> Old people start selling / donating old retro games.
> Remainders get lost / dumped in landfill / disappear to time.
> Games get bought by non-collectors
> Non-collectors sell games to collectors for inflated prices / profit.
> Eventually only collectors will own these games
I feel like we're at the turning point where retro games are going to disappear from the wild almost entirely; is now the time to start hoarding this crap?
>is now the time to start
homie the wave is long gone by now. You better star hoarding wii-u games now, or vintage funko pops.
This. Mark my words, Wii-U games are going to be FRICK EXPENSIVE in the future because of how few people owned one.
ehh possibly but most those games are on the switch also, i think it could go either way. its possible no one will even remember the console. rn no one wants the wii u. they could become the next atari games like what
said and end up in bins for decades.
im gonna maybe box mine up and keep it incase it does go up in value but rn i dont think i could even give mine away. gamestop offered my friend like 25 bucks for his like 3 years ago.
how about learning how to dump the rom/bios or learn skills that would help preservation instead of hoarding?
everything's been dumped already. You can literally download the fullset of roms for pretty much every console.
Prototypes, cart revisions, among tons of still exist. There are still lots of other things you can learn to help preservation efforts. RE, understanding emulator architecture/design. I'm not sure why you think emulation is a solved problem at this point
No one cares about that shit other than archivists. The vast majority of people want to play the full game, not some pre-alpha version that doesn't even run properly and is far from complete.
You need to collect these to dump them and its pretty much a different hobby at this point. I concede to you the point about learning the emulation architecture tho
i'm thinking about this more of in terms of if I can get a better interest rate on video games than bank savings.
So let me get this straight you created a thread to become the thing you complained about? Are you really that much better than the "collector"?
>So let me get this straight you created a thread to become the thing you complained about?
I just want to make money
Your rate of return on retro gaming stuff might surpass a savings account, granted that isn't much. But it will take many many years. You'd be better off investing in almost anything else to surpass a savinga account. Or get a high yield savings account like Ally bank or something.
If you wanna make fat stacks buy crypto or some shit. Don't bet on retro games maintaining their value. They might not even hold their value relative to inflation.
I'm basically a neet failure with nothing to my name but all my childhood games and I need the dosh to keep a roof over my head.
Is it easy to sell off old snes games and get the cash fairly without some scum frick scamming you?
I would be devastated if I shipped them and the dude tries to charge back and frick me over while keeping my shit, it's literally all I have at this point.
Use Facebook Marketplace and only deal in person with cash.
I tried twice with a cib earthbound but the issue is I live in a pretty poor area so best offer I got was a dude wanting to give me 500 bucks and a trash bag full of clothes for it, I don't expect to get full value but I don't want someone that's cutting profits by over 1000 dollars.
Well, I guess your only other option is to seal it in plastic, lock it away for 10 years and hope your quality of life improves.
yeah prob
Yes, sell them to me. I love my super nintendo :).VS4S
i've sold ~$600 worth of games over the last couple months on eBay and haven't had a single purchase go bad. most of my stuff is $10-$20 game boy and PS2 games though, so i don't know about more expensive stuff. i've heard eBay trends to side with the buyers and not sellers when things go wrong, or when customers pretend it went wrong to get a refund, but a tracking # on your shipped item should help your case if they try any funny business.
unironically reddit has some active buy and sell game subreddits and people have reputation levels for all their successful trades. the issue there is that even though eBay trends to succeed with their customers and not sellers if things go wrong, on Reddit you've got no recourse if someone does frick you.
I’ve been selling since early 2000s and only had one buyer frick me over. I sold an Xbox 360 which I never had issues with. Used maybe 20-30 hours max, I bought it for vesperia, a week after the guy gets it he opens a ticket saying it arrived broken. I refuse to give him a refund because it sounds like bs and he has no pictures. He escalates to eBay and changes the story to red ring and he acts like he doesn’t know what it is. eBay gives him a refund from my pocket and doesn’t make him return it.
This is my worry, my collection is literally all original boxes CIB with all carts functional, some of my boxes are almost in mint condition.
My father would buy me games, carefully slit the side of the plastic wrap to open it up to remove the cartridge then he would immediately store away the boxes in a massive protective container.
homie never heard of emulation???
>now
dunno if "hoard" but if you want to have retro stuff you're already late.
best time to do it, if you haven't already owned it since the 90s, was in the early 2000s. I feel late 2000s things already started going more expensive and everything exploded in the 2010s and even more in 2020.
I bought and sold MASSES of stuff from and on ebay from 99 to 2004. It would make you guys weep the shit i had and have. Either way, the little group of dilettantes that you all are is cute. I don't think more than 3 of you here are over 35 which, when it comes to the current state of retro, are the only ages that should even pretend to act like they know a thing or two. To the rest of the under 35s: the best time to be in to this stuff was when it was bespoke. The second best time was 2000 to 2010. You're grasping at the shadows of a time you don't and can't understand because you've grown up in a parody of childhood. God damn i feel sorry for you little gays.
cringe
Your reply? Yeah it was but the banter on this board is at an all time low. You're evidence and probably a cause.
I don't even get why you're so mad, but ok, nice larp blog I guess, didn't read all of it.
But I agree 99-2004 was the best time, "retro games" wasn't even too much of a concept in most people's minds.
Yes yes tldr yawn
At least you agree.
im around your age but you should literally kys
Why are you like this around Truth?
same
Frick this cowardly fomo bullshit. There are still so many great nes, snes, gb, gbc, gba, and ds games you can get for ten bucks or less.
I guess it kinda sucks that certain games are so expensive, but there is still a lot of great retro stuff that is easy af to get.
Frick fomo and frick thinking that the best days of buying retro are behind us. If anything, the fact that gay pokemon games go for so much is making people dig out and sell their entire collections, which means a ton of other games are also easy af to get online for the price of a cup of coffee.
Look at Atari 2600 games.
They're still around but nobody cares about them.
Yeah, but people don't care about 2600, is the difference.
right now is the time to hoard cheap PS2 and ps3 stuff
what, you wanted older games? that window was 5 years ago, if not more
I don't really care. Everything I ever want will be preserved forever and I can enjoy it on whatever device I want.
pft if you think that about retro games just think about fricking crt's. destroyed like israelites at the holocaust and whoever is left holding them essentially has gold
nice PVM crack den
>is now the time to start hoarding this crap?
That depends entirely on what you believe is going to happen down the road. You understand that everything you wrote was true for many years except for the bits about the non-collectors, right? And you understand that during that period games were cheap as frick, right?
That would have been to time to start hoarding. I certainly did. And if you believe that eventually only collectors will have games then wouldn't prices then return to the levels they were before bandwagoners like you drove them up?
Another deranged poorgay bandwagoner sees bogeymen everywhere, except in the mirror where the only real one is.
in 10 years zoomer games will be expensive and no one will want old boomer games from the 90s except them which will make the prices collapse
people have been saying this for a while but NES games are still expensive as shit, and by zoomer standards, NES is prehistoric.
I feel like 3rd gen onwards just keep being relevant, doesn't matter the generation.
I agree with
. I think retro gaming as a hobby is too intrinsically linked with that era of games for the value of them to ever go down.
About a decade to late. Dont worry though, give it a few more years and this old stuff will end up at the thrift store again right next to the boxes of old records and Elvis collectables no one gives a damn about anymore. Its only really the 1-2 generations that are about to age out who care about physical media.
see:
Only people who buy/sell shit at yard sales anymore think theyre the fricking pawn brokers or american pickers and overprice shit
i think this has already happened with 5th gen and before and is starting to happen with 6th gen.
>the turning point where retro games are going to disappear from the wild almost entirely
this will happen when the last private owned hard drive dies and only streaming games remain