/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7757404]

What the hell happened to the used video game market this year?

[Anonymous No.7757406]

>>7757404
covid and retards

[Anonymous No.7757418]

>>7757404
People my age are nostalgic for retro vidya and we've reached new levels of affluence.

Covid was the perfect trigger, but this is only the beginning. Its going to get worse

[Anonymous No.7757425]

>>7757404
Several theories I have
1)Millenials hit a certain age where they want their old stuff back
2)Coronovirus mentally fucked people into believing the future is bleak so they are holding onto the past for comfort (extends to zoomers chasing soul)
3)Marques technog running a series talking about retro consoles giving normies it as a point of fixation

[Anonymous No.7757427]

>>7757418
>we've reached new levels of affluence.
kek, he doesn't know

[Anonymous No.7757428]

It's inflation you retards, we're in a period of rapid inflation right now and consumer prices have doubled in almost everything.

[Anonymous No.7757430]

>>7757425
>2)Coronovirus mentally fucked people into believing the future is bleak so they are holding onto the past for comfort (extends to zoomers chasing soul)
Yeah I'm sure it was the coronavirus that did this, not the past decade of cultural destruction of the west.

[Anonymous No.7757439]

>>7757404
>this year
Weird. I have seen an increase of prices for retro games for some years already.

[Anonymous No.7757440]

How new are you? This has been the past decade.

[Anonymous No.7757441]

>>7757425
>mentally fucked people into believing the future is bleak
Are we talking about covid or what happened the past decade on the west?

[Anonymous No.7757453]

>>7757404
Who the hell cares about coomlectors. Just download it. Use a flash cart if you absolutely have to run it on original hardware.

[Anonymous No.7757468]

>>7757404
Due to COVID, people have been going out less and have been watching coomlectors ecelebs like never before.

[Anonymous No.7757476]

>>7757404
Due to COVID, people have been going out less and have been watching coomlector youtubers like never before.

[Anonymous No.7757480]

Government prints out trillions of dollars and no one should be shocked it’s spent on stuff like retro vidya games. I’m completely unsurprised

[Anonymous No.7757486]

>>7757440
Chrono Trigger was like $100 half a yer ago.

[Anonymous No.7757509]

>>7757476
>pay me to be able to fuck people fast

[Anonymous No.7757526]

>>7757476
should change his name to metaljesussucks tbqh

[Anonymous No.7757554]

>buying games

[Anonymous No.7757578]

>>7757554
>those eyes

[Anonymous No.7758663]

>>7757404
This has been happening for many years.

>>7757406
Covid has nothing to do with it, it's collectors snatching up rare valuable things.

[Anonymous No.7758664]

>>7757486
Yes and you dont think that in itself was ridiculous?

[Anonymous No.7758669]

>>7757430
Video games aren't western products anon

[Anonymous No.7758673]

>>7757404
Lockdowns and stimulus checks.

[Anonymous No.7758684]

>>7758664
shit i think 40$ is ridiculous for an rpg

[Anonymous No.7758718]

>>7758673
Nope, shit was becoming incredibly expensive before all that.

[Anonymous No.7758745]

I actually just bought Chrono Trigger for the DS last week.
Paid 90€ for it while people now complain about 70 for new PS5 games.
Fuck!

You can laugh at me know...

[Anonymous No.7758746]

Huh?

[Anonymous No.7758748]

>>7757404
people be home a lot and had stimulus money. also retro hardware isn't being made any more and so becomes rarer and rarer every year as shit gets destroyed for one reason or another

[Anonymous No.7758759]

>>7757404
Governments printed up trillions and passed it out. Extra money shifted the demand curve to the right. SNES games are out of print, so the supply curve doesn't move. Because demand increased more than supply, the equilibrium market price is now higher.

[Anonymous No.7758764]

hipsters

[Anonymous No.7758848]

>>7758718
WE ALL FUCKING KNOW THAT DIPSHIT THE THREAD IS ABOUT THE VERY RECENT BOOM THAT'S EVEN MORE THAN USUAL LEARN TO FUCKING AAARRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHUT UP!

[Anonymous No.7758865]

>>7757425
I think covid just further incentivized people to shop online, which drew more attention to retro game listings. Also people were stuck inside during lockdown with nothing to do but browse the internet.

[Anonymous No.7758874]

>>7758848
Kinda based ngl

[Anonymous No.7758905]

>>7758663
Covid isn't the whole story but it is part of it. A lot of people were indoors and needed crap to do so they bought games. Plus the tax refunds gave people lots of money so they said fuck it I'm gonna buy shit. The bigger story is the Heritage Auctions/WATA scamming but COVID is part of it

[Anonymous No.7759316]

>>7757578
Lmao

[Anonymous No.7759318]

>>7758848
it's inflation you fucking retard. Are you not following the news? Consumer prices have almost universally doubled.

[Anonymous No.7759319]

>>7759318
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[Anonymous No.7759320]

>>7758905
Noone buys retro games to actually play them

[Anonymous No.7759323]

>>7759318
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[Anonymous No.7759325]

>>7759319
Why wouldn't prices for non essential collectibles hike in the middle of inflation as all other prices are also rising? Think.

[Anonymous No.7759331]

>>7759323
We're going through more rapid inflation right now than we were in 2008.

[Anonymous No.7759336]

>>7759323
settle down, beavis

[Anonymous No.7759362]

>>7759325
Not him, but I actually have an answer. I use my local craigslist rip off, and all non essentials have been A) Cheap and B) Most were open to further jewing. From Omnibi, to video games to singaporean statues everyone just started selling shit to make their next payment.
Needless to say I somehow became more of a buyfag than usual

[Anonymous No.7759451]

>>7757404
Its pretty interesting, I dont know whether to keep gouging or save some for later

[Anonymous No.7759461]

>>7759320
i do

[Anonymous No.7759463]

>>7758669
Japanese are honorable Aryans

[Anonymous No.7759724]

The economy got stimulated, so now businesses are making a shit ton of money, leasing to more people being able to afford their hobbies for a change.

[Anonymous No.7759726]

>>7757428
Then why has the cost of living stayed the same? That's the opposite of inflation.

[Anonymous No.7759731]

>>7759726
In fact, the cost of living where I live has gone /down/. Average rent decreased by $400 in the 5 boroughs

[Anonymous No.7759762]

>>7757404
Nothing. It's still about 100 yen for a normal retro game and the supply is huge as always. Mercari gaining traction has also made buying/selling online easier than ever.

[Anonymous No.7759784]

>millennials with disposable income blowing money on shit they'll never be able to resell
If you're gonna blow your crypto earnings on something, buy gold and ammunition.
>nah i'll get pokemon cards and videogames instead
Without guns, these faggots are easy to rob. Better yet, just break into their cuck apartments, and smash their copies of Earthbound with a hammer, after tying them up with their own RGB cables.

Smash the DRTs too.

>Ayo AYO PAT CONTRI! Mah nigga you don't like guns mah nigga wut THA FUCC?! Ay, we gon 2 da BANK and u takin them NWC carts out of yo depot box and givin them duckets to me NOW or I'll blow yo fuckin FACE clean off mah nigga, lil bitch faggot SD represent!

[Anonymous No.7759837]

>>7759726
That's certainly not the case across the entire country

[Anonymous No.7759842]

>>7759784
schizoposter

[Anonymous No.7759861]

>>7759842
Nah dude. These idiots flaunt their thousand-dollar game collections, and NONE of them seem to give a shit's fuck about packing weaponry to defend the shit. Many of them like to talk quick snide remarks about how we need more gun control and other faggotry, proving they're ripe for the picking. It's amazing more of these fags aren't getting boosted for their shit.
I'm half tempted myself. I could use a little extra pocket pennies to buy gold and crypto with.

Rob some fool's copy of Gamecube games, shuck them bitches off for 1/2 cost to some fool that doesn't care about buying someone elses golden eggs. Someone big is gonna get hit within the next couple years like this I promise you. There's too much money involved now. With what people are paying you'd think these fags would pay armored cars to move their hauls.

[Anonymous No.7759871]

>>7758663
>This has been happening for many years.
>tards being retarded on the internet

[Anonymous No.7759876]

>>7759861
>NONE of them seem to give a shit's fuck about packing weaponry to defend the shit.
Because they are video games and not keys of cocaine. Take your fucking meds.

[Anonymous No.7759880]

>>7759871
Wait until people find out their $10K NFTs can be got at gunpoint. Inflation is here, people will be getting poorer, crime will be going up.
Richfags and their NFTs, games, and TCGs are just asking for it.

[Anonymous No.7759886]

>>7759876
>and not keys of cocaine
A sealed copy of SMB went for more than TWO keys of coke.
And NWC goes for 1-2 keys.
That market was only known to game nerds, but it's quickly reaching the ears of people who WILL rob you if they find out you have valuable shit. Selling an NWC or even an Earthbound isn't easy like it is coke or gold or other shit, but it is doable, and it's not hard enough to make people scoff at the $$$.

My point ITT is, collectors are making themselves into targets. Moderately-wealthy people are about to get raped. Only people with over a quarter-bil or so will be able to escape the coming raids.

[Anonymous No.7759889]

>>7757404
I am so happy I got my mental illness out of the way early and bought almost all the retro games I wanted when the market was still ass but manageable (circa 2015), I even managed to get panzer dragoon saga at a garage sale for 60 bucks. However, I still want to kill myself when I remember that I still want stubbs the zombie and that the only remaining part of my retro collection outside of that are sega saturn games.

[Anonymous No.7759907]

btw, after a period of robbery of valuables like these, the market'll crash out on them as people figure out that you can't eat or defend property with cards, NFTs, and videogames. So even if you buy them and never get robbed, you're still getting robbed by buying something that will be worthless sooner rather than later.

Flashcarts. Use em! ODEs. Copied discs. Whatever, but don't sink money into this plastic and cheap metal and silicon shit.

[Anonymous No.7759958]

>>7759907
'no'

[Anonymous No.7759968]

>>7758759
>An anon who actually understands economics.

Based.

[Anonymous No.7759991]

>>7759958
If you collect because you LOVE gaming and want to build your own lil museum and enjoy your collection, you are 100% fine in my book.
I'm talking specifically to assholes that treat our hobby as a fucking investment and a brokerage.
Wasting your money solely for your own enjoyment is fine, Just don't prop up a bullshit market.

DON'T BUY COCAINE WHEN YOU CAN BUY 3-MMC FOR FAR CHEAPER! Propping up the coke market is retarded.

[Anonymous No.7760031]

>>7758669
>Video games aren't western products anon
The only ones worth collecting anymore sure are. Good luck with your $1000 nes games, weeb - old USA made games are still cheap as dirt.

[Anonymous No.7760040]

>>7759991
In that case I agree. Scalpers and people who destroyed the retro game hobby should be raped and killed.

[Anonymous No.7760045]

>>7759889
>stubbs the zombie
It's less than $100. Just get it and be done with it.

[Anonymous No.7760054]

>>7760031
Your image looks so unappealing so maybe USA games are cheap for a reason. I want to consoom things that look cool and Japs are great at that.

[Anonymous No.7760129]

>>7757476
I hate this fat tranny so much. never trust a "man" with long hair and tats.

[Anonymous No.7760169]

>>7759731
>Average rent decreased by $400 in the 5 boroughs
nigger what the fuck?
rent has been skyrocketing in nyc because landlords are trying to make up for a year of lost income

[Anonymous No.7760184]

>>7760169
People got amazing deals on rent because there were many vacancies. I know of people that moved simply because they found better places to live in the city for prices they could afford. The smart ones locked in their rent with longer contracts.

[Anonymous No.7760187]

>>7760169
Rent is skyrocketing everywhere except for me.
I've been charging my current tenant $600/m since 2004 in Maryland(property inherited by family). Same tenant all these years.
3Bed 2bath + basement on 2.3acres of wooded and secluded land. I wonder what I should actually be charging these days...

Glad I'm not a greedy fuck.

[Anonymous No.7760191]

>>7757406
S.0.Y.s N COVID, that!

[Anonymous No.7760194]

>>7757554
Please someone punch him in the face until he gets a new face

[Anonymous No.7760198]

>>7759958
>Strawman: The Post

[Anonymous No.7760201]

>>7760198
>cope: the post

[Anonymous No.7760231]

>>7759880
People have known about guns for hundreds of years. Angry little poorfags are more likely to use them to shoot up their school than rob a collector.

[Anonymous No.7760250]

>>7760231
Keep telling yourself that bitchboy.
I'll rob your bitch ass with a kabar what the fuck you gonna do about it without a gun, you faggot?
You know how to knife-fight? I do. I'll gut you, and your cat, and your gf, and TAKE your fucking shit and sell it for meth money.

You're dead, your bitch is dead, my knoife is slightly duller, and i got dat shard.
Do you understand the world welcoming you because you assume people are NOT assholes?
Got a nice watch? Collectables, jewelry? Maybe a crypto account on Coinbase? Oh I WILL find that shit. You got drain cleaner and rubbing alcohol right? I got a knife right? Imagine how fast you will tell me everything I want.

Who needs a gun?

[Anonymous No.7760285]

I want to make it clear that I personally do not wanna rob anyone.

BUT the danger is here and between inflation and overvaluing of games, the threat is just ripe for exploitation. This is going to become a dangerous situation and a safe deposit box won't protect you from a gang holding your wife or mother hostage while you peel your valuable out of a safe-deposit box.
ASKING FOR IT is an understatement, especially from a group of people that are not known for violent defense of their property.
Your average PCE collector isn't toting the shotguns and rifled slugs and buckshot needed to defend his shit.

People are going to figure this out. I did. Fortunately I'm a libertarian and won't rob you.

[Anonymous No.7760426]

>>7759837
what country? Montenegro??

[Anonymous No.7760518]

>>7759463
Disglacefur

[Anonymous No.7760538]

>>7759886
>I imagine thieves will steal other people's possessions because I'm jealous of them
Get lobotomized

[Anonymous No.7760582]

>>7757476
Worst patreon plug Ive ever seen. I hope this guy falls down a chasm

[Anonymous No.7760586]

1234

[Anonymous No.7760594]

What a retarded larp you all are having. Owning plastic carts isn't making you a target, you never leave your fucking house and nobody knows you or cares about your plastic collection. Assuming you got robbed the thief isn't going to know the ebay value of your pc engine cards, fuck off.

[Anonymous No.7760615]

>>7760250
I could kill you with my thumb little girly boy. You wouldn't even make it past the cats. Bring it biotch.