I know we've had a lot of posts bitching about retro prices. But I just wanted to add one more. Remember when a big appeal of retro gaming was that it was a whole lot cheaper than regular gaming? I miss that.
I'm a cheapskate, and that was a big reason I originally got into retro gaming. I was retro before it was cool. I grew up in a welfare family, so we were usually a generation behind on the consoles, to begin with. So as I grew up, I kind of followed suit to bulk up my collection (but was also an adult with a job, so I still have a current-gen console).
Anyone else with a similar situation? Or is it just more of a reliving your childhood thing?
This is true. But what I've realized is that modern gaming is so cheap now it's ridiculous, as long as you don't buy at release. I'm finding PS4 games for $5. You probably couldn't find a SNES game for that now, at least not as easily... Isn't that weird? As long as you stick to this gen, the previous and probably the one before that, then it's all very affordable. Yeah, it was cool to find old games for peanuts, and I did on plenty of occasions. I have many of them, so not much point in longing for more when I have tons that I've never played yet. If it's just an itch to go game hunting, I can do that by going to a big box store and finding a game discounted for well under average value.
I got into collecting from having a curiosity about the Sega CD. I started buying games for it, and decided I would stick with it - then just kind of realized, at the time, all old games were cheap and could be found anywhere, so why not pick them up? It was partly nostalgia driven, and part curiosity about things that I never had.
