Oh that reminds me, I picked this up on ebay a few weeks ago, and don’t have a place for it yet:
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oh i mean emulating NES/SNES is easy and if i wanted to play stuff on the original hardware i’d do everdrives, it’s more just that i miss the bygone days when the prices weren’t insanely high
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I was under the impression that NES games are down from where they were a couple years ago, and N64 stuff is now the hot zone.
I love having all this now hard to find stuff at my fingertips to play just from having been into this for so long (I still have all my original boxed NES games, I bought Earthbound for $15 on clearance at Best Buy, Ninja 5-0 was a birthday present when it was brand new and in stores), but fuck if I look at this stuff as some sort of investment. Those cats who are getting their games graded comic book-style should get stuffed in a locker. I love that boxed Odyssey 2 games are a dime a dozen–that’s how this stuff should be.
Cheap ass Wii and 360 games are where its at now.
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i mean nothing is down from where it was a couple years ago because the pandemic has made prices shoot up way high across the board. it’s true that NES/SNES aren’t gaining in price like they used to 2016 and before, but “down” is relative. it’s more like they’ve pretty much plateaued since then (before the pandemic). so yeah the prices weren’t (before the pandemic) gaining like they were earlier, but they’re still really expensive compared to where they used to be 2012 and before, and probably won’t go down that much after the pandemic.
these are the average online sales of all NES/SNES games from www.pricecharting.com from 2008 until now so you can see what i’m talking about
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can anyone imagine his 10 year old self, thinking about what the future of gaming could be. And then seeing his 30+ year old self looking at index charts/average price charts for videogames to find out when it is the best time to buy tokens of their youth as remnants to a distant past that has been sold off to moved to other places?*
That thought is just killing me, and notwithstanding their absolute usefulness, it is soulcrushing to find out that this is even a thing.
*: actually, that would have been a nice stockmarket item for steambot chronicles (shoutouts to daphny for having that proudly on display, next or along with too many hack//games, i absolutely salute your dedication to this series).
Maybe i should dig out what i have in boxes stored in the basement, because that’s more interesting than my current shelf which i’ll take a picture of in a few minutes.
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alright, here’s a pic of my collection at display (of some sorts), the idea being that everything that does not fit in there, has to go, and new entries will push out older ones.
the second row in the bottom shelf:
have a laugh at my movie collection…
and last, but not least, muzik…
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and before you ask, yes, that’s a Citroën DS floating around my flat there…
they also went nuts with their ads, yes.
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it’s capitalism, baby. if sellers are going to price gouge for a lot of adults who feel spiritually empty and want to celebrate at the Church Of Nostalgia and thus will spend anything to to tearfully relive the nostalgia of their youth in order to further move forward on their quest to regress slowly back into their mother’s womb, it’s good at least to know what the market is like for that
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I think I used to store my SNES and NES cartridges in exactly the same plastic tub, the way those SNES cartridges are stuffed in on the one side is giving me serious 1996 vibes
BGM playing in my head during the rest of your post.
That aside, I have a few friends who have started buying used consoles over the course of the last year or two, seemingly trying to reclaim what they had when the Saturn was around, and… idk, i feel like i am looking at it from the outside, and am not feeling it?
like, i want to be that guy
but end up being more like that gu…duck
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Nostalgia rules. Feeling good about things that have brought you joy in all stages of life rules.
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i am being partially facetious about the nostalgia thing, but i do think the nostalgia industry of “REMEMBER THE 80’s??? REMEMBER THE 90’S YOU GUYS???” on youtube et al is a big reason why the prices of used games from those eras have shot up vastly
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I really do wish I could relive a Friday night where you rented an NES game from Major Video that ended up not sucking and your Mom splurged and got Little Caesar’s pizza for you and the friend staying the night.
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No, and I know your original comment wasn’t even being critical of that notion, just the marketing around it, which I’m totally right beside you with.
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looking at my pile of by-now-retro-games, i clung onto my aqua blue PS2, something-red PS3, X360 and gamecube just because i like to have the possibility to replay a few games i didn’t get around to back then (srsly, 20 years later?!?!), i absolutely agree, looking at these boxes sometimes is enough to feel all warm and fuzzy.
What i kinda look at puzzled is selling collection(s) off, buying them again, selling them and buying again… sure, everyone can do what they want with their $, it’s just why do people do that. I’m a believer of ‘what’s sold, is sold’, and i am looking forward to whether the next decade brings any change to that line of thinking, because people change all the time, and i am kinda looking forward to what will stick around, and what’ll have to go!
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I used to play a ton of the Capitalism demo when I was 9 years old living in the middle of nowhere with nothing better to do, but had forgotten what the name of the game was until I looked up Capitalism Plus just now so thank you???
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yeah i agree with this. the retro gaming community seems like a pretty sad place to be honest, and the artistry/labor that went into a lot of games disappear when it just becomes a commodity fetish object for collectors (usually sad looking men in their 30’s and 40’s from my experience). a lot of those people aren’t even particularly curious of the context things come from other than it being some vague sort of emblem of their childhood or some kind of totemic thing to brag about and hold over someone else.
i have been trying to find a happy medium between following new stuff that gets ignored and old stuff that gets ignored. like i think a lot of older games are more interesting than retro-inspired games that try to emulate them now, but also i try really hard not to romanticize the past and understand its limitations. it’s a tricky line to walk! i have been exhausted being around Indie World sometimes where i was expected to follow and care about whatever the Big New Thing was… but also The Nostalgia Industry dominates so relentlessly with old games that it can be really hard to get any kind of perspective on them not peppered immensely through that lense.
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I love the slim disc cases! Much more elegant than flipping through a binder.
winker PAL content
includes boxes of boxes
a lot of stuff got sold off about 5 years ago to buy things like a couch so anything that involved a lightgun, fishing rod, bongos, 3D pad etc and bad judgments (including galactic attack, xbox silent hill 2, anything ps1, outrun 2, otogi 2) are gone forever
fetish items such as anything gamecube (including my £5 copy of virtua quest) not pictured
Most of this lives under my bed until the mid 2030’s
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yes that is galleon
all found in the wild, thank you to glasgow junkies/pawnshops and dead gameshop G Force in the late nineties/early noughties for bulk of saturn, dreamcast and ngpc stuff
outtrigger cropped out of dreamcast photo and bangai-o illegible ;_;
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