/vr/ - Retro Games

>50 bucks for 24 months
dunno, sounds like a deal to me.

>>7741412
sold my complete copy of Earthbound for $800 in under two hours of being listed. i play Earthbound on the wii now while he can post it on instagram..

>>7741412
Collectors. The answer is always coomlectors.

>>7741464
Yeah see sometimes I don't believe that. Remember when people were trying to sell 'black diamond' Disney VHS tapes for $8000?
Some of this shit has to just be constant relisting hoping for a single sucker to come along.

>>7741412
People with Diogenes Syndrome.

>>7741485
I often wonder how long these high price listings are sitting like this. I assume it takes months before somebody actually goes and buys it.

Video games are in the same position that comic books were when the kids who read them grew up and got money. If you want to get rich, just figure out what disposable crap zoomers love.

>>7741518
Do they sell physical fortnite skins?

>>7741518
Funko Pops, but then again people the age of our moms thought that Beanie Babies were a good investment, and look where that went.

>>7741412
A thousand dollars and still charges for shipping? What a kike.

>>7741493
I've always assumed they were never put up to scam people but for money laundering purposes.

>>7741412
nostalgia is a helluva drug. to be honest it's rare to see games with all that stuff intact these days, by far most people threw out those ads and crap almost immediately, so I get why it's valuable. i wouldn't pay that much for it, but i'm not surprised someone else would. in case you haven't noticed popular culture has been obsessed with the 90s for longer than they lasted

>>7741562
Funko Pops by themselves no. Gotta grab the specialty funkos like "Afternoon with Eevee and Friends"
Those things retail for $10. Look at them on ebay.

>>7741593
>for money laundering purposes.
How does that work? Asking for a friend who sold Doge before SNL.

>>7741426
you fool!

>>7741487
fuck whoever named that syndrom after based Diogenes. Diogenes was neither senile nor a hoarder.

>>7741518
I should start hoarding severed penises and other such tranny paraphenelia

>>7741582
>Won't pay for shipping
>Sorry Anon, I mailed it and it says you got it
>no refunds

Ebay gets $100 from this sell

>>7741746
Money taken from fools is always so satisfying!

>>7741487
>reserve not met

>>7741412

>>7741485
Doubt it. Even if I had Jeff Bezos money I'd still use flashcarts/ODE for convenience. The high stakes ebay vidya market is 100% collectors ripping off other collectors.

>wants to post example of physical game being sold
>cherrypicks a pristine extremely rare condition item
>pretends this is the same as a gay rom on his computer
never change, emufaggots

>>7741908
You'll never have $1000 in your pocket again, buypig.

>>7741918
What makes you think I would buy it you blubbering cracknigger?

>>7741918
you’ll never own a video game

>>7741918
Games like this aren't that bad of an investment. Beat it in a weekend and sell it for $1200 a year from now.

>>7741485
>'black diamond' Disney VHS tapes for $8000?
That was 100% money laundering. I remember seeing them go for $10-$15 tops around that time and still being listed for that price even after those sales.

>>7741485
glad someone remembers that black diamond crap, last I checked about two years ago they were still listing them on ebay lol

>>7741958
https://medium.com/@theroarbots/i-hate-to-tell-you-but-your-disney-vhs-tapes-are-not-worth-thousands-of-dollars-496e48144b08

yeah, it was total bullshit.

>>7741980
>It’s unclear when, but in an attempt to poke fun at these ludicrous values placed on copies of 101 Dalmatians and The Rescuers Down Under, collectors started posting fake eBay listings for these supposedly “rare” VHS movies for hundreds and even thousands of dollars. They even added to the mystique of these “priceless wonders” (of which millions of Americans owned at least 3 each) by designating them with the exclusive sounding “Black Diamond” moniker. However, instead of recognizing a joke, ordinary people saw these listings and thought that they too should get in on the action. Though the jokesters are probably long gone, we are now in a continuous cycle of people trying to sell their dollar-bin movies for exorbitant prices, while “journalists” pick up the story of ordinary people potentially sitting on a VHS goldmine. And that’s it.
Same thing is happening with the pokemon card market, just heard a report on NPR about the hype when it's only a handful of cards that are really rare and the spikes are pure hype at the moment.

>>7741989
I have a friend who very recently won't stop expressing how mad he is at his mom for throwing away his childhood Yugioh cards. He thinks Blue-Eyes White Dragon is worth over $2k and when I show him eBay listings clearly showing it's not, he tells me that his version as a kid was special and worth more than the ones on eBay.

Some people are just really fucking stupid and blinded by dollar signs.

It's worth closer to 850.
https://www.pricecharting.com/game/super-nintendo/mega-man-x3#completed-auctions-cib
Seller is hoping to catch lightning in a bottle. Might work out if he waits long enough.

>>7742146
With a $100 cut from ebay yeah he's only selling it about $50+ higher. Most high listings like this take ebay cuts into account. Of course the consumer is fucked spending $150 more.

>>7741412
>CIB
>it's open
>box & manual have visible wear
mega derp

>>7742163
CIB just means "complete in box", nothing more you retard.

I don't think you fucking idiots understand when you say "can be emulated"

That's not a thing to a lot of people. A good majority of people don't give a fuck about emulated games and download a giant pack of 1,000 roms and play each game for 2 minutes and get bored and move on.

People who use real hardware do it for a reason.

As for the re-releases, that has nothing to do with the rarity and collectability of SNES games.

>>7742184
>As for the re-releases, that has nothing to do with the rarity and collectability of SNES games.
Then why do collectors always bitch about them?

>>7742316
Collectors only bitch about bootlegs. Remade games on other systems (the scenario in OP) don't affect the value of the original, because the original is presumably rarer and will never be made again.

>>7742316
because emulator cucks try to shit up every thread

>>7742184
>People who use real hardware do it for a reason.
the reason being that they're utter retards

>>7742319
Even the repos are fucking expensive ($160 on etsy with a replica box) but a lot more reasonable

>>7742184
Please don't lump coomlectors with sensible real hardware gods.

>>7742370
Holy fuck that's unreasonable even with a box. Repro carts go for $30-40 loose, and no more than $60 with a fan case, maybe $70 if the manual is high quality. Anything more than that is a pure scam. There's no reason a cart for Megaman X3 needs to be more expensive than an FF5 cart.

>>7742382
>>7742370

Holy shit you guys are fucking retarded. Repros are worthless, but fun.

>>7742418
>ali-express
Yeah I'll just emulate thanks.

>>7742418
Yeah I realized after I posted it that even $30 was too high, FF5 goes for $15.

>>7742424
Same here, it's just amazing how dumb people are. I don't buy retro games at all and even I knew where to find cheap repros.

>>7742436
I know where to get cheap repros my man, it was just a mistake in memory about the prices, only the guy who brought up the $160 repro deserves it

>>7742334
Emulatorfaggots are braindead pissdrinkers
If you don't own a console and at least 10 games you're a faggot and should stop talking about video games completely

>>7741556
Actually, yes. They come in game cases.

>>7742316
They don't? Gamers do, because re-releases are almost always shit.

>>7742703
I thought this was a joke but they apparently really do sell vouchers with a download code in physical cases

>>7742709
Think they'd ever be worth anything when the game inevitably shuts down? I feel like it'll be like finding a dead MMORPG box somewhere. Nostalgia but who cares?

Only an idiot would pay 1000 and help make an obese hoarder wealthy.

>>7742378
I sold most of my rare carts off, invested in an everdrive and still had a lot of money left over, happy days.

I did buy Super Mario World and Mario All Stars for about $35, but only because I have always wanted an actual cart of those two since I was little. Though a impulse buy was this controller that I was able to snag for $30

>>7741412
"shelveists", "seal-lickers", etc. Put enough of them in a forum and soon enough you will only have threads about "best Ikea shelves for NES gaemz", pictures of soiface + new pickups, etc

>>7742175
seethe paypig

>>7741412
It's a pretty okay game, fuck off.

>>7743707
It's more how these bleh games get the most ridiculous pricetags because they're rare and didn't sell well.

why is MMX3 so expensive even loose? There's a torn label copy on ebay and it's still like 300$. Did Gamegrumps just play it or something?

>>7744945
MMX3 came out in like 1996, was something like $60 retail (a lot for an SNES, especially cause...), and literally competing with the next gen systems being released at the time. Capcom only made so many copies (which they barely broke even on cause they needed to have all that extra chipset stuff in it to do the vector graphics on the snes) and then made a Saturn version after a very limited release.
It's actually rare, not just old and some youtuber mentioned he scratches his ass with it.

>>7741412
$1000 isn't very much money if you've got a decent job.

>>7744970
It's less how much money it is it's what you're spending it on.

>>7744959
That's fair then. I'm too used to any absurd price being the fault of some youtuber.

>>7744970
Yeah you need a really decent job if you think 1000$ for a single collectible in a condition that you can't even really display very well isn't a lot of money. A cartridge in good shape is nice to have and there's definitely an obvious appeal to having the box to go with it too. But like what are you really going to do with all the crap, inserts, flyers and adds? Arrange like it is in the listing onto a wall frame and put it over your tv?

>>7744987
It's not like you cant resell it for what you paid or more. That a person desires to and is able is justification enough for anything.

>>7744970
There's a time value of money. Most of us probably spend $1,000 on games, but very few are spending that in one sitting on one purchase, were spending that on multiple games over months at a time. Spending $1,000 on just one game is objectively a set back on your bank account, your game collection, your time, etc. That's $1,000 that won't go towards any other games much more worth your time and you're going to have to work at least another two paychecks to recoup that money. And even then you don't truly get your money back until you actually sell it, you're just back where you were before only a paycheck behind.

>>7745003
Not really. Don't damage it badly and in a few years sell it for $2000. It's not one of your zoomer digital games, it goes up in value.

>>7745015
>And even then you don't truly get your money back until you actually sell it,
Already acknowledged you could just resell it. You still have to wait for it to raise in value, the post is about money over time. The time you spend waiting is also money you're burning, especially if you're also buying more games in the mean time.

>>7745015
>I'll sell them later for even more money!
>Time to make dinner
>>7702992

>>7741487
Whilst that's clearly a joke listing, an enthusiast will take that make something new out of the base.

>>7741412
lmao. It'll sell too. Now tell me again, autists, about that 10 second gamebreaking input lag and the terror of filters. Hardware fags. When will they learn?

>>7741426
In a few years he will sell it for $1000 and use the money to buy several copies of Silent Hill 3, which will eventually be worth $1000 as well.

>>7745105
>tfw foresaw how expensive Silent Hill 2 and 3 would get and bought them from FUCKING GAMESTOP when they were throwing away old games
>got them and Killer 7 for around $6 each
I'm still pissed off gamestop, a fucking game store, decided to stop selling older video games and just throw away good inventory for no reason.

>>7744970
>graduate college with business info systems degree
>stuck in retail due to no good entry level jobs available not wanting 3+ years experience
Is impossible to get ahead it seems.

>>7745171
Lie on your resume. If you get the job they won't give a shit.

>>7742378
if you buy one of these buy a chinese knockoff
the design's open source and you'll save 100 bucks

>>7745196
What job would you recommend I should try to go for?

>>7741662
Didn't he frequently shit himself in public?

>>7741597
It's not even real nostalgia. These people are appropriating my nostalgia. I'm sure a good chunk of these buyers weren't even around when the snes was out.

>>7745743
Whatever you want. Make up a company that went belly up. The pandemic basically made that the de-facto excuse. It'll get you as far as the interview, and if they like how you present yourself, it'll never matter again.
Unless you're taking a job with a security clearance that requires a complete background examination, lie through your fucking teeth.

>>7741597
'90s nostalgia hasn't even started yet. It works like this

>"Hey goys, remember when you were young during the 'XXs and you had no problems except for which cartoons to watch first? Don't you wish you could go back to then? Well now you can (sort of)! Now YOU'RE the generation with expendable cash! To make the most of it, we're going to revolve everything from around the 'XXs and rerelease, remake, and/or remaster everything from the 'XXs so you can enjoy them again! Remember! NO refunds!"

Why do you think everything from the '80s is currently "hot" when no one really gave a shit about it 10-15 years ago? Once people hit they're 30's and 40's they're fucking ripe to be exploited because they realize their lives haven't turned out the way they thought they would and they want to escape back to when they had no troubles etc. And they can have all of that...at a price. And by pure fucking coincidence they've been working long enough to have money they can waste on that shit before they except the inevitable, start saving money, and *checks notes* would you believe it? The next generation of little retards hankering for their past are now the ones with the excess cash and the harking for the "old days". Don't tell me you've never noticed it before or if you have you've brushed it off as pure coincidence.
The real question is who could be behind such a thing and who benefits from it the most? Who indeed.

I've always found more Mega Drive games in the wild than SNES ones.

Imagine not owning a flashcart in the year of our Lord 2021

>>7745875
And masturbated

>>7742184
>People who use real hardware do it for a reason.
what reason?

>>7746632
So you can pull the cart out of the box, sniff the manual while sifting through its chad art design, insert it into the console and press button, then put it away when you're done and jack off to the experience.

>>7746646
The vinylfags of gaming.

>>7742184
So the reason to use real hardware is to keep yourself from skipping to the next game every two minutes? You don't think people who spend an hour playing a game on real hardware would be able to spend an hour playing a game on an emulator, too?

I don't know where else to post this but I thought it was funny that this is being sold as CIB when this version of the game came in a big fat collectible box with an entire controller and the seller doesn't even seem to be aware that it's incomplete. The game goes for $50 in the jewel case alone.

>>7746668
If its an rpg they wouldn't. I've seen them say it before in other threads.

>>7746632
There are many reasons. The one he's talking about is making poor babies cry.

>>7742473
Calm down nerd no need to burst a blood vessel over old video games

>>7744970
It's a lot of money for a snes game....

>>7741969
They still are.

>>7745196
I wouldn't do that, it's easy to spot the people who clearly don't know how to do their job and just bullshit all the time. Yes it may help you work up the ranks but you will always get found out and get a bad rep

>>7745396
whats a good chinaman version
or what keywords do i use to search

>>7743192
>this controller

do you play iidx or did you just buy it because it looked cool and was 30 bucks?

>>7742473
Why though? I love old games, but don't want to pay for them/hoard them with them taking up space. What's wrong with emulators?

>>7741412
>Who's actually paying these kinds of prices for SNES carts and why?

collectards

>>7747461
And for what? For them to stare at them so they collect dust in their basement? It's ridiculous really. And it costs so much money that could have been used to pay off a mortgage or something else actually useful. Some people have soi DNA these days.

>>7745161
>I'm still pissed off gamestop, a fucking game store, decided to stop selling older video games and just throw away good inventory for no reason.
I still remember when they were clearing out their PS1 games. They threw the cases in the trash and sold them in these shitty paper cd bags. I wish I wasn't dirt fucking poor back then. By the time I got some disposable income prices were already climbing. Grabbed as much shit as I could before they exploded to the retard levels we see today.

>>7747239
I'm not saying lie about shit you can't do, I'm saying lie about having a job previously because these fuckers want Ash Ketchum to apply for it (10 years old with 20 years of experience)
Obviously don't make up some unbelievable shit but some fake company that 'went belly up' is easy as hell to fabricate.

>>7747386
take a wild guess. was it "o shit i SO wanted to replay IIDX but all I need is this 30$ controller, now i can play it" or was it "OH SHIT THIS IS NORMALLY MORE EXPENSIVELY LISTED ON EBAY, IF I BUY NOW I CAN RESELL AND MAKE PLUS DELUXE"

>>7747498
Ah cool thanks for clarifying. I know it probably would affect me directly but over the years I've met way too many managers who either have no clue of what they are doing or they are lazy shits who get everyone else to do their job for them. And both types are blessed with silver tongues. It really pisses me off there are so many useless people in this world

>>7747715
>I've met way too many managers who either have no clue of what they are doing or they are lazy shits who get everyone else to do their job for them
So why should you be the one to play fair. You don't have to be a complete pile of dogshit like middle management but at the same time, don't be the only saint in hell.

>>7747479
Picked up so much shit from
Better than ebay prices too

>>7747597
i bought beatmania US at launch, it's still incredible to me that i got a iidx controller from fucking Gamestop

>>7747386
>>7747597
Actually I was always interested in the series, but I was young when it came out and my parents wouldn't of paid that much for a single game. I think the controller is really cool and I would be interested in playing it since I tried with a keyboard before and it did not work for me.

I'm waiting for the day they start selling ps1 and ps2 repros. Haven't the chinks discovered how much ps1 games are going for online?

I have a bunch of snes manuals, including X1, 2 and 3. How much could I get for them?

>>7748658
holy shit, and mine is in better condidtion too

>>7748658
$9,999 +$5.99 shipping

>>7748441
How much did you pay for it? I am still pissed that they don't sell any imported games or gaming items in stores since that is easy money for them.

Weekly poorfag cope thread LMAO

>>7745973
>it’s da joos

Question is how come old pc shit doesn’t go for that much?

>>7749407
Because you can't just buy a PC that specifically works for it. Also software is the most stolen thing

>>7749407
I don't know about that, original big boxes for stuff like Doom, Quake, etc sell on par with Sega Saturn prices. Stuff only available through mail order is especially valuable.

>>7741412
Very nice of him to open the box. Looks like its all there! Def worth $1000 smackeroos

>>7741412
>I KNOW WHAT I GOT

>>7745973
Man 80s nostalgia has been absolutely run into the ground at this point. It sucks since it was such a unique decade and I love the aesthetic but they had to get their corporate fingers on it and milk that shit dry. It's going to suck ass when it's the 90s turn. Then the 2000s. And God forbid, the 2010s.

>>7749453
When the 90s shit comes HOPEFULLY we can get a N64 Mini that actually plays N64 games well.

>>7749456
>N64 mini
>SM64 on switch
I doubt it.

>>7741412
I know OP is cherry picking but prices are getting a little too ridiculous as of late. I got Resident evil 2 back in August for like 30 bucks but now its going for 80??? What the fuck happened? I'm so glad I got my hands on a chipped playstation, and my Genesis flashcart is coming in the mail tomorrow.

>>7749407
PC is soulless

>>7749613
this triggers me. lots of soul to be had on 90s PC. reason its not as collectible as console stuff is not as many people played on PC as their primary gaming platform back in the day, hence less interest in it from collector/nostalgia faggotry

>>7747456
Because there's a difference between hoarding shit games you don't want and buying one title at a time for less than a modern AAA game playing and beating it and moving on to the next game, getting your moneys worth and collecting things that you can easily get your money back for should you choose to sell them. Emulator use just leaves you inundated with games, overwhelmed by them, you will skip from one to the next abusing save states and not playing them as they were intended to be played, this also and instils within you this ADHD way of playing games and never getting good at one, or thoroughly enjoying your experience.

>>7750581
>Emulator use just leaves you inundated with games, overwhelmed by them, you will skip from one to the next abusing save states and not playing them as they were intended to be played, this also and instils within you this ADHD way of playing games and never getting good at one, or thoroughly enjoying your experience.
>projecting this hard
Some of us can approach a bowl of M&Ms and not eat the entire thing in one sitting.

>>7751164
Well I cannae and so I hate emulators.

>>7751563
Oldschool games had cheat codes. It's no different from save states. Nobody is twisting your arm and saying you have to play with either.

>>7749476
I meant if they make an N64 mini it would probably mean they perfected an N64 emulator so we can play games without slowdown or shadow issues.

>>7751746
>I meant if they make an N64 mini it would probably mean they perfected an N64 emulator so we can play games without slowdown or shadow issues.
Wii Virtual Console from 2006

>>7751757
This is going to be me being a tard asking this, but have people been able to reverse engineer the wii VC and use it as a core or whatnot in emulation on other systems?

>>7751892
Why would they? N64 emulation today is already better. And VC had to rewrite the core for each game.

>>7751892
Dolphin can emulate VC games, but the VC N64 emulator is a per-game thing.

>>7747472
What if I told you that I can afford both a vr collection and a mortgage?

>>7741426
Based as fuck

>>7749618
Soullet

>>7751918
>>7751893
I honestly had that idea about just have n64 games individually rom fixes recently, but then I did forget about wii n64 emulation so that is happy to be reminded of. Now I just need to find the Virtual Console versions of those games.

>>7741412
It's called speculation. Prices are only high because people hope they will be able to sell them later on.

>>7745030
If someone was planning on making something they'd probably just google the cheapest amiibo and break the base off themselves.

>>7741837
heh i remember browsing that catalog

heh... plebs will never know the true joy of Real Hardware.

oh this $29,000 game? nah I don't ever play it. it's a collector's item!

Cheap

>sells cheap Chinese bootleg for 30K to some idiot with too much money
>never gets caught

Now is the time to strike, /vr/

>>7745973
>'90s nostalgia hasn't even started yet.

What? We're in the middle of 90's nostalgia for gaming right now. NES and other 80s games prices have been stagnating for years as demand drops.

>>7745973
>'90s nostalgia hasn't even started yet.

>>7752437
Absolute hero.

Is there much point of buying a N64 now a days? I would like to get one, but I feel like I would only really play Paper Mario and such on it.

>>7752615
Because of the VI filter, only if you have a CRT to play it on. Real hardware looks like ass on any modern TV because of it so you're better off emulating instead.

>>7752440
They haven't though. They've continued to increase at the same rate they have been for the last 10 years or so because there's a real market for people who want them.
Some '90s games have increased in price dramatically in the last 12 months while for the previous 10 years they've been increasing at the same steady rate. So why have they increased now, over the last year, so much? Easy. You get your foot in the door early. You buy them now while they're still cheap so you can sell them on later for an increased profit.
Why is the price increasing now instead of later? Because so many people are trying to get their foot in the door early and others have noticed that trend so they jump on the bandwagon too while people who have them are happy to sell them at a slightly above going rate. The more people buy of something of a limited quantity the higher the price goes.
Is there a current demand for them? No, not unless you're one of the people buying them trying to cash in later.
Why wouldn't you buy them now after you've already seen the nostalgia hype train choo choo it's way into the '80s with so many people selling games from then for such increased numbers. You know when the next nostalgia wave hits because you'll see an explosion in the number of movies and TV shows that are centered around the '90s, if not remakes, sequels, or prequels of things from the '90s. The same way you saw with Ghostbusters, Mad Max, A Nightmare on Meme Street, Robocop, Fright Night etc. '90s music will suddenly become popular again the same way it did with '80s music about 10 years ago too.
The video game sale trend is not too dissimilar to the futures market. X has Y they're worried might not be worth so much in the future while Z thinks it will. Z takes on the risk and reward by buying X at an agreed price in the hope that outlay will pay dividends in the future. It's literally basic economics.

>>7752471
Alright zoomer, don't @ me again.

>>7752698

>>7752698
Why do retards always type up the longest walls of text.

Why don't PC games gain value? (back when they were on disks, before they went digital)

We can emulate all the console games and we can pirate all the PC games, it's the same thing. So why are only the console games gaining value over time?

>>7753616
PC gamers are too smart to fall for the coomlector scam. One look at the average cartridge collector should tell you everything you'd want to know.

>>7753616
>Why are games that are extremely easily available digitally less expensive than games that you can only play on janky emulation or modding if you don't own a physical copy
>>7753642
>They're too big brained
Wow.

>>7752698
cringe

>>7752760

>>7742175
Actually zoomie, CIB just stands for cart, instructions, box.

>>7754515
So that means it's also..... complete in box???

>>7744970
i'll come clean. I just spent $1000 on an amiga 2000 with all the cables, keyboard, monitor, etc and it came with some cool zorro cards. That was getting rich for my blood but that's for a full computer system + crt monitor shipped on a relatively uncommon/pricey platform. $1000 for a snes game is ludicrous. If it was some unknown beta maybe.

>>7754547
No, as complete in box would also have the warranty, registration, and cardboard.

>>7754515 was just joking that lots of "CIB" games are in fact missing those. However, cart, instructions, and box are really all you need. The warranty and registration can't even be used anymore.

>>7752035
I would say you are a very based individual and quite probably a sigma male.

>>7741674
No way a buyer would buy something for $1000 without tracking.

>>7741863
>Even if I had Jeff Bezos money I'd still use flashcarts/ODE for convenience.

Don't lie. If you had that sweet Amazon money you'd buy a mansion with a room each for every retro console with full libraries and the biggest CRT TVs money can buy.

>>7742473
This but the 5 very best games

>>7755070
Yeah I'm sick of emulatorfags feigning this dislike of hardware, if money was no objects these cunts would have the biggest collections.

Getting an ODE or flash cart is inherently a cope. Convenient yes, affordable yes, but a cope nonetheless.

>>7755261
>the objectively superior option is a cope
The cope is pretending coomlecting all those games was worth it.

>>7755275
My collection is worth 5,000 right now and will only raise in value. You only flash because you were too late to the punch bowl to buy games when they were $3 on ebay. It's a cope because you're admitting to yourself you'll never own the game.

>>7755282
>thinking a mass produced cartridge is worth anything when the ROM is freely available and flash carts exist
The concept that only an "original" and "authentic" copy constitutes ownership is pure goyim tier thinking.

>>7755289
cope some more sd card owner

>>7755261
>>7755282
>>7755295
>you're coping if you don't spend 500 hours obsessively stalking ebay for specific games you want to play instead of just putting them on an sd card and playing them
this is textbook coomlector cope
you will always be a virgin

>>7755304
Just face it, if 2021 prices weren't your only obstacle, you would rather own the game than load it in an SD card. We were lucky enough to get those games when they weren't expensive, we didn't have to stalk ebay or go on obsessive hunts, you could buy bundles of carts at flea markets for $5, you could buy PS1 and PS2 games at gamestop for 99 cents at one point. The image you have in your head of somebody sitting at the computer for 500 hours obsessively stalking for games is your own projection.

>>7755282
>You only flash because you were too late
Dude, when flashcarts started being a thing around 10 years ago, a lot of old game buyers I knew sold their collections. The everdrive was the "space saver" of gamers.

>>7755326
>if 2021 prices weren't your only obstacle, you would rather own the game than load it in an SD card.
No I would not since """owning""" a copy of a game means nothing to me.

>>7755329
Owning the game in OP means $1000 for him.

>>7755326
>we didn't have to stalk ebay or go on obsessive hunts, you could buy bundles of carts at flea markets for $5, you could buy PS1 and PS2 games at gamestop for 99 cents at one point
and now you cant anymore. not everyone has the luxury of being a loser virgin who collects video games for 10+ years

>>7755383
Hence the cope. We didn't think anything of the "hobby" at the time. It was just ten minutes you could spend on your way home from work stopping at your local mall on the way home. We weren't "collectors", we just owned games like everybody else did. Then of course half of our shit came from our own childhood.

>>7741412
Why are American prices so retarded? I purchased a complete copy in 2017 for half the price. Got a EVO and a pocky and Rocky 2 for under 400 too

>>7755410
>spends hundreds of dollars on a single game
>"why are these prices so retarded?"

>>7755417
Dude's purchase doubled in price, retard.

>>7755420
Either price is ridiculous, retard.

>>7755425
Ain't ridiculous when you pocket $600 from it.

>>7755417
I was didn’t mind paying 500 for X3 but I sure as shit wouldn’t pay a grand for it. Same with earthbound. I bought my copy in 2009 for 120 and now it’s worth over a thousand for some dumb reason. Lufia 2 is a better game

>>7749407
I've seen pretty expensive pc stuff before though.
especially the "retro" pcs themselves.

>>7749478
I'd argue re2 had a somewhat recent remake so people were interested in buying the original, driving prices up.
same happened with persona 4, pre 5 being the biggest anime dating sim ever it sold for like $20 but now its $100+

>hurrdurr why is collectable item expensive?

Dumbest question and I see it nearly every day

>>7755471
It's more like "Who the fuck is buying it for that much?"
Yeah, collectable item expensive. Collectable item's value seems to vary between $200 and $1000 though.

>>7755480
>Collectable item's value seems to vary between $200 and $1000 though.
A complete copy of mega man x3? More like $700-$1000. OP's listing's price is not noteworthy.

>>7755503
>More like $700-$1000
Imagine the kind of creature that pays this much money to put something on his shelf he'll never play and nobody else will ever care about.

>>7755506
>hurrdurr why is collectable item expensive?
It never ends.

>>7755512
>dirt cheap plastic + label
>collectable

>>7755513
>cardboard and ink
>collectable

>>7755529
Generally if something is called a "collectable" it's an excuse to sell literal cheap crap for hundreds if not millions to people who pay for things for status rather than the item itself.

>>7755431
>>7755431
>>7755410

>>7755531
>hundreds if not millions
Of green paper? Also worthless.

>>7752432
You are supposed to sell them back to japan when you are done with them you know, this is how japanese retro market works, until hipster millenial cunts came and took 50% of the supply while opening the s.0.yfilled blackhole maws and spew the false equivalence known as ""SHUPLAI AND DE MANDDD''

>>7755541
It is fiat currency.

>>7755506
>another god damn s.0.yegg

>>7755541
Buy silver then.

>>7755605
>>7755541
You to underage noodlers need to go back