/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9553387
Why does he have 2 copies of Shenmue 1 and 2? Scalper?

>>9553387
some ps3 games GBA games and shantae on gameboy color idon't even know why i got it in the first place but meh, all the rest are mini consoles official or raspberry, not enought room for the games in my current place, not at all, pretty shitty i know but hey at least i'm honest on what i have

>>9553393
Disc rot backup I’m assuming

>>9553425
I doubt that's the case, unless he happens to live in a country where humidity is a problem.

>>9553393
Not him but I've ended up with multiple copies of games/consoles just as happenstance and I don't feel like going through the effort of selling extras. For instance I already owned sonic 3 but never the S&K lock-on cart, but when I stumbled up on a cheap S&K cart it was bundled with S3, so now I have two S3s. Especially when buying bulk lots.

>>9553387
I finally got an NES again after being solely a Famicom Chad for 6 years. I'm also finishing off my 2600 collection (there's only a handful of games I want that I don't own for it). Pic is my humble Saturn collection haphazardly stacked on my bed.

>>9553387
Non-plastic hoarding, specific titles/platform collector reporting in. I am SO GLAD that I made a few purchases back in 2018, long before the pandemic, long before prices went full tard. My collection is just about complete, given a couple of titles here and there. There are a couple that I've been waiting years to find CIB. I may just hop on the emu train for those.

>>9553387
All of my consoles are modded or I own some sort of a flashcart for them, so it's going pretty sweet OP.

>>9553393
- unexpectedly won a 2nd auction
- package thought lost showed up later
- gift
- bought in a lot
- lost track of collection
etc

I have a few dozen SNES games I want to get. A few heavy hitters and others I haven't been able to find at LGS. I have over 200.

>>9553393
BURN HIM! BURN HIM AT THE STAKE! HOW DARE HE EVEN THINK OF PROFITTING FROM VIDEO GAMES! BURN HIM!

>>9553393
I see 2 Sonic Adventures and 7 Chuchu Rocket's as well. Those ones are cheap games though.

bought a multicart for my N64 and NES, I can burn anything I want for DC and saturn, and I have the SNES classic

get fucked, reseller scum

>>9553871
Hey tourist. Cool reddit frog. Not!

>>9553892
>getting mad at images
>cant even tell the difference between apu and pepe

>>9553393
Because he doesn't follow the golden rule of collecting: 1) if you find two leave one for the next collector

>>9553583
>1tb
That's it? lol, casual

>>9553896
And you forgot the new golden rule of collecting, which is: 1) If you find a second one for a good price, buy it so you can trade it for something you want later on so you don't have to pay an arm and a leg to a reseller.

>>9553909
Buy it now to resell in the future for profit is scalping. Put it now on ebay for a fair price!

>>9553913
>>9553909
I'm of the belief that games are too cheap. If emulation never existed every game would be like $200.

>>9553990
>If emulation never existed every game would be like $200
Although this is an interesting prospect to think about, emulation does exist.

>Games are too cheap
Ok but only certain tiles or franchises will carry a premium. Most sports games from six years ago shouldn't.

>>9553565
Post more humble collections. Here are my few Saturn and PCE CD games.

Badly, I lost all my retro (and non-retro) consoles and games when I moved to a new country. Now only have a desktop PC, I bought a Switch but it collected dust so I sold it off to some autistic kid.

Tbh I don't think I'll go back to collecting anything any time soon considering the prices being practised the past few years. The neckbearded soibois are the target demographic of retro collecting now and they're willing to pay scalper prices.

>>9553913

You do that

>Anon is pic related

Dont have a picture but in 2 days i gi ally found the 2 co soles i had years looking for at garage sales and flea markets.

N64 smoke gray and Snes Jr. in 2 consecutive days after years of walking and getting up early... paid $10 dollars for the N64 and $25 for the Snes Jr with all cables, cobtoller and 2 gamesMaroo World and Mortal Kombat 3.

>>9554264
The whole COVID thing really fucked up the market, prices are ridiculous nowadays. You're better off modding your consoles and spending your money on cool controllers, accessories and other shit like that. Or just emulate. There's so many adapters allowing you to connect old gamepads to modern PCs nowadays, cost next to nothing too. Get yourself a nice classic controller, connect that desktop to your TV set, boom - vidya time. If it makes you feel any better, I was retarded enough to move to a different country with a CRT. Paid more to move it than what I bought it for.

>>9553871
some of us have been collecting for a long while newfriend

>>9553913
Fascinating story now read what I wrote again.

This is my favorite looking system in my collection. It's Atari's failed attempt to bring the 2600 to Japan themselves.

>>9553565
Please stop importing

>>9553387
Still chugging along. It got really cluttered recently because I was just throwing shit in the closet without doing any proper organizing but I'm getting close to how it was before. I think if I do another round of organizing it will be tidy enough to see the drawers in the back again. Some of those plastic bins are empty and some should be moved elsewhere.

>>9553565
Nice collection of $10 titles. You can get that "collection" by just buying any of the bulk packs on ebay.

Honestly, I'm about to cash out most of my software collection. I made the absolute full retard mistake of buying Limited Run Games and Strictly Limited Games compilations and nugames and they're largely a waste of space. At this point I think I'm going to migrate only to having original consoles, their boxes, and a couple of games for each so long as they cover one of the following franchises:
Diablo (D1 is my favorite game ever; I have a copy of Hellfire I got as a kid as well)
Shin Megami Tensei (Already have fuckin' Jack Bros, still need to rebuy Persona PSP and find a Junpei hat for maximum autism)
Kunio Kun (Mostly the new releases and compilations since my wife got me a couple)
Ninja Gaiden (Xbox era and into /v/ territory as well but they're solid games)
Panzer Dragoon (Got II and Saga in a massive lot a decade ago; sold the first and guess I could rebuy it if I really care)
For my vintage computer collection I'm keeping it to the following:
Wizardry (Shin Megami Tensei is spiritually derived from these)
Ultima (Cool for what they are)
Postal (Pure absurdity)
I've got some other odd stuff too but I think most of it is going to have to go. I'm keeping Liberty or Death. It's got a sweet poster.

>>9554763
Whatever you do, don't sell your shit at GameStop/CeX etc. though. I know putting individual auctions on eBay is a major pain in the ass, but the alternative is going to cost you a lot of potential profit.

>>9554665
the bins are a good idea
throw some silica packets in there
will def help with corrosion \ humidity issues over time

i keep them with my boxed stuff as well

>>9554778
Oh nonononono fren, absolutely not. I am a veteran of the one-day convention sales market. That's where most of my churn has gone over the years. Even used Amazon for a while. This whole $600+ of sales thing has made that really messy to the point where the only things I would reasonably want to sell are things where I have a receipt and the market value is less than what I paid. At least then I can get some sort of capital loss writeoff (which I have a carry-forward coming due to recent market trends, goddamn).

>>9554782

This is true, but bins that do not seal will eventually get moisture. Male sure they are IP rated with a gasket and locking tabs

>>9554782
woow that beautiful

>>9554836
thnx anonkun

>>9554847
your Saturn even changes colors wow

>>9554782
Hey, I recognize that puppy poster! Your room is sweet dude.

So do those Kallax shelves from ikea work well for displaying >20 consoles? Would they be sturdy enough to hold a smaller trinitron? I don’t know what else I could get to display so many consoles there aren’t many options

>>9553387
Ps2 collection coming along nicely thanks, hope everyone finds great games this year

>>9554574
ooh i wanna see some close-ups

>>9554665
so clean and tidy, i want to see whats in those totes

>>9554782
the legend

I just buy what I want to play and keep what I think I'll want to keep playing. it ends up making an organic and meaningful "collection," looks a lot nicer than the maximalist nutcases wanting every single published n64 game. people go to museums because they're curated, not because they're complete.

I'm pretty much done collecting shit. I got my collection to where I'm pretty content with it. I got MOST of it before prices went too full retard and I just can't bring myself to really splurge.

>>9554562
glad to see that you're celebrating your success with alcohol, anon

>>9554782
>jap saturn

>>9553393
He's litterally that much of a hipster?

>>9553896
>Because he doesn't follow the golden rule of resellers
Good goy

>>9555343
It's not clean and tidy at all. It's a little cluttered lol.

The totes on the bottom have N64 games, my handhelds, and some random stuff like memory cards, Super Game Boy, link cables etc. The totes stacked in the back have Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, and Game Gear games. The shelves in the back are Super Famicom games. Below the shelves (behind the totes) are cassette drawers with Famicom, Mega Drive, and PC Engine games.

Here's all the stuffed I snagged in 2022. Big year!

This year, I've decided I'm going to try to buy a single top tier title every month/few months. We'll see how it goes.

>>9555921
How much did you pay for Panzer Dragoon Saga?

>>9555928
What I'd really like to know is >>9555921
how much he paid for Crusader of Centy

Is this normal?

>>9554650
Just imported Monster World 4 and Sin & Punishment today, how mad are you?

>>9556045
Imagine playing games that you can't even read.

>>9554797
>I am a veteran of the one-day convention sales market.
I went to one of those. Everything was priced 2-3x market value and in bad to average condition. You even had to pay to get in early and the queue to get in snaked around the building and all the way down the street.

>>9556053
Imagine not only being an Eop, but also not knowing Sin & Punishment is in English. Sad!

>>9555343
>sealed family guy video game
I kneel…

>>9554198
Is that a galaxy fraulein yuna game on the right? What kind of game is it?

>>9556019
it is not so expensive I bought mine fro 30 euros in 2002

>>9556125
It's a visual novel with some adventure and very simple turn based battles. Cute game with nice art and voice acting.

>>9556068
>I went to one of those. Everything was priced 2-3x market value and in bad to average condition. You even had to pay to get in early and the queue to get in snaked around the building and all the way down the street.
That's some serious goddamn shit. The one I frequented yearly had a long line to get in but had phenomenal prices and stock. If the head vendor discovered you were buying from other vendors and then attempting to engage in arbitrage on-site you didn't get invited back. Sorry you had a shit experience, anon.

>>9556019
if you live in America you can get a reprint copy from the Square Enix website for 19,99

>>9553387
Stopped collecting

Prices ruined it for me. No longer that interested. Only really played sports games anyway

>>9554574
What are those Zelda games? The ones placed horizontally

>>9554198
All I have left are like 3 NES games and some psx rpgs

>>9557316
Pretty sure those are art/lore books.

made a few thousand selling old stuff I didn't care about, bought flashcarts in their place, got into wonderswan and SFC games. Thinking of buying Atari 800 and Colecovision next but concerned about hardware maintenance/bad joysticks. Might add to the stupid and start collecting DS again but that doesn't really belong here.

>>9554574
for me it's gotta be BIG WINDOW

>>9555928
I paid 1100 CAD.
>>9555935
I paid 1750 CAD.

>>9554594
have heard that it isn't very common either. Does it have any weird hardware shit about it the way that some 2600 models do?

>>9557403
>I paid 1750 CAD
...And that's why I paid £50 for Soleil

>>9557403
Jeeeeesuz Chris on a cracker. You are insane. What a waste of money. Glad I have my flash carts.

>>9555921
ace combat 4 is a great choice, best in the series IMO.

>>9553827
That's a lot, I was able to get some collections from the cloudbreakers holoride's VR game

I have X-Men VS Street Fighter, Outrun, Puyo Puyo Sun and Street Fighter Zero 2 on the Sega Saturn :) It's a humble collection

Fuck the jew awards and Souls trannies, i bought Armored Core 2 a couple of months ago CIB for 18$ and didn't want to pay for any other installment until i finished, I've only Played Nexus and Last Raven back in the day and loved them and i was in no hurry when prices were this cheap.

Suddenly ACVI was announced and every motherfucking Ebay jew was jacking up prices like these were the rarest shit ever, AC2 Another Age which by most accounts mediocre and was trending at 20$ at most was going for 80$ Disk only! AC3 and it sequels/expansions was going for 25-35 CIB now go for 110$ at the lowest, Silent Line the most popular of the PS2 era was going for 180$! The fuck? These were extremely niche games with a passable localization by Agetech who were making a lot of shit up according to a guy who worked on these games (see AC2 review and subsequent interview with the guy who worked on the localization at We Review Every PS2 Game Oh God channel on YouTube).

Also why is MK Shaolin Monks this expensive when it got a GH rerelease?

the goodwills near me finally stopped putting out games. I got a good portion of my collection there over the last decade for $1-5 each. Some incredible stuff. I am hoping for decent garage sales but I don't ever expect games anymore.

>>9558554
Yeah the level of commodification has gotten ridiculous over the last decade. I had never heard of phantom dust but since I had gotten Xbox modded right before everyone started talking about it I thought I'd pick it up and give it a shot. Sure enough the first gamexchange I went to wanted like 200 for scratched up disc no box or anything.
What a joke

>>9553387
>Finally decide since I have time off to play the Xbox games I got.
>Realize I like only three out of the bunch.
If I was younger, I'd have loved them all.

>>9553583
That's not a collection, that's a cry for help. Poorfags like you will never have any real collection.

>>9553387
Getting rid of it.

>>9553902
nta, but you don't need more than that for retro stuff, unless you're going for complete sets for every single console + PCs.