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Where do you buy your retro games from these days?

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randomstranger:
1.) Trading sites from my own country.
2.) There is a retro/vintage market every month. Not specifically vintage electronics and games, but you can always find something.
3.) Local brick and mortar stores.
4.) Ebay from within the EU.
5.) Ebay from outside the EU.

bizzgeburt:
I have two main sources for retro games:

1. is a local buy/rebuy shop for videogames founded in 1990. This shop is an institution when it comes to retro games in my area. I bought Donkey Kong Country 2 there ... on it's release day!  8) Horst, the owner of the shop, is my 1st go-to when it comes to games for my collection. His prices are always slightly below internet and the money he pays for games you sell there are reasonable. I tried many alternatives but always find myself coming back to this shop!  8)

2. Annualy I visit a RetroGamesCon in Heidelberg, Germany - prices are  :-X , but I found many rare games there, especially sealed PS1 RPG's.

kashell:
I rarely buy those anymore. I'm pretty sure I have every retro game I've ever wanted or had an interest in. There might be a few outliers that I can't think of but, yeah. Retro games aren't really my vibe these days. I'm still trying to off load some.

I used to go to local mom n' pop game stores and media stores. However, since prices on most things skyrocketed, I've stopped going there with the intent to buy something that's not of this generation.

dhaabi:
I seldom buy older games these days, although that's not a decision based on lack of interest. My backlog is lengthy, so I'm focusing on playing what I have. When I do buy games, I've mostly limited myself to purchase new ones which are only available online so I'm not barred from having to buy them later on for higher prices. On rare occasion, I buy older games with the intention of playing them soon through eBay, such as recently with PlayStation games. The third-party market for games has been awful for some time, which has led me to not feel pressured to buy everything I'm wanting in a hurry. If I'm priced out from buying certain items, then so be it.


--- Quote from: telekill on August 14, 2024, 07:49:49 am ---I don't really buy many games for me anymore but I generally use eStarland.com
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For around a decade or so, I've been to eStarland's brick and mortar store location around a dozen times, always with at least one other person when visiting. Personally, I've never found the appeal to how they organize and present their stock. It's always a hassle to the customer to gather price information about any item, and it's very much like a shoppable warehouse. Perhaps their online presence is better, but I've never utilized it since it comes across as bad for anyone curious about the quality of the specific item they're to receive. I do know others who have made online purchased through their site, though, and they feel satisfied.

conduit:
My two main haunts are Ebay and Buyee. The latter being a Japanese proxy service to purchase games on Yahoo! Japan auctions. If Ebay doesn't have what I'm looking for Buyee often does, although shipping cost on Buyee tend to be higher. Good deals on both sites do happen seldomly and I'll sometimes swoop in and pick up a game for cheap. If local shops were nearby I'd opt for those every time, but I live in a rural area that has nothing to facilitate game collecting or gaming in general.

I'm fine with limiting myself to one or two games per month, sometimes a little more if I can afford it. I strictly collect CIB games and put more emphasis on the quality of my collection versus the quantity of it.

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