Stupid people thinking their shit is worth something.

[Dillweed No.5057334]

>Friday
>Garage Sales
>Find a woman with an Atari 2600
>Atari is dusty, looks hasn't been played since 1988, two games, Space Invaders Ms. Pac-Man, Atari 2600 is a classic 1980 4-switch. Nothing special.
>Ask woman for price
>Guy (old woman's wife, presumably) barges over
>"That right there is the first vidyagame ever. I'm asking 50."
>mfw

Probably gonna go back tomorrow and see if he if he had a reality check.

[Anonymous No.5057338]

>>5057334
>Probably gonna go back tomorrow and see if he if he had a reality check.
i have no doubt some neckbearded virgin gave them that for it.

[Dillweed No.5057352]

>>5057338
We don't live in a very populated place. It's like Iowa out here. The only neet in this town is me, and my other friend, who lives about 2 miles down.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5057376]

I don't even hope to pick up retro games at garage sales anymore. Honestly ebay has become the cheapest place since you can really stalk deals and snipe and you don't have to burn up gas either

[Anonymous No.5057398]

"first video game ever"

kill me.

[Anonymous No.5057421]

>>5057376
This. At least with ebay you can sort of game the system with tactical bidding and going for auctions that are ending at inconvenient times that most people aren't paying attention to.

[Anonymous No.5057791]

>>5057376
>fake gramps becomes an ebayby
wew lad. A couple weeks back I walked to my local flea market and picked up some CIB consoles for a few bucks each. A few imports even. Not just master race S/FCs

[Anonymous No.5057839]

>>5057376
Sadly after 8 years of searching for old consoles I've found the only way to get things I need is eBay. It kills me paying those prices but I find absolutely nothing at garage sales and flea markets.

[Anonymous No.5057852]

Let me tell you about this thing called emulation that's free.

[Anonymous No.5057856]

>>5057852
Emulation is gay

[Anonymous No.5057864]

>>5057791
I'm suprised that you managed to find a flea market that doesn't have any resellers

[Anonymous No.5057874]

feels good that i found a working psx at goodwill for like 7 bucks

[Anonymous No.5057927]

>>5057864
There are plenty of resellers there. I know them all well. Obviously I didn't get that stuff from them. I got them from a hoarder a girl who sells power tools introduced me to. He has a lot of great stuff but like I said I walked and didn't have the van. I'll go back later and clean him out. Then flip the shit I don't want on eBay for 10x what I paid.

[Anonymous No.5058081]

>be me in thrift store
>overhear some 9 year old kid talking to some mexican
>"my dad and i were at some other thrift store earlier"
>"oh yeah?"
>"yeah and we found one of the rarest video game systems ever, a super nintendo"
>"oh wow"
>"yeah and it came with one of the rarest games ever made, super mario world"
>"NICE, GREAT FIND"
>mfw
>wanting to tell that kid that he didn't find shit and Super Mario World is the most common game for the system
>don't say anything cuz i'm a pussy

[Anonymous No.5058083]

>>5057852

emulation is for plebs

[Anonymous No.5058132]

>>5058081
I don't believe you.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5058140]

>>5057927
Cool story bro. You sure outsmarted those resellers. It's not like everyone with a booth checks out every other person's booth on setup day before the flea even opens to the public, nope.

[Anonymous No.5058161]

What kind of shitty pity party is this thread? Resellers are more common now sure, but pawn shops, thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales are all still totally viable ways of finding deals.

Just look on Youtube. If a bunch of big fat double digit IQ hoarders can find cheap video games what fucking excuse do you have?

[Anonymous No.5058172]

>>5058081
>>wanting to tell that kid that he didn't find shit and Super Mario World is the most common game for the system
>>don't say anything cuz i'm a pussy

Or you could just be an adult about it and let the little kid have the dream. I'm sure as a kid you've said something similar that an adult humored you for.

Just let the kid live the fantasy and check your autism.

[Anonymous No.5058184]

>>5058172
Not that guy, but no. Little GameGrumps fans like him need to be put in their place and shown they aren't welcome, and will never be welcome, in a group of fans of a console that came out before they were born. Same goes for all the 18 year olds ylgushing over the SNES, get the fuck out.

[Anonymous No.5058248]

>>5058140
For once in your life you're right. All those hundreds of people don't get together and conspire to overcharge neets, make a reality tv star president, etc.

[Anonymous No.5058535]

>>5057334
Isn't that the current price with shipping?

[Anonymous No.5058539]

>>5057852
Collectors don't use the things they collect. Their enjoyment peaks at the point of purchase where they get a fleeting high.

[Anonymous No.5058543]

>>5058539
can confirm, i haven't finished 90% of the games i own

[Anonymous No.5058545]

>>5058539
Thrill of the hunt is better than an old shitty game.

[Anonymous No.5058548]

>>5058543
I learned that when I tried dating a collector. He wanted to possess me but not do anything with me.

>>5058545
What hunt? It's copies of ROMs you can grab right now. You're collecting stickers.

[Anonymous No.5058563]

>>5057334

As a PC game collector, the most reliable way to pick up PC games (aside from the rare "Are you kidding me?" cheap sales that you can still find on eBay) is just building relationships with known vendors & other collectors.

I've got 3 suppliers who are mainly console game vendors but they'll find PC games on occasion and give me first bid. I've scored at least 20+ titles that way for somewhat reasonable prices that way. Also, it allows those vendors to get some PC game selling street cred where they otherwise would have none.

[Anonymous No.5058564]

>>5058563
You're collecting boxes, and labels, not games.

[Anonymous No.5058567]

>>5058564
The boxes have games inside them

[Anonymous No.5058568]

>>5058567
You don't need the box to play the game. You can just grab it right now. Name one I can't.

[Anonymous No.5058569]

>>5058539

Not true. I've played many of the games that I collect. I can't possibly play all of them (some of the games are now way old and I hate dragging out my old systems to play them but I've probably played at least 70% of the games in my collection). Some of the games, admittedly, I've bought on prospect. A few games, sadly, just wouldn't load despite the disks looking good.

[Anonymous No.5058572]

>>5058568
ROM file doesn't come with a box

[Anonymous No.5058581]

>>5058184

[Anonymous No.5058583]

>>5058564

It's a matter of perspective. I respect people who only do digital downloads (I do digital downloads myself).

In the end, I have an interest in the complete history of PC gaming (at least the genres that I'm interested in). That includes the box & the extras inside of the box.

I know that collecting isn't respected by others ("hoarding without the stigma") but I keep myself on a budget and I know when not to overpay.

[Anonymous No.5058589]

>>5058583
I just go over to Clint's place when I want to look at boxes, which is never :-)

[Anonymous No.5058751]

>>5057334
Haggle him down? Try 20 for the console and 5 each for the games.

[Anonymous No.5058765]

>>5058161
In my recent experiences, garage sales are the only viable way to pick up old vidya on the cheap these days. Goodwill, pawn shops, and flea market resellers are becoming wiser to old games and charging a premium for it
Ya gotta go to the That 70s Show tier neighborhoods to find all the clueless boomers selling off their long since moved out childrens video game shit for nothing

My greatest finds: Atari 2600 and a pile of games for $3, Coleco ADAM complete in box for $20 (didnt pick this one up sadly...) and SNES games that normally go for $40+ on ebay for $5 each

[Anonymous No.5058793]

>>5058751
he was expecting you to make an offer, its not the 90s where anymore where you could get them for $10

[Anonymous No.5058797]

>>5058765
Thank you for using to word "boomers" in the correct context.

[Anonymous No.5058807]

>>5057334
Then there's the converse:

>Have a set of shit that's worth about $350+ on eBay - N64 with a bunch of decent games, controllers etc.
>Bundle it up and offer at $210 (with intention of coming down a bit, to like $190).
>"Yeah I'll give you $100, it's what it's worth".

Yeah you piece of shit after you mark it up by 100% sure...

[Anonymous No.5058829]

>>5057334
just give her the money; she needs it for moonshine and meth

[Anonymous No.5058887]

>>5058807

>Have a set of shit that's worth about $350+ on eBay

eBay is a joke when it comes to PC game pricing...

"ZOMG! MINT! NEW! NEVER USED! Sims 9: Barstools Bonanza! Now get the add-on that gives you 60 new barstools! 60! SIXTY!!!!"

"OMG! SOOOOOOOOO AMAZING!!!! MUST GET RID OF THIS FOR $40 (obo)"

Yup. That's eBay for you.

[Anonymous No.5058893]

>>5058887
(other person here)

Massive agree - hence why in that scenario I wasn't going to price things at the eBay price, because it's all insane.

[Dillweed No.5058975]

>>5058765
Yeah, that's my neighborhood usually. I found a copy of the Krion Conquest (Doropie) for a dollar once.

[Anonymous No.5058993]

>>5058975
Nice
I picked up copy of Metal Storm for $5 back before Goodwill researched shit they were selling
I never expected that game to be one of the most valuable in my collection

[Anonymous No.5059003]

>>5058081
This happened

[Dillweed No.5059156]

Well, I went back there and the fucking tomber didn't feel like like going down much. Only to 30 bucks. Didn't buy it.

Funny thing is, just two houses away, another sale was happening. I found pic related for $50 total.

[Anonymous No.5059170]

>>5058765
When ever I'm at a good will and their obviously price gouging I buckle down and find a way to just steal the item in question. I fucking hate thrift stores with high prices.

[Dillweed No.5059182]

>>5059170
Kek, I've thought about this too

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5059197]

>>5058568
>You can just grab it right now. Name one I can't.
https://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=List_of_Undumped_Games

[Anonymous No.5059241]

>>5059156
SUPER RARE!!!!! TONS OF MONIES!!!! $+PLUS+$

[Anonymous No.5059270]

>>5059170
If you think about it, somebody donated the game or whatever to goodwill. Who's to say the item in question couldn't have been given directly to you? I'd say take anything you like in there.

[Anonymous No.5059276]

>>5058563
rare 90s pc japanese games or just shity games that you can find on torrents / abandoware sites ?

[Anonymous No.5059305]

>>5058765
Goodwill is such a fucking joke in current year. The whole basis of the store was always a joke. Their whole "charity" is just giving shitty jobs to shitty people. They even have signs all over the store bragging about how their workers would be robbing people or something if they weren't preoccupied by that sweet sweet minimum wage Goodwill employment. They're also infamous for bussing in special needs people to do grunt work since you can legally pay them less than minimum wage. Meanwhile, the CEOs of each Goodwill region make ridiculous amounts of money. Top that all off with the fact that their best stuff goes straight to their online auction now, and the fact that anything that wasn't set aside for the auction block is probably going to be pocketed by the workers, and you're lucky to find a common game going for less than five bucks.

[Anonymous No.5059315]

>>5058081
The kid's name? Albert Einstein.

[Anonymous No.5059339]

>>5059170
All the goodwills around me have lowered their prices and have big signs out front announcing this fact. Guess ebay prices weren't working too well for them

[Anonymous No.5059367]

>>5057334
When they tell me it's what they go for on Ebay I tell them I'll just buy on Ebay so it has a guarantee and I don't have to deal with unreasonable people. That wins lots of friends.

[Anonymous No.5060057]

>>5057376
I think it's fun to go around and see what's there, if you live in a small enough town. I managed to get pic related for $45.

[Anonymous No.5060080]

>>5059315
Sam?

[Anonymous No.5060097]

>>5057852
I will never understand why people get their ass in a twist over emulation. Sure there are some games and systems that are better experiences if you use actual hardware, but emulation on the whole is such a convenient tool that I'm not sure why anyone would categorically denounce it unless you have weird hangups about games.

[Anonymous No.5060104]

>>5059197
>https://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=List_of_Undumped_Games
Not the anon you are replying to, but I've been poring through the list and most o the games there look pretty shitty. Is there anything currently undumped that someone here might actually be interested in playing?

[Anonymous No.5060110]

>>5058568
Outside of the occasional arcade PCB or boxed retail game, I almost exclusively collect undumped things (or at least things which have a chance of being undumped).

[Anonymous No.5060120]

>>5058081
>>don't say anything cuz i'm a pussy
I don't know what's worse, the fact that you think you should correct correct 9 year olds you don't know, or that you are afraid to

[Anonymous No.5060139]

>>5060097
got to justify all that foolishly spent money

[Anonymous No.5061025]

>>5059156
>the ultimate computer video game system... by magnavox
Where the fuck is Magnavox these days?

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5061032]

>>5060057
Pretty steep for garage sale prices though it looks like you managed to find someone with some taste and I'm sure that's well before eBay prices. I still go to yard sales when I have time just to nose around I just rarely find anything to buy

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5061039]

>>5060104
There are a lot of awesome arcade games.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K-lVyYtkgRY

But yes the majority of the effort in preservation at this point is fairly academic. The truly heartbreaking lost games aren't retro, it's all the server side content that was kept tightly protected by the publishers to preserve profitability until the point it became unprofitable then flushed right down the toilet. Hopefully dead online games will have their server software eventually offered up for sale to the community but for a couple decades now it's been pretty grim and most gamers are blissfully unaware.

[Anonymous No.5061097]

>>5058184
Yikes

[Anonymous No.5061475]

>>5058184

This is the most impotent rage I've seen in a while. Why wouldn't 18 year olds gush over the SNES? It's a fucking good system, especially when compared to fortnite or whatever kids are playing now.

Pull yourself together man, I like talking to young kids who are getting into the hobby, you would too if you didn't have a stick so hard up your ass.

[Anonymous No.5061724]

>>5061039
Ouch. Right in the feels, posting that game.

[Anonymous No.5061750]

>>5061032
How the fuck is that steep? Not even $10 a game. I understand they were cheaper some years ago but that price is in no way unacceptable

[Anonymous No.5062357]

>>5061039
>The truly heartbreaking lost games aren't retro, it's all the server side content that was kept tightly protected by the publishers to preserve profitability until the point it became unprofitable then flushed right down the toilet.

Can you give some examples of this where something of value was lost?
As in, not minor cosmetic DLCs or Korean grindan more-pigs.

[Anonymous No.5062374]

>>5057334
Atari isn't worth anything

[Anonymous No.5062759]

>>5058184
>t. just hit 18 last Saturday

[Anonymous No.5063648]

>>5057334
holy shit this so much.
>Garage sale
>Old boomer sells a powerpc g5 (the mac pro looking one)
>wow nice.jpg
>"how much?"
>500€
>"hum, sorry to tell you that sir but these things are worth 100€ at best today"
>"Well I bought it 11 years ago for 2000€, it wasn't so long ago blah blah blah I think 500€ is an honest price"
Fucking boomers thinking they're asking "honest prices" and couldn't give two shits about the real actual market price. Reminds me of that faggot who was asking me 100€ for a ps2, wtf are these people smoking?

[Anonymous No.5063676]

>>5063648
No idea why someone would pull that shit at a garage sale. Garage sales are for dumping your unwanted garbage and maybe getting a buck or two out of the deal. If you want to sell your shit for "fair prices" then go on craigslist or ebay. I couldn't imagine trying to sell a fucking PS2 at a garage sale for 100 dollarydoos. I actually just picked one up for 5 bucks at a garage sale one neighborhood over.

[Anonymous No.5063682]

>>5063676
idk about garage sales in the US but here in france people organize garage sales indeed with the goal of making good deals onstead of just dumping their stuff. That's pretty infuriating since 99.9% is junk and you still have to fight and negociate to have a Platinum gran turismo 2 for under 20€

[Anonymous No.5063686]

>>5063682
That just seems counter-intuitive to me. You don't sit around on a lawnchair saturday morning with boxes of shit laying around if trying to get market value for your stuff. The whole concept is supposed to be that you don't feel like dealing with the hassle of operating an ebay business and just want to make some cash off your shit. Same way people will unload stuff at pawn shops knowing they aren't getting market value for it. That's the whole point.

[Anonymous No.5063692]

>>5063686
Totally agree with you but people don't want to "get robbed" I guedd and prefer wasting their time and my time over "losing" the price battle. It's more psychological than anything. They "don't want to get fucked".

[Anonymous No.5063760]

>>5057852

Hey poorfag loser, let me tell you about this thing called actually owning and caring about things.

[Anonymous No.5063884]

>>5061025
These days they are basically just a trademark owned by Phillips, their parent company. They were actually owned by Phillips since '74, so shortly after the release of they Odyssey I.

As a brand, its basically had its name rented out to Funai, a Japanese electronics company that creates flat screen TVs for Walmart.

[Anonymous No.5065538]

>>5062374
no way that works

[Anonymous No.5065545]

>>5062374
The .zip is invalid.

[Anonymous No.5065997]

>>5058081
>>don't say anything cuz i'm a pussy
The most pathetic part about this is that, even in your fictional bullshit stories, you're still a pussy.

[Anonymous No.5066026]

>>5065538
>>5065545
Open the BMP with 7-Zip directly then. It works

[Anonymous No.5066249]

>>5057852
Only casual faggot GameCube kiddies redditors emulate

[Anonymous No.5066252]

>>5066249
This.

[Anonymous No.5066253]

>>5060097
>I will never understand why people get their ass in a twist over emulation.
They don't, it's just easy bait when fishing for (You's).

[Dillweed No.5066280]

>>5062374
Yes, yes it is.

[Anonymous No.5067158]

>>5061039
Wait, you can't get city of heroes anymore? What the hell is happening?!

[Anonymous No.5067302]

>>5058184
>How dare people like my video games!
Have fun dying cold and alone.

[babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY No.5067470]

>>5062357
Every Xbox v1 Live Required game's server side content, notably but even one korean mmorpg lost is too much.

[Anonymous No.5068240]

>>5061039
>worlds.com and activeworlds is still active
>all those dead MMOs
Explore those hand-crafted virtual worlds, anons. It'll be too late one day.

[Anonymous No.5068610]

>>5062374
better version

[Anonymous No.5068828]

>these old things dont even go on facebook anymore, 10 eurobucks for the lot is my last offer

[Anonymous No.5069305]

>>5059305
Did you know about their policy for floopy disks? They threw them away. All the thrift stores. All the disks. Didn't matter if they were factory or not. All destroyed. Some have stopped, but the damage has been done. Floppy disk games have become rare as fuck.

[Anonymous No.5069349]

>>5057376
gramps, i may not like that you are a narcissist on an anonymous board, but in some ways you are like /vr/s honorary gramps. i suppose every board needs a fairly approved tripfag. with that being said, i have not even tried to buy any games at garage sales or thrift stores for about 9 months to a year. you are right, its jut not fucking worth it. ebay will always have better prices, just wait a bit and you will be surprised!

[Anonymous No.5069359]

>>5057852
>>5057856


why the extremist views?? its the best to do both, i have a nice collection of games and consoles. a portion of those consoles (only hand held's) i use for emulation. its hard to emulate a lot of things, besides that, emulation often shits the bed with controls. i remember as a kid trying to play smw with a keyboard. while i did get the hang of it eventually, its very easy to tell that a controller is how its "intended to be played". sure you can play fallout or nintendo ds on your phone, but its probably going to suck a fat ballsack of ass.

[Anonymous No.5069365]

>>5058539
>>5058543
>>5058545
>>5058569


ok there are numerous types of people that do things the way they like. why is everything becoming so fucking divisive? i can understand console wars and ff7 vs oot wars, those are fun. but emulation vs real hardware... wtf?!?!? as long as you are enjoying the games, why does it matter.

[Anonymous No.5069368]

>>5069365
Justification. Emufags and their sour grapes, collectorfags and needing validation for the cost of physical systems/games.

[Anonymous No.5069503]

>>5061039

>that fucking ZUNTATA music

I'm jizzing my pants... anyone who's sitting on this and holding out dumping it can eat the fattest part of my dick

[Anonymous No.5069529]

>>5060104
>ok name 5 games like this
>*akhem* I meant name 5 GOOD games

[Anonymous No.5072052]

>>5057334
$50 isn't HORRIBLE. I'd be willing to at least talk to the guy.

I'd settle for $35 if it worked.

[Anonymous No.5072081]

>>5058161
I agree with you. it's really a matter of taking the time to look

[Anonymous No.5072360]

>>5060097
It's the opposite. We're here talking about games and some shitposter comes in and goes "why don't you emulate like meeee?". I don't care if people emulate games or give their friend $20 a week to play Super Mario Bros or whatever. None of it affects me personally. I just play games.

What this guy said: >>5069365

[Anonymous No.5072379]

>>5060110
And you dump them... right... anon?

[Anonymous No.5072392]

Garage sales and flea markets in Canada, as well with retro game stores, are all fucking garbage. I've amassed so much hard-to-find (but were somewhat common back then) stuff from eBay and other sites for the past 9 years that I think if I were to die and my stuff was to get auctioned off, it would probably make local news.

[Anonymous No.5072401]

>>5059197
Son of a bitch, I did not know there could be a Silent Scope installment that could get even more obscure than Silent Scope: Fortune Hunter. What the actual fuck

[Anonymous No.5072406]

>>5072392
>local hoarder dies, buried under pile of earthbound cartridges

[Anonymous No.5072627]

>>5061039
There's also lots of neat Japan-only phone game spinoffs of popular franchises. There's definitely interest in that shit, but a lot of it is gone forever.