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For me, if the system isn't having new games made for it it's retro, but that circle doesn't necessarily overlap with the circle of retro games I'm interested in playing

It's not really important

Now is such a time. We need to adapt to it. Today, as in the heyday of the great empire, the world stands on the purchases and sales

Marina0403 wrote:Now is such a time. We need to adapt to it. Today, as in the heyday of the great empire, the world stands on the purchases and sales

<booming voice>

INDEED...NOW...AS IN THE DAYS OF OUR ANCESTORS...AS IT WAS DURING THE GREAT EMPIRE AND AS IT SHALL BE AGAIN IN THE DAYS PROMISED TO US BY THE ANCIENT ONES...THE PRICES OF USED VIDEO GAMES SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE INEXPLICABLE FORCES OF THE GREAT TWIN DEITIES: THE MOST WISE AND BEAUTIFUL "SUPPLY" AND HER CAPRICIOUS BROTHER "DEMAND"...

GAZE UPON THEM IN AWE AND DISBELIEF AND MARVEL AT HOW THE PRICES OF THOSE THEY FAVOR ASCEND TO THE HEAVENS WHILE THE PRICES OF ACCURSED "SPORTS" GAMES LANGUISH IN MISERY! BEHOLD THEIR POWER AND WEEP! TRULY, THE WORLD STANDS UPON PURCHASES AND SALES!

prfsnl_gmr wrote:

Marina0403 wrote:Now is such a time. We need to adapt to it. Today, as in the heyday of the great empire, the world stands on the purchases and sales

<booming voice>

INDEED...NOW...AS IN THE DAYS OF OUR ANCESTORS...AS IT WAS DURING THE GREAT EMPIRE AND AS IT SHALL BE AGAIN IN THE DAYS PROMISED TO US BY THE ANCIENT ONES...THE PRICES OF USED VIDEO GAMES SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE INEXPLICABLE FORCES OF THE GREAT TWIN DEITIES: THE MOST WISE AND BEAUTIFUL "SUPPLY" AND HER CAPRICIOUS BROTHER "DEMAND"...

GAZE UPON THEM IN AWE AND DISBELIEF AND MARVEL AT HOW THE PRICES OF THOSE THEY FAVOR ASCEND TO THE HEAVENS WHILE THE PRICES OF ACCURSED "SPORTS" GAMES LANGUISH IN MISERY! BEHOLD THEIR POWER AND WEEP! TRULY, THE WORLD STANDS UPON PURCHASES AND SALES!

HAIL!! LONG LIVE THE GREAT EMPIRE!

Fragems wrote:Probably a combination of people moving to emulation and getting out of the market while game values are still high.

noiseredux wrote:I'm going 100% PC.

*fist bump*

I'm at a point in my life now where video games are no longer a central hobby for me, and when I do play - I'm interested in the new stuff. Anything else I can just emulate. Plus I'm currently living off of ebay sales, so everything just sort of fell into place.

(nice to be back guys)

I had a mega collection to start (about 24 consoles , 2 or 3 hundred games) back when i started around 16. I sold all that to get an xbox 360 collection (176 games when sold) . Every time I have sold one collection I just started another. Most recently, I sold my entire Saturn collection about four years ago. I only had the system, regular controller, and about 14 games and NiGHTS into Dreams with the controller. About a month later I started scavenging Dreamcast games. About a year after that, I had amassed several Dreamcasts, controllers, and about 70 Dreamcast games mainly from the flea market, local game stores, a couple rare "Ebayers",etc. I sold all that. WHYYY? Honestly I was loosing the thrill of scavenging because there were no more to hunt. I was a glorified hoarder. That may not seem too bad to most, and at the time it wasn't for me. I now started the Dreamcast collection again but this time with only games I truly enjoy playing. I love Dreamcast and almost all it has to offer, but now I have a select about 20 very nice condition games (Ones I truely love) and I've been trying to stick to homebrew as to keep myself from getting bored. Now before I get blasted for someone saying " You're saying we're all hoarders," or "You're dissing collectors in general." That's not what I mean in the least. ME, PERSONALLY, just had to get away from the addiction of wanting every triplicate, or game with no case I came across even if I was broke as crap. Yeah it was an addiction for me. I have to force myself to say, "No, I would play that once."Now I've got it down to a leisurely hobby.

Don't blame you on that one. While I don't sell my stuff (and thusly have a very large collection), I'm pretty choosy about what actually ends up in it. Unless a game is really, really cheap, I'm not going to add something that's pretty awful to my collection. There are a ton of NES games that I could purchase that I don't have, but I really don't have any impetus to do so.

So yeah, buy what you enjoy, and enjoy the hunt.

Sarge wrote:I'm not going to add something that's pretty awful to my collection.

I intentionally add games to my collection that are really, really, truly, 100% awful. I have no space for mediocrity, however.

prfsnl_gmr wrote:

Sarge wrote:I'm not going to add something that's pretty awful to my collection.

I intentionally add games to my collection that are really, really, truly, 100% awful. I have no space for mediocrity, however.

This is me, too. I've been intentionally searching for a CIB copy of Ride to Hell Retribution.