Hey look! This rummage sale/thrift store/flea market has some retro games for sale! >take a closer look Oh...

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Anonymous Wed Jul 29 22:56:58 2015 No.2575778 [Reply] [Original]

Hey look! This rummage sale/thrift store/flea market has some retro games for sale!

>take a closer look
Oh...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 23:04:36 2015 No.2575792 >>2575778 I hate that

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 23:05:38 2015 No.2575794 >>2575778 >no nhl94 they even took the good sports games

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 23:06:45 2015 No.2575801 >>2575778 >not getting mutant league football what are you, some kind of loser?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 23:11:41 2015 No.2575819 I'd get PGA and Madden as those are sports which interests me, but I'm okay about basketball titles

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 00:30:34 2015 No.2575965 >>2575778 nba live 95 is great you fucking retard

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 05:45:42 2015 No.2576268 >>2575778 My local thrift store has a big bucket of 2600 carts and Genesis NBA Jam carts, buried under a pile of Gamecubes, buried under a pile of old coats. It is an odd place.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 06:45:05 2015 No.2576347 >>2575778 What's the one below PGA Tour?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 06:55:35 2015 No.2576358 File: 3 KB, 125x104, 1438208244738s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] If that was somewhere in Europe, that pile would exist of nothing but FIFA.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 07:13:56 2015 No.2576374 How disappointing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 07:19:04 2015 No.2576378 >>2576347 Olympic Gold

Anonymous Thu Jul 30 07:51:31 2015 No.2576396

I run a small importing business that sells at conventions and trade shows. I actually give these away for free (PS1, PS2 discs mostly) to promote my table.

Sports games are worth nothing and I usually don't pay for shipping if my supplier sends too many

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 16:34:17 2015 No.2577095 >>2575778 Too bad, anon

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 16:35:13 2015 No.2577101 >>2576396 I need some nhl 94 copies. Like 400, I'm building full hockey gear out of it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 18:32:32 2015 No.2577292 >>2575778 Mutant League Football sells on eBay for $50 CIB.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 20:18:42 2015 No.2577450 >>2575801 This man gets it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 21:47:55 2015 No.2577650 >>2575778 Please OP, tell us you got that Mutant League Football.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 21:59:09 2015 No.2577672 File: 752 KB, 180x240, fridge.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2575778

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 22:36:52 2015 No.2577734 >>2575778 Honestly i'd be happy to see something other than ps2 sports and singstar games

Anonymous Thu Jul 30 22:40:00 2015 No.2577741
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This is an odd question. How come every black bloke I knew back in the day owned nothing but sports games and mario? They weren't cheap when they were new were they?

Pic unrelated but try fapping to Kes ever again once you see what she looks like these days.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 05:25:45 2015 No.2578320 >>2577741 Black bloke? Maybe in the UK, but here in murriclapland I've never seen that. It's always been sports games or some movie licensed game like Space Jam. Heck, most of the ones I knew from school bought Shaq fu and RapJam.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 05:29:11 2015 No.2578325 >>2575778 That's a lot of sports games...

Anonymous Fri Jul 31 07:40:08 2015 No.2578462

>>2575778
Check the boxes anyway. Years ago I'm in line at Goodwill. There's a bunch of Genesis games, all sports, so I'm not interested. One of the cartridges is sitting on the counter, so I decided to do them a small favor and put the game back in the case. I found a Tetris cartridge in there.

Years later ... two months ago. Im in another store and spot a Mahjong game lying on the shelf. Wandering around further, I find boxed MD games hanging up on a pegboard, including the mahjong game I found earlier. I opened up the case to put the cartridge back in, and guess what game I find again by weird coincidence years apart from the first experience?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 09:01:00 2015 No.2578574 >>2578462 Tetris?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 13:14:06 2015 No.2578957 >>2578462 Puyo puyo

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 13:22:31 2015 No.2578972 >>2578462 Custer's Revenge?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 13:32:48 2015 No.2578993 >>2578462 musha

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 17:43:12 2015 No.2579431 >>2578972 >>2578462 Yeah I'm gonna go with that, it was Custer's Revenge, right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 1 00:00:08 2015 No.2580087 >>2578462 Klax. It's Klax, right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 1 00:10:03 2015 No.2580114 File: 22 KB, 575x316, well.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2578462 Just tell us what was in the fucking box already. I can't take this much longer.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 1 00:15:31 2015 No.2580127 >>2580114 it was combat cars

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 02:30:54 2015 No.2582773 >>2577741 it's not just black people it's mostly all minorities

Anonymous Sun Aug 2 04:05:33 2015 No.2582841
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Online sales really killed game hunting at my local goodwill. We had this stack of games come in and everything but the sports games popped up with the "bring this to an online sales team member" window when they were scanned.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 07:35:07 2015 No.2582993 File: 71 KB, 448x561, GTG Nitro.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2582841 MFW There are a few games from that pile. Like Super Smash TV and Night Trap.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 07:39:53 2015 No.2582994 >>2575778 nba jam and hang time are pretty good though

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 07:52:32 2015 No.2583002 >"Anon you like video games right?" >"Here, you can have all these video games your cousins used to play" >NBA 1998 >NBA 1999 >NBA 2000 >NBA 2001 >NASCAR 2000 >Big Buck Hunter plug and play game >Madden 1999 Thanks Aunt.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 08:01:56 2015 No.2583013 >>2575778 >not buying them to use the clamshell cases as donors/backups for other games You can save yourself a lot of money doing that.

Anonymous Sun Aug 2 11:17:43 2015 No.2583215

Yesterday at Goodwill I got compete big box copies of Last Express and Prince of Persia Collection (1&2) tagged for 99 cents each and mixed in with the board games meanwhile Kinect Adventures was sitting in the DVD section for $5

You just have to buy what they haven't gotten wise to yet. The nice thing is that they hire such lazy and/or incompetent people that all kinds of shit is constantly slipping through the cracks.

Unfortunately my local Goodwill does ship off a lot of "for auction" stuff as opposed to what the ones in the city do, which is hosting their own auctions. They put them in a big glass case and take silent bids for a week then have a live auction on Saturdays. They even stagger the addicting times across town so you could go from one to another to another.

A lot of /vr/ hates this system but I only hate that its a bit too far away and I currently don't have the spare money to really buy in lots like that. Hopefully soon.

What's to hate? It seems like a lot of /vr/ wants to go back to the days when we could just go out and find tons of old games cheap but they didn't get the stuff when it was like that because they've only just jumped on the bandwagon. The fact that there IS a bandwagon means those days are over. At least with the showcase auctions you only have to compete with your local nerds who are often too shy to actually compete face to face plus you don't have to pay shipping and handling which is what eats you alive on the site.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 11:24:20 2015 No.2583221 >>2583002 >don't liking Burgerland Turn Left Simulator 2000

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 11:30:10 2015 No.2583229 >>2583221 This. Nascar games have very little mechanical simulation which is half of what's interesting about the sport

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 11:52:11 2015 No.2583263 >>2582841 Man! I always had a hunch Goodwill did this but deep down I thought I was just being bitter. So Lame! I don't think Value Village does this, but they have a bunch of hipsters working there that overprice EVERYTHING.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 12:43:06 2015 No.2583315 >>2577741 Kes was pretty fucking hot for a 3 year old.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 12:44:07 2015 No.2583317 >>2578462 >Finding MD Tetris at all >finding 2 copies This is a fucking lie.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 13:13:10 2015 No.2583346 Online has really killed off thrift store & yard sale goodies. Everyone overprices because "It's worth this much on ebay."

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 15:28:24 2015 No.2583567 File: 2.70 MB, 2340x4160, IMG_20150802_135303.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just got back from my local gameplay.

Anonymous Sun Aug 2 15:47:29 2015 No.2583594

>>2582841

Urgh I've experienced the same down here at Second Hand stores ( We call them Opportunity Shops here, Op Shops for short ) but this was with Vinyl Records.

All of them apart from 1 record had a fixed price, which then the owners decided to go on eBay to find a price for this single record ( It was Michael Jackson's Thriller ), what they did was they found a listing and decided to print that out to justify their mark up.

I'm just not a fan of this whatsoever, Op Shops down here are really catered for the guy's of a lower socioeconomic status and really there should be a fixed price regardless of what it is ( hence, Opportunity Shop ), this isn't a specialist store, it's a store for poor saps ( like myself ) to pick up the scraps.

Perhaps I'm coming off like an entitled prick, and I'm not realizing the cost's of running a store like that, but damn does it irk me.

Anonymous Sun Aug 2 16:21:05 2015 No.2583660

>>2583346
The worst part is that everyone seems to do it just for games. I pick up VHS, toys, and old electronic crap for nothing at these places but when a game comes up they immediately whip out their phone or run into the house to check the price on ebay.

>This box of VHS tapes that have never been open? $1
>The VCR, I'm not sure it works, maybe a dollar 1.50?
>This scratched up disc only copy of Madden 99 for psx with "MATT" written on it with a sharpie? WHOA WHOA WHOA THAT'S A EXTREMELY RARE THING YOU GOT THERE. 40 BUCKS AND IT'S YOURS! I THINK IT'S A REALLY GREAT DEAL.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 16:22:57 2015 No.2583665 >>2583567 fugg >Nightmare Creatures I always wanted to try that out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 17:13:55 2015 No.2583749 >>2583660 I've come across this many times, bloody discoostin.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 19:37:35 2015 No.2584032 >>2583567 >Episode 1 Pod Racer That alone is probably worth the visit.

Anonymous Sun Aug 2 19:44:10 2015 No.2584050

>>2583660
VHS tapes are even more niche then retro games.

Even movie buffs have moved onto DVD's, the occasional Laser Disc guy, its rare for someone to actually give a shit about VHS tapes because half the time the tapes are fucked up anyways and virtually unwatchable due to the interference that a lot of tapes just get.

Not to mention the occasional random tape over that happens.

One of my copies of Ghost busters 2 actually has some home made porn on it. I've considered ripping it and uploading it but I never can be bothered. I keep it around for a laugh.

But yeah, VHS tapes are basically worthless. A DVD either works or it doesn't and pretty much every device can play them. Any modern console, DVD and Bluray players are everywhere, laptops and even those dedicated dvd players with screens attached.

VHS tapes are just worthless. Its dated media. You could argue the same for old games, but the games are still fun and most games didn't get re-released or remastered for other consoles so the only way to play them is on original hardware or emulation, where as there are at least 6 different ways to watch a movie (VHS, DVD, Bluray, Streaming, and the occasional Beta or Laserdisc)

Anonymous Sun Aug 2 20:10:53 2015 No.2584105

>>2584050
>VHS tapes are even more niche then retro games.

Even movie buffs have moved onto DVD's, the occasional Laser Disc guy, its rare for someone to actually give a shit about VHS tapes because half the time the tapes are fucked up anyways and virtually unwatchable due to the interference that a lot of tapes just get.
I guess simply because the format just wasn't very great.

I never liked VHS and I'm glad we've stopped using it, discs hold so much more, have so much better quality, don't degrade so fiercely over time, and are much more compact and light weight.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 20:13:52 2015 No.2584117 >>2584105 Yup. You get maybe like 2-3 episodes of a show on a tape, and if the run is 24 episodes, you end up having like 9-12 tapes as opposed to literally 1 or 2 dvd's.

Anonymous Sun Aug 2 21:15:29 2015 No.2584273

>>2584050
DVDs have it pretty bad unless things were released as the DVD format was hitting it big. Sure, everything pretty much made it to DVD in some format, but finding one of some obscure 70-80's movie can be a pain in the ass, and then you have the whole Star Wars situation.

Anonymous Sun Aug 2 21:27:41 2015 No.2584318

>>2583660
This is pretty easy to handle. If you don't immediately tell them to fuck off, you tell them that anything on ebay/amazon will have been tested and have a return policy. Unless they have a console set up that you can test everything on to make sure it works, you're taking a risk that the game isn't broken, and if it is, you're shit out of luck because no garage sell/flea market is going to give you a refund.

If they think they can sell it for what they're asking, they can try, but then they're going to have to compete with all the other online sellers and wait for the thing to actually sell. If they were to take it to a trade in store, they would get AT BEST half the going rate as store credit, and a quarter if they wanted cash.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 21:27:55 2015 No.2584320 >>2584117 Of all the DVDs I have, I've seldom seen them hold more than 6 episodes on a single disk.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 21:28:49 2015 No.2584324 >>2584320 You can fit a half dozen DVDs in the same space a VHS tape takes though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 21:29:50 2015 No.2584328 >>2584105 The silver lining to this is that since people have been clued in on how much things will sell for, they actually sell the things instead of throwing them out.

Anonymous Sun Aug 2 21:50:28 2015 No.2584372

This VHS discussion is actually making me seriously consider buying a bunch of cheap ass VHS Anime Movies and Classic Movies from the 70's, 80's and 90's and having a small collection of favorites.

Kill me. This is getting out of hand. Although I guess having like ~10 VHS movies and some anime isn't going to break my shelf and might be a neat little addition.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 21:53:34 2015 No.2584376 >>2584372 That's what I'm considering. When I don't find decent games, I look for classic movies instead. Picked up Fantasia that way. Never fully watched it, so it was a treat.

Anonymous Sun Aug 2 22:11:38 2015 No.2584405

>>2584372
>>2584376
If you guys have CRTS for retro gaming you might as well have VCRs hooked up to them for when you want passive entertainment. Analog video has a warmth that I find quite soothing although it may just be nostalgia. A Goodwill EP tape with 4 movies recorded off your local TV complete with period commercials will soften even the hardest heart.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 00:35:26 2015 No.2584695 >>2583567 Garbage, Garbage Everywhere

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 00:36:30 2015 No.2584697 >>2583346 >hipster e-celebs and speculators have really killed off thift stores and yard sales. Fixed for the tears

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 00:39:40 2015 No.2584702

>>2584117
>You get maybe like 2-3 episodes of a show on a tape, and if the run is 24 episodes, you end up having like 9-12 tapes as opposed to literally 1 or 2 dvd's.

>enjoy your overly compressed transfers of 11 episodes on one DVD disc and have worse masters than the VHS tapes!
>Every single goddamn kids show released on DVD

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 00:42:07 2015 No.2584705 >one shop in my area that carries retro games >it's mostly shitty (non-nhl 94) sports games >the few good games they do have are overpriced

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 00:42:38 2015 No.2584706

>>2584405
>Analog video
As someone who grew up in the 80s with vhs, you must be experiencing nostalgia for a time you never lived through. VHS was the worst format ever on all fronts, for audio and video quality, aspect ratio, media lifespan, editing, copying, in every single possible way. Beta was better, laserdisc was better, actual film was much better. It's a shit format and I'm glad technology has got to the point where enthusiasts are able to properly encode (and therefore save) out of print and rare movies that would otherwise die on VHS. The day I brought home a DVD player I never looked back, although it took me until just last year to finally get rid of most of my video collection except for super rare stuff.

FUCK VHS

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 00:44:05 2015 No.2584709 >>2584697 You realize that's what you are, you know? You're the same as everybody else, except when someone gets a game you want they're a hipster or a reseller. Fuck off, you're no better than the next guy.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 01:00:55 2015 No.2584729

>>2583221
I can't even stand the real thing, tried watching a race with those cousins mentioned in my earlier post. We went to one of the tracks and I slept through most of it.

The kinds of games they have now are exactly the same as that, only they say 2010, 2011, etc now.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 01:06:02 2015 No.2584745

>>2584706
As someone who grew up in the 90's with VHS, experiencing nostalgia for a time you never lived through, and your opinions are subjective. VHS was the only format ever on all fronts, for audio and video quality, aspect ratio, media lifespan, editing, copying, in every single possible way. Beta was dead, laserdisc was unheard of, actual film was something movie theaters used. The day I brought home a DVD player I immediately looked back.

If I want to watch a new movie, I'll torrent or stream a blue ray rip of it. if I want to watch an old movie, I'll do the same because its free. If I want to buy an old movie, I'll go for VHS, and if I like it, or its cheap enough, I get the laserdisc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 01:07:21 2015 No.2584749 I've never played any sports games. Why are people talking about NHL 94?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 01:09:36 2015 No.2584753 >>2584745 Wow, way to repeat what I said, good rebuttal kiddo.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 09:16:22 2015 No.2585298

>>2584749
Because when looking for old console games, sports games will be the most common due to nobody really wanting to buy them.

So a store advertising old SNES or Master System games might have a big box of sports games (priced at about a dollar a piece) and then maybe two or three games that are actually interesting.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 09:37:32 2015 No.2585335 >>2583567 Every fucking time. Sports shit and movie cash-ins. Why do they buy this fucking shit? I hate normies so much. Ree.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 09:41:42 2015 No.2585341 >>2585335 People who don't know better, "Oh I liked that movie, they made a game of it" not knowing most movie tie-ins are shite, or they like sports and get that. And stop frogposting.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 09:42:33 2015 No.2585343

>>2584105

I have this weird desire for VHS tapes to suddenly come back into vogue at the exact moment when every single person finally throws them all away and they no longer exist in thrift stores etc.

I have a feeling that the particular quality of a video tape will start to become deliciously nostalgic. Everything will get so hi def and crystal clear that the muted, scratchy sounds, flickering image quality, and orangey off colors will start to seem calming and classic and somehow beautiful. Something will start to seem astonishing and comforting about the design of the big block of a cassette. It will be like vinyl is now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 10:04:44 2015 No.2585382 >>2585343 At most a grainy effect may become in vogue. I don't think many will want to go back to a high weight/bulk media format known for rapid degradation and limited storage capacity.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 10:12:08 2015 No.2585394 >>2585343 I guess it's a good thing I kept all my VHS tapes, I may still even have a VCR laying around.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 10:40:24 2015 No.2585430 >>2585343 Meh, I only have a brand new pack of audio cassette tapes, I loved those things as a kid.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 13:15:51 2015 No.2585730

>>2585335
Because a lot of people like sports and movies. Is it really that hard to understand? They recognize it, it's familiar to them, so they buy it. They will always be popular. Sports games are really common because there's always a new version coming out every year with updated rosters which sports fans eat up. Then they all dump the old games because the rosters are no longer accurate, but nobody is interested in them for the exact same reason. They don't seem to care about the gameplay, it's more about the licensed teams and players.

Also
>normies
>ree
Stop.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 13:22:44 2015 No.2585745 Literally every car boot sale in the UK is littered with FIFA 2004 - 2012 It's like a sports game graveyard

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 13:26:39 2015 No.2585751

>>2585335

>only games I like should be sold

Do you really care what people you don't know are playing? I mean, really really care to the point you get angry or something like that because Chad bought Madden or movie cash-in shits like Goldeneye or Star Wars just kidding and gonna enjoy it in his house?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 14:31:52 2015 No.2585851 >>2585335 Sports games are the most fun to play with friends tbh. Please no ree.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 15:18:33 2015 No.2585921

>>2585343
Honestly, I can see this. Its happened to me personally. Thats not to say I want to watch things on vhs or I dony want to watch hd stuff, but sometimes that lower image/sound quality has a charm.
that grainy image with potential tape distortion.

An example. The Jeremy Brent sherlock holmes show recently got a bluray release. It looks great, but in the episodes I watched, most scenes are brighter than on the dvd release (I know, this is supposed to be about vhs).
Its nice to see everything, but it strangely feels less like victorian england. Also, its possible the people who were remastering the video altered the original look of the show if it was meant to be dark.
Additionally, the more pixels makes the make up more noticeable.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 18:11:06 2015 No.2586316
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>>2585343
>>2585382
>>2585921

This is already happening. There's two documentaries made in the last two years or so about VHS collecting. The nostalgia for the picture quality isn't the primary thing that is bringing it back, however. It's the fact that an estimated 60% of vhs releases are OOP, meaning they've either never been released on dvd or the dvd has been oop and is impossible to find. The largest percentage of these are either obscure horror films, tv series that were only on released on vhs or "special interest" tapes such as nutty christian shit and instructional videos etc. So far this type of stuff has only had a niche following of collectors because most of the content that people already know about has been re-released or you can find a vhsrip online. I think when the online cinema community grows (and it will when people realize that hollywood isn't getting any better and look to the past) then the vhs community will grow.

Right now is definitely the time to be buying VHS because you can get good stuff in the wild just about everywhere for an average of .25 to .50 cents per tape, be it yard sales or thrift stores. First step is educating yourself on what to buy and what to avoid because you will run out of space quick if you just go crazy and buy anything. My general rule is check ebay and see if any copies of a particular tape have sold in past few months so you know what already has peoples interest whether it sells for $1 or $50, if you're only paying up to 50 cents you basically got nothing to lose. Just remember to stay away from anything common and only get something if it's out of print.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 18:24:00 2015 No.2586342 >>2585382 >rapid degradation not even close to the level of degradation that disc based media faces in the future >limited storage capacity in comparison to what? a standard T-120 can store up to 6 hours in EP mode and a T-160 can store up to 8 hours

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 18:26:21 2015 No.2586347 >>2584105 >>2584706 >>2585382 These are exactly the people who will get into VHS collecting after it becomes popular and prohibitively expensive for them then bitch about it being ruined by resellers.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 18:27:35 2015 No.2586351
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I say this thread should now be about /vr/ related VHS. Remember all those tips & tricks tapes as well as all those promotional tapes they sent through the mail and stuff?

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 18:31:34 2015 No.2586358
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If you guys think the VHS renaissance hasn't already begun, you haven't been paying attention lately. All the proof you really need is to check ebay and see how much big box horror tapes are going for.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 18:35:25 2015 No.2586367 >>2575778 You wouldn#t even take those poor sports games with box and everything?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 19:03:33 2015 No.2586452 >>2583567 Oh god, EVERY flea market I've been to looks exactly like that when it comes to N64 games. I've actually seen some good titles still lying around there for the other systems, but nothing for N64.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 19:13:34 2015 No.2586470

>>2585343
>every single person finally throws them all away and they no longer exist in thrift stores etc.
It already happened, champ. While you can still find them in thrift stores, rental stores got rid of them over ten years ago (and then went out of business). A large majority of people upgraded to DVD in the 00s and dumped their video tapes. These days you dont find much, it's getting to be like retro games. Even the Found Footage Festival just steals shit from movie trackers like Cinemageddon.

I had a roommate who cleared out some local rental chain of all their good horror VHS when they were selling them for $3 each back in 2001. Most of them looked like shit though.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 19:23:36 2015 No.2586491

>>2586358
>horror
That's just it though, VHS collectors are looking for 80s horror movies and skinemax flicks, the cheesier the better because they're rare. With vinyl collecting, people want Led Zeppelin IV, KISS Alive and Abbey Road, popular albums. With retro gaming, there's a market for both good games and bad. When Jurassic Park and Disney's Aladdin go up in price, then you will know that the VHS collecting craze has begun.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 19:34:15 2015 No.2586519

>>2586358
>>2586491
The only VHS movies I'd be remotely interested in getting:
>Jurassic Park (already owned)
>The lost world (already owned)
>Rush Hour
>Rush Hour 2
>A fistful of dollars
>For a few dollars more
>The good, the bad, and the ugly
>Die hard 1 and 2
>The Fifth Element

Thats all I can really think of off the top of my head, maybe if Legend of the Drunken Master is on and I can pick it up, or some other Kung Fu Movies.

Then I'd probably get like
>Ninja Scroll
>Vampire Hunter D
>Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
>Akira
>Ghost in the Shell
>Princess Mononoke
>Macross Plus
Then maybe pick up 1 or 2 series, like Trigun.

Thats literally all I'd want.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 19:52:22 2015 No.2586567 >>2586342 I always noticed static and shit building up over a year or so of having a VHS tape, and degrades further as you watch it. As for disc media, what makes it degrade?

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 20:02:31 2015 No.2586604

>>2577741
the few black kids i knew growing up had maybe one sports game, usually madden or joe montana. Hispanic/Europeans had at least 2 different versions of soccer games. American kids owned either hockey games and also maybe a football title.

Everybody owned NBA Jam though.

Now though it seems like everyone just buys the new Madden/NBA game with the occasional COD or flavor of the month game and thats it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 20:16:44 2015 No.2586628 >>2584749 NHL 94 is god tier. They still mod it to keep up the current squads

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 20:23:09 2015 No.2586645

>>2586567

We're seeing it with laserdisc now, and will see it with dvd in 15-20 years. The disc material literally rots over time even if it's sealed and has never been watched. VHS on the other hand seems to depend on the quality of the tape it was recorded on. I have ex-rentals from the 80s that were in video stores for 20+ years and still have minimal degradation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 20:25:25 2015 No.2586651 >>2586645 Huh. What about BluRay?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 20:28:17 2015 No.2586660 >>2586645 Depends on the quality of the disc.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 20:30:35 2015 No.2586663

>>2586651

Many people don't realize this, but blu-ray will never make it to the number of releases that vhs and dvd saw. Once digital HD video puts the final nail in the coffin, nobody will care about preserving the format either. It will be like laserdisc is now.

Is blu-ray made out of invincible material?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 20:33:15 2015 No.2586669 >>2586519 So movies aren't your thing. Maybe you should just stick with collecting games.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 20:37:14 2015 No.2586674 >>2586660 seeing that a huge percentage of discs used in production come from the same chinese plants, I'm willing to bet a large percentage of them will falter just like LD.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 20:59:58 2015 No.2586710 >>2585335 >>2583567 Seriously, are there any sports games that ARE real good games?

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 21:03:14 2015 No.2586714

>>2586645
Actually, "laser rot" in laserdiscs (as decay in the reflective layer is called) is not usually a function of time but rather manufacturing defect. LDs made by Sony DADC in America are notorious for rot due to flawed replication practices and the very first LDs made in the late 70s-early 80's by MCA Discovision are rough because they were not made under clean room conditions.

Laserdiscs replicated at decent facilities are quite stable and hold up really well: I have a 1984 copy of Adieu Galaxy Express 999 that plays perfectly (along with scores more).

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 21:07:26 2015 No.2586727 >>2586710 NHL 94 Dino Dinis Soccer Sensible Soccer Joe Montana Sports Talk Football NBA Jam Shaq Fu Madden 95 ( i forgot which is the good one actually) Any of the mutant games are good too

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 21:11:50 2015 No.2586739 >>2586714 It is odd how people parroting the disc rot shit can't even get their story right. Everything you said is straight from the wikipedia article, which people haven't even read, despite that being their only source for the thing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 21:13:55 2015 No.2586745 >>2586710 Definitely. There's a lot more shitty ones, though.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 21:24:44 2015 No.2586765

>>2586714
>>2586739

I just read the wiki page on disc rot and yeah, it applies to CDs and DVDs not just laserdiscs. You're pretending that "laser rot", the term to describe certain conditions of laserdiscs due do defective manufacturing is the only thing that exists.

As for your argument about time not playing a role in degradation of discs you are wrong as well. It goes without saying that this won't affect the private collections of people who have had them in their houses for decades. But in 15-20 years DVDs that are available for resale in the common market will be in bad shape from years of abuse and wear. Disc media is in fact more susceptible to damage than any other media in more than a handful of ways. To deny this is ignorance.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 21:56:08 2015 No.2586830

I'm about to sale off my ps3 and xbox360 collections. Also considering selling my dvd and vhs too while I'm at it. I hope i'm not making a mistake but I just don't think it worth hauling around all this junk. I am keeping my retro game collection still. Some lucky bastard will get that when I die.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 3 21:59:07 2015 No.2586835 >>2586830 hang on to any OOP dvd and vhs and get rid of the rest.

Anonymous Mon Aug 3 22:09:19 2015 No.2586858

>>2586830
>I just don't think it worth hauling around all this junk.
In my experience it ends up not being worth it, for the most part. I'm 38 and have moved three times in the last six years. Ever since the first move, a majority of my media has been in boxes. Boxes full of cds, books, videos, and games are bulky and heavy. My actual free time outside of my work is pretty limited these days, so when I want to play a game it's faster and easier for me to download and emulate rather than rummaging through my stuff and getting it hooked up. After my last move I decided I was done with the lot and got rid of 90% of all media, most I gave away to friends with kids who were interested in retro stuff. I only kept things that were my favorite, very sentimental to me or otherwise irreplaceable. It was a hair pulling and stressful process, but once it was over I genuinely felt great. People talk about that feeling of minimizing clutter but it's absolutely true. I don't really miss any of it.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 00:53:23 2015 No.2587185

>>2586765
>DVDs that are available for resale in the common market will be in bad shape from years of abuse and wear
Yeah, DVDs do fare badly at the hands of rough handling. One of the things that helps laserdiscs survive, on the other hand, was just how expensive some of them were: I have a copy of the Maison Ikkoku 24 LD box that the original owner paid $1500 for, and shit like this tended to go into well cared for collections.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 02:03:46 2015 No.2587287 >>2586710 The original NFL Blitz, and the one with Strahan on the cover are both phenomenal.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 02:43:52 2015 No.2587363 >>2575801 First thing I was looking for. That and wrestling games.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 02:57:07 2015 No.2587414

I walk past hundreds of vhs's every week for sale at flea markets and bootsales and occasionally have a look through, but for the most part have always considered them worthless, so thanks for the tip /vr/. Just one more piece of knowledge to learn in the great scheme of collecting. Can some kind anon point out the horror films worth keeping an eye open for?

>>2586858
I have been hauling this stuff for a long time too, and despite what i just wrote, am also undergoing a big purge atm. I also emulate, so the only thing im keeping are my games artwork books and my psp.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 03:57:49 2015 No.2587546
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>>2587414

To make it easy, here are the top home video labels to look for when shopping for collectible vhs:

Vestron Video
Prism Video
Media Home Entertainment
Wizard Video
Midnight Video
Lightning Video
Trans World Entertainment
New World Pictures
Academy Entertainment
Key Video
Embassy Home Entertainment
Virgin Vision
Gorgon Video
Continental Video
Paragon Video Productions
Mogul Communications
Thorn EMI/Cannon/HBO Video
Video Gems
Vidmark Entertainment
Magnum Entertainment
Raedon Home Video
Unicorn Video
Donna Michelle Productions

If you see any tapes with these publishing labels, buy it because there's a 90% chance that it's worth something. There are of course plenty of others so if something looks obscure, then it probably is. I would just say stay away from major distribution companies unless it's MGM/UA or Warner Home Video (not warner bros.).

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 04:58:07 2015 No.2587646 >>2586351 I have a Secret Video Game Tricks, Codes and Strategies VHS.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 06:48:08 2015 No.2587828 >>2587546 thanks bud, i'll try to remember that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 07:07:11 2015 No.2587849 >>2586710 Fucking Blades of Steel bro.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 10:05:08 2015 No.2588054

>>2586342
>>2586645
>>2586765
>>2586830
>le ebin disc rot maymay

As a broad media collector I am quite aware that, when properly stored, optical discs are actually the MOST reliable format. I've pretty much given up on trying to educate people on this and just started taking advantage of people selling off disc collections out of fear.

Wikipedia is right, some laserdiscs (I have about 20 "score") DO have weird read problems. I don't really have a lot of audio CDs but I could believe ones from the same era might suffer from similar problems, but when looking at these troubled laserdiscs what I see doesn't look like "rot" it looks like a discoloration. My oldest CDs are quite a few Sega CD games and the ones that are in their original packaging (most, and the valuable ones) work perfectly. All my retail Playstation games work perfectly as well, assuming no physical damage, including moisture damage which I'm nearly positive accounts for 99% of people's zomgbitrot experiences.

ALL other media, by comparison, inherently becomes worn through use as it comes into physical contact with its player. Floppies and tapes in particular are subjected to quite a bit of stress through normal use and will invariably show some signs of wear. Even VHS that has been stored in its ideal environment (a narrower range of temps and humidity than optical media) will have some traching issues near the beginning and end and sometimes just up and break or tangle. The complexity of VHS players and the increasing difficulty of finding them in good condition only exacerbates this problem. When your Sega CD player shits itself it just doesn't work. When your VCR shits itself, it'll literally eat your tape.

In my experience, even cartridges have a somewhat higher spontaneous fail rate than discs, though it seems to be by manufacturer. I suppose because there were a lot more PCB manufacturing plants than CD pressing ones.

But yes, by all means get rid of your disc based game collection, Dummy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 10:23:13 2015 No.2588090 >>2588054 Do you have an opinion on the constant buffing that stores like to do? Seems to me it ought to be a last resort to get a disc back to a functional level, but every time I buy one, they start going at it whether it needs it or not.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 11:06:32 2015 No.2588191

>>2588054
>>2588090

>constant buffing
This. In addition look at all the idiots who spit on their shirt and wipe the disc, adding tons of tiny scratches or use paper towels, washcloths and other things to clean the disc. People simply don't do this kind of shit with other media (with the exception of blowing into cartridges which still doesn't cause as much damage as the disc).

Like I said before, the issue with disc media isn't it's general lifespan but rather where it's been and how many different idiots have handled the disc throughout it's lifespan. I'm sorry argue all you want, but discs become more commonly damaged than tapes. Luckily there are a lot of collectors preserving them, but I don't think you're going to find thrift stores and yard sales in the future having huge selections of DVDs in fully working condition like you have with VHS today.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 11:09:45 2015 No.2588195 >>2583567 >micro machines >star wars pod racing >all these wrestling games shit nigga, what's wrong with that, unless you own them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 11:11:43 2015 No.2588198 >>2584705 >mostly shitty nhl 94'? >non-nhl 94 yeah das no good mane

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 11:13:29 2015 No.2588202 File: 1.41 MB, 1326x611, Screen Shot 2015-08-04 at 10.11.37 AM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2583002 >"Anon, you like the ps2 right?" >"Merry christmas!" these came together in some giant eagle $10 3 pack

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 11:13:59 2015 No.2588203

>>2586710
NHL 94'
Joe Montana Sportstalk Football
Mutant League Football
Mutant League Hockey
I think one of the madden 90's games is really good. IT's like 95 or 96 or something.
Tecmo Super Bowl
Tecmo Bowl
etc

Idunno, not even a big sports fan but I like sports games

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 11:22:25 2015 No.2588224

>>2588191
>I don't think you're going to find thrift stores and yard sales in the future having huge selections of DVDs in fully working condition like you have with VHS today.

I think it will pretty much be the same as it ever was. If the media was stored in a dry place with decent temperatures, it will get carted out for a yard sale or a spring cleaning and the stuff will be in good condition. If the prices on this stuff shoots up, we'll see a bunch of DVDs or VHS tapes getting unloaded because someone says "Hey, that's worth money" instead of "Hey, that's in good condition, someone might want it."

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 11:29:57 2015 No.2588232

Unfortunately in CA, any time someone brings out a stack of VHS tapes at a yard sale they've usually been in the garage for 10 years and the actual tape is ruined from heat. Also all I see is Jerry Maguire, kids Disney movies or homemade tapes of Saturday night broadcast movies. With snow and commercials.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 11:31:06 2015 No.2588235 This looks like EA's releases over the past half-decade.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 11:42:48 2015 No.2588247

>>2588232

>with commercials

This is the only reason i would buy tapes recorded from broadcast tv, to get the 80s-90s commercial blocks. Unless the show has never been commercially released. Been looking for the harry and the hendersons tv series for years.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 11:53:27 2015 No.2588271

What constitutes a VHS being trashed? If it's something that lasts the whole way through the movie then I would say it is. But some people might say it's trashed if there's some static in the first or last 20 minutes, which i would disagree about being ruined. DVDs on the other hand, will often not make it past a certain point or not play at all with enough damage. I collect both, and would say that i'd rather buy a box of tapes with all of them having minor flaws than a box of DVDs where a 1/4 of them are too damaged to play the whole way through.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 12:31:21 2015 No.2588350 File: 2.98 MB, 1881x1471, 12-the-driller-killer-vipco.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You know you want this.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 12:46:49 2015 No.2588396

>>2588191

I used to know this moron who would wipe spit with his shirt on every disc before playing it whether it was dirty or not. He wouldn't even look at it just popped it out of the case, shot a wad of spit right onto the disc and vigorously rubbed the fuck out of it in all different directions. Made me want to punch the dude in the face every time but he was my weedman so had to put up with it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 12:50:31 2015 No.2588402 >>2588350 Not really. I'd rather have Maniac, on DVD, it was a much better movie.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 12:51:37 2015 No.2588404 >>2588396 The fuck would he even do that for? Grip the disc by the sides so your fingers never touch the read side and you'll probably never have to wipe them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 13:01:22 2015 No.2588418 >>2588402 >confined to only what's "best" aka well known >a format that is confined to what is already well known why even like movies?

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 13:07:28 2015 No.2588426
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>>2588090
Stores do it just top prevent having to deal with returns. Commercial disc resurfacers have only been affordable to every dick-ass software store for a few years so FOR NOW I think it's a good thing. I've never personally seen even an ex-rental disc resurfaced beyond its tolerances and the data layer becoming damaged. Remember that the data layer is much closer to the label side than it is to the bottom and you can count on most if not all cases of so-called "disc rot" starting with moisture on the data side.

>>2588191
Discs are much more durable than diskettes tapes or PCBs and that's a fact. They turned out to be so durable that they're the only format that left behind their protective casing - which brought their cost down significantly. The format itself can't be faulted for how people handle it. You wouldn't buy a VHS tape or floppy out of its casing so you should think twice about buying an optical disc without its jewel case.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 13:26:37 2015 No.2588463

>>2588426

Not having the casing is the biggest mistake they made with disc formats. If they would have put them in a thin plastic "caddy" akin to CEDs where the disc is transferred but never handled, it would be the longest lasting format. But exposing the data layer to dirt, scratches, oils, and water makes it a less durable format. Is the actual material more durable than videotape? Sure. But videotape is being protected by a fucking castle whereas dvd is standing in an open field completely vulnerable to attacks.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 13:34:54 2015 No.2588480

>>2588463
If optical discs had been in caddies they wouldn't have been so cheap and they wouldn't have penetrated the market so thoroughly or have been so prolific. They were so cheap that there are twice as many of them so even if half of them have been destroyed through incompetent handling its still okay.

As collectors, we have a lot of discs or there to find and love. We can replace their jewel cases easily and happily, commercial resurfacers are easily available to even being life back to discs with the kind of mild damage that is common and they can happily go into our collections as good as new.

The disc rot meme is only the icing on the cake for collectors that know better.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 13:41:47 2015 No.2588496 >>2588480 The caddie could have replaced the jewel case or amaray case, there would be no need for them. The artwork could be on the front and back labels. Just admit that they fucked up and JVC didn't, it's that simple.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 13:43:07 2015 No.2588498 >>2583567 micro machines is fun though

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 13:58:05 2015 No.2588528 Isn't there something you can do with them? Like how you can take certain SNES cartridges with the right sound chip and make Earthbound or Starfox 2?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 14:09:39 2015 No.2588552 File: 36 KB, 409x409, biggest pleb.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2588402

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 14:11:00 2015 No.2588554 >>2588496 Jewel cases are much less expensive to produce than caddies surely this is obvious from the relative complexity of their construction

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 14:13:01 2015 No.2588563 >>2588528 Genesis flash carts are $40 and Chinese repros cost like $6 so it's not worth the labor.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 14:19:51 2015 No.2588576

>>2588554

I'm not talking about those disc "cartridge" things I'm talking about one piece of plastic which the disc sits inside of (maybe two at most). When you stick the caddy in the player it pulls the disc out inside. You remove the caddy from the player and take the disc out with the caddy. Have you ever used a selectavision CED player?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 14:45:25 2015 No.2588637 >>2588576 > this is why selectavision movies are so much better than laserdisc

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 15:31:27 2015 No.2588717

>>2588350
Except you absolutely want the DVD of Driller Killer, because Abel Ferrera's commentary track is notorious for being one of the shittiest/funniest ever. He is clearly in the middle of a raging bender or psychotic break, with most of his commentary sounding like "Hrrrrplhfff, this, this issssss, ttthssaaats that guy, haha haha aaaaaa, this is when, when, hahaha hrrrrrrrrnnnmm zzzzzz." It's thrilling stuff, and another reason why digital formats are preferable when available.

Face it, VHS was a lousy format.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 16:57:26 2015 No.2588904
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>>2588717
>something you'll listen to once at best
>something with a more collect-able aesthetic representing an era when home video was most important in the lives of society and means something

pick one

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 17:08:36 2015 No.2588931

>>2588637

First of all, the reason CEDs suffered from the caddies was the size and total weight of a stack of them. You can easily stack a 200lb ton of these so it goes without saying some of them got damaged as a result.

With DVDs not only would the caddies weigh just as much if not less than jewel cases, the thickness of the disc itself would prevent this from happening.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 19:19:42 2015 No.2589137 >>2588904 >more collectable aesthetic You're a fucking retard. Bet you love vaporwave music too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 19:22:26 2015 No.2589139 >>2589137 To be fair, DVD covers are, more often than not, disgusting. Compare the VHS cover of Excalibur to the DVD. I agree though, VHS is horrid. If you want to be a pretentious hipster, you go Laserdisc.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 19:29:36 2015 No.2589156 >>2588904 Look at this hipster faggot.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 19:36:20 2015 No.2589169

>>2589137
>>2589139

if you base what you collect on whether or not it makes you look like a hipster, you're just as bad as a hipster if not worse.

good point about the dvd cover art, it's like every major distribution company fired every artist who makes appealing covers and hired art school interns who just learned how to throw graphics and text together.

On the flip side, VHS art was too good because 70% of the time the artwork either didn't match the movie at all or it looked fucking awesome and the movie ended up being complete shit.

But yeah, I'd say all the various sizes and designs of the packaging, along with the best artwork of any video format makes VHS stand out as better to collect than boring DVDs. Besides, literally nobody gives a shit about your DVD collection of movies everyone's already seen.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 19:40:29 2015 No.2589171

>>2589156

Look at this faggot who generalizes everything and everyone because he is in fact the insecure fag who people laugh at. I'd hang with a hipster faggot that had VHS over a head-up-his-ass douche who stereotypes everyone's interests because everything he likes is boring as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 19:45:39 2015 No.2589183 >>2589137 >>2589156 Let's see you back your shit talk up. List your top 10 obscure movies you own on DVD.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 19:52:36 2015 No.2589196

>>2589171
>Look at this faggot who generalizes everything and everyone because he is in fact the insecure fag who people laugh at. I'd hang with a hipster faggot that had VHS over a head-up-his-ass douche who stereotypes everyone's interests because everything he likes is boring as fuck.
There's nothing interesting about collectors. If you'd rather hang out with someone who cares more about buying things and throwing them in a collection than actually watching something, then be my guest.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 20:04:53 2015 No.2589218

>>2589169
LD > VHS > DVD in terms of collectability and aesthetics. LD jackets can have wonderful huge art and gatefolds and Japanese LD Boxes are stunning (cost a fortune new, packed with extras). Laserdisc also gives you the warmth of analog video, at quality and S/N ratio exceeding broadcast grade 1 inch VTR, without the issues of magnetic tape.

VHS is appealing for all of the weird rare shit that came out on it and some great covers. I fondly remember going the the video rental store back in the day and making this fucker's eyes flash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AVdjbQ1xMs

DVD is all too often tissue paper thin inserts in those fucking paper thin eco boxes hollowed out by a "recycle" symbol - disposable garbage really. There are exceptions though: The Patlabor movie DVD boxes are the shit, with full storyboard books and thick boxes: top notch!

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 20:17:59 2015 No.2589239 >>2589196 My friends come over and watch VHS all the time, not just collectors either. Those no-budget shot on video movies are pleasers but that's probably mostly because my friends are super stoned whenever they visit..

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 20:29:57 2015 No.2589260
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>tfw the 127 Yard Sale is about to begin
Every year in August there is a massive yard sale that starts in Pennsylvania or somewhere and goes all the way down to Alabama or somewhere. It's like a massive outdoor flea market with every kind of retro console imaginable for sale by serious vendors and for damn good prices. It is a veritable smorgasbord of retro body's for cheap.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 20:31:24 2015 No.2589264 >>2589260 >retro body's The word "vidya" autocorrects into body's.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 21:38:14 2015 No.2589376

>>2589169
>>2588904
>caring about packaging and box art
>not caring about video and audio fidelity
>muh aesthetics
I finally understand what people on /vr/ feel when they bitch about collectorfags.

>>2589183
>List your top 10 obscure movies you own on DVD
>r8 me /vr/
Even worse. You're the kind of wannabe hipster that makes those 3x3 graphics and thinks everything is an epeen measuring contest. Grow a spine and enjoy things not because of what others think.

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 21:48:32 2015 No.2589391

>>2589218
I'm not arguing for DVD > *, I'm arguing for the best format available and 95% of the time it's not VHS. Digital media came about in an era when people finally started caring about aspect ratios and a/v fidelity, to say nothing of the extra features newer formats can provide. VHS tapes literally degrade each time the tape passes the playback head. VHS doesnt offer a single advantage and vague arguments like "aesthetics" are meaningless and just don't hold any water. This reminds me of a documentary about 8-Track collectors called "So Wrong They're Right".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQnw2g4JpTo

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 22:33:20 2015 No.2589452 >>2588202 You're lucky you at least got original games instead of fucking bootlegs (I didn't even have a cracked PS2). >well gee, two copies of pirated Hard Rock Casino, wouldn't want to lose this classic

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 22:37:53 2015 No.2589461 >>2589376 >>2589137 If I didn't care about nice looking box art and A E S T H E T H I C S as you say then I would just download the damn movie. If I'm going to actualyl buy physical media and have it on a shelf I want it to look nice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 23:16:38 2015 No.2589534 >>2589376 >Can't name them because DVD doesn't have near the number of rare pepes proving that VHS is a better format for collectors

Anonymous Tue Aug 4 23:24:12 2015 No.2589549

>>2589391
Keep ignoring the fact that there are more than half a million tapes you can't find on any other format. Everything that was ever on DVD is available to download or stream online. I know all these things get you upset because you spent so much money on your DVD collection and now that people are less interested in your out of print stuff because they'd rather the original VHS release, you're getting all worried that you spent the kids college money for nothing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 4 23:25:13 2015 No.2589552 >>2589391 >>2589549 Sorry meant to direct this at the post above yours.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 00:10:24 2015 No.2589650 >>2587546 >Trans World Entertainment As in the skate videos? Man I would love to find old skate videos on VHS, especially Mouse.

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 00:16:54 2015 No.2589665

>>2589549
Like I said:
>I'm arguing for the best format available and 95% of the time it's not VHS
Fortunately there's people dedicated to making good digital transfers of OOP movies, trackers like Cinemageddon and Karagarga, etc. If something is only available on VHS, fantastic, however I'm going to spend the time and effort to make a good digital rip because that tape isn't going to last. I'm much more interested in preservation and sharing instead of collecting a bunch of boxes because muh aesthetics. You've had no other argument, saying stuff isn't available just isn't true anymore, there's been years of collective effort to ripping and putting the stuff online. Even with digital transfers, a superior source is always preferred and that usually turns out to be something other than VHS. It's a lousy fucking format, end of discussion.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 00:40:25 2015 No.2589707 I still have Gargoyles on VHS. I just wish it still had the amazing box cover it came with.

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 05:14:50 2015 No.2590029
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>>2589461
The shit tier packaging of most DVDs now makes for less and less reasons to not simply download the content. When I got the LD boxes of Lain and Bubblegum Crisis in the mail, it was like Christmas fucking day examining the fantastic art/packaging while a DVD just lacks that special feeling usually.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 06:59:35 2015 No.2590135 >>2590029 Damn now I want that shit. Anime DVDs tends to have ok covers though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 09:37:15 2015 No.2590281 >>2589650 critcononline com/twe_video_covers.htm this is the site to go for VHS artwork. VHScollector.com unfortunately puts watermarks on all of their scans. critcononline com/video_companies_cover_art.htm

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 09:38:47 2015 No.2590283 >>2590281 does anyone know of a good source for full cover scans without watermarks?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 15:04:46 2015 No.2590979 File: 2.52 MB, 472x2800, realartworkvsbullshit.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2589376 >You're the kind of wannabe hipster that makes those 3x3 graphics and things everything is epeen measuring contest. I'll just leave this here..

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 15:48:27 2015 No.2591072 >>2590979 Man those look great, I'd really love to have a small VHS collection but they're sorta bulky and I don't really have the room for it right now.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 16:02:32 2015 No.2591109 >>2590979 wew lad, I need to buy some VHS tapes and get my VHS player working. >>2591072 They tend to be insanely cheap too, I was thinking about buying all the Godzillas on VHS and it was like 8$ for 13 of em or something like that.

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 16:15:10 2015 No.2591132

>>2590979
You just don't get it, so I'll stop arguing with you. I think collecting movies for the packaging they come in --- the least important aspect of a film -- is meaningless and ignores the actual reason we enjoy watching them at all. The content is what is most desirable, not the trappings or delivery method.

There's people who collect cereal boxes, though, so whatever floats your boat. Honestly if you lived near me I'd gladly give you the rest of my tapes. Carry on.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 16:21:24 2015 No.2591146 >>2591109 >VHS player You mean VCR?

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 16:21:58 2015 No.2591148

>>2591132
You're the one who doesn't get it and just goes like my taste is objectively better than your taste. You're as narrow minded as they come.

>>2591109
Problem is all the cool stuff is sold on the US, and shipping prices to europe tend to be brutal.

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 16:45:10 2015 No.2591182

>>2591132
>>2591148

I think what he doesn't get is that the people collecting these grew up in the home video age. Walking through the video store with excitement about what you'll be leaving with in combination with the eye-catching visuals in every direction made for an almost intoxicating experience. Back in those days, we not only appreciated home video more, it was our main source of entertainment especially for those of us who grew up without cable.

Does that make the desire to collect them based solely on nostalgia? I'm not sure. I think its a combination of that and also the reaction to realizing how much stuff would be lost if people don't start preserving now. If you worked at any decent sized video store in the 80s-90s then you know just how much is out there. It's mind blowing, really.

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 16:48:20 2015 No.2591190

>>2591182
Nostalgia is a big factor in it, sure, but what the other guy fails to understand is why someone would buy a film without caring about visual and audio fidelity. I admit that I collect for fully superficial reasons, but then again video quality no more a better reason to buy something than a pretty box art, as I've said before if I want to watch the movie in high quality I can simply download it.

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 16:52:39 2015 No.2591197

>>2591182
Everything about movie rental places was awesome, even the smell of mom and pop movie rental places.

I loved looking at the cover of Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street knowing my parents wouldn't allow me to rent them. Sometimes I would rent an NES game from their gaming section. It was pretty cool. Kids these days are missing out.

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:00:03 2015 No.2591205
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes got a great laserdisc release on a series of deluxe LD boxes. I'm looking to add this to the LD collection.
>thinking about how those boxes will look on the shelf
>handling those thick, sumptuous boxes with the LOGH title and examining the art on every individual LD jacket within, and extras in box
Pure fucking bliss, man. Sadly physical media will never be like this again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:01:46 2015 No.2591209 >>2591146 I've always called it a VHS player, just old habits I guess, I call them vcr tapes too which is pretty funny

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:04:40 2015 No.2591216

>>2591209
I've started sometimes accidentally calling them VHS players simply because it has been that long since I regularly talked about VCRs.

I have a dual unit. The DVD is broken but the VCR still works. You'd think the more complicated system with the huge gears would be more fragile, but I guess not.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:08:01 2015 No.2591220 >>2591205 I don't even wanna know how much those things cost.

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:08:33 2015 No.2591221

>>2591190
>without caring about visual and audio fidelity
I can actually explain this because I find both to be acceptable and i think they will continue to be considered acceptable into the future as long as there are working CRTs. As a matter of fact, imo the stereo mix on a lot of vhs tapes sound better on a stereo system than any of the downmixed 5.1 tracks that are on many dvds. Also, as it has been mentioned before, there are actually a ton of movies that either benefit from the low res video, or were made with that in mind, especially horror films. When these films get re-released on dvd & blu-ray it's like when ted turner colorizes b&w movies.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:09:33 2015 No.2591225 >>2591221 Yeah, I can't watch a campy movie unless the video quality is campy as well, it adds charm I guess?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:10:35 2015 No.2591227 >>2591216 Same my combo box the DVD portion is fucked.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:29:23 2015 No.2591259 File: 1.21 MB, 1042x800, AttackOfTheKillerRefrigerator.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2591225 If they released a movie like this on dvd would you buy it?

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:29:40 2015 No.2591261
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>>2591220
75600 Yen a box new, for a total of 378000 Yen. Like $3000-$4000 depending on the exchange rate: the Rolls Royce of physical media, in price and packaging. See that book in the box?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:30:34 2015 No.2591262 Love this VHS/DVD new wave that's happening on /vr/, it's been a few weeks now and no one^s called these fags on it. /vr/ - Retro Home Video

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:31:11 2015 No.2591263 File: 143 KB, 1600x900, LOGH LD book.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2591261 It's a mini binder full of production sketches.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:34:25 2015 No.2591267 File: 23 KB, 300x238, Action_Max_games-1_small.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2591262 Since you brought it up, I guess we'll have to talk about the Action Max. You did this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:37:57 2015 No.2591281 File: 614 KB, 1000x750, intvisboxfront.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2591267 Or even better, the View-Master Interactive Vision!!

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:41:06 2015 No.2591292
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>>2591182
>what he doesn't get is that the people collecting these grew up in the home video age
No, I'm in my mid 30s. I'm this person >>2584706

Anyone who actually cares about movie quality goes for the best format possible. If you're a collectorfag concerned about aesthetics, then we live in different worlds. From my anecdotal experience, most people collecting VHS movies (especially on 4chan) tend to be younger people who fetishize older technology, much the same way I did with records when I was a teenager. No matter your age, if you're buying an object based on the packaging it comes in, instead of the content it contains, then you are the kind of collector I loathe. It's a free country, though. Cheers.

>>2591221
>movies that either benefit from the low res video, or were made with that in mind, especially horror films
Don't fool yourself. The large majority of these movies were intended for theater and drive-in release and suffered on VHS from poor transfers, pan and scan, cut scenes, and eventual degrading. Stuff intended for the video market like Full Moon releases also eventually saw better releases on DVD. I'm not saying that LD, DVD, and BD don't have shit releases but the fact of the matter is that they are by and large a vast improvement over VHS. Convincing yourself that it has advantages (it doesn't) over other formats besides muh aesthetics is foolish. Your comparison about colorizing B&W movies is actually much closer to the kinds of butchered releases that were common for home video.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:43:14 2015 No.2591296 >>2591292 do you even SOV horror?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 17:56:38 2015 No.2591332 File: 45 KB, 300x400, video_challenger_bandai.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2591267 >>2591281 Video Challenger checking in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMiSxNpY6CU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoG5U-eSmeA

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 18:00:15 2015 No.2591339 >>2591296 SOV is a special case to be sure, but it's unlikely that you own any of the small number of SOV films that are only available on VHS and haven't been ripped.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 18:02:41 2015 No.2591346 >>2591292 >much the same way I did with records when I was a teenager. Records are objectively superior for sound quality

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 18:07:54 2015 No.2591352 >>2591346 This, assuming you have a good player and stereo system.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 18:13:32 2015 No.2591370 >>2591346 Sure, but for many younger people without access to good hifi systems, it wasn't about sound quality.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 18:50:17 2015 No.2591432 What a waste of a thread.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 20:39:49 2015 No.2591631 File: 100 KB, 1000x750, phantasm beta.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Betamax or VHS?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 20:59:43 2015 No.2591658 >>2591631 Beta wins on picture quality but there wasn't really a whole lot released on it, and good luck finding them.

FremenDar !!vvS9VrP1Qkl Wed Aug 5 21:15:01 2015 No.2591673

As someone who largely collects Blu-rays, even those from England, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Germany, etc., I'd love to get a VCR along with a very high end video capture card for my computer. Just so I could make custom DVDs out of them for archival purposes. Same for getting an extremely high end LD player.
There still are certain cuts of movies not on DVD, HD DVD or Blu-ray but I'd rather use the LD if it's OAR compared to a VHS is it's Pan and Scan. Even used to have a ton of rare VHS and DVDs but I don't regret selling the majority of them.

Anonymous Wed Aug 5 23:01:54 2015 No.2591812

>>2591346
They are objectively not.
The "warmth" you like so much is clipping and distortion.

I noticed people used "warmth" ITT to also describe VHS and LD video. It's nostalgia for a low-fidelity format. Perfectly fine, I get it and feel the same way sometimes, but let's not go full audiophile-retard and pretend these old analog formats are more accurate to the source material than a fully-lossless digital production and distribution scheme (assuming no loudness war type asshattery).

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 23:06:08 2015 No.2591816 File: 235 KB, 1024x1024, dragon_ball_z_vhs_collection_by_animefeen85-d8a9gu7.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2591631 VHS wins baby. VHS had all the good anime lewd before dvd.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 23:07:40 2015 No.2591819 File: 8 KB, 400x244, question487.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2591812 Analog source > Digital approximation every time

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 23:10:07 2015 No.2591824 File: 186 KB, 1200x900, lote-10-vhs-videocasete-hentai-manga-erotico-porno-dibujos-13891-MLA20081817710_042014-F.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2591816

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 5 23:13:29 2015 No.2591832 >>2591824 La Blue Girl sucked. Overfiend is quite possibly the best thing ever, though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 6 01:50:55 2015 No.2592096 >>2586727 shaq fu was actually legit. Not sure why all the hate for it

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 6 01:59:52 2015 No.2592104 >>2591819 Hardly, analogue sources are subject to far more interference in the original media compared to CD sources resulting in a lower overall quality.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 6 02:01:56 2015 No.2592108 >>2592104 Get some ears.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 6 12:25:32 2015 No.2592667 >>2576268 I wish I lived near you =(. We got nothing here

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 6 12:49:08 2015 No.2592691 File: 68 KB, 800x610, resized_jp-grandma-s-boy-meme-generator-you-would-if-you-had-robot-ears-6d50c1[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2592108

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 6 12:53:48 2015 No.2592698 >>2592096 Because awful controls, fairly crappy graphics, and shitty AI.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 7 17:39:25 2015 No.2595313 >>2584709 >I'm an e-celeb and/or reseller What? I feel like I would be aware of this before some random idiot on a vietnamese finger puppet theater digital bulletin board

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 7 18:58:37 2015 No.2595506 File: 55 KB, 960x720, Legend.of.the.Galactic.Heroes.002.[x264.720p.10bit.AAC].mkv_snapshot_14.33_[2015.02.05_23.03.17].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2591261 >Vol 7 Even the cover wants you to get spoiled.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 02:34:40 2015 No.2596290 >>2590029 god damn i'm jelly and i don't even collect

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 08:24:37 2015 No.2596703 >>2583567 >tim duncan on the cover of nba live 2000 jesus fuck it just made me realize how old he is

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 08:58:11 2015 No.2596736 >>2591673 You're a good man. The world needs more people like you. Gotta dump everything. Scan, archive, collect it all.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 09:02:55 2015 No.2596740 >>2591673 >>2596736 Keep the dream alive anons.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 09:52:36 2015 No.2596796 >>2583567 Go back and buy hey you pikachu and nightmare creatures, their price is okay.

Anonymous Sat Aug 8 12:06:37 2015 No.2597003 [DELETED]

>>2584050
This is all largely true, I will say though that I do enjoy finding VHS tapes that are of taped shit off of people's televisions

Always get a nostalgic kick from finding a tape that's made up of nothing but like old MTV music videos, an episode of Doug on Nickelodeon and like some random sporting event or whatever.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 17:59:32 2015 No.2597558 >>2584372 Collecting the tapes are fun because you get old nostalgic classic films in a time capsule for nothing. I haven't paid more than a buck for a vhs tape in my hunts.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 18:14:26 2015 No.2597592 File: 3.36 MB, 3264x2448, vhs collection.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here are some cool vhs tapes I have. Blade Runner is sealed. Beta Shenmue vhs I found. Pls r8.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 18:29:34 2015 No.2597625 >>2597592 Bucky O'Hare has the illest theme song

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 18:40:01 2015 No.2597651 >>2597592 >Pls r8 Fuck off, take it to /a/ or /tv/.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 18:50:51 2015 No.2597679 >>2597625 another dimension, another time and space! >>2597651 life is too short to be upset.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 20:22:16 2015 No.2597858 >>2597592 FUCK WHERE DID YOU GET THE MOMOTARO MARIO BROS SPECIAL?, there's only the same shitty 360p poorly coded rip!

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 20:28:47 2015 No.2597871 File: 1.22 MB, 1840x3264, 2015-05-22_20-53-03_659.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2583013 Thats what I did for my rare carts, then headed over to thecoverproject to slip covers in those cases

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 20:31:24 2015 No.2597880 File: 1.06 MB, 1632x1224, mario crt2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2597858 goodwill gets lots of obscure vhs tapes. I really dont buy anymore though. There are 3 Amada Anime Series Mario videos. This one is pretty short.

>>	Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco Sat Aug 8 20:36:45 2015 No.2597891 >>2597592 Nice. I think the only VHS I still have is an ancient bootleg of Baoh.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 20:37:20 2015 No.2597893 >>2591259 no but I'd buy it on vhs. Just has that vhs feel

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 20:57:35 2015 No.2597934 >>2591816 going to need to the names of some good vhs anime lewds

Anonymous Sat Aug 8 21:02:15 2015 No.2597941

>>2575778
Face it, the Internet killed flea hunting and bargain bin diving.

Even if you somehow manage to find a great gem, it's usually Internet price regardless because people have wised up and now realize those games are worth something to some people.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 21:09:08 2015 No.2597957 >>2597934 Golden Boy! baby! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLbKRbn64jM

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 21:19:34 2015 No.2597967 >>2597957 Golden boy was on vhs? whaaaaaaat

Anonymous Sat Aug 8 21:34:41 2015 No.2597983
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I only have a few of my VHS tapes left, got rid of a lot of them when I moved, but these ones I don't have the heart to get rid of (Clash of the Bionoids dub is hilarious and I am not sure if Final Fantasy ever got a re-release on DVD) I need to get a new VCR Player since my old one can't track well anymore. I really regret getting rid of all my anime I recorded off of Toonami back in middle school but I have every series I recorded on official DVDs now (except for Gundam Wing which is still bootleg DVDs)

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 22:08:16 2015 No.2598016 >>2597983 >heavy metal >battle angel >sonic nice collection and taste. Vhs hold a lot of memories. I need to make dvd copies of some of my older ones.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 22:11:10 2015 No.2598019 File: 78 KB, 1280x960, obsolete.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here's some old vhs I managed to hold onto.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 22:56:23 2015 No.2598098 File: 188 KB, 900x1156, lum-urusei-yatsura-article-review-part-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2598019 LUM IS CUTE

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 23:08:25 2015 No.2598128 File: 442 KB, 800x500, 13038344_p0.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2598098 I really love Rumiko Takahashi's older stuff. Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, the Mermaid series, all classics. I wish we had a retro anime board.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 23:15:29 2015 No.2598140 File: 35 KB, 552x464, nigga.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2597983 >Gunsmith Cats

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 8 23:45:15 2015 No.2598187 >>2586710 Most of the N64's wrasslin games are actually a ton of fun with a group of friends. I played WCW vs. NWO with friends growing up all the time

Anonymous Sat Aug 8 23:46:12 2015 No.2598190

Thrift stories?

I work at a charity place, often get old games coming in. yesterday I paid 15 dollars for Super Metroid, DKC, Street Fighter 2 and some cricket game.

All boxed, with manuals, nintendo posters, and the little information booklet. Spotless cartidges, only the boxes look roughed up. Some crushing and bit of torn edges and such.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 05:15:24 2015 No.2598723 File: 179 KB, 640x718, VHS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2597983 >>2598019 >>2598140 here are my tapes >>2597592 shit, let me have that project A-ko tape

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 05:18:03 2015 No.2598725 File: 199 KB, 640x360, 2015-08-09 05-16-59.201.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2598723 I just realized how horrible that bottom pic is, here is a better one

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 05:59:49 2015 No.2598751 >>2586645 >>2588054 I only saw it on CD-Rs and some took lees than 10 years

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 06:01:42 2015 No.2598754 >>2588202 Valcon Games Why the fuck did they need an original Alfa Romeo licence?

Anonymous Sun Aug 9 06:07:03 2015 No.2598759

>>2588463
wouldn't the case be problematic and make the drives more prone to failure as well?
I remember working at GAME and getting some people trying to sell really fucked up PSP games where half of the shell was missing and in order to make it run you had to play with the drive a lot.

Anonymous Sun Aug 9 06:11:44 2015 No.2598764

>>2590029
Well I had FLCL ripped to a DVD-R from a friend and it was skipping on some chapters on some players. I found an original re-edition with the stingiest packaging for 5€ once and I bought it because I think it's a good price for a factory pressed DVD of an anime I really like.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 06:13:16 2015 No.2598768 >>2598759 You worked at game? Haha, christ you must be a total loser.

Anonymous Sun Aug 9 06:19:06 2015 No.2598776

>>2591819
Well, do you know that digital approximations are rendered to analog outputs and that if the resolution and quantity of the samples is high enough (and the DAC is not terrible) the resulting wave tends to be so similar that your ear cannot hear the difference?
I am talking about lab stuff, of course in your shitty degraded tape you'll have some static hum that you'll crave because you're a hipster.
>https://wiki.xiph.org/Videos/Digital_Show_and_Tell

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 07:29:28 2015 No.2598852 File: 160 KB, 641x534, bueno.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >troma movies on VHS I buy them every time I see some.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 12:54:31 2015 No.2599368 >>2575801 so much this

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 13:53:19 2015 No.2599492 >>2598776 Yes, you fucking retard. If the analog source is shitty enough, you can have a digital approximation that has most of the sound data. But of course, that assumes that your analog source is pure shit, like your life.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 16:43:50 2015 No.2599859 >>2598723 >>2598725 >cat girl nukunuku >die hard classic. good taste anon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 20:52:17 2015 No.2600391 File: 1.52 MB, 160x120, Shift-1.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2588202 >ultimate board game simulator

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 20:54:03 2015 No.2600394 >>2598019 what's that on the top left?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 21:00:00 2015 No.2600401 >>2578462 Aids

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 21:54:53 2015 No.2600473 >>2598128 > I wish we had a retro anime board. I want that really bad

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 21:57:23 2015 No.2600476 >>2600473 That would be pretty cool.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 21:59:48 2015 No.2600481 >>2600473 I know right

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 22:00:05 2015 No.2600482 >>2600473 >>2598128 >>2600476 Let's be honest, it would die quickly. There's only so much you can talk about in regards to older television, much less a smaller niche like retro anime.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 22:04:23 2015 No.2600491 >>2600482 I don't know about that, /vr/ operates pretty well and the amount of retro games is also finite

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 22:12:47 2015 No.2600512 >>2600491 Actually, that's a good point, so disregard me.

Anonymous Sun Aug 9 22:48:05 2015 No.2600578

>>2600491
I think being interactive gives games a lot more scope for discussion.
A retro anime board would just end up being arguments about who has the best deep meaningful understanding of what the developers originally intended in hidden underlying metaphysical bullstrates.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 23:01:56 2015 No.2600606 >>2600578 so like /a/?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 9 23:15:10 2015 No.2600636 >>2600394 A Kaoru Mori book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 10 00:05:27 2015 No.2600731 >>2600606 like /a/, /vr/ etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 10 00:11:45 2015 No.2600746 >>2600731 ehh, It could be worse

Anonymous Mon Aug 10 01:13:18 2015 No.2600839

>>2586519
Try to find also the 1995 VHS Release of the Star Wars trilogy. It is the final release of the classic movies before the special editions and have an Interview with George Lucas on each tape. It is surprisingly dirt cheap on Amazon, probably due to the Saga releases on Blu-Ray.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 10 01:14:24 2015 No.2600840 >>2600839 Probably cheaper because the cover art is awful compared to the previous VHS release with the movie poster art.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 10 01:33:10 2015 No.2600871 >>2598140 >saw a Gunsmith Cats LD at Goodwill the other day >it was in the incoming bin, unsorted, so they wouldn't let me buy it I feel like I let a unicorn go.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 10 01:35:48 2015 No.2600874 >>2600871 Last time I stopped by half-price, they had damn 8-tracks, but no LD.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 10 04:24:28 2015 No.2601097 >>2599492 what the fuck are you talking about? if the source is shit the representation will represent that shit.what does it have to do with what i said or what i linked? Please do not post just after you sniffed cock

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 10 10:36:53 2015 No.2601483 File: 1.28 MB, 1536x2048, 2015-05-24 14.23.36.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is an old picture, I cant be bothered to update as it means grabbing them off the shef

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 10 11:03:57 2015 No.2601520 >>2601483 Mmm, mediocre 90's OVAs on VHS with bad Manga dubs. The best way to enjoy anime.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 10 11:16:25 2015 No.2601543 >>2601520 Calling Tekken "mediocre" is being awfully generous.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 10 13:46:00 2015 No.2601786 >>2598725 what's that red Batman VHS?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 10 15:32:31 2015 No.2602012 File: 33 KB, 500x360, 10703649_10152316623242190_8732276324940247254_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2601483 Cyber City and 3X3 Eyes are fuckin awesome!

Anonymous Mon Aug 10 15:40:32 2015 No.2602023

>>2601520
Its on Youtube, ENJOY THE LAMENESS, actually ive had a lot of those since they came out in the 90s
>I will never be able to go into HMV and buy the latest anime on VHS again.

>>2602012
Not all of 3x3 eyes, yet to find the rest of it,
Weird thing is the UK dubs are a bit different to the US ones

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 10 17:58:04 2015 No.2602296 >>2601786 The campy 60's batman movie

Anonymous Mon Aug 10 17:59:55 2015 No.2602303

Once when I and my brother were taking out the trash, we found a stack of VHS tapes just lying around the trash room. Among them was War of the Worlds (2005 version), which he'd apparently been trying to find with no success, so he picked it up at once. We watched it as soon as we got back, it was a good movie.

We also nabbed a couple of comedies, and "The Ten Commandments" which we thought was a shitty religious edutainment movie and picked up in case it was so bad it was funny or super rare, but never watched (later found out that one was also a comedy).

I remember dad brought home a multi-disc DVD for some crime show from there once, too. (Other things seen: A big pile of colorful baby toys, furniture, what looked like a shopping cart.) It's weird what people just toss away.

Anonymous Tue Aug 11 15:31:29 2015 No.2604479
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Good to see that VHS is finally beginning to get the appreciation it deserves. This thread was indeed relevant because the number one way to easily and quickly start building a collection is pick through all the thrift stores in your area. I've bought over 600 tapes at thrift stores alone and only paid approx. $200 for all of them (they're usually either .25 or .50). Of all the stuff i've sold online, i've made around $400 profit and that's not even half of them. Let the naysayers shit on the format, they are the ones spending decent amounts of money on a format that might be the least desirable by home video collectors in the near future, and will depreciate in value. That's why they talk their shit, because they're worried that they invested in the wrong format. Many of them collected VHS at one time, and sold everything off to buy DVDs.

Who gives a shit about all that, now is the time to get your asses out there. I'm finding rare horror left and right in places like the local goodwills and salvation army stores not to mention flea markets and yard sales. This won't be lasting for much longer, so what are you waiting for? Dig out the old VCR and get buying!

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 11 15:52:05 2015 No.2604536 >>2597592 Nice collection. You reminded me I gotta get myself a legit copy of the Secret of Nimh, too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 11 15:59:53 2015 No.2604549 >>2601786 >>2602296 >using the font of Batman Returns could you shows us the tape?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 11 16:06:21 2015 No.2604553 >>2604479 vhs is a goldmine for obscure shitty horror movies. I like dvds but there are a lot of older films on vhs.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 11 16:16:57 2015 No.2604571 >>2585751 If they didn't buy those worthless shit games back then, they wouldn't be clogging every fucking flea market and thrift shop nowadays

Anonymous Tue Aug 11 16:17:29 2015 No.2604574

>>2597592
M8 I R8 this collection: eclectic nostalgia/8

>>2597983
A good start. You can find stuff like this everywhere, folks. You barely need to look.

>>2598723
>>2598725
These releases are all super common and are literally everywhere. Not saying not to collect them if you like the movies but most of those have earlier releases that are more desirable.

>>2601483
This makes me want a PAL VCR. +1 for vestron's "warriors of the wind" release of nausicaa.

>>2604479
Don't know if that pic is from your collection but dayum, someone knows what's up.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 11 16:22:49 2015 No.2604586 >>2584753 >kiddo okay child kid who haven't graduated high school

Anonymous Tue Aug 11 21:18:05 2015 No.2605092
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>>2598723
>3 episodes of gunsmith cats.
>3 vhs tapes.

I know they had each episode twice with sub and dub but holy shit that was bullshit. Even the price of the Bulletproof DVD was a scam with only 3 eps. Still I'd buy them all a thousand times over if it meant we got some more.

kickstarter gunsmith cats animation when

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 11 21:20:02 2015 No.2605097 >>2598723 >>2598140 >>>2600871 All this Gunsmith Cats love, I knew I loved you for a reason /vr/

Anonymous Wed Aug 12 00:42:10 2015 No.2605395

>>2605092
Had it on VHS, was a bit annoying to have to pay £12.99 to find out its one half an hour episode per tape.
Same with Panzer Dragoon and that was a load of cack

>>2604574
I got that recently at a shop in town they over charge for games (because they cant get more stock) costed me one whole English pound

FremenDar !!vvS9VrP1Qkl Wed Aug 12 01:34:47 2015 No.2605465

I regret buying Anime on VHS when DVD was barely being developed and also when I was still a huge fan of it. Went way out of my way to get the subtitled whatever I was into versions instead of the dubbed.
I now regret having wasted money on it since the advent of DVD but I stopped being a full-blown fan of anime in 2000~2001.
Now it's just movies on Blu-ray stretching back as far as the dawn of filmmaking. Even exact 1:1 copies with menus, majority single layered, of titles I do want to buy but the release was lazy.
Still have considering getting a nice VCR and also Laserdisc player after I get a high-end video capture card. Just don't have the room right now to get VHS but it'd be fine for Laserdisc, especially for bonus features not on DVD or Blu-ray.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 02:08:06 2015 No.2605512 File: 19 KB, 500x327, 1439233873899.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Do people actually buy these outdated sports games? For any console? This shit is flooding everywhere used games are sold. It makes shopping for retro games a real bummer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 02:11:34 2015 No.2605521 >>2600473 I agree, but /m/ has nearly become the de-facto retro anime board, even though they'd vehemently deny it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 02:17:45 2015 No.2605536 >>2605512 I'm sure there's a few. I know a lot of people pick them up to recycle into repros of better / rarer or import only games, that seems like a good use for them.

Anonymous Wed Aug 12 03:21:41 2015 No.2605680

>>2583315
ah yes that's right, jem'hadars only live for 8 years, well i guess Kes's encounter with Suspiria's dicisples really extend her life

>>2584702
>DVD disc and have worse masters than the VHS tapes!
>muh masters

whoa i knew there are enthusiasts who still cling to Vinyl discs, are there really ppl who keep VHS's because its got "better quality masters" ?

>>2584706
As someone who grew up in the 90's with VHS. The already late day I finally brought home a DVD player I immediately looked back, to easily programing my videocassete to record when i wasn't gonna be home.

took way too ong for table top dvd recorders to be at least in the price range of CRT televisions
>>2584318
>the whole Star Wars situation.
im curious, situation with VHS?
>>2586347
>after it becomes popular
>after it becomes just plastic casings for fungal medium
only disketes were worse than VHS
>>2586316
>the level of degradation that disc based media

blanks dvds will continue to be manufactured, whats the issue of re-recording a DIGITAL data into a new 25-cents disc

and anyways, its digital, so you can always move on to crystal-ROMs after they stop making blank blurays in 2075

you think your out of print homemade horror flick will survive pristine after 5 re-copy to new VHS, because you won't rip it for that would kill it's rairty and value, since it's just the movie that counts, there's no emulation, theres no original console to watch it in.

Anonymous Wed Aug 12 03:30:18 2015 No.2605698

>>2604479
>I've bought over 600 tapes
>paid approx. $200 for all
>i've made around $400 profit and that's not even half of them.

wow, so going searching, storing/cataloging, selling, mailing.
what you're gonna profit in the end, $2000

nice job, that's like 5 years of allowance, and it only takes you half of sundays and saturdays

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 03:33:20 2015 No.2605703 >>2605536 >In the future NHL 95 is selling for $200 complete.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 06:46:32 2015 No.2605986 >>2605465 Theres a case of some lazy DVD versions, ive seen stuff on VHS thats clearer than some DVDs >>2605512 Depends on the game, stuff like Sensi and NBA JAM are classics, usually if its a sports game with EA on it its best ignored

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 08:19:54 2015 No.2606063 File: 6 KB, 225x225, src_1328159901943.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2597983 >the snowman

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 08:44:02 2015 No.2606092 >>2605680 >calling Kes a jem'hadar she's an Ocampa you goof. Jem'hadar are the bad guy soldiers under control of the founders in ds9.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 10:44:55 2015 No.2606273 >>2605698 The stuff I sell is the more common stuff that I don't want, so they generally sell for between $3-$5. My entire collection is probably in the $4000 range and yes, 80-90% of them were bought in the wild for no more than 50 cents each.

Anonymous Wed Aug 12 10:50:43 2015 No.2606280

>>2605512
If they're really cheap, really really really cheap I might pick them. Not all sports games are shit tier, it's mostly the annual NHL-FIFA shit that makes people pissed off.
Wrestling games, NBA Jam, arcade sports, gimmick sports ie. Mutant League Football, BloodBowl etc. are fine.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 12 11:01:24 2015 No.2606298 File: 909 KB, 200x200, tumblr_inline_n3q1u8UH8G1qeb2ub.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >walk into thrift store/garage sale >spot retro games >holyfuck.psd >nothing but dime-a-dozen shit sports games mfw

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 00:50:20 2015 No.2607812 >>2606092 troll successful

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 00:53:39 2015 No.2607818 >>2606273 understood so, do you plan to digitalize all these, or are you hoarding to profit in a decade or two? in any case, digitalize before you sell for 40k in 2025, or these movies will end up disapearing foverer beacseu >muh original VHS

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 13 00:55:53 2015 No.2607824 >>2606298 LA RAZA GUERRERO!!!

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 07:31:47 2015 No.2610203 File: 1.40 MB, 2560x1440, 2015-08-14 07-30-22.276.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2604549 your probably gone because I replied so late, but here it is anyway

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 09:47:05 2015 No.2610314 >>2584050 lel retard he doesn't know obscure tapes are worth hundreds of dollars each

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 10:07:38 2015 No.2610357 >>2577741 LOL @ this post. I have no clue why people buy the same sports game over and over. Seven still looks good. So does Dax.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 14 10:09:34 2015 No.2610360 >>2588350 No i already have the based cult cinema dvd release with the creepy ass director commentary

Anonymous Sat Aug 15 11:41:54 2015 No.2612639
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>>2610360

Idea: modified big box inserts that hold a dvd case behind the VHS tape. That way you can get those ugly dvd cases off your shelf but still enjoy the extra content they provide. For movies like Driller Killer I think i'd rather watch the cropped grainy original release then use the dvd for commentary listening and other special features. There's something about watching horror and sleaze on vhs that makes it more appealing. Maybe it's because these movies were only seen ever because they were in the video stores in the 80s so the original format feels like where they belong.

If you prefer dvd then by all means get your cult movies that way if you consider that it's making the movie more "definitive" by cleaning up every frame so it no longer has even has the old feeling and charm. Extra features can sometimes be nice, but imo it's kind of what makes dvd more of a commercialized consumer product. I've always seen the vhs format as simply a vessel to carry the film from the video store to your house for one simple reason, so you can watch the movie. If you collect movies on vhs to preserve the historical and cultural impact they had on home video, then great. If you collect dvds to improve your appreciation of each film through the extras and by watching in it's original aspect ratio, then great. I just hate when people shit on vhs and act like it's a format should be shunned out of existence because they don't understand the fascination of collecting movies from awesome distribution companies that are long gone or know the excitement of finding a movie that almost literally nobody has heard of in all these years, because those are the main things that interest us. And most people I know that collect vhs also collect dvd and blu-ray so I think accepting all formats kind of separates the movie lovers from the poseurs not to sound like a douche or anything. Call us hipsters or whatever demeaning title you want, but we do it because we love movies, that's it.

Anonymous Sat Aug 15 12:06:04 2015 No.2612679

>>2582841
Use to work for goodwill in 2004-2005. This was a little before the boom in retro gaming. Used to get tons of vidya stuff through ADC. Luckily myself and some other guy worked ADC and would price electronics. My manager only cared about Tiffany lamps and other antiques coming in. My co-worker and I would price video games at 99 cents and systems at 9.99. This was before the wait a week to buy. The rules were you couldn't buy at the store you worked at. Anyways, I'd call up my bro or friends to buy shit for me all the time. It helped that I lived 5 mins away as well.

That's how I got most of my heavyhitters and rare systems/expensive systems like a cdi and vetrex. My manager was so oblivious to it. I left when new management came in and caught on, plus having to send it to auctions. 2007 was when shit hit the fan. That's what my co-worker who stayed told me. Dress code was implemented (white dress shirt and black pants for ADC lol) and company wide changes. Goodwill was the Wild West when I worked there. I could walk in for a shift when pentagram shirt and cargo shorts, and management wouldn't bat an eye. Mostly because they knew the shirt was going to be covered in dirt and mostly like torn at the end of the shift.

Anonymous Sat Aug 15 12:31:48 2015 No.2612729

>>2612679
You're the type of greedy bastard that is killing the hunt for everyone else. Not to say that I wouldn't be tempted to buy everything if i worked at a thrift store and saw all the delicious rareness but maybe a little impulse control could help. Not to mention you are essentially stealing from a charitable business, because you could be pricing that rare shit at even half of what it's worth and that would be big revenue for them.

Still not saying I wouldn't be doing the same. I'm no moralfag either.

Anonymous Sat Aug 15 12:36:50 2015 No.2612735

>>2612729

while i don't entirely approve of the goodwill dude's ways... let's be honest... thrift store employees (at least in los angeles) are just a bunch of delinquents that were forced to do community service either way... there's all kinds of shady shit going on always. not to mention you're only mad that you couldn't get one over on them since they're beating you to the punch.

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