This comment is spot on. Such a shame but some people make a living off re selling. Prices are ruined and collecting (and playing) is not the same anymore. Few 100 dollars for f1 2013 ya right! And lots of collectors don't even play the games they buy. Ruined 😢
That’s why i love remasters. They give me access to games that would otherwise be out of reach for me because of the sticker price. Also, importing is a godsend. I don’t play 70 bucks, i just wait for a price drop or import at a cheaper price. I don’t mind waiting a few weeks for it to come in.
Replicas worked for me aswell. I was never able to play chrono trigger on the snes and those prices are insane. I bought it from China for like 15euro incl shipping :)
remasters is a double edged sword. sure you get a old game re-released but these remasters are usually censored and altered for the "modern audience." so imo the original copies are still better to get instead of these remastered releases.
Pricecharting itself is now a big part of the problem in my opinion. 99% of sellers now base their prices off Pricecharting, but the way the site calculates prices is flawed at the root. Its basis are ebay sales, without taking into account ebay selling costs for the seller, the difference in price if there's free shipping or not, the condition, missing manuals or not, and some more factors. Before, sellers would have different prices and it was possible to find deals, now it rarely happens.
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CIB Sonic the Hedgehog for Sega Genesis listed for $50 on that site even though most flea markets sell these for $10 at most.
This is why I don’t have a problem with remasters and remakes. Not only does it make these game available in higher quality but it makes it way more affordable to attain.
And thats why emulation matters... No world should a person spend more than 200 dollars on a game. Even if there is a slight issue with sound in some cases i cant justify paying a reseller where that option is on the table for something that isnt for sale any more.
@@borizzle1 Spoken like a rtrd. Emulation in 2024 is on par if not better then the original hardware. Just keep coping with your waste of money collection of dust.
@@OGTH-camEnjoyer disgusting. By “better” you must mean a variety of ridiculous resolutions, shaders, and broken widescreen hacks. Console accuracy is the peak and only truly attainable on original hardware. Chads like myself can always tell the difference.
@@borizzle1 It's so nice walking in to my living room and turning on the little multimedia pc I built and turning on one of the bluetooth controllers, clicking the Big Box shortcut and being greeted with 10k games from Atari era to the PS2 era, Arcade and all. Pick one and play it just like I did 20-30 years ago. Quadruple chinned 26" thick glasses betas like yourself are also insufferable.
These resellers prey on nostalgia. They know that there are collectors out there that don't know what stuff is worth and they jack up the prices. A lot of gamers don't realize that the games they grew up on are now crazy expensive. The days of finding retro gaming for cheap is over.
I hope people shopping or looking at these games in the conventions pull out their phones and check prices before buying and laugh at the seller's face if they don't want to bargain over the price
My rule is, if they bust their phone out to check prices, I will bust out my phone to check as well. One seller showed me an eBay listing for a game that was cheaper than his, I said thanks and bought the eBay copy instead. He was furious...
@@Dorian_Gray83 So I guess he expected it to be a little higher this way you would buy his cheaper copy. I guess he didn't offer you a better price. He could have, then you would have gotten a better deal and he would have sold it.
I was at Retrofest Arkansas this past weekend. Many of the games there were up there in price, but only a few were insanely high. The usual suspects were Mega Man X3 CIB which went for $700 at least and a CIB Super Nintendo with the Super Mario All-Stars/Super Mario World pack-in cart that was $400. The Japanese imports were reasonably priced for the most part. I was at a booth that sold all Japanese imports for a decent amount.
I’ve created a term for what’s happened to the resell market. I call it the Pawn Star effect. Everyone thinks they are sitting on a gold mine when in fact it’s just nostalgia and in turn we’ve screwed each other over. And it’s not just in video games, used cars, equipment, clothes, etc.
Yeah, you may have a point there. I think if new games didn't suck so bad, none of this would be happening. Pretty sad when a game made in 1998 is superior to one that comes out this year. The only thing keeping the industry going is online play.
@@82jdiddy We do it to ourselves as a society. While we might discuss how the costs of things like video games has gotten out of hand, none of us are being proactive in changing that. We are all just as greedy as the next person. It takes all of us to change things, but will that ever happen?
At this point, I'd rather just find games one at a time at small shops. I found the first two batman arkham games on the 360 at my local record shop in the movie section.
The main problem imo was the vendors, they want ebay prices without having to pay fees, everything sent is through friends and family so they don’t have to pay fees there either, and then on top of it they were NOT flexible on their pricing. This was by far the worst year to date. I purchased two games the entire time I was there an the vendor took 5 dollars off a purchase of 160 and that was it. Every time you’d do rounds they were sitting on the same stuff. It was a big disappointment
Post a video looking through it. People would like to see that. Especially given that most Hagane's had excessive wear from its Blockbuster exclusive status. Super hard to find immaculate condition and original owners of that title.
@@MrPumpkinheaddeluxe I’ve have all from 1980-Now every console thousands upon thousands of games what a life of gaming throughout the decades I’m from NY and the oldest of four brothers so we had/have it all
That price on Haunting Ground is insane 1:26. It's almost double what it's going for according to price charting. Unless it's sealed (and it doesn't look like it is), that's is just crazy.
honestly a lot of that is just gaming populace aging into higher income, and world population continuing to grow. This create demand, which leads to speculation, which leads to a bubble. There no person to blame it's market forces.
i can almost bet you wont be selling them for cheap.. hopefully you will pass the cheap prices you paid for your games back jn the day onto the next buyer...but something tells me you guys wont be selling your stuff for cheap so youre just complaining about something you yourself are going to do, most likely..idk maybe you both are going to sell all your games cheap idk
Is not only the scalpers. It is also the state of modern gaming. Games today are made like if they want you to hate videogames. So people go back in mass to an era where videogames were art and fun. Not political activism.
This!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Nobody wants politics or to be reminded of troubles plaguing our modern society, we just want to kick back have fun and escape playing a game!
Recently been wonder about prices in videogame collecting and I think that... actually is one of the most cheaper hobbys that involved collection. Think about collecting Magic TCG, Pokemon or YGO cards, what about figures or statues, and why not people that collect Jordans...Yeah, of course prices went up big time after covid but with all that still is cheaper than collecting other things
TH-camrs have had the biggest impact on the state of video game collecting and the prices associated. I remember when Little Samson was $150, then the Game Chasers found one in a video. I remember when Hagane was under $100, then Mike Matei made a hidden gems video. I remember when Samurai Western was $20, then Metal Jesus Rocks made a hidden gems video. The exposure YT channels gives collecting/collectors increases the popularity, which increases the demand of games. The increased demand impacts the prices. Hidden gem videos caused large spikes for years and a vast majority of the games shown never settled to pre-video prices.
I've been saying these for almost a decade and I'm happy to read your comment. Most of these influencers (like this channel) humble brag about how hard a game is to get and how they got a hook up or something. They all have a treasure room packed to the brim and they use their rare inventory to distinguish themselves from other channels. It's no coincidence that used game shops raise prices after these types of videos. It's gatekeeping through a niche market. There's no way I'd get 1/10 of the value on my retro collection.
The bright side is that I started collecting for systems that I never got around to playing as a kid. The down side is the more expensive stuff I couldn't get years ago, I definitely can't get now. I had to come to realization that a lot of my collections won't be completed. Sad...
Reggie i think you gave some valid points on how to be smart when shopping for Retro Gaming. I personally don't think retro gaming is too expensive. If anything, modern gaming is too expensive nowadays. Like it's $79.99 to buy a new PS5 controller and $69.99 for a new game lol 😆 If anything, people just have to be smart and sometimes patient when buying retro games. I recently got WCW NWO Revenge for the N64 complete in box at very cheap price at a collectible toy store. Thats proof that you just have to shop around a bit to get what you want. Awesome video man 👍🏽
I love nwo revenge. Haven't played it since I was a kid. I picked up w2k24... I love the huge roster + womens wrestling + my gm mode, but man does it feel like a step backwards in controls compared to nwo revenge. It feels like a Wrestling Management Simulator + The ai cheats like hell & the counter button rarely registers. I switched to pc 16 years ago. So I haven't really collected anything during that time. I'm mainly stick to Strategy, J-RPG, Simulation, Arcade racing, & party games. I really love older games from Sqaure Enix, Nintendo, sprinkled in Ea, WB games, Activion, Blizzard, & Microsoft. Some of my new favorite games are Cyberpunk 2077, Satisfactory, Palworld, Vampire Survivors, Death must Die,
Man, I had no idea how good things used to be in the moment. Not collecting older stuff when I was a kid because I wanted to afford the newer stuff. Its painful but I have fun finding games still. I'm mostly just trying to grab stuff for the PS4/Switch nowadays.
Dang all these comments are unhinged. Retro now is PS3 and Xbox360 those consoles are super cheap to collect for. Give it 15 years and those PS3 and Xbox 360 collectors are gonna be saying the same thing. When I was collecting NES everyone was buying PS1 and selling their NES for super cheap to get the latest an old greatest. Same thing is happening only now people want what is already on the high end.
I never been a collector. I just buy the few games I want to play. I sold off my gamecube collection when it spiked during covid. I put that money into a switch collection. I don't really miss my gamecube collection because I grew up playing it a bunch. Right now I'm playing "Waiting for the remasters" from square enix & 1st party nintendo.
Part of why I stopped looking for old physical games; as what folks are asking price wise is pure "crazy town." I even canceled my trip to japan to get some Neo Geo stuff and a Initial D game cabinet due to the ludicrous asking prices! I'm purely MODDED retro consoles now.. Not my first choice, but I can live with it and still play those great games without taking out a loan from the bank or against my personal property.
I'm glad I got into video game collecting 20 years ago back in the early 2000s. If I started collecting today, I may just quit collecting right now or in a year or two. But yeah, Retro Video Game Collecting is now ruined by scalpers and the pandemic in 2020. I already commented on MJR's video about just move to emulating games because scalpers are already becoming a disease to the Video Game Market. Right now, I'm just buying games that may become rare in the near future or getting some games that are at a decent price.
I just traded in a pile of Saturn games and made enough money to buy a stack just as high of various other games AND get a Nintendo Switch. Yup! $400 for some garden variety U.S. saturn games and a few PS2 games. I sold Sky Gunner PS2 for $120 and bought the PS5 version for $20. Great time to be alive.
Hey Reggie thx for the video. I sold my retro game collection back in 2017 for way too little but I just couldn't find a good deal anymore. Now I collect music cd's and the occasional vinyl because vinyl also is way overpriced. I can spend hours on sites like Discogs looking for a good deal. With cd's you still can get very good deals and there are some rare ones. With vinyl, same as retro games, I rarely feel good with a purchase and the idea of just throwing money at it is not my style, nor do I have that kind of money :)
I have never bought a game just to say that is going to be valuable later. I buy games I want to play simple as that. I stick only with my region if (game title) was not released in my region I take that as game does not exist. I never bought handhelds so do not care about handheld/games available only on that hardware.
It was great seeing you my dude! Very true about all these prices. I was near a booth at the end of the last day and id hear just these guys talking about not being able to sell heavy hitter n64 games that would cost 100 dollars plus and it solidified my thought process. Not many of us want to buy such expensive games either, game collectors aren't rich. And i definitely got great deals there! I took my sweet ass time and i usually don't buy things past a certain cost. Side note gamestop has amazing end of year sales, ive gotten plenty of games through their buy a couple get t one or two fre deals, id rather buy from them then get cardboard for 500 bucks.
My son played a DDR cabinet in an arcade and loved it. We were able to get copies of those games complete for like 5-6 bucks on the ps2. Collecting can still be cheap. Plus inflation is another thing to consider. So the $20 pick in 2004 is now like $33.
Those prices are ridiculous. I'd rather save on gas, parking, entry fees, food costs and hotel stay and just buy the games on eBay with the money I saved. All you see is sellers price matching eBay and price charting. I can stay home for that...🤣🤦♂️😂
Use to have a fairly large retro collection. The best thing I’ve ever done was sell the retro keep the newer and build a pc. Now I have everything pre ps3/360 and can upscale all of them.
Yeah, it was cheaper twenty years ago. Back then people were trying to get rid of their older stuff. Bought the 32X-CD-Genesis combo, with some games AND including shipping for less than a hundred dollars. Same with 3DO and Jaguar. Ain't no speculators running around back then. ...maybe you should get something that can print on thin cardboard so you can set up a console box reproduction operation.
I agree Reggie. The prices are really high and as long as people are willing to pay those prices, I don’t think the market is going to come down much from where it is now. I’m currently focusing on collecting PS2 and I highly recommend that as a great place to start. A lot of its games are affordable and it doesn’t have too many hugely expensive games.
Buying lots and trading/selling the stuff I don’t want is how I got my collection also taking advantage of GameStop’s buy 2 get one 1 free sales for vita ps3 wii Xbox 360 and now ps4
its funny how youtubers will encourage their audience to emulate when attacking corporates....(when their channel gets copyright strikes) but they never encourage the audience to stop giving in to these greedy retailers....o wait....because most of them are youtubers, dont you say anything bad or they will make videos calling you out
Honestly being able to flip games you got to play for years for more games you get to play for years and all of them are appreciating like investments... is great.
The young kids of the 80s and 90s are now in their prime financial years. They have more money and they are chasing their youth so the prices go up. In 20 years as they begin to die off (yes even you Reggie) all this stuff will be dumped at estate auctions for almost nothing. Only the best/rarest will retain their value. The local goodwill is selling comic books from the 60s and 70s by the pound!! That will be the fate of most video games that are fetching top dollar today.
I definitely agree that pricing is getting way out of hand. I am all so fortunate that I have been collecting for a long time so I have many rare titles that I purchased before they skyrocketed. Another contributing factor of rising costs is the rising costs pf being a vendor. I was a vendor for 4 to 5 years at Portland Retro Gaming Expo selling duplicates. Table costs have gotten extremely high, plus all the extra costs and time. Pricing games and consoles, arriving early to the show for setup and breakdown on the last day, gas, if the seller uses square or venmo the fees that the seller can occur from such things. Not trying to justify the rising costs, but understanding the other side of the table is always good. All so I totally agree with you Radical Reggie. Many times, when I was a vendor, people would come up to me wanting to trade for a rare game and offer the dumbest games in trade. Please do not do that, the last thing I want is to trade for your copy of Tomb Raider 2, and you want my copy of Dino Crisis 2.
Yeah, I think it’s def time to call PS3/360/Wii retro. We are coming up on almost 20 years since their inception. Ya may not like it cause it makes us feel old but they are def retro now. My students call them retro.
Today, I bought a PSP UMD Video for $1 at the thrift store. My local Game Store is selling it for $75. I went on Ebay and a guy in England wants $90 including shipping. Come on Reggie. What's really going on? And the sad part is, I don't even want the stupid video. I just bought it for charity.😕
The last kind of video i want to see is one complaining about prices. It is what it is. Decades old games in limited supply cost money. Especially when TH-camrs talk about them in videos. I love having physical copies but you can't have everything unless you wanna pay.
Yeah, I definitely see the 360 hype die down in particular. Games like Dark went from being $70 - $100, to now around 30 bucks. I'm at a point with collecting, where I'm content with a lot of heavy hitters I collected over time. I just focus on the lower priced games I want while they're still reasonably priced. If I didn't get a game before the price hike, then it's whatever. On to other games.
I don't trade in my collection because everything I got is stuff I want and that's why I always search for deals on items in my area they have high prices on cheap games and low prices on high games or some store just high on everything that's why I just shop around I collect from old school to new school
I started off collecting for nostalgia and now only collect games I actually want to play/am willing to be stuck with. I don’t feel the need to have a dragon’s horde of things I’ll never even touch and I don’t think my future kids will be nostalgic for the same systems that are important to me. I do wish I had less scarcity/FOMO purchases with all these limited releases
Also, over time, old systems will break one after the other, which slowly but surely adds to rarity. It's not just people keeping their stuff, there are less and less of them in working condition.
Yeah I've only been to two of these retro gaming conventions to purchase retro games and depending on the console gen or game you can either get some great deals or have an empty wallet after one day. Like you mentioned some people go after the popular game titles even though they may never play them or hope they go up an value so they can resell their copy someday for a profit. That's okay but it's a gamble because the game may go down in price rather then up as one of my friends found out to his misfortune as he paid $800 at the time early on and now it's worth $350 presently.
I used to pay €3 for a good title back in 2016, I could buy a ton of classics on all ports pretty cheap... But today, RE 5 for Xbox one used to be 24 and literally doubled in price since 1 year ago or something. I Decided to sell my entire gaming collection and have been successful after going through my collection about a year. I do regret some titles, am trying to Rebuy them but... Hey no pain no gain right? So again , physical gaming isn't dead and buried as they want us to believe. Market prices don't lie.
People are paying crazy prices for reproductions! Thinking that it's the original 80s, 90s or 00s package and manual in mint condition JUST CRAZY What a gold mine.
The trick to collecting, get the stuff that nobody cares for. I did it with Pokémon cards, ps3 games and even my car (2001 celica gt-s) all this before 2020, before the nostalgia bomb went off. Everything was cheap cause nobody cared for either of those things
Makes me so upset that I didn't have a good source of income until post 2020 when I could finally start collecting games. This is easily one of the most inflated industries out there that video games compared to other entertainment is so easy to get emotional attachments to hence why people will pay these prices. Agree with you and Jason: if everyone is going right, I'm going left. All these games will always be available for many years and there will come a point a big chunk of people will have to offload their stuff that will effect prices to go down. Though that will take time since 2020 made so many people get back into gaming and they realized how awesome it is they will keep gaming.
I'm very curious to know when interest will dry up for 8-bit, then 16-bit, and each generation along the line. Prices won't climb forever. I'm also at the point where I've been collecting for so long I really do have the games I want. Pick-ups for old games are happening a lot less often for me but I still love the games and the hobby.
I used to believe this. Not anymore. Guarantee, certain titles will only go up. It's just knowing or guessing correctly which ones. It's a global market, not national. Most US releases go for more.
@@excitebike64 I hear ya. I'm sure there will be some games that stay high like Superman Action Comic #1 an iconic thing. But I'm sure there will be time when the majority have little value.
I'd say I pretty much have everything I wanted to buy for each console I'm interested in. Just made a list for each one and went from there. Most of the more expensive games that I have, I had already bought years ago when they were new. I do keep track of how much I had paid for it all and it hasn't been too bad. For what the prices are now, anything over $120, I find alternate means to play the game with collections or emulate. It's just not worth it and in the end, no one cares about the crap I buy.
Hagane is great action platformer, just emulate the game though cause 1000 dollars is just insane. I have a custom purple translucent repro of the game, and I pop it in to my SNES from time to time.
I find a reasonable deal on a game is hard to come by, so if I go to a gaming convention or a video game store, I'm usually looking at t-shirts, keychains, plushies and things like that and not the actual video games. I don't know how common it is, but I heard that all the best deals go down between the vendors before the convention even opens up to the public.
That happens all the time. I remember waiting for a retro game event to start and I was one of the 1st guys in line. In 5 minutes I get to a vendor that was selling ps3 controllers, who had gotten bought out. I see a guy with a wagon walking away with all of them. By the time I get to his booth, he was pricing the controllers for more...
I got thousands of physicals, ...but if I had known about Everdrives when I first started collecting, I'd only have maybe 5 to 10 total NES, SNES and Genesis I had mad nostalgia for. As it is, I've built an office around them and the room would look stoopid with empty shelves, ...but I exclusively play those consoles on my Everdrives. HOWEVER. I foresee these companies going HARD to shut down ROM sites in the near future, in order to resell us old games on their rip-off online stores, so we'll see.
Here is my 2 cents. I have slowed down collecting and I have been doing it for around 30 years. I remember getting games for super cheap. I originally got them all and still get them because I want to play them. I got most of what I want and have a huge collection. My problem is space and time. I am very grateful for all the games I have got over the years. Now I just pick up waht I really want to play which is mostly new stuff. There are many people out there who collect for different reasons. The annoying ones would be scalpers who snatch up all the games just like in any hobby. Scalpers for tickets for example. Here are my tips for myself and anyone else reading this. 1. I collect what I really want to play. Aka collect because you want to play the game. 2. I have never spent over $60 on a game. Aka have a personal budget for your game pickups. 3. Be happy for what you have. You can't get everything you want. Know that there are other ways to play the game besides getting the physical version. Or if you really want something figure out what you need to do to get it. You are either going to pay in money or time. If you go around to Garage sales and ebay all day to get some money off here and there, you have already spent your time.
I hate to say it, but it's getting to the point where I'm probably going to move to emulation. Even sixth and seventh-generation games are getting on the pricey end. I've honestly considered selling some of my collection, but I know I'd regret it later on.
I would still rather buy a kinda expensive quality retro game than a $70 + season pass modern game. Great video Reggie, cool to see your panel with MJR at PRGE ✌️
It's more rare these days, but like four years ago, I got tons of games from Goodwill and 1/2 Price Books. I only get stiff I think I'll like. I don't understand system completists. I'm not buying garbage to brag about it.
That's why I decided on skipping the Xbox 360 in favor of the Xbox Series X. A lot of old school games are just too expensive. I'm still collecting PS Vita games though. PS Vita is going to be 13 years old this December.
I was collecting Atari 2600 and LCD games and VFD Tabletops a long time and was not interested in other things. 4 years ago I started to collect C64 games (only disk and complete) and that was not fun…now I am interested in Game Boy and Super Nintendo….Jesus! Those prices are insane! This disappoints and angers me as a long-time retro fan. I have nothing against games increasing in value, but this is completely out of control. Trader want three-digit amounts for even uninteresting games - absolutely crazy.
It’s too expensive for the most part. I’ve enjoyed collecting 2600 and 7800 carts for the 2600+ …it’s very affordable to collect for and I’m enjoying discovering playing the games.
If you are collecting to play, I feel there are a great games under $20, under $40 for all systems - collect within yer means and have fun - I have a PC but I get more pleasure playing NES and PSX/PS2 on my CRT (but that’s just me) - Great Points on Trades if you have a collection and want to to get something more sought after or pricey - but yeah, as time and knowledge march on, the hobby is bigger, the supply is fixed, and if more people are holding - prices are going to reflect that - and I get peoples frustrations but it’s not all doom and gloom - be patient and don’t believe the hype
Most of us buy these games because we want to play them for the first time or replay them after we lost, traded or sold them, but there are some people who have no interest in games for that, many saw on youtube or on the news someone saying that those old games are worth a lot now and they decided to buy and hoard all the games or consoles they could because they see it as a business or an investment and then they wait a few years and try to resell them for 30%, 40% or even 50% more than the original price that's why this whole thing has become so much worse. Now you have to spend way too much money if you want to experience some of these games and that sucks.
These prices and resellers have completely ruined the passion.
Yup non gamers just to flip to make money
Can't be cheap setting up for these conventions but yeah it's ruined
This comment is spot on. Such a shame but some people make a living off re selling. Prices are ruined and collecting (and playing) is not the same anymore. Few 100 dollars for f1 2013 ya right! And lots of collectors don't even play the games they buy. Ruined 😢
That's why I stopped collecting. It's ridiculous.
Most of the prices are not real alll fake pricing just so they can make their money back . Like resellers fucking leave
I miss the good old days where you could go to a flea market and buy a big box of retro games for like 15 bucks.
This is exactly how I started my Sega Master System collection in the late 90's.
Yeah me too but that was like 20 or more years ago!
You can still do that in every bigger city
Facts
But there was no one on TH-cam making retro gaming content for us to enjoy. This stuff is more mainstream than ever nowadays.
That’s why i love remasters. They give me access to games that would otherwise be out of reach for me because of the sticker price. Also, importing is a godsend. I don’t play 70 bucks, i just wait for a price drop or import at a cheaper price. I don’t mind waiting a few weeks for it to come in.
Same here. I picked up Dead Space & RE4 remakes for $30 this yr new. I will do the same for SH2...🤗
Replicas worked for me aswell. I was never able to play chrono trigger on the snes and those prices are insane. I bought it from China for like 15euro incl shipping :)
remasters is a double edged sword. sure you get a old game re-released but these remasters are usually censored and altered for the "modern audience." so imo the original copies are still better to get instead of these remastered releases.
Pricecharting itself is now a big part of the problem in my opinion.
99% of sellers now base their prices off Pricecharting, but the way the site calculates prices is flawed at the root.
Its basis are ebay sales, without taking into account ebay selling costs for the seller, the difference in price if there's free shipping or not, the condition, missing manuals or not, and some more factors.
Before, sellers would have different prices and it was possible to find deals, now it rarely happens.
CIB Sonic the Hedgehog for Sega Genesis listed for $50 on that site even though most flea markets sell these for $10 at most.
You also have your local markets that are set differently. Like in my country its a whole different market compared to ebay pricing.
This is why I don’t have a problem with remasters and remakes. Not only does it make these game available in higher quality but it makes it way more affordable to attain.
I blame TH-camrs 😉
@@gordostein1008 of course 😉
@@The_RadicalOne I don't blame u Reggie or MJ...😁
You are the one watching them as we are all lol
Anything thats social media is DOUBLE EDGE SWORD
@@The_RadicalOneit’s the Chases and Caleb’s of TH-cam that have ruined it
And thats why emulation matters... No world should a person spend more than 200 dollars on a game. Even if there is a slight issue with sound in some cases i cant justify paying a reseller where that option is on the table for something that isnt for sale any more.
emulation is ass, piracy on original systems is class
Yep, I won't buy games that old. Nope, when I can hack it.
@@borizzle1 Spoken like a rtrd. Emulation in 2024 is on par if not better then the original hardware. Just keep coping with your waste of money collection of dust.
@@OGTH-camEnjoyer disgusting. By “better” you must mean a variety of ridiculous resolutions, shaders, and broken widescreen hacks. Console accuracy is the peak and only truly attainable on original hardware. Chads like myself can always tell the difference.
@@borizzle1 It's so nice walking in to my living room and turning on the little multimedia pc I built and turning on one of the bluetooth controllers, clicking the Big Box shortcut and being greeted with 10k games from Atari era to the PS2 era, Arcade and all. Pick one and play it just like I did 20-30 years ago. Quadruple chinned 26" thick glasses betas like yourself are also insufferable.
Nailed it. People are keeping their items. Prob not playing them but have a trophy room. Created scarcity
These resellers prey on nostalgia. They know that there are collectors out there that don't know what stuff is worth and they jack up the prices. A lot of gamers don't realize that the games they grew up on are now crazy expensive. The days of finding retro gaming for cheap is over.
the entire industry is built on nostalgia lol. those who didnt grow up playing on the console just emulate.
I hope people shopping or looking at these games in the conventions pull out their phones and check prices before buying and laugh at the seller's face if they don't want to bargain over the price
My rule is, if they bust their phone out to check prices, I will bust out my phone to check as well. One seller showed me an eBay listing for a game that was cheaper than his, I said thanks and bought the eBay copy instead. He was furious...
@@Dorian_Gray83 Why would he show you a cheaper copy? It's like he screwed himself.
@@newgameaaaa
He was trying to show me the average the game goes for and we both saw the cheaper copy. I jumped on it immediately
@@Dorian_Gray83 So I guess he expected it to be a little higher this way you would buy his cheaper copy. I guess he didn't offer you a better price. He could have, then you would have gotten a better deal and he would have sold it.
I was at Retrofest Arkansas this past weekend. Many of the games there were up there in price, but only a few were insanely high. The usual suspects were Mega Man X3 CIB which went for $700 at least and a CIB Super Nintendo with the Super Mario All-Stars/Super Mario World pack-in cart that was $400.
The Japanese imports were reasonably priced for the most part. I was at a booth that sold all Japanese imports for a decent amount.
I’ve created a term for what’s happened to the resell market. I call it the Pawn Star effect. Everyone thinks they are sitting on a gold mine when in fact it’s just nostalgia and in turn we’ve screwed each other over. And it’s not just in video games, used cars, equipment, clothes, etc.
Yup, everything is an investment.
Yeah, you may have a point there. I think if new games didn't suck so bad, none of this would be happening. Pretty sad when a game made in 1998 is superior to one that comes out this year. The only thing keeping the industry going is online play.
@@82jdiddy We do it to ourselves as a society. While we might discuss how the costs of things like video games has gotten out of hand, none of us are being proactive in changing that. We are all just as greedy as the next person. It takes all of us to change things, but will that ever happen?
I've been focusing on PS3, PS4, 360, and Wii games. Right now is the time to get games for those consoles.
It's like the point in the Monopoly game where nobody wants to trade or sell properties lol.
I really enjoyed this video, much respect…the radical one.
At this point, I'd rather just find games one at a time at small shops. I found the first two batman arkham games on the 360 at my local record shop in the movie section.
The main problem imo was the vendors, they want ebay prices without having to pay fees, everything sent is through friends and family so they don’t have to pay fees there either, and then on top of it they were NOT flexible on their pricing. This was by far the worst year to date. I purchased two games the entire time I was there an the vendor took 5 dollars off a purchase of 160 and that was it. Every time you’d do rounds they were sitting on the same stuff. It was a big disappointment
The buyers control the market. As long as there’s people out there willing to pay $100+ on an old game cause of nostalgia the prices will get worse.
Reggie remember when nobody knew about or played SNES Hagane back in 1995 I still have my copy complete in immaculate condition to this day
Post a video looking through it. People would like to see that. Especially given that most Hagane's had excessive wear from its Blockbuster exclusive status. Super hard to find immaculate condition and original owners of that title.
@@MrPumpkinheaddeluxe I’ve have all from 1980-Now every console thousands upon thousands of games what a life of gaming throughout the decades I’m from NY and the oldest of four brothers so we had/have it all
That price on Haunting Ground is insane 1:26. It's almost double what it's going for according to price charting. Unless it's sealed (and it doesn't look like it is), that's is just crazy.
I bought that game-- I don't think it was the release date but it was the release week. Still have it. I should see if it still works.
Never got a copy because of how expensive it is hopefully they remaster it
I sold my retro collection and couldn't get some games because they were too expensive.
Right on Reg! I'm just going to emulate until/if things calm down. Too much GREED has really messed things up imo.
honestly a lot of that is just gaming populace aging into higher income, and world population continuing to grow. This create demand, which leads to speculation, which leads to a bubble. There no person to blame it's market forces.
I started selling my stuff. Im done
that might be me soon
Are you emulating, just playing new stuff, or getting out of gaming?
@TeriyakiDior yeah dude. I'm keeping my must haves. Other than that, I'm done
@@ESPINOZA316 funny, that’s exactly what i was gonna do. godspeed, brother
i can almost bet you wont be selling them for cheap.. hopefully you will pass the cheap prices you paid for your games back jn the day onto the next buyer...but something tells me you guys wont be selling your stuff for cheap so youre just complaining about something you yourself are going to do, most likely..idk maybe you both are going to sell all your games cheap idk
Is not only the scalpers. It is also the state of modern gaming. Games today are made like if they want you to hate videogames. So people go back in mass to an era where videogames were art and fun. Not political activism.
This!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Nobody wants politics or to be reminded of troubles plaguing our modern society, we just want to kick back have fun and escape playing a game!
Recently been wonder about prices in videogame collecting and I think that... actually is one of the most cheaper hobbys that involved collection. Think about collecting Magic TCG, Pokemon or YGO cards, what about figures or statues, and why not people that collect Jordans...Yeah, of course prices went up big time after covid but with all that still is cheaper than collecting other things
Its a good time to buy up ps4, xbox one games. Theyre pretty cheap right now.
ya the prices have gotten out of control, i'm sticking to emulation and digital. I'm done with retro collecting as a whole now.
These resellers and shelf collectors have ruined the hobby.
I'm glad I did most of mine in the late 90s. But since then everything is a classic lol
TH-camrs have had the biggest impact on the state of video game collecting and the prices associated.
I remember when Little Samson was $150, then the Game Chasers found one in a video.
I remember when Hagane was under $100, then Mike Matei made a hidden gems video.
I remember when Samurai Western was $20, then Metal Jesus Rocks made a hidden gems video.
The exposure YT channels gives collecting/collectors increases the popularity, which increases the demand of games. The increased demand impacts the prices. Hidden gem videos caused large spikes for years and a vast majority of the games shown never settled to pre-video prices.
I've been saying these for almost a decade and I'm happy to read your comment. Most of these influencers (like this channel) humble brag about how hard a game is to get and how they got a hook up or something. They all have a treasure room packed to the brim and they use their rare inventory to distinguish themselves from other channels. It's no coincidence that used game shops raise prices after these types of videos. It's gatekeeping through a niche market. There's no way I'd get 1/10 of the value on my retro collection.
@@MrRawnchthey are part of the problem. It’s mainly the self collectors, investment collectors and resellers. They coursed the market to go crazy.
The bright side is that I started collecting for systems that I never got around to playing as a kid.
The down side is the more expensive stuff I couldn't get years ago, I definitely can't get now. I had to come to realization that a lot of my collections won't be completed. Sad...
Reggie i think you gave some valid points on how to be smart when shopping for Retro Gaming. I personally don't think retro gaming is too expensive. If anything, modern gaming is too expensive nowadays.
Like it's $79.99 to buy a new PS5 controller and $69.99 for a new game lol 😆 If anything, people just have to be smart and sometimes patient when buying retro games. I recently got WCW NWO Revenge for the N64 complete in box at very cheap price at a collectible toy store. Thats proof that you just have to shop around a bit to get what you want. Awesome video man 👍🏽
I love nwo revenge. Haven't played it since I was a kid. I picked up w2k24... I love the huge roster + womens wrestling + my gm mode, but man does it feel like a step backwards in controls compared to nwo revenge. It feels like a Wrestling Management Simulator + The ai cheats like hell & the counter button rarely registers.
I switched to pc 16 years ago. So I haven't really collected anything during that time.
I'm mainly stick to Strategy, J-RPG, Simulation, Arcade racing, & party games.
I really love older games from Sqaure Enix, Nintendo, sprinkled in Ea, WB games, Activion, Blizzard, & Microsoft.
Some of my new favorite games are Cyberpunk 2077, Satisfactory, Palworld, Vampire Survivors, Death must Die,
PS2 games were $50 at launch in 2001 and that's ~$90 in today's money....
Man, I had no idea how good things used to be in the moment. Not collecting older stuff when I was a kid because I wanted to afford the newer stuff. Its painful but I have fun finding games still. I'm mostly just trying to grab stuff for the PS4/Switch nowadays.
Dang all these comments are unhinged. Retro now is PS3 and Xbox360 those consoles are super cheap to collect for. Give it 15 years and those PS3 and Xbox 360 collectors are gonna be saying the same thing. When I was collecting NES everyone was buying PS1 and selling their NES for super cheap to get the latest an old greatest. Same thing is happening only now people want what is already on the high end.
I never been a collector. I just buy the few games I want to play. I sold off my gamecube collection when it spiked during covid.
I put that money into a switch collection. I don't really miss my gamecube collection because I grew up playing it a bunch.
Right now I'm playing "Waiting for the remasters" from square enix & 1st party nintendo.
Part of why I stopped looking for old physical games; as what folks are asking price wise is pure "crazy town." I even canceled my trip to japan to get some Neo Geo stuff and a Initial D game cabinet due to the ludicrous asking prices! I'm purely MODDED retro consoles now.. Not my first choice, but I can live with it and still play those great games without taking out a loan from the bank or against my personal property.
I agree yes and no, but there are some games that people is crazy for paying those prices
@@elvisroa1954 exactly! And those people don’t care cause they want it badly enough ti were moneys no object to them.
@@The_RadicalOne is also why all these people keep those prices high
I'm glad I got into video game collecting 20 years ago back in the early 2000s. If I started collecting today, I may just quit collecting right now or in a year or two. But yeah, Retro Video Game Collecting is now ruined by scalpers and the pandemic in 2020. I already commented on MJR's video about just move to emulating games because scalpers are already becoming a disease to the Video Game Market. Right now, I'm just buying games that may become rare in the near future or getting some games that are at a decent price.
I just traded in a pile of Saturn games and made enough money to buy a stack just as high of various other games AND get a Nintendo Switch. Yup! $400 for some garden variety U.S. saturn games and a few PS2 games.
I sold Sky Gunner PS2 for $120 and bought the PS5 version for $20. Great time to be alive.
Hey Reggie thx for the video. I sold my retro game collection back in 2017 for way too little but I just couldn't find a good deal anymore. Now I collect music cd's and the occasional vinyl because vinyl also is way overpriced. I can spend hours on sites like Discogs looking for a good deal. With cd's you still can get very good deals and there are some rare ones. With vinyl, same as retro games, I rarely feel good with a purchase and the idea of just throwing money at it is not my style, nor do I have that kind of money :)
I have never bought a game just to say that is going to be valuable later.
I buy games I want to play simple as that.
I stick only with my region if (game title) was not released in my region I take that as game does not exist.
I never bought handhelds so do not care about handheld/games available only on that hardware.
It was great seeing you my dude!
Very true about all these prices. I was near a booth at the end of the last day and id hear just these guys talking about not being able to sell heavy hitter n64 games that would cost 100 dollars plus and it solidified my thought process. Not many of us want to buy such expensive games either, game collectors aren't rich.
And i definitely got great deals there! I took my sweet ass time and i usually don't buy things past a certain cost.
Side note gamestop has amazing end of year sales, ive gotten plenty of games through their buy a couple get t one or two fre deals, id rather buy from them then get cardboard for 500 bucks.
A great time to collect for Wii. Wii’s got some fire 🔥 people just have to do a lil research
Found a CIB Wii at Goodwill with Wii Sports for like $20 a year ago. I can only image how crazy it'd cost in a decade or so.
If you’re into Light gun games and shmups I’d say focus on those right now
My dad always talks about how he got candy bars for 5 cents. The value of money goes down over time, it's a part of life.
2:19 - Ar Tonelico just chillin’ in the bin. Why isn’t that series rereleased?
My son played a DDR cabinet in an arcade and loved it. We were able to get copies of those games complete for like 5-6 bucks on the ps2. Collecting can still be cheap. Plus inflation is another thing to consider. So the $20 pick in 2004 is now like $33.
They’re just games… I’m glad I had my fun with them when they were new.❤
Those prices are ridiculous. I'd rather save on gas, parking, entry fees, food costs and hotel stay and just buy the games on eBay with the money I saved. All you see is sellers price matching eBay and price charting. I can stay home for that...🤣🤦♂️😂
Can't blame you on that. Same, if there is a game I want and I know I'll play I just go to eBay.
Use to have a fairly large retro collection. The best thing I’ve ever done was sell the retro keep the newer and build a pc. Now I have everything pre ps3/360 and can upscale all of them.
Yeah, it was cheaper twenty years ago. Back then people were trying to get rid of their older stuff. Bought the 32X-CD-Genesis combo, with some games AND including shipping for less than a hundred dollars. Same with 3DO and Jaguar. Ain't no speculators running around back then.
...maybe you should get something that can print on thin cardboard so you can set up a console box reproduction operation.
I agree Reggie. The prices are really high and as long as people are willing to pay those prices, I don’t think the market is going to come down much from where it is now. I’m currently focusing on collecting PS2 and I highly recommend that as a great place to start. A lot of its games are affordable and it doesn’t have too many hugely expensive games.
Buying lots and trading/selling the stuff I don’t want is how I got my collection also taking advantage of GameStop’s buy 2 get one 1 free sales for vita ps3 wii Xbox 360 and now ps4
its funny how youtubers will encourage their audience to emulate when attacking corporates....(when their channel gets copyright strikes)
but they never encourage the audience to stop giving in to these greedy retailers....o wait....because most of them are youtubers, dont you say anything bad or they will make videos calling you out
@@sonicsega1699 I use to emulate a lot when I didn’t have certain games. It’s a great way to get that gaming experience that might be too expensive.
Nintendo should be going after the people reselling their old games for these insane prices rather than people saving money by emulating
When I hit that pre order button for PS5 PRO I felt a shockwave go through my hole body😂
Honestly being able to flip games you got to play for years for more games you get to play for years and all of them are appreciating like investments... is great.
The young kids of the 80s and 90s are now in their prime financial years. They have more money and they are chasing their youth so the prices go up. In 20 years as they begin to die off (yes even you Reggie) all this stuff will be dumped at estate auctions for almost nothing. Only the best/rarest will retain their value. The local goodwill is selling comic books from the 60s and 70s by the pound!! That will be the fate of most video games that are fetching top dollar today.
lmao no Goodwill is selling Silver/Bronze age comics by the pound.
I had no idea my SNES 3DS was worth anything. It was just a standard option I thought when I bought it on sale
That explains why mine was stolen when I send it for repairs too…
@@c0mpu73rguy dang sorry to hear that. That's awful.
@@ManiacalMoogle Eh, it sucks but that’s life.
Yeah, I bought mine on sale on Amazon in 2019, though I barely use it and left it back in the original box
@@c0mpu73rguysorry to hear that
So glad I started collecting in 2009. I remember I had more games than Metal Jesus rocks, he only had like 100 subscribers then.
I definitely agree that pricing is getting way out of hand. I am all so fortunate that I have been collecting for a long time so I have many rare titles that I purchased before they skyrocketed.
Another contributing factor of rising costs is the rising costs pf being a vendor. I was a vendor for 4 to 5 years at Portland Retro Gaming Expo selling duplicates. Table costs have gotten extremely high, plus all the extra costs and time.
Pricing games and consoles, arriving early to the show for setup and breakdown on the last day, gas, if the seller uses square or venmo the fees that the seller can occur from such things.
Not trying to justify the rising costs, but understanding the other side of the table is always good. All so I totally agree with you Radical Reggie.
Many times, when I was a vendor, people would come up to me wanting to trade for a rare game and offer the dumbest games in trade. Please do not do that, the last thing I want is to trade for your copy of Tomb Raider 2, and you want my copy of Dino Crisis 2.
Yeah, I think it’s def time to call PS3/360/Wii retro. We are coming up on almost 20 years since their inception. Ya may not like it cause it makes us feel old but they are def retro now. My students call them retro.
I still remember seeing haunting groud new for 20€ back in 2018.
Thats some expensive toaster out there 😅😅
Today, I bought a PSP UMD Video for $1 at the thrift store. My local Game Store is selling it for $75. I went on Ebay and a guy in England wants $90 including shipping. Come on Reggie. What's really going on? And the sad part is, I don't even want the stupid video. I just bought it for charity.😕
This is one of the main reasons I stick to digital and/or emulation as needed. Never paying these inflated prices.
The last kind of video i want to see is one complaining about prices. It is what it is. Decades old games in limited supply cost money. Especially when TH-camrs talk about them in videos. I love having physical copies but you can't have everything unless you wanna pay.
Yeah, I definitely see the 360 hype die down in particular. Games like Dark went from being $70 - $100, to now around 30 bucks. I'm at a point with collecting, where I'm content with a lot of heavy hitters I collected over time. I just focus on the lower priced games I want while they're still reasonably priced. If I didn't get a game before the price hike, then it's whatever. On to other games.
I love retro games n I will buy idc about price
I don't trade in my collection because everything I got is stuff I want and that's why I always search for deals on items in my area they have high prices on cheap games and low prices on high games or some store just high on everything that's why I just shop around I collect from old school to new school
I started off collecting for nostalgia and now only collect games I actually want to play/am willing to be stuck with. I don’t feel the need to have a dragon’s horde of things I’ll never even touch and I don’t think my future kids will be nostalgic for the same systems that are important to me. I do wish I had less scarcity/FOMO purchases with all these limited releases
Also, over time, old systems will break one after the other, which slowly but surely adds to rarity. It's not just people keeping their stuff, there are less and less of them in working condition.
Yeah I've only been to two of these retro gaming conventions to purchase retro games and depending on the console gen or game you can either get some great deals or have an empty wallet after one day. Like you mentioned some people go after the popular game titles even though they may never play them or hope they go up an value so they can resell their copy someday for a profit. That's okay but it's a gamble because the game may go down in price rather then up as one of my friends found out to his misfortune as he paid $800 at the time early on and now it's worth $350 presently.
I used to pay €3 for a good title back in 2016, I could buy a ton of classics on all ports pretty cheap... But today, RE 5 for Xbox one used to be 24 and literally doubled in price since 1 year ago or something.
I Decided to sell my entire gaming collection and have been successful after going through my collection about a year.
I do regret some titles, am trying to Rebuy them but... Hey no pain no gain right?
So again , physical gaming isn't dead and buried as they want us to believe.
Market prices don't lie.
People are paying crazy prices for reproductions! Thinking that it's the original 80s, 90s or 00s package and manual in mint condition
JUST CRAZY
What a gold mine.
The trick to collecting, get the stuff that nobody cares for. I did it with Pokémon cards, ps3 games and even my car (2001 celica gt-s) all this before 2020, before the nostalgia bomb went off. Everything was cheap cause nobody cared for either of those things
Makes me so upset that I didn't have a good source of income until post 2020 when I could finally start collecting games. This is easily one of the most inflated industries out there that video games compared to other entertainment is so easy to get emotional attachments to hence why people will pay these prices.
Agree with you and Jason: if everyone is going right, I'm going left. All these games will always be available for many years and there will come a point a big chunk of people will have to offload their stuff that will effect prices to go down. Though that will take time since 2020 made so many people get back into gaming and they realized how awesome it is they will keep gaming.
I'm very curious to know when interest will dry up for 8-bit, then 16-bit, and each generation along the line. Prices won't climb forever.
I'm also at the point where I've been collecting for so long I really do have the games I want. Pick-ups for old games are happening a lot less often for me but I still love the games and the hobby.
I used to believe this. Not anymore. Guarantee, certain titles will only go up. It's just knowing or guessing correctly which ones. It's a global market, not national. Most US releases go for more.
@@excitebike64 I hear ya. I'm sure there will be some games that stay high like Superman Action Comic #1 an iconic thing. But I'm sure there will be time when the majority have little value.
Prices have already settled for pretty much everything 5th/6th generation and before. There will not be any big swings on those games.
Prices aside knowing how much is just digital now meaning this is becoming less and less a thing makes me sad
This is why ive been going for wii lately. There are actually a few hidden gems on there.
I'd say I pretty much have everything I wanted to buy for each console I'm interested in. Just made a list for each one and went from there. Most of the more expensive games that I have, I had already bought years ago when they were new. I do keep track of how much I had paid for it all and it hasn't been too bad. For what the prices are now, anything over $120, I find alternate means to play the game with collections or emulate. It's just not worth it and in the end, no one cares about the crap I buy.
That Hagane box is a repro so hope they didn’t try to trick people
Hagane is great action platformer, just emulate the game though cause 1000 dollars is just insane. I have a custom purple translucent repro of the game, and I pop it in to my SNES from time to time.
I find a reasonable deal on a game is hard to come by, so if I go to a gaming convention or a video game store, I'm usually looking at t-shirts, keychains, plushies and things like that and not the actual video games. I don't know how common it is, but I heard that all the best deals go down between the vendors before the convention even opens up to the public.
That happens all the time. I remember waiting for a retro game event to start and I was one of the 1st guys in line. In 5 minutes I get to a vendor that was selling ps3 controllers, who had gotten bought out. I see a guy with a wagon walking away with all of them. By the time I get to his booth, he was pricing the controllers for more...
I got thousands of physicals, ...but if I had known about Everdrives when I first started collecting, I'd only have maybe 5 to 10 total NES, SNES and Genesis I had mad nostalgia for.
As it is, I've built an office around them and the room would look stoopid with empty shelves, ...but I exclusively play those consoles on my Everdrives.
HOWEVER.
I foresee these companies going HARD to shut down ROM sites in the near future, in order to resell us old games on their rip-off online stores, so we'll see.
Here is my 2 cents. I have slowed down collecting and I have been doing it for around 30 years. I remember getting games for super cheap. I originally got them all and still get them because I want to play them. I got most of what I want and have a huge collection. My problem is space and time. I am very grateful for all the games I have got over the years. Now I just pick up waht I really want to play which is mostly new stuff. There are many people out there who collect for different reasons. The annoying ones would be scalpers who snatch up all the games just like in any hobby. Scalpers for tickets for example. Here are my tips for myself and anyone else reading this. 1. I collect what I really want to play. Aka collect because you want to play the game. 2. I have never spent over $60 on a game. Aka have a personal budget for your game pickups. 3. Be happy for what you have. You can't get everything you want. Know that there are other ways to play the game besides getting the physical version. Or if you really want something figure out what you need to do to get it. You are either going to pay in money or time. If you go around to Garage sales and ebay all day to get some money off here and there, you have already spent your time.
TH-camrs are the problems with there "Hidden Gems"
I hate to say it, but it's getting to the point where I'm probably going to move to emulation. Even sixth and seventh-generation games are getting on the pricey end. I've honestly considered selling some of my collection, but I know I'd regret it later on.
I really wanna purchase Def Jam Fight for NY (PS2) but I am NOT! paying $200 to $300 that's insane smh
That’s what it’s going for now? I guess it makes sense kinda since they can’t rerelease that game.
I luckily picked that up about 2 years ago when it was like 40
I've slowed a lot on collecting retro. The price is getting ridiculous 😬😬😬
The thing about buying cheap is that a lot of cheap games suck. The reason everyone wants the same games is because those are the games that are good.
Before covid my collection was worth around 20k after covid 50k. I watched it happen over those few years.
I would still rather buy a kinda expensive quality retro game than a $70 + season pass modern game. Great video Reggie, cool to see your panel with MJR at PRGE ✌️
Fair enough!
Great video man
I have a decent collection I think I’m out the game you guys can have it.
This is coming from the guy that stashed like 100 PSOne LCD monitors, and several copies of Haunting Ground and Samurai Western.. Hilarious.
It's more rare these days, but like four years ago, I got tons of games from Goodwill and 1/2 Price Books. I only get stiff I think I'll like. I don't understand system completists. I'm not buying garbage to brag about it.
That's why I decided on skipping the Xbox 360 in favor of the Xbox Series X. A lot of old school games are just too expensive.
I'm still collecting PS Vita games though. PS Vita is going to be 13 years old this December.
I was collecting Atari 2600 and LCD games and VFD Tabletops a long time and was not interested in other things. 4 years ago I started to collect C64 games (only disk and complete) and that was not fun…now I am interested in Game Boy and Super Nintendo….Jesus! Those prices are insane! This disappoints and angers me as a long-time retro fan. I have nothing against games increasing in value, but this is completely out of control. Trader want three-digit amounts for even uninteresting games - absolutely crazy.
How big is your Backlog and do you finish any game you play
@@hiddengunz mostly I do yeah, and why’d you like your own comment?
It’s too expensive for the most part. I’ve enjoyed collecting 2600 and 7800 carts for the 2600+
…it’s very affordable to collect for and I’m enjoying discovering playing the games.
If you are collecting to play, I feel there are a great games under $20, under $40 for all systems - collect within yer means and have fun - I have a PC but I get more pleasure playing NES and PSX/PS2 on my CRT (but that’s just me) - Great Points on Trades if you have a collection and want to to get something more sought after or pricey - but yeah, as time and knowledge march on, the hobby is bigger, the supply is fixed, and if more people are holding - prices are going to reflect that - and I get peoples frustrations but it’s not all doom and gloom - be patient and don’t believe the hype
Most of us buy these games because we want to play them for the first time or replay them after we lost, traded or sold them, but there are some people who have no interest in games for that, many saw on youtube or on the news someone saying that those old games are worth a lot now and they decided to buy and hoard all the games or consoles they could because they see it as a business or an investment and then they wait a few years and try to resell them for 30%, 40% or even 50% more than the original price that's why this whole thing has become so much worse.
Now you have to spend way too much money if you want to experience some of these games and that sucks.