i had to laugh at him...

[Pat the NES Punk]

holy crap!! is the article still up somewhere? id really like to read that

Yeah, it's there at the site (you have to be logged in to see it), and it's also on my site: http://thepunkeffect.com/?p=273

[AppleQueso]

For some reason he seems to remind me of those people at flea markets selling The Little Mermaid for $20 because they think its some rare collectors item. I would have had a laugh, but not to his face, he sounds like a nutter.

I was around with one of the worlds rarest games in my back pocket all the time! Just in case some guy with a repro wants to buy it, come on now!

He reminded me of the same thing. Every vendor in my local flea market has insane prices, I honestly have no clue how they stay in business.
One game I remember seeing in particular there was Yu-Yu Hakusho on the GBA loose for $120. I bought it an hour earlier at Wal-Mart for $6 complete. While they do have some pretty cool stuff I'll never pay even half of what their asking for.

Local guy here does the same sort of thing, though not quite that bad. Still though, selling Super Mario World for $30 or Final Fantasy IX used for $40 when you can still get new copies online for $20 is pretty insane. Guy used to have really good pricing too, I picked up Chrono Trigger from him several years ago for $5.

[Kid Dracula]

This story reminded me of the pawn shop around my way. I went in there last week after school to browse and I noticed that they had some retro goodies for sale. They had a shoe box of shovel ware SNES games (super scope 6, shaq fu, etc.) for $10 each! They had another box with Genesis games for the same price, all crap. Then there was 2 shoe boxes full of NES games for $40 a piece, I kid you not, I've never seen friday the 13th for $40. He wouldn't budge on the prices saying they were "rare" and "valuable" but they were common games worth no more than $10, heck best one I've seen was Double Dragon. They had a shitty looking NES for sale and after I asked the price and he said "$75" I left. Hate those kind of sellers.

[tommyboy8689]

This story reminded me of the pawn shop around my way. I went in there last week after school to browse and I noticed that they had some retro goodies for sale. They had a shoe box of shovel ware SNES games (super scope 6, shaq fu, etc.) for $10 each! They had another box with Genesis games for the same price, all crap. Then there was 2 shoe boxes full of NES games for $40 a piece, I kid you not, I've never seen friday the 13th for $40. He wouldn't budge on the prices saying they were "rare" and "valuable" but they were common games worth no more than $10, heck best one I've seen was Double Dragon. They had a shitty looking NES for sale and after I asked the price and he said "$75" I left. Hate those kind of sellers.

haha... friday the 13th for $40... i woulda given him a dollar and said keep the change... i hate that game