/vr/ - Retro Games

>Authentic
>Authentic

I think you're hiding something.

When the fuck did Goldeneye becomes a 50 dollar game? It was like 25 dollars two months ago

>>6327257
PC has it at 30 still

>>6327206
I see you are interested in Doom 64, and a seller you bought from has one at $40. I can offer you mine for $38. That's a $42 savings.

>>6327257
Probably some popular youtuber played it recently. Same thing happened with Castlevania Chronicles on PS1, normally a $70~$90 went up to ~$130 for a couple months but went back down again. Any time a youtuber plays a game, that game shoots up in price for a few months because the viewer base who are rabid consoomers start buying en masse and are willing to pay stupid prices. Sellers know this and strike while the iron is hot. When pewds played Pepsi Man on PS1 that game shot up to $300, now it’s back to being a $60 game again because the hipster flavor of the month viewers have moved on to the next thing their content creator of choice is playing.

Imagining paying more than 5 bucks for a loose cartridge.

>>6327206
>Authentic
adding words like this to your search inquiry will guarantee you will see scalper sharks, this is like looking for a CRT but typing in “retro gaming CRT” into search. Your results will be a bunch of scumbags trying to sell their shitty 11 inch screen crapbox for $90.

Where as if you had just typed old tv, you’ll get a bunch of Trinitron sets with component and s video inputs for cheap to free because it’s some old lady or person who has no idea what they have who just wants the big heavy 25 inch beast gone.

Really all that needs to happen on ebay is for there to be a period where theres no listings of a certain game so said person that has a game lists it for whatever the fuck he wants and other sellers have a silent agreement with him to sell it at that price as well seen this happen multiple times now

>>6327206
Why would you even play that on N64 at this point.

>>6327316
this

get the switch port anon, solid framerate performance, clean picture, it’s the way to play this game now

The purpose of repro carts was to drive down prices by making these games more accessible.

Humans ruin everything.

>>6327329
I'd just say PC, where it'll play like the best Doom games. I tried playing Doom on controllers and it's sort of unbearable.

Damnnn Zelda has gone up a lot since I started collecting

Never should have sold my Nintendo 64 games, even the Japanese version is pricey now, I thought most import N64 games were way cheaper

>>6327257
Even $30 is pretty wild for the 3rd best selling game on the console

>>6327373
If I had to guess, I'd assume D64 wasn't very popular in Japan and is marginally harder to find.

>>6327373
Get an EverDrive 64.

>>6327206
>>6327373
And everyone wonders why repros are popular.

>>6327773
Damn I paid almost twice that last year, which Id got into collecting in 2013

>>6327773
jesus, would anyone actually spend 195$ for that?

>>6327206
Lol I paid like 20 for it at a pawn shop.

>>6327206
If hoarders are willing to pay that much, that's the fair market value. For non-hoarders who are interested in the game itself, not the perceived value of it as a display piece, buy a flash cart.

>>6327312
>game listed for $200
>nobody buys it
>potential seller sees game listed for $200
>WOW IT SELLS FOR THIS MUCH
>adds to the dumpster fire

>>6327537
You need to be 18 to post here

Post reseller cringe stories I’m in for a laugh

and some retard will probably buy it

yeah, I suppose that water damage came factory

>>6328270
Apparently, you don't need to be smart. Getting an EverDrive 64 and having access to all the games is the best thing unless you are a retarded collector. Have fun wasting space with plastic toys.

>>6327206
There are plenty of copies of Doom 64 available for $30-$40, so $80 is completely ridiculous. That being said, I bought my copy for $5 from a thrift shop years ago, and never really played it. Maybe I should consider selling it.

My personal favourites are the ones who list games that still have the pawn shop / thrift store stickers on them. Recently I came across someone selling a copy of Goemon for the N64 for $80, and included a photo of the back where there was a sticker that clearly read:
>Rick's Pawn
>$10.99
>16/07/2018

>>6327373
>Even $30 is pretty wild for the 3rd best selling game on the console

See pic related. It's beginning to infect non-/vr/ games too. For the record, this is more than I paid for a brand new copy of Wind Waker PLUS the console in 2008 ($19.99 for used Gamecube from GameStop, Wind Waker was $14.99 on clearance from Best Buy)

>>6330170
How hard are those to set up?

>>6330152
honestly not a bad deal for people that are collector-tards but that guy is insane because they literally have no value since everything on the console was worthless in terms of intrinsic value

>>6330152
What do you mean? Is it a scam or something?

>>6330229
It's an Atari Jaguar. The system was a scam when it was unleashed onto the world.

>>6330217
It's super easy. You just need an SD card and the website has the folder you drag and drop into the SD card. I am playing hacked games like Paper Mario Pro Mode and having a blast. Super Smash Bros Remix is also really fun.

>>6330209
Have you seen this shit? People have started to seal games in plastic cases. Who in their right mind would buy this?

>>6327773
Earthbound boxes have been at that for at least a decade at this point. I remember buying a cart around 09 for ~$70

>>6330818
That game is going to be worth than twice as much 5 years from now.

>>6330818
This is literally the peak of autism. It completely defeats the purpose of a videogame, how fuckin mentally challenged do you need to be to lock a videogame, any videogame inside a plastic shell and sell them for ludicrous prices when you can get a sealed or mint copy for just a fraction of the price? This literally pisses me off. Just when I thought collectors and hoarderfags couldn't get even more retards they come up with this dumb shit.
Fuck whoever came up with this stupid shit and fuck whoever did this. Even if it was a shit game or a sports game nobody gives a crap, this is the stupidest, retarded and fucking ridiculous shit you can do to a fucking videogame.
I hope you all die in a fire among your collection of useless plastic, microchips, and optical media you fucking waste of semen

I own Stadium Events NTSC version. Don't have box or manual, but cartridge is mint.

What would you do if you were me?

Sell the game now and spend the cash on other games/save the remains? Or hold onto the cartridge to see if the price continues to go up?

>>6330152
I almost got a Jaguar for 65 bucks when I was younger but I just didn't have the cash on me at the time.

>>6330963
Imagine working for a grading company. You can just take the discs out of a game you grade, lock the box into one of those autism shells, and then sell both for a profit. No-one will open their mint VGA box anyways.

That said, is Black Label Halo that valuable? Obviously it's not worth 9k but I thought it was anything but rare.

>>6330978
>Or hold onto the cartridge to see if the price continues to go up?
LOL

>>6330978
get it encased of plastic and troll the internet

>>6330225
It's factory sealed so collectorfag would probably never open the box anyway

>>6330152
Hold on theres gotta be some hidd3n gemz

>>6327206
I bought one a few months before the announcement of the re-release.
Plugged the N64 in, played it and thought it was shit. Then I played the Steam version and it's miles better because of the brightness and controls.

>>6330978
Drink bleach

>>6332480
Whats that?

>>6333196
MJR is the most undeserving youtuber. Literally has others discuss the content of his videos most of the time, while he collects the ad revenue.

What do you guys suppose the chances are of this being a legit cartridge?

>>6330818
This is completely fucked. My friend's dad (richfag) collects 2,000 year old Roman coins, and I don't think the most expensive coin in his collection was as much as this thing. And that includes fucking gold coins that sat in the dirt for two millenia, not optical discs that will rot in a matter of decades.

>>6330994
It's kind of humorous to see how the Jaguar has suddenly become this rare collector's item. When I was a kid we regarded it as a joke. One of my friends at the time had one that his uncle bought on clearance, and we all teased him for having the "super answering machine system". They were rare but really cheap because nobody wanted them. This guy wrote a console review sometime around 2006 or so, and seems to reference the relatively inexpensive hardware: https://videogamecritic.com/jaguarinfo.htm

>>6333257
>What do you guys suppose the chances are of this being a legit cartridge?
Not a chance. Definitely a repro.

Doom64 is a meme. it was just an ok Doom game. Turok 2 was miles ahead.

>>6333257
The fact it says "Made in Japan" on an earth bound cart is a bad sign. Most if not all had a miss print that left that off.

>>6333257
Shit like this is why I've always posted pictures of the board with anything expensive I've sold on ebay, let people look at it themselves and make sure they're getting legit stuff and not repros or bootlegs.

Fuck this dude, shit's probably a repro.

>>6330152
Mutha Fuckin Club Drive!

>Condition
>CHECK MY OTHER SH1T OUT

>>6333802
>Cleaned...
>And painted orange

Why would you do this?

>>6333813
Cleaning was unable to remove the decades of embedded Cheetos dust.

>>6333301
>>6333337
>>6333351
Yeah sarcasm doesn't translate well over TCP/IP. It's so obviously a repro and the guy knows it. Sadly, it seems like someone actually bought it.

>>6333813
It was probably really, really yellow, and the guy knew about Windex but not about Retrobrite. Still, I can't understand why you would paint it such a hideous colour. I'm not usually one for custom paint jobs but there are ones that are really cool or cute. This is just an abomination.

>>6334010
How do people like the picture OP posted get away with this? They're literally making $90 profit on each game

>>6327206
The GREAT Gamer

>>6328270
No u; get some bills nigga

>>6333802
At least they get a 1/10 for not using 3rd party power supply lol.

Why are people so adverse to saying "bad condition"?

>>6334527
Because of the label, which is easily replaceable for about $5. Although you'll need Goo Gone to get rid of the old label first, before applying the new one.

>>6334545
Are you allowed to do that?

Why do incels think everyone owes them discounts?

>>6334567
You're usually put on an Interpol watchlist if you do.

>>6330978
Soak it in piss so people don't think it's a bootleg.

>>6334567
Yes. Although Pat The NES Cuck is against it.

>>6334527
How the fuck do people even allow their games to get this bad? I've seen rental copies that are in way better shape than that.

>>6328269
this. i don't collect vidya but a couple of other things, which have suffered the same fate when looking at ebay at least. those "sellers" make use of the deperation people get who watch items for months, waiting for an auction to happen until they finally give in and impulse buy said items. unfortunately i take from you guys, that vidya has the youtuber-factor, which in itself is making me want to vomit harder than the prices some ebay faggots are asking.
are there no forums for people to buy and trade without ebay scum and hipster niggers?

Would you buy an Atari 5200 for $4000 dollars /vr/?

>>6334527
When choosing the condition while selling on ebay the lowest option is "Acceptable." Even for consoles the worst condition is "For Parts Not Working" which is as close to bad condition as you can get

>>6333932
It was never cleaned, it's all cheetos.

>>6334651
/vr/ used to have buy/sell/trade threads. I actually got a few games that way, by trading up games that I had no intention of replaying (SM64), which I thought were overrated (Goldeneye) or which had been superseded by better versions (Smash). I also once sold someone a copy of Final Fantasy III for $20 after finding not one but two of them in a pawn shop.

Not sure what happened to those threads, but I think part of the problem was they sort of became buy/buy/buy and people were less willing to let go of good stuff.

>>6334657
I guess if the thing works, then it's "acceptable"

>>6334687
interesting. i have been lurking /vr/ for perhaps 3 years now and in that time don't think i have ever seen such thread. maybe i'm just blind to things that don't matter to me, such as youtuber threads or people discussing final fantasy 7 eternally

>>6327272
>Want to buy a game on ebay, thinking about it while at work saw listings earlier that week tha twere reasonable but wanted to wait until after paycheck
>Some long haired neckbeard retard makes a HIDDEN GEMS VIDEO GET IT WHILE BEFORE THEY'RE GONE
>Check ebay
>Listings are gone or skyrocketed in price

>>6327334
>Drive down prices
>Ends up with chinks and scalpers trying to pass off the reproduction as the authentic thing

>>6334572
They're on welfare

>>6330152
Jesus Christ, a Jaguar is NOT worth that much, not even CIB + games CIB.

I'm so glad I got out of collecting 5 years ago. Bullshit prices.

>>6334706
This was back around 2013/2014, so before your time so to speak. They began dying out around 2015 or so if I recall correctly. I gradually stopped browsing /vr/ for a while starting in 2016, and I think the death of those threads was a contributing factor to that decision.

I started coming back in 2019 and it was fun for a while, but I agree a lot of the discussion around here is getting kind of stale. God forbid we get new material and be allowed to discuss PS2 and Gamecube games now that they're all older than the N64 and Playstation games we first started talking about when the board was launched.

>>6334709
Don't fret, the prices will probably go back down in 6 months' time after the consumers have what they want and demand has gone back down.

>>6333234
Also, metalheads are pretty cringe, and I like metal.

>>6334654
The controller probably doesn't even work

>>6330162
>I will report scammers to authorities immediately
>hello police someone’s lowballing me on Craigslist please arrest them

>>6334567
Don't do this. I had the police knock on my door and give me a warning. Also mustard gas

>>6327206
>texasretrovideogames
He price gouges everything

>>6334083
I hate this. It's so fucking cringy

>>6335271
Do the people who make these listings legitimately believe someone would pay that price or is just some type of signaling?

>>6335282
I genuinely think this just a way signaling to buyers for private messaging. Maybe they're patient enough sellers to wait for a certain level of idiocy and they don't want to reveal their own minimum in case they find that one person willing to really throw big money around.

>>6335337
Offer minimum, if any, set far lower. The price is mostly aspirational, to seed a potential buyer's mind, and maybe draw attention.

It's deliciously amusing watching the retro game collectors market consume itself. Also sad in a way, but mainly amusing.

>>6335406
Not as deliciously amusing as watching poorfags seethe

>>6333257
>Licensed by Nintendo
100% fake

>>6327343
Why Switch? Every other version is better.

all of my local shops have stacks of what I would consider to be the better games, do you feel like the retro market may collapse and these guys will have to liquidate or do you think the demand will continue?

>>6336380
No. Why would people who have a lot of shit laying around not sell it when it's "expensive" and instead wait and sell for less profit? Also, vidya is up ~20% pretty much across the board the last few months. This despite the world economy completely tanking. Keep dreaming about your mythical collapse poorfag.

>>6336480

I really didnt want to have to defend myself. it's not about me being poor, it's a question about people stocking up on things that dont seem to sell because they are gouged to hell and back. retro stores pop up in my area fairly frequently and close in a matter of months, all while copies of turtles in time collect dust with $150 stickers on them.

is too late to have a physical games collection? I'm thinking the game companies should make all current games $90 minimum, since collectors say the games are only gonna get more rare and expensive with bit rot, disc rot, and controller rot.

>>6336673
You being poor is just a side effect of you being stupid. If retro shops pop up in your area and close within a few months while prices are going up then it's likely the stupidity is regional. Your town might have been used for secret CIA tests of a stupid ray or something. But it's more likely none of that happened and you're just parroting other fantasies other poor stupid people invented. Either way, no, you're not going to get expensive shit for a dollar because muh bubble. You literally missed the bandwagon.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Atari-E-T-Video-Game-From-the-Alamogordo-NM-Landfill-Dig/163818810316

>>6337709
Wow shut up, he has a point. What he is saying is hardly that unreasonable. You just seem to want an excuse to go some ridiculous fantasy about stupid people and good luck with that but you're shitting up the board.

>>6336380
I doubt prices drop that much, maybe a 50% cut at most for some things over the years but prices won't drop back down to early 2000's levels until people truly stop caring about this stuff and most of us are dead. They're the equivalent of dream cars for boomers, and most that want to collect stuff are pushing 40 at the oldest and aren't waiting for retirement to try to get their hands on it. I don't think the volume is there to support businesses but value is sentimental with next to no maintenance, and it's easy to find space for a $200 cartridge so most will be content to sit on them outside of some occasional movement. A lot of things have hit their ceiling but the floors not going anywhere for another 20 years.

>>6337614
I sold Chulip sealed for $15 back in the day because "it looks gay".

>>6337949
>i'm also poor and stupid and fantasize about getting expensive stuff for cheap because magic reasons
lol. You should be reading fairy tales about princesses and unicorns instead of shitposting on an 18+ board for discussing toys that are older than you.

>>6327257
the fuck???????????????? holy niggers dude I remember when goldeneye was like $7. Shit's fucking retarded

>>6333196
Not to mention literally everything he covers skyrockets after he goes over them. Literally the reason why I can't find a boxed copy of Fallout at a price that isn't completely fucking retarded

Is it too late to get into N64 then?

>>6338220
Depends. Do you actually enjoy playing the games? Then buy an N64 and a flash cart, play video games.
Are you obsessed with plastic and cardboard boxes? Then it's too late my friend.

>>6338229
I've had an N64 since I was a kid, the only console I wasnt stupid enough to sell, just want to get games for it.