/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7729424]

WILL IT EVER GO DOWN??!?!!!?

[Anonymous No.7729445]

SAY SUPPLY AND DEMAND AGAIN ANON, SAY SUPPLY AND DEMAND AGAIN I DARE YOU, I DOUBLE DARE YOU MOTHEFUCKER SAY THAT SHIT ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME.

[Anonymous No.7729447]

>>7729424
Your sister?
She did last night

[Anonymous No.7729458]

>>7729445
supply and demand

[Anonymous No.7729508]

>>7729424
>mfw not a burger and can easily buy retro games and consoles for peanuts be it online or local stores

[Anonymous No.7729513]

>>7729445
>refusing to accept basic economic principles

[Anonymous No.7729519]

>>7729508
>mfw emulator and can download entire ROMsets on a whim on devices that fit into my ass pocket
Maybe there's an extra feeling of gratification from hunting down games, but in return I don't have to stockpile shelves full of plastic at home.

[Anonymous No.7729521]

>>7729424
just emulate or get ODEs and flashcarts, stop giving these cunts money

[Anonymous No.7729551]

>>7729424
YOU WILL BUY THE PC ENGINE FOR $150 CONSOLE ONLY FOR PARTS/REPAIR AND YOU WILL LIKE IT

[Anonymous No.7729578]

>>7729424
Nope. Cope.

[Anonymous No.7729586]

>>7729578
I'm the Nope Cope Hope Pope

[Anonymous No.7729636]

>>7729424
Just get some Dogecoin so when papa Elon pumps it Saturday night you can buy all the retro vidya that you heart desires....CIB.

[Anonymous No.7729772]

>they thought the Great Reset was a meme

[Anonymous No.7729785]

>>7729424
Depends on what you want. Do you like sports? Quiz? Japanese visual novels? 2600?

[Anonymous No.7730160]

>>7729785
Even in 2021, people know that Atari was a fucking garbage and worthless console.

[Anonymous No.7730386]

>>7729424
covid isn't real

[Anonymous No.7730405]

it's USD inflation not a sudden market spike
check prices on other commodities

[Anonymous No.7730420]

the covid tax might go away, but the prices won't drop significantly. shit is rare now. deal with it. no more versions of magic knight rayearth cib with the glossy cover will ever be made again nor have been since 1998 or whatever.

[Anonymous No.7730885]

>>7729424
You don't have to consoom everything anon, just get a good game that will entertain you for a while. Or emulate if you don't like the prices

[Anonymous No.7730907]

>>7729519
When I was a teenager I liked buying NES/SNES/Genesis games because it felt oddly satisfying playing them on actual hardware as opposed to an emulator.

Now it's too inconvenient for me to have all those consoles hooked up and I'd rather just emulate for convenience.

[Anonymous No.7730912]

>>7730160
It was great for its time but just got utterly BTFO by the mid to late 80s consoles

[Anonymous No.7730953]

>>7730405
yeah, anybody who's been paying attention for the last 5 years knows that the $20 bill is the new $5 bill; we're going through some shitty inflation boys.

[Anonymous No.7730974]

>laughs in flash cart

[Anonymous No.7730978]

>>7730885
Dis I can agree wit mon!

[Anonymous No.7731000]

THIS. IS. THE. NEW. NORMAL.

[Anonymous No.7731023]

Why do retards think there's a bubble that could burst or that prices have a chance of going down? Its not like they're ever making more.

You morons have to realize that with youtube and shit around, everyone and their mother is collecting. Accept that you were late to the punch and move on.

[Anonymous No.7731050]

>>7730160
Fuck off vsimp

[Anonymous No.7731126]

>>7730953
This lol, poor Japanese having to deal with AmeriNEETs all hopped up on stimulus pumping up Yahoo Japan prices.

[Anonymous No.7731128]

I don’t understand why people expect to get old media for cheaper than $20. Think about it. Minimum wage is almost $15/hr these days in most states. Shipping costs are insane (unless you are chinese then USPS is nearly free thanks to democrats). So why do you expect a vender to drive to the post office to ship you ancient plastic for anything less than $20?

[Anonymous No.7731274]

>>7729424
99% of games are less expensive than when they were new. Also buy a flashcart.

[Anonymous No.7731304]

>>7731023
When people stop collecting the prices will go down for me. FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.7731306]

>>7731304
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN STOP ME AND SPIT IN MY EYE

[Anonymous No.7731312]

>>7731274
dumb surface level take. you can get a loose cart for $20-40, when you could get the box for $40 back in the day. Now you're paying $100+ for the game complete. The games are only devalued because they're not complete sets, and complete sets have surpassed their original price.

[Anonymous No.7731738]

>>7729551
I got my tg16 for free about four years ago. I saw it just in a pile of shit at the back of a game store and when I asked if I could look at it the based min wage cashier said "fuck it, just take it man, we can't test it and there's no price on it". I went to the same store when the owner was there a few weeks later and saw an atari 7800 in a pile with a literal gaping hole in the case. The guy said $200 no cables, no confirmation it even turns on, no guarantees. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.7731741]

>>7729513
>Drinkin the s.0.y

[Anonymous No.7731747]

>>7730386
Anon, please stop.

[Anonymous No.7731753]

>>7731000
NEW ORDER COMRADE

[Anonymous No.7731765]

Comrade Poo is based; it's thanks to him we can afford chink everdrive and ode clones and sell bootlegs to zoomer wannabe collectors.

[Anonymous No.7732065]

[Anonymous No.7732075]

>>7729424
The ones that blow my mind are games I saw for under $20 just 2 years ago that go for over a hundred now.

Like legend of legaia. I grabbed that sucker for around $15 in 2018, and its currently listed on ebay at the lowest as $90 for disc only. I was seeing cib for around $140.

I have some inkling how and why this happens, but the games it happens with is mind boggling to me sometimes.

Even hugely popular games like FFVII have barely seen a price creep up in over a decade, even with greedy mom and pop stores over charging for them, but the legend of fucking legaia (a game barely anyone ever knew about) has a massive spike in just a few years. Wat?

[Anonymous No.7732090]

>>7729519
Then you just end up playing 5 seconds of each game and never committing to any of them

[Anonymous No.7732190]

>>7732075
As teenagers get older and have disposable income, not to mention greater control of their internet use, more collectors enter the scene.

And every seller on eBay wants to see if they can get just a little bit more than the last guy selling the same game.

It used to be that there were 1 or 2 games that were going to be landmark purchases at some point but now Panzer Dragoon Saga, Snatcher, Crusader of Centy are all crossing the multi-thousand mark that I just don't know that I can ever justify. Realistically, my collection is already pretty good so I don't feel too bad about it, but I really don't know how anyone could get into collecting now without having a really good salary and nothing better to spend it on.

[Anonymous No.7732275]

>>7732190
COVID and COVID relief is most of it.

[Anonymous No.7732284]

>>7732090
Just means you haven't found the right game.

[Anonymous No.7732330]

I don't play any of my games anymore, when should I cash out guys

[Anonymous No.7732347]

>buying ancient copies of old videogames
Dumb. Either buy authorized emulation packages or just download the shit and run any goddamn emulator.

[Anonymous No.7732353]

>>7729519
>devices that fit into my ass

[Anonymous No.7732358]

>>7731765
>Comrade Poo

??

[Anonymous No.7732715]

>>7732358
Pooh rather.

[Anonymous No.7732732]

>>7729424
We're only at the very sliver-beginning of a massive hyperinflation spiral that will last for years. Wait til the price of bread hits three digits by Christmas.
Hope you retard Biden voters are happy.

[Anonymous No.7732737]

>>7732732
>Wait til the price of bread hits three digits by Christmas.
at least the obesity epidemic will be solved

[Anonymous No.7732752]

>>7731312
That's only really true for games that came in cardbord because everyone threw that shit away. You can still easily find PS1 and even Sega Genesis games CIB for less than when they were new.

[Anonymous No.7732823]

>>7732075
this happened with silent hill 2 also. its a super common game that went for like $20 a year ago and now its $100

[Anonymous No.7733454]

>>7732823
Like why Shattered Memories? It's not even good, but I just want it without motion controls.

[Anonymous No.7733563]

>>7732732
The additional stimulus checks were Trumps idea. Not to mention the fact that commodity prices are always going to rise when the economy begins to bounce back. People have been reeeeing about inflation for decades, but the cost of living for my family has remained largely the same. Maybe the sky really is falling this time but I doubt it.

[Anonymous No.7733756]

>>7732823
So glad I got SH2 before it spiked up. Still have the receipt from ebay in the case when I got the whole thing CIB for 20 dollars. I have no idea why the hell that happened.

[Anonymous No.7733773]

>>7729424
Inflation ho!

[Anonymous No.7733782]

>>7729424
Emulate, if you really care aboit playing games. Don't spout off placebo horseshit about physical games having more meaning to you, just play the fucking games regardless of how you acquire them. Scalping isn't going away.

[Anonymous No.7733806]

>>7733782
enjoy your input lag

[Anonymous No.7733910]

>>7733806
emuchads have less input lag than you original hardware faggots lmao

[Anonymous No.7733925]

>>7732732
Biden is retarded but the deficit (financed by money printing) also increased every year under Trump. We are fucked and will stay that way since people like Ron Paul never gained traction.

[Anonymous No.7733926]

>>7733806
oh no, 1-2 frames of input lag, this completely ruins retro games that totally require frame-perfect inputs all the time

lmao

[Anonymous No.7733942]

>>7729424
entire retro console rom collections are easily available online yet still people buy off a greasy neckbeard at inflated prices
what is wrong with american "gamers"?

[Anonymous No.7733947]

>>7732732
money is an illusion and people will wake up to that long before your libtard dreams come true

[Anonymous No.7733967]

>>7733942
burgers gotta coonsoom ya know

[Anonymous No.7733976]

>>7733942
They collect for social media attention, not to play games.

[Anonymous No.7733993]

>>7733947
>money is an illusion
No it isn't, it's a necessary evil. It's not money that's the problem, it's the "system". And no I'm not some brain dead pinko.

[Anonymous No.7734176]

>>7733967
What a poorly written Wikipedia article.

[Anonymous No.7735180]

>>7733782
>emulatorfagging
>caring about games
Pick one. Imagine not owning physical copies of your favorites. Imagine not owning actual consoles. What the fuck.

[Anonymous No.7735256]

>>7735180
My favorite game is Sonic 3 & Knuckles. I own the cartridges and three different models of the genesis but I haven't touched them in years in favor of emulation and Sonic 3 AIR.
Hardwarefags value collecting over actually playing games.

[Anonymous No.7735352]

>>7735256
>My favorite game is Sonic 3 & Knuckles. I own the cartridges and three different models of the genesis
wtf why haven't you sold them yet? Fucking faggot, hoarding worthless shit like some kind of incel piss drinker. Give it away for free, right now, or forever be a homosexual sóylord.

>Hardwarefags value collecting over actually playing games.
You literally just made this up in your dumb little head. Also, emulatorfags value ROM-hoarding over actually playing games.

[Anonymous No.7735370]

Imagine not investing your money into crypto and flipping them for 10x profit so you can fund your retro game collection no matter how inflated things get

[Anonymous No.7735394]

>>7735180
Please, could you elaborate more? The rom preserves the game and it can be played just fine. I'm sure people didn't created the product for their container, but for its content. I'd rather eat the food and throw away the package, not the other way around.

[Anonymous No.7735435]

>>7729785
2nd gen bros unite, our hobby is cheaper than ever!! suck it zoomies, your nintendo shitcube will never be as cheap as atari collecting

[Anonymous No.7735449]

>>7729521
ODEs?

[Anonymous No.7735514]

>>7734176
That describes every Wikipedia article.

[Anonymous No.7735560]

>>7735394
What is there to elaborate, having no cover art, manual or case is obviously shitty and half-assed. If you care about the game you pay up for the whole physical thing. If you care about the console, you obviously pay the miniscule amount of money to own the console. Everyone emulates, pirates, and hacks consoles nowadays, but being content with just that is fucking weird.

[Anonymous No.7735615]

>>7735560
I understand, but I managed to get those digitally preserved too. It can't be helped. Those games aren't made anymore, and they'll get scarcer as time passes. People get by the way they can.

[Anonymous No.7735621]

>>7732090
>everyone has adhd like me

[Anonymous No.7735648]

>always put off buying a replacement copy of God Hand
>worth over a hundred now

these fucking youtubers are the reason for this. They keep hyping old games and their fans go out to buy them to play or to flip themselves. The internet was a mistake.

[Anonymous No.7735704]

No, Pat Contri. Despite all of your incessant whining the prices aren't going down.

[Anonymous No.7735708]

>>7735648
Or maybe it’s just a scarce cult game that people would’ve bought anyway. You’re the same as those people

[Anonymous No.7735735]

>>7729424
My game collection is gonna be my retirement.

[Anonymous No.7735751]

>>7735648
I don't think it's youtubers because everything has exploded during the pandemic. It's a combination of stimulus checks and people wanting to relive nostalgia to escape the pandemic, inflation, and royally fucked housing market right now.

[Anonymous No.7736849]

>>7735735
I don't known if you're being serious, but an economic advice: don't bet your future in any collection. As an hobby, it will only be bought by people with your same tastes and with cash to spare. Even that way, there's a chance they already started their collection, so they will just want to buy a few items from you. In the end, you might havenmany valuables in your possession, but can't sell them fast enough (or even sell, no matter the time) to turn them into money. If you get desperate, clever buyers will noticed and make offers way below what you wanted.

So, provide your retirement in a safer way, then you can sell your collection at ease of mind.

[Anonymous No.7737092]

>>7735751
It seemed like the average price had somewhat flattened, then yes, COVID hit and they shot through the roof

[Anonymous No.7737139]

>>7731312
>Now you're paying $100+ for the game complete.

Anon, you realize when you adjust the majority of new games back in the day for inflation you are still getting a deal right?

[Anonymous No.7737171]

>>7736849
>So, provide your retirement in a safer way

Not him but, my pre-covid my collection was worth a little over $1k and just now crossed $6k from appreciation alone. Granted I was smart enough to snag CIB stuff which holds value better due to rarity.

The S&P 500 couldn't even touch those gains in its best years and when the market crashed in May 2020, the /vr/ collections value were unharmed.

I'm not saying to invest in old games for retirement, I'm just saying there are far worse things you could invest in based on the data/charts.

[Anonymous No.7737185]

>>7737171
But did you actually sell them?
If you actually comprehended that post, that's the point. You might have some theoretical paper gains, but unless you can actually move them it doesn't matter. These sort of items are extremely illiquid and if the economy actually hits the shitter you're not going to be able to move them.

[Anonymous No.7737191]

>>7729424
Only if you buy repro carts or at the least begin to emulate games.

[Anonymous No.7737198]

>>7737185
>But did you actually sell them?

Goalposts. I could do it right now with ease and have $5-6k in my pocket off a $1k investment. Nothing "theoretical " about that, just a fact. Neither one of us have a crystal ball.

[Anonymous No.7737461]

>>7737185
The prices listed on sites like pricecharting actually base it off average sold listings so yes I could sell them if I really wanted to.

[Anonymous No.7738395]

>>7735394
playing a retro game on the actual console is an experience emulator cucks will never understand

[Anonymous No.7738439]

I was updating my prieccharting list and I found I miscataloged a game, it as Mortal Kombat 3 for the PlayStation. Can someone explain why the fuck is it going for over 600 CIB? This isn't seem like "because of the bubble". I am honestly confused as hell

[Anonymous No.7738465]

>>7738395
Do you really think any of us here didn't ever played on the original console? What the hell are you talking about? Did it ever cross your mind that one person could actually prefer to play on an emulator? Please, up the quality of your posts, so we can have a better discussion here.

[Anonymous No.7738475]

>>7738439
I dunno if it's the answer, but its old story has gotten a bit of attention some time ago, maybe one or two years. You know, the story about an almost perfect port of a recent arcade game on a hone console; arcade operators got mad, because now people had no reason to play MK3 on the arcades, so Midway rushed Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 to make amends.

[Anonymous No.7738478]

>>7731128
>Minimum wage is almost $15/hr these days in most states
???

[Anonymous No.7738526]

>>7738475
Thanks Anon, that makes total sense actually. I was tempted to sell the game now, but after hearing the story I am not so sure anymore. I got the game (and a few other fighting games) in a video game swap about 10 years back. I traded some Nintendo Powers and demo discs

[Anonymous No.7738580]

>>7738526
Thank you too for teaching me about this Lara Croft controller (lol). It looks pretty cumbersome, but the review is positive. I wonder if that weird chainsaw controller for Resident Evil 4 is actually good.

[Anonymous No.7738597]

>>7735449
Optical Disk Emulators. I have them for Dreamcast and Saturn. Works like a charm

[Anonymous No.7739385]

>>7738465
>Please, up the quality of your posts
Tell that to the 400 emulatorfaggots that insist on mentioning emulation any time someone even hints at physical media on /vr/. So fucking insufferable. It doesn’t happen the other way around in emulation threads either, only emulatorfaggots are proud to have downloaded a program with some roms that they have to mention it every day.

[Anonymous No.7739405]

>>7731128
>So why do you expect a vender to drive to the post office to ship you ancient plastic for anything less than $20?
lol wat just hand them to the mail person when you see them. That's what I do.

[Anonymous No.7740096]

>>7739385
Now you have a point. Yes, the other way around is also insufferable, and people should stop being assholes.

Rule of thumb for all of us: uncalled comments, especially ones purely related to personal tastes, shouldn't be used to nag other people. If you want to express your opinion, be aware that it represents just your preferences, not a fact of life. That goes for all the usual conflicts here: original hardware x emulation; pro-savestates x anti-savestates; crt x lcd; composite x rgb.

[Anonymous No.7740103]

>clayfighter sculptor's cut has gone up by about $600 since the same time last year
Waiting for it to hit 10k before I consider selling

[Anonymous No.7740896]

>>7739405
18+

[Anonymous No.7740968]

>>7738580
>>7738526
It’s not real

[Anonymous No.7740983]

>>7738439
Reading the blurb on price charting it's because the game was originally a long box and only had a small run with the regular case. Only worth anything extra if you're crazy enough to collect packaging variants.

[Anonymous No.7741541]

>>7735435
Your atari games will never be as good and as entertaining tho.

[Anonymous No.7742719]

>>7729445
HE'S BLACK