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The Retrogame Bubble Thread - "that's worth HOW MUCH now?!"
- Thread starter Kazin
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- collecting retro games
Sarge
hardcore retro gamin'
Yeah, it seems like those prices are mostly still reasonable. Now, that being said, there are still some rarer titles that sell for a pretty good amount. Something like Magical Pop'n, Fire Emblem Thracia 776, or Rendering Ranger will set you back a pretty penny.
According to PriceCharting, there is a spike, but it's lower than we're seeing with US games. Most folks aren't wanting to snag these random RPGs they can't play, and many of them are very common in Japan anyway.
According to PriceCharting, there is a spike, but it's lower than we're seeing with US games. Most folks aren't wanting to snag these random RPGs they can't play, and many of them are very common in Japan anyway.
Is that the one AKI did? That was basically their last thing before just doing Style Savvy and that one Japan-only smartphone wrestling game?
conchobhar
What's Shenmue?
Just as a lark I wanted to see what Ninja Five-O goes for these days, and I was not disappointed:
I know grading is a scam, but I was still taken aback by this.
I know grading is a scam, but I was still taken aback by this.
I'm still in shock over how much a cart, let alone a CIB copy, of Pokemon Red/Blue will cost you!?
Looking at eBay, it seems like $50-70 for the cart and the manual, and $300+ for the cart and the box. I'll admit, if I knew the boxes would be so valuable I would have saved them! Silly me, only keeping the manuals.
If not for COVID I would be tempted to go to garage sales bright and early and try to get one of those fabled tubs full of games just so it wouldn't fall into the hands of reseller hobbyists.
I was a pretty regular yard seller a few years back and while I have definitely found a few of those fabled tubfulls here and there they are few and far between. I haven't been in a while but my assumption is that the competition is probably even thicker and the deals even sparser than back then. I could probably do an effort post write up of the best practices I developed if anyone is interested.
I've been 'Big Box' PC game collecting for a decade or so and the prices when I started have certainly gone way up... I think most of the forgery stuff happens at the real high-end though.
Yeah, I'm really upset I never pulled the trigger on one when they were new. I still have a sealed copy of Arkanoid DS because I haven't wanted to play it without one.
Twisting the topic to "that's worth how much then?":
I've been cleaning some of my office space to do some rearranging, and that included sorting/moving some boxes from my old room, which includes a bunch of old game stuff... and I came across my actual receipt for buying Chrono Trigger from Babbage's in 1995. I paid $69.99, but that was evidently a discount from their normal list price of $74.99. Converting from 1995 for 2022 dollars, that comes out to a cool $146. Good thing it was for arguably the best console RPG of all time.
Of course, complete in box sets can run you far more than that now. Though interestingly, at a quick glance is looks like you might be able to buy a bare cart and a box/manual *separately* for significantly less total, though presumably not in anywhere near mint condition.
I've been cleaning some of my office space to do some rearranging, and that included sorting/moving some boxes from my old room, which includes a bunch of old game stuff... and I came across my actual receipt for buying Chrono Trigger from Babbage's in 1995. I paid $69.99, but that was evidently a discount from their normal list price of $74.99. Converting from 1995 for 2022 dollars, that comes out to a cool $146. Good thing it was for arguably the best console RPG of all time.
Of course, complete in box sets can run you far more than that now. Though interestingly, at a quick glance is looks like you might be able to buy a bare cart and a box/manual *separately* for significantly less total, though presumably not in anywhere near mint condition.
Just as a lark I wanted to see what Ninja Five-O goes for these days, and I was not disappointed:
I know grading is a scam, but I was still taken aback by this.
Yeah, they can eat my whole ass.
Just as a lark I wanted to see what Ninja Five-O goes for these days, and I was not disappointed:
I know grading is a scam, but I was still taken aback by this.
Beowife asked, "Are you sure there's actually a video game in that?" And I was reminded of my dad messing with con-goers around the time the Death of Superman came out. (If you don't remember, the "Death" issue came in a collectable black bag with an assortment of feelies, and the collectors at the time refused to open the bags because, y'know, collectable.) He started claiming that they ran out of Superman comics in the initial print run, so he had the printers stuff the bags with old issues of G.I. Combat. "Because nobody's going to open them anyway! Who's gonna know?" I remember several rooms full of comic fans who were pretty sure he was joking...but still nervous in case he wasn't.
Sarge
hardcore retro gamin'
Yo dawg, I heard you like screens in your screens.
