/vr/ - Retro Games

So collect something else if it's purely about collecting for you. For me it's bottlecaps. If it's about playing then emulators and flashcarts fulfill practically the same purpose.

>>8525436
haha i knew that this day would come,i snatched it all up in the mid 00s,dreamcast bundle for 5 quid in my local cashies,a bust neo geo aes for 20 quid i repaired,a mega cd from ebay for 25 quid,ps1 with vandal hearts and suikoden 1 for a 10er,an amiga cd32 for 15 quid with a dodgy disk door that was an easy fix and even a boxed in sellophane TG16 for 50 quid.

had plenty of bargains back in those days and will be soon time to cash in,pay up pay pig

>>8525443
haha good luck getting that feel from a emulator,its never the same mr poor

>>8525436
todays trash is tomorrows retro anon,ps3 games are worthless atm but give it a decade or 2,even NES and SNES games was considered trash back then

also if you wanna collect retro buy busted stuff and try your hand at repair,most retro stuff is easy to fix,cap replacement or bent pins on the cart slot or a fuse is usually all it takes to get a old unit running again.

you learn a new skill and you get a console collection at a fraction of the price,its what i did.

>>8525436
it's almost like retro things gain in value as time passes because supply shrinks and nostalgic demand rises
who would of ought

>>8525436
15 years ago you were in your dads nutsack.
How is it fair that you get to eat all the tidepods?

Start collecting ps3/360/psp/wii or you will get left out again

>>8525508
>wii
soul, plus it allows you to easily play Gamecube backup images on practically original hardware

>>8525436
You will hate me for saying this but collectors are a bigger cause of this than scalpers. Collectors are the ones buying up everything they can then locking it away in their vault forever. Competition among resellers pushes prices down and keeps games in the market. If there were no secondary market a lot of these games would have just been thrown away.

>>8525436
So are any of Akubi's shows subbed or worth watching?

>>8525593
Not from what I found.

>>8525593
but yes it is worth watching

It's a pointless fucking hobby that was made unapproachable by resellers who do this in place of a real job. Just buy an everdrive. It will serve you a lot better than a shelf full of plastic cartridges that you're only ever going to play a fraction of anyway. If you really need to show off your ner power level, get a shelf full of merchandise instead. There will still be resellers trying to profit from that but at least the approachability hasn't been completely and utterly decimated by resellers and it's a lot more sensible than buying game carts when there are solutions for playing retro games on real hardware that will only be a one time fee, and you can play hacks and modern retro releases on it as well.

>>8525479
I'll never understand why this simple concept is lost on so many people here.

>>8525508
You dont even need flashcarts for these; only an idiot would coomlect for them

>>8525436
>not fair
you reap what you sow, coomlectors

>>8526097
>coomlectors
You sound like retard.

>>8525436
It just depends on the console you choose to collect for. Goodwill gets in random things all the time. The 2600 and Xbox One games are pretty inexpensive at this time.

>>8527870
People to collect to give them a dopamine high are the same as chronic masturbatory actions. It's the same fucking thing, you're the retard. You just kept buying because you liked doing it, and sat on the games then.

>>8527890
I want those man show DVDs

>>8528102
Can you believe the kind of so* that would buy fucking manshow product?

>>8525436
I started buying retro shit back in 2012-2013 and I thought the prices were crazy then, but now they're twice as high or sometimes more

>>8527993
I never stated i was a collector of plastic. I'm just letting you know your meme garbage you spout nonstop makes you sound like a god damned idiot.

it's not fair, bros... last week I could go on ebay and buy NES games for pennies... now they all want $5.7 million USD for a loose copy of super mario + duckhunt...

>>8525436
Game collecting is a dead hobby, killed by normie bros who think they're the Wolf of Wall Street because they bought them as an 'investment'. Really hope they reap what they sow soon and price themselves out of a market because they've inflated the price so high that no one can fucking afford their shit.

Should I sell my gamecube games now before the bubble bursts? I have shit like chibi robo and fire emblem

>>8525436
>collecting plastic boxes that will turn yellow and defective in a few years
lol

>>8527993
Bunch of anhedonic, asexual, ascetic NEET motherfuckers around here coping like it’s good that they ended up the way they are.

>>8525529
meh sometimes I still play from the disc on my wii u because it shits all over the wii's disc drive

>>8529372
>yellow and defective
yeah just like all the other shit people said would die
>meanwhile new consoles die out in huge chunks while my nes just needs a little oxygen every couple of hours

>collecting
Mental illness. Buy a console and pirate everything

>>8525436
You don't need to move that far. 4 years ago I got DOA Dimensions by 6€ because it was a old 3DS that nobody wanted. Today I've seen one at 30 because it's one of the games close to a dead console's launch.

>>8528102
That was behind the glass, so it was valuable. So many DVDs are expensive now, stuff I used to record onto VHS.

>>8529747
third world mentality

>>8525436
Yeah and then you realize that even when when you own it and want to play it you end up playing it on emulator 99% of the time.
Sold most of my stuff at a neat profit.

If i'm buying anything physical nowadays it's because it has cool extras, isn't emulated properly (rare outside of niche stuff) or isn't dumped at all.

>>8525453
People chasing that original childhood feeling are already far gone.
To me there is no difference to the feeling of getting the physical machine again as an adult and emulating it.

Things that are old and not in print gain value. Scalpers may have played a role in prices raising faster, but this was always the destiny of retro games.

Even if you collect physical I would recommend emulating. I do enjoy playing on original hardware, but all of these things will break in time. Disc rot, consoles breakdown, and the more people who play them, the smaller the supply will become. You wouldn't open original star wars toys to play with them. Most people don't play vintage magic cards for the same reason.

The problem with emulsion with my opinion is that it's hard to be motivated to play anything when you have everything. Most people who use Netflix or other streaming services spend their time browsing and deciding what to watch before eventually going to bed and watching nothing. Humans don't like to have too many choices. If you approach emulation with reservation and discipline, you will have a better time.

The massive massive asshurt from poorfags in threads like these is one of the many reasons I collect.

>>8530065
>meme rot
>i-i swear i have original hardware, b-but you should emulate anyways
post disregarded

>>8530076
>your massive asshort is the reason I have a mental illness lmaoooooo

>>8530089
thank for proving my point bb

>>8525436
>I hate scalpers
You're an idiot if you think scalpers raised the prices. Collectors are to blame.

>>8529747
pirate me some fucks to give about poorfag cope

>>8529269
then ill just sell my shit for a bit cheaper but alot more than what i paid for it lol

seeth and sneed poorfag,now you wanna buy an AES for 500 quid?

just emulate on pc, faggot. or get a flash cart and call it good. or get a mister. or get some other device you can emulate on. collecting games is a scam

>>8529307
Hell no, like it or not it will never burst because it's a fucking jewish racket. Sell when the games reach at least 1k burgers and you really need the money.

>>8530135
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculation

>>8525436
>tfw no subs for any of the older Akubi shows, just the newest one

>>8529987
Like it or not, those are rare finds these days.This is what we have been reduced too

>>8532197
It may just be a matter of time: https://youtu.be/UrEUzKTt7j0

>>8525436
>>15 years ago you could walk in too Goodwill and find an N64 with like 10 games for $20.
And everyone did. >>8525479