It looks really cool but if you already have an arcade stick from gen 7 onward brook probably makes an adapter that will allow you to use it on your nintendo switch without any perceptible input delay.
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I did it! I do have a pair of the TvC sticks for the Wii though and its good to know those Brook adapters aren’t laggy.
I grabbed Beowulf for the PS3 and Dante’s Inferno for the 360 for a couple bucks too, so add those to my pile. Gotta justify the time I spent in grad school with both of those.
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damn i should get a brooke converter and esprade innit
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Realizing most of you can’t read the labels for these because I put them all Japanese side out lol (almost all disc based game labels are bilingual)
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look i thought i was moving to ireland so i got rid of all the boxes. it’s not like i play them anyway
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I feel that. Aside from my NES games the only physical game I currently own is Dragon Quest VIII for 3DS. I threw the box in the trash (almost immediately after buying the game) because I didn’t want to make room in my suitcase for an empty game box when I went to Russia. It’s a loose copy that just stays in my 3DS now.
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Was looking for DQM in the first two shots for a while.
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I went to buy Spikeout for Xbox and it looks like prices have quadrupled thanks to covid.
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I just bought Gunvalkyrie though I don’t have a console for it yet but I’ve decided that’ll be my X(box)mas present to myself later this year. Starting to get a bit apprehensive about this whole game collecting thing…gotta limit myself to a strict budget. Thinking Otogi/Panzer Dragoon Orta will be my last ones for 2020.
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My OG Xbox is literally bugged. I think a roach died inside of it and it’s all cobwebby.
It is also one of those pieces of consumer electronics with a clock battery that can apparently burst and leak corrosive fluid if not removed. I am thinking of just writing mine off and buying another one online to pick up some of the not backwards compatibilized JP games you folks mentioned.
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Do people really get these kinds of prices (>800 USD) for Kuon? I have this collection I built up over the years, and I’m starting to wonder if I should dump some of the really expensive titles because I’m not really the type to just collect for collecting’s sake anymore.
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Covid has really spiked the prices of sales of old games online across the board, and that goes extra for a lot of those rare horror titles. niche PS2 was also seeing an uptick even before covid spiked prices. also gamecube game prices have really shot up in the last couple years.
you can really see it here from price charting which tracks online sales of videogames. from 2013-2016 it was selling for only about 100, then about 200 from 2016-2018. it was on its way up to the 300-400 range in early 2020 already but covid has spiked things drastically:
if you wanna sell i guess now is the time? or at least i say that with some caveats. because there’s no guarantee that you’ll actually get it for that 800 dollar price just because someone else was desperate enough to buy it for that and who knows how long these Covid-spiked prices are going to last. i also just feel like this market is a bunch of inflated bullshit and i feel pretty gross about all the speculation that happens (i’d really only dump something i knew to have recently vastly increased in value for a high price if i really needed the money because i feel like the inevitable result of all this speculation is these games all end up in the hands of a bunch of richer collectors who own everything and i don’t really feel good about that happening!) but that’s just me.
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Maybe I’m being dense but I don’t see why COVID specifically has made prices spike. Just because nobody has anything else to do?
Like adding to the physical clutter in my life is the exact opposite of any impulse I’ve had over the past 7 months
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i mean i think a good chunk of people who are buying stuff right now are normies or people who don’t normally have time to spend on videogames who now do rather than collectors who have already accumulated a lot. but yes… people are bored and stuck inside and have a lot more free time in general. and people tend to play videogames when all of those things are happening. also i think some are impulse buying just because they’re anxious. a lot of people were getting unemployment money for a bit than was more than what they were getting for their job and so were willing to just spend it on anything. i’m sure being inside all the time has made more people reflect on nostalgia and stuff of the past more as well. also i think in the US esp a lot of people just don’t know what to do with themselves that doesn’t involve buying something, especially when you can’t go outside.
i’ve actually bought a surprisingly large amount of vinyl during the pandemic, but that’s because of me spending a lot on those bandcamp fridays and most of that money i’ve spent was just money i was making off my own bandcamp sales.
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Might be the lack of open retro game cons, flea markets, antique malls, thrift stores. Folks are buying stuff up online instead of searching around, plus a lot of time indoors means more time for gaming.
Plus we just reached the critical twenty years nostalgia threshold for PS2 so that was going to kick stuff up a few notches anyway.
This is pure speculation, however.
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no you’re definitely right here. a lot of people are willing to spend more just because they want to play something now. that’s also why Gamecube in particular has shot way up (it helps that another Nintendo console is also extremely popular right now).
Holy shit this might be the perfect time to buy up old Wii games nobody wants. Those are going to probably be worth a stupid amount in a few years.
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