Forlorn Drifter wrote:Hell, its suprising how big of a leap there has been in N64 since I bought mine. Around that time, $30 could get you a N64 and about 5 games or so. Now? They try to get eBay dealer prices on each game, along with $40 bucks for the N64. Dafuq?
The people who were kids when the N64 was current are now hitting adulthood, that's why. I'm really glad I didn't need to wait for nostalgia to kick in before I started my N64 collection.
Also, this is why everyone should be stocking up on PS2 games right now. In 5-10 years there's no way they'll be so cheap.
prfsnl_gmr wrote:There is nothing feigned about it. What I wrote is a display of actual moral superiority.
Gamecube games are just starting to see a price hike because Game Stop has finally starting giving them the boot.
Anyway don't hate the re-sellers. You can't really blame them when the prices online can be so inflated. They're also taking games from the wild and making them available to collectors who otherwise wouldn't have found them.
mas wrote:I have been on ebay lately and the nintendo based games zelda's and mario's are all going up and it makes me upset a little because I can't get a decent title without paying an arm and a leg for games these days.
I can say the value is pretty much in the name (Mario, Zelda) and even Nintendo. Took me forever to get a good deal on Super Mario All Stars back in the day on eBay, as well as finding the 4 Super Mario Advance games on the GBA, and even now also trying to get those titles on the Gamecube --
In my experience, all games that don't carry "Mario" or "Zelda" anywhere on the title for the GC are still very affordable, around $10 or less. Still finding good deals on eBay for them even now. Even the consoles are pretty cheap, no matter what the condition.
Xeogred wrote:The obvious answer is that it's time for the Dreamcast 2.
If you want to get the good deals at the fleamarket you have to make it there before others.
Sometimes its just luck though. A few months ago I missed out on a Red PS3 controler. I'm sure the guy had it for $5 bucks. He was an older person who was just selling out of many boxes. I missed out on that ps3 controller, but I ended up getting two 3do controlers for five and a nice clean N64 controler for 4 bucks.
I'm sure that when you buy something nice at the fleamarket, some person near you (thats also a collector) is grumbling that they missed out on a good deal too.
Yeah eventually all games are worth more. Like what was said about ps2 games are dirt cheap, Wii games will go up in price soon, With the wii U on the horizon regular wii games will go down. Only to shoot up a few years later.
I'd say we still have a generation or two before games go fully digital.
Thats the day I'm gonna worry about there not being enough games.
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Just recently, I received around 30 xbox games (mostly good ones, not crap) from 2 different people on freecycle.
Even though some games can be expensive, I still appreciate ebay/amazon/neogaf/racketboy for making it easy to buy games from the convenience of my home.
I think it's a good time to be a retro gamer since you have a lot of options.
gtmtnbiker wrote:Just recently, I received around 30 xbox games (mostly good ones, not crap) from 2 different people on freecycle.
Even though some games can be expensive, I still appreciate ebay/amazon/neogaf/racketboy for making it easy to buy games from the convenience of my home.
I think it's a good time to be a retro gamer since you have a lot of options.
Indeed. If you wanted an old game back in the day you had to hope you'd get lucky and could find it in the wild. Now if you want a game it's only a few clicks away if you're willing to pay more for the convenience.
Sometimes emulation is fine, if you have original console controllers. Or you could get a flash cart (SNES etc). Dios Mios on Wii for GC loading and also Devolution is good too (if you have original discs but that seems to be the issue for you and not wanting to be ripped off). But if you gotta have original everything, yeah, the shitheads of the flea markets have caught on a bit more it seems.
That's one reason I'm glad that I still have my rare SNES games and almost all my N64 games from when I originally brought them.
I've seen it happen that these games are starting to become hot. One reason is there are some that will NEVER be released again (ie DuckTales and sadly Earthbound) and most thrift stores or Goodwill's have nothing but sport title games because people who work there grab the good ones first and it will be rare to find anything good (though, I did get lucky with Puyo Puyo Fever for the Dreamcast a while back).
Some local retro stores are sometimes decent but as always, if people will pay for them they will be high. That is why anyone should find a local flea market and go there early. On Sunday I found one and had a bunch of games (being pretty good too) and systems for 1 dollar each. If it wasn't for the fact the shop was closing I could have brought them too.
However, with having limited resources and money it's hard to find these things, all I can say is "Never Give Up, Never Surrender."
General_Norris wrote:I completely disagree on Gamecube games going up in value, they must be as low as it will get in the foreseeable future. Not that they were ever expensive, the best games in the system are all very common, with only Fire Emblem being uncommon and sought after.
I don't know. I just remember gamecube games being alot cheaper to get. I remember getting zelda windwaker for 15.00 or so and now it's always 30-40. ikaruga was always rare but even sunshine mario now sells an average of 20.00 and I got that for ten at a used game store"not gamestop""
Actually, he's basically right. GameCube games are, on average, just about as low as they've ever been. Check out the price index for the Gamecube here, which shows that the average for June was only $0.78 above the all-time low from September of 2010. The average price of a GameCube game has stayed between $5.78 and $6.97 since May of 2010. Now compare that to the price index for the NES, which hit its lowest (recorded) point almost four years ago at $6.35 and has almost doubled since then ($12.48 in June). Alternatively, you could compare it with the price index for the SNES, which hit bottom at $7.51 in October of 2010, has also gone up rapidly since then, and was at $10.23 last month.
Of course, all this data comes from online sources. However, it's important to keep in mind that demand is demand. Most people these days who are looking for retro gaming stuff know that they can find it online if they want, which helps keep prices down at the brick and mortar stores that are struggling to compete with those online marketplaces. On average, the difference in prices is probably not that significant. I'd guess that about 95% of the difference would be accounted for if you factored in shipping costs.
