I heard retro game prices have peaked

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indenton:

--- Quote from: sworddude on July 01, 2017, 09:01:33 am ---Nes in europe has been insane, I remember megaman 2 cib being like 30 - 40 euro's around one year ago for thelongest time easy everywhere at best cib. At the moment however it seems to have risen to around 60 - 80 euro's that was kinda shocking how that happened :o

In europe it seems to get more expensive. There are games that have stayed the same price but there are also many examples that have become more expensive especially the common good games.

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I can reiterate this, collecting NES in Europe must be a pain because you have to worry about PAL-A/B as well.

main-line Pokemon games are continuing to climb here in the UK, especially HeartGold / SoulSilver which I've been finding in box for about £60, above retail even those w/o pokewalker. Gamecube games have pretty much doubled since 2009, I got Smash Bros. Melee for about £16 back then, now you'd be lucky to find it below £30.

sworddude:

--- Quote from: indenton on July 01, 2017, 09:23:01 am ---
--- Quote from: sworddude on July 01, 2017, 09:01:33 am ---Nes in europe has been insane, I remember megaman 2 cib being like 30 - 40 euro's around one year ago for thelongest time easy everywhere at best cib. At the moment however it seems to have risen to around 60 - 80 euro's that was kinda shocking how that happened :o

In europe it seems to get more expensive. There are games that have stayed the same price but there are also many examples that have become more expensive especially the common good games.

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I can reiterate this, collecting NES in Europe must be a pain because you have to worry about PAL-A/B as well.

main-line Pokemon games are continuing to climb here in the UK, especially HeartGold / SoulSilver which I've been finding in box for about £60, above retail even those w/o pokewalker. Gamecube games have pretty much doubled since 2009, I got Smash Bros. Melee for about £16 back then, now you'd be lucky to find it below £30.

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that's not really an issue only in certain countries pal A is available and in inferior numbers. it is expensive though Nes in europe

Nes in US is pretty cheap in my opinion with most of the common and even allot of uncommon sought after titles at least, same applies to snes.

double dragon 2 castlevania etc allot of examples pretty cheap in the US in europe however in very good condition upwards even though these should not be rare games are not easy to find and pretty pricy

Only for cib is this an issue as lose carts are really affordable the difference is really huge by multiple times usually in very good upwards condition. Bad condition boxes obviously don't add nice value but no collector wants those.

indenton:

--- Quote from: sworddude on July 01, 2017, 09:32:10 am ---that's not really an issue only in certain countries pal A is available and in inferior numbers. it is expensive though Nes in europe

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The United Kingdom is one of those countries that uses NES PAL-A. I'm confused as to whether PAL a / B work across Matel & NES console versions

sworddude:

--- Quote from: indenton on July 01, 2017, 10:13:11 am ---
--- Quote from: sworddude on July 01, 2017, 09:32:10 am ---that's not really an issue only in certain countries pal A is available and in inferior numbers. it is expensive though Nes in europe

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The United Kingdom is one of those countries that uses NES PAL-A

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Very true I do realise that. it is also slightly cheaper than pal b since pretty much the rest of europe is after those.

Except for italy and a few other countries if I am not mistaken.

If you buy from other countries It's pretty much always pal B so i guess many Uk buyers buy their nes games in the UK.

Pal a games work only on PAL A nes console in the UK italy etc

PAl B works only in the rest of europe and not on UK nes consoles. Pretty interesting that there was a region lock within europe, there are plenty of converters though.

scoobs22:

--- Quote from: dreama1 on June 30, 2017, 08:58:38 pm ---I heard retro game prices have peaked, and are beginning a slow decline as of 2016/2017. Examples include earthbound and wild guns. Any truth to this?

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These games are no longer being produced. As long as there is demand for these products with a static supply, prices will trend upward over the long term. Econ 101.

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