/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1851412]

>VERY RARE

[Anonymous No.1851575]

Is this a cliche thread? If so...

>>I'm going to review this old game, I'm going to prove to you that its old by sticking it in the wrong system because sega genesis games look like they fit in a snes! LMAO

[Anonymous No.1851589]

SUP DIS YA BOY DARKITACHI94 BRINGING YOU THA LATEST INFO ABOUT OLD AS FUCK GAMES

DIS GAME RIGHT HERE IS BATTLETOAD BECAUSE IT STARS FROGS FIGHTING SHIT

ITS WAY TOO FUCKING HARD AND THE GRAPHICS LOOK LIKE SOMETHING STRAIGHT OUTTA DA 80'S!

AVOID AT ALL COSTS AND PLAY SKYRIM INSTEAD.

[Anonymous No.1851604]

>>1851412
NO IT FUCKING ISN'T, FUCK OFF, THERE ARE LIKE 400 LISTED RIGHT THIS VERY SECOND

[Anonymous No.1851737]

>L@@K

[Anonymous No.1851775]

>>1851737
>it means "latke"

[Anonymous No.1851793]

>>1851589
Goddamn.

[Anonymous No.1851805]

I swear this is getting to "cash4gold" levels of bs.

[Anonymous No.1851810]

>>1851805

I thought colored toilet paper was bad for your anus?

[Anonymous No.1851815]

>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.1852909]

>>1851412
Don't you love how some middle aged fat american fuck goes on camera on youtube and tries to explain how a third hand video game cartridge/scratched to fuck cd should cost 200$ even though the game isn't even all that rare or good.

I do. Makes me feel good about myself.

[Anonymous No.1852917]

>>1851805

>tfw I live in Toronto, and it's ALL LIKE THIS. Reseller scum vacuum the area and douchefags hit every thrift store in like a 60 mile radius and sweep it clean every day at "put stuff out" time.
It's driving me towards emulation so I guess it's not all bad? It's curing my collectoritis.

[Anonymous No.1852918]

>>1852909
Would've been cool if they reimplemented the keyboard functionality from the msx versions.
Typing shit out makes it seem a lot more detective-y.

[Anonymous No.1852949]

>>1852917
Exactly the same in Madrid (Spain). Sometimes it looks like every single Cash Converters and random thrift stores get raided every day because it's just impossible how there is such scarcity for retro games in a 4-million citizens city yet when you go to smaller cities you can find pretty much everything at a fair price in videoclubs and such. It's reached a point where people in forums and messageboards will only PM the location of deals in Madrid and nearby towns to people they trust because if you say "tons of whatever at this price in that supermarket" in public, it will take less than half an hour for any of those douchebags to raid it and then see those fuckers selling the merchandise at 200% or even 300% at the buy/sell threads that very same night.

[IaTM No.1853013]

>VGA GRADED

[Anonymous No.1853031]

>very good condition!!!
>cart/label is unrecognizable due to water damage, fading, rips, and 5 different rental game stickers

And fuck the assholes that label every common-as-fuck game as SUPER RARE. Sometimes I just want to send them a message telling them to fuck off.

[Anonymous No.1853138]

>>1851412
>At flea market, point to $10 game
Hey, how much is this game?
>IT GOES FOR 20 ONLINE!
Okay... so how much are you aski...
>I JUST TOLD YOU!

[Anonymous No.1853187]

>Go back in time
>Buy game when it was new & cheaper
>Go to future
>When retro games are classed as vintage
>Resell for like $2000
>Go back to presant

You now relise that the time machine cost more than the game.

[Anonymous No.1853210]

>COMPLETE CIB
>ONLY MISSING POWER CABLE

[Anonymous No.1853220]

>>1853187
You're right. We should saturate the market with perfect counterfeits.

[Anonymous No.1853232]

VINTAGE ATARI LOT WITH RARE

Pacman - $10
Pole Position - $10

PRICES ARE FIRM

[Anonymous No.1853282]

>>1852917
I live in Toronto too and I know this feel

[Anonymous No.1853321]

>acceptable condition

[Anonymous No.1853334]

>VERY RARE
>mfw seller has 15 copies of the same game on sale

[Anonymous No.1853339]

>that one faget who sells cables and consoles separately

[Anonymous No.1853340]

>>1853321
Woah! I didn't know any of the immensely rare white label copies of OoT still existed!

[Anonymous No.1853343]

>no game, manual only
>$29.99

[Anonymous No.1853351]

>go to garage sale
>see snes bottom is pretty yellow
"how much for this snes?"
>ugly women with glass eye
"well i looked online and that goes for $70 dollars"
>had some decent games still want the lot
"will you go any lower, its not worth $70 and ebay takes a percentage of you're earnings"
>she gives me a look
"i guess i can go $65 on it"

[Anonymous No.1853353]

>>1853321
If I listed this, I'd call it a RARE HARD FIND christmas winter edition and charge extra

[Anonymous No.1853357]

>loose, $20.99
>same game CIB, $20.99

Why?

[Anonymous No.1853368]

>>1853351
I hate it when they do shit like that. If you wanted that much for it you would sell it on ebay not at a fucking garage sale.

[Anonymous No.1853369]

>SUPER RARE GAME!!!
>box only, but this is only mentioned in the bottom description

[Anonymous No.1853375]

>>1853351
Comparable ebay prices are the worst thing to happen to game collecting. It's the reason why prices continue to escalate.

[Anonymous No.1853379]

>popular retro game is expensive because it's popular
>obscure retro game is expensive because it's obscure

Games like Super Mario World or Link to the Past shouldn't be super expensive, they're the kind of games everybody had back in the days.

[Anonymous No.1853389]

>game I really want
>find it at a decent price
>looks to be in great condition
>read further down in the description
>no manual

[Anonymous No.1853390]

>>1853379
and the only category left is fucking SPORTS GAMES. Jesus christ if I see one more goddamn lot of sports games or one more Nascar 99 I'm going to vomit

[Anonymous No.1853392]

>NES SNES N64 PSX PS2 RARE L@@K
Remember to report these auctions for keyword spamming, guys.

[Anonymous No.1853394]

>>1853375
It'll only get worse before it gets better. People are literally buying games for obscene prices just so they can relist them for more.

I just pity the poor souls that are inside the bubble when it finally pops.

[Anonymous No.1853397]

>>1853379
Same with shit like Final Fantasy 7. It was among the top selling of all Ps1 games right? Which makes me wonder...

20 years from now are we going to see the same thing happening with like the Halo on the original xbox?

[Anonymous No.1853403]

>>1853394
its the people that actually put up with this shit that are letting the prices increase. If the new people getting into collecting saw the prices and didnt pay the retarded prices we would have nothing to worry about.

[Anonymous No.1853404]

>>1853394
Fuck them. Sometimes I feel like the only person buying old vidya just because I actually want to play it instead of just reselling for a quick buck. Of course that's absolutely not true, but still, the vast majority just seem to be resellers.

The sooner the bubble pops the better. Then I'll be able to get old games for proper prices.

[Anonymous No.1853410]

>>1853403
Pretty much. I've been guilty of this as well, but you really want a game and you're just like FUCK IT I'LL SPEND A COUPLE EXTRA BUCKS FOR BUY IT NOW. That shit adds up and just helps the prices rise even more.

[Anonymous No.1853418]

>>1853404
I can certainly understand now how kids who collected baseball cards or comic books feels.

Wanting a John "Big Hitter" Johnson card because he's your favourite player only to be confronted with some middle-aged prick selling it for $400.

Or wanting to read "Superhero #45" because you really love the comics and instead of being able to read it its sealed in some plastic bag and being sold for a year's worth of allowance.

[Anonymous No.1853420]

>LOT OF GAMES SUPER RARE
>12 sports games and SMB3

also why the fuck are games like Smash Bros 64 so expensive? Everyone and their dog owned that game. Same goes for stuff like Mario 64 and OOT, but not as egregious. Luckily I never sold/lost those titles because I feel sorry for anyone that actually pays those ridiculous prices for them.

[Anonymous No.1853421]

>try to sell my SNES collection locally
>$800 including system AND 27" trinitron in great condition
>everyone says it's way too high

>post collection to eBay
>$1500 or best offer
>sells for full price in under 24 hours

People don't want deals!

[Anonymous No.1853428]

>>1853421
Someone actually paid for the postage for a 27" trinitron?

[Anonymous No.1853432]

>in line at Gamestop
>behind middle aged housewife trying to trade in games for her 9 year old sex trophy
>"Only two dollars!? I bought it for 60 five years ago!"

[Anonymous No.1853435]

>>1853428
Oh no I didn't ship the damn tv lol just the games and system. I footed the bill for shipping and insurance. I cleared a bit over $1200 after all said and done.

[Anonymous No.1853436]

>>1853418
Well, I'll personally never understand trading cards because they have no purpose other than to be collected. But with games you actually play and enjoy them. This does apply to comics though, but don't comics at least have reprints?

As a matter of fact, things wouldn't be nearly as bad if all the major publishers made reproductions of the very popular games at the very least. That way people that want to buy physical nes/genesis/n64/whatever games can do so and the collectors that only care about rarity can do their own thing. The clusterfuck comes from these two separate groups needing to deal with each other.

[Anonymous No.1853438]

>>1853420
Because VIDEO GAMES, SO RETRO AND NERDY XD BUY NOW TO BE THE COOLEST LIKE YOU'RE FAVOURITE LPER, JUST DON'T GO LEARNING ANYTHING ABOUT SUPPLY VS DEMAND OR TALKING TO PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY PLAY AND COLLECT VIDEO GAMES BECAUSE THEN I'D BE OUT OF A JOB ;D

[Anonymous No.1853441]

>2 different listings for the same game
>one is an auction and the other is buy it now
>condition is the same for each
>people keep bidding on the auction one even after its price has exceeded the buy it now listing

[Anonymous No.1853447]

>>1853436
I've been saying this for years. All these publishers need to fucking reproduce their games but make them look exactly like the original copies. Most people just want a copy that works on the original console and that doesn't look out of place with their collection. That's why I don't buy platinum edition copies, because they are a fucking eyesore.

If somebody got permission to reproduce all of these games they would make an absolute killing.

[Anonymous No.1853448]

>LOTs of fun

Fucking die

[Anonymous No.1853450]

Could years back I remember browsing old games on ebay. It was all dirt cheap compared to today, but I felt that it was overpriced. I remember saying "eh, I'll wait until later. maybe prices will continue to fall"

Well fuck me.

[Anonymous No.1853452]

>>1853441
>Starting bid $60

[Anonymous No.1853456]

>>1853452
>its actually a drug dealer bidding against himself in order to make his income look more legitimate

[Anonymous No.1853457]

>>1853452
at least that guy would be upfront about their jew price. I can't stand the faggots that use reserve pricing. It serves absolutely no point - if you don't want to sell it below $60, then start the auction at $60.

[Anonymous No.1853461]

>mfw megaman, contra, and castelevania series game prices

[Anonymous No.1853463]

>Dragon Ball final bout
>It's absolute shlock
>Still goes for quad-digit prices

[Anonymous No.1853469]

>selling game, manual, and box/case as separate listings at the same time instead of just CIB

[Anonymous No.1853482]

>>1853397
>25 years later
> WII SPORTS EXTRA RARE LIMITED EDITION COPY SIGNED BY MY DAD WHO WORKS AT NINTENDO
>$45
> It's scratched up to hell and back

[Anonymous No.1853493]

>>1853482
We'll hopefully be long dead before that happens, brother

[Anonymous No.1853516]

I met a guy selling japanese carts of FF VI and Secret of Mana at the same price of the western carts.

I actually laughed right on his face. It's weird how delusional this guy is now considering I bought a BoF cart from him at a fair price once.

[Anonymous No.1853529]

>>1853343
Gah, fucking this.

>searching ebay, cl, amazon all day
>ridiculous prices everywhere
>finally find a price that is completely reasonable
>Manual only

[Anonymous No.1853536]

>>1853343
>>1853529
especially bad if the header doesn't actually say manual (or box) only and only has that in the inside description.

[Anonymous No.1853545]

>>1853516
is there a reason why jap carts would sell for less? I'd think they'd be rarer

[Anonymous No.1853567]

>SUPER RARE GAME HOLY SHIT ONLY $2

>It's a fridge magnet

[Anonymous No.1853568]

>>1853545
Japs don't treat their old games as RETRO VINTAGE GOLD RARE, so the prices never got too high. They also took good care of them, so it's easy to find them in perfect conditions unlike here.

[Anonymous No.1853572]

>>1853567
Every single fucking game.

[Anonymous No.1853628]

>>1853568
well shit, now I wish I was japanese.

>>1853567
singlehandedly preventing me from just sorting by price. gotta slog through pages of fridge magnets and custom made boxes before you find actual games.

[Anonymous No.1853693]

>>1853447
I agree in that I think there should be more Series collections, not even HD re-releases, but a bundle/digital re-release. If the companies would get their licensing issues ironed out, put these bundles up for a reasonable price, included maybe some bonuses like OSTs, then the bubble would pop. It wouldn't happen immediately, but physical copies would certainly decrease in perceived value, they tend to when a collection drops.

[Anonymous No.1853705]

>>1853693
Are you referring to rereleases on newer consoles? That's fine, but it doesn't solve the issue. People want to play the original games on the original hardware and all that. Reproductions of the original carts or bust

[Anonymous No.1853747]

Not retro but fuck it.
Is there ANY reason why Smash Bros Melee is so fucking expensive? I mean, even $40 wouldn't be too out there.

[Anonymous No.1853750]

>>1853747
Highly rated super popular Nintendo game.

[Anonymous No.1853768]

>>1853705
Well I'm thinking in both ends of the spectrum, embracing all options. They'd have special old-school editions that would be only a few bucks more to have it on classic mediums like discs and carts since reproduction methods make it infinitely more cost-effective.

Heres an example of a collection:
>Ib4 my image gets mistaken for being unrelated since it was released on the PS2.

I really wish that this bundle came to the states, I own all the King's Field games, and Shadow Tower, as well as translated version of Shadow Tower Abyss and the very first King's Field released only in Japan. It took a lot of time and money to do so, but finding out after I was done that this bundle was on the edge of getting a localization, It stings just a bit because of the convenience of it.
The box would have retailed for(if memory serves) $70, people sell this going on $500....
If from software brought back this "Dark Side Box" I'd hope it would include all the King's Field games, and Shadow Tower games.

[Anonymous No.1853773]

>>1851575
Hey come on, CGR is funny

[Anonymous No.1853798]

>>1853747
Tourneyfags have a raging hard-on for that game even though it's a casual as fuck party game.

[Anonymous No.1853982]

>>1853210

>COMPLETE CIB

This shit is fucking maddening

[Anonymous No.1853993]

>listed as very good
>small cracks on case
>disc has scratches but has been tested and plays fine! Professionally cleaned!
>

[Anonymous No.1854010]

the generic ebay condition categories are fucking bullshit. A cartridge that's label is completely missing, is covered in rental stickers and glue residue, and has damage to the plastic from an organic solvent like acetone will STILL be categorized as "acceptable"

You can't trust that shit. Especially when >stock photo

[Anonymous No.1854015]

>>1851604
This
god my jimmies are fucking rustled super hard when people put
>RARE
>HARD TO FIND
and bump the price up, while i look around and oh look theres the game for 30$ less.

[Anonymous No.1854021]

>thrift shop, garage sale, or flea market
>someone selling games
>individually priced

[Anonymous No.1854027]

[Anonymous No.1854028]

>>1853628
In the search box type -magnet.
You can kill tags on eBay with a minus symbol.

[Anonymous No.1854037]

You guys DO know thrift store prices aren't set in stone, right? I mean... the whole point is you're supposed to talk the shopkeeper down to a reasonable price. It's called haggling, try watching Pawn Stars sometime.

[Anonymous No.1854040]

>LOT 6 GAMES VERY RARE
>madden 98
>madden 99
>madden 2000
>madden 2001
>nascar 99
>NBA live 99

[Anonymous No.1854050]

>>1854037
this thread is 99% about ebay.

And even so, most vidya resellers are stubborn fucks when it comes to the prices. You just get "uh, well this is what it goes for on ebay!" and that's final.

[Anonymous No.1854053]

>>1854050
>that's what it goes for on ebay
then go fuck your self

[Anonymous No.1854059]

>>1853545
There's this fucking scumbag reseller who posts the same ad on craigslist over and over again for his flea market booth that basically ruined the entire flea market since he buys everything upon getting there, and he never deletes the old one. If you are reading this you T & W flea market asshole you are a scumbag shithead and I hope you fall out of your chair onto the table and smash all those "valuable" PS1 games that are sunfading away every week.

[Anonymous No.1854063]

>>1854037
Have you ever tried haggling with those fuckers? It's pretty naive of you to just assume you will get a better price. Majority of owners nowadays are still using the internet to ascertain the worth of their shit. And as you would expect, most of them are basically con artists anyway.

[Anonymous No.1854070]

>guy selling game cartidge in abysmal quality
>looks like it went through WW2
>sells it at a super high price because of what he saw on ebay
>comparing his beat up game to a pristine condition CIB version of the game

[Anonymous No.1854071]

Reselling seems to futile IMO. Such a waste of time. You buy games and then sell them for a couple dollars more than what you purchased them for. How is that economically viable?

The only time it makes sense is if you sit on a fairly common game that you got for dirt cheap a decade or two ago and now it's worth 100+ bucks. But even then, you just waited A FUCKING DECADE to make 100 bucks. Fucking 5 star game plan there.

[Anonymous No.1854076]

>>1852917
There really needs to be a reseller genocide in Toronto.

[Anonymous No.1854081]

>>1854071
It's largely because there are two kinds of reseller. The ones that think what you described is economically viable and learn the hard way, and the ones that sell games for 300% what they bought them for.

[sage goes in all fields No.1854082]

>People still using ebay

WTF? for what purpose it's like saying use craiglist to find a date

[Anonymous No.1854084]

>>1854027
>$20 for some shovelware and Yu-Gi-Oh
You would think the overall quality of the game would have some bearing on its price.

[Anonymous No.1854085]

Art used to be something to cherish

Now literally anything could be art

This post is art

[Anonymous No.1854109]

>>1854071

You severely underestimate just how cheap these games really are.

[Anonymous No.1854112]

>$50 Smash Bros
>cart only
>price firm
>i know what i got

[Anonymous No.1854115]

>>1854081
>and the ones that sell games for 300% what they bought them for.
Right, but that's only happening when someone practically gives them away at a garage sale or something and doesn't know any better. But that pool is drying up quickly and more and more people start using ebay as a price guide even when selling their old junk.

[Anonymous No.1854116]

>>1853493
But I'm only 20...

[Anonymous No.1854123]

>>1854115
That's just it. People are practically giving shit away to these scumbags. They walk into their shops, ask how much they can get for their shit and then the reseller lies to them.

[Anonymous No.1854129]

>>1854027
> $20 for Yu–Gi–Oh! Sacred Crards

Hahahahaha

No

[Anonymous No.1854139]

>check ebay for sealed castlevania games
>literally hundreds
>thousand+ dollars
>literally hundreds
>literally
>hundreds

[Anonymous No.1854145]

>>1854139
It's ridiculous. There are games that are expensive because they are actually rare/collectible and then there are just games that are "rare" because all the resellers gobble them up and price fix.

Imagine if people in the stock market pulled the kind of shady shit these guys do. They'd all be hauled off to jail.

[Anonymous No.1854146]

>>1854115

That pool is drying up quickly because the reseller faggots are the ones buying everything.

[Anonymous No.1854153]

Flashcarts and emulation, guys.

Don't support reseller scum.

[Anonymous No.1854160]

>>1854146
And eventually they'll get to the point where it's only resellers selling to other resellers. What then?

I can't wait for this bubble to pop and all the not-actually-rare games to come down to decent prices. Then I might actually start buying megaman and castlevania titles

[Anonymous No.1854165]

>>1854145
It is, that's why I've started emulating and i've saved so much money.
The wii is such a good console for emulation, because I prefer a controller, and it still looks good on my old tv.

[Anonymous No.1854172]

>>1854153
This is going to sound weird, but I'm at the point where I can usually only bother playing a game if I actually had to spend money on it. whenever I just download a giant pack of roms, I might try one or two out but then I get bored. That feeling of "I actually had to spend time and money deciding on buying this game" really helps push me over the edge of Tired Gamer Syndrome and actually get around to playing the goddamn games. It's sad, but that's where I'm at.

[Anonymous No.1854179]

>>1854172
Happens to me, but I have the rule if I start a game that I appear to be having fun, I have to finish it.

[Anonymous No.1854185]

>>1853747
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Grand-Theft-Auto-San-Andreas-Special-Edition-Sony-PlayStation-2-2005-/200843082609?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item2ec32e3b71
>$70 for GTA:SA on PS2
>No manual
>It's not even in the original case (It's in a fucking Blockbuster case)

>>1854153
I emulate often (mainly PlayStation these days) but I would love to be able to actually HAVE some physical, retail games for my PS1. It's not the same if it's burned or on my computer. It's a psychological thing for me. Not to mention, I can actually say I have yet to encounter any scum when buying retro stuff (I paid good prices for my Genesis and Dreamcast).

[Anonymous No.1854186]

>>1854172
That's the same reason people have hundreds of unplayed games on steam.

[Anonymous No.1854190]

>>1854037
All stores in my area train their employees to mark games 20% above ebay but accept ebay prices so they appear to be haggling and giving deals.

[Anonymous No.1854198]

>>1853461
There's one store that I used to go to that was selling one of the Megaman games for 80 bucks. Yet I got one on the Famicom for 12 bucks including shipping.

[Anonymous No.1854208]

What are good strategies for finding vidya besides ebay? I have no idea how to find flea markets and the thrift shops like goodwill don't have anything. Are you pretty much fucked if you don't live in a major city?

[Anonymous No.1854213]

>>1854198
I might honestly just buy a famicom/super famicom and just buy japanese versions for everything.

[Anonymous No.1854221]

>>1854063
>It's pretty naive of you to just assume you will get a better price
No, it's not "naive," I haggle all the time and I usually get the price that I want. Just because you suck at haggling doesn't mean it doesn't work.

[Anonymous No.1854227]

>>1854213
That's what I'm doing. Famicom and importing from Japan for anything not very text-heavy. I'm paying like a fifth of what the western game costs, shipping from the other side of the planet included.

For the RPGs, just get repros or a flash cart. After all, I'm pretty sure that more than half cart-only sales out there for VERY RARE stuff are from people trying to sell their repros at legit game price so it's not worth risking it.

[Anonymous No.1854234]

>>1854221
>Lying on the internet
>Look how big my dick is, mom!

[Anonymous No.1854239]

>>1854213
I've started getting Famicom games since they tend to be cheaper, plus it'll help me with learning JP. Plus, the smaller size of the Famicom is a plus.

[Anonymous No.1854242]

>>1854234

>talking to strangers about money is icky

[Anonymous No.1854254]

>>1854234
I meant no hostility. You said something stupid and I corrected you, that is all.

[Joseph Joestar No.1854260]

>>1854239
They have cool packaging too!

Sadly it's getting harder to get a lot of games from Japan now, or at least for a reasonable price. I agree, it's still way cheaper than getting the NES versions (for the most part) or shopping on Ebay.

[Anonymous No.1854273]

>>1854160
>What then?

Complete and total monopoly

[Anonymous No.1854275]

>>1854254
Isn't it past your bed time?

[Anonymous No.1854279]

>>1854239

You could just play the Famicom games in an NES...

[Anonymous No.1854316]

>>1854273
and no one to sell it to

[Anonymous No.1854321]

>>1854316

Except for the people who couldnt care less about buying games for more then they are worth.

And trust me, there is NO shortage of these people.

[Anonymous No.1854329]

>>1854321
At least right now. They'll wake up and the bubble will pop. Games won't be as cheap as they were 10 years ago, but the rampant price inflation will eventually go down.

[ApartmentRaptor No.1854336]

Why complain when you could be supporting the BST thread?

>>1848050

[Anonymous No.1854371]

>>1854336
because fuck resellers

[Anonymous No.1854583]

>>1854010
If I recall from the descriptions, you technically aren't supposed to any higher than "Acceptable" if you are missing the original box and manual. If people actually followed that you would'nt be able to distinguish a pristine cartridge from something that has dematerialized into nothing but tar, sharpie, and Gamestop stickers.

[Anonymous No.1854652]

I've decided to buy japanese consoles and games because better price, and can someone point me to where i can start learning japanese because shit.

[Anonymous No.1854909]

>>1854145
Pat is that you?

[Anonymous No.1854917]

>>1851575
>Dishwasher, no...

[Anonymous No.1855186]

>>1853768
http://www.gameofjapan.com/product_info.php?products_id=5806&country=223

[Anonymous No.1855228]

>>1854021
Sometimes you can find deals.
It is rare, but sometimes.

[Anonymous No.1855240]

>>1854208
You are more fucked if you ARE in a major city.

[Anonymous No.1855279]

>>1851575
CGR is great though and Mark actually likes games

[Anonymous No.1855294]

Perfect thread to ask this. I made a list of games I want from NES to Gamecube. I'm only looking for 5 Nes, 10 snes and 10 n64 games. Should I buy them now at these prices or do you guys think I'd be wasting my time? I'm wanting to collect them to play not resale.

[Anonymous No.1855298]

>>1855294
emulate

[Anonymous No.1855303]

>>1855298
Ehh id much rather play it on the original hardware

[Anonymous No.1855305]

>>1855240
Pretty much this

In this day and age of smart-phones and pawn stars, you almost have to depend either on seller ignorance or benevolence.

Major cities will provide you with almost none of those two things.

[Anonymous No.1855307]

>>1855303
flashcart

[Anonymous No.1855310]

>>1855307
That was one thing I was thinking as we'll.

[Anonymous No.1855314]

>>1855294
Ok, first off DO NOT settle for ebay prices, make it your upper limit in terms of how much you'll pay.
Second, hunt like a mofo and BE PATIENT!!
Do not expect to find the games you're looking for within an allotted time, that is one of the biggest mistakes of collecting.
It took me several months, even years of constant searching and hunting to find several of the gems in my collection, because I refused to pay the "buy-it-now" prices the local reseller scum demanded.

[Anonymous No.1855318]

>>1855314
Okay thanks. That is great advice. I live In a small town. I was at my flea market and there are these two guys that own a game shop and they were selling some version of final fantasy 3 or 4 I can't remember for 400$ no clue why they were so expensive.

[Anonymous No.1855324]

>mfw my friends dumped all their SNES and N64 games on me
>they're all classics like Megaman X, Yoshi's Island, Mario 64, Super Smash Bros. and more in great condition
>I'm a Sega guy

of course i've tried them, but they'll just sit comfortably in the drawers I guess.

[Anonymous No.1855326]

>>1854190
Are you shitting me

[Anonymous No.1855336]

>>1854917
>DISHWASHER YES

[Anonymous No.1855345]

>>1855324
NOOOOOOOOO
Why not be a saint, anon, and contribute those unplayed unloved games to the BST thread? >>1848050
Give those games to people who will love them and make a little money off it

[Anonymous No.1855347]

>>1855186
>>1853768
Thats certainly a steal compared to most, let alone it's quality has been certified by Japanese-game-keeping-standards. If I hadn't already gotten my collection together, I'd buy that in a heart-beat.

[Anonymous No.1855350]

>>1851412
>VERY RARE VGA GRADED 80+ NM L@@K

[Anonymous No.1855354]

>>1855326
That's not unique to games. Most regular retailers do that too.

[Anonymous No.1855358]

>>1855347
Is it worth getting even if you own all the games individually already? Or is it just a nice thing to have?

[Anonymous No.1855370]

>>1855358
There a few fluff items that are nice like the art-book, region map, and soundtrack collection, but having the games themselves scratches a collector's itch, and I'm content. The Dark Side Box, is all Japanese, so unless you're comfortable with the language barrier or speak/read it, tracking down individual titles is better suited for you. I wish still they would bring it back with ALL King's Field and Shadow Tower titles, I'd buy it to have a complete back-up to my collection.

[Anonymous No.1855373]

>>1854027
Who the fuck rips the labels off their games? What kind of little shits do people have that warrants them destroying shit?

[Anonymous No.1855404]

>>1855373
Anon, there are some people that just either have no respect for their own things, or that of others, ripped labels don't piss me off oddly enough because I know there are plenty of resources for replacement out there(people charging that much for something unverified is bullshit though). What really burns me, every time I think about it, is what GameStop did eventually to all older games as they phased them out of inventory. I used to work for the company, and I still can't believe how many games that were stripped of their boxes and manuals, or eventually destroyed out-right. There are resources out there too for replacement, but a lot it has smeared water-mark feces which in some cases are so distracting I find myself asking "Why bother" when I'm looking to print something off for replacement.

[Anonymous No.1855412]

>>1853343
Or
>Looking for the manual to a game, it's not a rare game so it'll probably be cheap
>finally find someone selling the manual by itself
>it's more than a CiB copy of the game

I just want to complete my games, damnit.

[Anonymous No.1855430]

>>1855412
I trade high-res scans for people to build a replacement batch for my naked games, if you look hard enough you can find ones that aren't a mess with watermarks and such.

[Anonymous No.1855434]

Gamecube with many rare games!
>all first party Nintendo titles

*at the flea market*
>"How much are your games?"
>"Oh they're all priced differently."
>asking for maximum price on unsold listings

*At the flea market again*
>"How much are your games?"
>"Two dollars a piece"
>Picks up Super Mario World
>"Oh not that one though. $20 because it's Mario"

[IaTM No.1855456]

>All of South Florida is shit when it comes to retro games for any system

[Anonymous No.1855462]

>>1855456
Nigger, almost EVERYWHERE is now-a-days. Goodwill has an express order to send anything they think is expensive to that stupid shopgoodwill site, resellers are everywhere now, it's fucking ridiculous.

I live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, Mississippi, yet there are still resellers out here. We need a genocide based on resellers only.

[Anonymous No.1855517]

>>1853321
the blue/white label version is seriously fucking rare. is that your pic, anon?

[Anonymous No.1855524]

>>1855456
>All of Florida is fucking garbage
FTFY

I feel ya, though. I lived in Florida for a while and had next to no outlets for my geeky interests. Vidya, tabletop, RPGs? FUCK YOU, NERD, GO TO THE BEACH

[Anonymous No.1855529]

>>1855373
When I was young (~age 3-8) I was abused so I took my anger out on destroying my toys or defacing my games sometimes. Obviously this is not the case for all kids who rip the labels off their games, but whenever I see one I feel sad for what some other kid might have gone through years ago.

[IaTM No.1855531]

>>1855524
The latest luck I had was picking up an almost perfect copy of F1 Circus for the Famicom in Jacksonville about a week ago for 5 bucks only to use it as a donor cart. But hey, it was 5 bucks and none of the parts were ruined, so I can turn it back if I feel like it.

[Anonymous No.1855542]

>>1855462
>Goodwill has an express order to send anything they think is expensive to that stupid shopgoodwill site
The Goodwill in my town actually opened up a separate store right next to its main store where it sells video games, player's guides, old cell phones, and assorted PC soft/hardware.
>scratched as fuck sports Xbox games in separate generic slimline jewel cases, $6.99 each
>piles of Atari games, $4 each
>Ms. Pac-Man for $6 because of brand recognition
>NCAA Basketball for the SNES, $10 behind glass
>Age of Empires 2 and dozens of other recognizable PC games for $2 each because LOL WHO PLAYS PC NINTENDO IS WHERE THE MONEY IS AMIRITE
so it's actually not bad when it comes to PC games.

For some reason though, all the PS2 games are still in the main store put next to the DVDs, all $1.99 each. Singstar, DDR, Eye Toy games and sports titles

[Anonymous No.1855579]

>>1853628
>gotta slog through pages of fridge magnets and custom made boxes before you find actual games
Don't forget soap!
www.ebay.com.au/itm/261556086847

[IaTM No.1855585]

>>1855579
>there are molded security screws
WHY GO THROUGH THE EFFORT? I feel they're doing this 100% deliberately.

[Anonymous No.1855587]

>>1855462
>The Goodwill in my town actually opened up a separate store right next to its main store where it sells video games, player's guides, old cell phones, and assorted PC soft/hardware.
I do miss the days when I could go into goodwill and find cartridge-system odds and ends (I found a ROB in the local store one time, my only indication it had anything to do with nintendo being the controller ports; I still kick myself for not buying it, it was years before brawl).

But that being said, from what I've seen, the shopgoodwill site has (some) pretty reasonable prices. For example, Megaman 7, $107 maybe isn't so good. on the flipside, a lot of SNES + 2 controllers and 15 games is being sold (not auctioned, sold) at $26.

[Anonymous No.1855607]

>>1853463
No way, that Atari reprint ruined the originals price value.

[Anonymous No.1855608]

>>1855587
One thing I hate about the shopgoodwill site is the shipping calculations. I won a couple of auctions there for pretty cheap, a couple of lots of SNES games for 7 bucks or so, but the shipping was through the roof because they think 3 SNES equals to 3 pounds.

Then the games didn't even arrive since USPS thinks my address is "undeliverable"

They gave me a refund, but not for shipping...

[Anonymous No.1855612]

>>1853747
Shit. I sell melee at 25. Why am i the only guy with fair prices? Who here would buy Conker at 50?

[Anonymous No.1855623]

>>1855612
Do you have a store or something?

[Anonymous No.1855631]

>>1855623
Nope i just sell shit locally thru CL.
Most stuff i get cheap at flea markets, so i sell it for a reasonable price.

[Anonymous No.1855646]

>>1853321

Eh, I would consider that acceptable if I looked at the edge connector and saw no indications of rust or corrosion. And the battery still worked.

Acceptable = you put it in the system and it plays the game 100% without issues

[Anonymous No.1855651]

>>1855646
How about this?

[Anonymous No.1855653]

>>1855651
Same deal. As long as the game is 100% functional it is in the poor/acceptable condition category for me. But I'll expect an equivalently lowered price to go with it.

[Anonymous No.1855657]

>>1855653
How about this then. A N64 covered in dog shit. I'm sure it still probably works fine. Probably.

[Anonymous No.1855660]

>MFW I have Perfect Dark with working battery backup with 100% unlocked

[Anonymous No.1855671]

>>1855651
I'd still pay $10 for that. Maybe even $15.

[Anonymous No.1855674]

>>1855657
Probably not. Your sarcasm fails.

[Anonymous No.1855682]

>>1855674
What sarcasm?

How 'bout this?

I've seen a few games like this actually. People do it so they can play it in different region sneses right? or something like that?

[Anonymous No.1855690]

>>1855682
With a broken cart the connector won't fit properly in the socket. It might be hard to get the game to work.

[Anonymous No.1855752]

>>1855690
It'll fit fine. The cart slot is deep, and enough of the cart shell exists to function as a guide anyway. I can't think of any valid reason to do this intentionally. I'd rather just use a donor cart shell from a dirt-common and not-fun sports game.

[Anonymous No.1855774]

At least most of you guys seem to have local sellers, period. I can't find a single damn flea market anywhere near me and the goodwill and salvation army don't have anything. Ebay is my only option.

The shopgoodwill site provides fair prices, but their shipping is fucking retarded. Item price is based on weight but they only go by 1lb increments, so a single game is considered 1lb. Oh, you found this game for pretty cheap? too fucking bad the shipping costs like 20 bucks. Doesn't help that it only seems to list stuff from the west coast and I'm on the east.

[Anonymous No.1855830]

>>1855774
Goodwill's shipping is bullshit, because they jack it up to cover the cost of taking it away from their local stores to be sold online. This is also why most midwest Goodwill stores have FUCKING NOTHING in the way of good items, no matter your interest. Tools? Nope. Electric trains and cars? Nope. Lego blocks? Hell no. Video games? HOPE YA LIKE SPORTS GAMES FOR PS2 AND XBOX!

[Anonymous No.1855842]

>>1855651
>Majaro's
I laughed way harder than I should have.

[Anonymous No.1855854]

>>1853379
Earthbound was neither obscure nor popular at release. It was a lukewarm reception in an expensive box from a first party dev.

It had a large print run, and didnt sell well, so CIB and NEW copies are actually more abundant in the wild than open copies.

but SOMEHOW, it is marketed as a SUPER DUPER RARE GEM

[Anonymous No.1855979]

>game seems pretty cheap
>shipping is like 4 times what it should be

These assholes think I'm stupid?

[Anonymous No.1855985]

>>1855979
You can actually report this as well
Practises -> Other -> Shipping Charges

[Anonymous No.1856007]

>>1855985
>Reporting sellers
I'd do it if this had any overall effect.
Even on the offchance they get banned, it's a still just a drop in the ocean. And all they have to do is make a new ebay account, then buy a hundred 1 cent items from China for instant feedback.

[Anonymous No.1856012]

>>1856007
A man was walking on a beach, and he saw that many starfish had swept up, and were dying on the hot sand.

A young boy was throwing the starfish back into the ocean one by one, the man thought he was a fool, wasting his time.

The man asked the boy "why are you doing that? There are so many starfish on this beach you can't possibly make a difference?"

the boy threw another starfish into the ocean and replied "I made a difference to that one"

[Anonymous No.1856025]

>>1856012
But why was he on the beach?

[Anonymous No.1856090]

>>1855373
It's a fucking sticker, dude.

[Anonymous No.1856104]

>search for fairly popular game
>sort by price
>see a few listings under $20
>it's a fucking magnet/box/poster/some other tacky shit
I swear, these exist for the sole purpose of baiting hasty buyers, I seriously doubt anyone goes out of their way to buy these purposely.

[Anonymous No.1856113]

>>1856090
>shitposting

[Anonymous No.1856181]

>>1856025
i saw what you did anon.

[Anonymous No.1856278]

>Collecting fun video games my friends had but I never got because we already had a pc when I was a kid.
>Spend late youth looking at cheap games on ebay, awaiting the day I can get a credit card.
>Come of age, living in a backwater country because parents work with foreign aid.
>Wait another year until we move back because indigenous niggers steal anything that looks like a package in the mail, the prices aren't going anywhere.
>Come back five years ago and prices have fucking exploded.

[Anonymous No.1856294]

>>1851575
I don't usually like them but I think Jontron is great at "sticking the cartridge in the system" gags

[Anonymous No.1856301]

Stores in my area are great
>Anything with Mario or Zelda on it is always at least 40$
>Sega Genesis anything is practically on clearance
>Consoles are always at least 60$ (the cheapest SNES I evr found was 70$

[Anonymous No.1856309]

>>1856181

[Anonymous No.1856763]

These people don't just gouge games...
http://www.amazon.com/Dungeons-Dragons-Fantasy-Roleplaying-Game/dp/0786956291/

[Anonymous No.1856775]

>>1851575
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F88OgdRgFw0

[Anonymous No.1856784]

>>1856775
"Well that's unfortunate."

[Anonymous No.1856821]

>>1854116
mate im 30 and i've seen people going full retard when i say i've got some original game from the 90's a la Dungeon Keeper, saying "It has to be like hundreds of bucks on ebay why dont you sell it?!"

[Anonymous No.1856861]

>>1856821
One of my friends was saying he wanted to sell his SNES (just the system, no games or cords or anything) for fucking $100. I managed to convince him not to do it because I told him no one is that retarded to buy from him.

[Anonymous No.1857046]

>>1855657
why do you have this pic in the first place anon??

[IaTM No.1857061]

>>1857046
probably /vr/ gore threads.

[Anonymous No.1857167]

>>1855682
>making severe alterations to all of your carts instead of making one minor alteration to your console
cannot understand why people do this.

[Anonymous No.1857176]

>>1856861
I wouldn't buy it for more than 30 with out the cords.

[Anonymous No.1857202]

>SNES with 30 Games $150 obo
>doesn't list the games

[Anonymous No.1857210]

>>1857167
I agree 100% just thinking about that makes me boil with rage cause you always get that holier than thou attitude from those faggots too "well I dont want to mutilate my console". EXCUSE ME? A functional alteration that you can't even see is a hell of a lot better than making your games look like complete shit.

[Anonymous No.1857235]

I thought you guys were exaggerating until I saw Conker's Bad Fur Day, cart-only, for $114.99.

[Anonymous No.1857240]

>>1857235
Nigga, I've seen cart-only Banjo Tooie for $150 and (not /vr/, but) Kirby's Air ride for $200.

[Anonymous No.1857869]

>>1857240
NIGGER WHAT
Air Ride isn't common as dirt but it surely isn't rare. The fuck, man?

[Anonymous No.1857890]

>>1857240
>Kirby's Air ride for $200
>$200

[Anonymous No.1857919]

I don't know if any of you know Play N' Trade. It's GameStop for hipsters. They have the same shit as GameStop same clubs and everything but the trade off is that they sell older games.

Now if you're looking for something off of the beaten track or an underrated gem, they're alright. $30 can get you about 10 or so games ranging from NES to Genesis to PS1. But if you want something that's even relatively known, they stick it behind the locked glass case and fuck the price.

Super Paper Mario -$90
James Bond 007 2600 - $25
Mega Man - $50
Castlevania - $40
Earthworm Jim 3D - $50
Marvel Vs Capcom 2 Dreamcast - $60

They usually put the prices on the back of the labels so you can't see how much they're ripping you off but that's just some examples.

Easily the worst pricing for a game I've seen was at a con.

$149.99 for a loose cart of Mega Man for the NES.

[Anonymous No.1858008]

>>1857919
>Earthworm Jim 3D - $50
And everything else too.

[Anonymous No.1858010]

>>1858008
The PC version is way superior, if you're planning on playing it.

[Anonymous No.1858132]

mfw 10 years ago nobody on earth would buy any of this shit and it all got thrown away.

Seriously not that long ago the only things that you would get anything for were pristine copies of working designs rpgs or gold zelda carts

[Anonymous No.1858463]

>>1852917
Just a little north of toronto myself. This one reseller raids my favorite shop everyday more than once a day. I have the urge to slash his tires.

[Anonymous No.1858471]

>>1857919
wow, next time i go there i want $45 cash for my super paper mario.

are they fucking nuts?
i;d love to know how much a mint CIB mega man 5 or dragon warrior 4 would go for.

[Anonymous No.1858485]

>>1858471
Well they're not really popular. I'll give you $5 for both. It's the best I can do.

[Anonymous No.1858648]

>>1853321
"Acceptable" is the lowest option that eBay provides for you to select. There's no "Pulled from satans ass" option.

[Anonymous No.1858649]

>>1857235
It cost $120 AUD on release

[Anonymous No.1858820]

>>1858485
ok. i mean, you've only been in the business for 50 years and you have to make 100x off what I little money you give me

[Anonymous No.1858843]

>>1858649
>mfw new N64 games rarely went below $80AU
>mfw trying to afford that with allowance

All I can say is thank God for Blockbuster or else I don't think I would have ever played more than two games. Basically had to wait until my birthday or Christmas for a chance at actually owning a game.

[Anonymous No.1858857]

>>1857919
this
went there one day and save a loose Sonic 2 for 10 bucks there i immediately left.

[Anonymous No.1858859]

>>1858857
*saw

[Anonymous No.1858873]

>>1856775
Jontron has his moments.
Wait... Is that a fucking... Is that salad?

[Anonymous No.1859665]

>>1858873
what the fuck

[Anonymous No.1859674]

>>1858873
no literally,
what the fuck.

[Anonymous No.1860306]

>>1858873
laughed

[Anonymous No.1860323]

>>1859665
>>1859674
>>1860306
salad was the captcha

[Anonymous No.1860341]

>>1858873
I had strawberries once. I was really, really confused.

[Anonymous No.1860367]

>mfw the retro gaming scene in West Virginia

We have enough people in my city Huntington to warrant a retro game convention, but there's abso-fucking-lutely no retro games out in the wild anymore. I thought nobody gave a shit about them here, but apparently they do now.

Oh well, at least I've been finding a lot of PS2 and Gamecube stuff at yard sales. I picked up a black Gamecube with the Gameboy Player and Animal Crossing for $12 today.

[Anonymous No.1860373]

>>1860367
Gameboy Player Disc ?

[Anonymous No.1860374]

>>1860373
No disc, but I suppose I could pick it up on Ebay or something

[Anonymous No.1862990]

>>1852949
I work on a cash converters on Valencia spain. This occurs. Theres like 10 people that goes everyday to raid my shop for old vidya

[Anonymous No.1863012]

>>1862990
Fucking knew it.

[Anonymous No.1863029]

>Search "Megaman X" in eBay
>"$200 VERY RARE COLLECTORS"
>Search "Rockman X" afterwards
>"X1-2-3 pack for 80 bux, 30 a pop, arigato"

FUCKING NIGGERJEWS

[Anonymous No.1863035]

>>1855651
I'd pay like $10 for that. It's not hard to print a new label.

[Anonymous No.1863042]

>>1863029
X2 and X3 are pretty rare

[Anonymous No.1863045]

>>1863029
it's the fucking niggerjews from nothern us

[Anonymous No.1863049]

>>1863029
X2 and X3 had a short print run in America.
So the game is a lot more rare outside Japan.

And the reason X is so expensive is that the scarcity of the other two is driving perception of the first game's value up.

[Anonymous No.1863052]

>>1863042
Yeah, they're $30-$40 rare, which is what japanese ebayers ask for them, not $200 rare, which screams "lolololol speculation"

[Anonymous No.1863058]

>>1863052
this
Japanese ebayers are so fucking awesome when it comes to shit like this.

[Anonymous No.1863138]

>>1863052
>>1863058
>mfw Amazon trying to sell Einhander for $500
And of course the the JP version is going for a fraction of the price.

[Anonymous No.1863196]

Boxed Amiga games have very chill prices (under 10 euros is very common on eBay), but then again Commodore isn't exactly the first port of call for retro collectors, and therefore resellers.

[Anonymous No.1863406]

I've seen this shit happening quite frequently over the last few months. Looks like its time to start looking for another place to search for my games.

[Anonymous No.1863652]

>>1856294
i did not see that coming.

[Anonymous No.1863679]

>>1854037
The thrift stores in my area are chains. Thus their prices are fixed.

"In order to change the price, we would have to re-enter it into the system all over again!" etc. etc. etc.

[Anonymous No.1863684]

One day I was 10. I found Smash Bros NiB for 13 bucks and spent 2 months allowance on it. Smash, at the time, was already ~10 years old.

I go to my dad, who is the one who got me into vidya, whether he thought it would appreciate in value or not. He said that, likely, it would depreciate, so i cut the shrink wrap and threw away the box and manual.

I don't really regret it.

[Anonymous No.1863887]

>>1863684
>wikipedia article says smash bros launched in 1999
>poster says was 10 at time, and game was ~10 years old
>1999 + 10 = 2009
>2014 - 2009 = 5
>poster's age 15(?)
Make less rough estimations next time man, wouldn't want mods to think you where underage.

[Anonymous No.1864521]

>>1860367
Morgantown is worse, homie.
All of these autistic fucks literally hang around these game shops and shit, but thankfully a majority of them stay the fuck on High st.
The shop I usually go to is dope though. Guy takes me into the back and shows me his good stock. Yoshi's island CIB for $50? Yes please.

[Anonymous No.1865417]

>>1855462
Where at in Mississippi are you bro? Hattiesburg here. All pawn shops have been scrubbed clean of anything not sports, the earliest games most have is for the DS, and none of the thrift stores I have ever been to have offered any videogames. I have no idea if some fuck comes in and swipes them all or what, but there is never anything good at any of them. How the fuck do you know? Can you just ask the people behind the counter?

[Anonymous No.1865938]

>>1863406
>second rarest version
there's 3 versions right
that doesn't say jack shit

[Anonymous No.1865947]

>>1854037
>You guys DO know thrift store prices aren't set in stone, right?
Most of the time they are, though. Unless the thrift store is mom & pop format, prices are always either set in stone by management or corporate.

I was in a local St. Vinnies and was looking through vinyl. I found a record of an artist I recognized, but it was without a jacket and scratched to all hell. I found an Xbox game I was going to buy for $4 too. Asked if I could get anything off on the record since it probably didn't even work.

Nope. Couldn't, according to the manager. Corporate apparently strict, even if broken. Nope nope nope. Impossible. Futile. Gotta be $3. Can't change the price. No way, jose.

Seeing people even try to haggle in a thrift store is rare. Shit is supposed to be dirt cheap to begin with.

>>1863887
>wouldn't want mods to think you where underage.
>where
>WHERE
>implying you aren't underage as well

[Anonymous No.1866509]

i get really butthurt knowing i owned the top version and seeing how much it is worth now

[Anonymous No.1866521]

>>1864521
Buy your dreams a dollar down!

[Anonymous No.1866624]

>>1854071
I have a pal fire emblem that I got for 27au$, I've looked on eBay and apparently it's going for £80 I don't think I'll ever sell it but if someone managed to pick up some cheap I'd say it wouldn't have been a bad investment, especially since it's only been out 10 years

[Anonymous No.1866646]

I go to garage sales every saturday here in South FL. Most of the time it is dissapointing as there are so many resellers and collectors like me looking around. I do get very lucky about once a month or so though. Once found a lady that I got about 67 games for n64, gameboy and sega genesis for like 17 bucks total. You just have to be persistent and be out there every Saturday. I hear " Oh, I just sold a bunch of my old games" quite a bit but sometimes I'm the lucky one. Lately though, I think more and more people are learning that old games are valuable... had an old man say "I have a box of old Nintendo games in the garage, I'll sell them to you for the going rate on ebay". About a month ago I found an old black lady having a yard sale around 11 in the afternoon and she had about 30 old games she sold me for 20 bucks total ( included was Original Mega Man on NES, Battletoads, Several Mario games, N64 games, etc.). Just takes persistence and a little luck.

[Anonymous No.1866661]

>guy is playing Wrath of the Black Manta
>gets to the first boss
>player says "whoa, he's huge"
>the then splices in the plane scene from TDKR

[Anonymous No.1866663]

>>1866661
meant to quote
>>1851575

[Anonymous No.1866813]

>5 Nintendo 64 games - $20
Hey that sounds like a decent deal lets open the ad and see wh-
>$20 per game

[Anonymous No.1866892]

>>1863042
>American X2 is average and American X3 is RAWRW
>Japanese versions are common as fuck

[Anonymous No.1866897]

>>1863049
>And the reason X1 is so expensive is that the scarcity of the other two is driving perception of the first game's value up.

Aka, Speculation Bullshit, X1 sold over 1 million copies in it's original run in the US and didn't even got a Player's Choice Re-issue, it did have a Majesco Re-print tough.

Rare my ass.

[Anonymous No.1866903]

>>1857235
>>1856301
>>1856278
>>1855682

>THE THREAT IS REAL

[Anonymous No.1866947]

>>1856294
if you think jontron is great at all you're probably underage

[Anonymous No.1867235]

>popular Youtube channel does a let's play on an old and/obscure game
>price for the game rises

[Anonymous No.1867242]

>>1866947
agreed, I've even tried to get into his videos but he is just way too damn autistic. I gained a little respect for him in his defense of him using the word retard but his videos still suck ass.

[Anonymous No.1867390]

>>1857869
>>1857890

GameCube games didn't sell well, like at all. The GameCube barely sold 20 million units, and the best selling game (Melee) sold 7 million. Every game after that barely sold over 1 million, and some games (Twin Snakes) were huge bombs that made them withdraw support from the GameCube. I wasn't so much "the GameCube was a failure" as it was "the PS2 made all other consoles redundant".

[Anonymous No.1867421]

>>1867390
Nintendo should just get into reselling. They would make more money than developing for the WiiU.

[Anonymous No.1867597]

>>1867421
T'is a sad irony, but this is probably true.
They could make bank if they reprinted cartridges of their NES and SNES libraries as well.

[Anonymous No.1867782]

>>1867597
Why would they bother when they get plenty of shekels from Virtual Console?

[Anonymous No.1867837]

>>1867782
They could charge a massive premium for cost of cartridge manufacture.
Would have the added benefit of destabilizing the reseller market.

[Anonymous No.1867867]

>>1867390
>I wasn't so much "the GameCube was a failure" as it was "the PS2 made all other consoles redundant".

>be in middle school during GCN/XB/PS2 console war
>in our close-knit clique of 6 guy friends--
>4 have Gamecubes
>3 have Xboxes
>2 have PS2s
>5 of us have GBAs
>every weekend for a few years straight we have vidya gam sleepover marathons
>we would all bring a game over each weekend; all of us got to play almost every good game at the time on all systems that way
>years later when the 360/Wii/PS3 war is in full swing, check out sales stats for GCN/XB/PS2

>Gamecube: 20 million units
>Xbox: 24 million units
>Playstation 2: 140 million units

Needless to say I was dumbfounded. Xbox and Gamecube were for the most part neck and neck, but I had no idea the PS2 was so far ahead. Didn't it have mostly to do with poorer families buying PS2s for the DVD player function? I guess my family was lucky but we had our own separate DVD player back then.

>>1867597
Production of individual carts, boards, stickers, boxes, etc. are all about $30-40 total each. Disc game production is around $5 each for all materials. Digital is completely free. The demand is high for retro vidya sure, but only when it's cheap. No one is going to pay full price for an non-original copy of Super Mario RPG. Well actually no I suppose that SOME sucker out there would

[Anonymous No.1867915]

>>1867867
The PS2 being able to play DVDs was a huge selling point back in 2000.

It also had more games that appealed to non-gamers and adults. Gran Turismo 3 and Grand Theft Auto 3, mostly. What did the Gamecube have back in 2001? Luigi's Mansion and Super Monkey Ball? Good games, but not going to appeal to as big an audience as GTA3. Same deal with the Xbox.

[Anonymous No.1867929]

>>1866646
>"I'll sell them to you for the going rate on ebay"

Man, if anyone says that to me, I just tell them, "If I wanted ebay prices, I would just go to ebay."

People need to learn the difference between an online market and a physical, non-retail one.

[Anonymous No.1868050]

>>1853628
>>1853567
>Looking for Castlevania games
>Every single fucking one, think I've finally found a good deal
>Goddamn fridge magnet
Someone needs to fucking murder these people.

[Anonymous No.1868210]

Is it me? Or are collectors either crazy or delusional about their collections?

>Last week, I go to the local state video game exhibition they held.

>Pic related is there as a seller and an exhibitor. He's been collecting video games way even before the NES release and claims he was one of the very first owners of one while living in Connecticut.

>He's an American Histories Professor at the local university with a Big XII football team.

>He's very insisting that you buy from his little setup if you're browsing through, even though his prices are expensive (He had a boxed version of Zelda II for $100, I got one from another vendor in the same condition for $70).

>I ask him, "What's the most valuable item in your collection?"

>He claims it's his TV Game Color 15, and he goes off on this story about how back when Nintendo released the TV Game series in Japan, they purposefully released an ultra-expensive version next to a moderately priced TV Game 6 in order to get people to buy the cheaper version, and how what he has is ultra-rare and worth $7,000.

>I fact check his story and find out that he's full of shit, and that there's nothing from Nintendo's TV Game Color collection that's worth over $500.

Don't know why he'd lie about that, but you got to admit, the guy had serious dedication to his hobby, even before video games had this "retro-chic" thing going on.

Before the internet, this guy was at every garage sale, thrift store, and warehouse hunting games.

[Anonymous No.1868224]

>>1868210
He probably lied about it because he fell for somebody telling him it at one point and either hasn't found out or is in total denial that he got jewed.

[Anonymous No.1868348]

>>1853768
>king's Field 3
>3
>III
what fucking world does this guy live in

[Anonymous No.1868364]

>>1853461

>Tfw refuse to pay more than 10 dollars for original Castlevania

Been looking for 3 years. I honestly refuse to pay these outrageous prices

[Anonymous No.1868365]

>>1868210
Does he actually play the games? That's what pisses me off most about collectors in general. You collect comic books? Ok but do you actually read them? What's the point in owning thousands of games in their lovely little boxes if you've never played them and are never going to.

[Anonymous No.1868386]

>Go to thriftstore/garage sale
>Just sports games left
>Can't tell if that's all they had or if you're late to the feeding frenzy

Worst fucking feel

[Anonymous No.1868404]

>>1868386
I hate this feeling at flea markets because you know some vendor elsewhere has them marked up just yards away.

[Anonymous No.1868406]

>>1868348
Like he said, King's Field I was a JPN exclusive. The US King's Field I is actually II in Japan and the US version of II is actually III. IV had a subtitle in the US.

[Anonymous No.1868429]

>2.99

lol

[Anonymous No.1868431]

>>1868429
That's brutal, if you remove it you screw up the box, if you don't, you look like a dick.

[Anonymous No.1868437]

>>1868431
yeah the same thing happened to me when i sold some records on discogs, it was only about a $15 difference though

still pretty funny

[Anonymous No.1868668]

Is there any acceptable reason for the price people expect for Team buddies? I really want it, but $100 is a little steep.

[Anonymous No.1868676]

I got a copy of Metal Warriors for SNES up on eBay. Its a bit of a messed up copy but works, and I can really use the money if anyone interested.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291219858235?nav=SELLING_ACTIVE

[Anonymous No.1868684]

>>1868676
>150
Not in that condition, buddy.

[Anonymous No.1868698]

>>1868676
you couldnt take 2 minutes to clean the fucking thing?

[Anonymous No.1868725]

>>1868698
That barcode sticker has been on there for years, there's no way to get it off. The game works and I'm selling it about $100 under modern asking price because of the damages. Game works though, that's the important thing.

[Anonymous No.1868728]

>>1868725
I'd almost say cut your losses and get a repro sticker, but the game is pretty rare...

[Anonymous No.1868732]

>>1868676
>88.9% Positive feedback

[Anonymous No.1868775]

>>1868732
Yeah... wouldn't trust this guy at all.
That is way to low for someone that isn't selling hundreds of items a month

[Anonymous No.1868798]

When I was little we were pretty poor. So we had to make a lot of purchases at the Salvation Army store. Before 1989 I didn't have any game systems. So I wouldn't even think of looking for games there that weren't board games. But I remember one time they had a Vectrex in there. I remember messing with it because I thought it was neat how the controller came out. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was being sold with a second controller.

Now this store was super cheap because low income welfare neighborhood. So I imagine the Vectrex was probably really cheap too. Not sure if I could have gotten my mom to buy it even if I knew. Welfare check day toys were usually the bargain bin stuff. I really wish I could go back in time and buy it. It wasn't like any uptown hipsters were coming in then to buy our poor people stuff. So a lot of neat things sat in the shop forever.

It's funny because years later at another thrift store there was a stack of Vectrex screen overlays being sold. I didn't even know what they were until recently. They were in the board game section as game pieces. I don't think anyone knew what they were for.

Things sure are different now. When I think of all the cheap buys that I passed over because I either didn't know what something was or thought it would always be cheap because no one would want some common ass game for more than a few dollars... Makes me just hate myself.

[Anonymous No.1868860]

>>1857235
>2002
>play BFD
>finish BFD
>sell it for $15 because I completed the game; why would I need it anymore?

>today
>mfw

[Anonymous No.1868864]

>>1868860
>selling your game just because you beat it once or twice
you didnt deserve it anyway

[Anonymous No.1868873]

>>1868864
Ashamedly, 15-year-old me was not very smart and didn't appreciate the things he had.

I haven't sold a game since then except Beyond: Two Souls, but I don't think that counts since movies aren't games.

[Anonymous No.1868971]

>>1868365

I used to be like that. If I saw nonsports game at say goodwill I'd buy it, maybe play it then put it on the shelf and never touch it again. When I got youtube I started seeing lots of collections and pick up videos and I see these assholes like me "I'm on game 342 of 700 for NES" and I'm just wondering what the point is Are you really going to keep playing over 700 NES games for the rest of your life?

I give Pat contri a pass because he seems to care, He knows about every game he picks up, he knows it value and doesn't second guess shit.

[Anonymous No.1869025]

My biggest ebay/cl peeve is listing shit that should be assumed standards, as if they're bonuses.

>GAME WORKS!
>LESS THAN RETAIL PRICE!
>NO RESERVE!

Of course it's important to make note if any of these things AREN'T true. But trying to butter up the assumed features of your product as if they're some huge bonus that sets you apart from the competition just pisses me off. I realize that advertising thrives on embellishing and lying about your product as much as legally possible, but all I get is a vibe of complete soullessness that turns me away.

[Anonymous No.1869038]

>>1860374
Yeah for $40. The disc is the only valuable part of it. I have no idea why so many people went out of their way to buy the add-on, then lost the disc it needed to work.

[Anonymous No.1869049]

Why are all the actual rare games shit? It's very.....well rare for a game to be good and hard to find.

[Anonymous No.1869065]

>>1869049
bet its cause shitty games didnt sell well so they have less copies made than say ocarina of time
or banjo

[Anonymous No.1869224]

>>1853187
/co/ had the same idea with comic books, but without going to the future.
>go back in time
>buy 3 copies each of Action Comics #1, Detective Comics #27, Marvel Comics #1, etc. when they're brand new
>With each separate title, leave one in a bank lock box, read one, and have one stay with your family to get wear and tear
>Come to the present
>Have the one left with your family establish that it's logical for you to have a copy of said comic(s)
>Take the comic(s) from the bank lockbox (which would be in 100% mint) and sell them for massive profit
>Still keep your personal copy to just have in your collection.

[Anonymous No.1869256]

>>1855854
>teenage dwarf
>baby half-orc
>bald wood elf
>teenage halfling

This is the worst D&D party I've ever seen.

[Anonymous No.1869276]

>>1856775
Some of the "doing the wrong thing with video game console" is funny, though.

Like, the latest video having the NES make the Gameboy start up sound when its red light came on, and putting a Commodore 64 tape in a regular cassette tape player.

[Anonymous No.1869282]

>>1867915
It was able to play DVDs, CDs, PS1 games, and was cheaper than the combined price of a DVD player, CD player, and PS1.

That was back when Sony knew how to make gimmicks make sense and work. (Ignoring the silliness of the Emotion Engine)

[Anonymous No.1869478]

>>1865947
That sounds like bullshit to me. The St. Vinnies near my parents' place in STL sells records at 2 for a buck, and one time I grabbed 100 45s for a dime each. No way that guy wasn't just looking for an excuse to be stubborn on his prices.

[Anonymous No.1869652]

My favorite is when people think they can't remove stickers without damaging labels and whatnot.

I remove them all the time and then put them on ebay often 10x what I paid for

[Anonymous No.1870169]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Michael-Jacksons-Moonwalker-Sega-Genesis-VGA-85-Brand-New-Sealed-/321488773066?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item4ada395fca

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I kinda just want to send the guy a message telling him to blow it out his ass

[Anonymous No.1870213]

>>1870169
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sonic-the-Hedgehog-2-VGA-90/290995660822?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D24189%26meid%3Da6c0790ccac44743826646d7c0155dcb%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D10283%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D321488773066&rt=nc

THE RIDE NEVER ENDS

[Anonymous No.1870220]

>>1870169
>>1870213
>VGA graded games

what the fuck is this shit?

[Anonymous No.1870230]

>>1870213

>2 watchers

My sides have gone apartment hunting.

[Anonymous No.1870241]

sealed-in-box collectors are truly scum.

[Anonymous No.1870254]

>>1870213
Why is this a goddamn thing? I can't even buy a damn pack of Genesis games without it having two or three copies of Sonic 2 in it (boxed and unboxed), and you can get packs of 10-15 games for 5-10 bucks usually.

[Anonymous No.1870308]

>>1870213
>$4.00 Shipping
Ok seriously these are the worst kind of human beings. Just how fucking evil do you have to be to make your goyim pay for shipping after you charge him 200x what your product is worth

[Anonymous No.1870338]

>>1870308
Don't forget about the fuckers that are clearly overstating how expensive shipping would be. Can't tell you how many times I've seen something and said HOLY SHIT WHAT A DEAL only to find out shipping is like 15-20 dollars

[Anonymous No.1870350]

>>1870338
Those fuckers should be wiped off the face of the planet.

[Anonymous No.1870352]

>>1870308
I offered him 5 bucks just to fuck with him.

[Anonymous No.1870358]

>>1870352
Offered him $1. That way your offer will look more appealing in comparison

[Anonymous No.1870363]

Wait, why does the brand new moon walker get an 85+ but opened/used sonic 2 is 90+?

[Anonymous No.1870438]

>>1870230
Sometimes I will watch absurd auctions just to see if they actually sell, not because I want to participate

[Anonymous No.1870485]

>>1870363
Because it says Sonic and is therefore worth more.

Just like Mario.

[Anonymous No.1870493]

>>1870363
It's the quality of the box

Fading of the images, damaged corners, any sort of bend, all of that determines the score

[Anonymous No.1870602]

>>1870213

[Anonymous No.1870626]

>>1855612
If you're offering, I would totally buy Conker for $50 shipped, I would still buy it if you aren't including shipping.

[Anonymous No.1870640]

>>1863029
>meanwhile the ps2 megaman x collection barely goes for $10 cib
>the gamecube version is five times the price of the ps2 version for no real reason, but still way cheaper

[Anonymous No.1870659]

>>1870626
Shipping will be $32.67

[Anonymous No.1870679]

>>1870640
ps2 version has input lag, while the GC doesn't. The GC version has shit controls though.

[ApartmentRaptor No.1871113]

>>1870679
The GameCube version also didn't sell nearly as well, which is bad news for me because the GameCube version is the one I'm after.

[Anonymous No.1871218]

>>1870679
>ps2 version has input lag
Elaborate. Are you sure you're not thinking of the Mega Man Anniversary Collection?

[Anonymous No.1871226]

>>1870679
>ps2 version has input lag
It doesn't.

[Anonymous No.1872146]

>>1868860
I did the same. I regretted it for years. So many years. I searched for the game online, but, it was nowhere to be seen, or at an unreasonable price.
Until it happened. Some poor fucking bastard was putting it up for $20 on Amazon. Boxed. Manual included. I got the entire thing back and I'm never letting it go. It's beautiful, but, at the same time I have to wonder what that stupid fuck thought when he realised what he did.

[Anonymous No.1872183]

>>1872146
show me your amazon buy history

[Anonymous No.1872213]

>>1866947
if you go on anonymous image boards and complain about things you dont like you're probably autistic

[Anonymous No.1872279]

We're approaching a point where resellers are straight up lying about their products.

[Anonymous No.1872290]

>>1872279
did you report the seller yet? If that's recent post a link so we can too

[Anonymous No.1872303]

>>1872290
Not him, but
www.ebay.com/itm/181498955050

[Anonymous No.1872305]

>>1872290
Not him but I found it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chrono-Trigger-Super-NES-1995-MINT-CARTRIDGE-LABEL-SUPER-RARE-/181498955050?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item2a422e452a

[Anonymous No.1872320]

>>1872279
report that shit, ebay doesn't like people who lie in their product descriptions

[Anonymous No.1872336]

>>1857235
it's weird how i can remember a time when you couldn't give some of these games away, now they're worth $100+

[Anonymous No.1872516]

>>1872320
Go ahead and try, but eBay will probably do jack shit about it.

[Anonymous No.1872624]

>Videogames listed under Vintage Computing > Vintage Computers on Ebay
I hope everyone who does this suffers horribly.

[Anonymous No.1872706]

>Talking about a game being a classic or similar in description
>Generally written as to imply the game was a part of their childhood
>Done in such a mechanical way you can tell they probably don't even know the genre of the game.

[Anonymous No.1872724]

If I ever have to sell my games on ebay I'm going to make it absolutely clear that these are treasured games from my childhood and I'm not just some reseller faggot. Detailed paragraphs about how I got it and what the game is like.

[Anonymous No.1872740]

>>1872624
>People list them here
>The people who use programs like pricecharting's sniper don't see it so don't get the good deals
>I can buy games to play on the cheap sometimes before collectorfags get to them

I see no problem

[Anonymous No.1872752]

>>1872740
As someone looking for cheap hardware, it gets in the way. Sometimes the entirety of results for a certain system are videogames.

I wouldn't mind if people would list them under "other vintage computing" or something.
Computer games seem less vulnerable to the price-issues faced by console games anyway.

[Anonymous No.1872837]

>>1872279
I messaged the guy and he said he didn't notice that it was a reproduction when he put it up and said he would change the title

[Anonymous No.1872862]

>>1872837
>Selling a game without even looking at the label
This is arguably somehow even worse.

[Anonymous No.1872881]

>>1872862
Last week I bought robocop vs the terminator for genesis.

When the package arrived, it turned out the be the goddamn game gear version. The seller must've just seen the sega logo and googled that and come up with the genesis version, because the image and description both said genesis.

Luckily they were alright and I was able to get a full refund instead of hemming and hawing

[Anonymous No.1872902]

>>1872837
>>1872862
Sellers fucking lie out the teeth.

>FFAnthology complete
>no pictures of soundtrack or manual, he must know it comes with the soundtrack, because he took a damn picture of the back of the case and it says in big red letters "Soundtrack included"
>15-20 bucks I cant remember how much
>manual is a wrinkled peice of shit from water damage, no soundtrack
>message seller saying this is missing the manual and not complete, and this manual is wrecked, he offers a 10 dollar refund

>Resident Evil 2 listed as Dual Shock version when its not
>another 10 dollar refund so they avoid the negative.

eBay sellers are fucking retarded when it comes to listing things.

[Anonymous No.1873037]

>signature of Shigeru Miyamo on back

Yep, that's a stock photo.

[Anonymous No.1873062]

>in high school
>girl sitting across from me gives no fucks about the class
>cleaning out her backpack
>pulls out Pokemon Pinball, Kirby Dreamland 2, some GBA KH game and Pokemon Puzzle Challenge
>Me: aw man kirby dreamland 2 I always wanted to play that
>Her: You want them?
>Me: Really you don't want to keep them?
>Her: No I was just going to throw them away.

>throw them away

>throw
>them
>away

They aren't even great games save for KD2 but fuck why would you trow games away?

[Anonymous No.1873097]

>>1873062
>>Her: No I was just going to throw them away.
>>throw them away
>>throw
>>them
>>away

[Anonymous No.1873130]

>>1873037
>Can't even take a picture of supposed signature
>Probably some kid who looked it up and tried to copy it anyways
>Shigeru Miyamo

[Anonymous No.1873136]

>>1873037
BUT DID YOU SEE HIS OTHER ITEMS FOR SALE ANON

[Anonymous No.1873140]

>>1856294
Go back to /v/

[Anonymous No.1873168]

>>1873037
>like newm
>manages to correctly spell 'Miyamoto' on his second attempt
>stock photo

I'll never understand people that do this, in this day and age. You should message him and ask him for a photo, just to see if he dodges or not. I would anyway, but then I have little to do with my time beyond posting here and playing games, a few other things.

Really though, I don't get it. Selling something like that begs for proof, and they don't provide it, yet still expect to sell something like that at a high price. Do people actually fall for that shit? I've never bought something privately that didn't have some sort of accompanying photo, and even then I'm prone to paranoia.

[Anonymous No.1873202]

I find it sad that this is probably the longest thread in the history of /vr/

[Anonymous No.1873210]

>>1870220
>VGA graded games
http://www.vggrader.com/
Apparently it is actually a thing that exists.
>CIB Authentication - $50 per item
And its very existence makes me laugh.

[Anonymous No.1873227]

>>1868364
>mfw I dropped like $300 on a SNES and a modest collection of vidya
>Castlevania, $30
>Metroid, $25
>Final Fantasy, $30
>Double Dragon II, $15
>Ultima Exodus, $10
>Metal Gear, with box/manual, $25
>Clash at Demonhead, $10
>Ninja Gaiden 1&2, $20
>Faxanadu, $5

How badly did I get jewed /vr/

[Anonymous No.1873236]

>>1873227
It's not too bad anon. Some cream and antibiotics and you'll be good as new.

[Edgar !!a5B2kIm0Pwl No.1873240]

>>1873227
I've selled a Clash At Demonhead for 60 bucks and Gaidens at 40 each. You got a good deal from a person who didn't know what they were selling.

[Anonymous No.1873258]

>can't even bother posting a stock photo
>and guess what, the item was not in stock

[Anonymous No.1873439]

>>1865938
>there's 3 versions right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKpBOByRg14&list=UUEFVuV9YUPuUxRQUaoWfkSg

[Anonymous No.1873461]

>>1873439
counting other nations versions is retarded there are 3 or 4 american versions and you know that is what he meant

[Anonymous No.1874486]

>>1873210
>CIB Authentication - $50 per item
Holy shit what.
This is a pretty sweet scam they have going on.

[Anonymous No.1874517]

>stock photo of a used product

[Anonymous No.1874589]

>mint ps1 game
>stock image of a cracked jewel case

[Anonymous No.1874616]

>>1873062
I got Bust a Move 4 and Smash Bros 64 from the neighbor girls back in middle school. Similar story, they were about to throw them away until I showed interest. Bitches just don't like video games.

[||D.II.II\/II.||D No.1874623]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSB9SZvtP2I

[Anonymous No.1876562]

>>1863406
>>1865938
>>1873439

http://www.zeldaspeedruns.com/oot/generalknowledge/version-differences

[Anonymous No.1876575]

>>1874616
I can confirm this. Older woman with adult daughter around my age were throwing garage sale nearby. Literally get a box full of N64 and several bags full of game boy, genesis and other nintendo stuff that she played as a kid for 17 bucks.

[Anonymous No.1877086]

>>1853436
>but don't comics at least have reprints?

Lots of vidya have ports. Still isn't the same is it you fucking nigger

[Anonymous No.1877094]

>>1853456
Anon, you're a genius

[Anonymous No.1877110]

>>1854040
Madden is actually pretty rare over here. Fucking FIFA on the other hand...

[Anonymous No.1877112]

>S@@PER RARE
>Super Mario World Not All Stars + World. Just World
>check seller page
>50+ SMW carts for sale
>all of them loose
>all of them rare
>$50 USD minimum

>Pokemon Red
>missing label
>chewed lower corner
>probably won't fit in game boy
>rare
>$29.95 +$6.50 shipping

[Anonymous No.1877116]

>>1854027
>shrek
You buy that shit right now.

[Anonymous No.1877119]

>>1877116
Nigga, that post is literally a week old.
But who am I kidding, they probably relisted it.

[Anonymous No.1877124]

>>1872516
ebay is actually pretty strict about this kind of thing.
It doesn't stop all of those fake pogeymenz carts from popping up, you simply can't stop the Chinese.

[Anonymous No.1877127]

>>1877119
Well go get it.

[Anonymous No.1877180]

>>1877112
Don't look at the offers of Red on Amazon compared to the JP version. Shit is crazy

[Anonymous No.1877189]

Somewhat related, but why does every single copy of Yoshi's Island (SNES) I see on eBay look like a dog's chewed it?
I can't seem to find a single one at a decent price that doesn't have a mangled label.

[Waterworld Box-Chan No.1877647]

>>1877189
I myself am finding a similar problem with Megaman X3, damn label curse
I'd love to be able to find a label upgrade...

[Anonymous No.1877716]

>>1877647
>>1877189
You guys could probably just buy the stuff to print your own labels. Unless you're collectors who can't stand the thought of that for some reason

[Anonymous No.1878046]

>>1856861

>I told him no one is that retarded to buy from him.

Why would you lie to your friend?

[Anonymous No.1878082]

Is this the right thread to post this?

[Anonymous No.1878109]

>>1853768

Those prices are insane. I got mine several years ago off ebay from a german dude for 50€. Sealed.

[Anonymous No.1878407]

>>1852917

It's a big reason I got out of collecting. I never had a huge collection of games, but it was big enough that eventually I looked at it and decided I was over it.

I don't get it. I see shit like Peter Dorr and all this people fawning over old games and I just can't think that's healthy.

You're never going to play though games, why do you have so fucking many? Why are retro games such a big thing? No-body gave a shit about this 10 years ago when I was buying shit, why's it so crazy now?

Whatever, I sold most everything that didn't have sentimental value or I actually valued as a game and moved to emulation. I have more time, space, and money.

[Anonymous No.1878430]

I got a copy of Shining Force 2 CIB for 2.50 at a local flee market.

Kinda neat. The box is in a pretty bad condition, but it's there, along with the manual.

so that's neat.

[Anonymous No.1878434]

>>1874623

Video game culture is imploding on itself. Good riddance.

[Anonymous No.1878482]

>Referring to the Commodore Amiga as a games console instead of a computer

[Anonymous No.1878498]

>>1873210

And the grade is forfeited the minute you break the seal. The are few more retarded things in the world.

[Anonymous No.1878527]

This may be a stupid question but:
Does anyone actually buy some of the $100~2000 price tags some of these games fetch?
Prices are insane nowadays but is anyone actually buying?

[Anonymous No.1878549]

>>1878527
I swear some people put up games at those obscene prices just to show off their collections

[Anonymous No.1878598]

>>1878407

yeah you see these people and even the more tolerable reviews obsession with having these games just screams "I HAD NEGLECTFUL PARENTS AND FEW FRIENDS AS A LAD"

I mean I love a lot of my old games but these people LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE their old games

[Anonymous No.1878603]

>>1878527
I've only bought a handful of games that were actually 70+.

Tron bonne at 140. Rule of Rose at 100. I'm considering adding Suikoden 2 for 140 at a local store.

I've gotten some decent deals though on other rarer and more pricey games. Strider 2 on ps1 for 50 when it usually commands 80-100. Tomba and Tomba 2 for 45 each when they command up to 100 bucks. Castlevania Chronicles for 40 when it usually commands in the 70-80+ range.

Just gotta pay a little more, theres a point where resellers lose interest and your other collector is getting flaky about the price.

My ps1 collection is very robust, I recently got my SNES and N64 back too, so I'm starting to collect for that, got a SM64 and Starfox 64 for 33 today in an auction, which is definitely not terrible considering people are trying to push mario 64 for fucking 30 on its own.

These are all eBay prices btw.

[Anonymous No.1878605]

>>1878527
>Does anyone actually buy some of the $100~2000 price tags some of these games fetch?

I bought a copy of Shining Force 3 at 145.

Not because I especially wanted it but I was borrowing a friends copy and without going into huge detail accidentally sort of destroyed it

my buddy said it wasn't a huge deal and didn't care but I felt bad so I replaced it for him

[Anonymous No.1878608]

>>1878603
>Just gotta pay a little more

well that's the thing. I don't mind paying a LITTLE more if it's something I really want using the 50-60 release cost as a bench mark

[Anonymous No.1878624]

>>1863652
me neither, good job >>1856294, you fag

[Anonymous No.1878879]

>>1878598

I don't think it's actually about loving old games though. I mean, I'm about to make assumptions though, who can say what's going through another person's mind.

It's more of a hoarder mentality to me. People begin to collect these games and they can't stop. They don't actually care about the games or the value of them, they care about having more and more stuff. It begins to seem like collecting these games is their sole hobby. It's their identity. The actual act of gaming is put to the wayside of just acquiring more shit. The "collectors" just have mounds and mounds of games that they're never actually going to play.

They don't have the time to sit down and savoir the Panzer Dragoon Series. They don't have the time to enjoy Earthbound for what it is. There isn't the time or energy to sit and learn to 1cc Under Defeat or Parodious.

It's just about buying shit and feeling like you've accumulated wealth and validation through videogames. Most of the LP's I've seen by people who just binge games show that they're not even that good at most of the games they've played.

But anyways, that's just my two-cents. By hoarding and collecting games I think many people have lost sight of what truly is the magic behind them. Instead you just have people trying to fill a hole with increasingly big piles of shit.

[Anonymous No.1879020]

>>1878879
People with significant disposable income tend to lack leisure time;
Who'da thunkit?

[Anonymous No.1879138]

>>1879020

And what leisure time they do have they spend buying games instead of playing them.

My point doesn't change.

[Anonymous No.1879203]

>>1879138
It takes 2 minutes to click "Buy it now" on eBay and send a paypal payment.
It can take 50+ hours to slog through a random SNES RPG.

These things are not equivalent.

[Anonymous No.1879214]

>>1879203

You seem to be mis-understanding what I'm saying.

If they want to buy a bunch of games, more power to them. This mentality of collecting games purely for the sake of collection is what's driving prices up.

Many of these people aren't playing the games their buying. They're taking the games out of circulation so they can sit on a shelf and then they can say they own them.

If they want to buy them, more power to them. Like I mentioned earlier. I realized that owning a bunch of shit I don't use isn't for me.

[Anonymous No.1879216]

>>1879203
Yeah but why buy the game if you just want to shove it on a shelf in your room and forget about it afterwards? Like the "high" you get from acquiring new games fades pretty quickly and you're out looking for the next game to shove on your shelf and never play. Seems sort of selfish to buy up a bunch of games and keep them away from people that actually want to play them because you're a collector that's addicted to buying up retro games.

Objectively, I guess there's nothing wrong with just being a collector but subjectively you're kind of an asshole for driving up the prices of "very rare" games for everyone else.

[Anonymous No.1879224]

>>1879216

Thank you! I'm glad you got what I'm saying

[Anonymous No.1879225]

>>1878527
I bought a copy of Guardian Heroes for $100. It was in good condition too

[Anonymous No.1879229]

>>1878527

I'd pay the price for Snatcher if I had the money

[Anonymous No.1879235]

I paid 100 for the dungeons and dragons collection. It's two games though so it wasn't too bad

[Anonymous No.1879257]

>>1879224
Yeah, most of the games that still go for their retail price or higher generally have artificially inflated prices. There's plenty of good, relatively unknown games that go for less than 10 dollars that had similar print runs to stuff like Chrono Trigger or Snatcher. For example, I'm having a good time playing through Dark Wizard for the Sega CD with by bud and it goes for really cheap on ebay compared to stuff like Shining Force CD and Snatcher. Also, I just burned it to a CD because no copy protection but you get the point.

[Anonymous No.1879349]

You know, I think I am a reseller at heart. Not because I want money. I do not believe I have ever sold a game in my life. I wish the stuff I wanted were dirt cheap. It is for one reason:

I hate ebay buyers.

Many of the idiot ones, the ones who always outbid you on the same stuff for some ridiculous prices, are a huge factor in the gaming explosion. The ones who go on forums and say WOW GREAT DEAL to some douche overcharging the shit out of something. I bid from time to time on games in a certain category of rarity. The prices in said category have gone to hell. However, I am able to obtain items in this category fairly regularly for a fraction of what I am sure they would sell for on ebay. If I were to ever sell any of these, I would gladly overcharge and be a complete dick in the description, making fun of the ignorant buyers who would surely pay 1.5x to double (or if things keep going the way they're going, 3x+) what I paid.

It just amazes me how dumb some of these fuckers are, and it would honestly give me emotional and sexual pleasure to completely gouge the shit out of them.

[Anonymous No.1879376]

>>1865417
>tfw Mississippi collector too

I-I-I guess I'll just buy a flashcart ;-;

[Anonymous No.1879404]

>downloads cost more than buying a physical copy
or
>physical copies are triple the price of the download

[Anonymous No.1879409]

>>1865417
>Hattiesburg

You're probably getting sniped by the Gametrader or whatever they call it now in Slidell.

[Anonymous No.1880056]

>>1878605
i want those details

[Anonymous No.1880068]

>>1880056

short version, A CRT fell on it smash the case to bits and snapped the disc

[Anonymous No.1882363]

>Finally find a good deal on eBay
>Best offer/Buy it Now
>14 offers (pending)

[Anonymous No.1882396]

>search for Sega Master System to replace my old one
>only one online costs double what it would have cost my parents new
>seller (99% rating) claims it's in good condition
>get it, parts inside are rattling about
>it was packed inside about 6 inches of bubble wrap, so I doubt it's the courier's fault
>plug it in, whaddya know, it doesn't work
>complain to seller
>goes apeshit, says he only claimed it was in good condition, not that it worked
>he actually says this
>refuses to take responsibility, refuses to refund
>because he genuinely believes that even though none of the electronics work, just because the paint isn't faded or scratched, that it's in good condition
Fuck eBay, man.

[Anonymous No.1882403]

>>1882396
you dumbass why didn't you open a case. not fuck ebay, fuck you.

[Anonymous No.1882418]

>>1882403
Who says I didn't?

I didn't know this was the "everything works out in the end" thread. I thought it was the "let's talk shit about faggot ebay resellers" thread.

[Anonymous No.1882664]

>look on ebay for an amiga
>even an A500 can go over £100
>meanwhile atari-ST hovers around £40

[Anonymous No.1882789]

>buy a Saturn game, complete, pictures are nice.
>game arrives, disc is scratched and unreadable.
>tell the seller the game does not works.
>he says literally "you didn't ask if it was working"

[Anonymous No.1882802]

> Super RARE, whole lot, $70!!
> Used, but still in great condition!!!

[Anonymous No.1882808]

>>1882802
When in the hell did GBA remakes of SNES games get so expensive? Can't believe that game still goes for like 20 dollars used in crap condition.

[Anonymous No.1883081]

>>1882802
>mfw I have this game CIB
I had no idea it was so expensive now.

[Waterworld Box-Chan No.1883214]

>>1882789
Hope you filed a claim and reported his stupid ass

[Anonymous No.1883309]

>>1882802

I've never understood how the fucking sticker get's ripped off games.

Like seriously? You actively have to attempt to do that.

Is there some kid sitting in his room, ripping the labels off his games so that when he reaches in his game pile he just randomly plays whatever he gets?

[Anonymous No.1883341]

>>1883309
I can't remember if I ever did it to any of my games but I would imagine it was often that they were bored of whatever game it was and didn't plan on playing it anymore (keep in mind at this age a lot of these kids didn't think that game would be worth anything or even than they would want it in a few years time) and saw the label peeling a little one thing leads to another and boom, No more label.

[ApartmentRaptor No.1883354]

>>1883341
I know I've fucked up one or two labels (including my copy of Castlevania Bloodlines >:C) trying to get store stickers off. Better question, what kind of idiot store puts the price tags on the labels?

[Anonymous No.1883367]

>>1883354
>including my copy of Castlevania Bloodlines
Been playing that on an emulator recently, Really fun game! I feel bad for you anon.

[Anonymous No.1883370]

>>1882802
>bottom left perfect aside from that fucking price sticker

[Anonymous No.1883390]

>>1883309
I have many games in my nes "collection" that looks just like in that picture(and sadly, pic related), they all work but stickers, and hell even plastic is damaged.
I guess me and my (older) brother didnt took good care of them, but Im more surprised that they still works.

[Anonymous No.1883414]

JUST BELIEVE THEM OP

THEY'RE A RESELLER

THEY KNOW EVERYTHING, ALL THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE WERE REVEALED TO THEM BY THE FOUNDERS OF EVERY VIDEO GAME COMPANY EVER AND MARIO AND LUIGI THEMSELVES

[Anonymous No.1883438]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/NES-Castlevania-NEW-Nintendo-Collector-Case-Box-NO-GAME-/221527945043?pt=AU_PC_Video_Games_Games&hash=item3394182f53

This shit stop it

[Anonymous No.1883443]

>>1854037
Try it mate you will get laughed out of the store

[Anonymous No.1883539]

>>1882808
Probably because resellers don't want their goys looking for alternatives. If they could somehow re-sell virtual console games, I bet you those would be ridiculously expensive too.

[Anonymous No.1883551]

>>1883438
>2 sold
I give up.

Wait how is this shit even legal? Are the contents of these labels not copyrighted?

[Anonymous No.1883553]

>>1883551
I'm guessing it's more trouble than it's worth to try and get them taken down

[Anonymous No.1883742]

>>1872279
Do you think you could make money selling games with damaged labels, replacing the label, and reselling it while being completely honest that it has a reprinted label?
Is that even legal?

[Anonymous No.1883752]

>>1883742
You probably could by calling it "refurbished" or something. As long as you make it perfectly clear that the label is repro you should be fine.
Question is if some fag will buy it from you and just relist is as SUPER RARE GREAT CONDITION+++++ for 90$.

[Anonymous No.1884018]

>>1883539
I like how anything with Zelda or Mario slapped on its price inflated like 200 percent. The most popular, plentiful games made for any Nintendo system and resellers treat them like some Sega Saturn game with a 10,000 copy print run or something.

[ApartmentRaptor No.1884073]

>>1884018
Not that the price tag is warranted whatsoever, but how many people want that rare Saturn game vs how many people want Mario 64?

[Anonymous No.1884242]

so some of you dont like reproduction labels
but what about resurfaced cds?
should someone have to announce the cds been resurfaced if it runs fine

[IaTM No.1884272]

>http://www.ebay.com/itm/151372875530
This has to be a fucking joke.

[Anonymous No.1884279]

>>1867929
>>1866646
well, the whole reason that garage sales had such low prices in the past was because most of the time they didn't know their value, or the games prices hadn't been inflated yet thanks to internet hipsters/resellers.
nowadays thanks to the internet, even old people selling their son's old video game collection can look up to see how much it goes for online.

[Anonymous No.1884287]

>>1884279
The other part is people wanting to get rid of shit ASAP because they're moving or because they want it out of their house. People can be savvy enough to go to ebay to sell the valuable shit yet lazy enough to part with with a dozen < $10 games for a good price.

[Anonymous No.1884292]

>>1884073
I think it's mostly that he SNES retro market is just impossible to buy for these days. Copies of games that sold well over a million copies in North America alone go for like 40 dollars loose. Shit is straight up stupid.

[Anonymous No.1884329]

>>1884292
Well, it's not stupid if more than a million people want those games.

[Anonymous No.1884342]

>>1884329
Yeah but there aren't a million people out there looking for SNES Zelda carts though. It's just reseller scum trying to make a quick buck off a popular series.

[Anonymous No.1884353]

>>1884342
According to pricecharting about 12 bare ALTTP carts are selling for $26 a day, so there must be some demand.

[Anonymous No.1884371]

>>1884353
Sometimes I wonder how many of these carts are sold to resellers that just mark the up and throw them back on the market. Not just Zelda, but in general.

[Anonymous No.1884395]

Saw this at a retro game shop near me

>Lunar Silver Star Complete with the original somewhat damaged box
>$299

Not exactly retro, but

>Paper Mario: TTYD
>$60
>Pokemon XD
>$80

I'm not sure if it was sealed or something, but I simply don't get these prices.

[Anonymous No.1884412]

>>1884395
It has a popular franchise's name attached to it. But yeah, unless that copy of Lunar is factory sealed then it's not worth that much. Brick and mortar retro stores dont' realize that you could just go online and get all of these things for cheaper.

[Anonymous No.1884462]

>>1870679
Only if you play it on an LCD screen you dwerp.

[Anonymous No.1885546]

Not /vr/, but I just bought a copy of Tekken Tag 2 for the Xbox 360 and thought of you guys (◕‿◕✿)

[Anonymous No.1885564]

>>1885546
>siper mario 4 "rock & ball mario"
idonteven

[Anonymous No.1885580]

>>1873136
What the fuck

[Anonymous No.1885583]

>>1852917
tfw I live in bowmanville and it is even worse around here. Have you been to the shit hole called "Courtice flea market". oh god the Russian woman who sells games over prices soo much . I.E 60 dollars for metroid prime.

[Anonymous No.1885597]

>>1884329
It's stupid for people who "actually" want the game (to play it) when a portion of those millions who "want" it just want to put the game on the shelf or increase their hipster cred.

[Anonymous No.1885606]

>>1884371
>resellers selling to resellers
One day the retro market is just going to be a mini stock market.

[Anonymous No.1886094]

>>1885597
The people that "want" the game to play it can just use an emulator or a flash cart. Ultimately everyone just wants something nice for the shelf.

[Aspiring Happy Merchant No.1886662]

Not retro, but my CIB Fire Emblem 7 is apparently going for $60-70 right now.
Should I sell it now, or do you think this is going to be one of those games that sells for ridiculous prices in the future?

[Anonymous No.1886765]

>>1886662
Wait until after the next smash bros release before you even considering selling it.

[Anonymous No.1886816]

>>1886094
I don't care about my shelf. Most of my stuff is in boxes stored away. I just like owning the physical copy and reading the manual. I enjoy the game much more that way rather than playing a ROM.

[Anonymous No.1886883]

>VERY RARE
>it's a pirate cart

[Aspiring Happy Merchant No.1886894]

>>1886765
Smart man. I'll guess I'll hold onto all my Nintendo titles until then.
I suppose the truly jewish thing would be to start stocking up on old Nintendo games now...

[Anonymous No.1886995]

I remember somewhere around 2004-2005 when Final Fantasy VII was booming in price, wouldn't go for less than a hundred. Now it's only 20.

[Anonymous No.1887031]

I went to a couple shops in Connecticut today. One of them was selling loose Gamecubes for around $70 and loose N64 for $75. The N64s didn't even have the memory expansion or anything. The thing that baffled me was the store down the hall had loose Gamecubes for $40, which is still overpriced. How can that disparity even exist in the same place? Do they even know or just not care?

[Anonymous No.1887047]

>>1886995
That's because that's around the time the Advent Children movie came out.

[Anonymous No.1887067]

>>1857919
Tried to deal with these fucks today. Waste of time.

Any time they get a decent game its gone in a day and they are left with nothing but 40 copies of madden.

[Anonymous No.1887070]

I fucking love when people do this. I cringe and laugh at the same time.

I remember a while ago I heard a story about someone having put up a cartridge only Mario Land 2 on eBay for $200.

However some people I've met have been fairly honest, 2 years ago some guy at a Play-N-Trade sold me a like-new copy of Zombies Ate My Neighbors SNES for $20 saying it was rare. I checked online and most of the ones were $30.

Oh well, I don't mind the discount...

[Anonymous No.1887083]

>>1853420

Good point. Why do some people own so many sports games?

I like to think John Madden's machine gun anus kept firing them out and didn't stop

[Anonymous No.1887103]

>>1887070
Check this shit out. Just ended a little bit ago
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sonic-the-Hedgehog-Sega-Genesis-Rare-Print-Very-Rare-CIB-/221523449748?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3393d39794
>300 bucks for sonic
I mean jesus christ, it wouldn't even go for nearly that much even if it were sealed

Every once in a while you can actually find a good deal on ebay though. It's just few and far between.
This morning I was randomly browsing genesis game lots and I found a lot of 10 games for 30 bucks. And unlike the typical game lots that are 90% trash like old sports games, this was actually really good.
Ecco, X men 2, Robocop vs terminator, shinobi 3, mortal kombat, street fighter, etc. Not a bad game in the bunch
I was sure the price was going to triple because of idiots, but I was the only one to bid on it. Ebay is weird as shit like that.

[Anonymous No.1887116]

>>1886894
>I suppose the truly jewish thing would be to start stocking up on old Nintendo games now...
>now

yeah, that ship really has passed. All those collectorfags like AVGN that have massive libraries of old games? They built those collections years ago when old games were pennies. And realistically speaking, buying old games now and hoping to flip them later for profit won't give you nearly the same outcome compared to if you started collecting in the late 90s. You might eek a few dollars out of each game by upping the price, but game prices aren't going to triple again like they have over the past few years.

If you want to start collecting cheap stuff that might go for more money later, you should probably do PS2.

[Aspiring Happy Merchant No.1887203]

>>1887116
Oh I'm totally aware that it will never be the 90s again, I'm just thinking you might make some money buying a bunch of Smash Bros related shit before the launch of the new game and selling it right afterward.

[Anonymous No.1887296]

>>1866509
that's crazy. That thing used to be $120 at funcolan years ago

[Anonymous No.1887774]

Where I am you can only get games from resellers. There are no stores around or flea market/garage sales to look at. Even if you do find some they're all shit.

[Anonymous No.1887775]

>>1887116
PS2 games are common like shit with a few exceptions (like anyone needs SotC on PS2 now). They won't go up in price in 10 years

[IaTM No.1887797]

>>1887774
Someone selling a fan-translated MOTHER2 repro for $100.
Report that motherfucker immediately.

[Anonymous No.1887842]

See Mario 64 @@RARE@@
>mfw

[Anonymous No.1888347]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VERY-RARE-Mario-Bros-Nintendo-Entertainment-System-NES-VERY-RARE-/171184199311?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item27db5f968f

$5,555 for Mario Bros NES
...am I missing something here?

[Anonymous No.1888353]

>>1887775
>PS2 games are common like shit
Yeah, so are all the games that go for a pretty penny now. There are legitimately rare games that are expensive, and then there's stuff like every zelda game, smash bros 64, etc that goes for a high price for no reason other than they're popular, even if they're common as fuck

[Anonymous No.1888443]

>>1887103
>http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sonic-the-Hedgehog-Sega-Genesis-Rare-Print-Very-Rare-CIB-/221523449748?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3393d39794

i screencaped that shit.

[Anonymous No.1889504]

[Anonymous No.1890016]

[Anonymous No.1890023]

>>1851412
what anime is that

[IaTM No.1890102]

>>1890023
Barakamon

[Anonymous No.1890202]

[Anonymous No.1890457]

>>1851737

[Anonymous No.1890595]

>>1890457
i am going to puke.

[Anonymous No.1890596]

>>1890202
The price here is quite right...

[Anonymous No.1890614]

>>1890457

[Anonymous No.1890639]

>>1890595
>>1890614

[Anonymous No.1890646]

>>1890457
What the fuck is L@@K?

[Anonymous No.1890667]

>>1890646
It's what some people on ebay say instead of "LOOK" because they think it brings more attention to their product.

In reality people cringe and ignore their product instead.

>L@@K AT MY VERY RARE GAME! WOW! GREAT DEAL!!@! Only 5,000 Dollars

[Anonymous No.1890858]

don't get me started on this shit

by recommendation of an acquaintance i went to see this old vidya store.

It was pretty good, they had basically every fucking thing but HOLY FUCKING SHIT i left that place feeling only anger

in short:
>new japan import games at 90 fucking euro like akiba's trip
>bunch of old accessories at horrible prices
>"old" "rare" "obscure" titles priced LODS OF EMONE
>"classic" "rare" "retro" titles priced FUCKING ALL YOUR YENS
>snes/nes/famicom/gb cartridges with box scattered around the place clearly gotten from local collectors or lots on ebay, soon to be put on their website for hundreds
>bunch of 90s pc games for no less than 30 euro
plus
>a whole storage dedicated to older systems, boxed, used, refurbished you name it
>"hey can i take a look? i might be interested in a few things"
>no, you can't go in there. that's for online sales only
>my fucking face when
>ask for price on a GBA SP
>70 euros for an used AGS001
>MY FUCKING FACE WHEN

i got a new AGS101 for that price this week because my ds lite is a piece of shit

LOOK AT THEIR WEBSITE FOR FUCK'S SAKE

http://www.gamestart.it/retrogames/

oh yeah that reminds me

>"i'm probably going to regret this but how much for a ds lite"
>"150"
>well i'm off you fucking faggot

that store is always deserted and the owners just play fifa. I fucking want to break into that place someday and free all that vidya, then sell it to people that will play them

[Anonymous No.1891129]

>>1890646
Isn't it obvious?

It's Laak. They want you to laak at what they have for sale.

Everyone knows what laak means.