Video game collecting is expensive but you can still find ways to make it cheaper. Remember, never buy games that are way higher than other asking prices and stop out bidding me in eBay. JJJreact
The sad part is even after being informed by these videos, people will still go out and get their games graded, as well as spend high amounts on overpriced games.
@@EpicFurbynerd76YO If companies were honest about the digital store I would agree, but they keep erasing everything once a new console is out.all the spider man games on the ps3 were cheap then they announced they playstation store was deleting the games, the prices sky rocket. now its happeing with the xbox store
@@sushi_wolfjust because you get married that does not mean that you can't enjoy your hobbies, even if you decide to have kids. You can always make time for your hobbies, even if it's not that much time. You just have to want to make time for something
@@Mal_Freeman0451 more the responsibilities that come with it, I don’t have time with work and family to game if I do it’s like 30 mins and I’m done. Nothing to do with not being able to because of someone else.
Worst part is when you buy a game online. Only for it to be delivered with a broken case, coffee stains from where it was used as a coaster and smelling faintly of curry. Like at least clean the bloody thing before shipping it.
That’s why you closely inspect the listing photos before jumping ahead with a purchase. Though you might need to really zoom in to notice some imperfections
That mentality is exactly why the remaining few left unplayed are so coveted, especially of first-party titles. Grading companies are almost always guaranteed to be a scam no matter what hobby, but you can just buy one that’s already been played through and enjoyed 🤷♂️
@@sushi_wolf I say just leave it in your own protective plastic for if you want to display it immaculately since there’s always the emulation route which has gotten near exact the actual hardware in recent years, though I can’t lie when I say opening _graded_ videogames do feel a lot more gratifying. But I’d never buy one to even be doing that since it’s all a scam :P
I think it is stupid and surreal how my pokemon black game I got 5 ish years ago for $25 now costs $90+ to get currently. on one hand, I have valuable stuff, on the other hand it is just sad to see this happening.
I am so happy that I mainly built up my game collection from 2013 to 2018 back when retro gaming was significantly cheaper. Even the Goodwill thrift stores in my area have gotten significantly more expensive over the years. 2013: GameCube with all of the cables and a Wavebird controller: $7.50 at Goodwill 2023: GameCube with zero cables, controllers, etc: $100+ at the same Goodwill
video game collecting is the Gen X and Gen Y equivalent of toy train collecting for the Silent Generation, and Beatles and Elvis collecting for Boomers, the prices for stuff WILL NOT go back down until the generations age out, that's why I emulate
That's true but not entirely. From what I seen since getting into the hobby around the late 90's-Early 2000's is that yes prices go down as people age out but it happens quicker based on the console generation. For example when I started the second generation of consoles(Atari, Intellivision, colecovision, etc) was the big hot thing but eventually the market for that generation started bottoming and still is. Since most of those nostalgic for that Era stopped collecting because they lost interest, got what they wanted from it, etc. Then NES Era started blowing up and so on. But eventually they are going down but now what Gen 5 systems are hot collectable now? Point is that as generations get older they mainly focus on what they grew up with and maybe babble in previous ones. But those way older systems get cheaper and cheaper. Unless it's something rare or obscure like Neo geo, Bally Atrocade, Arcadia 2001, Saturn, GameCube, etc.
Kids now are growing up with digital and on-demand entertainment, so they never truly value anything since it's all so easy to come by with the click of a button, and therefore easily disposable. 40 years from now, there will probably still be Millennials with collections of stuff from the 2020s, while the kids from this actual period will have nothing but distant memories.
As a gen z, 20 years ago SNES games where hard to get. Now everything from SNES to Wii has reasonable prices at flea markets, and even eBay. Maybe it's different in the US?
@@squidwardwithoutaclue eathbound, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Ghoul Patrol, The Los Vikings, Final Fantasy 2 (err 3!), Final Fantasy 3 (err 6!), Pocky and rocky, Maui Mallard, Castlevania Dracula X, Sunset Riders, Ninja Warriors, Ogre Battle, Pirates of Dark Water, Nosferatu, Captain Novolin, Musya, Tecmo Secret of the stars, Hagane, x-calibur 2097, Demon's Crest, Mega Man X series, Equinox, Havest Moon, Incantation, Super Mario Allstars, Ninja Gaiden Trilogy, Saturday Night Slam Masters, Chrono Triger, Areo Fighters, Secret Of Mana, illusion of Gaia, Magic Sword, TMNT- Turtles In Time, Captain Commando, the page master, Act raiser, Act Raiser 2, Super Bomber man, Secret Of Evermore, Breath Of Fire series, Lufia Series, Bonk series, and Robo Cop Vs Terminator have entered the chat!
Dude, that’s what I arrived at years ago. I’ve moved a lot, lived in big cities, and just got sick of moving stuff. ODEs, flash carts, modded systems, and emulation has changed my entire gaming habits. I would bet that I actually play games more hours than most of those people with walls of video games behind them. Collecting has become it’s own hobby. Me, I’ve never been into stuff. I’m into video games.
That's why I collect handheld consoles and games like the PS Vita. They take up less space. Plus, I have less free time for video games nowadays. I want to actually play with the games that I own.
I have a hacked Wii-U with an SSD. It plays everything Nintendo accept switch and up obviously, perfectly. Wii motion controls... gamecube controller... its the best.
Personally, I'm torn. I hate that these games are so stupidly overpriced but at the same time I feel like the high price might ensure these surviving games are preserved because if someone spends hundreds on a game there's a high chance they are going to take care of said game meaning it's chances of being preserved increases. If gamers had the same mentality they do today about game preservation back in the 90s and 00s maybe the market wouldn't be as bad since that means a lot more games, manuals and boxes survive meaning there's more on the market compared to today.
That is kinda where I am at with it, been collecting the cib gameboy games and in my opinion the prices are more warranted for the cardboard boxes that survived out childhood, I owned a bunch of the games but younger me loves ripping open boxes😂 Luckily a lot of my collection I got 2012-2020
@@KaBoomPWN Yeah, I'd say the 2010s were like the last good years to game collect before everything went to shit, and if you were the lucky few who collected in the 90s and 00s than you're a lucky SOB lol
There's no preservation in hoarding stuff onto the same roof and keeping it locked there. If you don't believe me, look up the story of the library of Alexandria, and how what survives today of classical literature was hand copied in the middle ages by monks and stored on multiple abbeys all around the known world. If they kept everything in one place without copies, an accidental fire could have happened and then...ops, I've spoiled for you the ending of Alexandria's library story.
Great video man, another problem not many talk about is how daunting it is for people outside the US that live in countries that weren't into videogames in the 80s, 90s, 00s to get those retro games or even find a retro store to begin with for a reasonable price. Most of them just resort to hacking the consoles and installing the games directly but I find that very lame since there is something so charming about owning the original game in a good enough condition.
I haven’t even thought about but that makes sense. I agree with you! It just feels so nice to own physical copies of games even if they cost me a damn fortune
@@oGioGo Emulation is the key to winning in the long run especially when nintendo is flagging anything nintendo related so what that means is the file rom dump is more rare than the physical copies in terms of finding it from a clueless source (unlike discord) example is the mods for N64 (mario 64 splitscreen) or even the GBA Rom Switch Releases (SMB3 E-Reader Levels) you might as well be storing these roms as much as people collect physical copies I have gone digital since 2015 or so and have never looked back I love playing my Rom hacks like Ultimate Mortal Kombat Trilogy by kabal which holds up really well against other rom hacks and don't forget the translation rom hacks or even the fix patches for outdated controls... all in all if you speedrun for the love of god play on the real hardware but if you just want to jam your favs then emulation is key since *cough cough* batocera and launchbox exists we all should own a PC with the image loaded as playing with a controller through the frontend can make switching games from one emulation program to another easy.
Recent price increases for retro games makes me feel really dumb for not taking advantage of the top-notch game store that some guy in my town ran for decades which shut down sometime around 2015.
@@leeartlee915he's saying it's too much money for a used copy. Paying 150 for a fucking Pokemon GameCube game that isn't near mint is pretty ridiculous but that's where we are at now with game collecting and it won't go down until our generations of collectors get old
@@thiefamongu3857 I saw XD: Gale of Darkness go for 350$ around my place and I almost vomited. It looked like every other worn down copy of the game. It´s insane...
Unless you want to live the pirates life, NSO is really awesome. For $80 a year, 8 profiles have access to some of the best retro games ever made. I can play old favorites and my boys can discover games they have never played. Honestly, if it's worth playing, it will be re-released or remade. We got Goldeneye and Turtles in Time on modern hardware. The Pokemon Stadium games. Patience, your favorites will see the light of day again.
It's CRAZY the orginal xbox versions ALWAYS ALWAYS look better but they are the cheapest despite being progressive scan & made to be cached off the hardrive people are dumb AF the resources in the software sometimes are 3x the size making the texture way better but the poopy 480i PS2 version is 15x the price LOL what a joke serious
The inflation in the prices of old video games makes me glad I still have most of my childhood games.( especially my gb color, gba, ps1, and sega genesis games). I do however wish it was easier to grab gamecube or Nintendo 64 games physically. I have a decent collection of older pokemon games but sadly my gen 3 copies clock has run dry. It also makes it hard to get my younger brothers into the older generations of pokemon. I remember getting gen one and two pokemon games for around five bucks each back in 2005 at gamestop when I was ten. It's a little disheartening as someone who loves physical games. I did buy pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of the sky digitally on the wii U because the physical copies are ridiculously overpriced. This and explorers of darkness are the only pokemon mystery dungeon games I don't have physically. The spin off games ard fun but I don't see something like pokemon ranger getting a remaster ever. It relies so heavily on the ds stylus. At least I can always just play gen 1 and 2 digitally on my 3ds. It's a real shame gen 3, 4, and 5 never got ports. Also the klonoa 1 and 2 ports to modern consoles is nice but the first klonoa game seems to have the wii remake designs rather than the adorable designs from the ps1 release. It's a small complaint but still a bit sad. It's two gba games are trapped on the wii U virtual console as well.
Honestly, for a lot of people they don't just want to buy older consoles and games for collection purposes, but for nostalgic ones. I myself have been tempted recently, but only because I wanted to relive my childhood. However you can never relive your childhood, and the experiences will pale to your memories of them. Sometimes we trick ourselves into thinking that money can buy us everything, but our childhood was genuinely such a unique time period that is practically impossible to live out nowadays reasonably. It's kind of depressing really, that as things go towards digital and fully backward compatible, in most cases "collecting" is a thing of the past. Especially with remasters and remakes constantly being spat out every year, it feels almost silly to start getting into the hobby. I wish I could go back to my childhood, but I can't, so I'm basically stuck here twiddling my fingers and holding myself back from making dumb fleeting purchases. However I do now exist in one of the best times for games, with your last point on emulation and devices like Steam Deck basically solving a lot of these issues. Sure, it's not a physical cartridge, nor is it on the original hardware, or on one of those big square monitors, but these games are good and honestly don't need a time capsule to be enjoyed. I just need to remind myself that there has been 0 purchases I've made in life that have been able to match my desires/anticipation for that purchase itself.
Emulation is only one route. There’s also ODEs, flash carts, modded consoles, and emulation. With those powers combined, you literally get the best of both worlds. Like I play all my Gamecube games off a ODE. It plays just like having the original disc but loads faster. Why would I even bother with physical games?
The GC Loader or even an SD Media Launcher are both investments of their own if we’re talking GameCube. Same with EverDrives in terms of retro consoles, at those price points it almost feels more worthwhile having the actual games
@@damian9303 You can’t be serious. For the price of one GC Loader at, like, $100 you can have every single GC ever released. A single copy of Chibi Robo is going for near 200 bucks right now.
I used to be a hardcore game collector butt after the announcement of the Wii U & 3DS eShops closing. I decided to mod Both video game systems and I have been enjoying the systems so much that I have decided to quit collecting old games and I am planning, on investing into a modded PS2 & modded PS vita!😮
$50 is not bad for those 2 sh games but now they are double and SH 2 is $150. SH shattered memories is $400+ and yes i do own it, i bought it for $2 at a pawn shop.
They only will continue to rise in price with the push towards digital only. Physical games from every generation will be in high demand in 20 years. Just buy all your favorite/popular games now and remember they are not going back down in price. Hopefully our disks and cartridges last a while. They are plastic and will eventually break making the remaining physical copies even more expensive.
Back in my day and age (early 90s) we used to borrow eachothers games. So i did play a lot of nes games my friends owned. Now i am glad i did start collecting before the prices went up (almost 4800 games here)
I bet you play every one of them too. Wonder how much dust you’re collecting maybe you can sell your game dust. Bet that’s a real good subject talking with dates on why your house looks like a kids room.
Glad my family specifically my dad and uncle where able to keep some of their old games and consoles. I have PSP with some good games, pokemon gold and some other gameboy games. Rest I bought during 2017-present as I just gotta very look deep in the market to target what stuff I want to buy.
Another thing, the flea market I go to had a ton of games, one in 2 vendors were selling games and I was holding a stack of games on my way out and some dude was like “hey, you like Xbox?” And proceeded to try to sell me a Xbox one but I kindly declined and thanked him for his offer and left
Gonna do the same for my system, even if I have repurchased some of my games lost to time. Either picoboot or one of the new types of modding, they just seem so practical and cheap in comparison.
Retro game collecting takes years and decades to build, insta buying on online auction sites have killed the hobby for us actual game players especially younger gamers who like retro games. The trick is to buy a system and collect for it when its "worthless" so now would be the 360 and ps3 generation and to a much lesser extent the prior gen of ps2 xbox and gc. The further you go back the more youre gonna pay anyways due to rarity. Thats why i say it takes decades to build a good collection for cheap.
I just stared picking up some 5th and 6th Gen games I loved back in the day... I can't believe what I've paid for what nobody cared about 5 years ago. Shouldn't have ever sold them
I used to buy NES games for $3.99 each (equivalent to around $7.38 after inflation). Now those same games are going for $20+. And that’s just the loose games. CiB games have become absolutely ridiculous after 2020. I used to be a game collector but the absurd price gouging has seen me setting out on the high seas instead.
I'm so glad I live in Europe. Video games are so much cheaper. I got a black gamecube with nario strikers and luigis mansion for €50. All working and complete (games with cases and manuals)
@@leeartlee915how when you have no money how can you seek it out. Actually one of the first things to go is stuff such as entertainment. Do you want to pay for food or a game.
I got a ps2 slim call of duty finest hour, big red one and part 3 with max Payne and lord of the rings the two towers for 190 at a retro store collecting more ps2 games is gonna be pricey
I just highly doubt this bubble is going to burst. If it does it will be decades from now. It is going to get worse, then games are going to start becoming antiques. The same way certain toy cars from the early days are now.
I was one of the lucky people I did garage sale hunting and one day a guy sold me a ps2 woth 20 games and a bunch of other stuff for 80 dollars little did I know a 900 dollar game was among it I flipped the fuck out when I looked up rule of rose
For me...every game that are lower thant 50 bucks I buy the american version....but for games above that I just import it from Japan only to have the physical game and I just burn a "non conventional" american version....well you understad this last part...Xenosaga por example I've got the first one in English....Xenosaga Episode II and III I got them in Japanese
I think anybody spending massive amounts of money on physical collections of all these old games is going to have a rude awakening in a few more years. At some point people are going to move out of this nostalgic phase and realize that it takes up wayy too much space and they can just emulate it all if they really want to play it. It’s like burning money right now chasing after all this stuff. And as a collector myself if it makes you happy to own them then by all means but the crash is just inevitably around the corner.
It won't crash unless we go into another economic great depression. Game collecting is starting to become mainstream and when Nintendo, Xbox and playstation go full digital only and stop physical releases, physical games will rise even more
@@thiefamongu3857 I dont think so. 360/PS3 and up sure, but these old ass games are way too accessible and take up wayyy too much space. We are already seeing a lot of massive collectors growing out of the hobby and sellin off. As people age they sell stuff they aren't using and when you can literally buy a tiny little box that has every classic game ever made at your fingertips, holding onto thousands of dollars of deteriorating plastic will be less and less appealing.
@@TriWaZe it'll happen when this generation of collectors gets old, it's already happened with Atari and NES but it depends. Systems like the NEO GEO and Sega Saturn will never go down so it's a case by case scenario
@@TriWaZe It makes me happy having cool shit. Monetary value doesn't make it cool to me. But I do understand when you say that it'll take up space and we will get tired of it. I have a 20k+ baseball card collection. It's so bad now I just throw away mostly all new cards unless it's someone I like or an insert. I just feel like if you're really passionate about a collection, you don't get tired of it. People collect weird shit and a lot of it. It's just a thing.
I have seen some delusional sellers and store owners and thy are persistent asshole. They usually have their phones out whenever someone asks what's the price of a game at their store. The best response for this is to thank them and say your going to buy it today then leave because they are shameless and are part of the retro gaming issue in recent years. Capcom has been doing great at making their games easier to get and play on modern gaming consoles but unfortunately not every company is doing that. I hope many gaming companies follow Capcom in releasing collections with their beloved and desired games from years ago. I love the Capcom fighting collection for example because It covers so many games for a cheap price. Emulation is a nice option but I enjoy the collections a lot. Many times they add online play to play with other gamers. Cool video. ^_^
Iv been collecting over 20 years now and Iv figured out one thing. The resellers have completely destroyed the market, they run around the flea markets and yard sales trying to low ball sellers so they can make a quick buck. If you’re a collector, I wish you luck. If you’re a reseller, please stop.
dk oldies and collectors who sell a game for tens of times the price. are what I hate I am playing old games that I missed out on when I was a kid since I never had the chance to even get a console even a ps one back in 2016 was like 500rm which is too much for me who live in an apartment that was 650 a month we never had a proper smart phone until 2016 when mom got her first phone and even then I was not allowed to play with it I only had crappy laptops and like over a decade at minimum. I love older games way more than newer games like newer games are not going well because it's become generic and over used gameplay. and by newer I mean newer AAA games most indie games are good most AAA are just not fun anymore and I am still poor and I can't buy 300rm games.
Not really millions, even the fake sales and the notorious valuation company/auction house cases were lower than in the millions. I bought a Super Nintendo Bros NES cartridge a few weeks ago, with five screws on eBay, for around £10. At the same time, a delusional and greedy fool was selling a sealed copy for half a million pounds, so I made offers in the £50 range. M6 offers were rejected and the item was later reduced to £50,000. It’s not gonna sell, unless someone may take a punt at around £1,200, which I suppose, the seller may accept.
2014: I bought 11 boxed and complete snes games in mint condition for 135€ 2024: 1 game 135€ in trash condition if you are lucky. Its ridiculous. Millionaires hobby.
I don’t have a lot of compassion for people with this problem because of emulation you can get anything from Atari. Nintendo switches for free. Just take a little bit of work to look it up.
Just recently emulated a nintendo switch on my steam deck. I already own a switch and I own smash. I would just rather play it with a ps5 controller. Also, fuck nintendo. I have a bunch of emulators on my deck I just wish I could get roms of them. I would never ever download a game I don't own.
Sadly it's one of the games I want when I get a GameCube but sadly It costs a fortune and I can't pull that money out of nowhere It makes me incredibly sad that I can't get cubivore and I just wish and hope that old games will released for the console that they came out on
@@NicholasRoste Apparently either Nintendo or Atlus currently own the rights to Cubivore, since Marigul is defunct. Devs get $0 from used game sales. So, might as well right them a letter asking for a port.
Almost every one of you are going to wake up one day, look at all the crap you bought, regret it, then sell it for a loss. Emulate. This nonsense isn’t worth it.
How about people stop paying the prices. I will not pay more than $20 for a retro game with emulation I can play any game I ever wanted. Don't have to pay outrageous prices for games.
People need to realize that video game collecting was never about actually enjoying video games, it's just collecting for collecting's sake, or a form of currency to speculate on. If you actually care about the artform and want to experience a game from a past generation, just pirate it. Let the neckbeards rot along with the plastic boxes they soy over.
People will disagree with your take but I’m with you. When I was growing up, we didn’t collect video games for bragging rights. We did it to play video games. If you would have handed me a device that could play every video game for the past 20 years, I would have shit bricks. It comes down to this: are you a gamer or are you a collector? The two groups are related but not exclusively.
Honestly, that’s probably the perspective of the RU-vidrs who make channels based on it. But I assure you, most people just want to play these games as originally intended and revisit them again. Plus, I always preferred having the physical version of the game if I had the option.
@@Retrofuge But why? If all you care about is playing video games, what does it matter on the format? I’ve been playing video games since 1988. I’ve owned pretty much every console worth talking about. My idea of the perfect weekend was going to KB Toys to pick out a game. But once alternatives to going to the store to pick up a game were made available, I could give a shit. I just want to game. What do you want to do?
@@leeartlee915 It matters for a few reasons, I actually have the console they are released on. Also, I love the authenticity, there's just some things emulation can't do completely. This is coming from digital gamer and some who buys compilations. Most of the games, I would emulated, I would have rather owned physically back in the day. Also, there's no guarantee rom sites are going to be around forever. So, it's nice backup in case such an scenario happens. Remember, when Nintendo tried taking down. The only reason, they even still up because they really can't be bother. Again, I always say, if I had the option, I would have purchased a lot of games I emulate. I just prefer play them as they should if I can. There's something better about playing games originally, than on an emulator. The only time, I would even bother with emulation are for rom hacks and games which getting them physically would be impossible. It's like the argument, people say when it comes to collecting manga which I do also, why do you collect them when you can read it digitally? It's the same argument here. It's really the authenticity and sense of ownership which comes with it. It's no different from even having a digital collection of games on Steam, GOG and whatnot, minus the sense of ownership, and everyone has a preference at the end of the day.
When I first heard about I was excited, because they had a lot of the games i was looking for on my ps2. Then I finally looked at the prices and got disappointed
I hate game collectors please hear me out though When you buy a game just to have it siting on a shelf it's building a Lego death star just to smash it with a hammer, your literally taking the experience away from someone else just to say that you have it and the people bumping the prices up the hundreds are probably the same people that buy 10 ps5's/Xbox series X's just to triple the price
Thats a little harsh way to put it but ultimately I totally agree. I feel like a lot of collectors just buy it for the sake of saying that they have it or to make their collection seem "impressive" and sought after. Like i recently wanted to buy smash melee but I was like wait a minute im never even going to play this, i already have smash ultimate on my switch with a better roster, graphics, and I can use my amiibo, theres no point in spending like $70 on melee.
@@sithis7426don't diss melee it's still a great game and it has better single player content plus the mechanics make it unique alongside ultimate. Most of the smash bros games are still worth playing, ultimate doesn't erase the other ones
@@sithis7426as a collector myself I don’t actually just have games sitting around. I usually throw a game on a console to play it once in a while and keep my game rotation heavy. Such as my Wii, I play Mario Party 8 one day for an hour or two then hop on over to Super Mario Galaxy. I don’t play every game I have, but the ones I genuinely enjoy I play time and time again. Although I will say the more prices are going up for games the more random games I’ve bought because they’re just cheaper then the average price (I don’t wanna spend a fortune later down the road)
I don’t get the retro gaming deal, I like modern cutting edge games , I can’t sit there and play old boring 8 , 16 and 64 bit games. To me this hobby is a waste of money, I found that I can buy and play older games on good ole STEAM. Nintendo on-line is good too.
