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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: seether on August 19, 2018, 11:01:27 am
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Nope
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keep crying
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It seems like someone has returned from the dead ::)
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At least in my area, that is far from being true.
Actually, the thing I find the least are sports games around here.
A couple of hours ago I just scored The King of Fighter's '95 for the Neo Geo AES for ¥5,000 (around US$45.00).
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The most ironic thing is that for a lot of retro and even some modern systems the sports titles are the most rare and valuable games in the sets not to mention in most cases a huge rarity and price gap compared to the other rare titles in such sets, I'm just saying ::)
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Geography is a big part of it. Sports titles have ALWAYS dominated the bargain bins. Now that I live far from major cities I am more dependent of ebay and letgo than ever. I personally feel that if you're searching game "lots" on ebay you'll find more sports titles in the lot than anything. I forget the name of it but there's a fellow on youtube who went on a quest to acquire a complete NES collection in an extremely short amount of time and one of the things he did was get hundreds of games out of the way by offering mom and pop shops a buck a piece for NES sports titles. Needless to say the mom and pops were ecstatic to see that merchandise finally move!
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The most ironic thing is that for allot retro and even some modern systems the sports titles are the most rare and valuable games in the sets not to mention in most cases a huge rarity and price gap compared to the other rare titles in such sets, I'm just saying ::)
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Geography is a big part of it. Sports titles have ALWAYS dominated the bargain bins. Now that I live far from major cities I am more dependent of ebay and letgo than ever. I personally feel that if you're searching game "lots" on ebay you'll find more sports titles in the lot than anything. I forget the name of it but there's a fellow on youtube who went on a quest to acquire a complete NES collection in an extremely short amount of time and one of the things he did was get hundreds of games out of the way by offering mom and pop shops a buck a piece for NES sports titles. Needless to say the mom and pops were ecstatic to see that merchandise finally move!
shadowzero has what I would say
1: it has to be your location or you might not be looking in the right places
2: because there really is a TON of sports games that were made and still being made, to this day. and everyone thinks they are all the same
but really from my experience mostly all sports games play differently.
There are a ton of sports games but playing them is a lot better than lets say twiddling your thumbs day in and day out. or having no video games at all to play
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If there's a console you want to collect for, there are sports titles, whether game collecting is plentiful or not. There was always sports titles, there will always be sports titles lol
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The most ironic thing is that for allot retro and even some modern systems the sports titles are the most rare and valuable games in the sets not to mention in most cases a huge rarity and price gap compared to the other rare titles in such sets, I'm just saying ::)
NCAA Football 14 for example
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Game collecting dead? Hah- no. Not by a long shot. Ebay and Amazon both runneth over with gaming galore. And if you insist on buying in person? There's cons, there's local retro shops depending on were you live... I'm lucky in that my (https://gameovervideogames.com/) area (http://seattlegamegurus.com/) has (http://www.pinkgorillagames.com/) options (http://www.anothercastlegames.com/) in (https://www.facebook.com/SuperSmashGames/) spades (http://www.gamelobster.net/catalog/).
Now, on the other hand, if you want to say that game thrifting is dead- that I'd give you. It has become well ingrained at this point that most games are Valuable- and Valuable things are not often given away. Finds can be had, but they're so few & far between one couldn't be blamed for choosing to just give the whole thing up.
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The most ironic thing is that for allot retro and even some modern systems the sports titles are the most rare and valuable games in the sets not to mention in most cases a huge rarity and price gap compared to the other rare titles in such sets, I'm just saying ::)
NCAA Football 14 for example
I was talking more along the lines of titles such as NBA Elite 11 ps3. not to mention other sport titles with crazy values on quite some retro systems. For the master system the rare sports titles are only a couple hundred though but also pretty rare to name one example of the cheaper actual rare sports titles.
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What's wrong with sports titles?
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What's wrong with sports titles?
I like sports video games but a lot of people apparently don't, Seether is not the only buyer complaining
I honest don't know why so many don't buy or enjoy sports games. Everyone/most buys RPG's it seems
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I'm a non-sports title guy. Pretty simple reason, I'm not into sports.
I do still like Tony Hawk games, wrestling games, and arcadey racing games; though. Just not the traditional football, baseball, basketball titles, etc.
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The only way a sports title becomes fun is if it's a real goofy arcade-like one such as Tony Hawk, NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, etc...Never found sports games to be fun otherwise, especially in the past decade or so where they've just endlessly pumped the same sports game over and over again.
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What's wrong with sports titles?
Depends on the sport/publisher IMO. Mainstream EA releases do nothing for me though I like acquiring niche titles like the Arena Football games. I like finding titles for sports that don't really have a huge following here in the states like Rugby. I was ecstatic when I found a PS3 Australian rules football game in the wild. I'd love to acquire a non-digital PS3/PS4 Cricket game at some point. ;)
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What's wrong with sports titles?
The ready availability makes them pretty much inconsequential when it comes to their collectibility - IE there’s no thrill of the chase. Of course there are exceptions, but they are few and far between.
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This is a complaint about the secondary market. We can complain about how every thrift store has multiple copies of Titanic on VHS also. Obviously people don't want those things. We can all see it, not worth pointing it out.
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This is a complaint about the secondary market. We can complain about how every thrift store has multiple copies of Titanic on VHS also. Obviously people don't want those things. We can all see it, not worth pointing it out.
And Disney clamshells, for the love of pearl! So many thrift shops only keep those and nothing else because they read on some crappy click-bait that they're worth a small fortune (they're not). Drives me nuts as a VHS collector. Gives us more than damn Disney!
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Great time to be a sport collector. (As was any other time)
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Hey man you post a lot of pretty nuts hot takes about your love/hate relationship with game collecting but this is probably the peak of it
They flood the market because nobody wants the excess of them, and naturally they're hard to sell. It's like complaining a trading card game is dead because you keep getting common cards