When will SNES games start going down in price again?

[superyoda41]

I remember when I first got my license, Funcoland was selling Mario/Duck Hunt carts for one cent each.

At the time, Babbages would give $1 dollar trade credit for any game on any system and let you trade in up to 10 copies of the same game. So, I did the math and would take 10 copies of Mario/ Duck Hunt (which cost me .10 cents) over to the mall and get $10 trade credit and use it to pre-order games like Resident Evil 2 or Final Fantasy 8.

Those were the days.

I think one reason no one ever contributes to rising prices of older games is the economy. It is easy to blame the boogeyman reseller, but we were in one of the worst recessions ever over the last 5-6 years. The first thing that goes during a recession is spending on discretionary items like...retro games.

Slowly, but surely we are coming out of the recession and people might be spending on things they were avoiding in 2008-2012. It's a natural response to an improving economy.

The more people willing to spend on items like games, the more demand goes up and in turn prices rise.

[retrosportsgamer]

A poster asked earlier in the thread what it was like collecting back when the SNES was first phased. I worked at Hollywood Video in the summer of 1998 (we're talking 16 years now - yikes) and when they phased out renting SNES and Genesis games I, fortunately, had the presence of mind to snag the CIB used copies of Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy III for $10 each. The sticker removal wasn't too bad decades later and outside of some minor cosmetic damage to the manuals, they're two of my most valuable in the collection.

[kelsoanim]

I have a Hagane cart that I got back when for around $15. I was shocked when I recently found out how much it goes for.

[Hobie-wan]

A poster asked earlier in the thread what it was like collecting back when the SNES was first phased. I worked at Hollywood Video in the summer of 1998 (we're talking 16 years now - yikes) and when they phased out renting SNES and Genesis games I, fortunately, had the presence of mind to snag the CIB used copies of Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy III for $10 each.

I got my Lufia II with box from a Hollywood Video for $10 as well. Though I undid that win by unloading my mint and complete down to the inside baggie FF II for about $10 around the same time because I knew I'd never play it again.

[ExedExes]

Run saber was like $9 a few years ago and now its $35-$45

something to do with a demand for Atlus games I think.

More than likely, the game is a real SNES hidden gem too.

I am old enough to remember when Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen was the most expensive SNES game (at least, according to FuncoLand's printed price sheet).

Remember when you had those FuncoLand price sheets mailed to you? (maybe it was just me, but I got their Game Informer magazine for a few years free too). Damn, I loved seeing which games were the most expensive, many of them turned out to be hard to find (limited print runs) or even unreleased.