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| Warmsignal:
--- Quote from: sworddude on June 01, 2017, 06:09:11 pm --- --- Quote from: Warmsignal on June 01, 2017, 05:58:01 pm --- --- Quote from: sworddude on June 01, 2017, 04:42:11 pm --- --- Quote from: Warmsignal on June 01, 2017, 10:59:58 am --- --- Quote from: sworddude on May 31, 2017, 02:02:39 pm --- --- Quote from: Warmsignal on May 31, 2017, 12:45:58 pm ---Didn't sell it but I regret that our copy of Sunset Riders from back in the day ended up with my brother's stuff (even though we originally got the game from my friend). Now it's an expensive game for some reason. --- End quote --- For some reason expensive ??? It's a run and gun game, many people collect for this specific genre and not to many of such games around, old school cowboy western again not many of such old school good cowboy games around, Snes version is a solid arcade port. Gameplay and grapics are excellent and defenitely not as common as most good games, furthermore more people now know about this great game. It's not really a suprise in my opinion. The only reason why it was cheap in the past is because for allot of people the game was not known. Ps2 and ps1 still have allot of hidden gems wich are cheap, so if only people would stop creating those hidden gem video's prices will stay low for those uncommon excellent yet still cheap games. Not talking about hidden gems on forums would also help since I have seen many games rise in price thanks to only that for ps1 and ps2 consoles. --- End quote --- Being a good game doesn't necessarily mean it will become expensive, as in $100 expensive. Like for example, look how expensive Earthbound is. It must be the best game on the SNES right? Not exactly. Well, it must be really rare then? Nope. It's just expensive because.... reasons. --- End quote --- It's not a common game, your lucky if you come across one in a lot in Europe or the US. That in combination with it being a great game and it being known by many people make a game expensive. It's harder to find than copies of dK country 1 to 3 super mario kart and many other great games and not even by a little but by allot. Super mario world might be one of the better games yet you will easily find one in pretty much every lot. There are far more super mario world carts to supply the demand wich keep the prices normal, yet if a sunset riders cart appear many people are looking for one while there are few. Less carts to supply demand. Hard to find and in demand, A game does not need to be very rare to become expensive It's already hard to find as it is. There are only very few games wich are rare, and many games wich are not rare can be hard to find. and than you have cib stuff wich is even less supply. Earthbound is not easy to find. If it truly wasn't hard to find just uncommon? I'd like to ask if you have found one or many copies in the wild already? Panzer dragoon saga in The US 500+ $ pretty rare yet so many on ebay why? The only reason why you see many copies of earthbound or other expensive games are online is because it is valuable people want to sell it or need to get rid of it, if it was worth far less, allot less people would bother to try to sell and scalp them. the only reason why one sees so many copies people hoard them copies there is allot of demand and the games are not easy to find from new sources. Supply demand, and how great a game is affects prices. Sunsetriders is far harder to find than many other great snes games It's no suprise why it is more expensive than most games. Expensive games have a higher chance to get back in circulation, People need money in hard times and sell them to resellers or just on the open market. Also in my opinion sunset riders is one of the best games on the snes. Definitely in the top 20 games for Snes. I cannot imagine this game not being in the top tier games for snes. --- End quote --- I've found one copy of Earthbound in the wild and it was maybe $2, but I told my brother he could have it since we both found it. I've seen it in countless game stores, and every convention I go to most of the vendors have one. EB is always pretty high in availability, but the price is a deterrent. Probably one of the most flippable SNES items, since most people found it for a few dollars and sell it for a ton online. I think the price is artificially high, and it may have to do with the original MSRP being $80-90 due to the included guide book. Retail stores probably didn't drop the used price a whole lot, and so the notion that it was worth significantly more than a standard SNES game lingered over until collecting took off. On eBay, usually the sale price of a CIB copy influences the value of a loose copy, and with the complete one going so high, the price was inflated to seem like a good chuck of that value was just the game itself. Really, a CIB EarthBound is a bit different and lot less common than most other complete games, so that reasoning is quite skewed. IMHO, the game should be sub $100 and never should have been going for $200 loose back in the late 2000s like it was. --- End quote --- I always thought Earthbound had a very strong fanbase wich made the prices sky rocket at one time far after It's original release. --- End quote --- I'm sure it did / still does, but I'm thinking they're a bit gaga especially in terms of what it should be worth for a loose copy. Yeah it's a good game, yeah it's not in every stack you find, but $150 - $200?? And that was before collecting in general started to get competitive and expensive like it is now. |
| glazball:
Man, this thread can be painful! I've sold, loaned or even given away so many games that I wish I had back but the one that stings most is my Phantasy Star II. I bought it at launch (for around $75 in 1990) and sold it for change when I needed money in college. I had the Hint Book with all the paths through the dungeons traced in pencil. I've since re-purchased PSII loose but it's not the same. |
| koal0313:
I still get teary eyed when I think back to before I collected and sold my Sega Saturn lot region free Saturn 2 controllers arcade stick 25 games including virtua fighter, panzer dragoon saga, NASCAR circuit edition, tomb raider and others I can't even remember what I needed the money for but I remember getting 140 bucks for it around 6 years ago and I was desperate and not as educated as I am now I'll never recover that system. |
| oldgamerz:
I lost or sold every console game I had as a teenager including 007 Golden eye for the N64. I wish I had not lost or sold those games because I even had Metroid for the GameCube and another Japanese racing game and I want it back but don't know it's name :( |
| hoshichiri:
I suppose I'm lucky in that I learned my lesson early on. We got an NES for Christmas when I was in Kindergarten, which my parents sold when I was in 4th grade to finance acquiring a Sega Genesis. While we certainly enjoyed the Genesis, we missed our NES games terribly and agreed as a family to never do that again! It's been a rare thing for me to sell or give away anything since. I remember selling Fighting Force, Load Runner, and Alundra 2 for the PS1, but I don't regret it (and none of them are particularly expensive these days anyway.) I did give away a few consoles over the years, if I found myself with another means to play the games... PS1 went to a friend, then later to my brother. The former family genesis went to I believe my brother when I got my Genesis/Sega CD unit. The original grey-brick Gameboy went to a friend. That's the only one I really regret these days... I don't need it, I have many other ways to play my games, but it still kinda bugs me that I don't own one. The subject of stolen games- that's a different matter! I lost Brave Fencer Musashi, Final Fantasy 7, Super Mario RPG, and Zelda: Link to the Past to thieving friends/siblings back in the day. Luckily it happened before prices ballooned & I was able to replace all of them (even got lucky with a cheap CIB Zelda). I've honestly always been more entertained to see what I did right in hindsight... I remember going through some old junk boxes cleaning my closet a couple years back... and discovered that, despite not keeping any other paperwork for the Game Boy/Game Boy Color, young me apparently had the forethought to carefully fold flat and store the boxes/papers for Zelda Oracle of Ages & Seasons. That was an exciting thing to add back into the collection! |
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