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Lizstar
@Lizstar

This shit annoys me so much.

I want a time machine, not to like, assassinate world leaders or anything, but mostly so I can go back with a hundred bucks and get shit that is unaffordable now for no god damn reason.


invis
@invis
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the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi
@the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi

I am so glad that I got a job right at the last moment Genesis games were affordable. I'm pretty sure I paid like...$5 for my loose copy of Rocket Knight Adventures. I think my 32X was $25 and came with a handful of games (I don't think any were 32X games)


lifning
@lifning

silver lining of the dreamcast dying: they had consoles stacked in a big pile on the floor of the local gamestop for $5 a pop. walked away with half a dozen, most of which i later gave to friends who wanted to experience dreamcast games but missed that window


dog
@dog

My first Saturn was a brand-new refurb for $50 from the Electronics Boutique clearance bin. It was full of games that, in retrospect, would have been really good deals if I'd had the money as a teenager - Saturn SoTN for $40, etc.

I get that retro games has turned into a luxury hobby, but it's too bad, because it's one of those things where I wish sharing cool original objects wasn't so expensive. I'm glad emulation is so easy now and ROMs/ISOs are everywhere now - not like when it used to take hours or days/weeks to track down particular rare PS1/Saturn ISOs


ann-arcana
@ann-arcana

Damn near every game and console I owned, for years, was all bought from pawn shops and used game stores. I couldn't afford brand new prices until they started coming down in the PS1 era, and even then my new purchases were few and far between. Everything else was used bargains.

The scalping going on in the wake of the "games rating" scandals with Wata/Heritage/et. al. is a fucking travesty, but scalpers were around even back then. Shops would hoard stacks of perceived rare titles like the Square RPGs and then release them one at a time for inflated prices.

I feel like the speculation bubble of the moment though was kind of inevitable. There's only so many of these things to go around and I wonder if perhaps the increasing push towards digital has people seeing rarity in any damn thing, as if they're panicking that there just won't be physical media anymore period.


dog
@dog

I've long since lost the link to the post, but back in the late 90s or early 2000s I remember a guy pulling off his masterstroke anti-scalper move. He found an entire box of some or other mythically rare game, all still sealed. He started contacting well-known collectors privately, offering to sell them one of the copies so long as they kept it a secret and didn't reveal the source. Naturally they agreed, because where else were they going to get this in that kind of condition? Over the course of several years he finally emptied his box, and then - he revealed it all publicly, immediately tanking the value of the game overnight. I have to admire the patience it took to pull that off.


the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi
@the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi

If I'm recalling the story correctly this was a game boy game wasn't it? Knight Quest, IIRC? Used to go for like thousands of dollars?


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So many stories of failed video game products that end with "and then they liquidated the stock by selling it for next to nothing" about products that are now hundreds of dollars

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