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| undertakerprime:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on November 05, 2022, 06:25:03 pm --- --- Quote from: undertakerprime on November 05, 2022, 01:04:11 pm ---One popular game that I know was fairly common back then but expensive now is Conker’s Bad Fur Day. I don’t know if it’s expensive more because of demand or rarity, but from working in the game section at Toys R Us I know we had piles of them back then. We also had a few copies of Misadventures of Tron Bonne on clearance, and still no one would buy them. I wanted to get one but never did, which naturally I’m kicking myself about now. --- End quote --- Other than its relation to the Mega Man franchise I will never understand why this game is worth so much. It's a very mediocre game that gets boring after just an hour of playing it. I found it for a really good price probably 10-years ago and thought it must be incredible since its so expensive. I've since learned that a huge portion of these types of trophy games are mediocre at best and pretty shitty at worst. Makes me wonder how they ended up getting the reputation they have as rare "hidden gems" in the first place. Oh, and I sold my copy of Tron Bonne a few back for probably 4x what I paid for it. --- End quote --- I think you hit on why I never pulled the trigger on buying it back then. I recall the reviews were just average, calling it a collection of minigames. And I was never a huge fan of the Mega Man Legends games anyway (personally, I think they’re overrated). Sure, the first one was kinda fun, but not enough to motivate me to bother with its sequels. But yeah, market value doesn’t necessarily equal play value. Just look at Clay Fighter Sculptor’s Cut…super-valuable due to rarity, but utter dogshit gameplay, just like the whole Clay Fighter series. |
| marvelvscapcom2:
Sadly all of retro collecting has become pricey and it happened after I sold about 1000 dollars worth of games now worth 1800 dollars. The most shocking culprits are ps2 and gamecube. PS2 is the best selling console of all time. Flooded every pawn shop for 20 bucks. And now is suddenly worth more than a sega saturn system. Thousand year door for gamecube - Absolutely egregious. It is not scarce and most of gamecubes library is hidden by a wall of fake rarity. These games were 5 dollars in game crazy bins in 2010. 12 years and they are grails worth 200 dollars. I don't grasp it. One search shows HUNDREDS of listing. It's just people pay what resellers ask and it makes it so the price won't drop. Stunt racer - My dad got me stunt racer for my 9th birthday. I can still smell the fresh pins. What I'd do to have her back. This ones rarity I get. It wasn't really high production. But it's impossible to find. A genuine rare game I love :) Rule of rose - Big jump. I hope the bottom drops. It doesn't look like it ever will but I niss actual passion for games not being saturated by fake get rich quick schemes from horrible scalpers that hoard NES classics and travis scott cereal. I miss the love of it. 5 dollar super mario bros 3. Not 25. I will always love gaming but the prices have stipened my will to collect. |
| Warmsignal:
Technically, anything older than 7th gen is hard to find for sure. That is, if you're not counting resellers and game stores. You won't just walk up on a bunch on N64 games in a thrift store or yard sale. Most of what's available, is in the hands of those reselling, and online. Some don't count that as an actual find. By that standard, I haven't found anything in years. I just go where I know that I can buy it, and I end up paying decent money for it. It's either that, or nothing. |
| cygnusjaklynn:
A while back, I lost my copy of Pokémon Soul Silver, I did manage to obtain a repro version from Etsy for a quarter of the price of the regular version. |
| starwindamada:
My carts are all repros. Boxes too. I don't want someone's old 30-year-old copy of DKC that might not even work plus smells like cigarettes and costs $80. Also, it sucks that MMPR Rita's Rewind is digital only. It would have looked great on my shelf with the SNES game. |
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