"big rackmounted networking mainframe type stuff"
>storedge 1000 or whatever
>kek
I'm sure he was just too busy trolling you with bullshit like that to show those "entire shipping pallets of hardware so rare it never shows up on ebay or has even a footnote on wikipedia". Sure, it's an interesting pile of garbage and I'm sure there's some Hidden Gems™ in there. But you shouldn't believe everything you hear on the internet. Especially from someone who blatantly flaunts his ignorance.

>>5736309
Ehhhh not really. I was pausing the video to google some of the computer models he was naming and several of them go for hundreds. An unopened still sealed in plastic models could probably go for thousands. The keyboards alone go from 50-200 dollars depending on how used they are. I'm sure tons of stuff in that hot warehouse is broken, but its still a literal treasure trove if you had a small team of people sorting it and selling it all online in an orderly fashion.

>>5735531
This website is definitely filled with liars but the fact you think you can discern the truth among them is sad and hilarious.

>>5716610
wage slave that deals with recycling here.
You would be absolutely horrified at what people just dump on us because it's 'junk'.

>>5735782
I saw that too. Fuckin mind blowing. I'm lucky to see a beat-up, soiled Commodore or Tandy maybe once every few years at thrift stores. Most of the time this stuff is gone before it even hits the shelves. Sellers on Ebay and the like want too much for the stuff. I hate this shit.

I just gave away bin after bin of video game stuff recently, for nothing. It's taking up space.

>>5737668
I sold off a bunch of my retro stuff in 2015. Sold it real cheap. I posted it on Kijiji (Canuck Craigs List) and got 20+ replies within 10 minutes. Didn't want to part with it, but needed the money.

>>5736323
Yeahhh really. If you were able to google shit and find prices then they can't possibly be "hardware so rare it never shows up on ebay or has even a footnote on wikipedia" now, can they?
Like I said, I'm sure there's some Hidden Gems™ in there. The place has been picked over many times so how many and how "gemmy" are big questions. There's a very limited number of people who are interested in a NIB Gateway 386SX or whatever shit is "unopened still sealed in plastic". I'm sure you could unload the more valuable stuff one at a time on eBay. I saw a few things that are old enough and uncommon enough they might be of interest to collectors. But I just skimmed through the video so I missed the part where they said the stuff was being given away for free or sold by the pound or whatever would make that a viable option. As long as the guy doesn't open one of those shrink wrapped AOL CDs and get on the internet to price check you're plan sounds brilliant.

>>5716753
kek link to garbage man

>>5716610
I threw a copy of Mother 2 in the trash because it made for a funny video

>>5716610
>Nobody in their right mind is throwing away potentially hundreds of dollars worth of retro games.
Parents and grandparents sometimes do I guess.
I only "collect" physical copies of my favourite PC and DOS games, but I would be glad to find random retro games in the trash, I am sure I could sell them on ebay for a relatively high price.

>>5742246
>Parents and grandparents sometimes do I guess.
Exactly. Most of the time these old kooks don't even know who they are anymore half the time.

>>5716885
>wake up
>see guy on right hovering above you
wat do

>>5743638
Ask him if he has any other super powers

>>5716610
>no boxes
These would go in the bargain bin at BookOff for ¥200 each

>>5716753
>Mario RPG
>rare
CIB it goes for maybe ¥1,000

>>5716984
It’s not hard to find good games at thrift stores
In just one BookOff trip I walked away with CIB copies of fire emblem, mother, mother 2, in dragon Quest 2, final Fantasy II, final Fantasy III, street fighter II, pilotwings, excitebike, thrift shops are the BEST place to get CIB games not retro game shops especially in akihabara they just exist to rip off dumb white people