How's your TurboGrafx 16/PC Engine Going on

[G-Darius]

Kyukyoku Tiger (Twin Cobra)

[mas]

Does anybody ever wondered why the tg16 games have gone crazy on eBay. I understand but I thought the bubble would pop for tg16.
Also people are nuts paying hundreds of dollars for crappy games like bonks 3 or parasol stars. I'm mean they aren't bad games but you can do so much more with that money

[Tanooki]

Collectardism nothing more or less. NOt probably popular to say in this thread, but in reality the TG16 especially in the US did not have that great of a library. It lacked a lot of quality hitters Nintendo and Sega had, but it does have a solid base of platformer and shooter fans. Once the Nintendo junk went nuts people looked elsewhere early on, and when people saw others running towards it for super cheap games and with the low stock in general of them (compared to Nintendo or Sega) it was an obvious choice to drive up costs to cause a feeding frenzy as it's easier with lower amounts to go around.

Throw in the love of the Japanese side of the pond where the games were A quality stuff, it just adds to the misery as those titles aren't any cheaper, worse really if importing.

[ElkinFencer10]

Collectardism

Seriously, dude?

[Tanooki]

Most seriously dude. That stuff skyrocketed nearly overnight around 6 years ago. I was fence sitting on going after a system(Duo) again and Bonk. I sold my Bonk NES cart off because the TG one at the time complete in the box was well under $50...a good 60-90 days later it was like around $100 and I was pissed being out Bonk. Then I started checking ebay history and saw all sorts of TG stuff go from A to B in very rapid order.

So yeah, seriously, it was annoying as I was going to return to it and then saw prices competing for the NES highs out of almost nowhere. Stuff started going on, and collectards (those who panic and pay the high rates fast to avoid higher) helped things continue on that spiral.

[MrPopo]

Just because you wish something was cheaper doesn't mean that's the appropriate price for it.

[ElkinFencer10]

Man, I don't give a shit about your rabid loathing of collectors. I'm talking about your archaic word choice. Collectards? Seriously, man? That ain't cool.

[Stark]

Just because you wish something was cheaper doesn't mean that's the appropriate price for it.

I have heard of a revolutionary concept called 'supply and demand.' I haven't looked into it yet, but I think it might describe what you're talking about.

[Tanooki]

Look you three can whine about my choice of wording, but that's how I'm going to approach it as it is how it is. I know some collectors take offense to it, and if I cared that someone did I wouldn't use it but I do not. Doing word play on economics doesn't change the reality that economics aren't just black and white and things can be manipulated, and when they are it can cause a run/panic and it causes a sheep like mentality as people get scared and react. I could think of a few other words for it, but by todays standards are far more offensive especially to the PC types, so consider collectard being somewhat filtered.

[Thierry Henry]

I'll just put this here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvkXpRLspYE