/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7270318]

Is now a good time to sell off games since the prices are so inflated due to the pandemic?

[Anonymous No.7270405]

post a pic of your actual games, and we'll see.

[Anonymous No.7270418]

ill buy them for 3 dollars .

[Anonymous No.7270426]

The sale prices are inflated as suddenly unemployed collectors with no income try to make profit from a collection they previously swore would never be sold.
But are there buyers willing to pay those prices? A lot of them are in a shit financial situation as well and those that aren't recognize inflated prices when they see them.

[Anonymous No.7271076]

Are old games not just going to go up in price forever? The supply is only going to dwindle with time while basedboy demand will only increase as millennials remember the classics and wish to relive their childhood and collect them.

[Anonymous No.7271082]

>>7270318
Depends on what you have.

You haven't struck gold with old games but there's likely some value.

[Anonymous No.7271114]

>>7270318
>>7270426
It's a great time. We just got another round of stimulus money here in Baseball Land

[Anonymous No.7271124]

>>7270318

>Finite supply
>Constant demand

This shit is here to stay.

[Anonymous No.7271128]

You should still sell now because everyone just got their stimmys and is hungry to buy

[Anonymous No.7271141]

>>7271076
no
look at stamps

we won't benefit from the fall though
what will make demand fall is our generation dying

[Anonymous No.7271143]

>>7271141
Stamps arent cultural icons. These are like vinyls.

[Anonymous No.7271238]

>>7271124
>Constant demand

Not true.
There will come a point where most of the collectors have either got everything they want or have been priced out of the market.
There will also come a point where those collectors start getting old, or dying, or bullied into selling by the gold digging whore they married.

When that happens, these things will be of very little interest to anyone who isn't a museum curator.

[Anonymous No.7271247]

>>7271238
You act like noone is ever going to want to replay old games, or if companies will ever release these games ever again. Media isn't art that sits in a museum.

[Anonymous No.7271292]

>>7271247
>companies will ever release these games ever again
These games will never be released physically ever again.

[Anonymous No.7271482]

>>7270318
this >>7270405

[Anonymous No.7271986]

>>7270426
You haven't been paying attention. Prices are up across the board due to stimulus money and people trapped at home with nothing else to do. Not everybody is poor, people in less impacted industries like tech are still making good money and willing to spend it on things. Like retro games.

[Anonymous No.7272007]

>>7270318
Zoomers do not care about this shit, so sell these when the SNES generation has the most disposable income

[Anonymous No.7272062]

>>7270426
Bugmen working in tech are still employed, working from home and willing to keep consooming.

[Anonymous No.7272083]

>>7270318
I've sold all my stuff from systems i decided not to collect anymore. Turbografx, Virtual Boy, WonderSwan. And i also sold all the doubles i had for SNES, Sega CD and Neo Geo. I've made a stupid amount of money, people were just paying whatever i asked. 2020 was insane.

[Anonymous No.7272094]

>>7270318
Dump undumped roms.
Destroy remaining carts.
Fuck collectors.

[Anonymous No.7272156]

>>7271986
"Quarantine" (which was hardly a thing to begin with) ended months ago.

[Anonymous No.7272189]

>I put a joke ad for Valkyrie Profile at an absurdly high price
>someone purchased it
>mfw

[Anonymous No.7272901]

>>7272189
>Joke price
Bruh every price for Valkyrie Profile is super high. If it’s ~200-250 it is pretty market average. I really want it physical baka.

[Anonymous No.7272927]

>>7271238
Emulation is damn near perfect now yet prices continue to rise, zoomers want them too, and their zoomer children will. The demand for games and the experience of the physical original console will live on anon.

You can speculate all day, but the charts and laws of economics tell a different story.

[Anonymous No.7272992]

Millenials are soon getting married or moving in with their gf's. Women of that same age group have no connection to video games and will force the men to sell off all their stupid shit.

[Anonymous No.7273005]

>>7272927
How much do authentic original vinyls go for popular shit like Beatles or other famous bands? You can expect probably a similar curve.

[Anonymous No.7273009]

>>7273005
>False equivalency

[Anonymous No.7273013]

Theres probably one thing that is keeping the prices high and thats Nintendos brand loyalty. Nintendo is probably going to go the way of Disney in our far future, so Mario and Co. will never die in the public cultural zeitgeist. Mario will be there when your grandchildren are still alive, so the original games will probably still be worth a pretty penny, especially as cartridges start to corrode or fail or otherwise get destroyed with the steady passage of time. $1000 on a collection now is probably a $10,000 collection in 20 years maybe.

Of course that isnt a monstrous return for you investor types, but for a collector its better to jump on the boat now than later.

[Anonymous No.7273015]

>>7273009
How is that false? Both are boomer tier media with old, outdated storage mediums.

[Anonymous No.7273016]

>>7273015
>Strawman

[Anonymous No.7273019]

>>7272927
if games are only going up and up then why arent atari games thousands of dollars now

[Anonymous No.7273034]

>>7273019
>why arent atari games thousands of dollars now

The stupidity of this question is astounding. This thread is full of fallacy and idiots with crystal balls.

[Anonymous No.7273038]

>>7273019
You can't compare Atari to Nintendo

[Anonymous No.7273048]

>>7270318
Fuck yeah Goldeneye.

[Anonymous No.7273080]

Zoomers itt:
>”th-the price will come down right? r-right”
>”I’ll get to p-play it before I die r-right?”
>”m-muh st-stamps”

[Anonymous No.7273089]

>>7270405
Not him, but I'll take a free appraisal.

[Anonymous No.7273118]

>>7273089
Earthbound is around $800, there's a few carts like Sparkster and Dracula X idiots will pay a few hundred for too.

[Anonymous No.7273127]

Fire Emblem Path of Radiance sat at $120 for a good year or two until the first stimulus checks came. Then it doubled for a while, and went back down to $120 about two months later. Now with the new checks, it's sometimes reaching $300. I dunno if it will drop all the way back down to $120 again, but it I'd expect at least back down to $150.

[Anonymous No.7273136]

>>7272992
>Women of that same age group have no connection to video games

This isn't true. Many young women played Pokemon, Zelda, and Mario Kart

[Anonymous No.7273147]

>>7270426
Bro I’m flourishing and getting into real games (arcade pcbs)

[Anonymous No.7273151]

>>7270318
There is no pandemic cuck.

Sell all these gay fucking videos games and buy guns right now.

[Anonymous No.7273157]

>>7273089
that is some serious dosh dude

[Anonymous No.7273165]

>>7271238
No one is gonna start collecting ever again there will be no new collectors? Please stop the copious amounts of cope

[Anonymous No.7273174]

Are you being willfully ignorant? Or just pretending?

[Anonymous No.7273176]

>>7272992
You are making huge sweeping statements without any source, this is bad mojo my dude

[Anonymous No.7273180]

>>7273015
Learn to debate to not look stupid

[Anonymous No.7273215]

>>7270318
If prices sore sky-high, I'ma be rich bitch!

[Anonymous No.7273223]

>>7272901
Something like 400$.

Bought two of them back when it was released, so it was like 80$.

[Anonymous No.7273228]

>>7272992
You sound like someone who has never met a woman they liked. I get where you're coming from but a good number of women don't fit your stereotype

[Anonymous No.7273239]

>>7273089
You ever take those apart and check out the boards? Some of your SNES games look sketchy dude. Shouldn't have those gaps at the seams.

[Anonymous No.7273245]

>>7270318
it depends duh

original cartridge? (status)
country? (economy)
popular value? (demand)
etc

[Anonymous No.7273269]

>>7272992
>Huge collection of videogames
>Wife

Pick one.

[Anonymous No.7273298]

>>7273239
Pretty sure that's a trick of light. I did once disassemble the FF2 cart to replace the battery backup. The only ones that were purchased online or second hand were Super Double Dragon, Dracula X, Plok, Sim Ant, and Sparkster. I have no concerns about their legitimacy.

[Anonymous No.7273329]

>>7273298
Dracula x and sparkster are pretty rare. I checked all mine after getting a fake contra hard corps off Ebay once. It's just good to know if they're legit or not. People are shady, It happened with a 4k set recently for me and I bought that bitch brand new and sealed from target. Non functioning bootleg 4k discs.

[Anonymous No.7273334]

>>7273269
Pick a better wife. Mine adds to my collection.

[Anonymous No.7273356]

>>7273329
In that case, I'd be more suspicious of my copy of Dracula X. It was a gift, so I'm not sure really where it was bought. Sparkster, on the other hand was one of the first things I bought on Amazon. It was probably around 2003, and I got it for something like $20, so I doubt that it's a repro. Any telltale signs I should look for?

[Anonymous No.7273374]

>>7273356
The discoloration is spot on even though it's not very aesthetic. And I'm pretty sure those labels were mostly printed in Mexico because it was a late release, also... look at the pcb board connections. If it looks brand new and fits way too tight in the system then it's most likely fake. If you own old games and collect you need to order the two gamebits. 3.8mm and 4.5mm. They're just nice to have.

[Anonymous No.7273885]

>>7270318
old but not gold? worth nothing!

[Anonymous No.7273950]

>>7273019
Because Atari was an objectively shit console. That was the entire reason for the video game crash of 1983.

[Anonymous No.7274682]

>>7273334
Sounds like when she ditches your ass she's gonna expect half. Played yourself.

[Anonymous No.7274774]

>>7273950
i always assumed the atari was as big as nintendo was for its time, I know a lot of boomers who remember the atari fondly.

[Anonymous No.7274794]

>>7273223
Yeah that’s a bit egregious, even on eBay I’m seeing around 250-280 complete. Still glad you were able to make a profit anon, what did ya spend the money on?

In terms of my own pickups lately I am the proudest of getting Klonoa for PS1 at a thrift shop for 15 bucks. Also on an unrelated note I started picking up rarer Wii games since I expect them to spike in 5 or so years.

[Anonymous No.7274809]

>>7274794
What Wii games are even worth grabbing? The Galaxys are a no brainer, I cant remember anything for the Wii that wasnt shovelware or just mediocre.

[Anonymous No.7274813]

>>7272927
Some games will always be worth a lot of money, especially memed ones like Earthbound. But as a whole, most games will eventually have very little value.

A first print of On The Origin of Species is worth a fortune. A 1935 print isn't. It's worth less than a modern print.

Most contemporary books to The Origin of Species aren't worth shit nowadays, even if they're old.

Eventually, no one will want to hoard old videogames and assorted stuff. As current collectors die in the next few decades, their heirs will just sell it all in bulk for cheap for other collectors that have made it a little longer. Yes, there's some zoomers who get memed on videogames released years before they were born because they're influenced by YouTube ecelebs.

The first issue of Spider-Man is worth a fortune. 99.99% of comics from that period aren't worth shit. A LaserDisc release of many movies are worth a lot due to its rarity and because sometimes it's an unedited cut not butchered by Hollywood (Han shot first Star Wars for example), but an older VHS tape is worth less, and a DVD isn't worth one cent now, it's gonna be worth even less.

You think people in the future will be excited at all to hoard piles of old, possibly non-functional games? You think they will give a shit? They might care about Zelda A Link to The Past or Chrono Trigger for it's historical importance. But Blasto on PS1? Tom and Jerry on SNES?

[Anonymous No.7274823]

>>7274809
Rarer games are a good point to pick up. Arc Rise Fantastica, Last Story, Pandora’s Tower, Rhythm Heaven Fever, and Sakura Wars all are worth getting now since they already run ~70 bucks. Wii has a weird library of decent games.

Don’t buy Dokapon Kingdom tho. Just get the PS2 version.

[Anonymous No.7274826]

>>7274813
There are still dvd's worth money

[Anonymous No.7274830]

>>7274823
I guess rare titles are nice to pickup, but the Wii doesnt seem have any standout "classics" to me. It always felt like a casual shovelware system, and theres very few groundbreaking titles that are memorable. Theres the marios and the zeldas but they are nowhere near as popular as their 64 or gamecube counterparts.

[Anonymous No.7274846]

>>7273089
oof half those snes carts look like they've been inside a moshpit

[Anonymous No.7274876]

>>7273165
>Please stop the copious amounts of cope

[Anonymous No.7274880]

>>7270318
yeah; nobody cares about retro games anymore when you can just load it from a flashcart

[Anonymous No.7274887]

>>7273013
Nintendards may be autistic, but they will never be Disney autistic

[Anonymous No.7274891]

>>7273089
best I can do is $5

[Anonymous No.7274893]

>>7274887
You say that while theres diehard smashies shitting their pants at weekly melee tournaments and pokemon fans are buying their favorite pikachu funkos on the reg.

[Anonymous No.7274905]

>>7273334
Okay, /r/polyamory.

[Anonymous No.7274908]

>>7270318
Go for it, collectorfag rubes deserve to be robbed.

[Anonymous No.7275068]

>>7274830
I mean the way I see it is because it is the audience was so big it’s a monkeys on a typewriter situation. For every dozen trash games there’s one that is decent and for every fifty meh games there’s a cool underrated one.

I think also we will see Mario Galaxy and TP/SS get a surge of love in a few years once zoomers come around shitposting about them. It happened to Sunshine and Wind Waker it will happen again. I’m already seeing the outpouring of love to Super Paper Mario it’s happening.

[Anonymous No.7275131]

>>7270318
I sold all my american versions of games, and I am trying to get the original jap versions right now, mostly games that zi actually love like Rockman and Zelda games
Made a good buck from the sale and bought some consoles I was missing, got a wii to play gc games mostly
I will sell a Majora mask cart for 45 bucks soon next month to a friend of my sister

[Anonymous No.7275212]

>>7272156
Not in california, arizona, new York etc. You know, places where people actually have money

[Anonymous No.7275774]

at this point why even collect physical games? if you really want to play them the way they are meant to be played you can always just get a flashcard. Iam glad I sold all my shit a few years ago. waste of time, space and money.

[Anonymous No.7275779]

>>7275212
>Not in california, arizona, new York etc. You know, places where people actually have money
dunno about that, anon. you earn more but you also have to pay more for rent and other stuff. at the end of the day your actual buying power isnt that much higher.