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| starbronze21:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on January 12, 2015, 05:11:56 pm ---I blame the Game Chasers mostly. They've been hyping that area up for years as this mecha of cheap retro games (Little Smason for $10, Flintstone's 2 for $5) and now I'm sure every collector within 200-miles makes it a point to bleed the area of any potential deals. It isn't all their fault though, it's bad everywhere because of how popular the hobby has become. I hear the worst place to hunt for games, at least on the cheap, is the east coast. I have no idea why this is, but I've heard many people say how horrible it is and how slim the pickings are. --- End quote --- Dude I hear ya, they especially helped ruined my favorite Flea Market, Trader's Village. That's where they found Little Samson and man did that give the place attention. It's esp bad because the places reputation attracted the resellers. It used to be you could find $5 NES systems, $25 Boxed Colecovisions, all the games were like $3 a pop, it was paradise..was. I've talked to some of the vendors now and I always her the same thing, "Yeah we did have games but some guy came up and bought all of them. He took them over to his booth over there." It is very disheartening to hear that, but that is becoming the norm. It's not fair you know, it's all gone before we even get there. However I can't blame the two guys with a YouTube show for what's happening to retro gaming cause it was bound to happen anyway. It's a tread that happens with any hobby and in a way it's good that Retro Gaming is so popular now. I like that communities like this one are growing and that the love of all these forgotten games is being found again. Sure it's harder to find the treasure, but in a way that makes the hunt and reward mean more. I mean I haven't given up, there's still stuff out there. :) |
| redblaze57:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on January 12, 2015, 05:11:56 pm --- I blame the Game Chasers mostly. They've been hyping that area up for years as this mecha of cheap retro games (Little Smason for $10, Flintstone's 2 for $5) and now I'm sure every collector within 200-miles makes it a point to bleed the area of any potential deals. It isn't all their fault though, it's bad everywhere because of how popular the hobby has become. I hear the worst place to hunt for games, at least on the cheap, is the east coast. I have no idea why this is, but I've heard many people say how horrible it is and how slim the pickings are. --- End quote --- That's because there's Jack shit around here. The closest non gamestop video game store near me (at least since the play trade closed near me) is a little over 30 minutes away then I swear it seems like I got to cross state lines to find another. Even though there are at least 3 easily accessible flea Markets near me. I pretty much got the closest one wiped out of games, another's mainly resellers, and the last one I haven't been to enough to really say how good it is... just wished I grabbed that Mallrats movie poster the last time I was there... |
| bikingjahuty:
--- Quote from: starbronze21 on January 12, 2015, 08:08:46 pm --- --- Quote from: bikingjahuty on January 12, 2015, 05:11:56 pm ---I blame the Game Chasers mostly. They've been hyping that area up for years as this mecha of cheap retro games (Little Smason for $10, Flintstone's 2 for $5) and now I'm sure every collector within 200-miles makes it a point to bleed the area of any potential deals. It isn't all their fault though, it's bad everywhere because of how popular the hobby has become. I hear the worst place to hunt for games, at least on the cheap, is the east coast. I have no idea why this is, but I've heard many people say how horrible it is and how slim the pickings are. --- End quote --- Dude I hear ya, they especially helped ruined my favorite Flea Market, Trader's Village. That's where they found Little Samson and man did that give the place attention. It's esp bad because the places reputation attracted the resellers. It used to be you could find $5 NES systems, $25 Boxed Colecovisions, all the games were like $3 a pop, it was paradise..was. I've talked to some of the vendors now and I always her the same thing, "Yeah we did have games but some guy came up and bought all of them. He took them over to his booth over there." It is very disheartening to hear that, but that is becoming the norm. It's not fair you know, it's all gone before we even get there. However I can't blame the two guys with a YouTube show for what's happening to retro gaming cause it was bound to happen anyway. It's a tread that happens with any hobby and in a way it's good that Retro Gaming is so popular now. I like that communities like this one are growing and that the love of all these forgotten games is being found again. Sure it's harder to find the treasure, but in a way that makes the hunt and reward mean more. I mean I haven't given up, there's still stuff out there. :) --- End quote --- I believe that it will get a lot worse before it gets better. Like all collecting fads, especially dealing with old collectables, they rise and fall like clockwork. People try and say that video game collecting is different than comic books, toys, baseball cards, or any of the previous collecting trends that came and went, but they really aren't. Essentially what is happening is people who grew up with the NES, SNES, Genesis and other 3rd, 4th, and 5th gen systems are getting to the point where they have disposable income due to careers and many are not at the point where they have a ton of financial responsibilities just yet (mortgage, kids, car payments, insurance, ext). So all this extra money is feeding their itch to rekindle the things they had or did not have growing up. The next phase is that many of them will take on these responsibilities and as a result the collectables will be one of the first things to go. When less people are buying and everyone is selling the prices will start to plummet on all but the most rare games. I feel like it will happen within this decade, at least with 4th gen and 3rd gen consoles. At that point, most of the resellers will have moved on as will many of the collectors, leaving more games available to those with the interest and passion for the hobby once the bandwagon has came and went. Again, this is a trend seen in many other vintage collecting trends and video games are absolutely no different. As I said before, 5th gen will continue to gain momentum when previous gens start to slow, as will 6th, and maybe 7th in 4 or 5 years. That is my theory at least, and I'm pretty confident in it. |
| gf78:
"PlayStation was the spiritual successor to the SNES." Yeah, I have to agree with that. When Nintendo stuck with the cartridges, every developer under the sun moved to the PlayStation and tons of series from the NES/SNES just continued on there. Breath of Fire, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Castlevania, Metal Gear...so many great series just moved right over. On topic, I've noticed people snapping up PS1 games like crazy too. There is one local game store that's not Gamestop and I've found some gems there. But I've pretty much bought up just about anything they get for PS1 that's complete and in decent condition. I try to stop in just about every other day because they are constantly getting new stuff in. If I didn't care about cases and manuals, I could pick up some great games. Right now, I know they have Tomba, FFVII, FFVIII, FF Tactics, Mega Man Legends 2, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy Chronicles and several other Squaresoft titles. A little something you guys (& gals) may or may not know about Strider 2 is that it comes on two discs. Ok, you probably knew that. But the first prints were printed on the wrong disc. So Strider was on the disc for Strider 2 and Strider 2 was on the Strider disc. I don't know if that was fixed later or if the game had just one print run and it was never corrected, but that is how mine was that I had bought new the day it was released. I specifically remember that because my OCD was driving me mad trying to play Strider 2 and having to put the Strider disc in! ::) |
| argyle:
I've been trying to rebuild my PSOne RPG library lately and things have definitely gotten pricier. I had both ToD games once but sold or traded them, and I know I got nowhere near the value out of them that ppl are asking for them now. :o Granted, a lot of that is also due to the Tales series finally taking off in the US. But I've seen it in other prices as well. |
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