Remember when flea markets sold this for like $50 back in like 2007? So glad I got mine then.

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Anonymous Tue May 2 17:26:37 2017 No.3964593 [Reply] [Original]

Remember when flea markets sold this for like $50 back in like 2007? So glad I got mine then.

>>	babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Tue May 2 17:35:44 2017 No.3964613 Remember when http://www.ebay.com/itm/262963868792 ? Because it's right now.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 2 17:38:20 2017 No.3964619 >>3964613 Nah but this was a flea market. I also paid $50 for the console with cables, a controller and Mario/Duck Hunt. Flea markets are now selling them for $150

Anonymous Tue May 2 17:41:47 2017 No.3964631

>>3964593
I was finding those left and right for less than $20 in thirft stores/flea markets around 2007, with games and controllers/hook ups.

Even my local retro store had crazy good deals for the time. Maybe my area was just had a delayed reaction to the retro craze, there was a plentiful supply.

Wish I still lived there, it was the best town I ever found retro stuff in... I doubt it's survived, though.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 2 17:46:22 2017 No.3964645 >>3964631 Around that same time they were selling Conker for $70 and I recently saw this overpriced as fuck retro game store in the mall selling a loose cart for 200 fucking dollars.

babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Tue May 2 17:46:31 2017 No.3964646

>>3964631
Yeah well I know that feel but times change. I have about four of them including a boxed complete top loader I put together for $30 that the prices haven't ballooned enough for me to sell off just yet but you know what you couldn't buy for $7 in 2007? 6th gen consoles and they're going to end up much scarcer thanks to their much higher failure rates.

Anonymous Tue May 2 17:55:57 2017 No.3964674

>>3964645
Damn, I recall Conker always ranging between 60-80$. I really haven't kept track the last few years, the whole YouTube craze while enjoyable has ruined the market. I chose to sell off a lot of my stuff JUST before it really hit. I'm salty, but hey I had bills and was moving far away.

>>3964646
Funny thing is back in the same time period it was the new gen consoles fetching 500$ or more at thrift places while the retro systems piled up.

Now I just don't see either, only some shovelware at best.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 2 17:57:41 2017 No.3964678 >>3964593 I got mine for 50 on ebay a week ago

>>	Anonymous Tue May 2 18:30:13 2017 No.3964769 >>3964593 Are you sure you don't mean 5 instead of 50 dollars? Nowadays they ask around 50 bucks for that where I live both online and at flea markets. Not crazy expensive but still one hell of an inflation.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 2 18:33:35 2017 No.3964776 >Remember when flea markets sold this for like $50 back in like 2007? You paid way too much in 2007. Those things were going for less than $20. And now the NES is $50 everywhere online.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 2 20:59:29 2017 No.3965162 >find bubble bobble 2 for 2 dollars at a thrift store in 2008 >sell it in 2013 for $150 to pay a ticket >now it goes for over 300 easy welp

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 00:37:57 2017 No.3965656 remember when you still have yours from when you were a kid and it still works?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 19:22:05 2017 No.3967423 >>3965656 I certainly do.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 19:46:44 2017 No.3967482 >>3965656 I gave my nes to my cousin when I've got a psx and he sold it couple years later, but hey atleast I still got my fucking c64 that worthless piece of shit

Anonymous Wed May 3 19:53:01 2017 No.3967501

NES consoles were like $30 max complete with controllers and SMB. I remember back in those days only games like Earthbound, SotN, EVO and Suikoden 2 were expensive because they all had relatively low print runs or sales compared to demand. Nowadays I walk into a pawn shop and Super Mario Kart is 50 bucks. Turtles in Time is a 70 or so dollar game and keeps going up on eBay. The bubble will explode within the next decade though... Just like with comics and baseball cards.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:22:14 2017 No.3967568 >>3964593 >$50 lmao you could literally find them for $1 in the late 90s

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:54:27 2017 No.3967641 Got mine recently for $10 at goodwill with all cables, 2 controllers, 5 games, and the zapper

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:57:24 2017 No.3967646 >>3967501 Comics are going through a pretty significant speculator phase too. Cartirdge games wont go down because many will be lost/broken/dead. think of all the hipsters throwing their carts in the trash becauseof dead batteries

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:59:13 2017 No.3967653 >>3964593 No, but I remember when you'd find them in free boxes in the late 90's.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:01:10 2017 No.3967658 Damn I got ripped off, I paid $250 in 1987.

Anonymous Thu May 4 07:39:57 2017 No.3968635

>>3964593
No. I remember them going for a lot less. And only a few years later this first nintendo DS was selling in the internet for $13,000. Fucking goof.

>>3964646
>what you couldn't buy for $7 in 2007
True. I don't think I ever paid that much for a DC, GC, or xbox in 2007 unless it was a boxed special version or something. PS2s were still worth something. Stuff might have been more expensive on ebay. I don't know. I got my drivers licenses in 85.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 08:14:49 2017 No.3968659 >>3964593 It just depends. I bought a Genesis Model 1 HDG with two controllers, cords, and MK2 boxed cart from a guy on craigslist for $20 back in 2012.

Anonymous Thu May 4 10:14:38 2017 No.3968807

>>3968659
yeah stuff like that does happen, but it's a rarity and it get's jumped on almost instantly. I remember when coppies of smash bros on n64 could be found anywhere for $20.

Now you have to try and beat those ebay scalper bot or search through dozens of second hand stores to find it on the cheap

Anonymous Thu May 4 10:18:33 2017 No.3968814

>>3967646
They'll go down in price eventually, but it won't ever go back to 25 cent copy of mario bros/duck hunt levels.

It's going to reach a tipping point where all the hipsters and millenials will get all their childhood games and get bored of the novelty and those retro games stores who payed $150 for a copy of earthbound are going to have to start lowering the prices of stock

Anonymous Thu May 4 10:24:24 2017 No.3968819

>>3964619
I got mine for free along with all my cousins games in the early 2000's cause he was sad that I didn't have a console. That's why I'm here on /vr/ years later, that's what got me into old shit. Without that, I probably wouldn't even have a collection.

Anonymous Thu May 4 10:29:47 2017 No.3968821

I think it's been about five or so years, maybe longer, since I've seen anything game related at any second hand place that weren't just a dozen copies of old maddan and fifa. Once in a while there's a hockey game or two to spice things up but that's it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 10:31:12 2017 No.3968824 >not having an NES Missing the fact that you are the bandwagoner here

Anonymous Thu May 4 11:29:09 2017 No.3968890

>>3964619
I got mine for 30gbp, came with duck hunt/Mario and super Mario Bros 3 with all wires, 2 controllers and a light gun

Found some other good finds over the last couple of years on bootsales

megadrive 1 power lead 5gbp and bought a 2gbp RF cable, already had games and controllers

GameCube, no wires, 3gbp
Ps1 fat scph 7502, video and audio wires 2gbp
N64 boxed with bubble burst game all wires and controller, 15gbp
N64 unboxed, Goldeneye, 1controller, all wires 10gbp
Dreamcast, sonic adventure, all wires 1 controller 10gbp
Megadrive 2 sonic 2 altered beast, all wires, 2 controllers 30gbp
GameCube all wires, 1 controller memory card and crash bandicoot and medal of honour rising sun 10gbp
Gameboy original with carry case and Tetris excellent condition 2gbp
Psp with 4gb memory card, charger, case, 20gbp

But I think by far my best buy was from a village charity sale they was doing in my village, I got a ps1 scph-1001 with the audio ports on the back all boxed, all wires, 2 controllers and a memory card and some random game, 50p

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 11:32:06 2017 No.3968895 >>3964593 Remember when you could go to piratebay and download the entire nes library? Wait what!? I can still do that? Never mind.

Anonymous Fri May 5 02:47:23 2017 No.3970676
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>Bought a TG16 with a couple of complete games for about $40 years ago because I had always wanted one
>Didn't have much money so I ended up only being able to play the games it came with
>Either finished them or got bored of them after a while
>It just sits around collecting dust for a while
>Ended up having to sell it a couple years ago along with a bunch of my other older consoles so I could afford moving out of my parent's place
>Sold before prices started going up with the intention of buying them again later when I had money
>Prices inflated like crazy
I have the money now but I just can't really justify it. All I have left is my Genesis with a bunch of games and a Saturn with no games. I miss playing my Saturn the most really, but fuck if I'm going to spend that much on games.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 02:53:52 2017 No.3970687 File: 489 KB, 480x262, mildly interested.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3970676 >Saturn with no games So.. a Saturn?

Anonymous Fri May 5 02:58:21 2017 No.3970695
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>>3970687
More or less. I used to just play Clockwork Knight and Nights a lot, same with Dark Saviour. Virtual On too, and my brother enjoyed playing Baku Baku with me so that was pretty fun. I'm thinking of just breaking down and buying a JP model so I can play imports, which is mostly what I'm into now anyway. I love that pretty white shell and normal sized jewel cases that don't fall apart easily.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 02:59:17 2017 No.3970697 ah the comfy days before 'retro gamer' became some weird popular subculture.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 03:00:13 2017 No.3970702 >>3968895 You have to be 18 to post here.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 12:01:25 2017 No.3971345 File: 3.88 MB, 344x203, SO MAD.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3970702 >Being this upset

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 00:15:04 2017 No.3972916 >>3964593 Nope. I didn't bother going to ratty flea markets because I got mine brand new in 1986.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 02:11:56 2017 No.3973085 >>3964593 I remember when I got a CIB one at a flea market for $25 in 2013. The guy threw in a famicom adapter for free as well.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 02:16:19 2017 No.3973095 >>3968890 I'm convinced that in America you can't buy anything worth of value under a dollar but apparently that doesn't apply anywhere else.

Anonymous Sun May 7 00:39:00 2017 No.3975454

>tfw werked at a pawn shop in 1996

The pawn broker loaned $10 per system for NES and Sega systems. We had stacks of these things for $10-25 on the shelves. The selection of games wasn't that good, though.

I should've bought a few systems but I was only making $4.35/hr

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 07:04:26 2017 No.3975905 >>3975454 >i checked price chart but they only went back to 2006 so i just used that price, added 10 years and pretended to be old enough to post here Cool story kid. BTW there's an errant "r" in your URL.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 11:44:56 2017 No.3978681 >>3967482 How many games did you have? Did he sell all of them too?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 20:04:57 2017 No.3979723 There are like 5 in my local video game shop that are 40$

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 20:23:08 2017 No.3979762 >>3967646 They're more likely to sell them than throw them away without disclosing the dead battery aspect

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 12:26:59 2017 No.3981341 File: 1.77 MB, 303x277, 1435156139857.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I got mine from my Aunt, it was a Wedding gift and she kept all her games in the boxes meticulously

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 14:10:07 2017 No.3981538 >>3964593 I got 2 of them from Goodwill for 3 bucks each around 2012. Before that i picked one up for $10 at the same place.

Anonymous Wed May 10 01:09:00 2017 No.3982785

I found a loose console without chords in the garbage when I was in elementary school back in 2003/4, it had Mario/Duck Hunt inside. I somehow hung onto it through several yard sales but my parents never would buy chords for it off of eBay because they were convinced it was broken. Years later in high school I found the chords and a controller in a thrift store for 5 bucks total (also Topgun but fuck that game). Bought them and when I hooked everything up it worked flawlessly. Still one of my fondest vidya memories.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 10 04:00:39 2017 No.3983040 >>3964593 >Finding NES for $50 at flea makets >In 2007 Remember when you made that shit up when you posted this? I could find that shit for like 10 bucks everywhere back then.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 08:48:14 2017 No.3985690 >>3975905 I'm going to have to agree with this.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 10:29:05 2017 No.3985830 >>3964593 NESs cost $50 at the retro store in my city, that's what they go for now. I was getting NESs for $5 in 2007-2011.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 10:53:31 2017 No.3985864 NES was going for $50 back in like 2010 bro, then it spiked for a few years but it's falling again as hipsters got bored of arcade games insanely fast

Anonymous Thu May 11 11:00:45 2017 No.3985870

Remember back in 2005 when your neighbors came over and asked if you wanted all of their old N64 shit for $25 because they'd waited too long to trade them into GameStop?
Remember when you would walk into GameStop and see a wall of GameCubes selling at $30 a pop?
Remember when you could go into literally any electronics reseller and dig through a bin of loose cartridges sold at flat rates?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 11:33:03 2017 No.3985905 >>3964593 I remember when people were just given them away. I also remember seeing them, and large collections of games in thrift stores, really cheap stuff.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 11:43:06 2017 No.3985917 >>3964619 >Flea markets are now selling them for $150 Where the fuck do you live?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 11:44:08 2017 No.3985918 >>3964593 If you paid 50 bucks in 2007, you got ripped off. They were going for like 25 bucks at the time.

Anonymous Thu May 11 11:55:41 2017 No.3985932

>>3985870
>Remember when you could go into literally any electronics reseller and dig through a bin of loose cartridges sold at flat rates?
Yes. I always wonder what finds I may have passed up while looking through those. It's hard to tell what games would eventually become super-expensive.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 12:05:59 2017 No.3985950 I got one maybe 6 years ago for $7.99 at value village. It's still in the store bag in my closet. I was going to turn it into an nes pc but I guess I'll just hang on to it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 13:05:26 2017 No.3986046 >>3970695 Just get an AR cart.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 16:16:15 2017 No.3986351 >>3985932 I'm still kind of mad my parents didn't support me hoarding older games and consoles. I was the type who'd just buy the whole lot just so I could have more games.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 16:28:25 2017 No.3986386 File: 853 KB, 1152x647, 15719.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I just dug mine out and I'm missing the power adapter. I've read mixed reviews about replacements online, any thoughts?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 16:29:30 2017 No.3986390 >>3986386 NES PSU is AC originally, but it will basically run on anything. 9V 1000mA is what you want

Anonymous Thu May 11 16:47:38 2017 No.3986424

>>3964593
I remember picking up an entire NES console with all the cables, controllers, and about 20 games (all the marios, Zelda 1, Mega Man 2 and Ghost Lion were among them) for about $40.
When I went to the lady to buy it, she immediately thought I was going to talk down on the price and told me it was firm. I had no complaints.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 17:33:08 2017 No.3986517 >>3986390 thanks compadre

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 22:55:28 2017 No.3987026 File: 227 KB, 355x431, trevor.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3964593 >Remember when flea markets sold this for like $50 back in like 2007? litterally everywhere i go now lol

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 22:57:10 2017 No.3987027 its not even the console thats expensive its the games. hard to justify paying like 30 bucks for zelda now.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 04:29:43 2017 No.3987581 >>3964593 Remember when Honus Wagner rookie cards were like 5 cents in 1909? So glad I got mine then.

Anonymous Fri May 12 10:24:37 2017 No.3987943

Lolwut OP? I bought an NES with games for less than that in '05. Hell I was getting tecmo bowl, ninja gaiden, contra, CV3, etc. For 4-8 bucks a pop all through the 2000s. I don't recall prices really jumping until the end of the decade and the mass proliferation of internet/social media/game junkies putting videos on YouTube about X or Y being "best game ever".

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 14:01:40 2017 No.3988249 A few years ago i got a snes with f-zero on a flea market for 10 euros. best deal I ever made.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 14:04:24 2017 No.3988253 File: 27 KB, 400x400, pfr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3964593 In the year 2000, NES games will be sold for a dollar a pop. In the year 2000

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 14:25:21 2017 No.3988287 >>3988253 more like a quarter

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 15:37:48 2017 No.3988412 >>3964593 So what the fuck are they now? Ebay is still around $50 isnt it?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 16:01:28 2017 No.3988474 i found a nes in the garbage with 15 games, 2 controllers, and a zapper; only issue was the wrong power adapter, i bet thats why it was thrown out

Anonymous Fri May 12 18:47:42 2017 No.3988813 [DELETED]

man every time i get on /vr/ nowadays i think back to the late 90's and early 2000's when people were practically giving this stuff away and no one gave a crap abot it, i passed up so many good deals and even turned down people offering to give me video game shit FOR FREE, it makes me so angry i could doo doo in my britches from tard rage lmao :D

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 18:55:20 2017 No.3988830 >>3988813 :DDDDD

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 19:37:09 2017 No.3988885 >>3967568 Yea, with all the systems and games for them that came out during the 90s, the NES just looked pathetic, and nobody had developed "muh retro" feels for it yet.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 19:40:34 2017 No.3988897 >>3986386 >tfw that oven door lock gives in, the door drops open, and the kid hit the floor hard with its head within a split-second

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 19:41:59 2017 No.3988898 >>3988885 >and nobody had developed "muh retro" feels for it yet. Because in the 90s "retro" meant the 60s and 70s, not the 80s and 90s like now.

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