/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6959157
Many of them were depending on where you looked, but it all changed by the late 2000's when retro gaming blew up because of ecelebs and other stupid shit.

Some games were always really expensive though, particularly RPG's. FFVII used was frequently like 60-70 bucks before it was re-released on PSN in 2009.

FFS stupid question you just did your bit to make zoomers look even more clueless than they are.
Ofc they were cheap
How much are PS3 games Wii and 360 games?

Ahhh, the good old days where you could find cheap retro vidya at yard sales, flea markets and thrift stores.
Nowadays every asshole has the internet in their pocket and can quickly search up some inflated price on google then declare "I know what I have". Even fucking thrift stores like Goodwill set up online shops and then hold back the video games from the brick and mortar stores.

>>6959157
Probably. I know that when I was at a thrift store, I bought Power Stone 2 for $3. It's worth $80 last time I checked.

>>6959165
So they got expensive late 2000s then. Are prices evee going to come down?

>>6959190
Looks like $50 for Wii and $25 for 360? At least for games I plan to buy. Does anyone know if these are expected to go up or down or how you would make a guess?

>>6959203
>>6959210

Wish I had been around back then damn... Are there any consoles with cheap games?

shit, you used to be able to pick up people's entire childhood gaming collections on ebay for nothing

>>6959259
Yeah the big change is this; The average person basically knows their old games might be worth serious money so random finds at garage sales or on ebay are basically non existent these days.

>>6959203
I just found Goodwill’s online shopping site. Eh, at least it’s a secondary auction spot and the prices are reasonable. Only problem is whether or not to trust the quality/condition.

>>6959306
Shopgoodwill? It's decent, but yeah the quality is a crapshoot. It seems like it's a good step below ebay prices though which is nice, especially for some of the more niche stuff.

Though I will say ebay does really protect the buyer. I bought a game that was clearly resurfaced to shit and wouldn't play, and the seller dug their heals in and refused to offer a refund until I got ebay involved.

Honestly the two things I go to the most these days, (especially since I don't care about CIB stuff) is ebay but only in the very early morning (just so you don't compete with a bunch of people) and then Gamestop's website has actually been pretty good to me. If you install the browser plugin Honey theres usually a pretty deep coupon code so usually you end up paying below pricecharting values for stuff, the biggest catch is it takes ages for them to ship you your game and I've heard horror stories of people getting the wrong game in the right case or whatever, but for me they've been a solid option.

>>6959157
Yes. Generally speaking, NES games could be bought from Electronics Boutique or Babbage’s for $5 to $10 (even less if it was common stuff like Top Gun) until roughly 2006 - 2007. Prices were still fairly reasonable until 2013, when the retro boom really took off.

>>6959241
This cycle is pretty much constant:

>game comes out at MSRP
>game hits discounts, sales, then clearance
>finally disappears from shelves somewhere along the line (some odd years later or even just months for smalltime games)
>price steadily goes down as the give a fuck factor decreases
>reaches lowest give a fuck factor around 10 years of age (so right now, the lowest give a fucks would be stuff like most DS games, PS3 games (imagine believing the PS3 had games), and 360 right around the kinect era (aka when they went to shit)
>somewhere around 15-20 years of age, shit gets "rediscovered" which means the kids who sold their kiddie stuff when they moved out of mom's house now have a job and want to buy back their childhoods
>this is when the prices go up for shit, sometimes in big ways

tl;dr buy shit when it's around 10 years old and sell when it's around 20 years old, if you want to only make money off of everything you buy that is

Note that this isn't perfect; Some games will become more valuable (ie. God Hand became valuable due to people realizing how good it was) or some games will lose value due to the game itself not being needed to play it (so many people hacked their wii to play wii games for free that frankly, I don't think anyone will ever pay top dollar for wii games except for collectors hunting the rarest games, good luck getting anyone to care about your copy of NSMB Wii).

If you want to play games and not spend a lot of money then just buy a wii and find a tube TV somewhere. That system has plenty of good emulators. Buying carts just to play the games they contain is nonsense. Sure, it's how it was in the day, but it's also for the most part just a sales system. You bought carts because they were sold to you. In modern days that makes about as much sense as buying individual roms on a USB stick. You basically just buy it for the shape of the cart and the label on the front.

>>6959157
Mario on the NES was literally like 11 cents at funcoland

>>6959157
the "old days" were pretty cheap as I recall them. For example, I think the most expensive NES games at funcoland were the big name stuff, and they topped out at 15 bucks which we thought was ludicrous even for Zelda. I thought the same when someone offered to sell me NES Bonk's Adventure for 40, seemed way too high.

I also remember going to flea markets in 2006 and getting stuff like contra, castlevania 3, and tecmo bowl for about 5 each.

>>6959297
Flippers have complained they arent finding shit at garage sales for the last few years and have moved on to other things

>>6959354
It's true, I do some ebay reselling as just like a side hustle and I virtually never find video games, and when I do they're usually too expensive to bother trying to resell.
It's funny because the video games are super picked over but it's very easy to find other stuff to resell, like VCRs, sports stuff, and old kitschy stuff is usually super easy to flip.

Yes, and Gamestop in the US used to be super cheap for old games. Back then it did not seem like anyone was collecting them. Most NES games were $0.99-2.99. I do remember seeing a SNES game for $20 and thinking how ridiculous of a price it was. A local shop also sold NES games in a 3-for-$5 deal.

>>6959157
Master system games were less than 10 dollars brand new around the time the ps1 came out. Second hand around 2 dollars.

>>6959157
I got a SNES and a Sega Master System plus about ten games for each for five euros a pop back in 2004. That a console, controllers, around ten games, for five euros. Twice.

>>6959241
>Are prices evee going to come down?

NES, PS1, and Atari 2600 games? Probably. Scalper bait like Gamecube, Saturn, and SNES? Fuck no, piracy is the answer.

>>6959157
There was a time PS1 games were extremely cheap, even the good games.

>>6959157
>Is it true
Absolutely. I bought Saturn games cheap as fuck in the early to mid 00s. Wasn't at the time thinking I was some genius I was just poor and enjoyed the games.

>>6959157
Stadium Events was less than a dollar in the 90s.

>>6959341
This is absolutely correct. I remember entire bins full of loose NES carts selling for dirt cheap. Just like today you see bins of 360/PS3 games in CD sleeves.

>>6959386
SNES prices have come down a fair amount, they're only up a bit right now because of covid lockdowns but they all generally peaked around 2016.
Though you're right about Gamecube, I doubt those will ever drop just because they're so scarce to begin with.

>>6959259
I picked up my entire N64 collection for literally nothing (except the console, which was 20 bucks at Blockbuster) in person from people I knew. No one wanted it anymore when the PS2 was out.

>>6959340
This sounds about right. 2013 was around when I stopped buying retro games. I've picked up maybe 5-10 since then and it was generally like 20 bucks for something that really should have been 5. People using platforms like youtube to hype up games they've "invested" in completely killed collecting games for people who were in it just to play. It is very tiresome. The stock market is for investing, not fucking Nintendo games.

>>6959341
Thank you for the informative post. Its exactly what I was looking for.

So 7th gen (360/Wii/PS3) started in 2006 and most of the games weren't out until a few years later, which puts us at about exactly 10 years. So I should start buying 7th gen games, even if they didn't drop to the legendary $5 that SNES games were, before the 15 year mark comes and they all go up as high or higher than they came out for?

>>6959386
Why do you feel that PS1 games will come down? I have a couple and I'd love to get more since I got a PS2. But even games I impulse bought a few years ago seem to be going for double or triple what I paid.

>>6959402
Woah damn this is like hard evidence. Looks pretty real too. Aero Fighters was TWO DOLLARS? Imagine having the foresight back then...

>>6959157
Yes

>>6959157
It's no meme. Before hipsters and basedboy youtubers you could go into a pawn shop and pick up an NES for 10 bucks. Granted it would be yellowed and smell like smoke but you could refurbish it and it would still work like new. I bought my first Super NES from a pawn shop for 15 dollars, repaired it, and still have it.

>>6959402
Note Chrono Trigger being 49.99. And that's loose. I remember this because I bought it from a Funcoland in 1999 after playing it on ZSNES and realizing I had to own it.

>>6959341
I've noticed that it's started to happen with Gamecube games now. I remember picking up Paper Mario TTYD and Wind Waker in the bargain bin in 2006 after the Wii came out for dirt cheap at Wal-Mart but I think they're starting to go up in price now.

>>6959456
have you been under a rock? TTYD in its original box sells for over 100 bucks these days

>>6959463
If one bought games just to play them, it is very easy to not follow or care how much they are worth now.

>>6959471
sure but TTYD is like THE example of runaway game prices, especially since Nintendo's attitude towards it means a rerelease is very unlikely

>>6959463
it's incredible how stupid collectors are, given that I have that game on my hard drive and can play it on my wii exactly as it appeared from when I had the disk.

The real funny part for me is that idiots buying disks and carts from my collection were what funded my buying flashcarts and ODEs to replace them all. Buying old carts from a guy who's hoarded them for years isn't the only way to play games. I suspect too many either want to feel respected for their possessions, or they want to be youtubers and there are rules against using copies or something.

>>6959448
>>6959448
>So I should start buying 7th gen games, even if they didn't drop to the legendary $5 that SNES games were, before the 15 year mark comes and they all go up as high or higher than they came out for?

That's been my experience. I'd only focus on what you think you might actually want to play and can reasonably store without much hassle. There's no reason to acquire plastic that's worthless to you personally, unless your goal is to hodl and sell them to pay for other shit down the road. I can see the appeal of that plan, but for me it's just a lot to hold onto random physical items that may or may not explode in value.

>>6959478
There aren't. People streaming old consoles is highly unusual because it is a pain in the ass.
Playing the real deal and having the real deal packaging is cool and adds to the experience, but not 100 dollars worth.

>>6959478
yeah though idk 100 bucks is nothing to spend on a hobby for most people, so i could see why it wouldn't be worth someones time to softmod their wii and track down the rom and all that stuff. Plus theres something to be said for performing the entire ritual of having the manual, popping in the disk, etc. There's really no wrong way to enjoy video games.

>>6959448
>>6959482
Problem is that the 7th gen was fucking awful. Terrible looking and playing games that I never return to.

>>6959157
There's always a time span were games become cheap as fuck, usually when the generation ends.

>>6959484
the packaging and manual plus feelies is all I care about anymore. No reason to be obsessing over a glorified memory stick.

>>6959489
there was a trash pile to be sure, but there are some worthwhile ones yet

>>6959157
In the early '90s there were piles of 2600 games at Goodwill for a buck each.
>>6959341
The past 5 years or so have been good for me finding Wii games, even in the by-the-pound Goodwills. I'm happy to find an empty case with instructions and cover, but many of them were even complete.

>>6959463
>have you been under a rock?
I've been on 4chan since 2007 so what do you think? I can't believe zoomers will pay that much for a fucking gamecube game.

>>6959562
not surprised, wii is definitely still in its worthless phase. DESU though I'm not even sure if people will go for it, will kids really shell out for a wii and wii sports in 2026?

>>6959575
I can tell from experience the only Wii games that will be worth $$$ in 2026 will be Nintendo's first party Mario and Zelda games.

>>6959597
can't even think of any big "cult" RPGs that people would go for, not like anybody really praised arc rise fantasia or last story or anything else.

people might go goofy for sin and punishment star successor though.

>>6959648
Even the N64 Sin & Punishment isn't valuable. I guess there's been no big e-celeb video on the series yet.

>>6959341
There's also another factor.
Back in the ps1/2/cube days a loooot of people really didn't know how or cared about taking care of their games.
I don't mind too much about getting a loose copy of an snes game because I know the worst thing to happen is needing to replace the battery.
A ps1 game is easily destroyed by a few scratches in bad places or by some dipshit kid using it as a coaster or frisbee.
Even I'm not innocent of handling them badly back in the day when I was a kid.

FF7 is a game that will always be common just because of the sheer amount it sold.
Valkyrie Profile on the other hand was an already rare game and got discovered after production stopped, along with poor handling of existing copies you have some serious bullshit pricing.

>>6959482
Yeah I'm not planning on making Youtuber room, just the games I want to play. Most of which I have tried already, I was a big renter during that generation.

>>6959489
There are many great 7th gen game. Hundreds.

>>6959575
Does that mean Arcade Hits Pack Gunblade and Machineguns can still go down in price? Had a lot of fun with this one. I remember I was in the top 5 on the online scoreboards for awhile until the "-999999999" points screw showed up. I like those old Sega arcade games. Silent Hill Shattered Memories also seems to be selling for near retail when I see it. I'd like to replay that.

>>6959402
>>6959453
I remember Chrono Trigger being 70-80 bucks in the late 90s.

>>6959575
>>6959597
Wii is also a bretty gud emulation box. I actually found an already hacked wii at a by-the-pound Goodwill, only thing wrong was a Mario Kart disc stuck inside, had to take the Wii halfway apart to forcibly eject it. But it also probably ensured that the drive didn't get worn out by some zoomer kid.
>wii sports
Hardly the only game, but I have to admit that wagglan didn't help make the games playable. And some games went out of their way to be shit. I tried playing Chocobo Mystery Dungeon and literally could never get to the dungeons because I got stuck in some stupid encounter in the town area.
>>6959698
>loooot of people really didn't know how or cared about taking care of their games
Rental games could get some abuse too. Rental was also the cause of so many games since the Gen/SNES era missing instructions.
>>6959815
>good game: $$
>rare game: $$$
>rare good game: $$$$ gimme your wallet spangbab

>>6959815
I seem to remember paying 60 bucks for mine. FF3/6 was only 40 by comparison.

>>6959850
CT isn't rare. It just got a huge popularity boost a few years after it was initially released thanks to a combination of FF7 bringing Squaresoft more publicity and ZSNES letting everyone play it. So there was always demand.

>>6959450
>basedboys

GOD DAMN YOU WORDFILTER! DAMN YOU!!!!

ITS S.0.Y.BOYS!!! S.0.YBOYS!!

>>6959890
>newfriends can't sѹpost
>>6959484
I've streamed console games before, you just need a USB digitizer. You can even play games in widescreen if the console can do 16:9 anamorphic. I've even used the digitzer to feed in background music from another computer without using the video.

>>6959157
I’ve had an eBay account since ‘99. They were pennies on the dollar back then. AVGN and others drove the price up.

MUSHA, ninja warriors again, hagane were all $40 games in 2005.

>>6959306
Shipping can be high af but it’s not bad.

>>6959157
It's true still. Most PS2 and Xbox games that aren't coomlector hidden gems are dirt cheap.

>>6959157
God I miss the eirly-mid 00s when 8 and 16bit games were dirt fucking cheap. I amassed most of my NES collection during that time and most games I bought were $2-5 a pop. No one gave a shit about old games back then, but now people are trying to buy back their childhood.

yeah

>>6959157
Some of them still are $5 so you tell me dude

>>6959157
I used to buy nes and ps1 games for 25 cents a piece at garage sales. I got a box Of 15 NES games (contra, double dragon, etc.) For $3.50.
I picked up spiderman, megaman x4, and tony hawk 2 on ps1 for 25 cents each.
Picked up most of my nes collection at flea markets/thrift stores for $1-5 a game.
That was around 2009ish
I used to feel like 10 dollars was too much for a game. Now 10 dollars for a good game is a good deal.

>>6959157
Cheaper even at pawn shops. I was getting fucking stacks of carts from places like that. They weren’t worth shit back then and druggies kept stealing that shit and pawning it for fuck all.

The pawn shop owners only saw worth in the consoles. They damn near gave away the carts.

>>6959157
yes and no.
Games were super cheap not all that long ago but the classic ip that everyone knows and loves like Super Mario 64 or Super Smash Bros. were always around the 30 dollar mark regardless.

>>6959562
Yeah, my local Goodwill Computer Works has regularly restocked stacks of Wiis and bins of Wiimotes and nunchucks. Theres also a bookshelf with lots of Wii games (and other games) but they're almost universally dogshit titles. Haven't stopped by there at all this year so I dont know if that's changed, but I'd imagine not. Never really bought much beyond a few spare Wiimotes/chucks (one Wiimote one of those Mario ones), another Wii since my launch one has developed graphical artefacts, and two official component cables. Iirc Wiis were $20, wiimotes were maybe $5 (sometimes they'd have them in bundles for cheaper per piece), and I think the cables were $5.

Somewhat surprisingly, the other GW CW in my area had a handful of Genesis consoles and a couple controllers. I bought one of the controllers and the cashier knocked a few bucks off because apparently nobody was buying it. Probably should've grabbed a few spare consoles.

>>6961078
I saw boxes of n64 stuff go for $20 when the gamecube came out. A few garage sales actually

>>6961089
Yeah from like 2002 to 2008 N64 games were basically free, I think partially because people had no way to store them aside from a box in the garage so they'd just dump them for the next gen stuff

>>6961080
>, another Wii since my launch one has developed graphical artefacts
Please tell me this isn't like that SNES GPU scare

>>6961089
garage sales not counting because in 2006 I bought 2 SNES's, with 4 controllers, 20 games, and both video options for 20 bucks at a yard sale once. I even told her it was worth a lot more than that but she said she didn't know and let it go that cheaply....lol.
BUT finding that shit was more about getting lucky than getting consistent.

I was thinking general second hand prices in shops and online, which everyone had access to.

>>6961009
The cheap ones all have a better ports elsewhere. Thats why the Silent Hill games are so high, no better way to play them.

>>6961094
From what I read, it is supposedly due to that "always on" feature or whatever they call it resulting in shit overheating and getting damaged. I first noticed the small glitches when playing Skyward Sword when it came out. If your Wii is still good, I guess just make sure to shut it off completely when not in use.

>>6961093
>>6961109
it was only around 2009 or 2010 that i noticed there were these retro shops popping up around malls close to me.

first time i went in it was surprising seeing smash bros 64 at something like $60-70

>>6959157
5 dollars? When the PS1/N64 was relevant you could easily get NES games and even some super nintendo and genesis games for a whole dollar or less.

>>6961206
Will games ever be that cheap again?

>>6961247
360 and PS3 games are that cheap right now if you want to start.

>>6961247
Like commemorative Elvis plates, once the boomers die off, prices will hit rock bottom.

>>6961264
I haven't seen any that cheap. Besides sports titles.

>>6961282
Alright.

>>6961282
I got GTA4 on PS3 from my local Gamestop for $3 CIB. You should visit the closest one to you.

>>6961281
Only two or three of those are even a little rare.
t.collected them since the '90s just fucking because they were there and a buck or two

>>6959157
I have thousands of retro games that I paid less than $5 for. I have thousands I've paid less than $1 for. This stuff used to be very cheap. At least I can take consolation in knowing that it's bandwagoners like you who suffer the most from the price increases. It's also nice to know that the stuff I paid pennies for is now worth many times more, but much nicer to know that bandwagoners are violently triggered by the term "investment".

>>6959157
Even gamestop used to have a big bin of 3rd/4th gen games as late as ~'03 (from memory). The most expensive ones were maybe $15 not counting the extreme outliers like earthbound and shit that still were only like $40

>>6961281
Your elvis plates have no function. Its clutter. Games are interactive and thus timeless. Bottom line, fuck your plates nigger.

>>6959157
>Is it true that old retro games used to be $5
It is true. If the console was 1 or 2 generations old, games were dirt cheap. Good / rare ones were still more expensive sometimes.

>>6961718
The hell with Elvis plates, anyone over 50 or so should have a sheet of Elvis stamps somewhere. At least they take up less space than fucking plates.

>>6959448
>Woah damn this is like hard evidence. Looks pretty real too.
Should be real, it's the Funcoland price listings you could get in store back when they existed. Google "funcoland price sheet" and look at images and you'll find more than a few scans of old Funcoland price listings. You used to be able to buy SMB/Duck Hunt for 10 cents. Pic related shows it was up to 15 cents at one point.

>>6961281
Says the zoomer as he seethes over not being able to play with grandpas old toys because all the other zoomers bought them.

>>6959157
Not boomer, but I remember my brother taking me to places kinda like funcoland and also when clothes stores used to carry old games. I remember him getting a copy of Majora's Mask and an unopened copy of D2 for dreamcast for no more than $10

>>6959157
Cheaper than that. Could find stuff for a dollar and under. They were as cheap as books. I don't know why thrift shops now jack the prices up on this shit when clothes, books, and movies have gems too that are worth tons.

>>6959157
Maybe in the distant past before collectorfags took over

>>6959190
Le baited

>>6959157
Less. Budget games in the 80's could be as little as £1.99.

No, it's a myth.

>>6959157
There's some truth to the statement but there was never a time when you could just wait for arbitrary game to be $5. It's like now how you can get some crappy or very common old games for $5. However it is true that there was a sort of assumption that over time games would depreciate to zero other than for nostalgia.... good thing that never took place huh.

So is there just no way to get physical games then besides just working alot of overtime?

>>6959448
PS1 games will likely depreciate in value with time because of disc rot and loose discs. They're not all that expensive right now aside from the meme platformers and jarpigs.

>>6962831
Get a better job
Or just buy an Everdrive
Better yet, do both

>>6959157
Back in the early to mid 00’s yes. Once YouTube let’s plays started becoming a thing it was the end of good deals.

>>6959489
7th has a few good games:
Mario Galaxy
Mirrors Edge
Dirt 2
Metal Gear Rising
Lollipop Chainsaw
Dark Souls
Minecraft

I agree overall 7th gen was not good, but there were still some goodies in there.

>>6962883
Haven't even scratched the surface. 7th gen is amazing.

>>6959395
Ill never forget when my local game store literally gave away free ps1 shit because it was so undesirable at the time.

>>6959157

7 years ago I used to go into Savers and just grab PS2s for 5 bucks each. Right now it's Wii and 360 that are piss cheap. PS3 is a bit more expensive since they were pricier so they aren't nearly as common. I'm not sure the WiiU's ever going to be "5 dollar bin" fodder for the same reason. The Switch absolutely will someday, though.

>>6964254
Wii stuff is still at $50 and I haven't really found a good 360 with a case under $10.

>>6964254
>just grab PS2s for 5 bucks each.
how much did you end up flipping them for?

>>6964254
Switch will have more valuable games than other modern consoles. Physical releases for games that aren't by Nintendo for the Switch are relatively low print run and it is a Nintendo platform so it will have the Nintendo tax.

>>6964264
360 game

>>6964272
Switch games also have patches and DLC all modern consoes do. I dont trust the big 3 to keep the servers up forever. Hell we can't even get our digital Wii games.

>>6964298
I certainly wouldn't trust Nintendo to. Microsoft has xbox fully integrated into their whole cloud environment, so I think you're safe on that one. No clue on Sony, I've literally never bought something digitally from them because they used to be in the news every other week for getting hacked and I wasn't going to give them my credit card number.

>>6959157
You used to be able to find NES games for $1 to $5 in 1999. Same for Genesis. SNES were probably $5 - $15.

>>6959157
I remember buying used PS1 games for about 10-20 dollars each from a pawn shop in the year 2001. There was a large basket of SNES and NES games in the middle of the store that was constantly filled. I never checked the prices because I didn't care about them. You could go to any thrift shop though, and find 5 NES systems for less than 5 dollars each, the accessories and games would be sold for quarters sometimes, they really didn't give a shit.

>>6964298
you can still redownload digital Wii games you already purchased
https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3764/~/how-to-redownload-wii-shop-channel-content

OP.

Reading this thread has made me so sad that I missed those days and there is nothing I can do about it. I could have bought them instead of being excited for the new stuff but I didn't. Just followed the crowd like every other retard.

I won't make the mistake of buying the PS5. I'll concentrate on Xbox 360/Wii/PS3 games, so I'll at least have something.

>>6964596
Back in the early 2010s some places were clearing out Genesis games. I got a few hundred for a buck each as future donor shells for homebrew. And then IRL went upside-down, but I've been taking advatage of the coof to build up work space and find all my old stuff.

>>6964691
>I'll concentrate on Xbox 360/Wii/PS3 games
Good time for it, 360 games are dirt-cheap and Wii games are free and plentiful to pirate.

>>6964737
They aren't $5 cheap though, more like $20, but I'll take it over $100 per game like Playstation 1 seems to be.

>>6959165
>ecelebs were a thing in 2000s
They weren’t.
However, yes,there was a period in time (2004 or so) where I grabbed l Phantasy Star IV and Shadowrun for Genesis at Gamestop for ten bucks each and Phantasy Star II for five bucks. They weren’t complete or anything, in fact I think the PSIV had rental stickers on it. I don’t understand why it matters though because playing on actual hardware is for retards.

>>6959297
The funny thing is that all this shit is WORTHLESS. Go download a ROM set and stop wasting your time and money on this lame “hobby”.

>>6959157
Old retro games are still $5 in Japan to this day.
>mfw a guy on /m/ was talking about how this Japanese Saturn game would cost $500 used
>I'd bought it just a few months earlier for $3

>>6959203
I bought a working Wii from Goodwill for $25 this month. Suck it.

>>6965408
>i bragged to strangers about overpaying
Sad thing is your mommy probably didn't even let you buy it

>>6965408
>He thinks that was a good deal
lol

>>6964254
Wii stuff raised in price because people were buying it in COVID lockdown.

>>6964690
Honestly, it's easier just to hack your Wii (or Wii U) and just download pirate Wii isos/wbfs files these days.

>>6959157
>be me
>speccy collector
>don’t collect nintenshit
>collection numbers in the thousands
>all cib
>rarities and classics from my childhood
>never paid more than a tenner for a single game
>mfw

>>6965408
I got one for $1.59/lb and already hacked.
>>6965656
Then I guess it was a good time for me to stay home for a few months and go through all my accumulated crap. I still need to find where my old GC and PS2 went, but at least I found all my old Xbox stuff.

>>6965758
Maybe your Mom threw it out

I know from experience ;_;

>>6965927
lolno, I came back with all my stuff to take care of her after she got the 'heimers so she was in no condition to throw anything out, it was just me having to move my shit fast, and first things end up in back, on the bottom. I still have a few closets yet to explore.

>>6965656
Yeah, I figured it would only be a matter of time before the low point on Wii shit started shooting up.

>>6959957
>ѹ
what the fuck is that character, hangul or some shit?

>>6965670
how many of those tapes are cracking apart

>>6966802
>when you're such a zoomer you think actual cassettes fall apart like those bootleg famicom "cassettes" you overpaid for on ebay

>>6959157
It's true
I wish I could go back in time
>Be kid
>Have allowance of $10/week
>Build it up to several hundred dollars over a few years by buying things very sparingly
>Realize that retro games are dozens of times cheaper than new games
>Buy old console lots for cheap
>Occasionally buy an old game for a couple of bucks
>Spend a bit more when I get my first job in high school

I got some real gems this way, and a few things that are worth a lot now, but my collection was pretty middling by the time I started seriously seeking out more games. If I had the spending power I do now back then I could have had so much more good shit.
I also got set back because a good chunk of my games got stolen in a break in and I'm still replacing some of them.

>>6961282
I bought GTA 4, Infamous, Infamous 2, and Final Fantasy 13 for $10 at a used game shop

>>6967345
Tapes does if it's stored in a suboptimal environment. It usually warps, tho.

>>6959157
In the first half of last decade the most expensive brick & mortar games for Xbox would have been no more than $30 (the KOTORs). Most would be under $15, commonly ~$4--$6, such as Gauntlet Dark Legacy and Fuzion Frenzy. Even so today the prices are still largely similar but if the console itself is going up in price then the most acclaimed games are sure to follow in the coming years.

>>6967607
>generic zoomie cope
kek

I literally paid $5 exactly for my copy of Snatcher that I found at a flea market about 12 years ago.

>>6964874
>he says on the retro video games board

>>6961712
I worked at EB 2001-2003, we got rid of the Genesis and SNES games towards the end of my run. The DM told us whatever wasn't sold by the end of the month was trash, my manager told me once I take it out the back door he didn't care where it went.

>>6968506
I got Little Samson for $4 at a flea market in 2005, never heard of it, bought it for that reason. GF broke up with me the following year, took all 15 games I had at the time and moved across the country, she didn't know if they were valuable she just wanted to hurt me.

>>6967621
Are there any PS2 or Xbox games that are decent prices today? Or is that a lost cause like PS1?

>>6964272
Switch game prices will explode in a few years. So many small run releases. And the switch as a platform will soon be the most sold nintendo console ever. Wait for it.

>>6968697
Any games I should look out for?

>>6968742
Anything 3rd party that has high playability, low entry threshold and does not get enough exposure. I could imagine Ikaruga for switch could get as expensive as radiant silvergun is now.

>>6959165
CONSOLE games from NES onwards were literally about the same price as now - so considerably MORE expensive in real terms.
Tape and floppy disk games were single figure prices.

>>6968565
>emulating retro games isn’t retro gaming
Whatever you say, goy.

>>6961206
I was still buying cheap NES and SNES games well into the PS2 era. Especially around the time Gamestops started getting rid of their stock. At least, I think it was early 2000's. To be honest its all kind of blurred together.

>>6961925
I bought some game store's entire stock of Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt for a dollar once. It was like 50 copies or something. Gave them out as gifts to people for the longest time.

Yeah games for any particular system are always dirt cheap in the first five or so years of that system becoming outmoded. There's several factors at work here for why retro gets expensive, but basically it's because so many people are re-engaging with retro stuff because contemporary games are in such a miserable state right now.

And beyond that, unlike Japan, the US does not and has never had a super robust retro game market. And prior to discs becoming a standard format, games really didn't get "broken" or thrown-away very often. But instead they just got put into a closet or into a cardboard box that will sit in a basement for the next 70 years. So much of the once-sold stock still exists and is perfectly playable, it's just....dead stock that won't re-enter the marketplace as it is.

>>6961718
>Your elvis plates have no function. Its clutter. Games are interactive and thus timeless.
have fun explaining the monnalisa based retard

>>6970351
I would like to introduce you to any number of the rich collecting worlds that have taken a massive nosedive as the interest, or the people interested, has died off. Even some once-collectible old toys have died off, and are now things that are just given to museums. Honestly, the nice thing about having the retro game market hit so, so much earlier than something like...say, model trains for instance, is that those markets will blow up even sooner. the NES market hasn't moved a muscle since about 2013, barring the top 1% of rare games. Most games have gone down, especially when adjusting for inflation. Given what's already happened with the N64 and GCN markets, I'd say we have already seen and are starting to descend from peak SNES/Genesis.

>>6959157
www.google.com

kys on the way out

>>6959157

Son, I started collecting in 1999. shit was super fucking cheap.
this one time I saw a pristine copy of Sega Genesis Cliffhanger 5 bucks, but I felt that was too much for such a shitty game.
these days a copy without manual goes for 35.

Glad I bought what I could when I did.

>>6970426
Would you say its worth getting into collecting now?

>>6970554
It's never worth getting into collecting unless your foremost intention is to play the games.

>>6970554

oh hell no, everything is way too expensive these days.
if you wanna retro game on your tv i'd suggest you get a raspberry pi or something, with genesis/snes/nes usb controllers for that retro feel.

>>6970579
Of course I qant to play them.
>>6970583
What made you start?

>>6970617
>What made you start?

Eh, I grew up on that stuff. guess I tried to fill a void with memories of the past when I got out of college in 99.

Yeah, most things were pretty cheap until the late 2000's. The things i remember always holding retail value or above though are square rpgs, certain nintendo titles, and even some of the rarer fighting games and shmups.

>>6970867
You're right, some extremely rare games have never been cheap, like Panzer Dragoon Saga which sold out completely in 3 days. Or stuff that was obtainable through mail-order only and never even reached retail stores.

>>6970917
mhmm, pretty sure panzer dragoon saga always went for at least $100 even in the late 90's.

>>6968624
Cool. When I found my Snatcher, it was in a box full of worthless normie Sega CD titles and I fished out the treasure because the title was familiar and I knew it was a cool Japanese style game and not Madden 199x whatever. I think it was already worth $200 or so even that long ago so it was a great find.

Even in 09 I was able to go to goodwill and buy retro stuff for under $10. But that was right when the retro collector fad was right around the corner.

>>6971182
I'm really glad I picked up all my Sega stuff around 2008-2010. Wouldn't have bothered with the prices now. All my other console collections are mostly stuff I picked up in the early 2000s.

>>6959165
I remember Super Metroid and Harvest Moon were always like 40-60 in used game stores for cartridge only back in the mid 2000s. But more common games like Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country were like 5-15 depending on if they had the manuals and boxes. NES Zelda and NES Super Mario Bros were like 50 cents because they were so common.

> Call Funco Land in 2004ish
> ask if they have Super Metroid not knowing it was actually a rare game by then
> girl who answered laughs and tells me that if they did she would have already bought it
> fucking gamestop

>>6968482
have you seriously never had a warped tape
hell I've had problems loading C64 games from tape due to
>the tape player being shit (yes I've used datasettes)
>volume/gain not being high enough
>tape warping
I've even had audiotapes crack on me

>>6971431
I don't even know what some the terms you're using mean in your head, and don't even care. You've had problems problems loading C64 games from tape due to being an itunes baby, if even that. It took a plagiarism checker a few seconds to locate where you pulled your parroted shit from. Just go back already

>>6962883
>>>/v/

>>6968661
FIFA 05

>>6971817

7th gen is retro now too, deal with it!
aaah remember the ps3 days? we were so young!