>That will be $525 + tip + fees + tariffs + shipping for your cheap plastic videogame from 50 years ago in a beat down box that is falling apart.When will the bubble pop already? I want to build a collection for a reasonable cost.
just emulate you fuckin retard
>bubble gon pop soon! you don't need that plastic right? sell it to me for cheap now! It's going to ve worthless soon!
>>12424878>>When will the bubble pop already?When gen-xers and millennials are dead
>>12424878>collection>reasonable costOxymoronic in 2026
>>12424887What makes you think zoomers will want to sell retro stuff for cheap? If anything they will value it even higher
If yoy haven't started building an affordable collection now, you never will.
>>12424878Just get a high paying job then you don't have to think about the costs. What you have is a poorfag problem.
>>12424895I bet they don't give a damn about old stuff.
>>12424878>>12424883>Cherry picked examples to represent the entire marketWell yeah collecting is expensive if you're only searching for games that didn't sell super well and/or games for systems that didn't sell super well. That's why I don't get into comic book collecting. You really expect me to pay $1.5 million for Action Comics #1?
>>12424895>implying zoomers will ever care about "unc shit"lollmao, even
>>12424910I have a respectable collection of NES/FC, Saturn, and 2600 games. There will be exceptions just like with Model T guys.>t. 20 year old zoomer
>>12424878Just get a flashcart or emulate. If you are insisting on purchasing used games at this point then playing the game isn't what you're even interested, you just want to collect for the sake of collecting, and in that case you probably just want to spend money.Playing Megaman off a flash cart is literally the same experience of playing it on an official cart.
>>12424910I am a millennial and I care about movies from the 50s-80s. I can't speak for everyone else, but you don't have to grow up with something to enjoy it.
>>12424924I don't understand why /vr/ hates young folk taking an interest in retro gaming like they aren't going to be the people who keep consoles and games running in the future. I get being mad at the faggots who want 7th Gen here or just come here to post their startling realization that Mario 2 isn't the real Mario 2, but lord forbid if a zoom zoom asks an earnest question.
>>12424895we don't care about 8/16 bit shit, it will die with you just like atari
>>12424910>implying zoomers don't care about "unc shit"
>>12424954>we dont care about good gamesYeah, that was obvious.
>>12424954Atari was just squaresNES already has defined graphics and game models that are still popular today and franchises that are still popular today.You wish you could afford to collect it, though.
>>12424879fpbpYou can even just get an everdrive if you're dying to play on a TV.
>>12424967>Yeah, that was obvious.My pops reacted the same way when I told him that only boomers cared about Atari and Amiga.
>>12424954>we don't care about 8/16 bit shitzoomers shit and piss themselves over the 16 bit "aesthetic", you arent fooling anyone trying to play aloof.
>>12424909You..........havent been on Ebay since the 2010s dont ya?
>>12425071Have you? I was on there recently and the prices have only slightly changed.
>>12424967the games don't have any depth and are very basic like atari>>12424969>you wish you could afford my old junk shovelware titles!!!11!!no thanks you can keep them, nes is just squares aswell and is only marginally better looking than atari kek>>12425035I don't know anyone my age that gives a shit if a game has pixel art, we aren't soillennials
>>12424878You’re not going to get to build a collection for a reasonable cost. Get over it. The correct time to do this was pre 2000s when you could get NES games for literal pennies.
>tfw I just own the games I actually want, like and play and the collection actually has value for me personally and sentimentally instead of just buying shit for the sake of buying
>>12425116>nes is just squares aswellCute anon jr
>>12425159This, I will never understand the collectors' mindset.
>>12425159Well sell your shit to me for cheap.What? You want to keep it? Naah it's just plastic! Also the bubble gonna pop, sell it now or else you will have to pay someone to take the plastic out of your house very soon.>sentimental valuepfft it's just plastic anon. Sell it for cheap now!
>>12425165majority of the titles don't look like that, they look like pic rel.
>>12425193Fine but did you ever actually played any Atari 2600 game, anon jr?
>>12425186>>12425159We like to own a piece of actual history. Think of it like owning a Picasso painting. Collectables are unironically the renaissance art of modern times.
>>12425205Oh, okay, yeah. I'm gettin' what you're spittin' out. This box of rick and morty mcdonalds sauce is high art.
Why is Pokemon shit so expensive? The games sold millions and millions of copies.
>>12425225Millions and millions of people want to play them again.
>>12425116>I don't know anyone my age that gives a shit if a game has pixel artOk and I do, how dumb do you have to be to think that is an argument?
>>12425283Why don't they emulate?
>>12425324They don't know how, or think it's illegal or something.
>>12425324>It has to be just like how it was in muh childhood!!
>>12425225>why are popular things so expensive!!!!it's infuriating how many of you don't understand basic economic principles
>>12424879fpbp
>>12424878You are literally the problem, stop "collecting" and just buy games you actually want to playYou are mad because a piece of plastic is sitting on someone else's shelf instead of your shelfI really wish all collectors had their games given to people who wanted to play them and the only retro gaming market was people who actually play the games selling them among each other for $5 each. It wouldn't matter how "rare" a game was then because once you'd finished playing it you'd just sell it on so someone else could enjoy it. Instead we have a bunch of hoarders and I can't enjoy legitimate copies of games I'd like to play because theres thousands of them collecting dust on some manchild's shelf.
>>12425324You can't emulate the original box and cartridge
>>12424878I wish niggers like you were permabanned. SHUT THE FUCK UP no one cares about the price of Mega Man 1 play the fucking game or don't. I do not fucking care what some dumb shit faggot is selling this piece of shit for on Ebay. You do not want to build up a collection you disingenuous shitposting poopdick, if you did you would have done it. Guess what nigger these games are free, every single NES game is 100% free given you have a PC made after 2003 and internet access. I wish we had actual moderators to purge worthless shitbag "wawa this item is soo expensive bubble this bubble that" no one cares just play the fucking game.
>>12424954Gaming wasn't a well established hobby during the 2nd gen, the best Atari games could no compete with playing Solitary, of course most people wouldn't care about collecting that shit.
>>12426261snoy take
>>12425336Real. Authentitards get the rope
I like collecting and owning games that I enjoy. What I will never understand is people who collect full sets or stuff their shelves with a bunch of garbo platformers and sports games. That seems performative to me. But then, I'm sure most people would argue that me owning CIB of hundreds of NES, SNES, PS1, TG16 etc titles is performative
>>12426261>What are you in for>Giving the middle finger to Nintendo>Woah you should be on death row.
>>12425324Some people were born retarded.
>>12424887>movie about retro gaming is released>prices shoot back up and higherjust like what happened with elvis memorabilia
>>12425078For even worse
>>12424924If you were born before 1990 you are boomer, post that you are retard zoomer no matter age (because all think in the same way and have same mentslity either the 35 year old or the 10 year old zoomie both are the same).
>>12424878When the hoarders start dying and the estate auction services for the deceased began auctioning all this worthless plastic for a couple of bucks
Stop owning things
>>12426261If you pay $500 for a digital toy you should be euthanized.
You can download and play every game for free on og hardware you don't even have to be an emutranny. If you buy games you are mentally ill
>>12427664I've yet to have seen an argument against game collecting that isn't just sour grapes. The only one that holds weight is trying to have complete sets because that's retarded, but even that still boils down to "You have something I want". Emulation is awesome, buying original hardware and games is awesome, don't be a fag and fight about it.
>>12427742Throw your childhood games to the trash. NOW.
>>12427664Based communist.
>>12426261What if I dumped my own ROMs and extracted ISOs from games I own? Should I be imprisoned for playing games I bought?I shall remind you, this was before license agreements that said that the games I pay for are only a license to play the game.
>>12424878Zoomers are right, these games are trash. Face it, millennials had nothing but slop growing up and the reality is these games are garbage. Everyone should cancel their Ebay orders now because these games are completely irredeemable.
>12428420>zoomlet ragebait post #42069
The truth is once prices come down, that will mean retro gaming isn't trendy anymore so you won't be care anymore. Every trend chasing nostalgiafag thinks he's a special snowflake and prices should come down so they can be 'cool' like the youtubers they watch.
>>12424878it won't, why do you think it will get cheaper? the games will only get rarer since they're not being made anymore so it will get more and more expensive in time
>>12428420You mean gen X right? Because milenials discovered the nes through the AVGN
These games havent even gone up in value. Look up i itial price and adjust for inflation. At best you are break even with inflation lol
>>12424895No market no value. Some boomer collectables like figurines and elvis crap has plummeted in value because the collectors are dead or in retirement communities. >rare but no one cares
>>12428615Ok let's see if IPs like Zelda, Metal Gear, Cadtlevania etc suddenly become unknown once millennials die
>>12425336I had a snes emulator on my psp back in 2004-2005~ in middle school and I grew up with a nes and snes.
>>12428589this. you look at how worthless money is today, kids were paying $150 in 2026 dollars for games back then.
>this thread again
>>12424918Yeah, born in 2003 here. We actually care a lot about this stuff because of the youtube we consumed growing up. I have a Super Nintendo & N64. I'd like to get an NES but they weren't really around where I am from, and shipping is costly.
>>12424878>tariffs>located in USAyou mean you're europoor who have to pay 100 percent tariffs on USA goods? 2bad.
>>12425219>>>/ck/
>>12425225which games? last i checked prev gen games typically sell for half of original price 2nd-hand, but that's not /vr/.not sure about GBA and GBC carts. if those old carts can even work anymore.anyways you can still buy pirated carts. have some asshttps://www.etsy.com/listing/1327398670/pokemon-my-ass-version-gba
>>12429242No, no, see it has transcended from being an expired foodstuff, it is a piece of history and high art. When you collect and don't play games, they cease to be games, and transcend into high art.
>>12429248wtf ASS for GBA is sold out!https://www.etsy.com/listing/1577407693/pokemon-my-ass-version-glow-in-darkfug. glowie ass is sold out too!
>>12428420>Face it, millennials had nothing but slop growing up and the reality is these games are garbage.As a 1992 millennial that grew up during the Game Cube, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, and J2ME phone era, I can assure you that everything I had was kino.
>>12426141>why are the unwashed masses so ignorant!!!!it's comical to me that you care so much
>>12428420Zoomers are never right, that's like the rule
the funny thing about collectors is, that they are usually the ones with low incomes. you would assume they have a lot of disposable income but most of them dont. they literally slave away most of their wage for this crap. unironically financial illiteracy. as I see it they are on the same level as drug addicts and I mean it.
>>12430404Nailed it. I know a homeless guy who squeegees car windshields for tips at red lights and he has a complete N64 collection with most of them graded and CIB.
>>12428431They don't actually want the prices to go down, they want that to happen only momentarily so they can buy what they want but after they're done they want prices to go back up so they can brag about the games they bought for $5 are now worth $100. They want for people people to stop caring about retro games only so they can go to flea markets and catch some old lady selling her son's old games for $1 a piece but they want those games to still be worth $100 on ebay so they can brag about how they found rare games for super cheap just like their favorite youtubers (nevermind the fact that what those channels did never amounted to more than just straight up robbing people who didn't know the value of the things they had).They don't actually want the bubble to pop, they just want to go back in time so that this time they're not late to the party.
>>12430404I play TCGs, mostly MTG, and I always felt jealous of some people I knew who had very valuable stuff while I agonized over building a new deck. I just assumed they were paid better than me. Then one day I opened a somewhat expensive card in a draft and I wanted to sell it, one of said buddies said he wanted the card but he asked me if I could save it for him until he got paid because he didn't have the money right now. That's when it hit me that these guys don't actually have more money than me, they just drain their bank account to the bottom dollar on this stuff. Real eye opening experience.
>>12430467I have had similar experiences except it was them maxing out credit cards. I understand hobbies but damn I can't enjoy a hobby if I have financial uncertainty looming over my head.
>>12425205>We like to own a piece of actual historyIts a fucking game.
>>12430876A friend of mine once sold a $50 card to a guy and he watched that guy open his budgeting app and deduct $50 from food. Some people are just crazy.
I recently gave away a bunch of Pokémon cards to a friend of mine because he begged me. I realized I gave him a few hundreds of dollars there
Unrelated, but how much do you guys usually tip in the retro game store?
>>12434134been here long enough to know this is not 100% guaranteed to be bait. americans are unironically like that.
>>12434134Wait.. tips? Are you American???? WTF!! Fuck Americans make me rage so much all day. Thankfully collecting retro games helps me take my mind off of Americans.
>>12424909>if you're only searching for games that didn't sell super well and/or games for systems that didn't sell super wellOn the contrary! Rarity has absolutely nothing to do with value.Or did you really think Maze Action for PS2 sold well? Of course it fucking didn't. Yet it's still priced roughly the same as Final Fantasy X which sold incredibly well.And despite that a game like Scarface: The World is Yours is selling for nearly 4 times the value of either FFX or Maze Action. Despite selling over a million copies and well enough to get multiple value line reprints in Platinum and Greatest Hits across multiple regions.
>>12434164>Rarity has absolutely nothing to do with value.lol
>>12424883I got a sealed copy for PC for a couple of bucks some time ago. Yes, not the best version of the game, but it includes EJ1, so it's fine
>>12425205just dl the romset then, nigger
>>12428420zoomers grew up on phone games and minecraft. they wouldn't know what's good if it hit them
>>12425205>think of it like owning a Picasso paintinghahaha is dis nigga srs rite now hahah
>>12425205you srs here lil boy? this better be bait. you dont "art", you own a piece of plastic and electronic garbage which is about to rot away in the next few years.
>>12425001You can even connect an HDMI cable & a Bluetooth controller to your computer if you want to play on your TV also.
>>12434608thats not the same and you know it
>>12424887>When gen-xers and millennials are deadProbably this. But gen-z might carry it on for a while kind of like how gen X and millennials still have demand for vintage hi-fi despite it being a boomer hobby.Though specifically NES collecting will die with millennials.
>>12434164Rarity is one part of it but other factors play a part in determining these prices too like nostalgia, meme factor, game quality, and attention from ecelebs. Not to mention the fact that Scarface specifically happens to be a foundational piece of black culture that's probably one of the most referenced pieces of media in the history of hip-hop
>>12424879This....It'll never pop.Do you want to own? Spend a ton or get a reproduction cartridge.Do you want physical media? Get an EverDrive.Do you want to play? Emulate.
What's up with the sour grapes about collecting? Not even trying to bait but if you emulate or use an everdrive (both completely reasonable options) then why does it matter to you what goes on with original copies?
>>12435890Because this is a place to talk about games, not investing.
>>12435890people like to laugh at retards and artificial collector markets. people paying for beanie babies were just as funny. but some people get mad at stupidity instead of enjoying it.
>>12435850No spirit of the hunter in this one.
>>12429210In my case I only cared because of my family, I have a lot of siblings and we got to use a lot of my dads old retro consoles which is what sparked my interest.
>>12424935Because of the generational war psyop, I really never cared that i'm a zoomer with an interest in old things.
