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Post by Ex on Apr 8, 2024 20:58:56 GMT -5
it sold for $90K but Simon's Quest only sold for $2K Proof that high disposable income and high taste are not synonymous.
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Post by Ex on Apr 9, 2024 9:34:44 GMT -5
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Post by Sarge on Apr 9, 2024 10:02:57 GMT -5
Someone with a lot of money, and sentimental value. Yeah, I get it to some degree.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Apr 9, 2024 13:57:48 GMT -5
Everything about that is cringe.
Muh sealed game collecting, the weepy "mom" story, the "shout-outs" to other game hoarders, the criminal amount of hashtags, the hand physiognomy. Just awful. "Let people enjoy things." No.
I was never able to get into forums like NintendoAge because it was mostly these types, just with less money.
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Post by Ex on Apr 9, 2024 14:08:52 GMT -5
All true statements.
You know, if this guy just wanted a legit copy of Castlevania for nostalgia reasons, he could have bought an unsealed one for far less money. Still, given how ridiculous the inflationary prices for sealed retro games has become, he may be able sell this investment for triple what he paid, in say ten years. Or, perhaps the speculative worth of the retro gaming market will have cratered by then. Not a bet I'd want to chance $90,000 on.
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Post by Ziggy on Apr 9, 2024 15:44:53 GMT -5
The only thing better than buying a sealed copy of Castlevania is being able to open it.
Many, many years ago when I first purchased the three NES Castlevania games, I got cart-only copies from Funco Land. JUST after purchasing my cart-only copies, I went into another used game store in the mall around the corner from that Funco Land. They had CIB copies of the three NES Castlevania games, each for the same price (Funco Land used to price their games the same regardless of completeness). I didn't have the extra cash to get the CIB copies, being a kid at the time. And I thought it would be too much effort to return to the first location to return the games and then trek back to the other location to get the CIB copies. But man, I really wish that I did!
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Post by Ex on Apr 9, 2024 21:41:28 GMT -5
I'm sure there are many of us that regret selling off/giving away our old 8/16-bit games. These things were trading pennies on the dollar back in the late '90s and early '00s. For me emulation trumped owning the real thing and I gave away most of my games. Nowadays they'd be worth a small, or maybe even medium sized fortune. Does make one wonder if later gens will every command these kind of prices.
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Post by Sarge on Apr 9, 2024 22:30:25 GMT -5
I regret that I didn't have more money back then - there's so many games I would have bought. All told, I'm still sitting on quite the collection, but oh, my kingdom for Little Samson and Panzer Dragoon Saga!
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Post by toei on Apr 9, 2024 22:35:36 GMT -5
I think I briefly owned Panzer Dragoon Saga. At the time it was worth about 150$ IIRC, and Saturn emulation was not really there yet, so the thing to do if you wanted to play it was buy it on ebay (where it surfaced pretty regularly), play it, and sell it right back. You'd make it all back that way, minus maybe a few dollars of shipping (which used to be much cheaper even for International - like 5$ at most), so it was like a rental with a deposit.
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Post by Xeogred on Apr 9, 2024 22:41:53 GMT -5
Even in my teen years, my interest in preserving or seeking out NES games was pretty thin since I went through two NES toasters growing up. I remember at my grandparents they had all kinds of weird fancy cleaner kits for it and the cartridges. Was that stuff ever legit? We've long heard now how blowing in the cartridges actually wasn't that productive. A goofy urban legend that swept the world I guess.
I'm proud of my SNES collection though. Think it's about 60 some games and a lot of mint condition stuff, though no boxes. But I have most of the good US Square Soft releases and Mega Man X2-X3 must be some of the priciest cartridges I own. I inherited my grandparents SNES, it's still in great shape compared to my original from ~1994.
I sold like 20-30 N64 games when the PS2 came out and still kind of regret that. I probably have only a dozen or so N64 games now. Sadly don't have much of a classic SEGA collection worth speaking of nowadays either. Got a boxed Thunder Force IV at least... err sorry, "Lightning Force: Quest for the Darkstar".
I stopped selling games around the PS2 era and on, which is when I got heavily into the PSX as well. Both PSX and PS2 are probably my other biggest libraries next to the SNES and 360.
If I'm being honest, I think the ease of buying things online also kind of killed my interest in the "hunt" for collecting older games. All my SNES games were bought in person and used stores. Nothing but respect for games preservation and those who like playing on old hardware. But I just stick to emulation for those generations now.
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