entremet
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No love for mm 5 and 6.i kno man, i've opted for japanese versions as they are sooo much cheaper
i can sell you the Rockman X3 for the saturn if you want!
My pack of Blue Bombers,
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Retro game prices are currently pretty insane.
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Noisepurge
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haven't been able to find them for a reasonable price yet. And for those NES and GB games, i just had to go loose only.
NES cardboard cases are ALL eaten by dogs, destroyed by kids or just deteriorated with time :/
Cucurbitacée
Member
My bad, I never bought any of these season pass, I always assumed they've just unlocked stuff that was present on the disc, not actually requiring a validation from a server.
Petrae
Member
Once GameStop clearances what is left of its PSP stock (this holiday, I'm guessing), I'm thinking that Wii and/or DS is next on the clock. Now is a decent time to load up on Wii software, but my hunch is that there will be an even cheaper window next year. (Which is when I'll probably jump)
terrisus
Member
Mega Man 5 is expensive?
<goes to check>
Oh hey, so it is.
In reality, I have a bunch of games that are worth a bunch of money, which I'm not aware of since I don't really sell games.
Although again, most of them are worth less now than what I paid for them.
entremet
Member
Anything Mega Man is crazy.
Who knew, right? I guess Capcom killed the Blue Bomber too early.
The reason I'm doing it now is because some are semi-rare. Mostly, T or M rated games that don't have a lot of copies in circulation. Like, Madworld for $3, S&P for $5, KoF/GG/Castle Shikigami under $2.
It's not piracy, it's commonality.
Games like Suikoden II, Dragon Force, Megaman 8 for Saturn, etc, etc are all expensive not just because of their age, but because they had small print runs in the first place. While age has an impact on the value (older titles have higher odds on copies being damaged into unplayability, thrown into the garbage, being forgotten in storage, etc), it's far from the only qualifier.
Even Gameboy titles aren't immune to higher prices. For example, the first Shantae cart for Gameboy Color is still stupidly expensive: A sealed copy is currently on sale for $1500, and used copies range from $50 (cart only, poor but playable condition) to $250 (In box with manual, great condition).
Piracy doesn't impact the price of originals at all, because the fact it's the original (and not emulated, legally or not) is what gives it value. Anyone can emulate Dragon Force, but my copy in the box is worth $100-$130 even so.
No, it's piracy. Counterfeit carts has decimated the Gameboy market. Nobody wants to spend on used gameboy games, because an enormous of them for sale online are pirates, and you won't know if you're buying a pirate until you have it in your hand.
The exact same thing is happening to Sapphire for the PC Engine CD.
entremet
Member
What's Sapphire?
Roddslayer
Member
Haha nice shout out to Back in my PlayHere's the culprit --
A formerly extremely expensive light-hentai shmup for the PC Engine Arcade Card. You still see high listings, but hardly anybody in the PC Engine community buys the game anymore because there's a chance you're blowing $1k on a high quality reproduction. It was once the crown jewel of the PC Engine library.
Noisepurge
Member
pretty much the same, the only collection i have that i'm willing to sell is my Castlevania set:
Cucurbitacée
Member
Isn't the printing on the inner ring of the disc different on the bootleg version? I don't believe there would still be a sealed copy nowadays, it would be easy to ask the seller for a close-up photo of the disc.
Cucurbitacée;128309708 said:
That would be the first counterfeit batch. Super PC Engine Grafx did a write up on that several years ago, and for a while, it became safe to buy. Then, a second batch of counterfeits showed up and these do not display the same faults as the original bootlegs. They are virtually indistinguishable from the real game.
There are still a few sealed copies of legit Sapphire in the hands of collectors.
Deadpool_X
Banned
I was fortunate enough to pick up some Snes games back when they were still cheap. I have a copy of Super Metroid with a $9.99 sticker, and a Yoshi's Island cart with a $5.99 tag on it. Then, there are the games I got from Toys R Us when they were clearancing out Snes titles for $3.99. I was able to grab CIB copies of Turtles in Time, Contra III, and Super Castlevania IV, all of which go for about $40 for loose carts alone.
Cucurbitacée
Member
I guess I left the collection scene for too long. I didn't knew that, thanks for the info.
Cucurbitacée;128310095 said:I guess I left the collection scene for too long. I didn't knew that, thanks for the info.
It really, really sucks because I don't have Sapphire and I've always wanted it, but I'm terrified of being burned. The first wave of counterfeits popped up around 2003 and the second wave of much better counterfeits popped up around 2008.
I assume you're talking about A&C games?
Cucurbitacée
Member
Good luck finding one. But all this PC Engine talk made me nostalgic, I think I will plug my Duo-R and go for a nostalgia trip. ^^
Here's the culprit --
Anyone care to explain this for those of us not in the know? I recognize this pic as an avatar from a poster in another thread.
Hamburgler
Banned
I'm very tempted to go check this out. I'm only a couple hours away.
But the prices from the stickers don't look so much as "insanely reasonable" as they are pretty much in line with ebay. It kind of does irk me they get all of this for free and turn around and sell it at those prices.
Which brings me to a point: if you have a store people will practically pay you to take their shit. I manage a game store that deals in retro games and it is so amusing to see stuff up on craigslist that people want an arm and a leg for and will not budge then bring that same stuff into the store when they can't sell it and accept a fraction of what they were wanting.
I don't get that kind of logic at all.
PumpkinSpice
Banned
Radiant Silvergun's price hasn't moved much in like 20 years. It's not even that high.
Corronchilejano
Member
Agreed. If Nintendo just kept adding games to its Virtual console and not just for the Wii U now...
take it from an ex-collector (I've since sold off all my Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, PSX, GAmecube, Dreamcast, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Wii libraries - HUGE amount of games) - garage sales and pawn shops are your friends. People on eBay will google the value of their stuff and start bids at stupid prices OR noob eBay bidders will bid like idiots and artificially inflate the value of an item.
Cucurbitacée
Member
Pardon me if I'm wrong, but isn't Goodwill a charity organisation? If that's the case, doesn't it make sense for them to make as much money as possible? Once again, don't shoot me if I'm wrong, I'm French and not sure what Goodwill really is.
Corronchilejano
Member
Crimsonclaw111
Member
I wish Nintendo pumped out new and more Virtual Console titles. A damn shame they started over again on the Wii U.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I can't imagine the killing I'd have made if I kept all my old games. I had everything pristine in the boxes with all inserts to.
Edit: Especially when I see what junk condition copies of games are going for.
Yes. Interest in retro games peaks ~16-24 years after release, as people get jobs and nostalgia.
The bubble bursts once those people have their fill. And simple logic dictates that there will never be less re-releases over time. For example, in the mid 90s we had Mario All-Stars + World, in the 2000s we had Super Mario World, and in 2006 we had Super Mario World on the Wii VC. Present day we have Mario World on Wii U VC. These games aren't going away, and each re-release makes it easier to play the games.
So you can pretend that a game that was produced in limited quantities has some inherent value, but I don't buy that logic. Baseball cards and 60s kids toys have limited amounts, and they *can't* be reproduced 1:1 perfectly using digital technology (barring 3D printer advancements).
Once these gamers start dying (example: Atari gamers) the value will plummet. Now you can ask yourself whether something tied to a living human giving a shit truly has inherent value.
Personally, I'm glad the vast majority of games are available in cheap re-releases. I also don't think there is anything morally wrong with emulating a game no longer available "new" or direct from the publisher. Copyright law overall should have much shorter terms.
MaschinenZimmer
Banned
I have read this a lot and I think this is simply not true. If it was true, the Mega Drive/ Genesis games would be at least on similar levels in terms of prices as the SNES games. But they aren't. On the other hand Saturn stuff, Neo Geo and Arcade PCBs know no boundaries. Most people that were kids during the Saturn era don't even know what a Saturn is; go figure.
I buy myself a lot of PS1 games and I can get most of my games for less than a Starbucks coffee, even the lesser known stuff. Games like LSD or Serial Experiments Lain doesn't count. Those games were never cheap and always meant to be collectors items.
It's the fault of opportunistic resellers. They found a new market and it works for them. Plain and simple.
Yeah some people seems to be doing this for a living or got too much free time.
As for me I work 40h a week and actually play video games + social life so I don't really have the time to check every little place/flea market and hitting F5 each 5 secs on site like Craiglist
Speaking of Super Famicom , prices went up since last year on a lot of games, Demon Blazon (Demon's Crest) was around $70-100 CIB and it's now between $150-200ish on eBay .
BobbyRobby
Member
I had a fun time building a Master System collection the past few years. The benefit of few kids having nostalgia for the system.
The best time to buy DS games from GameStop was about two years ago. The prices are way better now, but they've thrown out all the boxes and manuals. It sucks.
I'd get that Wii and PSP stuff from there now.
The best time to buy DS games from GameStop was about two years ago. The prices are way better now, but they've thrown out all the boxes and manuals. It sucks.
I'd get that Wii and PSP stuff from there now.
I'll have to look into this place now that I live there. Still, there's a few games I want in my collection that I'm adamant about having complete, like Gunstar Heroes.
Garage sales were a bust up in northern ontario. You could look all day and maybe find a couple grimy old PC games, most of the time they'd just be like...old people selling dishes or something. I gave up after a while.
But yeah I'm definitely regretting selling off my old consoles now, I was obsessive about boxes/manuals even as a kid so everything was complete (even the console boxes themselves). Of course, if I hadn't sold them, I wouldn't have been able to buy new consoles. I do still have everything GBA/PS2 and later though.
Hamburgler
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Cucurbitacée;128311883 said:
It's a nonprofit chain of thrift stores but not a charity.
shanafan
Member
I have been picking up Gamecube games for the past few months in my local stores, and I am glad most of the titles I have got so far have been under $10.
One store had Rebel Strike: Rogue Squadron III priced at $14.95 (WHAT), but they price matched a competitor for $10 off.
Cucurbitacée;128311883 said:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-hrabe/the-worst-corporation-in-_b_1876905.html
It's ok. Lots of people make that mistake because it's exactly what they want you to think. They're for-profit, and their shtick is to train individuals with disabilities for eventual employment. They make bank off this.
NO, this place is bad. BAD.
Hison Yohannas
Banned
People don;t realize how cheap is is for box and manual alone which a lot of people sale. It's easier to get a good to great condition disc alone for cheap and buy the box separate instead of buying everything in one package.
You can get games like Ultima 7 collectors edition fvor like $50 that way instead of $400.
You can get games like Ultima 7 collectors edition fvor like $50 that way instead of $400.
terrisus
Member
There are more retro game stores around than people think - they just require looking for them.
For anyone in the western Massachusetts area, check out Never Grow Up in Athol, MA.
Shopping there is an absolute blast. Great selection, great guy who runs it, great prices.
There's also Video Game Castle in Chicopee, MA.
It also has a great selection, but the prices aren't as great, and the experience is more sterile.
Also, I don't know if he's still doing it since it's been a few years since I've been there, but X9 Games at the Hampshire Mall in Hadley, MA
It's mainly a card games/board games/D&D sort of store, but they carry classic games as well. The guy who runs it, Seth, is a friend of my sister and her husband, and he's a great guy.
So, that's at least 3 places within a 1-hour radius in western Massachusetts.
Most places are going to have a couple if you take the time to look around.
For anyone in the western Massachusetts area, check out Never Grow Up in Athol, MA.
Shopping there is an absolute blast. Great selection, great guy who runs it, great prices.
There's also Video Game Castle in Chicopee, MA.
It also has a great selection, but the prices aren't as great, and the experience is more sterile.
Also, I don't know if he's still doing it since it's been a few years since I've been there, but X9 Games at the Hampshire Mall in Hadley, MA
It's mainly a card games/board games/D&D sort of store, but they carry classic games as well. The guy who runs it, Seth, is a friend of my sister and her husband, and he's a great guy.
So, that's at least 3 places within a 1-hour radius in western Massachusetts.
Most places are going to have a couple if you take the time to look around.
They're popping up like mushrooms now that there's a big interest and subculture, like comics in the '90s.
How many of those comics stores are still around?
Lumpy Onion
Member
Maybe I should finally unload my Ninja Gaiden Trilogy SNES with pristine manual. But damn, if only I hadn't tossed the box. That game seems to be worth a pretty penny.
shanafan
Member
I want all the Tom Clancy games for Gamecube, and a store nearby me has Rainbow Six Lockdown for Gamecube - disc only. I can get the box from an auction on eBay, but I really, really want to find all these titles in the wild.
Of course, it's the same price on eBay for a CIB for R6 Lockdown as the store price.