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General and Gaming => Classic Video Games => Topic started by: oldgamerz on November 23, 2018, 12:54:23 am
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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If I did pick up a Generation 2 console that actually worked, I would most definite would like to own any Generation 2 console video game that didn't come of these three compilations I love to talk about. Including all of the generation 6 Past Arcade games too.
Believe it or not I grew up in the 1990's being born in the late 1980's. But I like to discover old games before my time, and anything 7th Generation and down to the 2nd Generations :)
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For any one interested in cheaply emulating the Generation 2 consoles has many options, to get some of the more expensive and popular generation 2 games, on a Generation 6 console. I own all and I agree that these three are a bargain for the old fix :)
Recommended generation 2 games for the 6 generation consoles
Atari Anthology PS2
Activision Anthology PS2
Intellivision Lives PS2
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Interesting comments here. A couple years ago I really started getting into "pre-crash" consoles, love the intellivision, vectrex and astrocade I also enjoy the Atari 5200, 7800 and Colecovision. I really like collecting for pre-crash consoles as games are not very expensive, not always great games but it was early and interesting.
I will just go ahead and admit that I paid about 70 dollars for a CIB Diner on the intellivision.
To me, the best thing about these early consoles is the homebrew scene. I really like that Collectorvision has brought out a lot of Exidy arcade games that dont have any other ports.
I understand that these consoles are not very popular, I like them because it's something different.
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It depends on how much money I would have. Currently I would spend about 20-50 I guess if I got bit by the 2nd gen bug. I never know when my tastes will change and I do like some of the consoles from the gen. But if I had like 20 million dollars, i'd probably buy every gen and at any price.
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Almost nothing if I could. I have no attachment to that era and find the gaming experience pretty abysmal compared to the NES era. Like if I can get stuff for a buck or two, maybe, it would be okay trade or resell material if in good quality. I've only bought that era once and it was me and a friend splitting a box full of Atari 2600 stuff for like 30 bucks. There was a system and like 8 or 9 games, some in poor boxes. I cleaned it up and then he resold it for like 50 bucks or something, I forget exactly.
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I'll just play it on emulator tbh
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I like collecting, so I'd be willing to pay a lot for a rare game, if it was still a comparatively good deal. Think the most I ever paid was 100 for an individual game, but even that was part of a buy one get one half off sale with another expensive game, so together I paid less than that. I also paid 90 once to re-gain ownership of a game that had been stolen from me, though that was also a special case, obviously.
edit: Wait, thats gen 3. No wonder I was "so much" higher than everyone else. Hmm... if it was a comparatively rare or interesting one, maybe 20 or 25 to add it to my collection. Perhaps a bit more than that if it was Oddessey2, which is great fun to collect due to the amazing art direction that system's materials had. Obviously if it was super rare and I found a "steal" at fifty I'd buy it, but might then sell it on, etc.
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It would depend on the game but 5 or under for most, about 50 to 80 for a few rare titles.
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I literally have no interest in anything before the NES;
This is how I feel. Anything before the NES hasn't aged well graphically in my opinion and I think console gameplay took leaps forward starting with the NES.
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Me? $10 if I knew it was actually good and, $5 would be the highest for if I never heard of the game before.
oh god no... sure there are some very rare games out there but I have tons of Atari 2600, colleco, intelivision games and I have NEVER paid above $1 for each. hell there was a point where my local game store had TOO many of them and blew them out for $.10 a piece that's where pretty much all my commons came from and every label variants.
the highest priced Atari 2600 game I had ever seen was priced at $40 at a pawn shop and I waited for it for over a year before I was approached by an employee who offered it to me for $5 and I talked him down to $1.50 (in that year I was literally the ONLY person to express ANY interest in it). cant even remember what game it was either.
but if your willing to spend 5-10 bucks I have a bunch of uncommon semi-rare games I will very happily sell to you. I love collecting them but I do not put much value to them at all, and it would allow me to try and find them again.
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I don't actively look for anything pre-NES because most all of it is loose carts. I've had opportunities to buy CIB stuff of games I've wanted but more often than not the sellers are asking WAY too much for it and it's so low priority that I don't bother to haggle/negotiate a better price. There's plenty of 2600 & Colecovision games I'd love to own CIB but they're nowhere to be found (or as mentioned earlier, stupidly expensive when they are). Around these parts I tend to see huge collections of boxed Intellivision games but I never could stand that system so I never cared to pick any of that up.
The highest I've paid for a pre-NES title is a copy of Snoopy & the Red Baron for the 2600. I bought it from a friend's video game shop for $20. I wanted to help my friend's business out, it was CIB, and I'm a huge Snoopy/Peanuts fan. I never got around to playing it as my system is buried in a box somewhere in the basement but at the same time I bought it more for the novelty than anything else.
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Depends on the game and system. Vectrex stuff if complete I would pay out for that. I am still searching for a new controller for mine. those things are not cheep, everything else maybe 10 bucks or so.
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I paid (I think) $25 for a sealed copy of Krull for the Atari 2600. Its the only game I would have spent any money on from that era cause its one of my favorite movies of all time.
Most of the people here have commented on the lack of staying power from that generation and I happen to agree. The graphics/play style/etc even when 8-bit was new was so out dated at that time.
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I just heard a story from a guy last week that said his mom just bought a real Atari 2600, So that may be proof that at least some people are looking to buy A generation 2 console, I don't have one but like I said on another post I now have a portable Atari emulator that emulates just about the whole entire single player library.
I don't really know why I like the games so much, I think it's how easy and well balanced the games are designed, and if you lose you don't miss out on anything, I definitely been bit by the generation 2 video game bug.
As far as the graphics go some of the Atari games do have better detail than others. But I don't like how uncomfortable the Atari joystick is for my non portable Atari Flashback console. but my Atari Portable device that I got is perfect and the most comfortable experience. It has a D-pad and all of the Atari triggers in button form not switches
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Obviously, there is a demand for these pre-NES oldies. Otherwise, you wouldn't keep seeing the retro mini-consoles, mini arcade cabinets, etc.
For me, the only pre-NES stuff that I would consider buying or have bought are Nintendo games like Donkey Kong & Mario Bros. Coincidentally, the only pre-NES games in my collection.
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Honestly I don't even know if I'd want an Atari 2600 for free. I wouldn't play it, so it would be a waste of space. I only keep systems and games I actually play. My dad owned an Atari 2600 before I got my own NES as a kid, and I played it maybe a dozen times and really never enjoyed any of the games I tried on it. This is probaly because the 2nd generation of gaming is before my time but I just find the games overly simple and boring. NES is probably the oldest console that I could actually enjoy on a decent level. Even then, I'm more of a SNES guy.
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Idealistically under $1, only if the entire library, in addition to the system, was included. I wouldn't get the Atari 2600, as I preferred the ColecoVision and Intellivision. The former might be better as Intellivision controllers are known to be prone to breakage.
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I’m all about retro, I love it, and even though both the Atari 2600 and the ColecoVision were the first consoles that I ever experienced, mainly the former, I honestly don’t think I would want any in my collection. For one, I don’t have the space for them; and secondly, I am 100% sure they’ll either gather dust or end up stored somewhere in my closet...or in one of those storage totes. Not that I don’t appreciate these consoles, on the contrary; I’m simply not interested in them as I would have been a few decades ago.
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The Colecovision is definitely worth it if you enjoy older arcade games. Pepper II, Burgertime, Frogger, Montezuma's Revenge, Tutankham, Spy Hunter, Mouse Trap, and lots of others... they all got really solid ports on the system.
The most I've probably paid for a Colecovision game was about $30 for Mr. Do's Castle. It's cheap-ish to get games for, and a lot of them are solid old fun.
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I paid $100 for about 210 Atari 2600 and 7800 games. I also have 3 2600’s for some reason, in addition to a 7800, 800XL, and 1200XL. So yeah, I like Atari. I wouldn’t pay much more than $20 a game though.
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I paid 5 bucks for twelve 2600 games at a yardsale, which seemed like a good deal. I don't even own a 2600, so I gave them to a friend who does. So if it seems like a good deal, then perhaps I would buy more. However like other comments, I am not really into anything pre-NES.
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The Colecovision is definitely worth it if you enjoy older arcade games. Pepper II, Burgertime, Frogger, Montezuma's Revenge, Tutankham, Spy Hunter, Mouse Trap, and lots of others... they all got really solid ports on the system.
The most I've probably paid for a Colecovision game was about $30 for Mr. Do's Castle. It's cheap-ish to get games for, and a lot of them are solid old fun.
Protip: If you can find one, get a Canadian Colecovision, or at least the Canadian power supply. Much easier cable to manage.