What is Going On With Retro Game Collecting?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2024
- Today the Game Chasers talk about the state of game collecting and where it may be heading. Is collecting video games even worth it anymore? Can you even find games anymore? And of course, things derail as a dark secret about Jay is revealed.
00:00 is collecting d**d?
02:14 Melvor's Nintendo 64
05:19 Melvor's Gamecube
09:22 Video Game Prices
15:15 Can you still find games?
19:43 The Dress
25:00 Nonsense
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also....you are going to want to watch this whole thing as we find out something disturbing about Jay...
Its DUMB NOT to call a PS2 or Gamecube retro. Thats that Nintendo Tard thinking Lol
@@TheGameChasersas long as its not Vince McMahon caliber
I wish you came to film in Bakersfield California I love to be camera guy there's some swap meets in kern county and some of Northern Cali and some of western side of Cali by Pismo Beach and Nimpa
@@TheGameChasers Jay looked like a guest star on Laverne and Shirley
Gotta keep reminding myself that 20 years ago is 2004 and not 1984
stop lying.
I hear you…where the hell does the time go
...Fuckin hell.
Brb gonna go break my hip, WHO'S WITH ME?!
At 46 I feel you on this. 🤦🏼♂️
That's doesn't make sense
I think people are sick of the prices. They are looking for other sleeper titles that they missed out on.
Yes indeed
agreed. i got tired of the hunt for games i want to actually play being $100-$200. i am in the middle of selling off my small collection and will just play them through other ways.
Amen, if it’s too high $ wait. Plenty of hours to play with other cheap games, enough games to play until the prices come down or emu8 if it doesn’t
That did it for me. Seeing people focus more on how much their games are worth instead of how cool the game itself was or how fun it was killed it for me. In canada i remember while in college i used to use a website called redflagdeals, people would share finds at walmarts or any shop, got a copy of MGS4 collectors edition for 10$, only bought 1 and left the rest for others to find.
After a few months i started to see people braging about how they went to 10 walmarts and cleaned house leaving nothing for anyone else and bragging about how they are going to go to gamestop and trade it all in to preorder all the new games. Then it turned into people running garage sales to borderline rob people who had no idea what they had so they can sit on a dozen copies of what ever game so they can flip it later for more.
Collecting for me was fun when it was just everyone collecting for themselves and sharing their finds. Now its just like AAA game devs, just a bunch of greedy people in it just for the money. For retro im all for emulation now. I refuse to line some greedy assholes pockets to play some old ass retro game. The people who made the game originally dont get a dime from me paying an arm and a leg. So i dipped out of retro collecting or really any collecting a few years ago.
In 2019 I thought "Hey, I'll start a Mega Drive (Genesis) collection after finding two games super cheap in a random ass indoor market. The same day, my then GF remarked that her brother had a Boxed Mega Drive II, which she convinced him to give to me for nothing (It was in mint condition). I thought "Hey this is gonna be easy!". Hooo boy was I wrong. The prices are just stupid if we are honest. The problem these days is every single person who is selling at flea markets or boot sales are trawling ebay prices and pricing them the same way.
hard to believe the 360 is pushing 19 years old.
Crazy it turns 20 next year
😮Still has one of the greatest libraries ever alongside PS2
Wow that's a realization. The NES coming up on 40 too.
@@SnipingIsFun 😢🔫
And still nobody collects it lol. One of the most unreliable consoles ever.
For me, I consider ps2 retro. I was in High School when it came out. I remember getting my first job at subway solely to buy my own ps2. And that was in like 2002. I have alot of memories playing games with my two younger brothers, whether it was GTA3, or tekken tag, or whatever we had rented from blockbuster. And I turn 40 this year. Fuck where did the time go.
Ps2 is king
It stopped being fun for most people,now that most sellers are in fear of selling games too cheap...we're in a situation where games are getting too expensive to justify buying them and people are walking away from the hobby because there's no hunt or enjoyment like there used to be. People see prices online and refuse to budge or give you a deal that's what's killing it.
I sold my game collection couple years ago and moved over to modded consoles that have libraries on flash carts or disc drive emulators....I don't regret thr decision....I can still enjoy these games without worrying about my bank.
Same here brother. Sold my whole,NES,SNES,N64, GameCube,PS1,2,3 Xbox, Xbox 360, Panasonic 3DO,Sega CD and Saturn consoles. Only games I kept out of about 600 titles total were my favorite RPG's Lunar Silver Star Story +Lunar Eternal Blue Box Sets for PS1. Guardians Force, Magic Night RayEarth, Panzer Dragoon Saga for Sega Saturn. Suikoden 1+2 for PS1. Chrono Trigger,Secret of Man,Final Fantasy 2(4)/+3(6) for SNES and all Dragon warrior/quest games for all those systems. Everdrive and modded OG hardware is what I do now. Couldn't sell my whole Nintendo Power collection tho,I love those mags now and as a kid.
Matter of fact you can see some of the game titles I had that I sold on eBay in my profile pic if you zoom in 😂
You guys are really fortunate to have this connection with each other and be able to sit down and have these conversations about the old days. All of the kids I grew up with, playing the 64, I don't have contact with anymore. I still talk to plenty of old friends but it's all boobs and beer memories, not snow days and video games.
Nothing wrong with boobs and beer 🍺
Same here
same :(
Well I got brothers and cousins to talk retro. Friends tho, yea lost contact a long time ago.
Same, my few friends and brother were never into video games like me
It’s not dead, just slowing down with how high prices are getting. Consoles are high, games are high. Just insane overall.
It's not that it's Bidenflation devaluing the dollar by 20% & now it takes more money to live on less. Most people in the Bay Area are leaving the supermarket with 2 bags of groceries, which is like $100
In 1981, grandparents got me an Atari 2600 with joysticks, and the only game i was given was "Demons To Diamonds" which required paddle controllers. Oh, the pain! Couldn't play for a week until they got me another game, god bless 'em. Last month, i got some sweet paddles from a collector and busted out the Demons over 40 years later! Happy days.
I imagine some kids got the game combat with only one controller
The priorities definitely feel different from a decade ago. Back then, it was a lot more chill and fun. Games weren’t always cheap, but they were mostly reasonable. With all the game grading going on, it is becoming harder to find a good deal without been priced out. It used to be a fun hobby that the average Joe could enjoy with little to no money. Now it’s becoming a hobby more for the rich and it’s hyper competitive.
I wouldn't say reasonable. It's only reasonable because prices are higher. $300 for a sealed video game was ridiculous 10 years ago
Wata and TH-camrs ruined retro game prices in general. Games in the 80s and 90s that were 20 or less all day long, are now double or triple that even now.
Aww the picture of keeb in the background. Rip buddy, i still remember the guy. What a great attitude he had, he truly loved gaming.
Right next to Pee Wee. He's dead too. 👻
Maybe like 5-7 years ago I had a huge retro collection and after so much time I realized I was just trying to preserve the better parts of my childhood. Look, I didn't have the worst up brining but after my sister help me realize some things about my parents I recognized I was just trying to buy back the better times when it's not the games that matter so much as the memories of those games. I mean I had all those games but I didn't have the drive to replay them all; I was lucky if I even scraped (replayed) 5% of what I had. Also, the prices were getting high, dealing with retro shops run by very seedy ppl (which I tried to turn a blind eye to when I clearly shouldn't have) and more or less having the music (soundtracks) from these games on hand acting as a very handy way to relive games without playing them while doing something else with my hands has me in a much better place now than back then. Now, I mainly just collect physical games for the Switch and it's REALLY nice just to focus on ONE platform. That said, I mean it's clear physical media is probably going to be phased out in the near future (not that I want it to be) so I mean game collecting is going to become less of a thing anyway.
I remember putting my NES on layaway at Kmart. I would add $5 a week to my layaway balance till I could take the NES home! Had the grey zapper and Mario/Duck Hunt 🎉
It's crazy that in 2005(pre ps3 in na) the nes was 20 years old, now the ps3 is getting close to that age. Man I'm old
We are all getting old lol
THATS MY PLAYSTATIONNNNNN
jay dressed as a woman looked like an unused flintstones character concept lol that was hilarious haha
Jay was the "Surprise" found at the top of Dinosaur Peak
@@nerdrage3626 Haha 😂
I was thinking he was an extra in To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything!
He makes a lovely black woman.
I just started a new collection a week ago. Doing it differently this time. I'm only collecting stuff I want to play. The days of trying to complete a collection are over for me. My first collection was like a part-time job with crappy pay.
I only collect the best games for each system. I never wanted to go all out on one system. One off the games I'm proud to own is radiant silvergun for the saturn.
When prices got out of control years back, switched gears to movie collecting and getting DVDs, Blu Rays for $0.25 - $2.00
Tired of subscription networks (Hulu/Disney/HBO/Netflix) so focused on this instead. Less stress, more fun, more options!
Where are you getting deals that low on movies?
If you’re near Tennessee, North Caroline, or D.C. , there are used Book/Electronics stores called McKays that have tons of used CDs, DVDs, Blu Rays, Books for cheap. Some are still brand new in shrink wrap for as low as $0.25 - $1.00@@damonke79
@@damonke79 Go to used game stores and thrift shops, they practically give them away lol.
I did the same thing. I've been using whatnot to buy some stuff for my collection but the video games were being priced too high and it became too competitive and hostile. People too worried about flipping them for a profit. Switched to movies and have had a much better time. The people are more chill and can usually get good deals. Got rid of all my subscription services so I'm building my own library to watch from
This is me recently!! Especially these past couple of months I've been really focusing on collecting Blu Rays and some DVDs. I only need 2 subscriptions and those are to watch my Sports games other than that I'm not giving my money to any high priced cash grabs I'm sick of it.
growing up my brother and i had an atari, an nes, a genesis, snes, turbo grafx, and a jaguar, but they were always “ours” as in they were either combined presents or we put our money together to get them. my brother graduated in ‘98 and i graduated in ‘99. my brother got a job in high school and bought a ps1 with his own money. the only console that i bought brand new with my own money was in 2005 when i got married and it was a ps2 slim which i still have. the ps3 came out about a year later but i gradually stopped playing games. occasionally i’ll play my kids’ switch but that’s about it. but man the nostalgia of holding an nes, genesis, or snes cartridge and reading the booklets and talking about secrets and codes on the school playground……. those memories are freaking priceless.
I was born in 1974 and my parents had the Magnavox Odyssey in their bedroom on a 19 inch black and white tv. We got a 2600 when I was 5 and the Colecovision when I was 7. I remember the first time playing The Smurfs on the Coleco to this day. The graphics blew my mind!!! Because my parents and my uncles were into gaming I have been brought up playing games my entire life. I've literally owned every Nintendo, Sega, Playstation and Xbox console. I've also had everything in between like the Turbo Grafix, Jaguar, 3DO, Neo Geo, and PC's. I pretty much stick to PC mostly now because it's basically all in one but my kids have their Xbox's and Playstations of course. I've been playing Call of Duty since before it was a multiplayer game like it is now and I still get the "what are you like 40 and still playing video games?" from the kids online. Lol. I say "actually i'm 50 you little punk and I'll continue to play until I no longer can pick up a controller!!" Lol.
Nicely said, I’ve been building my backlog to take with me to senior citizen homes when I get to that point.
@@cesspool4743 I hear ya. My backlog is just ridiculous. I have over 300 on my Steam, almost 500 on my Switch, and at least 100 installed from Game Pass. Lol. I check out Steam sales and E-shop sales everyday and buy anything that looks interesting and are cheap. I've forgotten more games in my library than I've played by far! Been playin Helldivers 2 and Enshrouded a ton the past couple of months.
Another thing to consider is, physical media likely will be obsolete in 10 years or so. The current console generations, might be the last consoles with games actually physically available to collect.
I trimmed down my collection and focus on a select few consoles now.
Im Collecting since the late 90s. Remember getting so mutch 8 and 16bit Games cheap.
For example: Prices for some complete titles like Megaman (X2,X3) were allways high in there time but there was a boat load of stuff for Cheap. I was working a Job and builded a huge Collection. The prices risen over the Years as people discovered cool and rare stuff.
BUT for the last 4-5 Years the Prices know no limit. There is not even a logic in this.
Common complete Games (say 30-50$) are offered and sell for 300+ some others go for cheap.
I dont understand this anymore!?!??
There are to many skalpers and people that are in for a quick $.
Miss the time game collecting was more a niche, underground thing to do!!
Everything in the 90’s was cheap! I remember when records and cassettes were under $1. Same with video games from the 80’s were cheap in the 90’s till 2006.
You guys are lucky to be able to sit down like this and chat with likeminded friends. And the deals are still out there.
Jay looking like Fred Flintstone in drag 😂😂
I’m 46 yes old and I have a complete NES/SNES/TG-16 and SMS collection. Currently, collecting for OG Xbox and 360 and loving it. I consider all physical gaming collecting f as “retro”
By complete do you mean like every game released for nes?
I laughed so hard when I saw Jay in a dress in that picture and the fact that they showed it a few times was even more hilarious.
Everything from the dress on had me rolling. You guys are honestly even funnier now than when the show started. This stuff is gold!
Keep doing THIS, I'm getting the same awesome energy from these conversations that I get from a good jre podcast, felt like I was sitting there enjoying the nostalgia with y'all, please keep making these, and extend them to 3 topics over 3 hours, I for one would watch all of them 👍 great show
I sold my collection last year... I couldn't keep up with the market and going to flea markets or garbage sales was pointless. Everyone was using Ebay or even some were using Price charting. So I sold my collection and I'm just gaming on emulation on PC for now.
I am keeping what I have now
1:22 Another reason why it's so hard to call sixth gen consoles retro, is because, well, games honestly haven't changed much since then. In a way, modern games are still drawing from the gameplay mechanics of games from that era. Modern TPS like TLOU are clearly inspired by RE4, all modern hack'n'slash games by Devil May Cry, first person shooters from Halo and Black, and so forth. Any modern gamer could pick up a game from the PS2 and Original Xbox era and enjoy it pretty easily, due to the core game design and mechanics being pretty similar to those of modern games. PS1 and SNES games play nothing at all likr what we have today outside of a few intentional retro knockbacks with modern sensibilities.
Can we get a "Melvor vs Dodongo gaming challenge" hosted by Billy & Jay? Pick a few games, set incremental goals, and see who wins.
For cartridge games absolutely Dead in Tacoma, Wa. I went to prob +/- 200 garage sales over the summer and only found NES games at 1 garage sale and they wanted $10 a game for commons he prob had 7 or 8 games. Only 1 sale with 2 SNES games for .50 cents so picked both of those up. PS1 games but not alot. Here's a basic synopsis of all those sales.
Atari- Didn't see a single one!
NES- 1 sale $10 for commons
SNES- 1 sale 2 games .50 cents ea.
Genesis- saw a few but were sports games
N-64- saw a couple but ridiculously priced
Disc based
PS1- saw a few
PS2- saw quite a few picked up quite a few. Also picked up a couple slims for $5 a piece.
0G XBox- saw quite a few picked up alot. Bought a console with 4 controllers and an unopened GTA San Andreas for $40 total.
PS3- saw a ton of the games & picked a console for $10.
Xbox 360- this is what I saw the most of.
Wii- saw quite a few but not alot of the great titles.
Xbox One & PS4 saw quite a few times. The prices can really very though at garage sales some people can be cheap and some can be really high.
Wii U- only saw twice one of the sales had amazing titles for only $2 a piece so picked up every single one they had. Also got a mario & luigi wii motion controllers cheap at that sake aswell. One of my best sales of the summer.
So unless you are looking for post PS1 disc based stuff its totally dead in Tacoma/Spanaway, wa.
PSP must be rare find then, also some of those PSP movies are going up.
@@mo_musashi_284 yeah only saw PSP games at one sale picked a couple up for a buck a piece not very good titles though. You know what I'll have to keep an eye open for the movies come this Garage sale season I remember seeing them a couple times last summer.
Skies of Arcadia OST is on CD! It’s two disks and it’s under the Japanese title: “Eternal Arcadia” totally worth it!
I own the vinyl version just for the artwork alone
When the pandemic hit and game prices spiked, I sold 90% of my collection, bought a gaming pc, and emulate pretty much everything now adays. Saved me space, money, and convenience. Never looked back since.
Yeah same here I sold most of my collection over 4 years ago. I have less than 15 physical games. I don't have the space, but I respect others that have the big collections.
Yup good decision. I just hold a small collection of games I love
smart man
Great investment!
Same here brother. Sold my whole,NES,SNES,N64, GameCube,PS1,2,3 Xbox, Xbox 360, Panasonic 3DO,Sega CD and Saturn consoles. Only games I kept out of about 600 titles total were my favorite RPG's Lunar Silver Star Story +Lunar Eternal Blue Box Sets for PS1. Guardians Force, Magic Night RayEarth, Panzer Dragoon Saga for Sega Saturn. Suikoden 1+2 for PS1. Chrono Trigger,Secret of Man,Final Fantasy 2(4)/+3(6) for SNES and all Dragon warrior/quest games for all those systems. Everdrive and modded OG hardware is what I do now. Couldn't sell my whole Nintendo Power collection tho,I love those mags now and as a kid.
As far as I knew it, collecting is over. Used to leave the swapmeet with bags full of games for 25 bucks. It was fun, you never knew what you'd find and you were usually the only one there looking for games. Those days are long gone..
I do think their may be an additional factor to consider as we get into PS1/PS2 and other optical disc based systems... those discs have much shorter shelf-lives and are much more fragile compared to the cartridge systems that came before them. It's already becoming extremely difficult to find discs that haven't been scratched to high heaven that aren't going for ridiculous amounts. It also doesn't help that the Gamestop refurbishment center in Grapevine's disc cleaning and resurfacing machines were worn out and mis-calibrated for years so they were ruining half the discs they were taking in. Basically, if the focus really starts to settle on those I don't think it'll last long, every in good shape or that's even all that playable is going to get snapped up and become discouragingly expensive very quick.
Everything before the HD generation of consoles, are basically retro since they depend on CRT's to get the right resolution and aspect ratio.
I was talking games with my friends cousins over the holidays and they all grew up with the Wii and were very nostalgic remembering their parents playing it with them. I can see the Wii taking off in a few years only from that interaction reminding me that the younger generations are working and have their own money now.
The definition of retro shifts down but the collecting never stops. :>
We need more “shelf collectors” selling their collections and making TH-cam videos about selling said collections because those games just funnel back into the community for the people with true nostalgia for the games to be able to purchase them.
People can have "true" nostalgia and keep their games on the shelf most of the time. You're not a gatekeeper on what people do with the games they have fond memories of...
@@LukeDodge916 go cry to Elmo.
@@ThePerspectionist haha
Most won’t do it because they gonna sell it for a arm and a leg and won’t Handle the backlash
@@LukeDodge916 alright, you’re cool.
That rare Resident Evil 4 for the Xbox!
Been hunting for it the last 20 years lol
I'm dying with the dressing up story lmao😂😂
"IT WOULDNT BE THE FIRST TIME" 🤣🤣🤣
Watching this feels like I’m with my friends sitting and reminiscing… love this podcast keep it going
The PS2 is older today than the Sega Genesis were when you guys began Game Chasing. Mental.
Melvor is now my favorite Game Chaser for having grown up playing Suikoden
Dodongo was the Suikoden guy cuz it made him blow his load.
True
My PS2 games have been skyrocketing in price... glad i never got rid of them from when i was a teenager. I would hate to try and collect the gems now
Great stuff, cool to see you on Pixel Pod Billy, and Melvor on Ed’s retro geek out
5:00 Omg. I wasn't the only one playing FF7 with no memory card. 😂 I remember being about 10 hours in and haven't to shut the TV off at night and cover up the PlayStation so my dad didn't see it on and shut it off. Then I finally got a memory card for Christmas.
Ugh same. My parents rented a Ps1 and FF7 multiple times for me but I always lost fighting Reno because I didn’t know that you could attack your own character to knock his pyramid attack off them, and if he locked all your party members up with that it was game over, and that meant starting the game all over again. It was straight up traumatic lol.
Damn, getting overleveled just to survive lol
@@benjammin105123 No memory card was literally hardcore mode for FF7.
love the "podcast" style videos mixed in. I've noticed that youtube likes it too, I see ya'll in my feed a lot more now!
Collecting is still alive, but it’s become much harder to score the way we used to. I’m mostly looking for the hidden gems. Games that are still affordable and are worth playing. Definitely recommend collecting what most ppl are not. Go for the ps3, 360, and Wii gems, they are still out there.
"Retro Gaming" will always be a thing... It's the "RETRO GAMERS" who will change.
Jay,,,,Jay,,,,face it, you did it more than once! LOL Love the discussions guys. I really enjoy these videos. Retro collecting will never die. Your bonds together are timeless. Brings back my gaming memories with my younger brother.
I sold a lot and from what I see resellers are buying but asking silly prices. Also, people who did collect are now trying to sell but they are asking what they paid or even more. And people are not paying silly money for a so-called rare game when you can go on the net and see 10 copies.
For me personally, I invested in Everdrives and ODE's and never looked back on buying individual games again.
I definitely agree that game collecting isn't dead, but I definitely think the prices have gotten a little bit ridiculous. I also think people are wising up to collecting just for collecting sake, instead of just collecting certain games they enjoy or want to try out. I know I went through several phases where I would buy anything and everything gaming related no matter how unnecessary. then I slimmed it down to mostly just stuff I grew up with, and just recently last year I slimmed it down even further because I don't have as much time to enjoy gaming anymore. but most of the stuff I sold I still have ways to play digitally. I'll definitely never try to persuade someone not to collecting video games if it's something they enjoy, but I will say get ready to change your mind several times and probably end up rebuying games that you get rid of
Great video hopefully prices will
Come down even more I miss cheap games
Everdrives, ODEs, etc have killed it for me. I couldn't find anything in person, the prices of retro games were high online, so might as well get an everdrive - that was my thinking.
I'm starting to think the same....at least it's on original hardware vs total emulation
I quit collecting too over the pricing bubble in the pandemic. Prices in Norway were already stupid because of the limited market and availability, but it's not even funny now. Lot of collectors do an ebay search and have their mind made up.
Holy hell, didn't expect to hear "WebTV" during this conversation. Would love to hear you guys talking about it.
7th gen (360, ps3) is taking off right now. I think prices can only get so high before there's more people wanting to cash out than there are people willing to pay up, and when that happens, we go through a long "recession" and see lots of availability on ebay. Lots of sellers undercutting sellers. And then the reverse will happen when desirable games are at a 5-year low and buying picks back up.
But if you're looking at those consoles that have never really "blown up"... A lot of them are getting scarcer and competition in auctions seems to be building. It's never a bad time to buy good titles that are off the radar. But it can be a big mistake buying into the hype (n64 last year for example).
I really liked this video. Great discussion from experienced collectors. Don't see this kind of content anywhere else!
Holy FUCK that picture of Jay was amazing
Great video, guys. Felt like shooting the shit with some old friends 🤘
I am liking these podcastish videos.Just chillin talkin about games
Good thumbnail 👗 I just started selling off my NES collection..about 700 games..I’ve collected for close to 14 years but it’s time to part with them..not because I need the money but because it’s time…but I will be keeping like 50 games..selling what I can on eBay and the rest probably sell to a local game store
You guys should keep this up, this is actually a really good podcast.
That's why its important to show our kids how cool all this shit is!
On today’s episode of The Game Chasers
I'm lucky to still own Intelligent Cube, parasite Eve, Ape Escape just to name a few. Every once in a while I bust them out and play on the original console. I find it therapeutic
You gotta make friends w the fellas at your local dump/recycling center. You wouldn’t believe what ppl throw out. I get new retro consoles at least once a month
My remember my first game preorder being Legend Of Zelda Majora's Mask at Toys R Us.
I still been wanting sunset riders the arcade cabinet the 4 player one
First system i owned was N64, followed by Dreamcast and PS2. Me and my bro only rented SNES and Genisis from Blockbuster back in the day some weekends.
I’m in the VHS collecting game, I started last year and since then it has blown up. I would love to see you guys go after tapes
The photo segments killed me. Also as someone who grew up in Michigan, everyone here had a slim shady phase.
Edit: I never knew Jay was an extra in To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything!
Speaking as someone who has completed a firearms collection over 15 years of just about every 70s 80s 90s & 00s paramilitary style firearm ever imported let me tell you that the old stuff never really dies out. There are still guys collecting guns from the 1800s. Cars are the same way. There are guys who collect old 20s & 30s era cars today. None of it ever really loses it's value it just takes a temp. dip when the older guys die off and items flood the market. The problem is once that happens a lot of large collections end up trading hands to fewer buyers who are heeled financially enough to buy up several different collections in one lot or cherry pick the best parts so once you're beyond the dip prices go insane and never come back down. It becomes a rich mans game.
There are several Chinese AKs I've been hunting for over a decade that I don't think I'll ever see in person due to the rarity and these were very common guns in the 1980s and early 1990s. Literally tens of thousands were imported and sold for less than 300 bucks and now you should plan on spending anywhere from 6000+ to 8000 to get one in OK condition.
Having dealt with this kind of thing and hitting age 35 I decided to grab an SNES and start picking up the games I remember playing when I was small before everything goes through the roof and becomes unobtainable. With the resurgence in calls for physical media I can see systems like the SNES and NES being used far into the future. People are making new games for these things and a lot of the old games hold up and play better than anything released since 2015.
I really want a PS1 and all the old original Resident Evil games but those have been really difficult to find in town.
Videogame collectors are why I went full digital , they made buying old games WAY too expensive to justify when I can purchase the same game digitally for a fraction of the price.
There's been multiple times I want to get a classic game, but collectors/resellers ask a ridiculous prices
Same honestly I regret a bit but I love my digital copy there where cheaper and I enjoy it but I have a small physical collection and I love it too
When you guys started doing Game Chasers in 2011, you guys, myself, and many others, were considering the N64 retro. N64 was barely 15 years old at that point. Today, the GameCube is 23 years old, which, by comparing the age to the N64, would definitely constitute it as retro. However, I also consider the feeling towards the system and games, and the quality difference between old and new systems as part of it being retro. Like PS3 and Xbox 360 to me aren't retro yet, despite being 18 and 19 years old - older than N64 was when I was considering that console retro. Basically, what I' trying to say is that the difference in quality compared to what we have today isn't as huge between 360 and Series X, as it was with N64 and Wii.
One MAJOR issue is resellers think because its a video game and its old some how think they should mark up the prices..
the prices will never go down because most retro games are being hoarded to flip later.
U get people liked me,to keep forever
Perfect Donold Duck laugh at 22:09
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@@TheMelvor Ah, that avatar explains everything! :D
I think collecting is more alive than ever !
There are two things that build a collection. Love for a product and the money to buy the product. Many fans of retro gaming either already have what they need or have fallen out of love with gaming and the ones who dont can't afford to do anything about it.
I used to collect, but the expense just isn't worth it anymore. I kept my consoles and what I would actually play. Everything else is just kinda out of my scope
For me it is. Im 46 years old, had a collection about 12 years ago, about 1500 games. Sold it all so i could fit my drums into my room. I don't regret it today but i did at the time. Emulators, FPGAs, flash carts, everything going digital anyway, high ass prices and i just have zero urge. At some point the nostalgia just wears off. Maybe if i stepped away for awhile....
I do have a plan going forward, owning all the consoles with a highly curated selection of good games. No overpriced 4/10 games, no games i wouldn't play, no pretending suck ass games are good because of rarity.
I will always be into retro, its part of who i am and has been since the late 90s but i find myself looking to kinda reconfigure what that looks like. Im glad retro is going out of style, this means a smaller, higher quality group of people.
Jay as a women looking like when Cory Matthews in Boy Meets World dressed as Cora in the “chick like me” episode 😆😂
It’s incredible you guys were able to get Andy Kaufman to come on the show to talk about retro gaming.
With eBay and ubiquitous Internet access, the rarest and most sought after games are often stockpiled in the hands of collectors already, or sat on eBay at high prices.
Unless its an unknown gem, its often snapped up before you get to know of it. The other side is all of the e-waste disposal that gets sought after things trashed all the time. For example, how many Apple Lisas are left? Working Apple 1s?
Race against time.
Thank you, chodes. Always excited for a new video!
I don't think it's dead, but I in particular have zero problem with emulation, and 10 years ago I was staunchly against it. if you are looking to just play a game that you have always wanted to, and that game costs an insane amount compared to 10 years ago, just emulate it. but yes flea markets are getting scarcer and scarcer and with the advent of smartphones people don't just blindly put 10 or 20 bucks on a 300 dollar game anymore. they go on the internet and find out its 300 and label it that way. Ebay has been a blessing and a curse for retro games.
I heard somebody say a few years back that if its over 20 years old its retro and that feels about right.
I love retro collecting for my NES,Snes, and Genesis but damn man these prices are getting crazy for games anymore
The classification of "retro" for games reminds me of classic rock for music. Is something like "Enter Sandman" or "Smells Like Teen Spirit" considered "classic rock"? Even though they're well over 20 year old? Not for me, because classic rock is more a genre than a time period. Same goes for games. A "retro game" is a game from when games looked and played drastically different. There was a big shift in game design around the turn of the millennium, so PS2 games that have aged well feel pretty modern, and don't fit the "retro" moniker simply due to age. Meanwhile, an SNES game that has aged well is still definitely a retro game. It's not a perfect system (there's always outliers) but that's my take on it.
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Love these candid conversations
Yall were my fav channel in HS. And very informed still! My gen def loving the gamecube/ps2/ps3/360, but yes NES is the start of what we really like, we can connect with mario, and zelda etc, and sonic on the genesis but the atari etc and Intellivision sadly will be dust...
Ive slowed down heavy on collecting. Couldnt tell you the last retro game i bought. The prices and everything has just gotten ridiculous.
@19:45 looking you up and down lmao i lost it
Lol the chair I love this setup in melvors house great for the podcast this episode was great need more