Game Hunting is RUINED 

I’ve noticed pawn shops and thrift stores, places like that, seem to know games are worth money but don’t have enough info to know the true value of them. It’s awful

Our pawnshops here are full of sun faded kinnect games, wii fits and Maddens for every console. Flea markets used to be my go to for people renting tables just for a weekend. Found a lot of good deals! I lucked up helping out my local gamestore with repairing his consoles and getting paid with games lol.

It’s hard out here in these streets for us collectors. For real….I can’t tell you how many pawn shops and thrift stores Ive been to lately that don’t price their games and look up the prices when you bring a game to the front. It’s ridiculous…..so good luck with hunting!

I love how you said “holy crap” under your breath once you saw the price of that switch.

I'd like to know why everyone on RU-vid has GameStop stores that sell retro. The ones here never have. They barely have any games at all on the shelves anymore.

Nobody is talking about how the games market got turboscrewed when crypto crashed and the hustlebro invest folks started treating retro games like bitcoin. Sad state of affairs.

I just told one of my Students about retro games and he was absolutely clueless!! Then he started names games he still had from ps3 and 360 days.. he was shocked to know NCAA 14 was worth 400$ if someone truly wanted it😂😂

"They're killin' somethin.." 🤣 Bro, I just found your channel and I gotta say I really like your sense of humor and you just earned another new subsciber for your funny entertaining style. Keep it going man! 👍😎

I miss going to stores and looking at the big box pc games :(

Online console stores closing sees that trend where its physical games see a spike , we saw that briefly with the ps3 when sony announced the closing of its online front, now with the xbox 360. Am i missing something with the wii? Whats the reason for the assumption that thier prices will hike? Its online store closed awhile ago

I live in a rural community and don't find a ton of games, but I have scored some awesome deals because of a lack of competition. I found a $5 GBA SP at my pawn shop last week, and $1 xbox 360 games at the thrift store yesterday. Over $100 in value so not bad at all.

Over here in Ireland and the UK my favourite spot to shop physically is CEX shops (second had electronics trade stores). I got Drakengard on the PS2 for €10 just the other day. Depending on the shop they don't match prices online too often. Sadly games shops are slowly vanishing here.

My LCS has a whole retrovideo game room and he sells for realistic prices, recently grabbed Brutal Legend for PS3 for $9.00 and Twisted Metal PS3 for $24.00, I've known the guy for the 30 years he's had the shop so he's established, but it seems around here people are watching videos and are starting to hunt PS3's , I personally have had my super slim since brand new and been buying all along so I'm good here. Awesome video..keep up the awesome work!

Okami is such a great game! And while i understand why it would be called a Zelda clone, they're just based on the same (basic) Japanese mythology. Both are great!

That mid-size city statement was so true here.... Crappy pawnshops, one terrible GameStop, and a goodwill is all I have to choose from. So I pretty much just bounce back and forth from eBay to Amazon for my retro games.

Probably it's because I haven't searched enough but here in Austin it seems there is a similar issue with lack of good games in pawn shops and Goodwill stores. There are some independent retro stores but deals are hard to come by. Good luck!

The way I spit out my coffee when you were talking about the game stop employee 😂😂😂

One of the uks massive gaming outlets has just stopped buying and selling preowned games very strange! I hope they don’t know something we don’t . The outlet is called game I think it’s equivalent to your game stop :)

So glad I'm done with all that driving around looking for games, been there done that. I just don't have time for it, getting old, I’ll continue to play what I already have.

Well I can tell you our area doesn't do great with thrift stores and our GameStop only has new gen games. It's kind of ridiculous but our pawn shops. A few of them at least are really really good. Loved the games you listed. We also had an Until Dawn in our picks BUT we threw in Rush of Blood 😊

A charity shop maybe about 6months ago opened up and it's for cats&dogs so I'm glad I always get to give them money. They do games for a quid each but it's right by cex so games go instantly except fifa or pro Evo, so I just get my dvds from there as they are 10 for a quid🎉

I can’t get over how much these stores have skyrocketed the prices on certain games, especially 360 from what I’ve heard lately. It’s definitely still possible to find solid games for under $10, but it just got more challenging lol. Great video man!

Dude I feel you!. There's nothing! and its been like this for years. I've stopped wasting my gas a while ago and just hit up Ebay, Amazon and Mercari occasionally. Great videos by the way bro, I'm absolutely subscribing.

Great video, man. Catching up on my youtubing. Im not sure if this is the right place to post but have you seen Accursed Farms stop killing games video? Its more about the shenanigans of publishers. It seems to me that the distrust some publishers are sewing in the community and how difficult it is to find hard copies are related. People are saving the old games they have and snapping up titles as they see then in stores, driving up prices.

Such an AWESOME video. Really well done man and super fun. I’m headed out hunting for some $10 games today! Fingers crossed!

I haven’t been in GameStop in a really long time last time I was in there is when I was like 7 or 8

Sorry I didn't have anything at the pawn shop to offer you.

All Halo games on the og xbox & 360 are 0.50-1.00£ in the UK, it's crazy to see these prices!

As always, love the content. I stopped by my local game store yesterday after work. Got a couple Dreamcast games, go to the counter and they have a box of Atari 2600 games on the counter. He says you can have a couple for free if you want…I’m like for real!? So I grab pitfall 2 and tunnel runner. With manuals! Those are like…25-30 dollar games. Then he says, the rest are 3 bucks a piece. So I walked outta there with 14 Atari games for 36 bucks. Price charting had them valued at 140 dollars in total! Granted, it’s Atari, but that was my best score in a while.

The problem with big cities like Chicago is they have more stores, and maybe more inventory - but virtually no deals to be had. Mainly because the population density is crazy and the demand is bigger than the supply, hence high prices. You are better off on Ebay than hunting at games stores unless you want to pay top dollar and don't care about getting a deal.

Lol! Your town looks like mine in So Cal. There are no games at the thrift. Here, you go to the swap meet (flea Market in your part of the world. ). If the thrift does have games, they are either sports games or Ebay prices.

That's pretty much what my area looks like, purely from how many resellers there are. Pot calling the kettle black sure, but I want some games for myself every now and then.

Pawn America was my go-to place..................... back in 2012/2013. 😎

Americans raided the Japanese retro market, bought games cheap and flip them on eBay for 10x the price, they've done it here too. I wanted Shenmue 2 for my Dreamcast collection, nice and cheap, £25. But the sudden influx of US (what I assumed to be tourists) collectors came in droves and bought out entire retro store stocks of games for older systems. The Shenmue 2 I was saving for, the same "Once Was New" price sticker on it was on eBay last week for $410 on bid. It's making it hard for us who want to play and build our old collections to do so, all because these people want to make some easy money.

LOVE the mixing of game hunting and game recommendations. This was rad!

I don’t play any new games except the Resident Evil 4 remake so it sucks for me because I like all older games better but prices are insane, all the neck beards are buying it all up!

i like the format of the video - game hunting (despite the frustration of it) on one hand while making solid $10 gem suggestions on the other. Def annoying to see so little across such a wide variety of stores though sadly as far as good deals worth grabbing but that's a nice add for the Saturn collection outside of looking for the cheaper finds. Personally haven't been game hunting in awhile for a day like that at Gamestops, Pawns, Thrifts, Mainstream Retailers, and Game Shops but most times honestly are fails for me too since leaving the big city with maybe 1 exception. Xbox 360 is still the last/most current physical media console I personally feel any nostalgia for (until Switch becomes the older system with Nintendo I suppose) so I'm glad I picked up most of what I ever wanted years ago. Fun video man, game hunting may be ruined but the fun is in the trying sometimes not even the results

Man when you come to my neck of the woods imma show you a badass game hunting experience!

We have one chain of game stores, and the prices are about 10-20% cheaper than eBay, so I often just save up and just buy in bulk from them. It means that game hunting for me is pretty dead since I just buy them from one store, but it funds a mid-sized retailer which I approve of. Question: Is there a good game to learn guitar by?

I love Gabriel Knight series. First one is my favorite, but all three are good. I bought them back in the day, but I threw boxes out, because they took too much space. My biggest regret was getting rid of Moonstone box for Amiga. That game goes for a lot these days.

The internet has been a boon for collectors while conversely it's made collecting difficult because anyone and everyone can sell something "rare" and they all base their prices off of a couple high end sale prices. Some things I'm like there are 100 of these on eBay, why are they all $120? That's not "rare." Plus physical shops are like well we have overhead so we aren't going to sell something for less than an internet seller. And honestly scalping and flipping is terrible for the common consumer/collector.

It's ironic how RU-vidrs complain about game hunting being dried up yet they were the contributors in the first place. You might be a newer channel but it's still hilarious that most people don't think about the consequences of what exposure and greed does to collecting hobbies. HA HA!

Gamestop went bust here in Denmark. Luckily Xbox 360 games haven't exploded in price here. Yet.

Awesome video man. I teach guitar too!

I love Okami! I played a demo of it when it was on the PS2 but never got round to buying it back then but to see it on the ps store I had to get it and it's great

I am glad I live in the area where it’s not really picked over but I didn’t know the day you look hard enough you will find it

If it's any consolation I did find two copies of wet for $15 each complete a copy of bullet witch for $15 and a copy of venetica for the 360 for 5$. Hard to find good deals nowadays

Hard to find good deals in the wild. Where I live the largest chain of 'pawn shops' in the country all post most of their stuff online. I find deals getting in quick online.

Pawn shop today, dude sold me King of Fighters XIII on Xbox 360 for…you guessed it $10. No manual, box was in nice shape, great deal. The shelves in your pawn shops look like mine most of the time.

i think retro youtubers and flippers are a big reason as to why retro games prices have skyrocketed.

Loved this video man, I have been binge watching allot of your stuff these past couple of weeks. Good stuff.

This is why modding consoles is so very important.

I'm tempted to put a little blame on the companies themselves. Last I checked, SquareEnix STILL directly sells some (brand new) PS1/2 games. I know IP rights can change hands, and certain limited-time licenses (eg. music tracks) can make things complicated, but for companies that still have the rights to desirable games? Print up some more copies, in my opinion.

You can barely get Taco Bell for under 10 dollars these days...

Fatal Inertia for 360 was in my eBay cart for $13 back in March. CRAZY to see it’s $200 now

I rarely go game hunting in my own city. I always go out of town to go to my favrotie game stores for game hunting

Yeah, I'm in St. Louis and it's very similar. We have quite a few stores, but not where I could juat go and find something I want every time. Part of that just comes with having a fairly large, old collection. For old systems, I have most of what I want, amd what I don't have rarely just turns up. For modern systems, I mostly play indie games, so it's always stuff I have to find online anyway. Most times I go to GameStop, I just end up buying Pokémon cards for my kids instead of a game for myself or the family. Years ago, we had some amazing stores that are no longer around for various reasons. Some, the owner just retired, others moved, some went under. There are several thriving, and if I was starting a brand new collection, I could find all sorts of good stuff. When you have a few thousand games that you wanted, it starts to get tough to find stuff that's not just filler, but I'm okay with that. I'd rather just get fewer games that I actually want instead of trying to pad out numbers to make my collection just sound bigger at this point. I do miss being able to just go hunt for stuff, as ordering online is never as satisfying, but such is the nature of the beast.

I like stopping by retro game shps when I travel. I just try not to get my hopes up too high (everything is mad $$). Managed to snag a Toaplan shooters collection for only slightly over double retail last time I was out. Probably the only way I was getting my hands on a reasonable zero wing though. When I was tidying up part of my small collection I tried explaining to my wife that having a cardboard box and some manuals greatly increased the value to collectors. She thinks I'm nuts. I think she's right 🤣

I live in Brooklyn…you ain’t getting a lot of deals here. Granted we have some great retro game stores in NYC. You’ll find some rare stuff on shelves but they’re all pretty much priced exactly at price charting value, maybe plus a surcharge to cover rent.

This is honestly why I gave up collecting for my Ps2. I live in a mostly rural area, but the finds are few and far between. I have to travel 30-50 miles to get to most retro stores near me. There are some deals to be had there at times, but sometimes it's just not worth dealing with the owners and sullen staff. It really irks me that some store owners just aren't in it for the passion anymore (MOST; NOT ALL). It's not all bad, I've had good experiences these places too though. The other main thing keeping me from retro collecting is also my modern backlog. Games are coming out so quick I barely have time to finish them. Really hard to balance that when some days I feel like going completely retro and some days I feel I need to catch up on current games before I buy a new one.

Garage sales and auctions are the only place I ever find good gaming deals. Also, closest Costco is over 3 hours away, so no $1.50 Hot Dogs for me. 😢

Drive 20 minutes north of town. Nice little selection at Gamer Geeks. The struggle around here is real though.

IM excited to see what Screech is gonna throw our way!!

Challenge accepted! haha Plants Vs. Zombies and Peggle are an awesome choice! Two of my favorites. Okami as well. Such a great game although I have never played the Wii version. Great video as always!

Goodwills, salvation army, 2nd avenues are all good places. My wife works at one they sold and entire sega saturn with a stack of games for 80

It’s coming to a time where we are going to see physical go away and prices are going to keep soaring in price.

I live in a similar sort of a mid-sized city. I'd say that pawn shops and thrift stores have almost entirely dried up as far as finding anything good, or especially for deals. I don't even bother anymore because it's not worth my time. I only bother with the second hand game/movie stores these days. I'm rarely finding deals there - usually it's around ebay prices give or take. However, they do have pretty good selection if you are willing to pay the market price for what you find. I've actually been picking up a lot of Xbox 360 games at these places lately, before the prices on these go up any more than they already have. I think I now have just about everything I realistically expect to collect for the console. Some of the Gamestops around here have actually been quite good too. Some of them have begun stocking retro games in store. While the selection is usually somewhat limited, their prices on these actually have been very reasonable for what they do have.

Casually rockin the Rolex Sub? Are you a watch guy too? 😅

We can blame VGA for this

Pretty sure their games went up in price because of backwards compatibility. Where as ps3 stuff you need a ps3 to play or do ps plus premium

Emulation is the best way to stick it to the scalpers!

I remember my siblings cousins and me playing plants vs zombies on the ps3 it’s allot harder than it looks I remember playing it on my mom’s old iPad when I was like 6

Game hunting has definitely become a labor of patience. And I don’t think it’s going to get any better.

you and the devil saving lives!! bahahaha that caught me off guard lol

I'm almost caught up on all of your videos. I'm within a month of current now. That said, there are no deals to be had. Even before the Xbox 360 started rising, flippers ruined everything local to me. FB Marketplace is awful, along with resellers trying to hide behind fake garage sales and photo baiting. It's sad as a collector because my collection was once solely $10 or less. The exceptions were games I REALLY wanted like a new Grand Theft Auto or something, games that were at least a really good deal, or PSVR. There are a million other rule breakers for me, but that's because I'm a rebel and can do what I want. It's easy to blame the resellers, but I guess we shouldn't also forget the stock piling collectors. In the end, I don't care what people choose to do, but what makes me sad are the rainy day merchants who don't really know what they are doing but they heard there's money to be made. They pay asking price +, they show up at 6am to garage sales, etc. In the end, they will end up sitting on stockpiles of games that they won't find buyers for until a child is helping them clean out their garage and finds these things in boxes all loaded with mouse turds and disc rot. I don't really have time to game hunt these days, so I just enjoy what I have and pick up what I see, but it's not as fun as it used to be to go out looking. I was never looking for great deals specifically, but it was nice to come across Xbox 360 games I didn't have and would rarely see. Thankfully I enjoyed years of ebay and have quite a collection, but the dreams of completing it for a reasonable price is pretty much dead now that games are hitting the hundreds mark.

I love this channel, great content!

I'm going to be honest an I love supporting local stores...BUT...The fact that they have overhead is no excuse to price games above market value. That's scummy and it takes advantage of people that don't know any better.

You should have swung by and picked me up.

Prices are ridiculous anymore. I might start looking for wii deals. Only played that system a hand full of times. I need some of those dragon quest games for ds. If that dude reads this. Lol. Another great video man!! Keep it up!

The first time I had a white Wii U is when I was like 4 or 5 my 2nd sister was 6 or 7 and my brother was I think 1

Until Dawn was fun for what it was. And there is no way i'm getting rid of any of physical media with prices going up. No way... Also, I have a lot of PS3, Xbox 360 stuff I have never played...but honestly if I can find it on PC for free or just a few bucks i'll grab it there and leave my physical copy alone. Usually the graphics/framerate are better on the PC.

you are funny as fuck, i dont know if people tell you that enough! I really enjoy watching your videos, good job brother

I can’t stand it when folks say game hunting is dead and then pass up all the games 😅

Awesome stuff as always buddy. I have been hearing latley about prices rising :( Also you got any retro stuff yet? HUH "Ignores you" hahaha , Give that man a raise lol. Untill dawn is fantastic buddy i loved it :D

My comments are disappearing. They went up & now gone. I hope they got my comments on the original comments that was up for 1 sec each. I looked up the Japanese version of Resident Evil Code Veronica. It has difficulty settings Normal, Easy & Very Easy. You're playing the hardest version of this game.

What is the point of 360 games going up in value when they like, mass produced millions of copies. They aren’t even rare at all!

I've never seen Okami go for under 10 bucks. It's a great game, though, but I couldn't get into on the ps2 and want to try it out on the switch with the HD port

Okami is a masterpiece from Clover! You can never convince me that the Wii controller is the best for that game! PS2 all the way! Wiimote is the worst controller ever! 🤣. Great video and happy hunting!

Damn Yakuza Infinite wealth was cheaper than on the last steam sale lmao

Its good to know salvation army still doesn't have anything

I was linked but couldn't see it so I guess I'm a new channel member lol

Don’t ever go to a pawn shop in NY where I live! Bulllet proof glass, guys with shotguns, super bad attitudes and they play the most nasty full blast rap music with lyrics that would even offend a gang member! They treat me like a criminal who’s wasting their time. When I say nasty lyrics I mean words spoken that would make a a guy named bubba in prison blush!

I saw your Halo video 2 months ago. Turn off your auto updates on your xbox one and Master chief collection won't update all the extra bs. Peace brother.

I have over 13,000 games and the majority of my games have been under $5 with many of them being .15, .25, and .49 cents. I remember when I was completing the Genesis in 2014 to 2016, every game I bought was $2 or under until I got to the last 176. Even with those most were $3.50 or under. The most I paid for any Genesis game was M.U.S.HA. $149, Crusader of Centy $136, and Zero $80. The rest were under $50 and most of the 176, as I stated were $3.50 or under. That was just a snapshot. From Zelda sealed for $5, Bucky O'Hare for $2.50 in the box, Harvest Moon (SNES, N64, GB) all sealed for $20 each, etc. Heck, I paid mostly $3 to $5 on Ebay for CD-i games. Today, even with having 44 complete console libraries I need games for the 360, P1, PS2, PS3 and very few if any games for older consoles. In all total, I think I need around 400 more games for everything from Magnavox Odyssey to the N64. There are deals out there. They just aren't easy to find. But they are there. If I paid $10 or over for every game I have, that would be $130,000. With every console I own (368 consoles), figures, plush, etc. I MIGHT come to $125,000.

I remember my 2nd sister played that donkey Kong game she’s pretty good at it she made pretty good progress!

A doctor who makes deals with the devil to save patients lives? Wow, how is that not a movie!?

How much are Xbox 360 games in the USA anyways? They are still cheap over in the UK.

Find a game under 10 bucks that's NOT a 5 yr old copy of Madden? Not in my little town, except some crap Wii waggle games.

I haven’t heard paper Mario in a long time

No intro set, FTW