/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9935323]

TURN ON EBAY
THE BUBBLE HAS POPPED

[Anonymous No.9935342]

>stupid plastic shit thread
don't care

[Anonymous No.9935343]

>>9935323
false alarm everyone

[Anonymous No.9935346]

>>9935323
I'm sorry mods please go easy on me.

[Anonymous No.9935354]

Liar.

[Anonymous No.9935386]

No one cares. Collecting overpriced scalpershit is a mental illness.

[Anonymous No.9935387]

Bubble only popped on Zelda Collector's edition for GameCube. Word got out that Majora's Mask crashes and the value went down.

[Anonymous No.9935553]

>>9935342
>>9935386
t. went to Ebay to check and was annoyed it was a prank

[Anonymous No.9935625]

sheeeeeeeit

[Anonymous No.9935641]

>>9935323
There is never going to be a bubble pop moment, video games arent a stock market. People will just slowly wind prices down once they reach a point not even the more money than brains type will buy them.

[Anonymous No.9935660]

Games will just sit on Ebay for years at the same price until they sell. Blame Ebay for enabling people to do that.

[Anonymous No.9936262]

>paying thousands of dolars for plastic when emulation is free
>or if you really want to play on original hardware, a used SNES and flash cart are less than $100
Legitimate mental illness

[Anonymous No.9936316]

>>9935625
Oh man, what a nightmare.

[Anonymous No.9936323]

>>9935625
Is this real? What's this from?

[Anonymous No.9936336]

>>9935641
Yeah, you'll see bubbles pop in narrow cases, like when FFVII skyrocketed about a decade ago and then suddenly got normal again. But for entire consoles it's just going to be a gradual return to normalcy as the generation that grew up with it ages out and there aren't enough new collectors of that console to replace them. It's what happened to the Atari before the NES and then SNES went apeshit.

[Anonymous No.9936393]

>>9936323
Its not exactly what you think.
Mizkif invested in mint graded sealed box video games.

He then watched a live auction to see what his is worth. As you can see he didn't invest well.
(assuming those are the real prices he claims he paid)

[Anonymous No.9937279]

>>9936323
>What's this from?
Someone who's such a financial genius they keep track of investments in notepad

[Anonymous No.9937418]

>>9936262
this. I only buy things like limited editions of consoles/peripherals. maybe certain special editions of games. but fuck payingthousands for something that's just gonna sit on a shelf and never even get used. at least my JP PS2s can double as backup machines.

[AI: Kink edition No.9937423]

>>9935625
>using notepad as an excel sheet

he deserved it for being this retarded

[Anonymous No.9937438]

>rabid nostalgiafagging millennial manchildren will only die out around the year 2081
Only 58 more years till the bubble pops!

[Anonymous No.9937468]

>>9935386
Can't scalp old products.

[Anonymous No.9937471]

>>9935625
What am I looking at here I don't speak /biz/tard. Are the 85+ markers supposed to be grading unopened copies or some shit?

[Anonymous No.9937475]

>>9936262
>>9937438
Weird how the "you're retarded for wasting money on physical media when emulation is free" crowd can never ever shut the fuck up and stick to their own community.
Almost like you can't stop talking about how sour the grapes must be.

[Anonymous No.9937481]

>>9937475
>weird how people can never shut the fuck up about negative externalities

[Anonymous No.9937492]

>>9937481
>externalities
lmfao you will never be an oldfag. You will never fit in. You will never be the insider.
This is /vr/ not /vemu/, go back to your subreddit, zoomie.

[Anonymous No.9938915]

Please, stop caring about uuuh plastic! Ok? So I can buy all the games I like from before my time

[Anonymous No.9939058]

>>9935641
mmm port-a-potty sludge

[Anonymous No.9939075]

I bought some MVS games since I love Metal Slug 3 and X

[Anonymous No.9939085]

>>9936393
There's so much self-dealing and price fixing going on that graded games are a straight up scam now. There's literal lawsuits happening against WATA and Heritage Auctions as we speak. It's a life lesson for everyone else: the most successful scams don't prey on people's stupidity, they prey on people's greed.

[Anonymous No.9939268]

>>9937423
This is the average intelligence of an individual that thinks that video games are an investment. I’ve noticed that it’s only really burgers that do this shit. What it is it with Americans and thinking they’re going to get rich from reselling old consumer products?

[Anonymous No.9939273]

>>9937423
there is literally nothing wrong with this. his formatting just sucks.

[Anonymous No.9939278]

>>9937423
Notepad comes with windows, Excel requires you to get Office first, which may also be a reason why he didn't use it.

[Anonymous No.9939282]

>>9936262
They're not in it for playing games. It's either as an expensive coomlect hobby or to make money reselling.

[Anonymous No.9939283]

>>9939278
LibreOffice is free if you’re too dumb/pussy to pirate Office. It’s honestly just embarrassing if you claim to be an entrepreneur/investor and don’t know how to use Excel.

[Anonymous No.9939290]

>>9939273
then how do you do calculations retard

[Anonymous No.9939303]

>>9939282
A substitute for something meaning in their life, yes, because they either can't go out and actualise themselves, or they don't want to. Guess what, though? Playing video games past the age of 18 is the exact same thing. You are a nerd sitting at the nerd's table pretending to be one of the cool kids, kindly stop it, it's obnoxious.

[Anonymous No.9939304]

>>9939290
There's things called "paper", "pens", and a "calculator" sweetheart.

[Anonymous No.9939317]

>>9939290
Can you seriously not do basic arithmetic in your head?

[Anonymous No.9939320]

>>9939304
yeah and there's also something called excel

[Anonymous No.9939326]

>>9939317
alright do the thing he was trying to do in your head right now

[Anonymous No.9939337]

>>9939326
Yeah, you've lost the right to call anyone else a retard lmao

[Anonymous No.9940045]

>>9937471
80/85+/90 etc are all grades of the games physical condition from VGA, a company who been grading video games since ~2009. 85+ basically means its sealed and in nice condition with some minor flaws.

[Anonymous No.9940081]

>>9939268
It's because Americans naturally trend towards attempting to squeeze money out of anything they can.

[Anonymous No.9940401]

>>9939283
It's pretty criminal that Office isn't built into Windows period.

[Anonymous No.9940642]

>>9935323
What does this even mean.

[Anonymous No.9940667]

>box alone goes for $60
YOU STUPID RETARDS

[Anonymous No.9940725]

>>9940667
I have friends that talk this way about video game merch and it always makes me wince. I really don't care if a game box is worth a few bucks.

[Anonymous No.9940730]

>>9940667
i specifically hunt down stuff without a box
last year i got a dreamcast that came with its box, and first thing i did was throw the cardboard away
i hoard enough stuff as it is

[Anonymous No.9940739]

>>9935323
The only thing that's popped are items that are back in stock. Like various video cables. Honestly is just sad to make threads like this.

[Anonymous No.9940745]

>>9935386
Ranting and Raving about it constantly is a mental illness.

[Anonymous No.9940746]

>>9936323
Notepad
It's a free program in Windows. Anybody can write what ever they want in it.

[Anonymous No.9940753]

>>9940730
>last year i got a dreamcast that came with its box, and first thing i did was throw the cardboard away

What a waste...

I sold my boxes of all my old systems and made several hundred on all that shit. Yes, just the cardboard boxes.

[Anonymous No.9940756]

>>9940730
>i specifically hunt down stuff without a box
this, I'm in it to play not collect, and there's no reason for me to hoard a piece of hist-
>last year i got a dreamcast that came with its box, and first thing i did was throw the cardboard away
die

[Anonymous No.9940761]

>>9940753
He's lying. It's called trolling.

[Anonymous No.9940764]

>>9940756
it's just cardboard bro
>>9940753
too much effort, i have never sold anything and never will

[Anonymous No.9940765]

>>9935387
Fuck yeah sold that long ago

[Anonymous No.9940768]

>>9940761
you just gave me a good idea for a future thread. next time i got a 20 year old cardboard box like that lying around, i will make a webm of me burning it just to see /vr/ squirm

[Anonymous No.9940770]

>>9940764
>too much effort, I have never sold anything and never will

[Anonymous No.9940853]

>>9940401
Their whole business model, much like adobe and winrar, is nickel and diming businesses. Sure, any normie can pirate Excel or photoshop, but if you want to use any of those in a professional setting, you gotta pay up. Especially important now that windows is basically free.

[Anonymous No.9940910]

>>9940764
NRFB NRFB!
https://youtu.be/6PrRUKFcnPM?t=49

[Anonymous No.9940919]

>>9940081
>I-i-it's because
lol

[Anonymous No.9940938]

>>9940919
>asked for answer
>get upset at answer
Faggot

[Anonymous No.9941537]

>>9935386
Can agree. Krikkz Everdrive with pirated roms, bootlegs and Emulation is where it's at.

[Anonymous No.9941547]

>>9935323
Why would I care about old physical stuff? MISter is good for what I need.

[Anonymous No.9941564]

>>9936262
Correct there is thousands of ways to not pay the scalper price. Paying for these things is just plain retarded in the modern age. Those that get mad about these solutions have sunken cost fallacy written all over them.

[Anonymous No.9941568]

>>9941564
That anon's not here. Stop treating this like Discord.

[Anonymous No.9941572]

I see the Mods are using another thread for their base of IRC operations again.

[Anonymous No.9941834]

>>9935625
I knew this guy was a twitch faggot didnt know he was also a vga graded fagot as well.

[Anonymous No.9942041]

>>9941568
Go back to Discord groomer.

[Anonymous No.9942053]

>>9939320
>excel
cringe zoomer shit

[Anonymous No.9942058]

>>9935625
Americans look really ugly.

[Anonymous No.9942068]

>>9942053
>everything I don't like is zoom zoom
Excel has been around since 1985 but sure enjoy being inefficient because of egotism book boom

[Anonymous No.9942073]

>>9942053
Excel has been around since 1985 but hey, enjoy your inefficient egotism boom boom

[Anonymous No.9942086]

>>9935625
So he lost -36,000 so that means he gained $36,000? Not bad

[Anonymous No.9942094]

bros,,, whens it gonna poop!?

[Anonymous No.9942103]

>>9942086
It means he's bad at formatting

[Anonymous No.9942223]

>>9935387
>Word got out that Majora's Mask crashes
I thought this was common knowledge since it has been online for years.

[Anonymous No.9942462]

>>9935625
This guy looks like he's going to ask me to go bowling with him.

[Anonymous No.9942590]

>>9942223
literally this
anyone who had it at release and ACTUALLY played is aware
either your disc/laser are in godtier condition or your file will forever be unfinished as you cannot progress

OoT was fine, the nes games were fun too even as a kid with limited funds i was annoyed but eventually just got the n64/cart/expansion

[Anonymous No.9942632]

>>9937492
and unlike you I will never spend $1,000 on Pokemanz

[Anonymous No.9942736]

>>9942058
Most people do, in general. The shock comes from going outside frequently.

[Anonymous No.9942790]

>>9941572
>that feel when its australiakun doxxing night

[Anonymous No.9942798]

>>9935343
Breh.

[Anonymous No.9942868]

>>9940938
>shitpost on anonymous image board
>don't know what anonymous means
lol

[Anonymous No.9944356]

>>9941537
MiSTer is where it's at.

[Anonymous No.9944398]

>>9937423
Notepad is a fast, reliable way to quickly jot things down.

[Anonymous No.9944441]

>>9936393
>Its not exactly what you think.
Yeah, while I do think there was a trickle down speculation/hype effect on other games, a crash in the graded sealed US game market probably won't have a huge impact on the "normal" collector markets. Non-graded sealed games, prototypes, and super mint complete games (basically things which could've attracted the WATA crowd) might go back down a bit. Loose carts, B and below condition complete games, and non-US releases will probably be unaffected since a lot of those items weren't quite as attractive to investors in the first place and the hype spillover damage to those markets has probably been fully internalized by regular gamers and collectors at this point. That said, the lesser investor bandwagoners might be dissuaded from trying to invest in non-sealed games after seeing prices collapse on some of the graded sealed games, which could prevent future spikes and perhaps slow the overall upward price trend.

tl;dr anything that drives down game prices anywhere is good, but some fat fucks theoretically losing several grand on their game investments probably won't have much of an immediate impact on prices in the broader market; at best it might cool a little of the profit-focused hype and stall the Johnny-come-lately investors from driving up other game markets

[Anonymous No.9944534]

>>9942073
>1985
Anyone born after 1980 is a zoomer, retard.

[Anonymous No.9944542]

>>9944534
I'm glad your not a teacher. American education is already shit enough.

[Anonymous No.9944543]

Prices sure are plummeting… bought mission impossible for the 64 off lukie games less than a year ago and it’s already tripled in what it’s going for from them and eBay. That bubble sure is poppin!

[Anonymous No.9946236]

I know for sure there's certain e-celebs that enjoy doing the following: smoking a fat joint, staring at their collection walls, and checking ebay to see how much games keep increasing their value

[Anonymous No.9946268]

>>9946236
you just made me notice that both armored 4 and 5 increased in value after 6 was announced..
i should have grabbed the previous ones as well back then when they were cheap

[Anonymous No.9946513]

>>9946268
I'm still pissed about that. Needed to pick up the games for 3 and 5, but kikes and Fromtards jacked the prices up. At least I have 2/AA and 4/FA.

[Anonymous No.9946520]

>>9936336
Pretty sure square reissued a bunch of their ps1 games. Iirc you could buy new copies of some of their ps1 games up until a year ago from their company store. I've got a silver cd copy of Chrono Cross I got that way. They have new ps2 games up right now.

[Anonymous No.9946557]

>>9946520
Yeah, that's probably why games like FFVIII and Chrono Cross never went above $30 or so compared to a lot of other PS1 RPGs. FFVII hitting $100 for a while was a unique case of FFVII fever brought on by Advent Children and some other related things. It certainly was never going to last. I think the same holds true for a lot of Gamecube games. There's no way the market can sustain the insane prices of what feels like the entire library at this point. When even Double Dash, which sold several million copies, is $80 that's an obvious sign of a bubble.

[Anonymous No.9946573]

>>9946268
I got 3 two weeks before the announcement. Literally quadrupled in value straight after.

[Anonymous No.9946703]

I actually have only felt "bubble pressure" in the couple years before 2020. The last 3 years ive been scoring tons of cool shit ive wanted for good prices. I just got a complete Odyssey at a little church flea market 3 weeks ago and just this past weekend spend a grand total of 14 burger bux for shipping on some good jap ps2 titles that I won for 1 cent bids on eBay. Im also pretty much at the point where across all platforms there is probably less than 100 titles i would still be interested in getting some day.

[Anonymous No.9947709]

>>9935625
>lost -36,000
>makes that back in a single stream
oh boo-hoo.

[Anonymous No.9948869]

holy shit it popped!!!111!11

[Anonymous No.9951210]

It finally happened.

[Anonymous No.9951217]

>>9935323
I don't really care either way. Pic-related has made coomlecting obsolete to me and I'd honestly prefer paypigs to keep the prices up while I sell off my collection before the save batteries die.

[Anonymous No.9951221]

>>9951217
>Pic-related
>-
why

[Anonymous No.9951237]

>>9951217
are you using a usb stick to transfer xbox games to your hdd?

[Anonymous No.9951243]

>>9951237
I used it to install the softmods, but I transfer games over ethernet with FTP. The USB transfer speeds are far too slow.

It'd be nice if I could do the same thing with the PS2, but this piece of shit omits the ethernet port for some stupid reason.

[Anonymous No.9951374]

rate my haul, i think i spent too much on it (~190€)

the lain ost includes some pc minigames
the nge ost had an artbook booklet
ayanami has gainax written at the bottom, looks legit
WHY IS POKEMON SO GODDAMN EXPENSIVE, REEEEEEEE
at least silver was the only one i still wanted, i don't care about having every alternate version for every gen

[Anonymous No.9951387]

>>9951374
That Lain CD is one of the best ambient albums ever made.

[Anonymous No.9951391]

>>9951217
Your handwriting is hideous

[Anonymous No.9951393]

>>9951391
I'd like to see you do better on a cheap label placed on an unstable surface with a shitty, withered sharpie.

[Anonymous No.9951398]

>>9951387
i'm probably going to try to boot it up on my old ps one, with the detachable screen and visualizer on.

[Anonymous No.9951492]

>>9951374
What are the pc games like on the lain cd?

[Anonymous No.9951494]

>>9951492
http://www.cjas.org/~leng/lsoft.htm

[Anonymous No.9951631]

>>9951374
>my copy of Bootleg is actually an actual bootleg
FUCK
the real thing would have been a big deal

[Anonymous No.9953440]

>>9951398
hmm my screen works in game, but if i use it as a cd player it keeps flickering non stop.
weird

[Anonymous No.9953458]

>>9951221
>>9951391

Paypigs on suicide watch. I stopped collecting for N64 when they started charging shitty games for $30+. Blame the collectors.

[Anonymous No.9953878]

>>9953458
Sell all your stuff (to me, for cheap) or else you're a paypig all the same!

[Anonymous No.9955628]

>>9953458
>Blame the collectors.
You mean the debt collectors that took all your money so you can't buy more toys?

[Anonymous No.9955916]

>>9953878
I already gave away most of my games either traded them or sold them ever since I got an Everdrive. I mean why spend 200 dollars on one game when I can have all of them in one cart.
>>9955628
Yes, I do blame them. Why do you think all the prices are shit people think everything they have is gold. They think it's an investment instead of enjoying what they have.

[Anonymous No.9955935]

>>9955916
I very much enjoy having toys that make poorfag bandwagoners seethe because they're now worth at least 10x what I paid for them.

[Anonymous No.9956336]

>>9955935
>I paid more for this software than you did so that makes me better
Why are people this retarded?

[Anonymous No.9956339]

>>9955916
>I already gave away most of my games
Good. But why 'most'? Get rid of them all.

[Anonymous No.9956513]

I got a copy of parasite eve 2 at a garage sale for 50 cents last weekend. Cheaper than burning a copy.

[Anonymous No.9956690]

>>9956336
>i'm seething so hard i couldn't read the post through my delicious zoomie tears let alone compose a coherent response
Why are people this retarded?
I have hundreds of N64 games that I paid no more than a buck for. You probably paid more for the handful of games you bought to take pictures of than I paid for all of them. Faggots like you are why simply owning toys can be almost as entertaining as playing with them.

[Anonymous No.9956889]

>>9956690
I don’t think that’s the same anon from above. I think the guy stating that it’s a waste of money nowadays because the prices are so inflated.

[Anonymous No.9957049]

I like physical copies but I got a hacked BC PS3 recently and it's so convenient for PS2 I'm thinking of going full mod/flash cart/ODE/emulation and dumping everything.

[Anonymous No.9957132]

original retro games with their packaging are collectibles now.
collectibles do not make sense in a value to function comparison and they never will.
everyone knows you can play them other ways, you are not informing anyone of anything by repeatedly saying this.

[Anonymous No.9957168]

>>9956690
my nigga I own exactly 7 N64 games I got for free at a yard sale and I have no desire for anymore because it's a terrible system with the worst controller known to man.

[Anonymous No.9958093]

I want to buy stuff

[Anonymous No.9958189]

>>9956889
It wasn't clear whether it was, so I made sure to craft my response to apply to any seething bandwagoner.
>>9957168
If you're gonna larp why not make up something more ridiculous, like how your uncle who works as Nintendo gave you sealed copies of every N64 game and you burned them all because you're not a normie and N64 is too mainstream?

[Anonymous No.9958195]

>>9944542
Euro education is just as bad, if not worse, than American public education. Don't fool yourself, leech.

[Anonymous No.9958695]

>>9957049
>flashcarts
smart thing, do it
>dumping everything
the mere fact that you are here right now means that you would 100% regret this, i guarantee it.

i personally think that SOME level of hoarding plastic is acceptable imho
>hoarding cardboard
nah
>hoarding collectors editions
nah
>hoarding manuals, artbooks
acceptable
>hoarding games and consoles
acceptable

[Anonymous No.9958810]

>>9951243
>It'd be nice if I could do the same thing with the PS2, but this piece of shit omits the ethernet port for some stupid reason.
I've seen there's mod kits you can apply to the original adapters that replace the IDE connections with SATA, while keeping the networking hardware, but I haven't bought one yet.