/vr/ - Retro Games

its only going to get more expensive from here

>>7682801
>physical retro gaming
The only reason to care about this is if you're a brainless consumer retard who needs to collect plastic. Anyone who isn't an idiot, as in people who actually play games, has a flashcart or emulates.

>>7682801
get a MISTER!

>>7682801
How are prices going to go down when there's a finite (and decreasing) supply of retro games and an ever growing market of plastic consoomers looking after them?

>>7682828
game prices fluctuate all the time, its not unreasonable for prices to go down after people run out of stimmy bux

>>7682801
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv7cW_ijtQQ

Were people really that poor they couldn't afford retro stuff pre-covid? Sad.

When are you comparing to? I've been seeing these threads about how retro game prices are getting outrageous and whether they'll ever fall since at least 2013.

I switched to flashcarts for the most part in 2016 and sold off most of my games, only keeping the ones that had special hardware in them or I had an emotional connection to. Made like 1000 bucks and I can still play the games. I recommend it.

>>7682816
I feel like my soul is dying from just game-hopping. This hobby wasn't meant to be an all-you-can-eat buffet.

>>7682824
That got more expensive too

>>7682849
>When are you comparing to
i mentioned in the op 'just a year ago'

the prices have gone up so fast that even pricecharting seems off compared to the sold ebay listings

Atari 2600 games came back down and they got insanely priced as well

>>7682881
This hobby wasn't meant to be a wine tasting contest for hipster snobs ether but e-celebs, coomlectors, and resellers made sure to shape it up that way.

>>7682801
Thank god high prices are here to stay. I hoarded at the market's bottom so I'm making out like a bandit

>>7683010
As if 2600 games were ever high.

>>7683167
Exactly what is this hobby to you? Sitting in front of a computer monitor holding a wired 360 controller?

>>7683190
They were maybe 20 years ago

snes before corona: 50 bucks with original controllers and accesories
snes after corona: 100 bucks with chinese power supply and chinese controllers

>>7682801
Probably not. Look at the possible scenarios
1. Governments continue to print free money
Prices will continue to go up as people spend their free money
2. Economies rebound
Prices surge as those who didn't spend their free money on toys now feel secure enough to spend their hard earned money on toys
3. Shit continues and stimulus becomes unsustainable
Economies collapse and currency values plummet leading to a SNES costing a wheelbarrow of worthless money

>>7683317
i feel like it's been a decade since i last saw that image

>>7683193
To me this hobby is about playing retro games and talking about them, not about how complete my copy of X game is or if its sealed, not about shilling some fucking chinese or OG hardware with flashcart, not about peacocking how good of a deal I got on X game or how I got it for free off the internet, just about the games themselves and my experience with them.

Fuck the people who have the mentality you can only enjoy the games if you do it a specific way, the people that only play retro games because they think it makes them look superior or special, and especially fuck the people that don't give a rats ass about retro games and use them to make a quick buck or make some shitty youtube video for e-celeb fame.

>>7682801
I hate people that are blaming corona for all of this. If you are blaming corona you haven't been around here that long, prices have been getting fucking ridiculous for the past 10 years. It's because people are wanting to make retro games a fucking investment now and try to pay for their kid's college with it. A very similar thing happened to comic book collecting and look where it is now.

good thing that physical software is literally the least essential component of playing old games then!

paying people to not work with all of these government programs is going to end

>>7683385
t. stupid with money and can't afford games

The last time I bought an actual copy of something it was a copy of Vagrant Story so that I could use it as a trigger disc for PSXLauncher, and then a couple games that came bundled with special controllers.

Now that I have all the controllers I want and mechapwn exists, yeah, I think I'm good on ever buying a game again hopefully

>>7683386
>A very similar thing happened to comic book collecting and look where it is now.
No, that comic bubble was a bit different.

>>7683432
It's the same idea that has been happening over the past 10 years of video game collecting. Hoaxrona didn't magically make everything skyrocket, zoomer. These things have already been skyrocketing.

>physical
Give it up and embrace emulation. It's more than good enough for this 50 year old gamer who has played games since the fucking 70s, it's good enough for you.

I sold most of my games around 2017 and bought flashcarts, then put the rest in bitcoin. Lets just say I'm very happy with that decision kek

>>7682816
Its not the same.

>>7682801
wtf I love the Chinese plague now?!

I don't believe prices just magically increased because of Corona. Sure there are some secondary factors such as increased inflation due to Corona, but I don't think people suddenly decided to start collecting SNES games because they were stuck at home.

It's mostly just inflation and age shift. By the latter I mean people who were kids back in the day having increased disposible income. It's the same thing with other childhood favorites like Pokémon and Lego. Hell, you even see the same thing with vintage PC stuff.

I do believe it is possible for prices to drop again. I mean, look at Star Wars. 10-20 years ago Star Wars collectibles were still a thing. Now the market is flooded with them and you can get 20 year old sealed action figures for like 10$.

>>7682849
Been following this mindset after soft modding my PS2 last year. Feels fuckin' faaan-TASTIC.

>>7683693
>I don't believe prices just magically increased because of Corona
have you seen the prices? a lot of games have tripled, even quadrupled in price in less than a year.
Thats more than theyve increased in almost a 8 years combined. Ever 90s kid didnt just get a job during that time, if anything more people lost their job in that time.
it is 100% because of corona and stimulus

Emulation is 100% free. You do have a decent PC with a VRR monitor do you anon?

>>7683193
>Sitting in front of a computer monitor holding a wired 360 controller?
There's literally nothing wrong with that.

>>7683783
Objectively wrong but have it your way.

>>7683693
>>7683747
jej, literally everything gets bough up instantly right now. My local game store used to have a back room full of consoles, and now stuff gets bought up the same day it comes in. Even and especially retro stuff.

>>7683785
It's the gold standard controller, why hook anything else up? This is separate from whether you should emulate or not (you shouldn't)

>>7683693
>up to $3200 in "free" cash distributed to millions of people
>"I don't believe prices just magically increased"
lol, it's the power of the invisible hand

>>7682801
markets fluctuate and adjust due to inflation. It's never gonna get better because millennials and generation x are getting older and older and have even more money to spend on nostalgia. I recommend using flash carts cause retro gaming is ridiculous in pricing. I'm so glad most of the movie collecting world doesn't have too many high price items.

>>7683385
you don't value physical items, that's fine. you don't have to sperg about it. start a nice thread about a game you enjoy. i'm a toy and movie collector and there's no flash cart for a toy. and with movies i enjoy having the highest quality because i really value preserving tv and film.

>>7682801
>Will the prices ever recover, or is this the new reality?
I don't know, but I have plenty to keep me busy anon

>>7683383

>>7682801
>killed physical retro gaming
idk, my hard drives with full romsets are still there

A warning from Australia, do NOT buy retro games until lockdown restrictions end.

I can't even give my old games away. No one is buying on eBay. Instead, I'm pivoting from selling my old games to selling Pokemon cards. Just a few months ago in 2020, people were paying north of $200 for a copy of Earthworm Jim on the Mega Drive.

A huge crash is coming. Save your money.

prices have been bad for years
the inflation @ an unprecedented rate only exacerbates the issue...
its only going to get worse
open your fucking eyes
buy and hold now
"diamond hands"
good luck anon
RIP
F

>>7682801
>Over $3000 in stimulus money
>Still not enough to get the game they want
Why are you so bad at math? Invest in a wheelbarrel soon.

_____HODL_____

>>7684045
>A huge crash is coming.
Nah. Retro games are hard to come by, at least certain games.

Xbox, PS2, PS3 etc are all dime a dozen. I can get PS2 games for $1 in my local retro store.

But some PS1 games are worth like $200+ same for the SNEs and N64. A lot of the pokemon games like SoulSilver in boxed condition are expensive too.

Rarity will never go down in price.

>>7682881
A hobby for children that you grow out of.

>>7683807
>>7683747
>>7683787
No, I disagree. I think it's kind of absurd to think that people who did not give a fuck about retro games will all of a sudden decide to start collecting cartridges because they got a few 1000$. So saying things like "it's 100% because of Corona and stimulus" seems kind of weird to me. What percentage of the population will actually decide to buy SNES games with their stimulus checks?

I'll agree that the prices have increased significantly over the past year, but that probably has more to do with stupid Youtubes hyping up retro games, not because of the pandemic or stimulus checks.

Also, it's kind of a chain reaction. Prices go up, people notice and start collecting because the games are considered highly collectible. And fucking Instagram and Youtube douchebags post stuff like "huge retro game haul", "rare SNES games L00K". It's a huge part of the appeal. So people start hoarding games, demand increases and prices go up even further.

Another example of this is vinyl. A few years ago hipsters started collecting vinyl and prices suddenly increased massively. This didn't have jack shit to do with a pandemic or stimulus checks. It's just internet hype.

>>7684121
"I know what I have" is one of many factors.

You VILL overpay for your stupid hobby

I'm new to this board, but it seems like there are a lot of whiny babies that seem to hate on adults that have money.

>>7682881
If you had access to a runway and a garage of hundreds of variations of sports cars, you wouldn't have choice paralysis, it would be an amazing day of fun. Having all these video games at your fingers just made you realize its all time wasting garbage.

>recently sold my ps2 but still holding onto xenogears/xenosaga because i like them
>tfw just looked up the prices
Time to rip off some goyim

>>7684169
dont sell #3

>>7684162
>some people are literally going to be fucked during the collapse
Dude, stop your tinfoil hat. There is no 'collapse

>>7684179
Why not? It's my favorite but it's also worth the most $$$ and I don't have a way to play them anymore regardless.
For now I'm keeping them in the hopes I can get some of my friends to play them but I've had no such luck so far despite having multiple that love the Blades and say they want to try the older games.

>>7684167
>it would be an amazing day of fun
Sounds like your projecting. I've had lots of sports cars and powerful motorcycles. My last bike was a 2012 GSXR 750 and could do 100mph in 5 seconds.

I got bored eventually. Because treating the public roads like a race track either gets you
>Killed
>Jailed for speeding
>Huge fines
>Lose licence

So having 'loads of sports cars' isn't as much as you think it is.

>>7683865
>you don't value physical items, that's fine.
Redead his post. He doesnt care how you play the games.

>hack Xbox
>can now play anything
>end up sinking more time into a game I've already beaten on three different platforms in the past

Infinite gaming was a mistake.

>>7684197
He said "access to a runway".

Although that would get old too for lack of scenery.

>>7684084
Prices are gripped by scalpers and are 200-300% over the last year. Nobody gives a fuck about these prices and are just going to use flashcarts if it stays that way

>>7684121
People aren't going crazy with corona bucks, its just showing you how bad of a grip scalpers have on the market

An overwhelming majority of titles cost less than they did when they were new...

>>7682881
Is this the same person in every thread? God I hate you just figure it out faggot
>muh "choice paralysis
Retard

>>7684530
then flashcarts will go +300%

>>7683314
Umm... No. They weren't at all. There have always been expensive rare games, but your average popular 2600 title has been cheap as dirt since the mid eighties.

>>7683385
>Fuck the people who have the mentality you can only enjoy the games if you do it a specific way
Exactly. Fuck You

>>7683386
Same thing with Baseball cards and that market is completely different. The only cartridge games that are really vulnerable to market crash are DS games. You can't open them.

>>7684213
He clearly cares very much how people play the game. Otherwise he wouldn't shit up every fucking thread with his coomlector skid mark comments.

>>7684530
How do you scalp something that was released more then twenty years ago?

>>7682816
/thread

>>7684568
Gee, Mr, everyone hates you too.

>>7684775
NES Mini
>November 2016 - March 2017
>Scalping
>April 2017 - Now
>Reseller

There is a one difference between scalpers and resellers, one resells products being actively produced and the other resells products that have been discontinued. Acting like that difference alone removes the negative connotations is ignorance.

>>7684876
Dumbass thinks scalping PS5s is the same thing as going to garage sales fifteen years ago picking up games as a hobby.

>>7684876
Also Nintendo orchestrated the scalping and hoarding of the NES CLASSIC as a marketing stunt. It worked fantastic. They hysteria ended. If you had actually wanted one you could have gotten one for about fifty bucks two years ago. Now they're back up to a hundred. You have nothing to complain about.

>>7684887
No, atleast you can wait out scalpers and buy a PS5 for a regular price in a year, you can't out wait reselling fucks only buy flash carts, repos, or digitally. I'd say retro resellers are worse than scalpers on every level, its just rich to see resellers acting like they have the high ground to judge scalping when they are the same fucking guy.

I really wanna cum on Noriko's crying face

Anybody wanna share painful memories of games they didn't pick up two decades ago? Magic Knight Rayearth used to sell for 70 bucks and I thought that was too high at the time. Goes between 1,200 - 1,500 now.

>>7684916
Back in 2015 my local walmart had sealed copies of Drill Dozer for $15, fast forward to now and they cost over $100 loss. They had like 10 copies for the longest time I just assumed it didn't sell well but I'm convinced someone who took the trouble to look them up probably bought every copy that day. Oh well I should have looked them up and made back my money from selling one copy of it.

>>7684904
Wow this guy must really hate people who deal in antiques.

>>7684916
I waited to get TMNT HyperStone Heist because the Retro Game Store had it priced at a Hundred Dollars CIB more than three years ago. I always thought I'd get it cheaper than that. Now the game sells for over 130 and that copy for a hundred sold to someone else just months ago.

>>7684916
Oh yea... that and I remember seeing sealed copies of Panzer Dragoon Saga at a SEARS Electronics department and didn't pick one up because I didn't like paying full price for games. LMAO

>>7684916
10+ Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver big boxes for 15euro each. Only bought a single one and still missing the other.

>>7685096
I'm still kicking myself that I never got these back in the day. I was super excited waiting for the remakes, but at the same time, it was also the year I was starting to grow out of the games.

>>7684916
I mean everything. Some GBA games were seriously underpriced even before the corona spike. I never understood how Warioland 4 and FF tactics advance were still selling for $10. I'm a genius so I knew games with cartridge gimmicks like Drill Dozer and Boktai were going to explode in price. It was only logical. I was only interested in Wario Ware Twisted but I still should have grabbed the others as an investment. None of that bothers me like not getting Otogi 1 and 2. I always wanted those games and there was a guy selling multiple copies of Otogi 2 brand new on ebay for less than $35 last year. That hurts the most.

Why does this shock people. Prices have been going up and up since youtbers started unveiling hidden gems. No one is going to be buying this crap, the ones that do are the ones who list their 'rare' games for resale only.
Just dont buy them.

>>7685156
I have a sun faded Metroid Fusion sitting out with a $10 price tag on it for years. Nobody picked it up. I have a CIB, but the box was crushed Metroid Fusion for $40 nobody picked that up either. People are cheapskates.

>>7685167
The corona price spike is unrelated to youtubers. People were complaining youtubers were making $10 games spike to $20-$30. Corona made prices go from $30 to $80. Then the stimulus checks just destroyed the market further.

>>7684130
What website is this?

>>7685156
Honestly handheld games were like this for the longest time with only Pokemon and a handful of other games going above $30. I don't know what it was but as console games were skyrocketing in price, handheld games stayed at the same price without much fluctuation until Pokemom Go happened. Then demand for them came out of the blue and they skyrocketed, maybe it was the emergence of things like the Retron 5 that made the average coomlector go ape shit for them.

>>7684121
I don’t think it’s even that, I think it’s digital distribution. I remember in the 2000s I’d see PS1 games in every thrift store for a few dollars for about a decade. Then they only rose in price slowly after that. They made so many copies they just weren’t scarce for a long time. But now it’s feels like there isn’t nearly as many PS4 games right now as there were PS1 games at the end of its life. Digital copies can’t be traded and the publishers know that. Imagine how cheap old games would be if every digital copy every person bought was a physical copy dumped on the market. Collectors are just dealing with a smaller pool of games each generation and things like game pass make it even worse, There’s a bunch of Xbox arcade games that are completely lost because they never had a physical release.

>>7685228
Not a website, app called Gameye. It's pretty good but doesn't have an account system so you can't access your collection on anything but the device you install the app on unless you export a "restore" point and download and install that on another device. Hopefully they fix that soon.

>>7685243
I miss the glory days of all gameboy games by default going for under $5. I always had a large gameboy library since I could buy 5-10 gameboy games for the price of a ebay n64 cartridge back in those days.

>>7682881
True

>>7684916
>Anybody wanna share painful memories of games they didn't pick up two decades ago?
I had at least 100 N64 games that my dad (spoiled me rotten) bought for me. And I traded them all in to get gas money when I was really down on my luck in my teens.

Now I'm having to buy them all again at ridiculous prices. Wish I didn't sell them

>>7685353
I wish I hadn't had all my Nintendo games stolen from me, but that's what got me into collecting in the mid 00's. Got back everything I had lost except for Felix the Cat. That's one's never coming back apparently. LOL

>>7682816
>>7682824
Correct. It's a golden age for retro gaming. Stop being a nostalgiafag and just download that shit for free. Plus everyone in the know realizes that emulation practice to work up to a 1cc is far and away the best way to optimize practice and enjoyment of the game.

>>7685452
>a golden age for retro gaming
It really is. Having a little box that plays every single system's games from the 80's to mid 90's was just a dream back then.

>>7685452
>1cc fag
ignored

>>7683886
Fucking PAL lol, you might as well emulate on a 90s pentium hooked up to a first gen lcd monitor.

>>7684167
but anon I dont give a shit about cars

>>7682801
Welcome to the new normal
Glad I already have a great collection of retro games. You can always emulate the games you're missing.

>>7683652
Yeah...it's NOT the same: You don't have to have an antiquated box sitting in your house, you don't have to deal with old cartridges or CDs not working well, you don't have to be limited by your wallet or by rare stuff you can't get from Japan for the Famicom, you have the convenience of using save states instead of relying on long passwords to start where you left off, you can try a game out instead of buying a physical copy without knowing whether you'll like it, you can easily use more ergonomic and wireless controller options without hunting down sketchy Chinese converters, you can save shelf space by not having rows of games which you barely fucking play, etc.

It's NOT the same. It's BETTER. Regardless of sOuL, digital is just more convenient in every way. Resisting change is always a recipe for disappointment.

It's not 1995 anymore.

Grow up.

Accept it.

If you want to collect physical and have 100% fidelity and a CRT, that's totally fine. But you are absolutely delusional if you think you're more "pure" or something and not just indulging your nostalgia.

>>7684916
I was on the fence about picking up Drakengard 1 and 2 for $20 each about ten years ago and decided not to bother.

Another time I was trying to buy a turbo graffx 16 from a sketchy ass store while I was visiting a different city but the guy running the till didn't know what it was supposed to be priced so he wouldn't sell it to me.

>>7684916
I passed up Burning Rangers and Rule of Rose about 7 years ago because they were both $80 and I was unemployed at the time, now they're both several hundred.

>Prices are up
>Killed

U fokin wat m8.

Prices going up is a sign the market is doing well.

Stop thinking like a poorfag conSOOOMER and start thinking in terms of long term investment to appreciate the cumulative value of your collection.

>>7682836
try not to cross your fingers so hard that your bones shatter, kid

>>7682816
That's not true for all of us. My problem with emulation is that I'll end up with thousands of games and never play anything.
If I have a physical collection, I play the games I buy and actually value them. I also dont have 800 games shitting up my shelf. It's a happy middle ground for me.

>>7683194
Of all the places piracy should be somewhat tolerated it's /vr/. Unless the game has had a port you're not going to be able to give money to the developers so instead you'll just be overpaying some rando based on a price decided by how many autists like you want the game. Better someone pirate a game like Panzer Dragoon saga than never play it because the asking price is 750$ plus whatever costs a saturn now

>>7684121
>I think it's kind of absurd to think that people who did not give a fuck about retro games will all of a sudden decide to start collecting cartridges because they got a few 1000$. So saying things like "it's 100% because of Corona and stimulus" seems kind of weird to me
i have never even implied it was people who did not give a fuck about retro games. Its people who like retro games, but dont have the expendable income to support their hobby. now they have free money, and are locked inside, it is the perfect time to finish their collections or pick up the rest of the games they were looking for or had in their 'to purchase eventually' list

i honestly think its kind of absurd to say corona and stimulus didnt cause it, nothing else happended in the last year to cause a 300% on shit thats been increasing very gradually for the past decade


>I'll agree that the prices have increased significantly over the past year, but that probably has more to do with stupid Youtubes hyping up retro games, not because of the pandemic or stimulus checks.
Hidden gem and retro youtubers have been a thing for a long time now, and they have not seen a big enough increase in views to suggest they caused anything more than a slight bump. even then, its not even just hidden gems that have gone up so absurdly

>Another example of this is vinyl
This happened gradually for the past 5+ years, and didnt happen just because of the internet either. People like vinyls because theyre like collectables for music in an age where most people stream music digitally, so now a lot of bands are releasing vinyls for their music now because people like having something physical, and CDs are too boring. im not a vinylfag, but i see the appeal

One key difference is also that retro games have been popular for over a decade, and is seeing an increase only now

>>7686942
>and is seeing an increase only now
I remember collector friends complaining about the prices going up 6 years ago.

>>7682816
You realize hardware prices are up too right? I can't find a cheap ps1 anywhere.
>inb4 emulation
I don't want soulless imitations, emutranny

>>7687035
What retro console that wasn't already ridiculously expensive can't you get for between 50 and 100 dollars?

>>7682801
Should’ve gotten in early like 20 years ago. Box games were like 20 to 30 bucks back then

>>7687074
NeoGeo

>>7685183
Prove it.

>>7687437
Neo geo has always been ridiculously expensive though.

>>7687352
I never stopped buying retro games from the time they were new. Still annoyed they're expensive now.

This kills the coomlector and the reseller in one fell swoop

>>7683648
Video games are as much of a spook as bitcoin, their value is determined by people. If video game prices are going up now and you sold them when they were cheap, you lost money.

>>7685096
My version has Swedish/Finnish back cover... It'll never be worth anything...

>>7685472
>RGB out of the box
>imports and bootlegs play at 60hz
EUchads won in the end.

>>7689245
i recognize the network adapter, but what's the thing plugged into it?

I've been holding off on selling all my old video game shit because I'm a lazy fuck. But with buyfags at their weakest, I guess now is the time to cash in. Thanks, Corona-chan.

The solution is for identical bootlegs to flood the market and depress prices.

>>7689435
maybe a cf-card plugged into a cf2ide-adapter

Prices won't go down much, maybe 15% at most. Thank god I have almost all the games I ever wanted, sans crazy bullshit like AES games.

>>7683385
based and funpilled

>>7682801
Prices go up thanks to Youtubers and other faggots.

>>7686918
It’s higher now. Lol

>>7686918
you don't pay that kind of money to play it anyway.
it's for /biz/tards.

>>7684916
EarthBound, not like I would have kept all the stuff in the box together all these years.

>>7689445
Repros have not helped yet

>>7682828
If people have them but aren't trying to sell them, they just collect dust in some attic or basement.

Anyway, it's probably because people who go out and look for retro games(not everyone cares or even know about online marketplaces) have their activity being disrupted by the pandemic

>>7691589
Like who would have something like a garage sale in the time of Covid?

>>7691213
that's not a repro

>>7691617
It IS a repro, but it’s an official one.

If you have a 3ds, downloading and playing old games is easier and quicker than posting on this site with QR code installations. The only reason prices are so high is because coomlectors are willing to pay so much. Theres no reason a loose copy of pokemon emerald should go for 140 bucks when you can search "pokemon emerald rom" and download and play in 5 seconds. If I can sell my old games on ebay for double/triple what I paid 10+ years ago while playing "backups" of them, why shouldnt I? You can play GBA games on fucking anything nowadays, I'm 99% certain everyone in this thread has a device they can launch a GBA emulator on.

>>7691896
Why bother even with emulators when the omega flashcart is like $20 with 3 day shipping and everyone in the world knows someone with a ds lite in their drawer?

>>7692032
>Why bother even with emulators when the omega flashcart is like $20 with 3 day shipping
Gee I don't know anon

>>7682801
Should've emulated.

I'm just waiting until later in the year when things like interest rates return to "normal" and idiots who still had money during the meme virus find themselves still in a financial rut because they blew their money on scalped vidya and overpriced computer parts.

>>7691806
so it's an official release, not a REPROduction.

>>7691896
Can you transfer pokemon from an emulated version of Emerald to pokemon Sword and Shield on the switch?

>>7692181
So... you're saying it's not a copy of the game that got produced post-production of the original run?

>>7692032
Because I already own a 3ds which can play most retro consoles with injects, along with native GBA. I have a paperclipped switch which can play PSP and PS1 games too, but if you have the N3DS you can play full speed PS1 now. I remember about half a year ago they were selling N3DS's at walmart for 99 bucks but now they're up to 300+. If I didn't own either of them I still wouldnt buy a flashcart because I have a PC which I can play all this shit on and more if I really wanted to or I could play on my phone

>>7692356
Yeah look up PKSM

>>7692370
Oh, neat!

>>7682801
Flash carts, optical drives, ROMS, ISOs, and emulators are all still affordable on my end

>>7692368
I have a hacked new 3ds as well but its so damn uncomfortable for extended play sessions

>>7692358
It's a rerelease not a reproduction.

>>7689396
I can invest a measly few hundred dollars from fast game and accessory sales, invest that money back into my mutual fund at ~7% every year (compounding), and enjoy a further boosted retirement fund that will grow exponentially faster than anyone holding onto physical media as """investments""" could ever dream of having.

If you DIDN'T sell them and invest that money, you lost big money because time in the market > timing the market. And in this case, you'll hilariously be trying to "time" the market for your entire life, never knowing if it'll actually go up or just tank completely if interest wanes as the people who grew up with that media get older. Even if it does go up, it will still never beat compound interest for even a couple hundred bucks. Check out the various investment calculators to have your mind blown at how easy it is to have a massive fortune saved when you start early, even with the tiniest contributions.

>>7693021
You need to reproduce something to rerelease it

>>7692604
there are grips

>>7682816
>>7682881
>>7683167
all good points but like, why cant you just play one game at a time, until it gets boring, and then move onto another, without the need to beating anything?
who cares about that half a million sealed mario, nobody wants a sealed mario, they dont even want a mario with a kids named scribbled on it, they want roms and shiiiii

>>7692032
Because I can spend those 20$ in groceries instead and play pokemon emerald on my phone while I wait in line to pay for said groceries

>>7683439
>>7683386
The "investing in comics" thing was because someone sold a mint copy of Superman's first comic (original print, not a reprint), and made lots of money on it, and then the industry sperged out and you had faggots labeling anything and everything as highly collectible because it was thought it would increase sales.

First issue of some shitty comic that sucks and won't get another one? Stamp "COLLECTIBLE FIRST ISSUE!" on the cover in big letters so suckers will buy it. As bad as the AAA industry is now, it hasn't headed down that path yet, and that's not likely because it's actually an atrocious way to make money as an actual publisher or normal retailer.

>>7694376
That sounds a lot like the phenomenon of big dumb collector's editions honestly

>>7682801
Just emulate. I promise you, you'll get used to things being only 98% of their original look and feel

>>7692368
>>7692032
>Using 3ds or ds for emulation
lol
Some retarded people will never learn

We live in world with easy, instant access to information and online resellers. Tie that with the preference of social media and 'influences'/content creators looking to make ad revenue on videos about their hobbies, and bam now you've got everyone and their mother buying into what was once a niche hobby. It's not just retro games, its everything. Especially now, I mean look at fucking TCG's or comics

This is the future and its not going to change

Honestly it really seems to depend on the console. I haven't noticed an increase in prices for the consoles I've been collecting for for the past 5 years. It seems some consoles like GameCube and gameboy advance are just starting to spike, but I don't really collect for them. N64 games though have pretty consistently been $20-$50 for the past five years though, seems only the high in demand cartridges that I already own have jumped in price. The Sega Saturn has also been consistently around $70-$120 CIB for about a decade now: it only looks like the rarest of the rare games are selling through the roof. Gameboy games are about $15 which makes my heart cry considering they used to be $5 but this isn't such a drastic increase, more like typical inflation.

Really, the general trajectory has been that used game prices are now the price of new games. It's a trend that was growing but it's really come to fruition now. It's an unwelcome change if you're used to the deals you could get back in the early 00s, but it is understandable given how rare these games have become, and it isn't too unreasonable on your budget if you just treat your vintage games the way you treat any other game you would buy. Instead of buying lots of games you might only just buy one, instead of buying every paycheck you might just get one every two months, but this is more or less how everybody else treats games that are currently in circulation right now.

>>7694440
beats all those chinkshit handhelds which are being supported for five minutes

>why are retro games going up?
>why are PS3 games going up?
>why are GPU going up?
>Why are pokemon cards going up?
>why is every collectible going up?
>why are prebuilts going up?
>why is my fast food going up?
>why are home prices going up?
>why is the stock market going up?
>why is crypto going up?
>why is lumber going up?


>>7684193
There will be a collapse, do not lie to other people. The CPI is a fraud.

>>7695318