You've fallen out of LOVE with GAMING
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Do you have a sad feeling about gaming that you just can't put your finger on. Did you used to love gaming and now it feels stale? This video dives into the causes and helps explain the culture shift we have seen.
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Andy, you nailed this topic on the head about the current state of the retro gaming scene. Phenomenal topic and great logical points here!
Thank you Marcello!
I just love the thrill of the hunt. I love to say, “I found X for $5!” My wife is always like so if your not gonna sale it who cares 😂. Reselling has literally made me loose interest in some of my most favorite channels on TH-cam. Once I realized they value the $ over the nostalgia, I lost my connection with some of these channels. Also let me say I don’t mind watching channels get things for good deals, but when it’s only to flip for profit only and not to build your collection for free I just loose interest. I don’t care if your going for a complete gamecube collection if your just gonna turn around and sale it all. Plus gamecube sucks 😉.
Jay if I could thumbs up your comment twice I would!!
If you are referring to my recent video on April 1st I hope you realize that was an April Fools joke lol. And GameCube most certainly does not suck lol, dems fightin words son! 🤣
@@RetroWolf_YT no, I am not referring to any of your videos. I know you love games. I’m referring to a channel that is pretty open about the fact that they resale and some of the other channels that followed suit. A channel I use to really enjoy for years and now I can’t see the same.
@@RetroWolf_YT Dammmmm lol 🤣 There should be a laugh emoji and not just a like button. You guys are hilarious
@NES ADDICT I gotcha brotha man! But seriously....play some GameCube games man! I can make you a list of games to play 😬😬
Well said and I think it’s mostly about the money now. I personally don’t care or know what my collection is worth on any given day. I still love playing my games and hunting for more games I want to play. Now saying that I know I have more games than I could ever possibly finish but we are always pairing down the collection to add games I’m going to play. TH-cam channels that play there games are usually smaller than the hunting channels. Lots of people say they hate resellers but I bet that they support those channels with their views. Great video cheers 🍻 buddy!
Not me, flippers for pure profit can get in the sea. I don't mind hunting vids, if they're from a true collector, oh and honest resellers like Mort, they get my full support 😎
@@GenerationPixel Absolutely, and just to keep it fun and confuising it's Jenn commenting now LOL
Well said! I assume this is Scott on this comment! I think you are right the the views are primarily going to the hunting and flipping channels so the balance of gaming channels for the sake of loving games is skewed currently.
I don't want Aps in my phone telling me how much my game collection or items are worth. I love ripping open sealed games & rare collectibles, tossing the packaging. I am not into collecting for bragging rights & ego from social media groups I'm not a part of. These "Re-sellers" in my opinion have destroyed what was left of the supposed gaming community, I have zero respect for them & what they have done to the good of the hobby we love. Good points bud, well stated!
Vinnie you are one of the good one brother! I agree the hobby has changed from a community stand point and I don't necessary like the way it has gone. BTW do you ever hear from Dave Page anymore? I used to see him in the comments all the time but I haven't for almost a year.
@Pacmancase I am friends with Dave, we text every so often. He badly wants to get his family out of LA like I did but seems stuck there. Since covid he is more aloof sadly.
@@davepage2466 missed you buddy!!!!!
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@@davepage2466 Davey boy Smith!
Not about the money here. I would say my desire for retro gaming falls into why Tyler from My Retro Life is into it. My late Uncle got me into video games at an early age... I was probably about 6 or 7 when I remember playing games on his Commodore 64. I loved it so much that a Commodore 64 was on the top of my Christmas wish list. Santa got me the next best thing at the time - a Texas Instruments home computer. My Uncle got me into Nintendo when it came out, then Sega. Gaming is one of the fondest memories I have of him. It's also one of the few things I can share from childhood with my son, who has very limited interests because of his Autism. We both love Mario, Sonic, and Yoshi. We even use gaming as therapy for him because it makes him use both hands at the same time and it's something he has to focus on and not stim (arm flapping because he's excited).
With all that said, I don't flip games and we only collect what we want to play. I think the highest valued game I own is Ocarina of Time ($100 cart only)and most valuable consoles are an N64 Pikachu edition (for my son) and an xbox 360 R2 edition (because I'm a star wars nut)I have zero intentions of selling any of them...I don’t care how valuable they become later on.
Christine! Thank you so much for sharing this. Your story and life is inspirational and really showcases our relationship with gaming.
Another thing I should add is that if I do find a console/games for cheap, I’ll use those for trade in credit at my local game store.
We should just play this video for our GJS panel.
I loved it when I was younger, attempted it again recently and I think I have just lost my passion for things in general, rather than a loss of love for collecting.
The problem is as we get older we have too many experiences to pull from and things are less monumental in our lives.
Usually happens when you are always thinking about the next thing and want more instead of living in the now and enjoying what we got.
I've also seen some of those videos in which people say they are giving up and selling their collection. Retro gaming may have been a phase for these people. I've been playing NES and SNES since I was a kid, and don't see a reason to ever give it up. No matter how many games I play and beat, there is always another one to play.
It is called a fair-weather fan. Jump into something because everyone else likes it. Maybe you can convince yourself that you like it too...then you realize you didn't really have the same passion for it as others. Happens with lots of hobbies. Glad you still love gaming Jarod!
The real question is how fast the hobby will begin to dissipate over time. PS5 is slowly rolling out digital only consoles we hear. It’s not a leap to suggest PS6 won’t have physical games at all. Once that era happens and no new gamers (aka children) are attached to physical media going forward, the hobby will begin to die off. Gen Y and Z are often broke and may choose between now and the next gen era to massively dump their collections bringing prices down and officially ending the collectors era. I give this hobby 10 years max before sales plummet and consoles begin dying off and modern gamers invest in stocks and necessities instead of nostalgia. Without younger ppl to buy into the hobby it simply goes away.
I’m not happy about any of this, but it feels inevitable.
I'm afraid you are spot on with this. The hobby will fade away into the sunset.
Dude nailed it!! I quit selling last summer , and in turn haven't been collecting as much, but when I do get stuff I'm stoked! But there is alot of big youtubers that show how much they make by finding these items and then sell them on what not for over market value.. bs imo
That is the real issue here. The viewer that stumbles across a video that shows people hunting, flipping and making a profit but "they are gamers" is part of the identity, is pretty misleading and can influence some people that the hobby is cool because you can make money but in fact, I should see way more video's like "my retro life" talking about the memories and fun that games brought to them. It is a weird landscape right now in the retro community.
I find it really annoying when the videos I watch just talk about games in terms of how expensive they are and never actually talk about the game as something to play or something that’s cool to have. Even the channels I like a lot. I just don’t find it interesting. If you showed me a video of a stack of cash sitting on a table, I probably wouldn’t think that’s very interesting either. Personally, I’ve started collecting original Xbox games. There are only a handful of them that are worth any real money, and only a few of those are interesting to me. The vast majority of the Xbox games I’m interested in are dirt cheap, but they’re the ones I remember fondly, always wanted to play but never did, or have some interesting aspect to them that makes me want it in my collection. I also collect records and books, and it’s almost never the expensive ones that I still really care about after I’ve owned them for a few days.
That's a great analogy on the cash. Thanks so much for joining the convo
this was such a great video man well said and you made a lot of good points in the video because there are too many youtubers that are more worried about profit and scamming people than actually playing the dam game man its sad to say the least right now
Thank you for watching!. It is weird how the trending things catch on. I just hope to keep my passion for gaming and remind myself why I loved it in the first place.
Here's the thing. Even if someone is a purist that wants to play the games on real hardware, every single cartridge based retro system now has an everdrive, and all the disc based systems now have either ODEs available (PS1, Saturn, Dreamcast, Gamecube), or they are hackable, both of which allow you to run games off of ISOs on a thumbdrive, SD card, or hard drive.
Point being, we live a world where we don't actually need to build these collections of physical media to play these games. This wasn't possible when we were kids, obviously, but it is now, so why do we insist on getting the physical copies? That's a valid question that's worth asking, and there are a few different potential reasons:
1) We have the collector psychology (ie: we just like having collections of stuff sitting on shelves)
2) We like the idea of having things that are rare and valuable that most people don't have (when you go in a retro game store to shop do you make a beeline for the expensive games in the glass case, or do you go for the cheap games? This probably says a lot about what kind of collector you are.)
3) Ego. We want to impress our friends (or we are youtubers that want to impress our subscribers with our mindblowing collection)
4) We enjoy the hunt
5) We enjoy the tactile ritual of pulling a game off the shelf, plugging it in, and hitting the power button
Are those 5 things actually worth all the time we spent acquiring the collection, the money we spent on the collection, and the space the collection takes up? If we were really honest with ourselves the answer for many of us might actually be "no". We would actually be just fine with a Mister FPGA, or with real consoles and everdrives.
I feel like it’s more about the hunt these days when it should be about playing games that we used to play and have nostalgia for or new games that seem interesting.
Nothing wrong with the thrill of the hunt or collecting just to collect but sometimes I feel like some people are missing the point entirely.
Some gamers have evolved from on screen gaming to off screen gaming, The hunt for the games themselves, where leveling up depends on the amount of profit per item that can be earned!!!
I just don't have time to play games anymore. I love the idea of games and I often put on retro gameplay videos in the background while I work.
The time to play games has always been a struggle.
What an insanely interesting video!
The way I see it, I think we (as a whole) have a bit of an issue. Most of us when we were young had limited means to access the games unless we were born into a well off family or had parents who were already hardcore gamers. Now that we are in our 20s - 50s we have this disposable, extra income that we can use to pour into the hobby -- only problem is that we have NO LIMIT. We don't know when enough is enough. We build up the collections like crazy, then have a huge moment of "Why did I do this?" "Do I really need all of this stuff?" "Do I need this to make me happy?" We then downsize in an extreme way, moving as much as we can. Many get bit by the bug and regretfully start up collecting again from zero. There's no balance in this at all.
And the hunt itself is fun. It is VERY fun to go out into the wild with a wad of cash and find gems out in the wild. Even more so if you're out there trying to hustle to make money. For me, it was very easy to halt collecting and become a reseller because the incentive became making some real money from doing what I love. I made sure I picked up everything I wanted for my collection, and now I'll default to some form of emulation unless it's something that's REALLY amazing to keep for me.
People hate to see that there are others out there making money on their hobby, but the reality is that the same people won't go out of their own way to hunt for games themselves. The hobby is definitely about the money now and there is no changing this. So instead, people's mindset needs to change about HOW they collect. They will need to come to terms with the reality that there will be many many people (in every city) buying up games to resell at a profit OR to fund their own collection. And take part. It's stupidly easy to do the same with some leg work.
Great video as usual my man! That editing game is 🔥!
Thanks Sho! I appreciate you joining the conversation! Love your points.
I've even fallen into the resell mindset a few years back and it made thrifting unenjoyable for me and made me stop going for a while which really reset my mindset and now I'm just back into collecting stuff I think is cool. Sure it's nice to get sometime expensive for cheap, but I'll leave it if I have no use for it. It's also annoying that resellers will buy 3 or 4 copies of a certain special edition *cough Zelda cough* just to flip leaving people who actual want it, shit out of luck. Super annoying lol but great video as always
I think we all have. I think it'll always be a battle to recenter, but ultimately I'd like that to be the goal.
@@Pacmancase I totally agree! I think one day it will go back to how it was
I'm so pissed off now?
Honestly, keep your collection small and you'll always love it. That's my mantra.
Most people had less than 10 games as a kid, so I highly doubt anyone's collecting for the characters they "love". I thought people were flipping to BUY more games...I mean, I've been blowing all my money that way 😂 When I find expensive games for cheap, I have a hard letting them go. Plus, I have a job. I'm not relying on money from flipping to support my life...just my habit 😅
We did have rentals and trading so ownership wasn’t everything, at least to me. Plus owning less games was easier when, in general, way less games came out then. Indies have blown things up library wise. Those old systems only had so many great games each year, it wasn’t hard to keep up.
Yeah, definitely no one owned a library of games back then but you wanted too! All for the reason of playing not investing. The culture has changed sadly.
Fantastic video dude. I’ve always loved video games but being a new dad has definitely pushed me to collect even more so because sharing my passion and love for games with my kids is what drives me and brings me more joy than anything. Getting to build these memories with my children is exactly why I do what I do and I don’t want that feeling to ever end. I very rarely sell anything I buy or acquire and I don’t ever tend to buy duplicates or lots of games. I don’t mind people that flip but that’s definitely not for me 99% of the time. I’m glad I finally got to sit down and checkout your channel everyone was right your content is top tier brother! 😊
Thank you fine sir. I think having a relationship with our kids and video games is the best collecting goals. Thanks for the watching and thanks again for the tier list shout out brother!
I love doing both honestly when you have children you wanna collect the stuff you have nostalgia for and allow them to have the same experience but at the same time retro games are expensive so if you hunt and thrift stuff that’s valuable you have great trade bait or even stuff to flip to help afford the more expensive pricey titles that you actually want in building a game collection with the least amount out of pocket as I can but sometimes you gotta spend 😅great topic and video
Awesome take on this!
Yes. Exactly what I was thinking.
I collect retro games for the nostalgia solely. I have never sold a single game I bought for my collection. So that’s why I don’t have a huge collection. For the most part if it’s in the collection I played it as kid.
Nice DD! You are enjoying the hobby for the reason it was intended. I actually think it is more fulfilling that way.
As for me I mainly do emulate retro games because I get to revisit games that I remember playing when I was a kid and I still do have the love and passion for gaming too.
Same here, plus some unfinished business with some of the games that we got stucked at the time since there were no guides, no in-game help, etc. for instance, I'm going through the Classic Tomb raider games at the moment, and I'm really enjoying the puzzles more than before and noticing some extra details that I missed back then.
The only retro collector that I've seen in ages that really seems to love playing his games is RNG Gamer.
I don't know that creator. Can you post a link! ?
@@Pacmancase youtube.com/@RNGGamerYT
Here you go!
Yes. I hate video games. They are the biggest waste of time in the world and a hobby only for NERDS! I only see money when I see video games!
Tell me how you really feel...lol
I've personally collected to play games and still do. I think with all due respect that 80% of the youtubers just did it for clicks and popularity as soon as they see that its not as profitable for them they start making selling video and saying they are done. I don't care why anybody does it? I know why I collect. Cause I am a gamer. I always thought a bunch on youtubers were not real gamers so when start selling I'm not surprised. Metal Jesus and Radical Reggie take heat sometimes. but they are some of the most legit and REAL collectors/Gamers on TH-cam, Who don't collect for the Money. But for the games. Another example of real gamers is the Retro Rivals, I love these channels for that reason.
I know Reggie personally and he absolutely plays all of his games and can tell you everything about them. They really are gamers first, just happen to have large collections.
I have and only ever will buy games for the love of the games. I have never bought a game to flip and would rather gift or trade an unwanted game found in the wild to keep games out of the hands of the money hunters. But, each to their own.
You are a pure collector my friend! Don't ever change.
I did go through a phase where I collected to make money, but that became such a pain that it was more work than just actually working a real job 😂
There is something to be said for making money off retro gaming but that’s not me. Not now at least.
My main reason was to be able to share the games I loved in my childhood (and how I played them) with my kids.
Great topic! 🍻
Don't you ever feel bad? Fighting games just to inflate the prices and resell them to people who actually want them. People like that, especially the quick buck COVID collectors ruin the market by inflating all of the prices and making many popular games more scarce to the point where you CA $5 game at a flea market, with a $30 ticket on it from a reseller who has no soul.
Dude I had hopes at one point of being able to start my own business for Retro Games and Toys but the start up cost was incredible and brick and mortar is hard keep going these days. Reselling at that capacity was not for me in the long run. I still love to vend at conventions but that is just pulling from my personal collection, where I over collected....its a complicated relationship we have with games.
I am not in this for the resell. Nothing against reselling, it just not my cup of tea. I enjoy collecting and finding games of my childhood. Looking for all the items/games I thought was cool and never got as kid. I just enjoy hunting and collecting in general. I kept every game, console, box and accessory I ever received growing up and into adulthood. My wife is the same way and our little boy just now starting to get into video games.
I've found myself over collecting for goals that don't really matter to me. Want to just want always comes up with empty feelings.
The reason people fall out of it is there is the toxic culture plaguing the retro and modern gaming scenes and that is the consistent yearning for the next thing. I recently said to myself I'm not buying any new games until Black Friday and my gaming and spare time is sooo much more chill just hopping into whatever I want, whenever I want. There is no feeling of being left behind, trying to finish a "backlog" or trying to wrap stuff up before an upcoming release.
That is probably the best way to truly game not just collect. You are doing it right!
I'm 62 years old and have been buying and playing home consoles since 1978 I have all the current consoles and still love playing games I still find the 8 and 16 bit the most fun overall with Nintendo being the exception there first party titles always give me that late 70's excitement and fun. I'm definitely not in it for the money it's all about the love and fun of it.
You sir are and inspiration and I love your take! Thank you for watching and joining the conversations. I think somebody who has gone through the video game crash understands this the best.
Great video, I started collecting in 2010. And then saw how expensive it was even back 10 years ago and said forget this and just started caring more about playing the games, and that's what I've done ever since.
Honestly you saved yourself a lot of heartache. You are doing it right!
I long for a day when the hype dies down, prices drop through the floor and we can shake off all the flippers and “investors”. We can go back to buying this stuff for dirt cheap cus we’re the only weirdos left who still care about old video games for the pure sake of actually playing them.
It happend with Atari, it will happen with NES, then SNES and so on. I can only imagine people won't care anymore in 5 years. Prices might plateau but coming back down will be a bit.
It all started with the ATARI 2600.
It's kinda both for me i think..
Because at first and how it's always been was about the games and for specific consoles i have or had.. But with what's been happening for the past years and how some games got to be so high in value and prices going up i started hunting those games and even picking up more than one copy of those rare expensive games.. And then i sell those or trade some for what i couldn't catch..
But im not really sure what the future holds for these games and in my opinion i don't think they will be that valuable with that kinda hype happening
I am so excited very soon I'll be in a position in my life where I'm going to be just like Retro Rick 😂 I will do it all. I will be doing things on a massive scale. I will die with a damn controller in my hand.
Get after it!
I think it depends on who you choose to watch on TH-cam. I don’t personally enjoy watching people hunt just to flip, so I don’t follow those channels.
TH-cams algorithm will send all that stuff my way even if I try to filter it out. Haha. I'm stuck with "look what I found, its worth 150$" videos.
So I do flip games a little, but only to afford the games I want. My collection is 100% things I want to play and nostalgia. I have been collecting since 1996. That was the year when I fell in love with Working Designs and said that I wanted every game in their catalogue. I have a lot of systems that I am done collecting for (nes, SNES, Genesis, N64, Atari 5200, etc.) Because I have all the games that I want to play on them. The last 10 games I purchased were all PS4 titles. The last retro games that I purchased were Games from a good friend that is leaving the hobby and he needed money for his family. Yea I watch the flip and sale videos, but mainly to see what other people are keeping in their collection, not what they are selling.
I think we have all traded and flipped to get the games we want. The problem is purpose. If you flip a game to buy a more expensive game just because it's expensive, That seems silly to me. If you flip because you really love a game that so happens to be expensive, this I understand, we aren't made of money and the hobby can get pricey.
I mean I guess it goes both ways for me usually if I flip a video game it's to buy a more expensive video game I want
I think that just comes with the cost of the hobby. Some people only want Little Samson because it is expensive and not because they enjoy the game. That is the big difference in collecting styles.
Also people are not ready for this convo
Not ready or ready and not willing...lol
@@Pacmancase both
I've only ever collected because I just love video games. I have zero knowledge of game value unless I specifically look it up, which I don't because I don't care.
I've never flipped or resold games. I scarcely trade and opt to give away duplicates I come across.
But flippers and resellers HAVE ruined the hobby of collecting for those of us not in it for money. All excuses aside that people make, it's greed plain and simple. It's bad enough they've ruined the hobby for themselves, but now they've screwed over the rest of us.
But, love and passion means nothing to the greedy so, it's unlikely to change.
This is true. I don't see anything changing. I understand the need and want to make money but I wish I saw more people enjoy the hobby because of the hobby. Thanks for joining the convo Tom!
@@Pacmancase It's like why would anybody do a think because of fun though; what sort of madness would incite such behavior?
Great video! Very thought provoking topic. 👍🏻
I'm still thinking about it!
Nowadays it's a mix of the two. My love for the games and other retro stuff comes first tho'!
The expensive games I really can't attain, I feel like trading other games up is the best way, but not forgetting why I had the desire to own in the first place. Having more thought before buying always helps as well.
Although I noticed a change around 2016 or 2017 the big increase of flippers, the 2020 COVID collectors were the ones that inflated the prices and the market because suddenly now these people were home from work and bored and wanting to collect things. I only buy games that I want because I want to play them, and because I love them from either my childhood or time of my life that I enjoyed it. Sometimes I'll pick up some games I've never played that look cool ,but never with the intense to sell. There was a special type of jerk that realized money could be made in this community and they've really tainted the pool of collectors turning everyone into resellers. I wish they didn't drive all the prices up but I guess it is what it is, I'll keep collecting old sports games and stuff for the PlayStation 1 that nobody else wants lol. The people that don't have the passion are the ones that want to fold now that they didn't see the gold mine they thought they would have by reselling video games.
I have known lots of people that thought they could make a living selling their video game collection. If everybody could do it, none of us would have jobs...lol
@@Pacmancase haha everyone tries and then realizes you can't live off of 43 dollars from eBay each month..I always tell people, it's only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
You're not wrong.
I really did like my retrolife I have seen a good amount of videos song Tyler and he actually does a really great job with his channel plus not only that though he actually does law talkin about his story about his childhood and how he grew up with gaming and how he loved not just collecting them but also playing them I don't like the fact that he does use actual home video footage of his time growing up.
I collect solely for the love of the old games I used to play. All the new games just don't feel the same anymore they've got one objective and that's to take as much of your money as they possibly can. Stupid loot boxes and overly complicated story modes made solely to frustrat you into spending money. I've only actually enjoyed a handful of new games and they have all been vr games Robinson the journey was an amazing game I loved it.
I think you might have given me a great video topic!
@Pacmancase awesome look forward to it 😀 for me I can pinpoint the start of it pretty much. I'd say game dlc's was the start of the switch to money money and more money. If development teams back then couldn't get everything they wanted in one disc the game would have extra discs or for cartridge games you'd have a Sequel to look forward to the game would finish and leave you wanting to purchase the next game. Not like now it's dragged out so long the hype is none existing anymore.
WHATTT!!! Nooooooo!. Literal Heresy.
Yep, I dipped my toe in the lake of fire!
It’s two side of collecting
Flippers have always been there. Just has gotten easier. Put in the work, you’ll make money. Hits a hobby every so often.
You are not wrong. The mask that some channels are about retro gaming instead of calling what it is. "Flipper that uses retro gaming popularity to make money" is a better title. They are two different camps that haven't realized it yet.
@@Pacmancase bingo! 💯
I like to play games and have since I was a child and enjoy making money from games too.
Example. I bought a bundle of 13 games yesterday for $500 to keep 3 of the games and am excited to keep those to play again. I am also super excited I get to add them to my collection for free and will be making a profit on the bundle after I sell the rest. At the same time though the person is holding onto 4 cib consoles which include a sealed atari jaguar to buy off him for $1k. None of those will be sold and they are just being kept in the collection because I want them.
I also buy blockbuster stuff too though from ebay, I doubt many people are spending $110 for a copy of Paper Mario on Gamecube with a blockbuster rental case.
I will also say that I started collecting in March of 2021, so obviously I was sitting at home watching youtube of people like retrorick doing this. I had my childhood N64, Gamecube, gameboys, dreamcast, some games, manuals, and strategy guides. But now I have like 100+ blockbuster pieces and boxes for my consoles, this wouldn't be possible if I couldn't resell stuff to make profits.
I collect for the love of the games, and I only collect what I love as opposed as to what just interests me. I won’t collect a while NA library of a console just because of the lure. But I’ll definitely collect games from my childhood or build my collection of amazing titles I may have never got to experience.
A whole North America library*
That's why I reevaluated while I was collecting for the Xbox and the GameCube cuz I didn't have a reason. Just that it was a fun goal, that was going to lead me nowhere.
Exactly and it was a very good one for you to have. In my opinion I’d say yes if you have nostalgia and certain titles for Xbox to play on then go for it ! Other then that don’t collect what you won’t ever or rarely play. Hope it’s helped you along your retro journey friend ! Cheers !
I won't keep anything I don't play. I don't want games and consoles collecting dust or sitting in a bin. I don't think I've ever profited from selling. I buy what interests me, and then sell it when I'm done with it. I've been a collector in the past, and it felt like a mental disorder needing things and not being able to let go.
There are 2 retro gaming stores in my small town. One guy goes to flea markets buys up lots, refurbishes consolesband turns them around in his store for a reasonable price, he's not a fool and knows what things are worth, but he doesn't fill his shop with high-value rarities. He holds game nights and has 1up arcade machines in his shop so you can just hang out and chill around gaming culture... he seems to understand that a healthy local gaming community will mean success for him.
The other shop is a collecter/flipper guy who sellsbfrom his collection. Most of his shop is high-end Nintendo collecter stuff, pokemon cards and Funko pops... his prices are exhorbitant, and he never has time for a customer outside of making the transaction... in fact, he's generally not personable.
I don't know if I have made it clear which retro shop I prefer but there are people out there to exploit trends they see the items for their profit... and then there are the people out there that invest-in and cultivate the community and I really wish them all of the success.
Perfect example of creating toxic environment by the way you treat your community. Glad the first shop is doing things right!
At least retro gaming is growing but I agree, if your collecting to make money, its a completely different hobby than a traditional game collector. Looking for something that is priced low that the current market values high, and is not interested in discussion of low value games or even buying games at their market price, just because its a game your interested in having.
I consider myself more of a toy collector first, and then I collect video games along with that for nostalgia. But also playing retro Tournaments at Conventions I find reinvigorating for the hobby, I'd often go and pick up a copy of the game I played at the tournament at the show as a memento. But I do watch some game hunting videos and maybe it has influenced me in subtle ways.
I have been getting a few extra copies of games I already had, so I would get a better overall price from the dealer on games I actually wanted for the collection.
Are these extra games to help with preservation or for future revenue. Ah this is the influence of capitalism.
Great topic Andy! I definitely started for the love of collecting, the love of gaming, and Nostalgia and that continues to be my primary driving factor and influence. Now with that being said I also resell on the side with my wife and that makes 25% of our yearly income to pay bills, get out of debt, etc. So reselling is also very important to me and I do some personal reselling to build the collection that I love as well. But as far as my content I like the focus to be on the Nostalgia and the fun of hunting and never knowing what you will find. Every now and then I do a more reselling focused video but not often. With all that being said I don't care what anyone does whether they focus on reselling, collecting for the Nostalgia, passion, etc, or a combination of both, as long as they are honest about it and their intentions. But I will say that personally I don't watch a ton of reselling content because I just don't find it fun or interesting...probably because I live it daily ok eBay haha
I think some people only collect for collectors sake. I question do some people actually play their games. If they want something for shelf display, they could collect baseball cards or action figures. Games were meant to be played.
@Jarod Schultz I have no issues with either type of collector personally. Better a game be sitting on a shelf than stuck in a box in an attic, basement, garage, storage unit, etc. Now with that being said, I love playing my games
I don’t collect to resell, I collect the games that I enjoyed as a kid, so I can play them as an adult.
Pacmancase is back in the house with yet another retro classic 🎉america fuck yeah
Thank you!
Great video and interesting topic Pacmancase. Never looked to my game collection and collecting habits and thought to myself, "this game is gonna be valuable" I'm going to buy it. For me it's all about the love for games, the systems, the worlds and the escapism of video games. It always has been and always will be. I definitely see that shift within the community though but it doesn't sway me either way.
Thanks Scorpio! I definitely relate to that mindset more these days.
Great video Andy!
I love these videos where he tries to talk us out of collecting. I do need help though I’m buying way too much
Some how I keep making these video and the intent is to clear my own thoughts and refocus on why I love to play games. The Reseller and Game Hunting culture is just so dominant right now, it brings these issues to the forefront.
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