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| burningdoom:
--- Quote from: ignition365 on December 16, 2016, 02:41:23 pm --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on December 16, 2016, 02:34:41 pm --- --- Quote from: ignition365 on December 16, 2016, 02:08:02 pm --- --- Quote from: fazerco on December 16, 2016, 01:28:31 pm ---Every year this topic comes up, and every year the prices go up. --- End quote --- Atari dropped like a rock. --- End quote --- I don't recall Atari 2600 EVER being expensive to collect for, far back into the 90s even. (Except for the rare exceptions, of course, like Chuck Wagon.) I always remember seeing Atari 2600 carts going for under $5 a piece. --- End quote --- About 10 years ago Atari games were desirable because they were in their bubble. --- End quote --- Maybe in your area. Here in CA they've always been bottom-dollar games. One of our big local spots, BogBean Books & Music, always had them for $2 a piece, regardless of the game. And thrift shops had em for not much more. |
| ignition365:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on December 16, 2016, 02:55:58 pm --- --- Quote from: ignition365 on December 16, 2016, 02:41:23 pm --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on December 16, 2016, 02:34:41 pm --- --- Quote from: ignition365 on December 16, 2016, 02:08:02 pm --- --- Quote from: fazerco on December 16, 2016, 01:28:31 pm ---Every year this topic comes up, and every year the prices go up. --- End quote --- Atari dropped like a rock. --- End quote --- I don't recall Atari 2600 EVER being expensive to collect for, far back into the 90s even. (Except for the rare exceptions, of course, like Chuck Wagon.) I always remember seeing Atari 2600 carts going for under $5 a piece. --- End quote --- About 10 years ago Atari games were desirable because they were in their bubble. --- End quote --- Maybe in your area. Here in CA they've always been bottom-dollar games. One of our big local spots, BogBean Books & Music, always had them for $2 a piece, regardless of the game. And thrift shops had em for not much more. --- End quote --- I don't know. I do recall the games being more than that and the systems themselves going for much more than they go for these days. BUT, I know that CA had the highest supply of Atari games back in the day because that's where Atari was, so that might contribute to that. |
| bikingjahuty:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on December 16, 2016, 02:34:41 pm --- --- Quote from: ignition365 on December 16, 2016, 02:08:02 pm --- --- Quote from: fazerco on December 16, 2016, 01:28:31 pm ---Every year this topic comes up, and every year the prices go up. --- End quote --- Atari dropped like a rock. --- End quote --- I don't recall Atari 2600 EVER being expensive to collect for, far back into the 90s even. (Except for the rare exceptions, of course, like Chuck Wagon.) I always remember seeing Atari 2600 carts going for under $5 a piece. --- End quote --- You have to keep in mind the context which Atari was big though. Atari collecting was big from the late 90s until the mid-2000s, which was also a time where many people still did not have the internet, nor were there any Smart phones for people to look shit up or download apps that told them what people were paying for games. Because of this prices never got outrageous like they have on rarer NES and SNES games. There was certainly perceived rarity which was sometimes justified and sometimes not. Games like Swordquest Waterworld used to go for around $200 or more for just the cart because there was a lot of speculation around how rare it really was because no one truly knew. This still happens today, but when there are 30 of a supposed rare game up on ebay at any given time it makes you put into question how rare it really is. But he is right, Atari was once huge and it eventually plummeted to where now the only games that have held their value or increased are those extremely rare carts or games that are rare enough to where there will always be a few people looking for them. I believe someday all console libraries will see this same thing happen. |
| burningdoom:
I still don't agree. I completely remember even Toys R US having brand-new Atari 2600 games filling bargain bins while the NES and Genesis were the top-dollar games. I can't remember a time when Atari 2600 games weren't plentiful and cheap, dating back before the 90s that you pointed out. (I wasn't old enough to remember when they were the brand-new, state of the art system, I'm sure they were expensive then.) I did mention "exceptions" for the rare games, though. That's true for any system. |
| necrosexual:
well i'm a, uh, neo-collector? i only mainly collect for the gen of xbox/ps2 and above (not gcn though, god bless the prices of gcn games, jfc) right now i can safely say the costs of games for these consoles isn't going up yet, but the niche titles may be. i'm not 100% sure. while you can find plenty of good niche titles for $5-10 at a gamestop, the price creep is mostly online. i don't know how big 'collecting' is here though. i really don't bother browsing for older titles (and gcn, ugh) because i know the prices are, nine times out of ten, way, way, way out of my reach. xbox is still dirt-cheap to collect for tho. ps2 has been creeping up for about 3 years now. ps3 games have remained steadily costlier than their 360 peers (likely because of case/disc sturdiness) and i never see that changing... but i'm about to round off my ps3 and my 360 collection will be forever small. my xbox collection will be pretty small, as well. vita is going to see terrifying price markups i bet in the future (finding a copy of demon gaze or stranger of sword city in the wild is already almost hair-pulling in how difficult it can be... and my area is flooded with gamestops) so i'll move there asap. anyway, i can see a lot of my age peers (early 20s) picking the hobby up for gcn (driving the prices up to horrifying levels, they're already expensive) and n64/ps1. maybe snes/genesis a bit as well. and a lot of people get into the hobby in mid- or late-teens, so those teenagers who work part time and have 100% disposable income are likely jumping in and buying the games of their childhood, thus the shift. the older gen has been picking up games for a decade or more now, i'll hit a decade in about a year and a half... those kids are just now jumping in and their childhood was maybe ps1/n64 and mostly ps2/gcn(/xbox, but not as frequently). i know a guy who is 18 or so right now, he's grabbing gcn games as he finds them. he's in australia, tho, so not any competition for me. |
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