/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.3917416]

Why does this happen?

Post other ridiculous price gouging of retro games.

[Anonymous No.3917417]

>>3917416
>Why does this happen?
because idiots are actually paying that price

[Anonymous No.3917423]

>>3917416
>RARE ITEM

[Anonymous No.3917441]

>>3917416

The most amusing aspect is that that doesn't even seem to be the going rate on ebay. That's just idorts who can't wait for a reasonable price to show up hittin' that Buy It NOW button as soon as YouTube tells them to do so.

[Anonymous No.3917471]

>>3917416
>Why does this happen?
And it's probably a repro, too

[Anonymous No.3917556]

>>3917416
>two sold
fuck, where do I find these morons to sell them my shit at an inflated price.

[Anonymous No.3917561]

>>3917556
Ebay

[Anonymous No.3917625]

[Anonymous No.3917628]

>>3917625
>box only
>$700 - $800

[Anonymous No.3917629]

>the my $40 copy of snes chrono trigger has more than doubled in value

I'm ready for it to go earthbound prices already.

[Anonymous No.3917643]

>>3917416

supply and demand

literally no other reason

[Anonymous No.3917708]

>>3917643

You forgot impatience and/or idiocy.

[Anonymous No.3917775]

>>3917416
Wow we are starting to reach Saturn levels of absurd prices now.

[Anonymous No.3917821]

>>3917416
>Stock photos

This tells me the cart is either a repo or they're in shit quality. Either way wouldn't buy even if it was for a low price. Also this isn't retro but

>go to local ma and pa game store
>original Xbox HUGEs being sold for a few hundred dollars each and that's without a game, cords, or even a controller
>talk to the guy behind the counter, the son of the ma and pa that own the store
>apparently the ma and pa think it's that new Xbox One all the kids want and the so can't convince them otherwise

It's nice having a game store in my town but the owners can be dumb as hell at times.

[Anonymous No.3917887]

>>3917821
That's amazing. I'm very fortunate to live near a decent store, the place I used to go would sell scratched shit constantly as being "original"

[Anonymous No.3917997]

>>3917821
when my hueg gave up on life I had to go buy a new one and since the last flea market purchase obviously wasn't a great experience, I had to settle with the only store that had ones in stock

so now I've got a $70 price tag taped on my xbox as a shrine to my shame


also I see N64s at flea markets for $20-30 and people out there sellin em for $80+

[Anonymous No.3918021]

This shit here pisses me off more than the price gouging.

[Anonymous No.3918218]

I really

[Anonymous No.3918220]

hate these people.

[Anonymous No.3918297]

I'm not sure if I want to put a down payment on a new vehicle or buy this game...

[Anonymous No.3918393]

Still to this day, the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen on Kijiji when it comes to price gouging

>tfw thery're all repros

[Anonymous No.3918535]

>>3918393
>woo u

[Anonymous No.3918547]

>>3917775
most saturn games arent that awful, buy the import card and buy japan

[Anonymous No.3918571]

>>3918393
>Vaughn, ON
I started using Bunz to trade my games, since Ontario Kijiji, Craigslist and store prices are so ludicrous. So far I've gotten fair offers with Bunz.

[Anonymous No.3918657]

Earthbound_ebay_listing.jpg

[Anonymous No.3918748]

>>3918535

He better be ready to do some wooing if he wants anyone to pay those prices for repro shit.

[Anonymous No.3918792]

>>3917416
Because when underage started bitching about how ebay prices for this had gone to the crazy price of $5 me and every other reseller in the world cleaned out every thrift shop and flea market in their area because we knew this would happen.
I have two large boxes of those loose, three boxes of them CIB, and three and a half boxes of jap shit, mostly CIB with controller. I'll consider listing them on ebay when loose carts are trending at $200.
In the mean time please continue to bitch about prices. Make sure you include details of the name of the game, what it was selling for before, what you think a fair price is now and what you'd be willing to pay in a few years when you have a full time job. Compiling this sort of information on my own really cuts into my warcraft time. thx

[Anonymous No.3918801]

>>3917821
prices have actually been increase on xbox hueg as people are using them as emulation boxes

[Anonymous No.3918804]

>>3918393
say you want to buy them all and send him to the worst neighbourhood possible

[Anonymous No.3918805]

>>3918801
poor emulation boxes because they lack 240p.

[Anonymous No.3918932]

>>3918297
>FREE shipping
I better hope so!

[Anonymous No.3919248]

>>3917708
I'm sure we could also dig up droves of examples of people buying empty boxes and reproductions on ebay of basically any other item. It doesn't just happen to video games, people mistakenly pay exhorbitant prices for TV boxes, broken power tools, knock off beanie babies. The posters are trying to dupe idiots and it works sometimes.

[Anonymous No.3919267]

>>3917821
I fucking love my local mom and pop. Owner's an ex-pilot and not an autistic slob. Cuts me great deals since I've known him for years. Great guy.

[Anonymous No.3919271]

>>3917416
For the same reason cocaine sells for $120+ a gram while a-PHP sells for about $40 a gram even though a-PHP completely outclasses cocaine.

Fads 'n hipsters.

[Anonymous No.3919279]

>>3918792
>selling games to nostalgia fags
>not selling militaria to nostalgia fags

Get on my level.

[Anonymous No.3919284]

>>3918792
>I'll consider listing them on ebay when loose carts are trending at $200.

The fad's already peaked mate, you should sell them now because idiots on the nostalgia-chic wave won't be buying for much longer.

[Anonymous No.3919286]

>>3918218
>tfw got Super Metroid mint condition for £40

Still a little high but better than paying £60+

[Anonymous No.3919294]

>>3917416
>Buy games for dirt cheap at garage sales, carboots and markets
>Hold onto them for a number of years
>Decide to eBay the lot
>Auction joblots per platform with no consoles
>Price skyrockets
>Make a bit of profit after fees

Basically just confirms what >>3917417 said, idiots happily bidded on my lots that started at £5 each

[Anonymous No.3919297]

>>3919279
>cheapskate-shipping for $2500-good
that's just sad

[Anonymous No.3919298]

>>3917821
My local retro game store gouges customers by taking in complete consoles (with cords etc) and selling each part individually

You want a N64? $40. Btw the power cord is $15, and the A/V cable is another $10 even though we received all the parts togetehr

[Anonymous No.3919302]

>>3919297
True. Not my stock but a good example of the stuff I sell, mostly locally. Baby boomers who've never served a day in their life go crazy for this shit.

[Anonymous No.3919318]

>>3919279
>unsold listing with high bin
>get on my level
No thanks sport

>>3919284
>take the advice of a salty bandwagon collector
No thanks sport

[Anonymous No.3919319]

>>3919298
>My local retro game store gouges customers by taking in complete consoles (with cords etc) and selling each part individually

This is really common with GameCubes. First-party controllers are sold for more than the console itself. If you ever see a complete bundle in a game store, it's most certainly going to be sold with a third-party controller instead.

[Anonymous No.3919324]

>>3919286
not buying it from a carboot for £1 in the early 2000's

[Anonymous No.3919358]

>>3919318
>salty bandwagon collector

Nice projection.

[Anonymous No.3919374]

>>3917625
Damn...

I thought i did good selling my chronotrigger box for $90 about 10 years ago.

[Anonymous No.3919381]

>>3919324
>Not buying it new when it was released

[Anonymous No.3919398]

>>3919271

where do you get your chems?

[Anonymous No.3919403]

>>3919318
That's a sold listing you mong.

[Anonymous No.3919441]

Why do people feel superior for buying a game for cheap locally versus getting one online

[Anonymous No.3919447]

>>3919319
I blame Smash Bros queers and their neverending worship of the GC controller

[Anonymous No.3919489]

>>3917416
I have the original Smash Bros of the N64 in perfect state with its box included, I plan on selling it in a few decades.

[Anonymous No.3919495]

>>3919441
wheredoyouthinkweare.png

[Anonymous No.3919506]

This

[Anonymous No.3919509]

and this

[Anonymous No.3919510]

and this...

[Anonymous No.3919515]

>>3919510
>>3919509
>>3919506
combined thats like 400 dollars for three games. and I own all three of these variants. Hahaha, back in 2012 I knew the prices would sky rocket in a few short years so I bought them all dirt cheap.

[Anonymous No.3919523]

>>3919506
Is Loaded rare in the US?

[Anonymous No.3919526]

>>3919523
only the jewel case black label variant. Longbox and greatest hits don't go for much.

These jewel case black label variants of games such as Alien Trilogy, PO'ed, Magic Carpet, Doom, Loaded, and Twisted Metal will go for a lot of money in the future, so grab them now wherever you can find them.

[Anonymous No.3919553]

>>3917625
>5 bids

[Anonymous No.3919587]

>>3919526
For real? I see black label Magic Carpets all the time at the flea market for pennies.

[Anonymous No.3920007]

>>3917625
>Buy that box for 700
>Box packaged inside another box
>Crushed beyond repair during transport
>Worth 10 bucks now
mfw

[Anonymous No.3920023]

>>3919506
you should really upgrade to uBlock Origin

[Anonymous No.3920132]

>>3919441
buying online is getting jewed hard you may as well emulate at that point

[Anonymous No.3920137]

>>3920132
nah you can find good deals, you just have to search a bit

[Anonymous No.3920324]

>>3919358
If you don't know what the word "projection" means, you might be an underage.

>>3919403
Nope. It's an ended listing. lrn2read

[Anonymous No.3920376]

>>3917625
Those games were blockbuster exclusive so the boxes are almost impossible to find. You literally picked the two worst examples, because this is justified.

[Anonymous No.3920379]

>>3917643
This isn't what supply and demand means. Chrono Trigger and Earthbound aren't rare.

[Anonymous No.3920420]

>>3918297
>game with literally 2000 copies still factory sealed
Would I pay that for it? No. But it is a scarce, highly collectible piece.

[Anonymous No.3920497]

>>3920324
You are such a fucking retard, buddy.

[Anonymous No.3920503]

>>3917416

[Anonymous No.3920508]

>>3920503
>no Small Brawl
I don't know if that game's good or not, but you can't call it a "complete collection" without Small Brawl

[Anonymous No.3920519]

>>3918547
>buy the import card and buy japan

Japanese games have been jumping up the past few years now.

[Anonymous No.3920521]

>>3918218

if that were $ instead of GBP, thats at least close to retail price back in the 90's

[Anonymous No.3920525]

;_;

[Anonymous No.3920527]

>>3920497
That's a different pic champ

[Anonymous No.3920532]

>>3920379
That'd be why it's called supply and demand instead of rare and demand champ.

[Anonymous No.3920552]

I've been seeing SNES games get slightly cheaper recently, is it because N64 kids are now in the 18-25 nostalgia range? That's great for non everdrivefags.

[Anonymous No.3920556]

>>3920532
It's not supply and or demand, it's supply and demand, it's simple high school economics. The supply exists, the demand is astronomically high, the prices aren't dictated by supply here and therefore it is not supply and demand.

[Anonymous No.3920703]

>>3920556
>it's simple high school economics
When you get to highschool they'll try to teach you how it really works. They'll probably fail and you'll remain a poor ignorant cunt but at least they will have tried.

[Anonymous No.3920838]

>>3920525
>$199
>plus shipping
that's some advanced kikery

[Anonymous No.3920842]

>>3920324
You're the only person in this thread that's coming across as underaged.

[Anonymous No.3920873]

>Popular, in-demand game commands popular, in-demand game prices

[Anonymous No.3920876]

>>3920873

I don't know what exactly OP was getting at, but there's more wrong with that price than just your summary - it is above the current going rate on ebay itself and apparently some people still bought it.

[Anonymous No.3920878]

>>3920876
I don't really follow the N64 market for a variety of reasons, although I am aware it's completely fucked.

The only sane approach to playing N64 games on the original hardware nowadays is to get a flash cart.

[Anonymous No.3920895]

>>3920525

Better on DC anyways.

[Anonymous No.3920936]

>>3920842
Now that's projection!

[Anonymous No.3920940]

>>3918218
>tfw I have super mertroid in an A4 sized box with a glossy walkthrough

wonder how much that is worth

[Anonymous No.3920948]

>>3920527
Put your glasses on kiddo.

[Anonymous No.3920970]

>>3920878
Its not that bad tho

[Anonymous No.3921102]

>>3920508
Exactly. What's worse, I picked up 2 and 3, both in great condition, for just over $30. I think the both 4 and greatest hits original go for about $10-15.

[Anonymous No.3921717]

>>3920525
At least Bangai-O on N64 has a reason to be expensive, on top of being a game people want, it was a limited run of 10k copies.

>>3920895
DC remake is good too, but the N64 original has different mechanics and smoother controls, it's worth playing.

[Anonymous No.3921742]

>>3921717
Is the DC version really a remake? I thought they were released close together so must have been developed at the same time.

[Anonymous No.3921812]

Some I've found in my country:

Rogue Squadron 150 dollars
Shadows of the Empire 150 dollars
Street Fighter (the three games) 750 dollars
Final Fight (the three games) 1000 dollars. Someone offered 400 dollars and he replied "your offer is not serious"

Insanity

[Anonymous No.3921820]

>>3918218
you do realize that the super famicom version of this game sells for like $5 and has the option for english text, right?

[Anonymous No.3921836]

>>3921812
>Final Fight (the three games) 1000 dollars. Someone offered 400 dollars and he replied "your offer is not serious"

Were they NTSC US cart only? If so, then that guy is literally retarded.

I really don't understand the indignant nature of some of these sellers... You'd think if they had any sense, they'd realize that their shit ain't selling and that all the offers they get are at best a fraction of their asking price.

[Anonymous No.3921925]

>>3921820
If by $5 you mean $35-40, then yes

[Anonymous No.3921945]

>>3917416
WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THIS?

[Anonymous No.3921952]

ITT we don't recognize classic money laundering schemes. Cartridge games are the new "modern art" sales

[Anonymous No.3921961]

>>3920503
to be honest that's less than they cost me when new

[Anonymous No.3921967]

>>3920552
noticed the same thing..my N64 collection had probably doubled in value in the last few years

[Anonymous No.3921968]

>>3921812
when it comes to final fight burn that shit for sega cd.. cost free best version

[Anonymous No.3921969]

>>3921952
Pfff, hardly. There's only a handful of games that even break 2k. The reseller scene is chump change at best.

[Anonymous No.3921985]

Learn Japanese and buy the Japanese versions of games
Saves you tons

[Anonymous No.3922134]

anyone here smug as fuck because you kept your systems and games and watching everyone else pay obscene prices for them?

[Anonymous No.3922259]

>>3921985
Takes a lot of time and requires quite a bit of reading and experience, and is pretty pricey if you're buying the books, and after about a couple months, you will probably know a couple words, but of course Kanji is a huge beast at about over 2000 characters.

Better know the vocabulary and conjugations too, otherwise you'll probably just be reading weird noises

[Anonymous No.3922271]

Man I know how that feels

[Anonymous No.3922940]

>>3922134
same here, man

[Anonymous No.3922995]

>>3917441
Fucking this. I find the best prices in retro vidya on ebay, as long is I'm patient and bid smart. Flea markets are overpriced as fuck, and I've literally never seen a video game at a garage sale in 7 years.

[Anonymous No.3923001]

>>3918021
FUCKING THIS. Craigslist is useless to me, has been for years. It's all this bullshit, and now people trying to scalp NES classics.

[Anonymous No.3923005]

>>3922134
Mostly. I didn't have too many games when I was young, but I had all my favorites and staples. I'm just rounding out my collection nowadays, or trying weird random shit that looks interesting. It's not too expensive.

[Anonymous No.3923043]

>>3919447
Thanks to them there's a flood of actually new Gamecube controllers out there, though.

[Anonymous No.3923081]

I blame twitch. Thanks to twitch, the speedrunning community has grown massively. That's not inherently a bad thing, but streaming in general has given a lot of attention to retro games, so I think a big part of why it's gotten so expensive is because of this massive amount of people that got introduced to it.

[Anonymous No.3923137]

>>3918805
Xbox hueg with conexant encoders COULD be modified to output 240p.
They are able to with the hardware they have, but you'd need to modify the OS's encoding software to do it.

Alternatively, there are some Xbox emulators that use filters to trick the xbox into giving a 240p image.

[Anonymous No.3923186]

>>3923081
>That's not inherently a bad thing, but streaming in general has given a lot of attention to retro games, so I think a big part of why it's gotten so expensive is because of this massive amount of people that got introduced to it.

It doesn't matter how many people are introduced to retro games. They're not rushing out in droves to buy them, especially with Virtual Console and other forms of emulation being so readily accessible.

The problem is resellers who buy up large quantities of the same games and hoard them in their basements for years, artificially driving up their scarcity. Then they demand a higher price for them because "muh supply and demand."

[Anonymous No.3923215]

>>3921952
money laundry with three digits?

[Anonymous No.3923441]

>>3921925
What is it with all these people who think there's some magical place you can buy things for 1/10 the trending price? Don't they realize there's no where in the world to buy second hand stuff except ebay?

[Anonymous No.3924187]

I alternate between Disney movies on Blu-Ray and retro games, in part because collecting /vr/ drives me fucking nuts and sometimes you gotta play the long game to get even a tolerable price. It's pretty awful to see what happens to 30+ year old game prices, but it is outright fucking magic how Disney releases that are less than a decade old can shoot up in price for the most beater fucking editions.

The Vault system can kiss my ass. Pinocchio peaked on eBay at 2x MSRP. Fantasia got to 3x MSRP. The only fucking relief we get is that sometimes Disney UK puts its retard hat on and prints region free discs. And while sealed in box isn't really a thing for Disney movies [to my knowledge], we have our own elitist's analogue: people who absolutely refuse to own the movie if it doesn't include the slipcover. Which, some of them have never come in a slipcover. Some don't. Some slips only come the Disney Movie Club, and even then sometimes they don't ship a copy that includes them. You can't ask up front if it comes with a slip.

My heart goes out to classic car collectors, since they are the ones getting fucked hardest.

[Anonymous No.3924413]

>>3923215
When I lived in Japan ages ago just washing a small load in a coin laundry was ¥100. I imagine at todays prices laundering a whole weeks worth could approach four digits.

[Anonymous No.3924456]

>>3922134
lost some games+consoles over the years but otherwise i still have most of my collection

[Anonymous No.3924493]

>>3924187
>people who absolutely refuse to own the movie if it doesn't include the slipcover.
You mean those annoying fucking cardboard pieces of shit meant to protect the actual case from damage?

God damn and I thought I was autistic for wanting manuals for Game Boy games.

[Anonymous No.3924660]

>>3923186
Even if people are hoarding massive amounts of copies, which, while isn't impossible, you're clearly exaggerating, you You could argue that the only reason the demand exists is because of all the new people introduced into retro gaming. Who cares about virtual consoles when emulators have existed forever. This has become a much bigger issue in the past 5 years, so something must have changed.

[Anonymous No.3924748]

>>3924660
You seriously underestimate how many copies people are hoarding. I'm sitting on several hundred meme games and I'm a small fry. There are people with thousands of them. And we are legion.
But this isn't artificial difficulty scarcity like the angry baby claims. It just means we aren't willing to sell at what the baby is willing/able to pay. It's called supply and demand. Not demand and gimme gimme gimme.
As each month goes by and the prices go up and up the angry babies get angrier and angrier. Their asses get madder and madder. And we sit back and chuckle in disgust. But deep down we know that a few of these butthurt little babes will eventually grow up and get a job that will allow them to buy the toys they wanted as a child for many times what they could now. And everyone will be happy.

[Anonymous No.3924830]

>>3924748
I only ever hear about this problem when people here are complaining about hoarding by calling them greedy resellers. It's hard to accept that it's a serious problem, because this is 4chan and only a fool would accept things they hear as truth. So I guess what I'm saying is, prove it.

[Anonymous No.3925405]

>>3919506
>>3919509
>>3919510
command shift 4

[Anonymous No.3925946]

>>3917416
Are Retro Gaming Prices in general going up or down? Like, the whole market?

[Anonymous No.3925985]

>>3920525
Considering it's not only Treasure but also on a Nintendo console I'm surprised it isn't higher.

[Anonymous No.3925989]

>>3922134
I'm just happy that I not only kept most of my games from when I was younger but also bought nearly everything else I wanted on older consoles about a decade ago before it all exploded in price. A loose copy of Ranger X goes for like double of what I paid for a complete copy these days.

[Anonymous No.3925996]

>>3917416
>>3917417
I'd usually say something like "Thank god for emulators so people can at least play them in some form" but N64 emulation sucks balls.....

Price gougers & the people who continue to buy their shit need to be beat with a rubber hose.

[Anonymous No.3926004]

>>3924187
Aside from Disney Vault stuff what exactly is there to be on the hunt for? Sorry if I'm sounding like an idiot but I'm just totally clueless on what people would pay a bunch of money for when it comes to a company that I assume is loved by millions of people who bought their movies making them extremely common. I can kinda see their Vault stuff going for a higher price but that's really it.

[Anonymous No.3926153]

[Anonymous No.3927130]

>>3920503
Shouldn't a greatest hits in there drop the value?

[Anonymous No.3927153]

Because people pay the prices. Anytime I sell my shit on BST groups, I price it high cause I expect people to challenge the price and work it down to what its actually worth, but you know what happens? People just pay the asking price without challenging it at all. Is that my fault? No way.

I used to hate the price gouging, but hey if you can't beat them, join them I guess. Retro gamers are stupid enough to pay the price happily, so I'll continue to price it that high. I'm always willing to go down on the price but hardly anyone ever asks, so oh well.

[Anonymous No.3927168]

>>3927153
It's like going to a car dealership and paying the sticker price. Why would you do that? Who knows, retro gamers certainly do. The meme train to get on at the moment is RGB garbage. Found a PVM? Forget about RGB and getting into that expensive scart meme, just immediately sell it to some idiot for 500 dollars. They'll gladly pay for it, AND the shipping too.

[Anonymous No.3927180]

>>3927168
Why would you spend hundreds of dollars on cables, switchers, mods, and all of this crap just to play on a 14 inch display with PERFECT VIDEO QUALITY!! instead of using a larger consumer tv with the hookups you already have in the way it was meant to be seen? Who knows! All I know is people are willing to pay a ton of money for it. That retro cable maker on ebay must be having a heyday! I wish I knew how to make cables so I could bank of this meme more!

[Anonymous No.3927203]

>>3926153
Kijiji is pure dissapointment

[Anonymous No.3927551]

>>3924830
Skepticism is healthy. Hypothetically speaking, if I gave a shit what some kid on the internet thought, what would it take to prove it? Would youtube videos of boxes of shit be enough?

[Anonymous No.3927712]

Well you can buy the game and when you're done playing it, just sell it again at around the same price. You'll probably break even. You don't really HAVE to collect or anything. Just be cool

[Anonymous No.3927803]

>>3917625
My dad goes to storage locker auctions like that Storage Wars show and he actually found Clayfighter for the Nintendo 64 in one of them and sold it on Ebay. Can't remember how much he sold it for though

[Anonymous No.3927941]

Even GBA games are getting hella expensive. I want Metroid Zero Mission and Fusion, but I refuse to pay more for them used than I would for them new back when they came out.

[Anonymous No.3928135]

>>3926004
It's mostly stuff like Disney Movie Club exclusives and OOP editions that only anal fucks like me care about.

Ex. You can buy "The Reluctant Dragon" for next to nothing ($3-12) either through the Animation Collection or Disney Treasures, but the Disney Movie Club exclusive release goes for much more than that ($40-75).

[Anonymous No.3928543]

>>3927941
>even Metroid NES are 25€+ these days for cart only

[Anonymous No.3929505]

Is there any examples of games that are considered terrible and over priced for no reason?

[Anonymous No.3929512]

>>3929505
3 Ninjas Kick Back and The Hurricanes on SNES, they were price manipulated by hoarders

[Anonymous No.3929607]

>>3929512
>3 Ninjas Kick Back

Fuck, that's just obscene.

[Anonymous No.3929625]

>>3929505
Starcraft 64 goes for obscene prices. I'm not sure if people are buying it up as a joke or if it's just sellers trying to cash in on a brand name.

[Anonymous No.3929652]

>>3929625
Obscene? I just looked it up and it's only going for like 40 bucks. Still overpriced, but hardly obscene.

[Anonymous No.3929660]

>>3929652
I've seen it going for $100 plus locally. Near Conker levels.

[Anonymous No.3929667]

>>3929660
Stop going to stores that overcharge, then.

[Anonymous No.3929676]

>>3927941
one of the problems with that is the rampant bootlegging coming out of China.

[Anonymous No.3929685]

>>3917625

hey i have that clay fighters game, no box though, and it kind of sucks.

[Anonymous No.3929727]

>>3928135
Is there anything different between each release? I know a lot of animated movies look better on DVD than Bluray because they keep royally fucking the remastering process which could increase demand.

I'm not questioning why you'd pay more for one release I'm just genuinely fascinated in these kinds of things.

[Anonymous No.3929730]

>>3929505
Wouldn't consider them terrible however there are some Genesis games I've seen that jumped to insane prices that are no where near what I'd consider them to be worth. Checked on ebay and a CIB copy of Ranger X is like $70 now.

[Anonymous No.3929848]

>>3929607
>almost $4000 for shovelware that isn't even sealed in its original plastic
>2 people watching anyway

Man, this is why I'll probably never get into complete console collections.

[Anonymous No.3929856]

>>3917416
>go to buy toy story racer because I remember seeing it for $5 all over the place
>check ebay
>it's $35 now
>what
>go to youtube and search "toy story racer review"
>review that has 500,000 views that also calls the game amazing
I hate e-celebs now

[Anonymous No.3929897]

>>3920023
>mac

[Anonymous No.3929917]

>>3929848
the two people watching are probably other resellers that own it.

[Anonymous No.3930018]

>>3929607
>not putting $178 monthly payments for two years to obtain 3 Ninjas Kick Back

Clearly you're not a REAL gamer.

[Anonymous No.3930110]

>>3919381
pwned

[Anonymous No.3930132]

>>3929607
>That one anon out there that probably rented this but even if they loved/hated it, they were nostalgic and look online to get a copy cheap to find this.

[Anonymous No.3930225]

>>3929727
I haven't done a video quality test on either release, but honestly there's hardly any differences between the releases besides maybe a bonus feature or two (another example: "Mickey's Christmas Carol" has 2 separate dvd releases, each with its own special features so it gets complicated)

Besides that, the only real difference (and the biggest force behind the demand) from the more expensive Reluctant Dragon is that it was never sold publicly in stores, you could only get it by mail through the Disney Movie Club.

Also thank gods I'm not crazy when it comes to some of the dvd transfers actually having a higher quality than the Blu Rays

[Anonymous No.3930229]

Now imagine this in 20-30 years

SNES cartridges will be like cadillacs

[Anonymous No.3930232]

>>3930229
I would love to agree. But...

a lot of people will age out of wanting physical games.

The games will deteriorate and degrade leaving only some copies for sale at Cadillac prices (that no one will pay) that most likely won't work.

The original hardware will need repairs at accelerated rates (caps only last 20-30 years on average) leaving no consoles to play on.

The buyer/seller market will become split into groups of collectors and groups of resellers, with no middle man of randoms that find their "le gems" in moms attic, which are then sold at garage sales or sold to ma n pop shops for low prices keeping the prices down. It will be only collectors and resellers circlejerking each other for profit or completing their collection.

There are more reasons why prices will never get super high (or at least some things will but most won't). It has to do with the items either being degraded or the market becoming autistic.

[Anonymous No.3930239]

>>3930232
That makes me sad

[Anonymous No.3930240]

>>3926153
>well taking care of

Wew.

[Anonymous No.3930265]

>>3930225
You're not man. Disney keeps trying to remove the film grain when doing their Bluray remasters causing everything to look like smudged paint. There's also some cases of movies with the image actually being cropped, Sword in the Stone being the more infamous ones.

[enf-lover No.3930285]

A couple years ago I checked and was surprised it was selling for 250€ boxed. Did the same last week and holy fuck! (this is a sold listing btw)
Mine's not is as good as condition but is complete, don't want to sell it as it has a lot of sentimental value. Told the gf I'll sell it only if we're in dire need of money for the kids (which we don't have yet)

[Anonymous No.3930317]

>>3930285
It's kinda sad that all those games will just deteriorate and be lost to time in some rich geek's shelf instead of being played by various people

[Anonymous No.3930539]

>>3927712
I do this with new releases. Buy a ps4 game like Nier, beat it 100% in two weeks or so and then sell it for near what I paid. It's how I get $5 rentals these days.

[Anonymous No.3931271]

>>3919489
Why are the original and melee going for so much online? They're two of the most popular games on both of the consoles they're on.

[Anonymous No.3931282]

>>3925996
Any real reason why you think n64 emulation sucks?

[Anonymous No.3931289]

>>3931282
You'll know when you've played more than a few games on a N64 emulator.

[Anonymous No.3931291]

>>3930232
>tfw certain PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii games will start getting sold on ebay for $60+, even shovelware

[Anonymous No.3931292]

>>3931282
Not him but I can't finish Wonder Project J2 on any N64 emulator I tried. It crashes at one point.
Outside of that, lots of finicky stuff in most games, small graphical glitches or sound issues.

[Anonymous No.3931327]

>>3917416
I was at a pawn shop and saw a Mario Kart 64 cart for $40. Is it worth it?

[Anonymous No.3931348]

>>3931327
It costed about $60 when it came out.

[Anonymous No.3931357]

>>3931348
Everywhere else it is like $90 for a loose cart

[Anonymous No.3931358]

>>3931348
>costed

[Anonymous No.3931361]

>>3931358

If that's what it costed, that's what he payed.

>>3930285

An obviously very-few-of-a-kind prototype version of Rockman X2 that sold in the past couple years didn't even go for too much more than that.

[Anonymous No.3931391]

Collectors should honestly shut the fuck up about inflated prices. Some people out there legit just want to buy their favorite game or replay something they have good memories about, maybe even looking for just a fun new game, but nah, some collectorcancer already snatched the copy away to put them into his shelf like the huge autist he is.

If everyone just played normally the demand never would have existed for inflated prices to become a reality. You collectorfags are the reason why the pricees skyrocketed and yet you are the people that complain the most about it. Fucking cancer.

[Anonymous No.3931396]

>>3931391
in Japan people make the carts circulate. That is, they buy a game, play it for a while, then sell it again for mostly the same price they paid before, maybe even less, sometimes they sell in bundles. That's why games aren't expensive in Japan, they don't hoard, thus there's more supply.

[Anonymous No.3931417]

>>3931396
-small living spaces
-pirating is almost non existent
-way more geeks way closer together

That's the reasons I can think of for that. Collecting is just a pointless hobby. I can't think of a single passive hobby that is worthwhile. In fact, most resellers are former collectors that used their knowledge to make profit. Everything that can come out of collecting seems to be cancer.

[Anonymous No.3931419]

>>3931391
Don't mind me. I'm just doing my part to artificially inflate the value of these games.

[Anonymous No.3931438]

>>3931417
Collecting used to be fun, too many people ruined it, like most hobbies with limited supplies.

[Anonymous No.3931464]

>>3917625
Just imagine even daring to have a cib N64 collection.

[Anonymous No.3931591]

>tfw I bought most of the games I wanted at flea markets years ago.

[Anonymous No.3931653]

>>3931291
I can see Wii, but any PS3 and 360 game will probably maintain a lower price as long as the PS3 and 360 stores stay up.

Even moreso if remasters stay a thing and all the games from the PS3 and 360 that you'd actually want to play are still playable on new hardware but at better framerates and higher resolutions, because the only reason you'd want to play the older versions at that point is legitimately "muh nostalgia"

[Anonymous No.3931707]

Yeah it sucks but not that bad.. I remember spending ALOT of money on these games when they came out. Not even adjusting for inflation, I think i paid 80 bucks for FF3 and the guide.
The prices bottomed out when the newer systems came out. Now they are up again.

[Anonymous No.3931713]

>tfw just bought FF6 snes non-repro for 85 CAN and I'm part of the problem

[Anonymous No.3931721]

>>3931713
The fuck is wrong with you, you overpaid by 20 moosebux

[Anonymous No.3931723]

>>3931721
arent those ameribux? I checked all the ff3 listings before buying

[Anonymous No.3931724]

>>3922134
>anyone here smug as fuck because you kept your systems and games and watching everyone else pay obscene prices for them?

No, I sold the dozens of now high priced super Nintendo for cheap in 2008 for drug money and regret it all the time. I remember when Super mario all stars was a 20 dollar game and you could find majoras mask at the goodwill for 5$

[Anonymous No.3931726]

>>3931721
>doesn't ship to cucknada

welp I was fucked either way

[Anonymous No.3931727]

>>3931723

[Anonymous No.3931748]

>>3931417
>Most resellers are former collectors

Fucking this. Most people who say there """collectors""" be it at conventions, online groups, or cragslist/kijiji are for a fact resellers. Now, "collecting" is basically code word for "I'm buying as much crap as I can possibly get to flip it within the next year or two"

[Anonymous No.3931749]

>>3917416
Are retro gamers just really affluent wealthy people?

[Anonymous No.3931769]

>>3931749
They're most single without children with a mid tier job.

[Anonymous No.3931771]

>grow up poor as fuck

>all you had were cheap older systems and games from flea markets and thrift shops because you/your family couldn't afford anything new

>get laughed at by your peers because of this

>time skip to now

>you can't afford old systems and games from the flea markets and thrift shops

[Anonymous No.3931779]

>>3931391
Dude how am I supposed to keep making youtube videos if I stop buying games solely to make videos showing that I bought a bunch of games?

[Anonymous No.3931786]

>>3931749

Honestly most retro gamers I've come across at conventions or in social media groups tend to live in dumpy homes/apartments and young with not alot of money saved, but at least they have thousands of games to look at. Not all of them are like this obviously, but I think the newer/bandwagon ones are like this. Some of the older ones or parents might be more financially stable, like what >>3931769
stated.

The last Game Chasers episode had a part where they go to some collectors place with a typical room loaded with video games, and an entire kitchen filled with old Commodore shit, and the guy lived in a fucking trailer park, a shitty messy trailer. I mean fuck, it'd suck if the guy is putting that much focus into buying old plastic crap that he moved into a dirt cheap trailer just so he can afford to buy more shit, but I hope that's not the truth

[Anonymous No.3931796]

>>3931749
man I hate to love collecting retro games.

I have a house, girlfriend and a kid. Good job and middle-aged. But I know damn well I'm a minority in the field. When I talk about this at my work most people are surprised and have that smile that says '' I'll take you less seriously from now on"

[Anonymous No.3931798]

>>3931796
>showing your power level to insignificant normies

why?

[Anonymous No.3931809]

It's pretty shitty. Every second retro gamer is a collector this days. It just feels bad when you meet someone and they collect Ninja Turtle toys and lego sets next to their video game collection. I have met someone that collects pinball machines. Like why the fuck do you need more than one? You rarely meet emulatorfags, they are too busy playing video games.

[Anonymous No.3931813]

>>3931798
because I don't really care what people think of me in the end.

adapting your person to the opinion of other people is a sheep mentality

[Anonymous No.3931817]

>>3931809
>get all snes library on emulator
>can't be bothered finishing a game
>get genuine hardware and game
>finish and replay every one of them

I feel bad about it but this is me

[Anonymous No.3931901]

>>3921812
I saw SotE for 5 bucks at some pawnshop today

[Anonymous No.3932403]

>>3920007
What if the seller sold you the crushed one?

[Anonymous No.3932562]

>>3931817
Download and concentrate on one game at a time. So fucking hard. The problem of overchoice is fucking non existent for any decent human being.

[Anonymous No.3932574]

>>3921969

This. Watching people complain about overpriced videogames is pathetic. If you all had good jobs, you could still afford your cost-prohibitive garbage

[Anonymous No.3932592]

>>3922995
Outside of random bids I've honestly had the best luck with gamestop(+PUR and CAG16), or going for JP copies.

[Anonymous No.3932595]

>>3917625
This is like the idiot contest leaderboards

[Anonymous No.3932598]

>>3931798
>falling for the r9k meme

[Anonymous No.3932609]

>be 200k short of being a millionaire
>have house, car
>literally no place to dump my money
>every month theres just more money there
>have a set of skins in every game I enjoy playing
>buy all these at full price

Idgaf

[Anonymous No.3932617]

>>3932609
please stop, you're making it worse for us poorfags

[Anonymous No.3932624]

>>3932617
Ok, back to buying retro pinball machines then.

Good luck my man.

[Anonymous No.3932625]

>>3931809
While there are definitely "buy and collect dust" people out there, you're underestimating how many people play the games they own. It's been my experience that digital libraries (roms, steam libraries, etc) are what mostly go unplayed.

I can only think of two people I've met who has not or will not play a game they purchased, outside of the rare second copy "collectors edition". It's been my experience that usually those with a big game library that play and appreciate the most games. Even those "hipster trash" retro youtubbers play games quite a bit. I have an emulator-only friend who rants kinda like you do, but he really only replays the same 5-15 games each year.

[Anonymous No.3932676]

>>3932625
You know, just because you say "yeah I'm gonna buy this and play it later" doesn't make you any different from the other collectors when you're facing a backlog of 100+ games. I know a shitload of collectors and all of them play games, doesn't mean that they don't have hundreds of unplayed game and still buying more.

[Anonymous No.3932687]

>>3932625
I'm mostly an emulatorfag and I do actually play the games but it's undeniable how much more enthusiastic I am to play using an actual cartridge than on an emulator. I do spend a lot of time deciding what to play or playing the same old games again.
That said, I also have my fair share physical games that I have hardly touched yet. Compared to the thousands of games I have downloaded it's nothing, but I wouldn't say that people will always play the games they buy.

[Anonymous No.3932771]

>>3932676
>>3932687

There's a psychological component not commonly discussed, and that's "what is the motivation to play a game".

Physical games not hidden in a box are generally visable whenever a person is in their entertainment area. Glancing in the direction of a game can often cause the mind to go "Oh, I should play that game". In which they'd pop it in and play. That is, the interest to play a specific game via visual cue in additional to followed thinking is what drives the action, predicated only by the openness to play a game.

Games that are ROMs only are selected only after the individual has elected commit to play (turn on computer, open emulator, grab controller) a specific game system they set out to play on (or games in general if using a front end). That is, the decision to play a game, and often a specific system, is the predicated choice needed before picking the actual game played. Since this is a complex action set prior to the game, it is likely a strong memory of a game (such as nostalgia) or an external strong cue (someone talking about a game, or an advertisement) which drove the action. While there's nothing wrong with that, it will lay a bias upon which game is ultimately selected once faced with the list of options.

This is a behavior long and well observed with readers who have physical vs digital libraries (instead of systems, it's presorted catalogs), and it's why it's usually healthy to maintain both. I'd argue that games are similar enough to books as an entertainment medium that the same concepts apply. It's at least true for me, in that I (generally) emulate games I'm familar with but explore new games if physical and around me.

[Anonymous No.3932779]

>>3932771
If you need motivation to play games maybe you should quit the hobby as it is obviously nothing for you and you are just using it as an excuse to collect games.

[Anonymous No.3932789]

>>3932779
Seconding this. If you really need to ask "what is the motivation to play a game" you're in the wrong hobby.

[Anonymous No.3932790]

>>3932771
>Since this is a complex action set prior to the game, it is likely a strong memory of a game (such as nostalgia) or an external strong cue (someone talking about a game, or an advertisement) which drove the action.

If I'm bored or want something new I just boot up an emulator semi and random and look for something I haven't played much or at all. That's pretty much the same as the scenario you lay out for looking at a physical collection. I see the rom names instead of boxes but it's the same otherwise.

[Anonymous No.3932791]

>>3932779
The concept discussed is the motivation that leads to the specific game selected, not the motivation to play any game. I'm disappointed you didn't labor to consider the discussion point and simply laid out a fairly typical response, but only lightly disappointed given the context of an anonomous board.

[Anonymous No.3932801]

>>3932791
Why do you need to develop interest to play a specific game? I can't get behind the thought process of autistic people.

[Anonymous No.3932807]

>>3932801
This.

>>3932791
>>3932771
The way you're describing picking games isn't how normal people think.

[Anonymous No.3932815]

>>3917416
I wonder if /vr/ will ever come to understand the basics of supply and demand.

[Anonymous No.3932816]

>>3932801
It's more subtle then that. My argument is the order of decisions are influenced towards playing of a game.

Physical Games
> Game selected must draw interest
> Interest in playing games must be favorable.
> Conditons must exist to allow game playing (time, system availability, etc)

Emulated games
> Effort to engage in game playing must be favorable
> System selection (generally) must occur
> Game selection/selection must draw interest

I'm a psychologist, and only now realizing that this might be a bit too deep to discuss here.

[Anonymous No.3932820]

>>3932771
What you're talking about is creating personal value for certain things. Trough buying the original game, selecting it and playing it on original hardware you're creating more personnal value. You can create this kind of value trough various means, in fact just buying a game is the most shallow aspect of this value.

Replaying the game tons of times, listening to its OST, going trough the artbook, thinking about what the devs intended, discussing the game with other enthusiasts. Those are things that create strong value for a game.

[Anonymous No.3932843]

>>3932816
All six points apply to both though.

[Anonymous No.3932850]

>>3932820
There's truth to you statement, but I'm referring only to the mental filtering that occurs between the approaches, and the end result. Additionally, there's no true dichotomy from what you've stated, amd one can have both strong and weak game ties (or any subinterest within a hobby).

Selection paralysis leading to the seeking of "the known" is a real observed phenomon since the advent of the digital age. A strong mind that is fully aware of its impacts are fine, but in my experience that is not the norm.

Additionally, other visual elements (such as posters with games on them) suppliment what a wall game library would present.

[Anonymous No.3932852]

>>3932843
They do on a longer scale, yes. It's the order of application that matters most.

Order of decision filtering has a huge impact on all aspects of life. For example, choosing an emulator to load has already excluded all other game system games from the considered list of game candidates.

[Anonymous No.3932856]

>>3932850
You're overthinking a plebeian hobby way too much.

[Anonymous No.3932868]

>>3932856
Can't help it. It's actually my job to do so on a daily basis. You might be surprised just how these sorts of little things sculpt ones intellectual and moral structures.

A few years back an introvert little girl became an extravert via having her mother randomly choose her outfit in the morning, instead of her (the girl) doing it herself.

Anyway, I'll drop it here.

[Anonymous No.3932890]

>>3932852
>For example, choosing an emulator to load has already excluded all other game system games from the considered list of game candidates.

Sort of, but loading an emulator takes mere moments. I can't count the number of times I've decided to sit down and play something random, booted one up glanced through the list and not had something catch my eye so I boot up another.

And that's if I am going completely blind. Most of the time I just think about what kind of game I'd like to play or the list I have in my head of the ones I am interested in and decide for myself before booting anything up.

[Anonymous No.3932910]

>tfw have flashcarts and modded ps1

I've never been happier seeing retards pay this much

[Anonymous No.3932912]

>>3932910
>tfw have a decent pc and modded xbox
emulators are the way, it's just too bad there's no xbox emulation.

[Anonymous No.3932920]

>>3932852
>choosing an emulator to load has already excluded all other game system games from the considered list of game candidates.

But what if I think about what game I want to play before loading an emulator?

[Anonymous No.3932927]

>>3921836
> not including Guy

Is the seller stupid?

[Anonymous No.3932930]

>>3931291
> will start

Have you seened that hello kitty racing game for wiiu?

[Anonymous No.3932932]

>>3931419
DUDE
that guy is legit! You hear he actually WORKED at SIERRA?

crazy cool.

[Anonymous No.3932939]

>>3931786
Yeah.

That fat fuck Kingsley.

I'd be ashamed to show my "house" it it looked like that.

I like how he said he tried selling the old computers and shit and no one was buying. My ass. Maybe if he was trying to sell it at full ebay prices.
I live in BFE and i cant find old computers and shit because of people buying to flip.

[Anonymous No.3932952]

>>3931809
> why do you need more than one pinball table

You must not be into pinball.

[Anonymous No.3932974]

>>3932890
>>393292
If that's not rhetorical: Then you need to consider how you came to the selection.

It could be a nostolgia pick, which based on frequency says many different things (anxiety profile, emotional need at the time, etc)

If you browsed a list of pre-curated semi-narrow selection of roms or physical games before going "I want to play that", then your applying a level of self-thought in your game selection since you already labored to create the first list.

If it's a blind pick from a massive list, then it derived from your 'circle' (forums, youtube videos you watch, magazines you read, etc), and is a product of your enviorment.

There is no true digital only vs physical only divide. But there are average propensities that can be observed by the groups. I see it a lot in adults with books and music, and young adults and children with games. Its very often that hording tendencies are the main cause of disorder that I've had to treat these last few decades. By hording, I mean those that 'must have every physical item' or 'I'll download everything and sort it out later when I want to read/listen/play something'. Horders must always make shallow decisions and rely on other inluences, due to the impossibly of deep selection of such a large set.

So... I can't really give you an answer based on just this much information. Just reflect, and answer it internally.

[Anonymous No.3932983]

>>3932974
>Then you need to consider how you came to the selection.

I was. I wasn't talking about "nostalgia picks" where I'm going back to play something I've already played. The closest to what I was describing is the blind pick from a massive list, but I was talking specifically about things I haven't played. I enjoy clicking on random ROMs I've never heard of and seeing what the game inside is like. That's one of the things I like about emulators so much.

Occasionally I see discussion of a game here that I put on my mental checklist of games I am curious about. But I don't watch youtube videos or go out of my way to research things otherwise.

[Anonymous No.3933128]

As someone who primarily collects N64 and Genesis in retro, the N64 market is just entirely fucked and I honestly don't know the reason beyond my generation's fucking hyper-nostalgia. There's no damn rhyme or reason. There's a small chain of retro shops in my state whose N64 stuff isn't TOO crazy but I still walk in and get blind sided sometimes by the cost of shit like Smash Bros, Zelda, Perfect Dark, Yoshi Story, F-Zero, etc.

Meanwhile, from my experience, the Genesis market is pretty low-cost for most things, even CIB tends to be reasonable since Genesis had those big plastic boxes that didn't just end up in the trash. That said, I always talk myself out of buying Revenge of Shinobi and Streets of Rage 2 because I want them CIB and they go like 35-50 and balls to that.

[Anonymous No.3933185]

>>3933128
>because I want them CIB and they go like 35-50 and balls to that.

Why do you expect that you should you get pristine collector's items for less than they sold at retail? Is /vr/ really this entitled?

[Anonymous No.3933195]

>>3933185

If someone offered to sell you a 1995 Toyota Camry with very limited mileage but some minor scratches, old upholstery, and all the original tech, would you spend the original MSRP on it? Because video games, generally speaking, aren't something that had a limited run of 500 copies or some shit like a rare record or statue or something. They're outdated and were mass produced.

[Anonymous No.3933205]

>>3933195
>They're outdated and were mass produced.

Yes but ones that have been kept in good condition for all these years with the box and instructions all complete are obviously much more rare. That's what makes it a collector's item and gives it value. Saying it's old so you should be able to get it cheap because you want it is childish.

You also probably complain that other people are willing to pay decent prices for these things.

And no, I'm not a reseller. I just think this attitude you all exhibit is idiotic.

[Anonymous No.3933730]

>>3931809
>Like why the fuck do you need more than one?

Because pinball actually has a lot more to it going on than just smacking a ball with flippers and is very varied when it comes to table design?

[Anonymous No.3933801]

>>3924660
You underestimate how retarded resellers (and many buyers) are. Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKHk5U8tmfw

That little experiment was 2 years ago, and the price hasn't come down since.

The hobby is flooded with retarded resellers who would rather set their stock on fire than sell it at prices where people will actually buy the shit. Make sure to wish anyone shouting "muh supply and demand" at you a happy pesach.

[Anonymous No.3934770]

>>3917416
>low supply high demand
>nostalgia
a deadly mix

[Anonymous No.3936819]

>>3934770
/vr/ will never understand this and will always be mad that other people also want what they want.

[Anonymous No.3937419]

>>3934770
>loose Mario Kart 64
>low supply

[Anonymous No.3938041]

>>3937419
I'm personally hoarding about 100 copies that I'm not going to sell until they're selling on ebay for $200 and I know others who are doing the same. The supply is a lot lower than it could be.

[Anonymous No.3938048]

>>3936819
I fucking hate people who want what I want.

[Anonymous No.3938059]

>>3933195
Have you even seen the prices for a Toyota Tacoma '95? And you think cheap video game "scalping" is bad. Shit nigga, there are worse rackets out there.

[Anonymous No.3938917]

>>3931771
>not buy $40-70 pc
>not resorting to abandonware

and of course this without resorting to pirating old games.

>>3932771

I wonder how that applies to guys like me who buy second hand games, then rip the games onto image files and archive them after playtesting a level (deleting the unwanted ones and putting the hard copies onto a pile to give away/resell).

This means I keep digital copies for easy access (not to mention my current desktop has no optical drive, having to use the laptop to rip), but like you said, I can still glance at my shelves and think "fffuck, I gotta play Demolition Racer again" or another game retro or not.

[Anonymous No.3939007]

>>3938059
People who go for specific expensive cars are autistic as fuck. The cheaper just as good equivalent is around the corner but let me pay you 100 grand more for this one instead. At least with video games you get an unique game but with cars there are better alternatives all the time.

[Anonymous No.3939014]

>>3938041
gonna need to hoard more than a few hundred copies of a game that nearly sold 10,000,000 copies

[Anonymous No.3939742]

>>3939014
I only need to hoard what I have and wait for bandwagon collectors to drive to price up. The thousands of others doing the same help with that. The number of items produced means nothing. The only thing relevant to supply/price is how many are on the market right now.

[Anonymous No.3939750]

Well I don't have a picture of it, but this one store i went into had a really bad condition looking copy of Super Mario World on the SNES and they were asking $50 for it when you can get a mint looking copy of that game for around $30

[Anonymous No.3939926]

>>3920525
I like how he thinks Japanese copies are more expensive.

[Anonymous No.3939971]

>>3939926
That game was released ONLY in Japan on N64. And yes some Japanese copies of some games can get pretty pricey since some had VERY low print runs

[Anonymous No.3940014]

>>3920023
Actually ublock + ghostery is better

[Anonymous No.3940019]

>>3920023
Also Opera browser for webm /gif/ etc
Comes with a vpn and an add blocker already available

[Anonymous No.3940082]

>>3923001

i want to be robin hood. locate these classics and fucking steal them. I wish I was a rich asshole so I could buy them all and give them all away. I hope nintendo folds and these resellers die painful deaths.

[Anonymous No.3940097]

>>3925946

the entire market is slowly going up. I don't think it will ever go down. maybe if WW3 happens

[Anonymous No.3940240]

>>3932574

bucky o hare is fucking $120 dollars eat shit.

[Anonymous No.3940250]

>>3932609

i would buy up as many copies of one over priced game and jusell them back at $1. no reason for mario 3 to be $50

[Anonymous No.3940264]

>>3932815

i wonder if you will ever come to understand that there is more to humanity than observable cause and effect, otherwise why not use eugenics and breed out blind, deaf, and lame people?

>le free market so even when something shitty happens I have the moral high ground and you have no argument!

[Anonymous No.3940270]

>>3933801

that shit is absolutely infuriating, not only that, but also the guy tried to lower it and couldn't, so if the game gets well known its fucking stuck there. I'm gonna be an 80 year old man before I can collect these fucking games, guess I'll just retro pi it up, im done. I'm just gonna get all the mega mans and thats hit.

[Anonymous No.3940278]

>>3940240
>trendy meme game is expensive
Wow
More news at 11

[Anonymous No.3940279]

>>3920376
Whenever I figure out I have something like this, that has absolutely no function but some ridiculous collectible value, I destroy it. I hate perpetuating stupidity. Boxes are worthless, the programs on the cartridges are all that matter, and all that data exists online now.
Same shit with action figures in their original packaging. Screw that bullshit.

[Anonymous No.3940284]

>>3940264
ok, so whose game do we steal to give to people that don't want to pay the same price they paid for it?

[Anonymous No.3940286]

>>3940278

>trendy meme game

its a masterpiece moron. I would pay $50 - 80 for it but 120 is insanity. I bet it will be $200 some day,

[Anonymous No.3940294]

>>3938041
>>3939742

Picture proof, please.

The only thing sadder than hoarding is lying about hoarding.

[Anonymous No.3940506]

>>3929856
>E-celeb reviews old game
>Remember that it was like 10-15 dollars but just never got around to buying it
>Price triples as every dipshit thinks they're sitting on some goldmine from a brief popularity spike
>Price doesn't go down for years
>Price slowly increases over time now