Probably collected before the used games market got taken over by speculators driving the prices up insanely.
We didn’t know how good we had it before 2015 or so.
I have easily a few thousand dollars worth of retro games (I check the going rates of my collection now and then with pricecharting.com), and I rarely paid more than $20 a piece for any game I bought used.
Which reminds me that I need to check some of the SNES cart internals to confirm they’re legit, because some of those deals were a bit too good to be true even back then. Super Metroid for $20? Guessing it’s a bootleg.
And that also reopens the old scar of an ex who made off with all of my N64 (multiple complete in boxes), Genesis, and GameGear stuff along with some of my GameBoy and Gamecube collection. Fuck.
Don’t lend large swaths of your shit to someone all at once.
I had an amazing collection of Dreamcast games. I paid squat for them. Nobody wanted them and I got them all for next to nothing at a local game shop. Games that are very rare today, I paid like 6 bucks for.
My best friend and I played regularly when we were roommates in the mid 2000s.
He got married and moved out. One day he said, “Hey bro, can I borrow your Dreamcast and games so I can play them and bond with my stepson?” “Sure man, just take care of them.”
I heard from a mutual friend that he moved so I called him and asked him about my Dreamcast. “Oh I’m sorry bro, it got left at the old place and I have no idea what happened to it.”
I still randomly have a desire to go to his house and ask him to show me something he takes pride in and then break it before his eyes.
We’re talking thousands of dollars now. Grrrr. Not that I’d sell them, but that’s part of why I’m so damn angry about it.
The markets insane unfortunately. You can still find solid deals abroad though. I visited Japan and picked up all the original Gameboy Pokémon cartridges for 100 bucks total. Red, blue, green, yellow, gold and silver. All working and in like new condition. Got a mint original n64 controller plus rumble pack in Mexico for 8 bucks.
Probably collected before the used games market got taken over by speculators driving the prices up insanely.
We didn’t know how good we had it before 2015 or so.
I have easily a few thousand dollars worth of retro games (I check the going rates of my collection now and then with pricecharting.com), and I rarely paid more than $20 a piece for any game I bought used.
Which reminds me that I need to check some of the SNES cart internals to confirm they’re legit, because some of those deals were a bit too good to be true even back then. Super Metroid for $20? Guessing it’s a bootleg.
And that also reopens the old scar of an ex who made off with all of my N64 (multiple complete in boxes), Genesis, and GameGear stuff along with some of my GameBoy and Gamecube collection. Fuck.
Don’t lend large swaths of your shit to someone all at once.
I had an amazing collection of Dreamcast games. I paid squat for them. Nobody wanted them and I got them all for next to nothing at a local game shop. Games that are very rare today, I paid like 6 bucks for.
My best friend and I played regularly when we were roommates in the mid 2000s.
He got married and moved out. One day he said, “Hey bro, can I borrow your Dreamcast and games so I can play them and bond with my stepson?” “Sure man, just take care of them.”
I heard from a mutual friend that he moved so I called him and asked him about my Dreamcast. “Oh I’m sorry bro, it got left at the old place and I have no idea what happened to it.”
I still randomly have a desire to go to his house and ask him to show me something he takes pride in and then break it before his eyes.
We’re talking thousands of dollars now. Grrrr. Not that I’d sell them, but that’s part of why I’m so damn angry about it.
The markets insane unfortunately. You can still find solid deals abroad though. I visited Japan and picked up all the original Gameboy Pokémon cartridges for 100 bucks total. Red, blue, green, yellow, gold and silver. All working and in like new condition. Got a mint original n64 controller plus rumble pack in Mexico for 8 bucks.