Retro game pricing is out of control, it makes the hobby more difficult to build those collections . I agree with you , pricing will not be like before so I think it’s best to buy the games you love and not buy just to have them.
This is great advice to anyone starting a collection nowadays. This is the strategy I decided upon back when I decided to stop trading in for newer games back in the late 90s. If I am not going to play it, I don't bother with it unless a game comes as a part of a lot. Every once in a while you have no choice.
Man, Shinobi 3 is one of my favorite games for the sega. The whole series is great, but the 3rd one's soundtrack is simply some of my favorite music in gaming and really brings me back! Time to bust out the Genesis!
Ok it’s simple original hardware will not be duplicated those games can come back but is not the OG. Therefore they are not coming down. The rereleases will just give us the opportunity to play them in new consoles and TVs but again will never be the OG. Keep up the good work .
I was collecting too many things at one point (comics, toys, and video games including arcade pcbs). I had to give up collecting comics and video games. Sold off most of the games. I knew I would never get all the ones I wanted. Plus knowing I could play most of them through emulation was all I needed to know to part with them. If money and space wasn't an issue, I'd have a massive collection though.
I have never ordered from gamestop online. Do all the online purchases come with original cases, or is it a toss up whether you get a generic gamestop case or not?
I am an avid retro collector and I have not bought any new games in years. I think prices are too extreme. Most of the games I still want are so expensive that I just turned to simply emulating them on emulators. This is ultimately why I got into emulation.
I'm glad I have a mister fpga for 32bit consoles or less for hardware emulation. I only spend money on dvd or bigger storage game platforms. PS4 is a champion
It's what annoys me the most. A retro retailer provides 2 years of warranty with everything and the audacity of the people and resellers who charge the same or more without the warranty. I have 200 games from the GameCube to the PS5 era and with only 60 being of collectible i.e. Limited Run or other obscure limited games which I like playing and will keep in my collection. The remining games are common to uncommon titles released in hundreds of thousands to millions and I'll play them and either get rid of them later or keep all of them for my kids to enjoy in the future, that's if I end up being super rich and marrying a world class hotty.
Im more excited for lollipop chainsaw repop, gex trilogy, beyond good & evil 20th anniversary edition, penny's big breakaway, tomba 1 and tomba 2 to be honest. All getting physical copies with LRG😊. But i do love me some retro games. Most of the ones i named off are retro but they are coming back for modern day platforms. Plus bubsy is getting a collection also from LRG. Im excited for that also. I still have the og games for the genesis.
Another great video. A game i have wanted for a long time i got recently it's Clock Tower for the PS1. I got it for 280$ here in Sweden and everybody else sells it for close to 500$.
Awesome upload. These videos you do that dont only have footage of games on the floor are awesome. Please dont take it the wrong way as im not hating. Just stating that they are a breath of fresh air. I don't comment much but felt the need to state that. Much love from L.A California my dude. Keep hustling
I really enjoyed your thoughts and reflections in this vid. 👍👍 I like looking back at things before my time myself. It's a great way of discovering new surprises. I think there will always be a market for everything retro and periods of interest will oscillate in varying degrees. One day, we will be see Senior Gamer's pushing around walkers looking for Mario 3 or Tetris on nes cartridge. lol Coming soon, if not already.....
I agree prices are crazy and they arent going to get cheaper, I saw MegaMan X2 for $179 dollars geez..... What i've doing is just buying the Super Famicom versions of said games. I picked up X1, X2, X3, and Rockman 7 all together for 65 on Ebay. And i modded my SNES so it can play Super Famicom games. Wouldve been nice to own the American ones, but the prices are just crazy.
The best way to look at retro gaming is by looking at comics from the 1940s 1950s etc,most of the people who were alive then are gone yet those comics are not aged out they are worth a fortune,video games are the same they do nothing but gain value decade after decade
As emulation and particularly fpga gets more viable I would not be bankrolled in this stuff. The nostalgia market is dried up, covid was it. Everyone who wanted this stuff now has acquired it when they forced everyone to stay home. That included the xbox 360 which for some reason is being shilled as the next big collector console. When Pat the nes punk rgt85 and others punched out and sold their stuff is when it peaked. I don't imagine prices going up again ever on anything that printed over 50k copies. So yes in some ways the very rare stuff nobody had anyways will appreciate in value, but the sheer mass of this stuff that was made and has been kept in circulation can keep this niche of gaming well supplied. Kids these days don't care about consoles either, roblox and minecraft will garner far more nostalgia for them than a box that plays games.
The the thing with retro collecting. It won't matter anymore due to new board chip components that are even better than the original with no need for batteries anymore also making old games patchable. But I do think the lables and the plastics aren't mastered yet. But the new computer boards are. Nail the new labels and plastics. Retro collecting will dissappear. A new genre will happen. Especially developers making new games for retro consoles.
