/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1111407]

This makes me upset. Why is this shit allowed, /vr/? it's not even THAT rare.

Overpriced Games General

[Anonymous No.1111413]

Because there are fools who will part with that much money or more for a copy of it.

[Anonymous No.1111426]

If anyone has a decent link to a Dragon warrior 7 that isn't scratched to hell, post it. Low end of the prices never include a pic of the disc.

[Anonymous No.1111428]

Why IS Earthbound so expensive?

[Anonymous No.1111435]

>>1111428
Hipsters.

[Anonymous No.1111445]

It's bad enough I see these prices online, but almost every flea market/swap meet I go to sell at online prices. Its reseller after reseller and I can't stand it. Is retro game colecting not sacred anymore?

[Anonymous No.1111456]

>>1111445
Retro game collecting was ruined by the internet and social media. You're better off just keeping your old games.

[Anonymous No.1111464]

Nostalgia is a gold mine

[Anonymous No.1111467]

Notice how there are 35 of them? They can sit there with their high price.

I can't imagine the bubble of retro games getting any worse than it is now.

[Anonymous No.1111570]

VGA might be the worst thing in the fucking world. Whomever thought it was a good idea should be shot on the spot.

[Anonymous No.1111594]

>>1111464
>mfw i have three pikmin 2's

[Anonymous No.1111627]

>>1111456
Unfortunately this.

Resellers these days can afford to hold onto their shit and not change prices/refuse to haggle without much consequences. Back before the days of eBay/Craigslist, resellers had to deal with shelf space limitations (space cost money) so they couldn't afford to hold on to games for more than a month at a time. Thus, when nobody bought at that price, they lowered it until someone bought it, which ultimately set the market price.

Nowadays the opposite is taking place: with every uneducated tool that buys a $200 EB cart that was sitting on Amazon for several years, it just drives up the prices and the demand. It's essentially a vicious cycle.

[Anonymous No.1111629]

>>1111570
nah the VGA isn't the problem its the morons who believe the VGA actually means anything that need to die

[Anonymous No.1111632]

>>1111464
>those "retail" prices they pulled out of their ass to make their prices look reasonable

[Anonymous No.1111637]

>>1111627
Its so bad I saw some hipster douche walk into a game store with his girlfriend saw a copy of harvest moon 64 "OMG look its that game I was tellin you about, ITS WORTH LIKE 150 BUCKS WOAH MEGA RARE" Since the market is flooded with retards like that they get to dictate the prices apparently, because they will pay 150 bucks for harvest moon 64 to impress their other "nerd" friends

[Anonymous No.1111716]

>>1111629
True. Yeah it's mostly morons thinking if a game say "RARE" means it be $50 minimum. Hell I went to a flea market to see and someone had Super Mario World. Asked them how much and they said $30. I just laughed as loudly as I could and walked away. People were staring but I didn't really care.

[Anonymous No.1111726]

>>1111428

Word of mouth spread amongst resellers faster than the average enthusiast.

Also hipsters.

[Anonymous No.1111732]

>>1111464
Every price on there is ridiculous, but the Pikmin 2, fire emblem and Twilight Princess price really stands out.

[Anonymous No.1111739]

I'm a bit surprised that the cost hasn't gone a bit down thanks to the release of EB on virtual console

[Anonymous No.1111741]

>>1111739
it has it dropped from 300 buy it now to 200

[Anonymous No.1111745]

>>1111739
Until people stop paying for the outrageous price they will try to keep the cost that high. And the same can be said about most retro games on the virtual console.

[Anonymous No.1111784]

>>1111407
>shopping for vidya on amazon

What are you? Retarded?

[Anonymous No.1111803]

>>1111745
And I just noticed I did a SotN joke and didn't even realized it.
>>1111784
Well some people might take that as a base cost in selling their games. Just look at all these fucking "Buy it now" and "Reserve price not met" There really no where safe to buy games. We just have to wait hoping for some crash like comics did in the 90's.

[Anonymous No.1113271]

[Anonymous No.1113275]

suppy and DEMAND

[Anonymous No.1113285]

>>1113271

[Anonymous No.1113291]

>>1111784
I didn't used to be so bad. A few years ago I got Pocky and Rocky 2 for like $25, now it's $110.

[Anonymous No.1113293]

>Shantae prices on ebay

Because maxing your credit card out on one fucking purchase is cool, right?

[Anonymous No.1113296]

>>1113293
I don't get what the deal is with that game. I played it a couple months ago, and I was just like "This is it?" It's a pretty boring and poorly made game. There are way better action platformers on the GBC.

[Anonymous No.1113297]

>>1111464
I got Twilight Princess (Wii version, but still) for $16 a week ago from Gamestop. Is this nigger literally retarded?

[Anonymous No.1113309]

[Anonymous No.1113310]

>>1113296

Not meaning to sound butthurt, but it's not poorly made. You might have found it boring, but objectively, it isn't poorly made whatsoever.

[Anonymous No.1113316]

>>1113309
This game is pretty infamous for being overpriced. What's the story behind it?

[Anonymous No.1113321]

>>1111428
Supply and Demand. It may not be a rare game, but the demand for it is much higher than the supply and people who have the game don't want to give them up unless they can make some money off of it. It's the exact same reason why Final Fantasy 7 is so expensive even though there's over 10 million units sold of the game.

[Anonymous No.1113329]

>>1113316
No idea. Makes me wish I had never opened my copy, though. I still have it and everything it came with, but I won't be able to get as much.

[Anonymous No.1113338]

>>1113316
>>1113329
Low supply. Only 88 thousand copies were sold in Japan, and a lot less units were sold in other territories. I'm glad I picked up my copy in the early 2000's.

[Anonymous No.1113348]

>>1113271
Someone report that douche.

[Anonymous No.1113375]

>>1113310
Correct. This is arguably WayForward's most well made game on a technical perspective, which is odd since their later games are hardly more advanced. Each new game has gameplay not much more advanced than your typical NES or SNES game.

Shantae is a very basic game, but it's also well made. Who know what other game is very basic and boring, but pretty well made? BioMetal for the SNES. It holds the distinction of being one of the few SNES shooters to give Genesis and TG-16 shooters a run for their money in terms of action and pacing, but god does it look boring.

[Anonymous No.1113386]

I wish I never opened secret of mana
$2,200 on amazon now...

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1113402]

>>1113338
>>1113316
The Misadventures of Tron Bonne is also really expensive. Like $70 for an opened copy.

[Anonymous No.1113403]

>>1113271
>>1113285

I don't get it

[Anonymous No.1113406]

>>1113375
>Each new game has gameplay not much more advanced than your typical NES or SNES game.

Is that necessarily a bad thing? I mean, Risky's Revenge is good precisely because it's not a lame modern "bro gamer" reboot like Castlevania Lords of Shadow, or Metal Gear Solid Rising Revengeanence.

[Anonymous No.1113424]

>>1113402
I spent $90 on my copy, though it's in mint condition.

[Anonymous No.1113421]

>>1113402
Oh, how I wish Tron Bonne was that cheap...

I was lucky enough to secure a cib copy for $112.
On eBay and Craigslist people want that much for the disc alone, while cib could run from $150-200

[Anonymous No.1113429]

Oh lord...

[Anonymous No.1113435]

>>1113402
>>1113421
>>1113424

And yet, I got it a year after release for 30 dollars. The market really needs proper regulation.

Wild Guns is my great white buffalo. I passed on it when it was 60 dollars as too expensive, it's now going for 3-4 times that for scuffed carts.

[Anonymous No.1113447]

>>1113435
Just get an SD2SNES. For $200 you can play just about every SNES game worth playing except for Starfox, Super Mario World 2, Super Mario RPG, and the Kirby games on actual hardware. I've been having a blast playing Seiken Densetsu 3 translated with a 3 player hack.

[Anonymous No.1113452]

>>1113402
I might pay that much. If I was a Labrador in a Laboratory. Thanks so much for that little gem, that nugget of feces I doubt I'll ever be able to forget.

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1113451]

>>1113435
>I got it a year after release for 30 dollars
I got it for about twenty bucks when it was new-ish. Kinda like Earthbound, it was a bargain bin games that stores were desperate to get rid of. I think back in the day, people were like "you play as a girl? wtf, gay"

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1113454]

>>1113452
wut

Don't blame me, I didn't take the photograph.

[Anonymous No.1113470]

I think this upsets me more. Screenshot taken today.

[Anonymous No.1113520]

>>1113406
>talking shit about MGR

[Anonymous No.1113537]

>>1113520
>spinoff to a classic series of military-themed stealth games
>game about a robot pirate ninja who runs up skyscrapers, does backflips, and cuts helicopters in half with a katana

It's the "Shadow the Hedgehog" of Metal Gear.

[Anonymous No.1113548]

>>1113537
I'm sure you meant to say "Military themed movies".

[Anonymous No.1113559]

>>1113548
Don't you have another board to shitpost on?
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.1113576]

>>1111464
>those fabricated retail prices