/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6376637
Hi Mike.
http://watchmeplaynintendo.blogspot.com/2015/04/mikes-2015-boxed-snes-collection.html

>>6376637
Very good. I got most of the games I wanted before the prices went sky high.

I cant afford to collect games cause of reseller cunts but I am considering trying to buy every copy of Official Playstation Magazine I owned.

>>6376742
This
Buying retro games in the early 2000s was easy and cheap and most people looked at you strange for buying shit that was old and that nobody wanted/was interested in.

I haven't bought anything retro in quite a while. It's just not worth it any more.

>>6376637
>Nintenshit
Burn it.

>>6376637
I stopped buying games years ago since prices on individual games are getting too crazy. On the other hand, I've been buying consoles and flashcarts.

>>6376637
Lol, collect fags. I can play all that on my Vita for free while getting a lap dance at a strip club.

>>6376746
Buy in bulk and sell what you don’t want or doubles you have, you will be surprised how much you can get back, even profit sometimes, I’ll drop Up to 1500 sometimes on various eBay collections or Craigslist pickups, and I get a lot of value out of it, don’t buy individually, you will get ripped off, buy in BULK, it’s the only way now to always get a good deal

>>6377790
>Buy in bulk
>Now you have Paper Mario and Snowboard Kids 2 at market value but also 20 copies of Madden 99

>>6377803
Cmon anon, I’m being serious, don’t buy junk, if you know what you are looking for then you won’t buy collections or bundles with sport titles, I stay away from eBay auctions That look too professional/have more then a handful of sport titles weaseled in with a copy of smb3

You should be looking for Craigslist hauls, or large eBay auctions from sellers wanting to get rid of their collections , obviously stay away from the resellers that are selling 20 copies of madden 99 with the title “huge video game lot 50+ games”

>>6377687
this, just finished obtaining all the consoles and flashcarts I wanted. now I can play any game I want on original hardware on a crt :)

>>6377827
Some people are more serious about this hobby then others, explaining the pleasure of owning and playing original games on original hardware is something that few would understand , it’s like owning a piece of the past, physical history held in your hands, Emulators and flash carts are great for casual players and nostalgia trippers, but collecting real hardware is just so awesome, you have the systems, but not the game’s, it’s not the authentic experience which completely ruins it, half the fun is searching and collecting, cleaning, displaying, trading, it’s just such a cool hobby.

>>6377841
Playing games is more awesome.

>>6377841
I get it, wasn't trying to talk down to collectors. It's like collecting anything else, there's a thrill finding thingd that are rare. I own physical copies of only my favorite games and carts I've had since I was a kid, to each they're own.

>>6377761
sure you can, fag

>>6377827
I've heard of "Battlestations", but this one is more like a RATTLE station.

>>6377827
eeh. I still have my collection of physical games, but since the resale prices have skyrocketed I stopped guying games individually. I keep my games in storage and use flashcarts and burned CDs. I'm contemplating selling off my physical games in the future anyway.

Everybody gets something different out of the hobby.

Are there any consoles where game prices arent outeageous?

>>6377914
I respect you for what you're doing, fuck paying out the ass for physical shit that you can use flashcarts for.

>>6378015
Atari 2600

>>6376637
Idling. I think I've had the ones on the right for a year if not two and haven't touched them yet.

I gave up collecting and sold like eleven thousand dollars worth of my stuff after I had to move three times. It's just not worth the hassle of the physical space it occupies. I like the idea of it, like when I see cool battlestation pics, but in practice it's something I don't want to deal with.

>>6377827
Looking incredibly soulless

I don't colelct games anymore for the sake of collecting, but I try to buy all of my favorite games as "thropies" if that makes any sense. I see no point in collecting games that I don't have any connection to, but I'd gladly have some of my favorite games on display on top of my bookshelf. Currently there's bunch of old MsDOS big boxes that I never had when growing up but played all the time. Feels great to have Gabriel Knight and Baldur's Gate sitting up there, some of the games that I actually like and played all the time.

>>6377845

>Implying collectors don't in some cases play more games than emufags

>>6377841

Based post is based

>>637830
I've been messing around with flash carts. I'm far too late to this bandwagon.

The vast majority of games are absolute shit. Any given console you can write off 75% of the games as not worth anyone's time and how many of the remaining 25% you enjoy is down to individual taste. I dont know what compels somebody to own hundreds of games.

>>6378308

I'm a little different, sure I have my childhood faves but the SNES for example has so many gems that I missed as a child like Chrono, Lufia, Breath of Fire, etc.

There are an enormous amount of obscure great games that never got a port which are now my "adult faves" in my physical collection that I like more than my childhood ones. At the time I had no idea that they existed.

>>6377827
>Flash Carts instead of physical
>Xbox 1 games
>FPS on Console

Yeah, your kind ain't welcome here /v/ tourist

>>6376637
Excellent. Just bought a pair of 4TB Samsung SSDs to protect the integrity of "the archives".

>>6377827
Based and best option.

>>6377841
Damn, your ass really got chapped over that didn't it? Fuck off with your gatekeeping real retro GAYMER shit.

>want to collect
>dont have a CRT nor the room for one
>cant justify spending 60+ on the PS1 games i wanted
>cant justify buying physical anything that is on PC

i'm in a loop, i haven't really bought much physical since the PS3 era, i've got over 300 games on steam but its a empty feeling. feel free to tell the your stories

>>6378927
>no room for CRT
Because CRTs take up as much space as a fucking grand piano. (Or is it just a discrete way of people admitting they wouldn't be able to lift it without help?)

>>6378926
stop being poor

>>6378938
Stop being a faggot.

>>6378938

Poorfags gonna poor.

Just moved into my first house, my retro collection is in boxes that I packed when I moved out my folks house into a apartment like 5 years ago. Still got a few CRTs in my folks basement to move. Need idea for shelving, I find Ikea stuff to be way to deep for what I want.

>>6378959
IKEA is awesome for shelving, the next best thing is building your own shelves and display cabinets, if not that then idk, Amazon, or a furniture store, honestly go ikea or build your own, money spent on shelves is money you could be spending on more games, don’t overdue it, it’s just shelves at the end of the day

>>6378964
Gonna roll my own, I have some wood working knowledge and plan to cover the one wall in my new game room in shelves. Right now my game room is the laundry room since my laundry room is current ripped to bare studs as I remodel it.

I go through stages where I feel the need to collect retro games then afterwards I feel like I wasted money on stuff since I use flash cards/ode/mod chips and burned discs. Like I'll get into a game via a flashcard or ode and then go buy a physical copy that I'll never play since I'll just use the rom

>>6379031
yeah well now you have it, it's not like it's getting any easier to find old games

>>6378959
>I find Ikea stuff to be way too deep
If the reason the deepness is a problem is just that the items on the shelf get pushed back away from the front of the shelf (leasing to an uneven look), you can solve that by putting light-weight blocks of some sort (light wood or whatever) behind the items on the shelf to prevent them from being pushed back

I have almost everything I want at this point
There's a few sequels to games I haven't played yet that I might be motivated to get but I'm pretty much set

>>6379578
But then the shelf still occupies unnecessary depth into the room. I fucking hate how deep "standard" shelving is. Only my old bible-like tomes make any sort of sense to the sizing which makes no damn sense in this day and age.

>>6379031
>I go through stages where I feel the need to collect retro games then afterwards I feel like I wasted money on stuff
Are you me?

>>6377827
I have that exact same plastic bin shelf drawer thingy next to my gaming set up. Except mine is full of random computer stuff and notepads I rarely use. Perhaps I should keep my controllers in it for easier access and de-clutter my console cabinet which is stuffed with controllers on top of each system....thank you for this eye opening experience anon. And yes, flashcarts are the way to go. I have a big ass collection of the best SNES and NES games in my closet that I never have to touch anymore because I have my SD2SNES and Everdrive loaded in my consoles. I still can't bring myself to sell the games though...

>>6379612
Same here, it feels good to reach the “okay I got what I want I’m good” phase. There’s still a couple MegaDrive games I’m looking for but only if I can find them cheap. But with everything else, I got what I wanted.

>>6377827
based and comfy

>>6378015
PS2 (horror survival games aside)
Genesis (if you want cart only)

>>6378174
I feel ya.

>>6379031
I don’t spend more than $90 on any game, I feel bad afterwards, the 4 times I spent more than that, it prevented me from 100% enjoying the game.

>>6376762
Exactly.

>>6380058
this, or even if i did i'd feel the need to preserve it and just play the emulated verison anyway. collecting really is autism

>>6380045

>PS2 (horror survival games aside)

PS2 market I feel like is about to explode in price in a year or so.. you can already see some stuff getting up there. .hack//Quarantine and a few weird survivor horror games are already topping the list.

>>6380118
Quarantine has been expensive for ages, but most stuff is fine, drakengard got expensive due to mememan but most of the good games are still fine.

>>6380135

I am honestly not sure why .hack//Quarantine has always been so high, but the other 3 .hack// games from the original series have been pretty cheap. I am one of the few people who bought the series at launch though.

>>6377827
Un-based and uncomfortable.

>>6376637
It is doing great, just playing some Pc Engine games right now.

How do you store games in cardboard packaging without fucking them up?

>>6380058
which games did your buyers remorse hurt the actual play experience? no bully, just wondering

>>6380157
there's plastic box protectors you can get for any size box or case, i use a couple for my rarer stuff. you can generally get them for a dollar each

>>6380139
i heard they made less copys of each game as it went own due to waning sales, which makes since but it bugs the fuck out of me GU got the remaster and 1-4 didnt

>>6376637
More a neo geo aes guy

>>6380427
lol @ the virus software.

>>6380427
The amount of regret I have for selling off my aes stuff is immeasurable. Dumped my 30 or so games plus console for less then a grand a few years back. Yeah I needed the money at the time but if I could go back I'd just sell my asshole to power top gays to pay rent.

>>6380785
Yeah, these games are going to my grave. I have a lot of rare vintage games but these are my favorite of all time. One game could cost more than entire collection at times.

>>6378931
I pay $1200 for a 1 room apartment. Even making 50k a year it's not fiscally responsible to move up. Because of this I literally have no room

>>6381114
Cry to someone who cares. You made the bed, now live in it and your horrible looking retro games
<Insert City-Life Basedpasta here>

>>6380427
>>6380785
Right now i have 14 AES carts. In the nineties i had windjammers, top hunter and a few others. Sold them back then. I feel intense regret selling. So what i have now i will keep forever. Dont sell your history dude. Its not worth the money.

>>6381114

Just get a 20" Trini and call it a day.

>>6380427
I bet there's already repros of those games for a fraction of the cost on eBay/Alibaba.

>>6381545
>repros

>>6379578
Or you could just you know, use thinner shelves

>>6380139
People really go crazy over JRPGs for reason. Maybe not as many copies were produced in the west or something?

>>6378927
if it makes you feel any better the crt meme is just that. i got rid of my CRT and just hooked my stuff into an old 720p lcd tv i had around. it looks fine.

>>6376742
This. I have pretty much everything I'll ever want and I can live without the games I don't have.

>>6382509
Same here.

>>6381114
Stop living in San Francisco or NYC then, moron. A 13" CRT takes up practically no room. "I don't have space for a CRT" is complete bullshit and everyone knows it.

>>6376637
since i mostly only buy physical for games i actually want to play, pretty good. i got a couple lots of n64 games on the cheap early on which included some "rare" games. i've got maybe 120 n64 games and i think i'll be done after i get a couple more. i'm going to have to unload the leftovers that i don't play that came in lots. i also have about 20 snes games, all of which i have played or want to play. i'd like more and there's something cool about having physical copies that aren't made anymore, but some of the prices are ridiculous. i'm noticing now maybe due to the virus that retro stores are gouging even harder than before and charging way above ebay prices.

>>6380427
beautiful desu

>>6377841
>owning things
>a cool hobby
Material possessions mean nothing.

>>6382561
it's more than just ownership of the item. it's the length to which you had to go to get it. there have been games that have just plain not become available in my city in the wild, craigslist, offerup or even at a store. there have been games i passed on when i should have bought and then found again elsewhere. i can tell you where i got every game i own. the hobby is as much about the search as it is about owning the physical copy or playing it.

>>6382571
Sounds like a waste of time man. Why bother when I could just download and start playing?

>>6382578

>Doesn't understand the concept of vintage retrogaming
>Pirate
>Zoomer mentality

Go back /v/.

>>6376637
decent...but there are some titles i know i will never be able to get for a good price so fuck

>>6382594
>piracy bad

>>6382659

>Being poor is acceptable

>>6382561
This. Collections are meaningless and they occupy physical space.

>>6382732
In this Jewish-Luciferian society, being poor is the mark of a moral man.

>>6382783
>>6382769
>>6382783
I look down on poor people like you. Poor people need to be removed from society.
>>6382561
It mean everything in the world. You can cope with that while I buy your bitch.

>>6382908
Lol I make more money than you anon, I'm a minimalist so collections offend me.

>>6382908
Imagine being so poor that saying you can afford old video games is a sign of wealth to you

>>6381259
What do you got btw. Just curious

>>6381545
Yeah, I don’t mess with repros. I only do US version too. I have Japanese aes but I usually don’t add them to my collection unless it wasn’t release here. Might take a century before I complete my set that’s what’s fun about it. The chase

>>6378015
any of the pre nes consoles no one is nostalgic for that

>>6377841
Except you don't "own" the game.

>>6382783
Giga cope.

>>6383019

The real question is how does it feel not being able to afford old video games?

My Steam library alone is worth ten-fold my CIB SNES collection.

>>6382982

>Lying on an anonymous image board

>>6383626
Only God knows

>>6382594
>The concept of retro gaming is stamp collecting

Enjoy games

>>6383748
No. Speculation. I found out that I can sell refurbished stuff to rich millenial suckers who collect sealed games, much like the comic book collector craze of the 80s and 90s.

>>6383609
care to extrapolate?

>>6376637

>>6383786
>I don't want to enjoy playing games, I get my enjoyment from being a reprehensible unneighbourly stamp collector

Enjoy games, retard

What about disc rot and decay of the console hardware?

Even the plastic shell of many XBox games start feeling rough.

>>6382908
>>6382732
The hilarious thing is that all the rich people I've known are frugal penny pinchers. It's usually the poorfags that frivolously waste their money on trivial junk.

>>6385102
That really comes down to where you live and your ability to control the storage environment. You wouldn't buy a classic car if you lived in a humid climate unless you had a garage with A/C, otherwise you'd be constantly battling rust. Some do it anyways, or outright ignore it, and all the power to them. It's a matter of pragmatic practicality.

>>6385120
But it will happen no matter what. Every matter reacts over the time. Even if you store it in normal condition.

Look at books. Books from ww1 that were kept in great condition started to react. Only difference is that you can read a book even if some words are fainting. unlike a cd

>>6385148
Bad thing is that I´m a collector and I always fear about it.

>>6384129
Just that same BS that's been trendy lately of reinterpreting the word "own" to mean "own the copyright"
Obviously that's never been what people mean when they say they own a (copy of a) game, but for some reason some people think it makes them sound smart to act as if it were.

>>6385102
This is why I get into gripes with collectorfags. I don't mind collecting, but if you have something rare that you know will inevitably die off from disc rot, then what's the issue with dumping it so the work that went into the game gets preserved? It's not like it takes the cred away from you of having one of the few surviving physical copies. And then to spin it around and make it seem like the preservationists are the one's who are selfish is hilarious. The fucking ego on these manchildren.

>>6385343
It's the common fear that someone bigger than you holds the secret/true information. Same reason insecure people are obsessed with interracial porn.

>>6377485
Most of the games in that pic aren't published by Nintendo, console warrior-chan.

>>6385148
>even if some words are fainting
If the books from WWI wouldn't the words be swooning?

>>6385102
>>6385120
>>6385148
>>6385360

can we please end this once for all.

Is disc rot unstoppable?
Will it happen to every CD that was created?
Will the hardware of console die?

From what I have read over and over is that it happen to incredible few CD´s. No big collector ever came out and sayed that this happened to him.

>>6383379

>>6385112
Welcome to capitalism where rich cocksuckers sell stupid crap to poor people.

>>6386030

>>6386460
Yea it's incredibly few because the conditions for disc rot are so extreme that if you're collecting games in such a place you should consider keeping your game room well ventilated like a reasonable person would anyhow. I've also heard of label guards for CDs which would in theory stop scratches on the label from destroying the data which I imagine would assist in preventing rot as well. And if you're that fucking cheap, you can apply packing tape to the printed label side instead, I don't see why it wouldn't work so long as it's applied cleanly.

>>6386526
You say poor, you mean undiciplined. Most bad capitalistic choices often make a fool of you for even engaging with it. When you're surrounded by this noise, you believe it and start subconsciously filling the role. Sad, really.

>>6380139
Part 4 was released to low numbers, 3 and 4 have less copies out there than 1 and 2.

Also, how's everyone holding up with not being able to retro collect? No market or sales for me this year, fucking corona.

I'm sure stupid game chasers will be dead now.

>>6386501
Cool, I always like to see aes collection like mines. The big boys collectibles

>>6376637
Pretty based

>>6387108
my nibba

>>6377803
Lol wow that's an A+ for deliberately misunderstanding someone.

So many tryhards come to this board just ti say:
"You are a hoarder b/c you own game cartridges or disks"
"I can download and emulate all these games if I want to play them, which I don't"
"My perfectly sorted ROM/ISO set allows me to choose from thousands of games which I have never played and know nothing about."

I think a lot of ppl pretent to be into hobbies just so they can lord over other ppl and try to dictate how other ppl have fun. "All collectors are hoarders and gatekeepers," is the retro gaming equivalent of "Orcs and elves are racist and all games need easy mode"

>>6387674
A lot of people just can't cope with the fact a lot of other people just kept their systems and games from back in the day.

No, I honestly believe that collecting is a mental illness.

>>6387685
If you really think about it, everything that isn't eating, sleeping and fucking can be considered a mental illness. And even eating, sleeping and fucking, if done in excess, can be mental illness too.

>>6387679
I never understood the mindset.
I have a collection, and I also emulate. Why not both?

>>6387679
Yes, or the fact that they're poor and can't indulge in things. Collecting is an expensive hobby. Emulation is for people with no full time jobs and no regular income coming in, like college students or neets. You can't argue something is a waste of money and can just be emulated because people value money differently.

What if you like collectorfags and emubros? Is that like being half black?

>>6387708
Yes, because you always get faggots like these >>6387707 making sweeping generalizations on a fucking tibetan basket weaving forum.

>>6387710
Nope. If you have sour grapes about other people spending their own money you are factually retarded and poor. How is it logical to seethe over "hoarding"? Just makes you blatantly jealous.

>>6387749
I don't give a hot shit how other people spend their money. Again, with your sweeping generalizations. Stop pulling assumptions out of your ass.

>>6387756
Who the fuck said I was talking about you specifically, retard? Learn how to read.

>>6387762
You are responding directly to me. Who are you trying to reach?

>>6378174
Oh man, Anon.....Poverty? Bad relationship? Yeah, I know, nosy....

>>6387764
>if you
>if you
>if you
How does it feel to be an uneducated illiterate retard?
>implying I claim to know anything about your personal life
>implying replying to an anonymous person is a statement against their personal life
retard

>>6387838
This fucking guy.

>>6387838
GIF of Elizabeth- The Golden Age with cannonballs photoshopped to ">implying" where?

>>6387843
great comeback

>>6387856
You sound like you're on a bad anti-depressant, Anon. One of the ones that make you overly hostile, like Effexor.

>>6387862
>projecting hard right after getting called out for bad reading comprehension
low IQ retard coping with his inferiority complex by deflecting

>>6387710
If they're sweeping generalizations why do they accurately describe, and thereby trigger, 100% of your kind?

>>6387867
>>6387856
Get a room, faggots

>>6388090
>>6387862
That goes for you too

>>6388103
You seem to know a lot about whatever the fuck that is. Your mom have you on that because you're constantly depressed over making an ass of yourself in the internets?

>>6388103
Unless you're janny, suck my cock.

>>6376637
Fuckin' stalled as shit until the guv lifts the lockdown. Been looking on eBay (yeah, I know) but there haven't been any good deals there since webrings went out of style.

Been slowly getting out out of the collection gig, though, even before corona. Ppl want too much for fucking common-ass games that you can trip over. Oh, look, $20 bucks for a Sims game. How nice.

>>6376742
That and the absurd amount of bootlegs for some consoles. Swear to god if you look up Streets of Rage 3 or Hyperstone Heist on ebay you'll get more results of shitty bootlegs than actual copies.

I started collecting after my brother mentioned on his birthday that he really wished he grabbed Body Harvest for N64, but he's got a house and family now, so he can't throw around money like he could when he was single. He has a pretty great SNES collection, and I'm jealous of the games he managed to grab before the exploded in price.

I made an ebay account and bought him the game, and it just kind of snowballed from there. He gave me a few games from his collection to start mine (Link to the Past, March of the Black Queen) and I'm up to 68 carts across SNES and N64.

I'm only looking to grab games we played as kids, and some that we wished we could have bought (I picked up Ninja Warriors recently, which was a holy grail for us as kids). I'm not looking forward to having to shell out the cash for the really big games though (Pocky and Rocky 1/2, Wild Guns etc ).

>>6390867

99% of the ship from China. Real easy to spot.

>>6376637
The weird part of running a repair shop and having a public electronics recycling bin is that I was able to assemble many perfect condition consoles, but my game collection is pretty anemic because people just threw away the games. I have many of the ones I want though, just working on getting them CIB.

I used to have decently large collection of playstation and DC games, but I sold them a few years ago. The lasers kept dying and having to replace the consoles (was on my 3rd ps1, and 2nd DC).
I know I could've installed a flashcart mod or whatever, but that kind of ruins the point.
I do kinda regret selling my collection tho, It feels empty without them since this is the last of my retro games unless you count handhelds

>>6393940

>Quality printed top labels instead of handwritten ones

10/10

>>6393940
>End labels
>Not investing into buying custom N64 cases
I'm glad I bought custom cases for all my N64 games.

>>6378938
Use your money to buy an education instead of another male prostitute

>>6394001
>I'm glad I have autism
So is the ebay seller

>>6394012

>Triggered over that comment

Poorfag confirmed.

>>6394318
>increased aesthetics are bad!

I don't even have to add a condescending comment to this.

>>6394547
>autism is good
I don't even have to reddit space my condescending comment

>>6394001
custom cases sound cool, but that seems like a lot of work honestly, especially since im still adding to it. The end labels are vinyl and only cost $20 which is about the extent i willing to go

>>6383486
Not totally true, coleco shit is fucking absurd. Maybe intellivision or 2600

>>6376637
once corona ends, i intend to work on my dreamcast collection

>>6381523
this
or even a 13/14 inch pvm is fine if its on your desk

>>6394559
>this thing you've been doing since a decade before reddit existed means reddit! Blarbhglarfgf boogeyman boogeyman!

So you just want to shitpost because that's what you think makes you look cool? Have fun.

Stimulus checks and people stuck at home are putting ebay prices through the roof right now. Good time to sell your games you don't want. Bad time to pick up a pricey title or two you've been eyeing with your trumpbux because chances are the price just doubled.

>>6378015
2600 , ps1 , ps2 , genesis , xbox and 64 (only cartdrige)

>>6394318
>autism
Has nothing to do with autism. I just think game cases look better on my shelf than random cartridges sitting on top of my other game cases. Very inconvenient.

>>6395717
Cases are a joke, man, that's why people are making fun of you. Even if you spent only $3 each on them (more liket $5-$10), that's still like a grand to get cases for every N64 cart. For that money you could have a healthy start to a whole other collection. The only thing cases make sense for are maybe MVS games and other sensitive arcade boards.

>>6395284
It's not too much hard work. It's just $5 each. So every time I buy a Nintendo cartridge, I buy a custom case with it, in case I don't have the box.

>>6395729
False. Game cases are convenient because it keeps the dust out, it goes well with my Genesis games, since most of them come with plastic cases anyways, and I can afford it. A grand isn't really much compared to what I make in a year($100,000)

>>6395747
Just buy complete in box games.

>>6395479
>redditcope
lol

>>6395717
Sorry to break to to you chum but you've got a bad case of the tism. You know what it's called when you "just think" crazy OCD shit? Autism.

>>6395747
Someone who has a grand to spare and wants cases would just buy boxed games. Custom cases are for poorfag autists. If you're gonna LARP at least try to make it convincing.

Outside the scope of this board but isn't too late for 6th grb already as well? The games I'm looking at go for $100+ on PS2 and Cube and even Xbox has some weirdly expensive ones like Outrun 2006.

>>6395761
I already have several boxed copies and I had to buy plastic sleeves to protect them.

>>6395965
>Implying I don't own several boxed copies of games.

False. I do own boxed copies and bought plastic sleeves for them. The problem with boxes is that they get wet, worn out and torn. With a custom case, that eliminates all those problems. Also poorfags tend to pay more for what they can't afford. While people who make money, tend to find many ways to save money. Hence why the richest people tend to dress thrifty, while the poorest people tend to dress stylish to make it appear as if they had money. My autistic friend with SSI checks does this all the time.

>>6397357
You sound like a massive faggot. Embarassed to share this board and hobby with you.

>>6380118
Shit everything is going up I don't know what to buy first?

Maybe I'll just get all the games I want going for $100 to $200 on each system first. Better get on Path of Radiance.

>>6376637
Meh, i sold part of my collection. Still have some boxed games and a few things, mostly Gameboy games and obscure non /vr/ handhelds like gp32/gp2x/cannoo, ngage, gizmondo, zodiac. Everything else is emulated.

>>6378164
That's a nice little gb collection, that's what I kept most of my collection. I love Gameboy carts, they're so fucking aesthetic, but I had to get rid of all the games I was never going to play.

>family is from the Caribbean
>visit them every couple of years
>current games are so expensive most people are a generation behind
>older systems and games can be found easily

Living the dream boys

>investment group spending a million dollars on a few sealed nes games
>staggering markups on games for systems as recent as ps3 and 360
>manufactured limited print companies popping up everywhere and dumping asstons of physical shovelware a week
>zoomers finally hitting adult age and getting jobs
2020 is the year of the bubble burst bros. I can feel it.

>>6397931
360s are still $50 everywhere aren't they? I mean at least they were PC (Pre Covid).

>>6398231
And SNES and N64s are 50 bucks too. It's certain games that are starting to get pricey, especially on ps3. Anyway, a good portion of the population is about to be out of jobs and government money for good. In a real depression if it comee, collectibles generally take a hit.

>>6397357
>proving i don't into reading comprehension
If your boxes are getting wet then spend that imaginary $1k on renting someplace not in a swamp. Your autistic friend with SSI checks is obviously you. You literally didn't fool a single person on the entire internet.

>>6397685
A network adapter and a 50TB HDD. You can probably get away with 10TB if you're an EOP.

>>6378164
>Game Boy Space Invaders
I had a sudden hankering to play Space Invaders lately and that was the version I went with

>>6390867
Yeah, it sucks running into bootlegs.

>>6397528
You sound massively triggered. Thanks for your tears mate.

>>6398946
>If your boxes are getting wet then spend that imaginary $1k on renting someplace not in a swamp.
I don't rent, I own my own house, unlike you. It's obvious to me you've never accidentally left a cardboard box on a kitchen table with a wet spot on it. Since cold drinks tend to leave what is called "condensation" on any surface it touches. Hence why coasters were invented. Which is exactly why I bought plastic sleeves for my boxed copies.

>Your autistic friend with SSI checks is obviously you.
False. Sounds like you're projecting because that's the situation you're likely to be in. Hence why you're a poorfag getting triggered by my comments. You literally don't have any real argument to counter my arguments with.

>You literally didn't fool a single person on the entire internet.
Again, projection. Since you seem to lie a lot, but you haven't fooled anybody.

Here's my collection off the top of my head.

NES:

Super Mario Bros 1-3
Metroid
Monster Party
Startropics
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
Mega Man 2-4
Chip n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Ducktales
Dragon Warrior
Castlevania
Gun.Smoke
A Boy and His Blob
Tecmo Super Bowl

SNES:

Super Mario World
Link to the Past
Tetris Attack
Super Mario RPG
Final Fantasy II and III
Super Punch-Out
Donkey Kong Country 1-3
Mega Man X 1-2
Super Metroid
Uniracers
Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage
SimCity
Soul Blazer
Super Mario Kart
F-Zero
Star Fox
Plok
Turtles in Time
Contra 3
Street Fighter 2
Goof Troop
Pilotwings
Yoshi's Island
Killer Instinct
Mortal Kombat 1-3


Genesis:

Sonic 1-3 & Knuckles
Hyperstone Heist
Ristar
Rocket Knight Adventures
Dynamite Headdy
X-Men 2
Quackshot
Mortal Kombat 1-UMK3
Thunder Force IV
Ranger X
Splatterhouse 2-3
Aladdin
The Lion King
Phantasy Star IV


PS1:

Spyro 1-3
Crash Team Racing
Tomba
Ape Escape
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Parasite Ever
Syphon Filter
Metal Gear Solid
Gex
Gex: Enter the Gecko
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1-3
Twisted Metal
Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Chrono Cross
Breath of Fire IV

Remembered some more.

NES:

Code Name: Viper
Gremlins 2

PS1:

Symphony of the Night


N64:

Super Mario 64
Goldeneye
Pokemon Snap
Pokemon Stadium 1-2
Blast Corps
Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Tooie
Donkey Kong 64
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Mario Kart 64
Star Fox 64
1080 Snowboarding
Perfect Dark
WCW/NWO vs. The World
WWF No Mercy

>>6400943

Sorry, meant to say WCW/NWO World Tour.

PS1:

Rayman

SNES:

Super Castlevania IV

>>6400895
>larping intensifies
>projecting intensifies
>coping intensifies
Autism, not even once.

>>6402162
>Projecting intensifies

>>6398261
good, im coming out of this with my high paying job still intact. Ill build my collections and support my local shop.

>>6377991
>the hobby
lol how is buying tons of shit you never use in order to relive the past a hobby

>>6402717
You know that thrill when you've posted something especially retarded in an attempt to derail a thread and you can see from the replies how disgusted everyone is with your constant faggotry? Other people get that same high collecting.

>>6402826

>Based

>>6402602
LET THIS DECENT MAN ENJOY HIS GIRLFRIENDS STRAPON FOR CHRIST SAKE.

Ive been collecting things all my life, as a kid I used to beg my parens for sets of figurines only made to make you collect all of them to complete a set, I used to even eat and drink certain products for months just because collecting them earned you a prize. I collected movies and music CDs, trading cards, magazines, flippos, you name it.

As I fell into gaming it sort of came naturally for me to collect for it as well, but I never got serious enough with the hobby, and only managed to get a decent SNES and Mega Drive collection that I shamefully never touched. It was about collecting, never about playing them. A decade later I suddenly started getting serious and now I'm collecting to play, the hobby sticks because of that, and that's why I keep collecting.

People always complain about this hobby, that they're being robbed, that scalpers are scum, that too many people are looking for games nowadays, but for me the hobby is much more thrilling now that games actually sell for the actual value of the product, and I feel far more inclined to collect.

The community is also amazing, there's a few assholes that will try and sell you crap, you'll figure that out once you start buying from the same few names over and over again and figure out who to buy from and who to avoid, but once you find your footing you'll meet some great people and forget about the rest.

>Meet current girlfriend
>I need to tone down my video game autism and get serious
>She turns out to be a huge Nintendo fan
>Go to retro cons with her
>She turns me even more autistic and now I'm collecting every console under the sun

>>6395997
Yeah it's getting that way for sure. I wouldn't buy anything at the moment though, the pandemic has doubled the price of everything

>>6400895
You sound like a real piece of shit.

>>6400936
Holy shit bud nobody cares about babies first collection. Did you really have to add this many scroll lines to the thread just add the most intro to collecting-tier list I've ever had the displeasure of reading?

Meh.

Just got more ever drives.

My whole thing is to collect accessories.

>>6403972
>My whole thing is to collect accessories.
That sounds kinda fun actually.

>>6402602
>no u

This is one of the greatest /vr/ threads, you're all great people. Keep it up.

>>6377761
Only live once, why not get the games physically? + good room decoration.

>>6393940
Where did you get your custom cartridge labels? They look awesome

>>6405810
They're the first result on etsy for "n64 end lables", they're made of vinyl so you can take them off and on a lot incase you're very picky about the placement. Around ~$20 for the entire n64 library +extra variants, which is a decent price I guess

>>6406509
Cant remember if I had to pay shipping or not tho

i only buy games i want to play and are very rare to find like pic related. and only if its not to expensive. so i dont have that much original games