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General / Re: Tips for New/Newer Collector's

« on: April 22, 2014, 09:23:00 pm »

EDIT: For the love of god, don't freak out over CE stuff. I collect some of it, but some of it is utter garbage. Most of them end up being on Amazon for half the asking price when they're new. Unless you actually want the game that comes with that statue? Don't waste your time. Just my opinion.

I mostly agree with this. When CEs come out they definitely have to have more than just an artbook and soundtrack to cut the mustard for me. If I find them for dirt cheap though, I'll still pick them up.

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Classic Video Games / Re: How many of you went and sold all your games back in the day?

« on: April 22, 2014, 06:53:58 pm »

When I was younger I had to sell some of my games in order to afford new ones I wanted, it was just the way things worked. Aside from Birthdays and XMAS, my parents never bought me games or consoles, so I had to work for it and sometimes that wasn't enough. Now that I have a career I make enough to where I don't have to sell games to afford new ones, which is nice. I also have enough to collect which I have been doing for a while now. I honestly didn't want to sell my stuff back in the day, but it was either that or not get what I wanted at all.

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Modern Video Games / Re: The Wii U is a failure?

« on: April 21, 2014, 09:44:10 pm »

The Wii U is no doubt a financial failure at the moment, especially by Nintendo's standards. However, many are preaching gloom and doom regarding Nintendo as a whole company. The company is sitting on a Mountain of cash from the DS and Wii from last gen, not to mention two decades of financially successful hardware and software. Nintendo could release three system bombs in a row before any serious talk of the company as a whole could seriously be brought up.

On that note, the Wii U is the only next gen system I have any plans of buying at the moment. Wonderful 101, New SMBU, Super Mario World 3D, and Pikmin 3 alone have me wanting the system. The only reason I have not bought one yet is I am waiting an official release date on Monolith's X. Once that thing is slated to come out I will be buying one.

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General / Re: Save Your Change, Folks the 3rd

« on: April 21, 2014, 01:17:36 am »

Actually I have to side with paying the car off. Mainly because that frees up a lot more money for games in the long run! :-)

At about $40 interest out every month it certainly does.

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General / Re: Save Your Change, Folks the 3rd

« on: April 21, 2014, 12:40:49 am »

Just counted it out, the total is $100.13

Pretty stoked I broke $100! However, looking back on what I was thinking about spending the change on, I might be "responsible" and put the money towards my goal of paying my car off in May. I think about it this week and report back

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

Responsibility is overrated. Buy more games.

You're probably right about that lol. If I do end up turning to the dark side, the money will be going towards Illbleed, Tron Bonne, or an assortment of PS1 games I don't have. We'll see. . .

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General / Re: Save Your Change, Folks the 3rd

« on: April 21, 2014, 12:04:17 am »

Just counted it out, the total is $100.13

Pretty stoked I broke $100! However, looking back on what I was thinking about spending the change on, I might be "responsible" and put the money towards my goal of paying my car off in May. I think about it this week and report back

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Classic Video Games / Re: Will PS2's standard games become expensive in 20 years like the NES?

« on: April 20, 2014, 11:17:23 pm »

Disk-based games are also not as durable as cartridges.

This 110%. I know everyone says that the last 4-5 generations of games have been mass produced but simply put, a lot of them are not going to survive. Some of the ugliest fucking cartridges that look like they were unearthed from 20 years in a burial plot still play like they are brand new. These disk games can not do that. Im waiting to see what the game collector crowd is like when we are on the PS8.

True story.  I knew a guy that burried Mario 64 in the ground back in 97 or 98.  He literally got a shovel, dug a big hole, and buried the crap out of the cartridge.  I did not keep to much contact with him over the years; however, about a year ago, I ran into him at the library and he asked if I remembered the burying and I said yes.  He said he forgot about it until a week before I ran into him, and he dug it out and it still play like new.  Amazing.  Bet that would not be the case with a cd game.

That is really cool! And yes, I doubt a CD could have endured that.

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Classic Video Games / Re: organization

« on: April 20, 2014, 09:41:03 pm »

It definitely can be a mess lol. My method isn't perfect, but I have a plastic organizer drawer, each drawer having controllers for different companies (Sega, Nintendo, Microsoft, ect). It seems to do the trick, and as long as i stay organized it doesn't get too messy.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Will PS2's standard games become expensive in 20 years like the NES?

« on: April 18, 2014, 11:32:58 pm »

I think prices will rise overall once the now 16 to 24 year olds that grew up with the system get careers and start using all their disposable income to relive their childhood. That is what is happening with the NES, SNES, TG16, and to a lessor degree the Genesis right now. It happened with Atari 2600 about a decade ago as well. Like the NES/SNES some common games will become inflated, but for the most part the uncommon and rare stuff will likely skyrocket as it has on 8/16 bit consoles right now. Look at what PS1 prices do in the next three years, that will be the PS2 in about 10-years most likely.

You think the PS1's prices will go crazy in the next 3 years? My counter point would be if it was the cartridge based systems that were driving the prices, and that the same conditions couldn't be met with a disc based system. Will ps2 discs even work in 10 years? The disc as good storage has never been tested.

PS1 games have already started to rise, and yes, many of the people that grew up with the PS1 are not at the age where they are getting careers, mlre disposable income, and have yet to be burdened with family responsibilities so they will start increasing the demand for these games and the prices will go up. I have been trying to knock out as many PS1 games on my list for this exact reason.

In regards to discs working in 10-years, as long as they are well cared for and housed properly, there is no reason why they shouldn't work in that time period. Hell, I was buying music CD printed in the 80s up until a few years ago, and as long as the discs weren't completely scratched, I never had any issues with them. Sure, they won't last forever (nothing ever does), that goes for carts as well.

hmm..... Makes me want to hoard ps1 games but im worried if it would be an epic fail when the prices don't move as predicted.

Hoarding and game prospecting is a dangerous, risky move, unless you are paying a buck or so for most of them. Even games like RPGs that general go up in price can be a huge gamble.

But the prices of all these systems will go up and down. I truly believe SNES and NES prices will go down, especially for games that aren't rare, just sought after (Super Metroid, FF3, Yoshi's Island). As the main collecting population gets even older, takes on more financial responsibilies, have families, and even start burning out due to the scarcity and prices, the prices on much of the classic Nintendo library will likely go down. The same will eventually happen with all other consoles that experience a huge surge in popularity due to nostalgic 30-somes that eventually get older and move on.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Will PS2's standard games become expensive in 20 years like the NES?

« on: April 18, 2014, 11:24:07 pm »

I think prices will rise overall once the now 16 to 24 year olds that grew up with the system get careers and start using all their disposable income to relive their childhood. That is what is happening with the NES, SNES, TG16, and to a lessor degree the Genesis right now. It happened with Atari 2600 about a decade ago as well. Like the NES/SNES some common games will become inflated, but for the most part the uncommon and rare stuff will likely skyrocket as it has on 8/16 bit consoles right now. Look at what PS1 prices do in the next three years, that will be the PS2 in about 10-years most likely.

You think the PS1's prices will go crazy in the next 3 years? My counter point would be if it was the cartridge based systems that were driving the prices, and that the same conditions couldn't be met with a disc based system. Will ps2 discs even work in 10 years? The disc as good storage has never been tested.

PS1 games have already started to rise, and yes, many of the people that grew up with the PS1 are now at the age where they are getting careers, mlre disposable income, and have yet to be burdened with family responsibilities so they will start increasing the demand for these games and the prices will go up. I have been trying to knock out as many PS1 games on my list for this exact reason.

In regards to discs working in 10-years, as long as they are well cared for and housed properly, there is no reason why they shouldn't work in that time period. Hell, I was buying music CD printed in the 80s up until a few years ago, and as long as the discs weren't completely scratched, I never had any issues with them. Sure, they won't last forever (nothing ever does), that goes for carts as well.

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General / Re: Disapointed at my local Good will

« on: April 18, 2014, 11:17:36 pm »

I wondered why I never found anything at Goodwill in 5 years. Just one less place to find games less than market value. It's all only going to get worse. Soon enough yard sales will be asking $50 for their Ff7s and $20 for their Mario 64s.

Too late. I went to a yard sale last summer where some guy was charging Ebay prices and then some for his games. He wanted $60 for Conker Live and Reloaded. . . wasn't too happy about that.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Will PS2's standard games become expensive in 20 years like the NES?

« on: April 18, 2014, 11:14:24 pm »

as the players get older and have nostalgic memories of the games they played on PS2 it is a possibility that some games will shoot up in value due to the demand. There's already games valuable on PS2, GC and XBOX. And if 6th Gen games start to become Nostalgic then it wouldn't surprise me if the games that hold some value today might triple in cost in 20 years.

I heard today's games are produced in the millions. And that games back then would be in much smaller quantities, sometimes the games wouldn't even get an offical release date just sold when the game ships in?

That is a major factor, as well as many games getting little to no press, and of course the internet wasn't around for people to spread the word on obscure games. That is a big reason why there is so much fascination with many 8 and 16 bit games because many of them had such small and unannounced releases, barely anyone bought them. There are games like this on systems as new as the PS2, but not nearly as many.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Will PS2's standard games become expensive in 20 years like the NES?

« on: April 18, 2014, 11:11:53 pm »

I think prices will rise overall once the now 16 to 24 year olds that grew up with the system get careers and start using all their disposable income to relive their childhood. That is what is happening with the NES, SNES, TG16, and to a lessor degree the Genesis right now. It happened with Atari 2600 about a decade ago as well. Like the NES/SNES some common games will become inflated, but for the most part the uncommon and rare stuff will likely skyrocket as it has on 8/16 bit consoles right now. Look at what PS1 prices do in the next three years, that will be the PS2 in about 10-years most likely.

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General / Re: Disapointed at my local Good will

« on: April 18, 2014, 04:36:35 pm »

I have not shopped at Goodwill for about 2-years for this exact reason. They are constantly preaching all this "giving back to the community" and " helping others help themselves" BS with very little to actually show they are doing this. However, while their employees make minimum wage or less (some sheltered employment loophole allows them to do this), their execs are making hundreds of thousands if not millions a year from selling merchandise they paid nothing for, for market or inflated prices. They hide behind this self righteous attitude of charity, which to my understanding was originally based on redistributing peoples donated items for far less then what you'd pay at a store. That includes video games. Who cares if the person buying the games is going to resell them for way more then what Goodwill sold them for! Goodwill makes money even if they sell the stupid game for a buck, it was donated to them! But no! That's Goodwill's slice, how dare others get a piece! The corruption and greed of that company is astounding, and like many have said, it is pretty much a waste of time to look for games there, unless you are looking to build up your sports game collection.

I fortunately have many alternatives to Goodwill in my area in terms o thrift stores. There are several indi ones, one of which I found Earthbound and Breath of Fire II CIB at at for super cheap. I also have no problem with going to Salvation Army or ARC, however some of the ARC stores in my area seem to be just as greedy as Goodwill (ie Super Mario World for $20).

It sucks man, but you are better off going some place else. Goodwill shouldn't even be an option for anyone expecting to get good prices on games, at least not anymore.

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General / Re: How do you your love for video games has gone too far...

« on: April 18, 2014, 03:51:28 pm »

That is definitely an extreme example, but more common, I think people go to far when they go into serious debt because of their gaming habit. I know a local collector that went over 10k in debt because of his obsession with collecting.