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Anonymous Fri Sep 13 19:33:22 2019 No.5880778 [Reply] [Original]

Where do you guys buy your old games from? Literally every yardsale and thrift shop doesn't have any videogames, and if they do they're either crap, or they're charging $20-40 per game. Why can't I find anything decent for $10 anymore?

Is eBay really the only place I can buy old games now? I havent found anything videogames in a thrift store in months now and the last thing I bought was a PS2 with Katamari Damacy.

>>	Goys R Us Fri Sep 13 19:38:42 2019 No.5880792 >>5880778 I buy PS2 and PS3 games for $1 all the time just like I bought SNES and NES games for that 10-25 years ago. It was a pretty big window, Anon.

Anonymous Fri Sep 13 19:44:40 2019 No.5880812
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>>5880792
But where do you buy them though? Im trying to get some GameCube and PS2 games and I just never see them anywhere. Am I looking in the wrong places? Is it the city I live in? I'm pretty mad desu senpai

>>	Goys R Us Fri Sep 13 19:58:23 2019 No.5880852 >>5880812 Pawn shops are gold for that kind of shit right now or more specifically cash advance places that also take pawn.

Anonymous Fri Sep 13 19:59:19 2019 No.5880857

>>5880778
Ebay. The problem with yard sales, flea markets, pawn shops, etc is that their stock is inherently going to be limited. You're probably not going to find any video game stuff at all, and if you do find something, its just going to be a bunch of sportsball madden garbage. Or you have those used game stores that have everything even more expensive than ebay, a more limited stock, and none of ebay's convenience. Same goes for craiglist where its just going to be scumbags trying to get double ebay prices

Anonymous Fri Sep 13 20:07:00 2019 No.5880869

>>5880778
>yardsale
basically a 1/1000000 chance for cartridge era games now, and low chance of 7th gen and later disc games too

>thrift shop
I actually have a lot of thrift stores around my way, more than 10 of them.There's maybe a 1/1000 chance of finding cartridge games, but there are usually disc games to be found. Usually sports games or shit PC games not worth getting but every once in a while I'll spot something good

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 20:14:14 2019 No.5880885 Mom-and-pop retro game stores are a thing in many places. I've got a handful within a half hour drive of my house. I suppose it differs depending on where you live though.

>>	Goys R Us Fri Sep 13 20:15:33 2019 No.5880891 Also, everybody hates on them now but once the trade restrictions really start clamping down I bet people are going to wish they bought a boatload of dirt cheap Chinese repros.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 20:24:09 2019 No.5880916 File: 85 KB, 750x412, 137CA65A-E891-44DA-B611-E160B5870D3D.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5880778 I don’t buy them, but I sure do play them

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 20:32:24 2019 No.5880941 >>5880857 The one PS2 game I want right now I'd 100 to 200 dollars on Ebay for no fucking reason. It's the gundam JRPG Ms new saga. How the fuck does a gundam game get rare?!

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 20:52:50 2019 No.5880976 Just emulate or get a flash cart.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 21:04:37 2019 No.5880996 >>5880778 Welcome to the world of collecting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 21:16:21 2019 No.5881017 >>5880891 Nah, I'd rather not throw my money at a nation actively trying to undermine and overtake the nation I live in. Used to be a fairly mainstream concept. We have enough wealthy Chinese driving up the price of real estate as it is.

Anonymous Fri Sep 13 22:41:51 2019 No.5881213
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>>5880778
Get a time machine and go back to 2008 when no one gave a shit about collecting.

But serious, I got into collecting around 2009 and back then the getting was excellent since few people had smart phones, there weren't a ton of collectors, and there were even less resellers. I used to fill up a backpack and have to go empty it in my car and go back for more at my local flea market around that time. I used to score games like Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Panzer Dragoon Saga, and Tron Bonne for under $5 each all day long. It wasn't until around 2013 or so that these deals really started to dry up because everyone got in on collecting retro games around that time. There was a store I used to go to that had a ton of retro games and they were priced at $3 each regardless of title. Buy 2014 almost all the employees were either resellers or collectings and sniped everything that came in. By 2016 looking for cheap games in the wild was nearly pointless and you'd find a cheap Ocarina of Time or Mega Man X if you were lucky. Luckily I grabbed 90% of everything I ever wanted when the gettin was really good. Now what I'm missing I just pick up on ebay from time to time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 22:43:24 2019 No.5881219 >>5880812 I found Wind Waker and Double Dash for $2.50 each, in perfect condition, at a garage sale this summer.

Anonymous Fri Sep 13 22:46:28 2019 No.5881227

>>5881213
It happens still occasionally, where a boomer who doesn't understand anything sells something for dirt cheap. It doesn't happen *as* often since vidya are rarely given the okay to sell at them, but when it does it's a really great find. Hell, I found all my PS2 controllers this way.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 22:56:54 2019 No.5881243 >>5880778 I literally get most of mine at the places you litterally say don't have them, literally.

Anonymous Fri Sep 13 23:02:43 2019 No.5881248
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Thrift stores like goodwill usually separate all donations at reception areas and ship storage containers full of the more valuable stuff back to a sorting HQ where it is catagorized and priced and then sold on the internet. ESPECIALLY RETRO HARDWARE

Anonymous Fri Sep 13 23:07:59 2019 No.5881256

sorry anon, but that ship sailed a LOONG time ago.if you wan't something to collect now, i suggest beanie babies/teenie beenie babies/beanie buddies. also try to snag disney or nintendo plushies too, ESPECIALLY if the tag says it was bought in a disney park like disneyworld/disneyland.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 23:20:41 2019 No.5881269 I have HDDs,flashcarts and modchips for all of my consoles. feels good man.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 23:48:06 2019 No.5881293 >>5881213 Bull shit. I was actively collecting back then and all those games were at least $50 to $100 back then. More for PDS. Quit larping.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 13 23:55:39 2019 No.5881302 >>5881269 Same here, for the most part. I still have all my stuff from childhood onward, as well as games I bought here and there back when old stuff was cheap, but for the most part I'm just about getting hardware and A/V equipment for everything.

Anonymous Fri Sep 13 23:58:10 2019 No.5881303

>>5880778
eBay since I live in middle of nowhere America, I only collect for Japanese MegaDrive currently, I used to collect for PS1&2 and Dreamcast but I am done collecting for those systems as I own all the games I wanted.

My Dreamcast games are 90% games I just kept from back in the day, I only missed out on a few I wanted but I just bought them after SEGA closed shop on the Dreamcast and store were almost giving them and the games away.

Most of my PS2 collection I picked up a few years ago, most PS2 games are still cheap, only a few weird kind of obscure ones go for a lot. You can still find brand new sealed PS2 games for popular titles. Often still going for $19.99

PS1 has been going up in recent years which is strange because PS1 was always the dirt cheap to collect for system. Half of my collection is from back in the day, the other half I got during the X360/PS3 years when nobody gave a shit about PS1 so even the really good stuff was cheap as hell.

Thrift stores, goodwills, and yard sales are useless where I live.

>thrift stores
in my area rarely sells any video games at all, if there are any it’s always Wii Sports or a Just Dance for Wii, here thrift stores are just old lady clothes and old people knickknacks

>goodwills
here only have X360 sports games, sometimes PS2 sports games

>yard sales
always Hot Wheels and Barbie PC-CD ROM games and other random shovelware, also usually cereal box ware

>>	Goys R Us Sat Sep 14 00:09:06 2019 No.5881316 >>5881017 Don't worry about the Chinese their people will rise up eventually that's why they have to keep their media and internet so tight. In the meantime they really offer a bargain off that commie labor.

Anonymous Sat Sep 14 00:16:54 2019 No.5881326

>ebay
I go here for my hard to finds
> yard sales
Rarely do because resellers get out early and I'm not that committed to drive alot on a maybe
> thrift stores
I have found a couple very good finds
It's a numbers game. The more you search the better your chances of finding something.

Anonymous Sat Sep 14 00:18:16 2019 No.5881329

>>5880792
This. Gen 7 is the sweet spot right now. It's just old enough that nobody wants them anymore, but not old enough that there's a supply shortage. I grab up consoles for 10 bucks all the time. This happens with every gen. A few years ago, it was PS2 games and consoles that were fuck cheap, but they're slowly starting to climb back up. Hell, back in 2005-ish, most Gamestops had racks of N64s for 10 bucks each because they just didn't want the damn things anymore.

The window on anything older than that is long closed.

Anonymous Sat Sep 14 00:25:21 2019 No.5881338

>>5881329
This. I think I'm going to start searching around for PS3 games I might want to pick up. I have a PS3 but I've honestly never bought any games beyond the packed-in copy of uncharted 2, since I bought it to jailbreak it.

However, the caveat I have to buying phyiscal copies of stuff ~7th gen onward is that this is when the build quality of phyisical releases really went to shit. It's when games essentially stopped coming with true manuals, maybe instead giving you a slip of paper with some gov't-mandated warnings and a control layout sheet. It's also when they started cheapening out on the disc cases, using thinner and thinner plastic, and then also cutting giant holes in the plastic to pinch even more pennies. The end result is that a lot of stuff comes in god awful cases and I don't want any of that shit. This is especially a problem with 360 games from what I remember.

Anonymous Sat Sep 14 02:09:17 2019 No.5881491

>>5881329
ah yes time to hoard soulless 360 and ps3 games. It's the final generation I personally had real interest in but looking back it was a forgettable generation. As hardware focuses on easy porting and more directly competing with PC specs, collecting anything close to current generation is pointless

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 02:10:21 2019 No.5881492 >>5881491 was for >>5881338

Anonymous Sat Sep 14 02:59:59 2019 No.5881518

I only buy games that I absolutely love or that I'm too lazy to hack the system.

I buy from Disc Replay, local stores in the surrounding towns (I like driving and eating in hole in the wall diners), and Ebay. I hear a lot of shit about ebay but I've only had a bad experience once when the disc didnt work at all.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 03:05:50 2019 No.5881526 >>5881518 >Cruising around the area, visiting local stores looking for retro video games and eating at small diners You sound like a cool guy anon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 03:13:57 2019 No.5881535 >>5881269 I didn't know there was a mod chip for the switch

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 04:00:02 2019 No.5881584 >>5880778 it’s too late to collect expensive retro shit in 2019

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 04:51:47 2019 No.5881647 It's not 2005 anymore. The boomers that grew up with this stuff have careers and pensions now. That's who you're competing with to buy.

Anonymous Sat Sep 14 06:41:13 2019 No.5881758

>>5880778
I'm not saying you will never encounter a (rather) good deal with retro games but you're going to need a LOT of patience and time so if you still wish to buy games like in your pic in the year of our lord twenty nineteen your best bet will be from online or event sellers.

As someone who's been collecting since 2010 (which was already really late compared to say the late 90s or till 2003 or so) I feel it's not really worth it to collect and play nintendo games except N64 ones because all of them have become double, triple or even 4 times the asking price they used to be almost 10 years ago and I'm afraid that's not going to improve. Playstation or megadrive might still be interesting but that's not going to last long anymore. While not my favorite way of playing them, you're so much cheaper off if you just say fuck it and just emulate games on whatever you feel like. You don't seem to want to pay too much so I'm sure that's the better option for you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 07:36:04 2019 No.5881804 >>5881647 >pensions The people who grew up with SNES games are like 35, not retired. You're taking the boomer meme a bit too seriously.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 08:10:24 2019 No.5881842 >>5881804 You can be receiving pensions from one career but not be retired. I guess you don't know anyone who stayed in the military and get 20y pay? You can be like 39 with that shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 08:33:55 2019 No.5881870 >>5881804 True, but the point he's making is valid. Too many people with too much disposable income who are perfectly fine with jacked up prices simply because they can afford it, value proposition be damned.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 12:46:05 2019 No.5882270 buying second-hand is like stealing from the hardworking developers.

Anonymous Sat Sep 14 12:48:27 2019 No.5882273

>>5880778
>where do you buy your old games from?
no where, i bought an sd2snes, modchip for my ps1, and a flashcart for my genesis. why on earth would you pay todays prices for any of that shit you want from a store when theres now a flooded market full of repros? lol

Anonymous Sat Sep 14 13:15:02 2019 No.5882314
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Hey guys, Metal Jesus here!

Today I have something, very cool to share with you all! I over hype every game I come across, and call them "hidden gems". I cause used game prices to spike on Ebay, which effects the prices at yard sales and pawn shops.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 15:02:54 2019 No.5882503 >>5882314 >seething

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 15:04:08 2019 No.5882505 >>5880778 The Eye and Internet Archive

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 15:11:04 2019 No.5882515 >>5881491 You could hoard Wii games if you really want. You can find Mario Galaxy for a couple bucks at most thrift stores, and that's likely going to shoot back up to 50 in a few years.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 15:14:33 2019 No.5882518 >>5880778 Piracy and Chinese brands. No joke there is not much difference between a knockoff that is similar to the original in every way except the 20 year old plastic.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 14 17:26:00 2019 No.5882759 A local used game store and an annual convention whenever it rolls around

Anonymous Sun Sep 15 05:55:35 2019 No.5883897

>>5880778
Between eBay & Steam, the PC physical game resale industry died long ago and far away. Your only hope is that typical "collector died and now the family just wants to get rid of the shit fast" deal that, every now and then, comes along. Otherwise, be prepared to pay $10-30 per game.

Anonymous Sun Sep 15 06:48:04 2019 No.5883924
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>>5880778
Are zoomers literally only starting to buy games now? I've literally been buying video games my whole life it's how I got a collection today. If you were stupid enough to sell/throw-out/break your old video games then fuck off you should not be buying right now anyways you'll just end up doing the same shit again.

Anonymous Sun Sep 15 10:30:07 2019 No.5884141
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>>5881293
Yes, that's what they were selling for on Ebay, but they were 100x easier to find for cheap at flea markets, garage sales, and thrift stores since way less people were actively looking for them. Use your fucking brain faggot.

Anonymous Sun Sep 15 15:59:58 2019 No.5884619

You are literally 10 years too late.

Your only hope is either one of those neckbearded friendless "collectors" to die so their mom will sell all his games at a garage sale, or the retro bubble to explode in a high picthed POP and resellers, and hoarders have to liquidate their stuff so they dont lose their life savings due to prices going down.

Anonymous Sun Sep 15 16:01:44 2019 No.5884626
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>>5881017
>a nation actively trying to undermine and overtake the nation I live in

The absolute irony is glorious... an American complaining about another government trying to overtake and destroy their country.

what a time to be alive!!!

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 15 23:09:07 2019 No.5885441 >>5883924 >buying video games my whole kek >a collection Double kek. How many games in your "collection"?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 00:48:13 2019 No.5885570 >>5885441 Nice world filter faggot. I have around a little more than 1000 games. Mostly held on to them cause I never needed or wanted the pennies on the dollar I could of got for them back in the day. Stay mad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 01:35:25 2019 No.5885617 >>5881248 Fuck Greedwill.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 06:36:40 2019 No.5885882 >>5881248 This. I have never ever seen any vidya at a goodwill. Not games, not even more modern ones, not consoles or controllers. Shit, I haven't even seen any other sorts of AV equipment. Nope, all goes to their shitty online auction sites

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 07:20:07 2019 No.5885931 >>5881248 May as well try Craigslist then.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 07:38:37 2019 No.5885956 >>5880778 I get a good couple of finds a year. Nothing amazing, but every now and then you’ll find something in good condition WAY cheaper than eBay rates. PlayStation 1, 2, 3, GCN/Wii, XBox are all easily available now, as are DS/3DS.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 08:42:52 2019 No.5886048 >>5885570 Nice being a stupid fagot bullshitter You have around a little more than 1000 steam/gog/whatever free games in your "collection". The only one "mad" here is the crazy fuck who's LARPing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 10:35:36 2019 No.5886226 >>5880778 I haven't been able to find affordable boxed nes/SNES games since 2009, thanks to social media "game wall guy" culture.

Anonymous Mon Sep 16 10:41:18 2019 No.5886235

>>5880941
YouTubers keep giving it lip service and it keeps showing up on their """hidden gem""" videos. I just want the economy to crash so all these bastards will regret investing in this hype bubble when they realize their dirty old games aren't worth that much irl.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 11:02:01 2019 No.5886267 File: 414 KB, 2289x2289, PicsArt_09-16-11.00.16.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5882314 He deletes all the comments that don't tickle his ass, and moves up all the dumbass speculator comments.

Anonymous Mon Sep 16 12:31:20 2019 No.5886376
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>>5886048
Nope physical games only goy. Got around 500 more games on Steam but I don't count that shit. Go cry in a hole that mommy and daddy never let you keep your video games.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 22:09:24 2019 No.5887425 >>5880778 I go to BookOff, don't bother with Akihabara only fat white people go there to buy expensive games

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 22:14:17 2019 No.5887431 >>5881213 >go to BookOff >buy Mother 2 for ¥1,500 >Chrono Trigger ¥500 >Panzer Dragoon ¥200 All CIB of course, no loose carts allowed in my house

Anonymous Mon Sep 16 22:22:02 2019 No.5887451

>>5884626
It's not really ironic, it's common sense. Of course one would be more tolerant of fucking over others than getting fucked over.
Plus, governments aren't the citizens, as much as we'd like to think otherwise. It's mostly out of our control. I can dislike China but not random Chinaman; the same applies to the US.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 22:24:28 2019 No.5887452 >>5884626 China is threatening us in Canada not America, America is their ally

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 22:26:14 2019 No.5887456 >>5887451 To add, I should have clarified I'm not this guy.>>5881017 He is obviously Canadian, what with the real estate line.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 22:53:41 2019 No.5887495 >>5880778 >let it die >Let it die.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 22:55:28 2019 No.5887497 File: 460 KB, 400x527, 1559939078976.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5881213 Please dont post that WORDFILTERboy cunt staged clickbait video trite.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 22:57:05 2019 No.5887502 File: 13 KB, 454x520, 1562445381448.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5882314 >cocks gun

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 22:59:20 2019 No.5887507 File: 388 KB, 926x725, 1558974688855.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5886267 >>5882314 why nobody screencapped the negative comments to that faggot piece of shit, that guy is the literally definition of fraudulent poser whore.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 23:00:15 2019 No.5887508 >>5887431 NTSC games only or TRASH!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 16 23:09:08 2019 No.5887521 >>5887508 I want my games uncucked without Bill Clinton jokes and censorship

>>	Software and so on Mon Sep 16 23:40:21 2019 No.5887587 >>5887452 The fuck? The whole reason China is threatening Canada is because Canada is detaining the CEO of Huawei for the US to press charges against. Canada is basically proving its loyalty to the US in our trade war.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 00:04:38 2019 No.5887620 >>5887587 No, it's because we support Hong Kong and told the Communist Occupied Mainland of China (there is only one true china the Republic of China) to fuck off out of Hong Kong

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 00:05:27 2019 No.5887621 >>5887508 Japan is NTSC.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 00:07:08 2019 No.5887625 >>5887621 2 nukes was not enough

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 09:47:03 2019 No.5888276 >>5880891 I'd rather just buy a flashcart honestly.

Anonymous Tue Sep 17 09:52:15 2019 No.5888284

>>5882314
>>5886267
>>5887507
>being obsessed with e-celebs
Oh hi /v/. Let me remind you that you can still emulate those games. You should've bought them before your youtube idols talked about them but no, you keep crying about some person somewhere that in no way affects your actual life nor your ability to play video games.

Come back when you're actually playing some games.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 17 18:07:42 2019 No.5889073 >>5888284 good luck finding roms thanks to this parasite dog whistlers >>5882314 and Nintendo

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 18 07:48:17 2019 No.5890291 >>5889073 >not being able to find roms Stop acting like you're new and just do some basic research anon. Surely you can't be too lazy to spend a few seconds to do a search engine research on 'roms'.

Anonymous Wed Sep 18 09:52:18 2019 No.5890483

>>5881804
Yeah pensions I don't know but those people are making those nostalgia buys earlier than, say, the baby boomers. The baby boomers didn't start re-buying model trains and toys until they were in their 50s or 60s but the SNES/Genesis people are in the market again right now.

I'd say that SNES/Genesis market has at least ten years left in it before the bottom falls out again. They'll never be as cheap as Atari games, but they'll eventually deflate.

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