/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5053520]

>$399.99 for a 20 yr old game.
is this person fucking high? Jesus Christ..

[Anonymous No.5053529]

That's brand new though, not that unusual. I know it being new is a pretty dumbfuck laughable excuse looool but new games get priced like that all the time due to rarity.

[Anonymous No.5053536]

>>5053529
>continued
For example look at this shit: https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Donkey-Kong-64-VGA-85-Nintendo-64-N64-Brand-New-Factory-Sealed/323426654272?hash=item4b4dbb1840:g:RMgAAOSwo4pYfGs7

[Anonymous No.5053601]

>>5053520
The good news for you is that since this is eBay you can buy it if you have 400 + shipping in your card, get it in the mail, then make some bullshit claim that it's not as described ie damaged, that it just doesn't work or that you never got it (if there's no tracking with shipping). eBay will always side with the buyer unless it's an obvious repeat offender.

Up to you.

[Anonymous No.5053610]

If you have a new-in-box cartridge it's pretty much a "name your price" situation, but hopefully that guy won't get that much for it.

[duce, the 240p fag !!81FIoFdNA2M No.5053615]

>>5053520

yeah the zoomer bubble is about to burst
millions of those were made, and thousands were kept in pristine condition
future generations dont give af about hording plastic + cardboard so the item value is literally zoomer bubble

[Anonymous No.5053626]

>>5053601
Why would there be no tracking with shipping on a $400 item?

[Anonymous No.5054251]

>>5053520
supply and demand

[Anonymous No.5054254]

>>5053626
it's fine if you just mail them back a rock for the return too. ebay says fuck you if the product doesn't have a verifiable serial

[Anonymous No.5054353]

>>5053520
The reason it is that price is because someone is willing to buy it at that price my dude. In fact $399.99 is actually a good deal because the last two sealed copies sold for $540 and $500

Deal with it faggot

[Anonymous No.5054361]

>>5053520
50 bucks a game doesn't seem bad.

[Anonymous No.5054364]

>>5054353
I don’t give a fuck if that’s how economics works. It’s fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.5054365]

pirate it while you still can

[Anonymous No.5054371]

Just stop being poor keke

[Anonymous No.5054397]

>>5053536
>PAL Version
aint even worth its weight in pounds

[Anonymous No.5054495]

>>5053520
Probably the seller has access to a shrink wrapping machine, resealed it and printed a fake price sticker. Buyer beware.

[Anonymous No.5054523]

>>5053529
Who the fuck buys games when they're new only to never play them and just sit on them for a few decades?

[Anonymous No.5054546]

pfft that’s nothing, getta loada this! (pic related)

[Anonymous No.5054549]

>>5053626
You’d be surprised, some sellers are dumb enough to do it.

[Anonymous No.5054569]

>>5053520
> factory sealed
> no factory seal / shrink wrap
top fucking kek.
>>5053536
> near mint
> Games will be shipped in the original poly bag.
so after spending this amount of cash, you don't get the collector case and you're at risk of having it damaged being posted through the mail system, devaluation ftw. yep, ebay sellers are pathetic con artists: confirmed.
>>5054495
people lying on the internet? no way. kek
>>5054546
> lowest resolution for picture of item
hilarious.

[Anonymous No.5054740]

and yet you could just get a loose cart for $20ish. Only fags buy cib

[Anonymous No.5054919]

>>5054495
Not only that, I would think a never-used copy wouldn't have the price sticker on there. Those games were all kept behind closed doors and you had to bring a ticket up to the counter, so there was no point in pricing the box. I mean, I guess someone selling it years later might do it and not realize it's devaluing it, but still.

[Anonymous No.5056332]

>>5054523
Who the fuck buys comics when they're slabbed only to never read them and just sit on them for a few decades?

Who the fuck buys trading cards when they're slabbed only to never play them and just sit on them for a few decades?

Who the fuck buys stamps when they're in a book only to never mail them and just sit on them for a few decades?

Who the fuck buys coins when they're slabbed only to never spend them and just sit on them for a few decades?

Who the fuck asks such retarded-ass questions on a retro game board of all places?

[Anonymous No.5056353]

>>5056332

video games are made to be played though. most of those other things besides trading cards are just meant to be looked at.

[Anonymous No.5056357]

>>5054569
>order game
>not factory sealed.
>paypal claim
>free game

[Anonymous No.5056358]

>>5054740
I feel accusing those that partake in the hobby differently as being "fags", is a way you deal with the limitations you work with within said hobby.

[Anonymous No.5056365]

Ive auctioned shit off on ebay and people ended up bidding higher than the asking price of the same thing from other sellers

[Anonymous No.5056372]

>>5054353
I think the rationale is that there will be a random richfag who needs this thing in this condition and are either ignorant of or don't care how inflated the price is

[Anonymous No.5056375]

>>5056353
Coins are made to be spent, stamps are made to mail shit with, I don't see how it's any different.

[Anonymous No.5056405]

>>5054495
and the evidence to suggest this is?

>>5054919
yeah anon, every single retail store in the u.s. kept snes games behind glass and had a ticket system. no exceptions, punishable by law of course.

[Anonymous No.5056414]

>>5054495
Actual collectors who know what to look for can very easily tell a real from a fake factory seal. The practice will never be as widespread as you seem to think because very few people will drop that kind of money on something like that without having the knowledge of what to look for.

[Anonymous No.5056478]

>>5056375
Not same anon, but stamps are cheap and people tend to buy several and save it for when they need to use those, that or they collect them even. But coins, really? People usually have spare coins laying around because most people won't spend every single cent. I had a lot of coins I never got around to spending until I finally had the chance to exchange them years later. I also have a lot of spare coins from foreign countries I never got to spend but kept them because they were different. This all should of been obvious, games are entirely different.

[Anonymous No.5056814]

>>5056332
>Who the fuck asks such retarded-ass questions on a retro game board of all places?
triggered hoarder

[Anonymous No.5057041]

>>5056478
You only think its different because video game collecting is a relatively new hobby. These other hobbies are already normalized in your mind. Nothing you said applies exclusively to those hobbies.

[Anonymous No.5057237]

>>5057041
I also collect games but I am not some autistic reddltor who gets fooled into thinking unpacked content somehow is more valuable than something you can actually use, it's a cunning materialistic meme to buy into to trick you into spending more. Stamps and coins at least are made to be looked at. I collected coins that had any animal on it because I can't use them anywhere anyway however they are valuable as a piece of art due to its artwork on the coin itself. Same with stamps, it has a piece of art on it, a drawing. However keeping a game forever locked into a box is silly. I can get the appeal of putting the game back inside, it is sort of a time capsule object, however forever keeping it sealed and never opening it is rather asinine and unpractical. Games are made to play with, coins and stamps have no other use once they've aged enough or been moved.

[Anonymous No.5057256]

>>5056414
What if you ran or designed a factory machine very similar to it? This is serious money here.

[Anonymous No.5057291]

>>5056357
good idea. and it would work too seeing as ebay are dangerously incompetent.

[Anonymous No.5057298]

>>5057237
People collect all kinds of things that are "meant to be used' but aren't. Action figures, toy cars, Christmas ornaments, real cars, soaps, full cans and bottles of soda, whatever. There's millions of examples.

You're just getting triggered by video games for some reason.

[Anonymous No.5057346]

>>5057298
>>5057298
>People collect all kinds of things that are "meant to be used' but aren't. Action figures, toy cars, Christmas ornaments, real cars, soaps, full cans and bottles of soda, whatever.
if you're trying to suggest people don't actually use anything from their collections then you're seriously fucking delusional.

[Anonymous No.5057364]

>>5057346
Not him but why are you getting so pent up frustrated over this? You're trying to enforce this idea that everyone always uses other things that they collect, but they don't use games. Or else that they don't use them, but those things aren't meant to be used, even when they were, or something. Like why do you have this inexplicable need to act like videogames are fundamentally different?

[Anonymous No.5057414]

>>5057298
Action figures half the time are made to look good and appealing on your shelf. Many adult action figures are specifically made and used to be put on the shelf and look nice, not to be played with, or they'd be less expensive if they were. I collect kaijus and other movie character figures with extremely precise detailing myself, and it's obvious they're not designed to be toys as they would fall apart. Same goes for toy cars, they actually look like they are a decoration, most things you mentioned work as decorative possessions.

However, games are not the same. What, are you going to do, put a box to show off in your room? Fine, but then why not take the console or game out and play it, it is not like people can see or know if the game's/console's box is empty or not. This view purely was created to trick geeks into feeling like they're better than other collectors for paying an asinine amount of money for something that has no value, that being the packaging's condition. It's materialistic and shallow and only exists so others can milk money from you being tricked. I want more people to realize this and stop supporting it, so games and computers stop being priced in such ridiculous ways.

>>5057364
That anon wasn't me.
>but why are you getting frustrated over x
That's a silly excuse i hear that adds nothing to the conversation and is just a filler. Let people discuss opinions, you are not supposed to comment or focus on the person but the topic instead. That's the point of 4chan. Why do you think everyone is anon here? Because the person doesn't matter, the topics do.

[Anonymous No.5057459]

>>5053601
Way to live dishonestly there

[Anonymous No.5057743]

>>5057414
Literally anything in the world at all can be a "decorative possession", what a vague non-explanation.

Regardless, let me clarify - there are lots of people who collect SEALED action figures, toy cars, soaps, and millions of other BRAND NEW things. It's just an aspect of collecting. Everything you said about taking the game out of the box and having no one know would apply to these other items too.

There is no trick or conspiracy or anything - it's just part of collecting ANYTHING and it always has been. The better the condition, the more value the item has. And what possible condition could be better than brand new?

Again, you're just getting triggered over video games because you personally don't like it.

[Anonymous No.5057748]

>>5057346
learn to read

[Anonymous No.5057992]

>>5053520
I think people just put outrageous prices on things to either pump up the prices as all 2nd hand goes to ebay first or to see if a retard will buy it.


This goes for everything games,cds,movies... its really fucking annoying.

[Anonymous No.5058091]

>>5054251
No, you cock. Human beings don't behave according to economic textbooks. Human beings are greedy and want the most money possible from the biggest idiot around.

[Anonymous No.5058125]

>>5057992
I've been buying off ebay lately and have had 2 sellers pull items i've won because "sold it off ebay" so I assume a lot of stuff is listed multiple places

[Anonymous No.5058153]

>>5058091
imagine being this retarded
like wow
was your father a potato?

[Anonymous No.5058162]

>>5054365
Or just play the japanese cart. It's better than the western version

[Anonymous No.5058163]

>>5053520
Hello?

[Anonymous No.5058182]

>>5057237
Don't get me wrong, I think it's dumb too. I think collecting anything is dumb. But collecting vidya isn't any different in my eyes than collecting anything else, and it seems to make some people happy so I won't judge.

[Anonymous No.5058289]

>>5057743
Your last sentence is an immature response.
>anyone who disagrees with me is emotional and angry
It literally adds to nothing, I don't understand why you keep trying to paint people you disagree with as emotionally unstable individuals, it's as if you project yourself. To go back to the real topic, first of, elaborate to me what is the exact appeal of having something compeltely unopened for three decades is, what is the practicality of it? I wish to see it from your perspective so that I could attempt to understand such a practice. Second of, isn't it more practical and fun to actually open the contents inside and make use of it to enjoy a good game/console? Third of, you cannot deny that greedy people immediantly took advantage when they saw all those hipsters obsessing over unopened material goods, hence why they are getting more and more expensive. I remember when buying an old computer was dirt cheap, now ever since hipsters came with their whole vaporwave obsession, they immediantly made old computers way more expensive than it was before.

[Anonymous No.5058310]

>>5058182
It makes some people to never grow up and spend all their money on gaudy colored animal costumes/weeb figurines and live with their parents all their life. It makes some people happy to jack off to zoophilia porn but it's "ok" because it is drawn and not "real" zoophilia. Stop breeding stupidity and immaturity.

[Anonymous No.5058314]

>>5058310
kek

[Anonymous No.5058316]

>>5053520
JESUS CHRIST... i said to myself as my stepdad pounded out my anus. oooojjjjjjjjjjj, was my first thought as i licked metal jesus's taint to his dick and swallowed whole. his cum was in invigorating, and i still swallowed, whole.... heartedly....
YEAASSS. i felt DKC pass through my larynx as a piece of gameplay ( i chocked on his donkey jizz by the way). it was so masterfull i had a hard time calling my white overlord mastah... but after a few hard a fast SHAZAMS,,,,,, my ass became a playground for cum!!!

[Anonymous No.5058317]

just buy local dude.

[Anonymous No.5058330]

>>5053601
Saving it for something really special like a fw900.

[Anonymous No.5058332]

>>5058289
You didn't refute anything I said at all, just tried to deflect your butthurt and then moved the goalposts. I don't feel the need to repeat myself. Please refer to my previous post.

[Anonymous No.5058341]

>>5058317
Local game shops that I've been to are usually way fucking worse than ebay. Like, charging double (or more!) what it goes for, in worse condition, with no returns. There's a game shack in my mall run by pajeets that have tons of good Super Nintendo, N64, and Gamecube games - and they've had all those same good games for almost six years now.

The one and only time I asked the price of a game was for for Conker's Bad Fur Day. Cart only, label slightly faded. TWO HUNDRED FUCKING DOLLARS!

[Anonymous No.5058342]

>>5058316
do we really want the old 4chan to come barging in on /vr/????

FUCKIN NO! NP WE DONT WAN T OLD /B/, NO WE DONT WANT CONSERTIVIKEKS OR LIBTARDS, ALL WE WANT IS HONEST DISCUSSSION OF FUCKING RETRO VIDEO GAMES.... THATS IT!!!!

[Anonymous No.5058597]

>>5058332
To back to reddlt you newfaggot, reading your retarded typing style fucking hurts. Keep buying into retarded memes and wasting money and remain a virgin all you want. Not even surprising you believe in such asinine things knowing how young you are.

[Anonymous No.5058602]

>>5058317
This shit is the absolute worst. What's the point of me driving to a brick-and-mortar shop, spending time on commute and browsing, looking through their selection to see if they *might* have something I'm looking for, just for the price to be equal or even HIGHER than what I could get on ebay? A platform where I can find whatever I want in half a second from my own home, mind you.

The appeal of going to a physical store should be that the store will give better deals than this bullshit. And yet that's never the case. Same goes for fleamarket jews. Only place left to get a decent deal is if you get lucky with garage sales.

[Anonymous No.5058617]

>>5053520
I bought that for 10 bucks from Japan. Collectorfags can go suck on each other's cocks.

[Anonymous No.5058642]

>>5058341
that's some crazy shit if i'm being honest. i know that gamestop catches a lot of flack.. but typically their prices for retro stuff (on the website) are about half of what i'd pay at my closest dedicated retro gamer store

[Anonymous No.5058670]

>>5058642
gamestop retro outcompetes ebay too, go on there i guarantee u get some 40 dollar game based on ebay price for 10

[Anonymous No.5058727]

>>5056405
Pretty much. If it wasn't, they were typically selling used games.

[Anonymous No.5058747]

>>5058602
I feel bad as i go to this music store thats been there since the 70s but all the CDs are $5 more then id pay. Not to mention id get 1 free per 3 cds i get.


But the only good thing about stores are sometimes theyll have a gem thats cheap as shit. Its pretty rare though. Dont know how these places stay in business.

[Anonymous No.5058769]

>>5058670
Right because if they didn't it would be resellers reselling reseller stuff.

[Anonymous No.5058808]

>>5058747
>don't know how these places stay in business
A lot of them do most of their business online as an ebay seller too, and/or they'll also sell modern video game stuff. And when it comes to their overpriced retro stuff, they'll stubbornly sit on it for years and years refusing to play ball at a reasonable price, not unlike the boomer who insists his house is worth half a million and will keep it on the market for a decade without ever adjusting the price.

[Anonymous No.5059937]

>>5053520
A collectard will still buy it.

[Anonymous No.5061354]

You're bitching about expensive mint CIB, and meanwhile I walk into one of my many local game shops

[Anonymous No.5061420]

>>5061354
yeah but you save on shipping :^)

[Anonymous No.5061424]

I really it wasn't the case. I really enjoy going to a store and browsig, but when everything retro is priced substabtially higher than what you see on ebay, there's literally no point. Only things that are priced fairly at my local shop are games from the past generation, ps3, x360, wii, ds.

[Anonymous No.5061535]

>>5053520
20 years and rarity kinda adds up.
Not sure about Kirby tho.
Pic related

[Anonymous No.5061731]

>>5061424
Besides the examples in the picture I posted I would say almost 70% of their retro library is under ten dollars. It's just big franchises that retain value in stores. The original Xbox though it's currently the best value to actually collect for

[Anonymous No.5061915]

Well it's fifty bucks per game

[Anonymous No.5061917]

>>5058317
>not for resale
>it's being resold

[Anonymous No.5061923]

>>5058602
um no, sowwie sweetie it's all about the experience...the authentic retro experience....that's how you bought games as a kid, no?

[Anonymous No.5062238]

>>5061535
I got a copy of Boogerman for SNES. Traded a copy of Super Mario All Stars + World for it and a copy of Link to the Past and Donkey Kong Country 1. This was back in 2004. I looked it up last month to see about selling some of my games and holy shit that thing is worth good money.

[Anonymous No.5062310]

>>5058317
Yeah just buy at local, great deals

[Anonymous No.5062315]

>>5062310
>Bookmans
Hell yeah. Air Command actually wasn't bad if my memory's correct.

[Anonymous No.5062328]

>>5062238
allstars + world used to be considered semi--valuable, don't know what happened.
boogerman price isn't that high.

[Anonymous No.5062334]

>>5053601
>make some bullshit claim that it's not as described ie damaged
I had someone do that to me over a game cube and games. I made them send it back and refunded them. They claimed that it wouldn't play games. I got it back, and checked it vs my collection without issue. I don't know what the fuck she was doing, but I sold it on craigslist for more then ebay.

That shit is slimy as fuck. Just letting you know. Don't be a scuzzball. If you can't afford something like a video game, don't fret. You don't need video games.

[Anonymous No.5062892]

>>5058317
My local store wanted $60 for Donkey Kong Country

[Anonymous No.5062917]

>>5062892
nintendo tax. people will pay that too.

[Anonymous No.5062941]

>>5054523
Who the fuck buys retro games when near-perfect emulation has been a thing for 2 decades?

[Anonymous No.5062949]

>>5058341
I always wonder whether they ever expect to sell such poorly priced games, but the answer is probably just 'no'. They're there to look pretty and fancy, because if they sold off all their good games at reasonable prices they'd be stuck with a shop that has only crap in stock. This way, normies will enter the shop and be like "whoaaa look at this rare gem these guys really know their stuff!".

And if they do sell them at those inflated prices they've made enough profit to buy a new display piece.