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| oldgamerz:
This is a thread about game prices of consoles of the 2nd video game generation on that existed before the NES aka "Nintendo Entertainment System" If you were going to buy an old generation 2 video game, for a generation 2 console. What is the most you would pay regarding if you wanted it? let say it was a game that you already knew about or had good memories of this game. Or your ever looking to get more games for your collection period, like I do most times. :) Atari 2600 or Intellivision, or Colecovision are exmples of the generation 2 consoles Me? $10 if I knew it was actually good and, $5 would be the highest for if I never heard of the game before. |
| bikingjahuty:
$0 I literally have no interest in anything before the NES; the 2600, Intellevision, and all their gen 2 cohorts were well before my time and every time I try to play them they never once feel enjoyable. Funny enough, I enjoy a lot of arcade games from the late 70s and early 80s, but the home console games just don't do anything for me. To be fair, even the NES has just enough appeal to inspire me to collect for it, but every other gen 3 console I'll never own or collect for. |
| seether:
I would have to be paid to take them away, as it would essentially be a trash removal service. For one or a few I’d pay minus $20. If we’re talking a large collection and major clean up operation I’d only pay as high as minus $50. |
| hoshichiri:
My high-end average seems to hover around the $20 mark, but a find of something good & properly rare would likely spur more money easily. I'd probably be fine dropping $50 on Swordquest Waterworld, for example. Outside of the big three- 2600, Intellivision, & Colecovision- many of the pre-NES machines seem to exist in a very tumultuous market. Basically, the supply is terribly low- so much even Ebay cannot always help you- but the buying market is equally small. For example, the Fairchild Channel F: it's the first machine with cartridges, so you'd think collectors would be fairly gung ho over it. However, it's also rather hard to come across working machines anymore... it had a short time on the market, and the first revision was hard-wired so you can't just replace a bad cable. As a result, prices for carts (especially rare ones) can bounce wildly. I spent about a year eyeing around for Video Whizball, and saw it go as low as $5 and as high as several hundred on Ebay. With no copies for sale & often no sold units in eBay's search, people were free to set whatever price they wanted. (I ended up paying around $30 for mine on another forum.) It makes for an interesting era to collect in- good, common games are often cheap & plentiful so building a collection is easy enough- but getting rare games involves a different level of price hunting, & you'll likely spend more time & money on machine maintenance than with other systems. |
| shfan:
Not a great deal, that's not to say I wouldn't pick up a 2600 game complete and in good condition if it had some sentimental value, but the ones which fall under that category tend not to be cheap when they do pop up complete and in good cond. (thinking Mario Bros., Dig Dug, Roadrunner, Q*Bert, Xenophobe, amongst others). |
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