When did you realize collecting physical games is fucking retarded?
My kids can sell all the games and make $$$$
>>12481107>wii>ps3not retro
>>12481107There's a difference between having a curated collection and being a hoarder. If you're hoarding and your house looks like pic related than yeah that's retarded, but if you have a sizeable collection of curated games than that's fucking awesome.
>>12481107Never.Better question is when did you realize paying for a download is fucking retarded?
Trannies eternally malding at collectchads.
>>12481107Never. Number go up, and will continue to go up. 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th gen games are timeless and will always be sought after.
>>12481107when i found out emulation is a superior experience
>>12481107Emulation is perfectly fine so I don't know why others owning something you get for free bothers you to this extent. I'd call you a brokie, but with the exception of a handful of games it's still a reasonable hobby.
>>12481107rent free
>only trannies emulate>only trannies collect
>>12481117Not the point.
>>12481107I don't think it's stupid.I wish other people would think it's stupid so I can buy games more easily.
>>12481420This. I want more people to be frightened by original hardware and just emulate.
>>12481139>Retro gaming>Paying for downloadWhat
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>>12481107I don't go out of my way to get physical games these days, because 2020s AAA titles are uninteresting (and often not physical for real anyway), and good older titles from past gens are available otherwise, often for free.I do however have all my old computer games and console games from the physical days, and I don't plan on getting rid of them.I do think that I want to get flashcarts for my NES and N64 though, and fix up the latter's controllers.I get my movies as physical, because streaming services can go to hell.>>12481210Kind of true, but that's also why those live on through emulation and ports (the latter sometimes being of dubious quality though, unfortunately).Some can't be emulated, like light gun games, so that's why I want to get an NES flashcart.>>12481320>>12481329People talk about hoarding and mental illness, but ignore how mentally ill and retarded the conversation itself gets at times.Most people saying hoarding have never actually seen real hoarding and don't understand what it looks like (boxes/cartridges/cases neatly organized on shelves isn't hoarding anymore than a shelf full of books is). Some people just want to be faggots though.
>>12481550If this was just $2, I could excuse it (and if they didn't fucking censor it).That's what you should do when re-releasing 20 year old games, don't fuck with what they are and then price them dirt cheap.I hate nuTendo.
My old boxed snes games are the new bitcoin.
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>>12481107i dun collect, ser. do not redeem
Better ROI than gold. My retard parents made me sell my SNES collection, thanks for the 5-digit financial damage you fucking retards
>>12481602Hearing that they censored fr/lg doesn't surprise me lmao. What a bogus company
>>12481810What did they censor?
>>12481860All the rape
The only retarded here are the ones complaining about collecting in general, it reeks of jealousy and "veganism" behavior, they can't understand why people still buy physical stuff and try to shame you with childish insults. This thread sucks by the way.
>>12481860Can't name yourself, your Pokemon, or the rival any cusswords. Otherwise, all the same censorings as before. One positive is that you can still play the slots thanks to a loophole in the rules on gambling.
As an investment, I think they're probably okay. Just about every game I bought is worth more than when I initially bought it. If you just want to play the games, it doesn't make much sense to buy them when you can get them for free and a functional setup costs nothing or almost nothing. You can fit every SNES game on a flash drive.
>>12482025Ah that’s laaaaame!!
>>12481860You can't give Gary Oak his legal birth name of Dicks. Dicks Oak.You also can't name your Bulbasaur FAGBALLS anymore, nor name your Jynx NIGGERLIPS.>>12482025They kept the gambling? I'm very surprised by that.
>>12482273Basically, if the gambling was deemed OK in 2003, it's allowed to stay so long as it's a straight port/emulation with only minor fixes at most. They just have to up the rating to E10 and say Simulated Gambling is in it.
>>12482286Again, surprisingly lenient and reasonable for Current Year.
>>12481116You're kids are not going want to deal with the headache of having to actually sell these games, because it is a pain getting a customer/meeting up/shipping it to them, and just take a low ball offer some retro store gives them
>>12481136Yeah I think it's neat to collect the actual good or valuable stuff but if you're picking up trash just because it's ps2 its going to be a mess soon.
>>1248155020 for GBA ROM.That's fucking brutal.
Physical and retro as a whole is on an uptick, every few months I spot a new retro store with yeah mostly 30-40 year old dudes in it but I even see kids running around them.
>>12482303The Gen1 and 2 games on 3DS ran for $10-12 when standard asking price for Virtual Console games was $5-7. Pokemon's always going to get price-gouged.
>>12482323They get priced gouged IRL too, pokemon is the highest selling franchise on the planet, there should be more than enough copies for anyone who wants one. But because it's pokemon they go for 100-300 dollars a cart easy because people will still pay it.
>>12481107~1998 when i discovered emulation
>>12482303nuTendo's avarice knows no bounds.>>12482330Slightly after I did. Going from never having a SNES, to having all the SNES and Genesis games (and all the GB and NES games I missed out on), was life changing.
Game collecting is harem. Game curation is kino. If your study, office or “game room” looks like picrel, you need to be lobotomized.
>>12482363If you have a larger home with extra room, and you can afford the spending, I don't see an issue with this at all, that's just like a personal library.
>>12482354>havingStretching, but if it's all you "have" then I guess that's cool
>>12481136>oh God...>...I can't hold it anymore!>...I'm... I'm COORATING!
>>12482378I have enjoyed many SNES and Genesis games, yes.
>>12482363Yeah this is just ridiculous consumer bullshit. Theirs literally not enough time in your life to play all of this.But a good 30-50 game collection of actual quality is nice
I sold my ~1000 collection for $30kMy pucharsing price average was $5$25k profitJust don't make retarded 2026, like rule of rose for $1k
>>12482363Based library builder. Seethe more, late comers.
>>12482383That's an over exaggeration. You definitely could get the majority done in that picture over the course of 2-3 years. It's not like every single one is open world treadmill shit.
>>12481107Few years back. I got tired of buying stuff only to have some issue with the disc or the hardware wearing out over time. And then retard zoomers and influencers started inflating the price of everything to the point it isn't fucking worth it for the experience alone.
>>12482363Switch collection is unironically just plastic
>>12482291Anyone with a modicum of patience can open and run an eBay store.
>>12482421Yeah, new gamers are really getting raped in the ass by digital (((goods)))
>>12481107I had about 100k worth in my collection, had some grails like the N64DD CIB, 3DO, Atari Jag CIB, Ice blue N64 CIB, 32x CIB, etc and literal shit ton of games, some really rare ones too but I sold everything, bought a new car and spent the rest on international travel. Best decision ever
>>12482461Yeah it was fun to have a few high price grail items but you eventually just get bored of looking at them. Emulation is far more convenient and better with what you can enchaned. I never had anything insane just a few gets like all silent hills including shattered memories
>>12481107Collecting leads to cancer like people saying crappy games are masterpieces to make their value go up. If people get tired of something and move on or grow, their investment tanks. Additionally, this makes games needlessly expensive for people who have a genuine usecase for the original copies, like preservation or competitive play. I really don't see the upside of collecting.
>>12482467>genuine usecase for the original copies, like preservationThey are preserved by and for the person who bought them and owns them now, not the loser that wants to scan it to an emulator site for internet cred. If they really cared then they would already have these games.
>>12482476>house burns down>game gone foreverIf you're just sitting on some rare PCB forever and not playing it, and not letting anyone else play it, then you definitely don't like video games and I dont know why you'd collect something you don't like other than pure greed. The only reason you don't want the game preserved is because the value with go down.
>>12482481The only people who care about a games value are the ones who don't own them, tjoes that own them generally bought them new or used and liked them so they never sold them, all the collectors youre talikg about sold out on ebay during covid or before. Its a lazy argument anyway, because I can care about something and not share it with anyone or only people I like. You just sound jealous weather you are or not.
>>12481107Around covid time. Had around 50 physical games (switch, 3ds, ds, gba) and like 300 digital ones. Realised I never fucking played any of them, apart from pokemon rby and gsc over and over again, so I got rid of everything and deleted all my digital games. Don't miss having that shit at all, same with the hundereds of books and dvds I used to own too. You appreciate whatever you own when you have less imo.
>>12482493https://youtu.be/1MwviRZ1KjcCollectors do not like or play video games
>>12482363>keeping one of the worst wrestling games ever made in its packaging
>>12481107broke zoomie tears wrote this.Sorry you don't have a collection you grew up with but hey, at least you can enjoy your live service games right?
I personally enjoy having a wall of games to gaze over. I organize by publishers/devs, so it's neat to see what companies did what on a platform. People use "you live in a game store" as an insult, but i love having my own personal gaming goon cave to play in,surrounded by systems and boxes and posters and merch spanning back decades. I'm not doing it to appease internet fags, i do it to entertain myself.
>>12481107>>12481107>>12481107When I realized I don't have enough time left on the planet to actually play them.
>>12482496>eat the bug!lol jk, I got rid of rule of rose because it was taking up shelf space and I never really like the game anyway. I was surprised to get $800 for it from the local game shop (not gamestop) now they can scalp it online for $3000 or whatever some loser will pay for it.
>>12481107a few years ago when it came to light that ds & 3ds carts were failing and they're only supposed to have a 20 year lifespan.
>>12482493>You just sound jealous weather [sic] you are or not.This is the part they can never seem to explain. If you're using flash carts or emulation, why are you upset that others buy real hardware?
>>12481107When my older brother went all-in on it for a handful of years when he worked at a pawn shop and the end result was a room full of dusty shelves he doesn't look at or really care for because by the end he bought for the sake of buying stuff without caring about the specifics. I'll stick with buying physical versions of my top 10 so I can look at 'em in my room and feel all fuzzy inside and leave it at that.
>>12481116This. I had a family member ask for money. Fuck it, I emulate. I gave concise instructions on how to sell it on eBay. Everything is pristine, game guides. What happens, she chucked the boxes, game guides and gave the games to her kids who proceeded to rip the stickers off of the carts. The kids enjoyed the games. But hey, she asked for money I gave her the solution, she only needed to work a 2nd job for a couple months anyway to get that money. She kept the 2nd job and decided to buy a bunch of stuff and over charger a credit card and work 2 jobs for 2 years. There is no helping some people.
Collecting vidya is nice because it's mostly easy to store and ship. I don't regret any of the vidya shit I bought but I regret almost all of the shit I bought during my /toy/ phase because fuck getting rid of this shit.
>>12481978There's a certain veganist tinge to it, yes.
>>12482363It's one thing if you're hoarding software cause people can just emulate or run off flashcarts anyway, but the sealed wavebird is crazy to me cause you're basically just hoarding the limited supply from someone who could be using it to play video games with, just so you can hang it on your wall like a Toys R Us shelf. It's almost weirdly selfish.
>ROM :|>ROM encased in plastic :OOOO>ROM encased in plastic manufactured after the initial run >:[
>>12481107>physical gamesi copy my GOGs to CDRs and thumbdrives
>>12483581>>ROM encased in plastic manufactured after the initial run >:[i would buy them at a reasonable price. esp GBA games that use flash-mem instead of battery-RAMs.
>>12482363>boxed copy of super black bassThis guy is based, dare I say, bassed.
When it comes to retro stuff I don't see the point of buying used stuff. If I buy a game I do so to support the devs, and I don't care about the collecting part, a used game or a pirated one makes no difference to me.
>>12483594based
>>12482025>cusswords
>>12482714The thing we are upset about is when someone has a game that hasn't been ripped and won't upload it for everyone to play.
>>12483581Yes. Because the original run used better components.
Sell everything for cheap (and if possible, to me)You don't need your childhood collections, it's just plastic. Jubble gonna jop
>>12481107>I spent all of my money on weed instead of owning my favorite gameslol
>>12482383I have played over 600 games in my life, and assuming an average lifespan, and employment I will have played ~6000, barring premature death, or ailment that would prevent playing.
>collect the actual good or valuable stuffGood stuff is worth owning sure, as it should get played.>Valuable stuff is almost always slop that failed spectacularly for a reason, or games that arrived at the end of life of a console and had negligible print runs. Or even worse, graded and sealed shit for speculative investors. I will never respect a person who owns any of these things.
OP is nintendo psyop
>>12483861Noble intentions, but I think you're the only one. Some anons will lose their shit because someone posted a stack of games and each cart sold millions of copies and has been online for over 20 years. I legitimately think the vast majority of the people who get upset over people having real hardware are simply just jealous that they don't have it.
>>12483861>game that hasn't been rippedSuch as?
never lol bought a car by selling all my doubles stay poor
>>12484063I actually haven't tallied all the games I've ever played, and I'm sure I've forgotten some, but is there some site out there for that?Or is my only choice doing it manually with Mobygames?>>12484978He means when collectors manage to come across undumped prototypes or even unreleased games. Everything officially published, even rare and low production number stuff, has long since been dumped by now.Old prototypes do in fact surface on occasion, and often it's not even anything very interesting, just stuff like review copies of almost finished games, so they differ very little to the release versions.What often happens when a prototype collector acquires an actually interesting prototype is that they announce it, and then refuse to share it, because they want it to remain more valuable and collectible. This annoys some people a lot.Sometimes though, someone is just cool, like that unknown anon who leaked that Splatterhouse Famicom RPG a few years back, right here on /vr/.
>>12484706You're not wrong about many people being bitter and jealous, but he doesn't mean average game collectors, because they usually never have a game to share which isn't available elsewhere.
>>12481107People have such black and white thinking, as if you're either "you vill own nothing" emulation-only or you're a hoarder with complete sets of all games on each console and your house looks like the inside of a gamestopI own physical collections of games across like 15 systems. I also have flashcarts, softmods, modchips, etc so all those systems can plan games that way too. All told, the quantity of games takes up a bookcase. It's really not a big deal
>>12483827daddyuncle said dems words be evil
>>12485673Agree.
>>12481320He is a collector and he wants you to sell your games so he can hoard them and claim they have an excessive value.
>>12481117PS3 and Wii turn 20 later this year, and the Xbox 360 turned 20 last year. Last I recall, usually the time something starts being retro is around 20 or so years after its' time. I'd say at least the early days of the seventh generation are starting to become "retro."
>>12482380Cool - Keeping your old games, picking up a bunch of old used games when they're extremely cheapNot cool - Paying substantially more than the original MSRP for a cartridge that has dog piss stains dating back to the 1990s. You're a coomllector, dude.
>>12481116Look at the Atari nobody is going to care by then. Most people are raised by phones now
>>12481116>Somalians confronted>"We're not the only racial group that commits fraud"They don't even try to deny it. White man's burden indeed.
>>12482363Welcome to Gamestop
>>12481320Emulation is not perfectly fine you're just used to it
>>12481107When I started seeing those grading labels and games enclosed in those thick plastic containersGayest shit I've ever seen
>>12485645>I actually haven't tallied all the games I've ever played, and I'm sure I've forgotten some, but is there some site out there for that?There are sites for it (I used to use Backloggery) but I'd really recommend using a humble .txt file or spreadsheet instead.Sites like that go down or change everything all the time, and it's incredibly frustrating to have to start over from scratch when they do.
>>12481523You know they sell older games on digital storefronts, right? Or are you being a fucking inbred niggertard on purpose for some niggertarded reason?
>>12486583That sounds like something a Looney Tunes villain would do but honestly that's probably what's going on. I'm sure there's some retard /here/ that would fall for bait like that.>>12486683Emulation for most big consoles is at a state where 99% of games are playable and for consoles up to 5th gen they're at minimum 90% identical to original hardware. Unless you're wanting to play a no name chinese console from the mid to late 90s or a game that requires separate peripherals then it's emulation is perfectly fine.>t. Uses both emulators and real hardware
>>12482874>giving a golden egg to a womanAnon, pls.
>>12485673>People are retardedFtfy. U could have stopped there.
>>12481107when price gouging highwaymen took over
ever since my parents got pissed at my collection
>>12481107when i found out about emulation at 8 years old
