Is anyone else a collector of retro VG? How the fuck do you deal with the expenses? I can be an absolute cuck and buy loose cartridges and repro cases, but even that is over $100. Getting in complete in box will cost 3-4 times as much. Yes you can emulate but then you won't be getting the real experience. Are we absolutely screwed getting into this at this stage? >just paid over $150 for a loose cartridge and repro case.
Just stab them and take their shit
Should have got a real career. I throw down $300-$500 without thinking twice.
>>12475043>just agree to get robbed
>>12475062These were $2 each in the 90s/early 00s FYI. You aren't just starting the collection now are you? Lmaoooooo
If it's like $100+ CIB I just don't plan on getting it. $75 is about the most I ever have or will spend on a retro game.
>>12475034I'm selective about what I buy and don't bother with inflated shelfwarmer garbage like slabbed games.
Luke 15 years ago /vr/ promised me the bubble was gonna pop. Fuck you /vr/
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>>12475034>How the fuck do you deal with the expenses?By not buying graded shit.
>>12475034By buying PAL copies that nobody wants for display and then playing all my games via an ODE/flash cart like a normal human being. PAL Saturn boxes are so fucking sexy, even if they're an absolutely horrible idea and fall apart if you sneeze three rooms away.
>>12475034I work for a company and am paid for that labor bi-weekly. Using that pay, I can purchase goods and services.
lmao buying old ass games
What's the point of collecting? I mean legally. Just make your physical copy, if you have autism, even copy a cover for it and call it a day. >>12475034>Yes you can emulate but then you won't be getting the real experiencelol
>>12475034>How the fuck do you deal with the expenses?You don't. Even the hardcore collectors have long since slowed down or stopped entirely.
>>12475034you should get over it and stop getting raw dogged by these prices.if you want to play the game just get the rom and use it on an emulator or do some hardware mod, something.
>>12475034If you don't want to emulate you can just use a flashcart and you get 100% the same experience as playing with a real copy. I collect too but I only collect for the sake of owning copies of games I like and therefore I only take a deal when I feel like it's a good price since if I want to play a game I just emulate or use a flashcart. If you insist on only playing games you own legitimate copies of then you're simply stuck paying whatever the game goes for, too bad.
>>12475208>By buying PAL copies that nobody wants for display
>>12475034I own a shrinkwrapped Shrek 2 for GBA Video but that's because it was left in a drawer for 20 years.
I've paid $200 for a few games, a couple handfuls I paid $100. Absolute favorites only, stuff that inspires me or is just so intriguing I must have it. Only PS1, PS2 and Dreamcast aka the best consoles. I don't "collect" like some faggot with a checklist or wanting to build some neckbeard "library".90% of the time I just buy spindles of CD-R's, burn them for the optimal compatibility on original hardware. Softmods for shit I can't be bothered wasting discs on. This is what you should do too, stop thinking you're gonna fill a shelf, waste some money on the games you love and steal the rest.
>>12475293Nobody cares about a handful of meme games except Jewtubers and their thralls. Rule of Rose is dog shit. CeX is also the worst place to buy retro games, since their entire business model for them is scalping.
>>12475034I buy game lots that are at least half off pricecharting and sell back half of it on eBay. Easiest free games hack that isn't downloading.
>>12475623this is financial illiteracy. You could sell the other half for a profit so that's what you're effectively paying to play them, not what you originally paid
If I could I would take these out of the slabs
>>12475743His point is that he covers the cost of the lot by selling off some of the games he got in the lot, meaning that outside of time spent, he has a net cash outflow of zero dollars and winds up with games he wanted. It gets harder and harder to do as time goes on, because sellers are increasingly savvy enough to price check their games and not throw a $200 game into a lot of cheap games, and more people treat game reselling as a job, but I'd imagine you can still get lucky.The only problem becomes reselling the bulk from the lot in a reasonable amount of time for an amount that covers what you paid, especially when you take into account shipping and sales platform fees (that's why it's better to sell locally, but then you have the issue of actually finding people locally who want to buy stacks of $3 games)
Mods need to ban these newfaggots. Same thread every day.
>>12475034I bite the bullet. I have no responsibilities so I spend as much as I want. I've spent $8000 on a single game.
>>12475909Based unapologetic spender. I’ve spent thousands on games and have it in my will that they’re to be buried with me like a pharaoh.
>Yes you can emulate but then you won't be getting the real experienceYou don't deserve video games.
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>collectoryou're a fake fan and don't deserve to own the game. if you were a real fan, you would already own the game having bought it on release. you are now expecting people who do own the game to sell it to (You) for peanuts so you can hoard it and put it on a shelf. fuck you why shouldn't the real fans who supported the game make some money from scamming idiots like you?
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>>12475034I have a job
>>12475034I don't buy retarded shit like sealed graded games. 99.9% of games are like $20 complete in box. If you have a job you can easily budget $100 or $200 to get a nice collectible video game every month.
>>12475034most retro collectors I have seen or met irl are very bad with money but tbf here most people are in general. they have normal jobs but just dump every single fiat token they have into this "hobby". they have zero assets outside of their video games, often even some kind of debt to finance that crap.
