Normies are starting to get into retro videogames. Are they going to ruin it just like they ruined anime and movies?>you will soon start seeing youtube video essays about retro videogames>on the bright side the prices of our collections will go up>but it will be harder to afford new ones.
The bubble gonna pop!
i'd be tempted to buy superman 64 just for the memes, i don't care if that makes me a bad person because who actually wants it to play?
>>12597512Anon, Virtual Console and Youtube launched 20 years ago.
Retro game prices have been ruined since 2012. The people who collect them at this point don't even play them, at all.
>25 bucks for superpooplol
>>12597530The entire point of collecting is just to have it sit on a shelf or in a box. Baseball card, CCG, & comic collectors do the same shit. They see it as an investment. Although I guess now with social media it's about validation and admiration from faceless people/bots.
skate or die is one of those games where you play the tutorial levels then once you go to play the actual game you realise that was the game
>>12597562exactly. it's all about greed, nothing to do with the thing itself outside of it as a concept. people will corner and price gouge anything where there's some false sense of scarcity and value to exploit. collecting anything is participating in a scam.
Then just emulate.>But I don't wan-I don't care for your bitching. It's good that more people are taking a dip into playing vintage games.
>>12597562I collect games and don't buy anything I haven't beaten outside of 2 or 3 titles that are on the backlog.
>>12597618>y'all>blessed >that incredible run-on sentence Oh no, jeets are now indistinguishable from the American redneck.
>>12597562Despite how common it is, I still have trouble acknowledging that people really will spend thousands of dollars just to get a "like" from a robot. Or like will pretend to be angry about something just for attention from a machine.
>>12597618>y'all
>>12597834You'd be surprised what people will do for validation and attention. Look at parents/moms; they'll pimp out their kids on Instagram for it.
>>12597512I told you retards decades ago that we should have proliferated the idea that olden games were racist.
>>12597562Thats not why i collect vidya. My vision is to having a completely offline dependent archive of physical copies that i can enjoy at my leisure.
>>12597530That's not unique to retro games. To stay vaguely on topic, retro PC hardware sees the exact same thing. Desirable parts like Voodoo cards were all bought up when they were still going cheap 15 years ago and now mostly just sit in the hands of collectors, unavailable for anyone to use or enjoy until the house clearance decades later. There's a guy on Vogons who owns over a thousand Voodoo cards, most of them boxed.
>>12597659>It's good that more people are taking a dip into playing vintage gamesExplain. Note that the average joe is not the equivalent of someone with actual passion and interest developing new options (parts, software) for the hobby. Only possible avenue i could see it being beneficial, is actual game companies taking notice and stepping in, and thats just as much a double edged sword that can also tarnish the hobby that fans have been trying to build up.>but more people playing retro will improve taste and thus improve modern vidya!Extremely unlikely since most who claim to want to play old games don't actually want to engage with how they were designed and at best you get some indie pixel shit trying to ape them visually.
>>12597931But you can enjoy all the games you want offline with roms & emulation/flash carts. Wasting numerous times more on physical copies just seems pointless.
>>12597946I want to use the original stuff like i did 30-40 years ago. Simple as that.
>>12597512Is this post from 2016? I'm pretty sure most normalfags who had the potential to develop an interest in our era of retrogames have done so already. What I do think you might have more of now are late zoomers having a rekindled interest in stuff from the late 2000s/early 2010s.
>>12597512GameSlop was actually really decent on retro prices 10 years ago when they first tried this, like 30-50% off of ebay prices, but their list of games they took and sold was more curated. The prices they have now are basically just ebay value, if not more, though i will maybe see something 5 dollars cheaper than ebay on occasion.
>>12597512$12 Pilot Wings is pretty good.Normies will be pissed when the find out that these system won't connect to most new TV's.>>12597935Retro gamers knew there would be scarcity eventually, it was only a matter of time before resouce extraction would reach its limit.
>>12597512>see nostalgic social media post>buy it>sell later on ebay>see nostalgic social media post>buy it>sell later on ebayThe endless cycle of the nintendo community
>>12597512Video games were always aimed at normies, your disgusting pimply virgin asshole was never a concern.
>>12597530Yeah my collection is basically just shelf decoration. To play games I either emulate or use flashcarts, and I keep offline backups of games in an external drive. There's no sense in actually playing original copies of retro games these days.
>>12597986A surprising number of zoomers are getting into retro games (although what their age range considers "retro" includes some eras the rest of us would rather die before calling retro). I think a younger generation getting into the hobby has additional effects on prices because:1) They have no point of reference. They don't remember a time where these games are much cheaper. If someone tells them a loose copy of Mario 64 is 20 bucks they kinda just accept it.2) Considering what they are used to being charged for terrible slop these days those prices don't seem that unreasonable to begin with. You have a ridiculous number of remakes/remasters coming out every year these days and people full price for them so why not?3) Shenanigans around streaming services have made a lot of people regain some appreciation for physical media recently, not just videogames but in general. However, younger generations grew up in an era where physical copies were often just limited-edition collectibles and not the "default" way to purchase a piece of media, so paying a premium for physical copies doesn't seem strange to them. Again, it's a point of reference problem.
I would never buy anything I wouldn't play. What the fuck is wrong with people who do?
>>12597618nope, it's seeing through collector rackets.i had experience with comics in the early 90s that woke me up.by the way, radicalizing doesn't mean what you think it means, and never attribute to malice what can be explained by differing values, cause by that token what you are doing is having a reaction to the dismissal of that which you consider valuable.games are data, they are an experience and collection is inherently uninteresting and materialistic.
>>12597935CRT monitor are almost impossible to find in my country anymore. For the past 10 years i've been trying to find any 19" (or bigger) monitor, but haven't had any luck.
>>12597512Starting? That happened over a decade ago.
>retro video games is when nintendo
>>12597562Nailed it
>>12598043>$12 Pilot Wings is pretty good.where? are you confusing it for Bass Hunter 64?
>>12598110Yeah, I definitely agree with this. I think it's a big part of why you see a lot of people on here have meltdowns when people show their personal collections or PVMs or whatever, because the complainers weren't around (or at least weren't buying) these things when they were in the "old junk" phase. I have a lot of games from when they were current, and I bought a lot of stuff online in the 2000s to the early 2010s, which allowed me to amass a collection that I would not have if I had to get everything at today's prices. Like my decent condition Neo Candy cab was like $450 or something, and my Astro was about the same (before shipping). Now you'd probably have to pay double that or more for just one of them.
imagine how many thousands of copies of these old games and consoles gamestop is responsible for literally dumpstering in the mid 00's and early 10's
Ebay randomly permanently banned for no reason. (First account. Never bought or sold.) Now I can't buy retro games anymore.
>>12598078>Video games were always aimed at normiesOnly the lame games were.
>>12598110In regards to point 1, i had a discussion with a younger collector recently that was telling me how he got an amazing deal on conkers bad fur day for 75 dollars about 7 years ago and he was floored when i told him how i got my copy for 3 dollars from a game store in the 2000s. I don't think younger folks really understand how the early collectors of retro were basically just buying other people's garbage. Will be interesting to see if nostalgia blooms more for the 7th generation stuff.
>>12598413No, they all were, you are not a part of some exclusive club that others aren't privy to. There is no walled garden where you and your cohorts drink tea and play croquet. Grow up.
>>12598427People often make fun of the "retro games are dated garbage" mindset a lot of people had in the mid-2000's/early-2010's but the truth is that mindset sure came in handy when it came to buying stuff for cheap. I guess it's cool that the classics get more respect these days due to remasters being so common or whatever but it sure makes it harder to actually buy them.
>>12598351You probably have AI to thank for that.
>>12598491They probably got passenger pigeoned a bit, in the sense that old games cartridges were so fucking plentiful and cheap, and typically disregarded as clutter by the mainstream, that it was hard to grasp that the same types of people who happily sold a boxful of NES games to Funco/GameStop/whatever for $10 off their XBOX purchase would one day be willing to pay 10x that amount for just one cartridge that was in said box of junk. Yes, tons and tons of normalfags bought games, but it was only the hardcore nerds who were putting together rarity lists and trying to scoop up complete copies of NES and 2600 games in 2002. Even most of them never would have imagined that, 20 the future, there would be people who were literally in diapers in 2002 making internet videos to show off their collection of games which came out on systems which were already irrelevant by the time they were born. The evidence was just that the average person either did not care about old games, or were perfectly happy buying modern rereleases to satisfy the occasional craving to play 10++ year old games.
>What would you pick up?It's just shovelware for the most partAlso, the fuck are those prices for the consoles?
>>12598434No and your comment just solidified the fact that you were the type of person playing the stuff pushed out for kids. Maybe try not having a surface level knowledge of something before you yap.
You're letting this happen
>>12597512You're a retard if you haven't realized all of that already happened many years ago.
>>12597512Do they usually have a retro section? Last time I went to a gamestop it was all new games and little toys and t shirts
>>12597562If you truly want to play the game because it's fun you can emulate it. Stuff like Tekken 3 is fun emulated because it's an awesome game. It's also nicer to be able to load it quickly and not have hardware taking up space and looking like crapThe rest is just some weird sociological flex to get props within your niche geek online circle. like the Redditors who have every colour gameboy on display and a Nintendo shrine. People will do ANYTHING apart from look after themselves and breed to carry on their bloodline. Truly fascinating.
>>12598083Just sitting through 5 minute of startup and loading screens when you turn on a PS1 is enough to put you off
>>12597512>they ruined anime and moviesCan you elaborate on what went wrong exactly and how it translates to the dead medium of old video game?
>>12597512Literally what is the point of stores like this stocking shovelware shit like Family Feud and Pool?I'll concede the occasional dude bro being interested on a sports game from their childhood, but there's no fucking way anyone ever buys the shovelware stuff, not even if it's cheap.
>>12599398I ain't doing shit.
>>12597516I might get shit for this but I did rent it a few times because I liked the flying. I never knew it had such a poor reputation until some years after it had came out. I never thought it was the greatest game ever of course but I did think the game was working as intended and playable if that makes sense. I think I did also beat the game once since its quite short but I cannot remember for sure.
>>12599494It's bulk. Stores can't fill their shelves with heavy hitters, and since a store with empty racks is depressing and repels customers, they fill in the blanks with random games. Some will eventually sell, either because somebody does indeed want them or because they are cheap enough for an impulse grab, or they're a way for customers to burn off remaining store credit, or are fodder for when the store has a "buy $X, get an $X game for free" promotion or similar. Operating stores also involves offering an experience, especially when it comes to frivolous shit like old videogames, so it pays to have fully stocked shelves, decorative displays, and maybe even some high end rarities that you don't plan to sell right away, just to show that your store can get the good stuff while also offering customers a chance to see something in-person that they might otherwise never get to see.tl;dr stores would rather fill their inventory with "junk" than have barren shelves
>>12597512Kill twitter posters
>>12599559Based
>>12597512As per usual, normies ruin everything.
>>12599460It's even more fun when you have the original games and hardware/controllers.
>>12597530>Retro game prices have been ruined since 2012.True, but after covid they exploded to critical levels and became completely bonkers. It's not even about collectors hoarding shit anymore, even the extremely common, 1M+ unit games that were never "rare" or " highly sought after" have become victims of market speculation and financebros trying to turn everything into an investment. Before 2020, the PS2 Futurama game was like $30 for a disc or $50-$60 cib. Now it's like this. Why is it so expensive now? Nobody knows, that's just what people are listing it as now and (according to pricecharting) people actually are buying copies at these prices.
>>12598427>Will be interesting to see if nostalgia blooms more for the 7th generation stuff.Not /vr/ but PS3 games actually saw a massive spike when Sony was shutting down the store for it, now most of the games are staying above $10.
>>12600954Those types definitely help build hype, but honestly I doubt that all of the people paying $200+ for opened copies of Futurama are purely speculators and investors. The possibility of exorbitant prices for old games has been largely normalized, to the point that you probably do indeed have actual Futurama fans who are willing to pay that much just to have a legit copy (to play and/or to show off for epeen points)
>>12597512It's performative bullshit, these ain't normies, these are bait farmers, tricking normies (retards) into believing this is the way things are supposed to be because they don't know a time when things and prices weren't corrupted.
>>12600582No it's not because you have to sit through 10 minutes of loading screens and store that falling apart shit somewhere
>>12600954This could be helped if people sold on a discogs like website that tracks the prices things have sold for
>>12597512>13 bucks for Bass Hunter 64 grim
>>12601030It's still wild to me that they made that DOTA song back when DOTA was still just a WC3 custom game.
>>12601024>This could be helped if people sold on a discogs like website that tracks the prices things have sold forPricecharting does exactly that, here's the PAL version of PS2 Futurama which isn't experiencing anywhere near as bad a hike
>>12600954They are not, it's just botting and scummy ebay prices.Bot bid snipping, listing a good game among shitty ones and NOT shipping the good one, copying each other pics, shipping rubber banding, last time I bought a fucking game from that place was in 2013, and I admit, one was a remorse buy, Lolo 3, before it got buttraped further, cost me 64 bucks total
>>12598597Rahama Jaraya JahPooPaa
>>12599398>Trannies, Resellers, HoardSpergs and Speculattes gonna victim blame.Cause of course they do.....Can't thrse
>>12597512Is that a DS lite for 320 burgers?
why did they put the stickers on them
The funniest thing about the retro handheld meme is that you can still buy them in literal bulk.
>>12601064Yeah, it sucks! Fag
>>12597512obsessive nerds already ruined retro video games. how could it get worse? i was at a mall game shop in the year 2000 and they had a cart of Earthbound for something like $80, no booklet, no box. Chrono Trigger was over $100 for some reason, just the game, no cib.i wasn't very old then but I knew it was pointless to try and get into collecting like my friend was. he doesn't play games, i play a lot of games
>>12599465He's too stupid to learn japanese and buy boxes of old DVDs for pennies.
>>12601034wait, the "dota" in that song is actually about dota the mod?never occurred to me since it's in another language
>>12601053dumb nigger
