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5495073 No.5495073 [Reply] [Original]

>you will never go back in time to pre-2008, buy up all the copies of Little Samson you can find, and sell them today on eBay for massive profits
How does it make you feel?

>> No.5495078

What a joke. It's a simplistic megaman clone the likes of which an indie programmer could quickly slap together in a week.

>> No.5495080

>>5495073
I feel fine, you could have alternately bought stock in Netflix which would have made you way more money

>> No.5495081
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5495081

I have a similar story, back in the day I loved emulating a little unknown game called Shounen Ninja Sasuke on Super Famicom, it's unusual for being one of the few open-ended beat'em up rpg on the system with nice children's anime assets and humor.

Turns out it's a rare game and sells for over 200$ on ebay. No SNES game is worth that amount.

>> No.5495093

>>5495073
theres alot of things i could have gone back in time with the knowledge that we have now. like A FUCKING LOTTERY NUMBER. nope i just rather go back and buy the little samson and hope someone buys it at the price im selling it for

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5495683

I have the circuitry of Little Samson cartridge, but the guts of it are inside a Pinball cartridge - shame that it's probably worthless, but at the same time I really love this game, so I won't ever have a real reason to part with it.

>> No.5495712

>>5495073
Hindsight investing is a joke. You could have just as easily have bought a bunch of other things whose prices never rose.

>> No.5495765

>>5495683
R4r3 l00k

Manufacturing defect little samson cart inside pinball! One of a kind

$2 gorillion dollars

>> No.5495779

I'd rather just go forward in time a week, get some winning lotto numbers and become a millionaire without all that ebaying effort.

>> No.5495783

>>5495073
Meh I'd rather make money doing something useful

>> No.5495786

>>5495078
It was made by the guy who made Megaman, though.

>> No.5495818

>>5495765
Brilliant

>> No.5496758

>>5495073
You're talking to somebody who bought into bitcoin under $5. I feel like video game speculation is adorable.

>> No.5496828

>>5496758
>tfw you saw it when it launched and you could mine with a toaster, but you could never be bothered

>> No.5496853

Meh, probably somewhat more stable than bitcoin

>> No.5496860

>>5496853
Has your decrepit old brain ever considered liquidity?

>> No.5496868

>>5496828
Buying it was even better. For the price of one GF8-series card you could have bought thousands of bitcoins.

>> No.5496875

Once a cartridge exceeds the cost of a modern game, repros don't seem like too bad an idea.

>> No.5496928

>>5495073
Like a scumbag reseller.

>> No.5496951

>>5496928
not mad enough, you can do better

>> No.5497213

>>5496875
Replace 'repros' or bootlegs with flashcarts or just emulation in general and you'll be closer to nirwana. Regardless, collecting NES games has been a circus for almost a decade at this point. Shit, I bet most 'collectors' didn't even know or care about Little Samson before some clickbait writers or youtubers like game chasers and gaming historian told them how 'underrated' and 'amazing' these games are and that they should grab an original copy for them no matter how much it'll cost.

I've always been pro collecting but nowadays the only reason to collect NES and SNES games is for the sake of telling yourself or others that you own an original game. There are much better methods to play classic nintendo games, no matter how much people on this board shitpost how emulation is inferior and hate it that others don't like to do something the same way they do.

After play LS myself I just can't understand what people make it like more than other popular games from that era. So it's a late NES/Famicom game that looks and sounds alright, big fucking deal. You could buy ANY other post 1990 NES game CIB, get one or two flashcarts, invest in some plastic shells to make your own bootlegs and still spend less than buying a beat up copy of Little Samson. Sucks for some bandwagon collectors that they have to pay up but hey they should've acted 2 decades and half earlier back when they were dirt cheap and nobody wanted to buy NES games anymore. Oh well, gotta be mad about something everyday am I right?

>> No.5497240

>>5495073
I always think that this is like Steam trading cards. They go for 5 cents apiece but sometimes they sell for $100+. It has to be credit card fraud and money laundering, no one is REALLY paying $8000 for a loose copy of Little Samson, right?

>> No.5497535

>>5496860
You mean, like... A mutual fund? What am I, Benjamin Freaking Franklin? I don't have 200 years to get rich