This is the most depressing shit to me regarding anything involving video games.

>>714622057 (OP)
None of these are good games so it doesn't impact me at all.

Poorfag

>>714622057 (OP)
If you were a true nintendo fan you would’ve bought these games when they first released.

maybe get a job?

What am I missing here, what's wrong

>>714622057 (OP)
You can't convince me people buy this shit

>>714622057 (OP)
>$100 for WarioWare MPG
Jesus fucking christ.

>>714622057 (OP)
Buy games on other systems instead
GameCube games are only that expensive because so many people have been inspired by the various Nintendo Youtubers to try collecting fullsets or to resell these games to people who do
Thankfully outside of Nintendo very few people are doing fullsets so stuff like most PlayStation and Sega games have remained relatively affordable even amidst the retro market bubble. Of course there's still expensive stuff out there but it's not insane across the board unlike most Nintendo games. You're never gonna see of Final Fantasy X selling for $84.99.

It's all fake and gay bullshit too. None of these games are rare. Same thing with the Pokémon games, those things sold millions of copies.
I can understand obscure JRPGs being expensive, just because there's a limited number on the market because they didn't have high sales, but this is just people being massive retarted faggots.

>>714622249
You underestimate the retardation of jewtendo fags.

>mfw remembering how my parents sold my gamecube and gamecube collection while I was at school in 5th grade
>realize years later that they couldn't pay rent that month because my dad was a gambling addict
They "apologized" by buying me a Wii when it launched but still.

>>714622569
This. You can get far better original Xbox games for far cheaper and not deal with the cubes inferior picture quality and shitty unreliable disc drive and inferior ports. And if you're a fag looking to drop big cash on games, for the price of one mediocre gamecube title you can get one of the best games of all time. And even play it online for free.

I remember Geist being at Walmart for 5 bucks. It wasn't even behind the glass.

I don't see much reason to buy such old games.
If you're into collecting then that's the price you have to pay if you don't want to shop around. Altough gamecube isn't that old that you couldn't just have bought those earlier when it was cheaper.
I don't know man. Just get wii and pirate the games?
I sometimes look at car that I wanted to buy when I was younger. It's never on sale and if it is then it costs lots of money. I'm not gonna blame the market for it. Just myself for not getting one when those were actually available and reasonable priced.

>Be a kid
>Buy games at the Salvation Army
>Notice over time they stopped selling games
>Never understood why
>Never ever see games in there anymore
>Find out as an adult it's because employees are pocketing or buying game donations

>>714622141
>kirby air ride
>ttyd
>fucking luigis mansion
Alright, fine (you)

>>714622057 (OP)
I sold my entire GameCube game collection for like $30 a few years ago. Whoops.

>>714622731
I bought a copy of Crazy Taxi 3 for $30 and there's an old sticker on it that says "PRE-OWNED $5" under the new sticker.

>>714622749
>Altough gamecube isn't that old that you couldn't just have bought those earlier when it was cheaper.
Anon, the gamecube came out over 20 years ago. A lot of the posters here weren't even alive then.

Also in hindsight it's easy to say that.
>bitcoin used to be so cheap bro, why didn't you just buy it when it was low?

>>714622749
This is from the era where it's better to emulate. 3D games that were made for standard def screens or handhelds benefit massively from being rendered at the naive resolution of your modern TV or monitor. Usually you get a better experience.

>>714622057 (OP)
>tfw bought mario party 4 and 5 for 20 bucks each recently
heh

>>714622285
I remember renting that game for like $5 and feeling a bit ripped off.

>>714622852
worked in a "non profit" thrift store type of thing. we had free pick up thing. like people could call to pick up things that they want to donate.
if there was ever anything that anyone was interested it usually got nicked on the transit

>>714622569
I saw a copy of Crash: Mind Over Mutant and wanted to try it out until the guy spreadsheeted me and said it was $38. This is a game I always heard was ass as a kid so I avoided like the plague, but now wanted to give it a shot thinking it would be cheap-as-fuck because there's no demand for it.

>>714622057 (OP)
Who cares? Just pirate them.

>>714622057 (OP)
i cant stand to see so many game cases fucking ruined with stickers

I need to flip my Skies of Arcadia disc. That's worth around $100.

>>714622181
this
you don't need to buy someone else's childhood trinkets
cherish what you own, share it with those you care about, and don't covet what wasn't yours

if you want to play the game, you have several avenues to play the game without paying re-re-sellers

>>714622057 (OP)
>Paper Mario $125
Don't know what boomer store you're going to but they are hilariously overpriced compared to Ebay

>>714622057 (OP)
You're a fag then. Just buy a used Wii got 50 dollars and soft mod.
It's functionally identical to playing disc games.
The only reason you'd want to collect is because you want plastic and cardboard instead of actually playing games.

>>714622057 (OP)
>Remember seeing both Go Go Hypergrind and Chulip for $5 at Gamestop as a kid.
>Really wanted to play them.
>Went with some dogshit shovelware game instead.
>Now both of those games cost an arm and a leg.
I want to kill my younger self for never making any good decisions.

>>714622057 (OP)
Sunshine costs like $30 on ebay

>>714622057 (OP)
I can't wait for the day the retro Nintendo bubble finally bursts.

>>714622569
>You're never gonna see of Final Fantasy X selling for $84.99.
This. I recently bought it for like $10

>>714623473
>>714623538
Probably just an old pic.

I hope repros flood the market and just crash all this shit. Fuck these stores lol

I have a shitload of GameCube roms on my NAS. Why would I pay for this shit?

>>714623535
>mfw remembering how I threw out all of the boxes and manuals I had for games when I was a kid

>>714622057 (OP)
>player's choice weegee mansion
>$85 USD
lmao turbo jew.

>>714622181
yeah why didn't i just go to gamestop as an baby who only crawls and ask for a fresh copy of luigi's mansion

>>714622057 (OP)
I bought Wind Waker for $4 at a toys r us about a week after its release because some employee had accidentally put it in a bargain bin case and they honored it at the counter.

>>714622672
Or I could just very easily emulate the entire Gamecube catalog for free. There's actually a lot of variety on there that doesn't get talked about because casuals just focus on the entries from iconic Nintendo IPs.

>>714623412
they come right off with some nail polish

>>714622057 (OP)
>canadian dollars

>>714622057 (OP)
this kike probably yanked the manuals and inserts out and charges for them.

>>714622057 (OP)
Oh cool. I found a game for $10 a couple years ago that's now worth $125.
See how that works? Maybe stop being lazy bandwagoner. And it wouldn't bother you so much. Every single one of these games you can play RIGHT NOW for free.

Post you GameCube collections.

>>714623928
*your

>>714622057 (OP)
>$65
>Harry Potter Shovelware

Amazing value prospect. Even for Sega/Sony systems some of the prices are gouged as fuck too. When I saw what my Silent Hill and .Hack sets were going for I about fainted.

>be a teenager when blockbusters, hollywood videos, and local video stores began closing down
>all the stores began to clear out their inventory
>bought a bunch of good games
feels good man

>>714623740
>There's actually a lot of variety on there that doesn't get talked about because casuals just focus on the entries from iconic Nintendo IPs.
On the gamecube? Not really. It had a smaller library than dreamcast.

>>714622912
i did this as a kid. sold all these games and got like $1 for each of them. fucking GameStop!

>>714622057 (OP)
>Nintendieshit prices
don't care, collectorfags deserve the rope. So do fags who collect all pokemon games.
emulation is free

>>714623928
I had a copy of MGS twin snakes. My copy was missing the manual and the discs both had label wrinkles. Which sometimes causes disc rot. Sometimes not. I didn't want to bother with the hassle of selling it online so I sold it to a local store for a decent bit of store credit I used towards a Vectrex. Was that a dumb thing to do?

>>714622569
Bro there are sega genesis games regularly going for $100+, what the fuck are you even talking about.

Here let me just search up a random playstation one game. Bloody Roar 2, that was a good one. Probably like $30 right? WRONG. It's $120 used. Nintendo only my fucking ass.

>>714622057 (OP)
Isn't Gamecube port of Twilight Princess is almost $200?

>>714624158
Like I said, casuals don't know about it.

>>714624294
You know you can play all those games for free right now and not be an insufferable faggot, right?

>>714623928
I'm running out of shelf space.

>>714624408
What's he gonna play it on, his obamaphone?

>>714622057 (OP)
You may not like it. But this is was peak Nintendo

>>714622057 (OP)
>tfw Nintendo almost gotten the exclusivity license for Harry Potter then J.K Rowling told them to fuck off

>>714624381
>Bloody Roar 2
It's expensive but getting a good used copy for around $50 isn't that hard to do.

>>714624382
Yea, it's been rare for ages. And in demand for ages because it's the best version of the game.

>>714622057 (OP)
Not as depressing as a live service game being live service for no reason and eventually dying.

>>714623928
YEAAAAAH BATTALION WARS

>Just mod consoles and you can play the whole library for free!
I guess. But is that the only way to enjoy games made prior to a certain year? I can go into a comic or book shop and discover old things for cheap. I can do this with movies, TV shows, manga, board games. I'm free to blindly discover things I think might be interesting in a hobby shop and go through the much more fun process of finding out, "Oh, this is great! I never knew about it before!". I get to crack open the comics, skim them a bit, check out the covers, actually feel like I'm fucking exploring my options.

But for older games, I'm forced into this sterile, "Load everything on a disc and boot up a menu" bullshit. That ain't the way to explore entertainment. How would you prefer to look at paintings? Walking around hallways in a museum with little plaques giving you further information about it, a fucking ZIP file full of JPEGs and a .txt document that you have to look through to find out information about each image?

I know that's just the way it is unless this shit crashes, but you guys gotta see how soulless this is, right?

>>714624628
My boxed PC games collection is massive. Even just for loose discs I have binders full of games. I'm sad that's it's so rare for me to find games out in the wild anymore. Or be able to by lots of loose discs of decent shit for cheap online. At least I collected when it was still possible.

>>714624559
>Bloody Roar 2 is $50 now.
Damn, I found a copy at the thrift store for $7 the other week. Must've gotten lucky.

>>714624559
>but getting a good used copy for around $50 isn't that hard to do.
And you could say the same for a lot of gamecube games if you go to a few garage sales or whatever.

Look, I can find Mario Sunshine for $30-40, probably cheaper. Pikmin on the gamecube, 30-40. Luigi's mansion, 40-50. Smash Melee, 30-40.

yeah, if you want a game that flopped horribly like say Fire Emblem path of radiance, well then it's gonna cost you a pretty penny because only so many of them were made and nobody bought it. But to pretend like all the Nintendo games are absurdly priced is silly. You can get most of the good gamecube games for pretty fucking cheap, cheaper than they retailed for.

>>714624732
the paradox of choice is a helluva one

I kept all my games but I threw out the cases and manuals as a teenager. Moved all my game to one giant 100+ CD case. I hated using up all the shelf space as a kid when it was limited to my bedroom, but now that I have my own place, I wish I didn't do that.

>>714624846
I sold a fuck ton of my pokemon cards to the neighbor girl for a fucking quarter. Maybe that was the right thing to do, who knows. Tons of people hoard crap their entire lives thinking it's worth something, and then they got a bunch of garbage to hold on. Like yeah I get many of these games hold their value, but people have entire bookshelves of these things just sitting in their basement taking up a fuck ton of space. That shit's gotta be dusted and cleaned. It may not seem like it but you may have been thinking more rationally then when you downsized to how you're regretting it now.

>>714624817
You did. Congrats.
>>714624821
I just looked on ebay and looked for what recently sold. I still think $50 for that game is pretty steep, but it's a lot better than $120.

>>714622057 (OP)
I remember when games used to go down in price over time but now they only go up. Even consoles, the PS5 is 5 years old and it went up by $50 instead of down. The fuck is going on?

I think I'll just sell all the video games stuff I've for cheap in bulk when and if I sell. Don't care that much about money. Or maybe I'll burn it all if I know I'm dying soon.
People ask way too much for that stuff on flea market etc nowadays. Not that it matters. Only people interested in that are collectors really.

Physical Vidya should be like physical movies and never stop being produced unless it's some shit nobody cares about. It should be mandatory that every new console has backwards compatibility.

>>714624732
It's not that I don't agree with you, there's just not much can do about it. I still hold on to my physical games at least.

>>714622672
>You can get far better original Xbox games for far cheaper
not for much longer if you go around telling everyone

Why are eBay sellers so fucking greedy? I've been checking it for GameCube games for my collection and the games are either shit condition with no manual at the exact market price, double or even triple the actual value because they're HECKING MINT VGC COLLECTOR'S CONDITION RARE, or some fag trying to scam retards by reprinting a shitty cover and then charging the same as CiB. Actual good listings in decent condition and fully complete at a fair price don't tend to last very long, you have to autistically check constantly.

>>714624732
I know how you feel, but at least it's an option. I'd much rather load a game on a modded console than go out of my way to pay some shithead an insane amount of money for a game that used to be in the bargain bin.

>>714622057 (OP)
some of those games have pretty much had the same price since launch
cube titles were always a little pricer on resale than ps2 or xbox because everything had smaller runs
t. worked at local used vidya store at that time

>>714625196
pretty sure that movies don't get produced forever. unless your talking about bootlegs or public domain movies

>>714622057 (OP)
>Go to FUCKING Gamestop earlier.
>They were selling a cart only copy of Tomodachi Life for $120
>A couple case only Silent Hill games for $100-$150

>>714622057 (OP)
Why the fuck did Americlaps put the system logo on the wrong side of the spine

>>714625436
I'm 99% sure you'll still be able to buy a fresh new copy of steven spielbergs JAWS at walmart in the year 2100. It doesn't even have to be movies. You'll still be able to buy newly produced copies of many classics books too. Yet gamecube bing bing wahoo will be worth a 300,000k and considered priceless ancient artifact because game companies are top retarded to produce old games and workout their licensing shit.

>>714625790
is just less sellable product. old books movies people might actually buy. niche stuff

>>714626332
>is just less sellable product
yeah that's why they're so cheap now

oh wait

>be at flea market
>look through some vendors GameCube game carrying case
>See dozens up on dozens of shovelware until suddenly I see...
>Gotcha Force
>I ask the price and he says he doesn't know that game and that he needs to check how much it goes for
>resign myself to having to walk away after some outrageous offer
>internet ends up not working so he can't check
>offers to sell it for me for 20 bucks

That games good but way too fucking expensive.

>>714626409
yea there's very limited market for that stuff. not worth it for anyone

>>714626751
>>I ask the price and he says he doesn't know that game and that he needs to check how much it goes for
This is the worst fucking shit. They always go by the first results on google, which are usually the most ludicrous, out of touch prices you could ever find.

>>714623928
Boxed games

>>714622057 (OP)
It really shouldn't be.
You have options at your disposal to not pay a lot of money for old games.
Behold;
Just emulate
It's that easy. GCN emulation can be done on pretty much anything now.
>b-but muh real hardware
Then buy a Wii, a GCN controller, and hack the fucker. All you need is a micro SD card and you're good, it runs GCN natively.
>b-but muh official!!
Buy a fucking Switch 2, buy the $100 GCN bluetooth controller, and play the games on NSO. Of the shit in your image, I bet the following will be on NSO at some point before the end of next year:
>Kirby Airride
>Wario Ware Inc
>Four Swords Adventures
>Luigi's Mansion
>Mario Part 4&5
>Super Mario Sunshine
The rest are either on there or are licensed shit (or are Smash which Nintendo doesn't add to NSO for some reason).

>>714626782
you're a bit dense aren't you?

>>714623928
>>714627521
Loose games
All of the games in this image except for the Double Dash Bonus Disc were from my childhood, so excuse the shovelware.
Also some of these I'm holding for my brother until he gets a Gamecube (or a Wii that can play Gamecube games)

>>714625790
You can buy GameCube on the Switch 2 so they're doing exactly what you're saying.
Also, I can promise whatever original edition print of Jaws came out on home media for is worth hundreds of dollars.

>>714627650
maybe you are.
nobody in real life has gamecubes for example or use it. who the fuck would go to wallmart to buy god damn gamecube games in 2025

>>714625790
The biggest difference is that DVDs and books are easily mass produced for super cheap. To print new CDs for each console would be significantly more costly for something that is way more niche than DVDs or books. I'd love to be able to buy a new copy of Pokemon Collusion for $20, but it's just not going to happen.

>>714622057 (OP)
The humble dolphin:

Just emulate them.

>>714622249
I work in a retro game shop.
I sold a PS1, memory card, extra controller, and about five games to a guy for around $170 today.

>>714622569
Can confirm. Multiplatform games look better on the Xbox, and tend to be fair cheaper.

>>714622057 (OP)
It's funny because I have all of those on my PC with HD rendering for free which took about 10 minutes to get set up

>>714628254
Not bad. Doesn't sound too greedy and if you're running a shop you need to make some money

>tfw they put the stickers INSIDE the paper label instead of the outter plastic

>>714622057 (OP)
Thank nintendo for not having a proper option to play any of these in the last 20 years and for having games so shitty people want to go back to gamecube of all things.

>>714628423
Ive also has to badger the owner from attempting to sell a copy of Emerald at 300 when it was completely missing the label.
>"200 then."
Progress, but man.
We've got PS1s for 90, Dreamcast for 170, Xbox's for 140, and Saturns for 250? Who the fuck wants a Saturn?

>>714628453
I fucking hate that so much. If someone's selling is a game and I see they have that, unless it's a very wanted game, I reject it. I've discovered a way of, very slowly, removing those stickers. It takes ten minutes and it's fucking ASS

>>714622057 (OP)
You can either emulate GameCube or play it on NSO. It really doesn’t matter that the originals cost a lot of money.

>>714622057 (OP)
imagine playing mario party unironically and not stoned or completely pants on head wasted

>>714622057 (OP)
Do these actually sell? I bought a shitton of used ps2 games over a decade ago for 5-10 a piece. Could I actually sell them for money?

>>714628643
>We've got PS1s for 90
I remember when thrift stores were filled to the brim with PS1s for 5 bucks each.

>This is the most depressing shit to me regarding anything involving video games

I recently sold pokemon heart gold for $120 (without manual or cover)
And Wind waker hd for $80
Maybe i could have gotten more for them, but they're literally trash for me since i just pirate on my ds or emulate on cemu for a superior experience anyway
I love nintentards kek

>>714628772
Me too man. I can't ride him too hard. He lets me take the PC games home since we don't sell them, and I get first dibs at anything not yet out on the floor. Outside of prices and trade in policies, he's a nice fella.

>>714628891
>That Robocop machine.
Makes me wanna cry.

>>714628891
Holy shit that is depressing.

>not emulating

jesus christ ur such a loser

>>714622057 (OP)
I really miss the glory days of physical gaming, before consoomer establishments knew how to use the internet and vidya having differing value

I would always go into pawn shops and thrift stores with my dad and browse through all the used games. They had the same $5 price sticker on all SNES cartridges whether it was some shitty sports game or any of the SNES gems. It was like hunting for treasure.

>>714628772
Renting business locations isn't exactly cheap, but yea I got lots of those from electric waste recyclement centers back in the day. Nowadays even trash is big money and "heavily" guarded. People used to have literal camps around landfills not that many decades ago.
Running business takes money nothing to do about that.

>>714623928
Gameboy Player not pictured. I'm missing a ton of classics like Metroid Prime, OoT MQ, etc, but there's no point in buying them now due to the prices and how easy it is to just download the ISOs instead.
>Someone stole the Melee disc in college
if you somehow read this i hope you choke
>>714627521
What the fuck is that TTYD cover

I got a Gamecube for like $15 back in 2012

>>714628891
I thought this a blue board. Who would do such a horrible thing.

>>714629453
>What the fuck is that TTYD cover
You never got a game with a Hollywood Video/Blockbuster replacement cover?

>>714629551
you could always print out a copy of the original cover and replace it in the sleeve

>>714623928
i've posted it a few times over the years.

>>714629703
>That PS5 library for comparison
my fucking sides

>>714622569
>fullsets
Why would anyone willingly collect all the EA Sports and mindless shovelware movie license games? To impress who?

>>714629703
God damn, I'm jelly. I really wish I didn't end up losing my box and mic clip for Odama.

>regular comes in that's a collector and fucking annoying.
>Keeps wanting to haggle on the price for the tiniest imperfection.
>He keeps talking about useless garbage.
>Last week he pushed it, asking for me to discount a copy of Eternal Darkness for a very small scratch half the length of my pinky nail, and for a bit of discoloration on the cover.
>I was very busy with four other people and he kept badgering.
>I pull him aside and quietly, but firmly, ask him to stop. He knows we don't haggle, he knows we test our games and that I would've tested ED before we put it out, and that him constantly trying to grab my attention and butting into conversations was very annoying and inappropriate for a man his age.
>He just left. Called the owner that night and complained. Owner asked me what happened and he heard me out. Repeated what I told him. Showed him on the CCTV what happened.
>Said he'd talk to him.
>He didn't come in today, but I couldn't tell if it was because he spoke to him or the rain.
Was I in the wrong? He always does this and it got on my last nerve.

I know someone who spent $30 for two GameCube games on Facebook market, it was for Lord Of The Rings & Harry Potter.

>>714622057 (OP)
>got Eternal Darkness, Chibi Robo and Custom Robo for $35 each CIB before the collector tax bullshit

>>714630104
wasn't the gamecube LotR pretty good? it had a co-op campaign

>>714622672
Original Xbox games aren't worth shit, unless it's halo.

Just traded all this into gamestop for $37 store credit, jk I'm never selling.

>>714622285
fuck you i looked it up on ebay it doesn't go for that much
captcha:TXRG0Y

>>714628726
Use steam

Retro gamestop sucks, never go there

Don't have any pics but I bought a shit ton of PS1/2 games before the coof.
Love the fact that I own actual physical copies of the Silent Hill 1-4 games, on top of that, I have two copies of SH2.
>>714629703
>>714629818
What's crazy is that in that gen, the GC was considered the least favorite when it came to games compared to XBox/PS2.

>>714630396
It's gone down since that pic was taken then. I remember it being almost $100 a while back even though the game is barely worth $20 in my opinion.

>>714630420
This is for the shop mate.

>>714630420
fuck off, gaben

>>714630458
"i only buy mature games for mature people like myself" as said by the 12 year old

it was very much a mindset of the time.

>>714628726
>I've discovered a way of, very slowly, removing those stickers
how do you do it without damaging the paper

>>714628453
They do that because otherwise browns will switch price stickers

>>714629703
games are expensive.

>>714623704
If you aren't old enough to buy it you do not deserve to own it. You're lucky to have the privilege to pay resellers for it. You have no business having it at all. And no matter how much you like it, make reddit YouTube Twitter posts about it, or have it on a shelf behind you while you record said narcissistic wank for social media, you never will.

*micdrop*

>>714630686
It depends entirely on the sticker but after first taking it out of the case sleeve and flattening it, what you want to do is with a finger, push carefully on the corners. Go back and forth over and over. It begins to lift gently. Focus on the side closest to the edge. Lift two corners, and gently shimmy it upward over and over. Once more than half has been pulled away, grasp it with your index and thumb and tug gently and slowly. It's not always 100% but it does work, and any damage that it does suffer is incredibly minor. It doesn't always work since I'm a habitual nail biter and you need nails for it.

>>714622569
Playstation 2 has plenty of rare games.

Final Fantasy X sold millions and has a shitty remaster that notaste gamertards love, of course it's cheap.

>>714622852
I found MKWii and Wii Sports Resort at a Salvation Army a few years ago for a reasonable price.
I never found anything good there since

RIP Blockbuster. This was dated 2003. I actually bought it for $35 a few years later and this receipt was still in the box.

>>714631262
>Found 2 Vega 64 GPUs at the Salvation Army for $100 back in 2017.
>Haven't found anything good since.
I literally blew a decades worth of luck that day.

>>714630921
How are people supposed to even afford games anymore?

>>714631385
cubivore was one of those games i wanted to pick up but never did, at least i got go go hypergrind for $10-15 from EB back in the day.

>>714631110
Fucking played the game in you post and holy shit was it so mediocre, and yet it is going for $350+.

>>714631385
>Never returned my copy of Sorcerers Stone...
>Eventually called up the location in Juno. Asked if my account was still there. It was.
>"Anon, you owe around 14,-"
>Click!

>>714631449
rare doesn't always mean good, sometimes rarity shoots it to the moon.

imagine how expensive that game would be if it was actually good too.

>>714631262
I found animal crossing gamecube and harvest moon a wonderful life in a thrift store back in like 2012. My mom only let me buy one and I chose a wonderful life IIRC they were only like 20 each.

the gamecube looked retarded and had a shitty controller. the ps2 had all the cool games not faggot baby games. at the time every boy only cared about what was cool, truly better times. also my local video rental shop didnt even store gamecube games

>>714631584
Gaystation niggas were seething when they couldn't play RE4
>nuh uh nobody cared!
Sure bro.

>>714625790
>He still thinks physical media will exist 75 years from now
Do you know how fast physical media went away for PC games for instance? How about music going from records, CDs, tapes, and now everyone just listens on apps like Soundcloud? Everything is becoming digital now, this is only the beginning. Physical media won't last for another 20 years.

>>714631447
It's pretty damn weird and can be awkward to play sometimes, but it's worth emulating. It has a tone that I still haven't seen replicated in a game since and has some interesting progression mechanics.

>Gaystation this, Gaycube that
>Here I am, holding my Gaybox and copy of Gaylo: Cumbat Evolved

>>714631704
Then they got a port and tried to cope that it wasn't the inferior way to play RE4 lol

>>714631801
>cumbat evolved
So that's where covid came from

>>714631813
b-but it had the Ada campaign.

>>714631861
>Should've activated the Ring

>>714631731
i was trying to get every unique gamecube game that interested me back in the day, i got most of what i wanted except cubivore, p.n. 03, the mario party games, and a couple of the resident evil remakes.

this is mine: >>714629703


i actually used to stream this stuff during the justin tv days

>>714631584
>he didn't have friends to play Melee with
>F-zero GX
>faggot baby game
Lol you are coping nigga.

People look back on PS2 as a glorified DVD player. Gamecube nostalgia is peaking right now though, people only look back on it fondly because the games were great. The games on PS2 haven't aged nearly as well, most of them being multiplats. You guys had Tekken and GTA, God of War. I don't really remember anything else that people were playing at the time. PS1 had a much better library than 2.

>>714631584
>he was a poorfag that didnt have all three consoles
lol
lmao even
did you enjoy the worst console version of re4?

>>714631875
and then the wii version came out with all the extra content and based pointer controls and mogged both both versions.

>>714631951
real ones hung out in city trial on air ride

I've got more nostalgia for my Xbox and the friends that came over for Halo, Pro Skater 4, Turok, and Mechassault than anything we had on the GameCube.

>>714632028
RE4 on Wii may be ez mode, but god damn it is the best way to play the game.

>>714622057 (OP)
Dude I live in Jew jersey and even there the prices arent that fucked. Those yellow spines should be half that price easily nobody wants them their ugly

>>714630921
You're posting the 2nd/3rd most expensive game on the system (dependent if you consider Pokemon Box a "game" of course it's overpriced

>>714632092
You know it.

You hyped for Air Riders anon? Would be nice to see some actual gameplay, but you can bet City Trial is coming back in some form with how Sakurai keeps referencing it in other games of his

>>714632186
that would involve buying a switch 2, so no

>>714622672
>Posts a $400 game
You dumb nigger

>>714632186
im glad air riders is happening but at the same time im just not interested in getting a switch 2 currently, didnt even play the first switch much despite getting it at launch

>>714629703
>Custom Robo
Mein negar. Took me years to find a physical copy and they aren't cheap

>>714623819
New games cost $100 up here, so those prices are cheap

>>714632163
Imo the entire game is EZ mode. The motion controls are so good that it's worth it even if it makes it easier. People don't really play RE4 because it's difficult. They play it because it's a cool fucking game and the pointer controls only make it more fun. I understand the appeal of playing it with a gamecube controller or whatever though. But I'm a sucker for good pointer controls. Shout out to Sin and Punishment 2, play that fucking game if you haven't yet. Best on rails shooter ever made, awesome usage of pointer controls.

>>714632240
>>714632357
Fair enough anons, no need to go full consoomer over one game but for me there's lots of Switch games I already have and new ones I'm looking forward to so it was a no-brainer. I'll let you know how Air Riders goes.

>The Dreamcast was more fun

>>714623535
I had a choice between Juka and the Monophonic Menace and Shantae, guess which I picked? Juka is still sealed cause I got a flashcart shortly after

>>714632476
>Sin and Punishment: Star Successor is $50 nowadays.
God damn I regret not getting it when it was $5. I really need to hack my Wii already.

>>714631584
Being a GameCube kid required monk like discipline

>>714632528
thank you anon, hope you enjoy the game for us!

>>714632650
Yeah you should, it's easy as sin.

>>714631951
I grew up with the cube and love it to death but the PS2 is pretty goated

>>714632163
Tmp stock was insane using the zapper. No recoil at all so much fun Wii version is a good time

>Sega's Gamecube games cost this much now
Goddamn...

>>714632751
Console war shitposting aside, help a nigga out.
What are the must play PS2 games? I know there were a lot of good RPGs that went under the radar yeah. What's that in your image?

Off the top of my head I wanted to play games like Ico and Shadow of the Colossus in their original forms and not the remasters that came later. What are some other good ones? Final Fantasy X I know is a classic despite being well memed. I know that's all surface level stuff but I never had a PS2 so you'll have to help me out with the deep cuts

>>714632671
>I was the only kid that had a Wii while everyone else had a 360.
I felt like the fucking hunchback of Notre Dame.

>>714632419
i got it brand new, i remembered the series from when i used to emulate it on the n64, pretty sure i bought it in the release window either late 2004 or 2005, one of the few gamecube games i bought at full price.

>>714632671
Idk man as a former sega fag I was pretty content with being a tendie during the Gamecube era. Got a looooot of mileage out of games like monkey ball, melee, and really quite enjoyed rpgs like Lost Kingdoms and Baten Kaitos, Tales of Symphonia too. Resident Evil 4 blew my mind at the time. Picked up F-zero GX later on for like $10 and was also blown away by that game.

I felt being a Wii fag was much harder at the time as there was a significant drought when it came to first party games. This anon gets it >>714632893

>>714632882
>What's that in your image
NTA but Shinkicker Stories
Radiata Stories, combat is iffy but worldbuilding/presentation/aesthetic are all god tier. You can kick pretty much anyone in the shins, you have a dedicated kick button lmao

>>714632868
i remember seeing an entire display of those at K-Mart back in the day

>>714632882
Parappa 2, Technic Beat and Guitaroo Man are top tier rhythm games if you're into those. The Ape Escape and Ace Combat games are also must plays.

>Something that is no longer produced, has a finite supply and an ever increasing demand goes up in price
Shocking.

>>714632882
>must play PS2 games
what are genres you're into
not everything is for everyone and older eras come with jank from time to time

Should I sell my GameCube games and buy a new PC?

>>714633096
no

>>714633095
I'm one of those people that likes literally every single genre and is always trying to experience new types of gameplay I haven't before, so I'm all ears. I have sunk a lot of time into RPGs, but I like action games, fighting, puzzle, shooter, whatever.

>>714633096
Depends on what you want to do with your PC.
I spent like 2K plus on building a new one and the most I've done with it is emulate fucking gameboy games and shitpost and watching youtube. I mean I'll use it for more stuff down the line but I do most of gaming on consoles still funnily enough despite my PC being much stronger. It's silly, I know, but it's good for emulation at least. If you want to emulate gamecube games in particular I doubt you need a new PC for that.

Unless there's like a ton of new PC games you want to play and you can't, which I find hard to believe as most new slop isn't worth playing, then I wouldn't do it as you'll probably regret selling your games later on.

>used games stores sell these for $100 and buy it from you for $10

>>714633093
>implying jewish grading companies haven't caused prices to balloon as well by setting sky-high price points that retarded normalfags are swayed by because "I know what I got"
sasuga

>>714633259
>>714633095
and yeah I'm all for jank and archaic "outdated" "clunky" gameplay, I just wanna know what are the cool games, maybe some of the more hidden gems

>>714633093
>bruh they only made a million+ copies bro it's rare

>>714633087
>>714633045

Thanks, added to the list

>>714622057 (OP)
GameCube has been one of the easiest to emulate consoles for like 10 years now who gives a fuck about this collector scam bullshit just play the games.

>>714633407
depends on the game, it is usually a supply demand issue, pokemon is not remotely rare but there is high demand and due to being owned by kids tend to be in rough shape.

and it is fair to say not all copies survived 20+ years in the market.

>>714633659
yeah i'm just half shitposting
nintendo definitely eggs this shit on, they reprinted pokemon dppt in 2016 but only made like 5 copies

>>714622057 (OP)
I wish I had bought a second copy of every game to then sell it a decade later. I have Viewtiful Joe in original wrapping might look into selling it. Being a collectorfag sucks I'm glad for emulation and modding consoles.

>>714633347
That's all I'm going to use it for, pretty much. My shitty laptop can't even emulate PS2 games. I just want to be able to play a new release here and there, but mostly retro games. Don't even know where to start.

>>714633096
Yes. Plus buy a Wii and hack it
You can play every GC game easily and authentically, and the GC is probably around it's peak values. Yes values may still go up, but slowly, and it'll get harder and harder to sell the games as interested buyers literally die. Like Atari 2600 games are half impossible to sell lol

>>714633928
If you just want to build a PC that can emulate gamecube games, I'd follow a guide like this.

https://youtu.be/ufbnZyLItDg?si=DU8S2BPG4PaMBcgk

You don't wanna go much cheaper than $500 or so, but you could also buy one of those mini computers for around $300-400 and those can emulate old games just fine as well. Yeah I'd avoid a laptop in general for gaming even if it is emulation. Then you don't really need a fancy monitor either. If you're on a budget just get a 27" 1080p display and you're good to go man

>>714622057 (OP)
Those are all good games so this impacts me deeply

>>714622057 (OP)
you can play them all for free

skill issue

>>714622057 (OP)
Just steal them for $0

>>714622141
Okay so if they aren’t good games shouldn’t they be dirt cheap by your standards?

>>714622057 (OP)
I wish there was actually a good online marketplace to buy games with competitive listings. Ebay is fucking dogshit, games need their own tcgplayer equivalent.

>>714622057 (OP)
pirate you fucking idiot

>>714628891
This is worse because many arcade games cannot be emulated.

>>714634532
Sure they should be cheap, but they won't be because the Gamecube market is for raped speculatoors and coollectors and exists to milk cubekids.

>>714629023
>PC games
What magical kingdom do you work at that actually sells these fucking things
Seriously, I can't even find bargain bin hunting games at any game store nearby

>>714634724
All of this cope and buzzwords because you can't accept the Gamecube was a good system.

>>714634914
I'd accept it was good if it was, but it isn't and the people who defend it don't play enough games to know what good games actually are. You exist to have your wallet raped and I do not care.

I only ever sold my PS2 games when I decided it wasn't worth trying to fix my PS2/buy a new one. But I had the thing for 20 years and it lasted longer than my friends' consoles. For some reason my original PlayStation, N64, and GameCube still work.

>>714629703
holy based, i lost mine when i move out from my country :(

>>714634724
This game is expensive because it was recalled
Ps2 has $1000 shitty horror games
Xbox has an NBA game thats $700
PS3 has an NBA game thats $10000
That is the retro market

>>714622057 (OP)
>>714622141
>>714622147
Maybe you fags should have bought GameCube instead of your fucking DVD player. You get what you deserve.

>>714622181
This.

>>714622667
Wii is better but RIP. Also I sold my gamecube stuff and all my games to my neighbors for $100 before I moved because they were poor fags and their kids loved coming over and playing. It was the console, 2-3 controllers, and like 20 games.

>>714623473
>Buy 'Like New' retro disc off eBay
>When I get it it looks like somebody dragged the disc in concrete
Lol.

>>714635259
That's the funny thing, PS2 horror games are better than anything on Gamecube. They also have a better reputation and remain far more beloved than any gamecube games.

>>714635426
Good games are infinitely more valuable than orverpriced sports games nobody likes.

>>714635004
>the people who defend it don't play enough games to know what good games actually are.
Alright so what are the good games? I'll list out some Gamecube games and you can tell me what are the better PS2/Xbox equivalents.

Resident Evil Remake
Resident Evil 4
Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2
Mario Sunshine
Wind Waker
Twilight Princess
Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
F-Zero GX
Super Smash Bros Melee
Luigi's Mansion
Pikmin 1 & 2
Tales of Symphonia
Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door
Mario Kart Double Dash
Metroid Prime 1 & 2
Killer 7
Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes
Eternal Darkness
Beyond Good and Evil
Animal Crossing
Mario Strikers, Golf, and Tennis
Mario Party 4, 5, and 6
Baten Kaitos
Lost Kingdoms 1 & 2
Kirby Air Ride
Battalion Wars
Custom Robo
Pokemon XD & Coliseum
Chibi-Robo
Viewtiful Joe
Sonic Riders
Sonic Adventure DX & 2 Battle
Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2


Surely not ALL of these games are trash, especially the ones that would later get ported to other consoles?

>>714624628
This isn't accurate because digital games are constantly on sale and mostly always available while retailers who carry boxed games only carry the latest releases (like target and Walmart). If we had actual stores that carried games things would be a lot different.
>What about GameStop??
They focus on Funko pops and Pokemon cards more than games now.

>>714635426
Wii had a much weaker library and output of games. It had some great games don't get me wrong, but the Gamecube was much more consistent and there was just a lot more games and third party support as well. Wii unfortunately while having good games also had many of them with FORCED waggle controls. Light gun controls are good, pointer controls are good. Gyro controls are good. But Waggle is SHIT though, we can all agree on that.

i was the only retard that his parent give the donkey konga with the bongos? i remember asking for pikmin 2 but they didn’t find it so they just brought that lol

>>714624846
Just buy replica cases and get some covers on glossy paper.

>>714626916
I worked at a comic shop and sometimes I had to look it up because the owner would be too lazy to price stuff. I check eBay and I check the recently sold prices.

>>714635769
I missed out on the bongo games but I heard jungle beat was cool

>>714635650
RE4 on GC is better then all the shitty PS2 horror games like Rule of Rose

>>714630870
I live in a town that is 98% white. There is a guy here that puts price stickers and his shop name on the covers of all his comics. Is it because of the browns? No it's because he's a retard and he doesn't want anybody reselling his comics so he devalues them purposefully.

>>714628254
>all that for $170
sounds like a good deal

I have a big gamecube physical collection and I can't even play any of it, because the fucking disc drive broke AGAIN. I've already replaced it once, and the replacement unit had supposedly new capacitors. Such a piece of shit hardware, this is the system where "just emulate" is the most justified.

>>714622057 (OP)
I own most of those and would never actually play them on Gamecube anymore. It looks like shit. Just emulate.

>>714622181
Same price with inflation probably

>>714630949
>retard pretends he is important
make this post on twitter and you will be banned like you deserve

>>714636207
>>714636169
Youre shilling the wrong way here. The issue isnt that its a buyers market where people are clamoring to buy the games. You certainly dont need to dissuade people from impulse buying gamecube games. The issue is that every casual nintendo gamer is sitting on 200$ copies of zelda and mario and pokemon and refuses to sell. Convince these people to let go of their copies and prices will start dropping for you.

>>714622057 (OP)
I hate what the internet has done to used games. Back in the early to mid 2000s you would still see used games from the NES era sell for a couple bucks. Starting around 2010 the prices on all used games everywhere skyrocketed, even for games from the previous generation instead of several generations back.

>>714635980
Jungle beat is a little strange in that beating the levels was easy but the actual goal was to carry a high combo through them without ever touching the ground, which seems interesting but in reality just led to a number of annoying mechanics like starting every 'segment' by doing the same set of canned inputs for backflip wallkick groundpound-cancel before you can actually start doing anything that gets you bananas.

>>714636463
Why should it matter? Normies need to learn to emulate.
>but it’s illegal!
Nintendo literally refuse to sell the games legally so that’s not your fault.

>>714636735
This is not an internet thing, it happens to all hobbies. Low prices for old used video games was just a hedge that they were a dying trend, the western industry actually believed that the NES was a one-off and that consoles were doomed to eventual irrelevance, until roughly when the wii happened.

>>714636987
That does sound rather tedious. Maybe fun for a more casual romp though.

>>714636169
Just hack your wii man. It has a built in gamecube in it and can run them natively, it's not emulation. Put em on an SD card and you're good to go. But yeah these old disc drives are shitting themselves. Dreamcast it's a huge problem to the point where people are modifying the system entirely to make it able to read SD cards to begin with.

>>714637138
>Why should it matter? Normies need to learn to freebase.
>>but it's illegal!
>The government literally refuses to sell crack legally so that's not your fault.

>>714622057 (OP)
At this point your options are either:
>emulation, which gives mixed results
>importing from Japan to get lower prices
Either way the state of playing 6th gen in current year could be better. As someone who's had to sell shit for emergencies, I'm priced out of reacquiring this stuff through ideal means. Dig through the archive for that thread I made about a $70+ non-functional GC game.

so you can learn a hard lesson

>>714637394
Dont bother. Arguments this retarded smell off. At this point I feel like its hard-baiting with 'normies should join my hobby'

>>714637394
False equivalence.

>>714635660
>Resident Evil Remake
One of the most ported games of all time, inferior to PS1 original. (lmao haunted house)
>Resident Evil 4
One of the most ported games of all time.
>Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2
Also on Xbox (and PS2)
>Mario Sunshine
One of the worst Mario games ever made.
>Wind Waker
One of the worst Zelda games ever made.
>Twilight Princess
The second worst Zelda game ever made.
>Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
middling SRPG, only found its popularity after waifu emblem on 3ds. Why pick it over all the NIS SRPGs? Berwick? Suikoden?
>F-Zero GX
Decent Sega game
>Super Smash Bros Melee
Dull overblown game people have lost interest in its revival from 10 years ago.
>Luigi's Mansion
Awful game
>Pikmin 1 & 2
Somewhat unique, 2 already diluted the formula
>Tales of Symphonia
One of the most ported games of all time.
>Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door
Thousand year backtrack
>Mario Kart Double Dash
Gimmick kart
>Metroid Prime 1 & 2
Two of the worst first person games ever made
>Killer 7
Multiplat for non-players
>Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes
Somehow manages to look worse than the PS1 original
>Eternal Darkness
The most overrated horror game of all time, not even a good game
>Beyond Good and Evil
Best on Xbox
>Animal Crossing
The Sims without gameplay
>Mario Strikers, Golf, and Tennis
Virtua Strikers, Links 2004, Virtua Tennis, Everybody's Golf, Sega Soccer Slam, Fifa Street, play something new for once in your life
>Mario Party 4, 5, and 6
Did we really need this many Mario Party games? Dokapon rapes it.
>Baten Kaitos
Card based RPGs
>Lost Kingdoms 1 & 2
Even more card based RPGs. Fromsoft put their best foot forward on PS2 and Xbox.
>Kirby Air Ride
Ass game
>Battalion Wars
OK game
>Custom Robo
Virtual On for pokemon kids
>Pokemon XD & Coliseum
>XD
>Chibi-Robo
chore sim
>Viewtiful Joe
ok multiplat
>Sonic Riders
multiplat
>Sonic Adventure DX & 2 Battle
inferior versions
>Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2
non-players pretend this one is great

>>714622057 (OP)
I'm really sad that my original PS2 is probably lost to time. Why did you throw it away, mom and dad? Also I think my Yugio/Pokemon cards are lost too.

>>714637945
my born threw my yugio card because of the whole "ITS THE DEVIL!!" shit.

>>714637772
>Tales of Symphonia
>One of the most ported games of all time.
And yet none of them run at 60fps like they did on the Gamecube, not even the new remaster on modern consoles which is a GIGA fail.

What a pedantic list, every single one of your points is awful and you could only provide alternatives with SRPGs and Sports games. I'd hate to break it to you but Berwick Saga isn't better than Fire Emblem. Suikoden is a totally different type of RPG. Disagea is not better than Fire Emblem.

Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 and Resident Evil 4 all ran better on Gamecube.

>Melee
>Dull overblown game people have lost interest in its revival from 10 years ago.
I don't give a fuck if people have lost interest in it, which is hardly even true seeing as how that game continues to bring in new players despite it being 20+ old. There are no other fighting games like that that have sustained a competitive presence like that, but compfaggotry aside, Melee is THE BEST SMASH GAME when it comes to not only how the game plays (very important), but the single player content was also at its peak in Melee. Trophies were better than stickers, brawl and Smash 4/ultimate completely took a shit all over the momentum based physics which just made the game floatier and less fun EVEN FOR CASUALS. Compfags give the game a bad rep. Melee is one of the best games ever made, period.

Horrible list, horrible points, kill yourself. Like I get your shitposting but why even go through the effort to type all this garbage out? Congrats, you made me mildly irritated but I'm actually laughing over fucking retarded this list is. Here's your (You).

>>714637772
holy cope

>>714622057 (OP)
>around 18
>childhood friends moves back after moving out of state for 8 years
>get back in touch and we end up hanging out
>unfortunately a couple months later i end up 4 hours north
>that week i had brought my gamecube over for us to play party games and shit
>he was helping me move
>the second day he suddenly stopped answering calls and text
>fuck it it's 5 minutes away i'm going to his house
>pretending to be sick
>bro do you just not want to help or are you actually sick i'm not gunna be mad
>im totally sick
>didn't seem sick at all
>end up forgetting my gamecube and all my games there
>im already up north with all my shit by the time i remember a few days later
>completely ghosts me
>never get my childhood gamecube and all my games back
He's never gunna read this anyway but hey Evan go fuck yourself, cunt. A respectable person would've gotten in touch to send their childhood friend's shit back.

>>714638141
Kek, I forgot that was a whole thing during the 2000s. Honestly probably less of an evil than what we deal with today. Sorry about your cards though.

>>714622057 (OP)
>Melee is $69.99

NICE

>>714637772
trying WAY too hard

>>714622285
Kinda in character considering Wario’s whole greedy nature

No one who really wants to play is paying $100 for something you can easily get for free. This is the market for collectors who cling to pieces of plastic. It has nothing to do with video games anymore.
And what kind of idiot today thinks, "Man, I really want to play Wario Ware, but I'm not going to download the game for free and play it on any device in my house within the next two minutes. I'm going to look for the physical game in a store around the world and pay a small fortune for it."

>>714638351
>And yet none of them run at 60fps
Nobody seems to care.
>What a pedantic list
Short hand for "uhh dude you didn't name any mario games for ps2 or xbox"
>Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2
Best on Xbox. You never played it.
>Resident Evil 4
Runs the same as on PS2. Play another game for once in your life.
>sperging out over smelee
You need to play a real fighting game instead of this baby shit.
>kill yourself
Too pussy to do it yourself? Typical cube kid.
What's the cube's exclusive answer to Halo 2? Socom? Twisted Metal? Champions? Crimson Skies? Mech Assault? Armored Core? Devil May Cry? Ninja Gaiden? GTA? It doesn't even have Burnout 3.

>>714638683
>noooo don't respond to point by point
Here's a new list:
ur
a
faget

>>714637772
>f zero gx and battalion wars
nice. my two favorite gamecube exclusives survived your wave of cynicism mostly intact

>>714625343
Not only are they trying to sell shit for jewish prices, many sellers on both ebay and local equivalents more and more refuse to state what condition the disc is in and never answer if you ask. If they actually show the back of the disc, they take the photo from an angle where it appears scratch free and claim it's in "good" condition.

>>714625695
Glad Europe got the best cases, best spines and best cover art. Also the best player's choice editions where the whole case and spine was silver, so you don't have to have those ugly yellow piss stains on your shelf. The only time a budget re-release looked premium.

>>714622249
I try to tell my sister you can get the game for free but she wants the physical copy. These collectors are insane.

>>714638972
yeah i'm not going to respond seriously to obvious bait

>>714623928
What's your double dash crew?

>>714639295
You aren't ready for a discussion that challenges you. Stick to safe and easy Nintendo games.

>>714637325
My Wii disc drive is being an ass as well, lmao

>>714623928
Twilight Princess for the gamecube is just barely out of frame. The game in the thick white case is a japanese copy of Killer7, I want both version of the game because a lot is changed overseas.

>>714635660
ffx mogs every jrpg there, dmc3 mogs every action game there, any generic mascot platifrmer on the ps2 is better than mario sunshit and nu-zelda, re outbreak and the silent hill trilogy mog all the horror games there, mgs2-3 mogs shit snake, wwe mogs all the shitty mario sports shovelware, tranimal crossing is an unironic introduction to making homemade HRT, the rest are a few shovelware party games and kart racers with the shitendo mascots plastered on them
kill yourself cubie

>>714641941
No Pikmin, no argument.
>B-but...!
I accept your concession.

>>714635749
Wii plays everything on GameCube.

Also waggle was good. Literally everything uses it now.

>>714635426
>DVD player
lol there it is
ps2 had better games, more games, better attachment, and a better controller.
retarded cubie faggot
>>714636063
re4 is better on ps2, cubies only have better cutscenes because their cope about the muh dvds actually applies to them

>>714622057 (OP)
People are willing to pay fucking HOW MUCH for my old GameCube games?

>>714643350
My sister told me she paid $200 dollars for pokemon colosseum. I laughed in her face. This gamecube collector market is crazy!

>>714624846
lmao same, only instead I threw all my consoles and games inside a big shitty luggage case. I can't sell any of it, I don't replay it. I handed it off to my brother since he cares.

>>714630949
See you in hell

I still cannot understand the appeal in collecting old consoles because I KNOW collectors never fucking play them, and they LIE through their fucking teeth about playing them.

I love old tech too, it's the buying and trading shit for hundreds of dollars just to display on a shelf that pisses me off.

>>714644146
I just played some F-zero on my Snes like a few days ago. I like older games better, new vidya sucks.

>>714644146
Well they don't want to touch the game they bought because it will devalue their investment, and like you said they played the game once but this is a trophy of their wealth and a badge for their personality.

>>714644205
stop FUCKING lying

>>714637772
>Thousand year backtrack
Glad people are continuing to call them out on that garbage chapter design.

>>714622057 (OP)
1) just because some kike is listing stuff for that price does not mean it's actually the going rate of what people will actually pay for those games. It's been over a decade since I've stepped foot in any of those "retro" game stores, but the last time I did, I remember seeing a bunch of playstations, dreamcasts, super nintendos, etc all wrapped up and being sold for 3x what you could get them off ebay, for same condition. And remember, this was a decade ago before things got nearly as crazy.

2) nintendo tax. Because nintendo has fostered a strange cult of personality, it causes people to go full-retard on the second hand market. Plenty of examples where there can be a multiplat game on gamecube/ps2/xbox, and the game can be of equal quality across platforms or possibly the GC version being slightly worse in some way, but the GC version will still inexplicably go for twice the price of the others. And of course anything with a mario or link or pikachu slapped on the box will instantly have its price jacked up.

3) generation tax. There is a slow-moving "wave" when it comes to what old vidya is en vogue at any given point. It's all based on who grew up with a particular console/generation, and when they reach an age where they have disposable income to blow on useless crap. So first atari got big, then NES, then SNES/Genesis, then N64/PS1, and so on. Right now 6th gen is still the big thing for "retro". 7th gen has slowly been starting to go up but most of that stuff is still reasonably priced. The more obscure stuff has gone up though.

>>714622057 (OP)
>Most of these are games Nintendo could be reselling digitally

Why the FUCK is HP $65?

>>714631110
Sure, a system like PS2 will have rare games that cause prices to be higher. But the price is much more logical. It's not like with Nintendo games where the first-party stuff that sold tens of millions of copies each are the games that go for the highest prices.

The big exception for PS2 I can think of off the top of my head is the Silent Hill games. Survival Horror games in general also seem to go full-retard with price, and logic just flies right out the window, not dissimilar from nintendo game values.

>>714622057 (OP)
How the fuck's Melee only 70$ compared to the rest of those?

>>714622057 (OP)
>>714623928
>>714627521
>>714629453
>>714629703
>>714641461
>smelee
Take a shower

>>714624732
Youtube was how I discovered a lot of games, I know you guys hate it when e-celebs cover obscure games but they're legit the only way future gens will be able to learn about old series.

>>714622057 (OP)
>opens dolphin

>>714622057 (OP)
Just wait for them to come to the NSO

>>714632671
Not really. The only real downside was all the "nintendo kiddie shit le gaycube xD" bantz on the middle school playground. But in terms of actually owning one at the time, there were constant bangers coming out year after year. Not to mention really sweet deals with players choice titles for 10-20 bucks a pop and plenty of stuff easily snagged on clearance.
My library of games from back then included
>Mario Sunshine
>Wind Waker
>Metroid Prime 1
>Metroid Prime 2
>Eternal Darkness
>Viewtiful Joe
>MGS Twin Snakes
>007 Nightfire
>Timesplitters 2
>F-Zero GX
>Smash Bros Melee
>Pikmin 2
>Pokemon Colosseum
>Super Monkey Ball
>Animal Crossing
>Paper Mario TTYD
>Resident Evil
>Resident Evil Zero
>Resident Evil 4
>Prince of Persia
>Sonic Adventure 2

So yeah, always had some really good shit to play and never felt like I was lacking, even though of course there were plenty of fantastic games on PC/PS2/Xbox that weren't on gamecube.

It was a totally different story with the Wii. Despite that console selling gangbusters, none of those sales translated into nintendo reinvesting into increased high quality game output. Instead, despite selling better than gamecube, the quality and output was actually lower than before. I remember significant dryspells where there was fuck-all to play on Wii, and meanwhile everyone else is enjoying all these cool games coming out on PC/PS3/360. The final straw that got me to finally get into PC gaming was that one E3 conference where all they showed was some wii music drum and nintendogs bullshit

>>714646489
>there were constant bangers coming out year after year
That was the problem, there wasn't. When Xbox and PS2 were going online you still had cube guys talk about smash melee, a game that was years old. All the Xbox versions looking a generation ahead, GC at best matching PS2 visually but never being able to be taken seriously due to the aesthetic of the console and controller.

>>714622057 (OP)
is the point supposed to be that these games can be sold for lots of cash today and that those of us who sold them years ago to clear some space in our attics commited a mistale by not hoarding and waiting? D:

if not, I dont see the point of this thread :/

>>714622141
literally all those games are great you cocksucking queer

>>714623928
Here's my gamecube collection.

gamecube is shit because the component cables are $70. modded Wii and ps2 is where its at

>>714622057 (OP)
get a gc controller adapter and play on dolphin, it's great

melee even has rollback netcode now, the online is better than every other fighting game

>>714622057 (OP)
Just hack a Wii and stop being a faggot. No point collecting anything that isn't your personal copy from the early 2000s.

I want to play wind waker so bad bros

>>714630921
>mfw sold my copy for $500 ezpz

>>714628254
I bought an SNES for $150 and it came with 8 games like a year ago

is that a good deal?

>>714622057 (OP)
Non-pirate problems. Can't relate

>>714646946
Ask me how I knew you grew up in a single parent household.

>>714647447
Fuck yeah it is. We sell them 140.
With the hookups and one controller.
Everything but the sports games average 15~35.

>>714634870
That's the thing, we don't, but they occasionally sneak into the pile being sold to us. Like. For example.
Last month, a copy of Painkiller was in a large stack of Xbox games. Painkiller gold. I told the guy we don't take PC games, and he best sell it privately on Facebook. He shrugs and says he'll toss it in. I set it aside and let the owner know, and he says I can take it home. After cleaning the discs, I install them to my PC. The key still works fine and I've got Painkiller Gold. That's how I got Empire at War, Battlefield 2142, Jedi Academy sealed, and Portal.

>>714648210
I also got the manual for Arcanum. The disc was shattered to pieces and I could not save it, but I made the recipe in the back of the booklet and it wasn't too bad.

>>714622057 (OP)
I have a pokemon xD so I'm fine with this.

>>714623704
If you were a baby at release, you'd have zero reason not to emulate them

>>714647953
came with one controller

games were:
DKC 1 and 2
Batman Returns
NBA Jam Tournament Edition
Super Mario Wrold
SMAS + MSMW
Monopoly
Fifa Soccer

>>714622057 (OP)
Why do people bother instead of just emulating? The cost and hassle really don't seem to outweigh the benefits

>>714648478
Getting a GameCube game as a gift is truly a blessing. You should NEVER resell or throw away your gifts!

>>714648970
They have money burning in their pocket and this is their entire personality. This Nintendo fanboyism drove the market value up.

>>714644146
I play them. Often? No. Are they on my shelf for whenever I want to play them because I've built up my collection over the years? Yes.

>>714649352
Good for you man!

>>714622057 (OP)
>can emulate the games at 4k for free
>can play on original hardware for free after modding
>worried about collectroons

>>714649446
I don't care but I keep trying to tell my sister she can save so much money but she keeps saying "But I have the physical copy" I swear she is more autistic than me.

>>714649541
She can have physical copies cheaply, too.

>>714648968
I sold a SNES Yesterday.
>140 for the thing.
>Extra controller for 10(3rd party)
>Sports games(sports games, about three dollars each and he got four of em)
>Battletoads Double Dragon for 30
>Mario Allstars for 35
>Donkey Kong Country for 25
He was unsure on DK so I double cleaned the pins and plopped it into our SNES so he could see it was working, and he ended up taking it.
Almost 230 bucks.
Told him if he had any problems to come back. Nice guy all things considered. He wants to play with his son.

>>714649637
You know it's not the same thing. It needs the case and the manual. For me I don't care but I get where her head is at.

>>714622057 (OP)
These are all free though

>>714650605
Stick it in her pooper. That'll get her right.

>>714622057 (OP)
lol i downloaded a complete gamecube romset in chd format in 1 hour.
Only collector gooners buy this, if you want to play the game emulate it faggot

>>714651074
>chd
>not rvz
You didn't download the game.

>be like 6 years old
>put all my gamecube games in a cd case
>figure i have no use for the cases the games came in
>throw away cases and manuals for games like melee and sonic adventure 2

>downloads the .rvz
oh no! anyway..

>>714651379
You know what is worse? Selling them. I can't believe people sold their memory cards too. You are selling your memories NOOOOOOO!

>>714648210
>>714648323
Upon further examination, I have come to the conclusion that I am a retard.
Although I envy you, man, that must be nice as hell

>>714622057 (OP)
>MP4
>74.99
Why is the worst GC MP that much?

>>714624381
My guy you can go to the nearest GameStop and find tons more PlayStation games for cheap than nintendo. It’s not only Nintendo but it’s clearly more commonly nintendo

>>714622057 (OP)
just imagine how much physical Switch games will cost in 2040

>>714652667
Everyone feels so dumb for letting go of their games.

>>714651379
I hate you

>>714622141
That's a dumb thing to say because suggest that actual "good" games will cost so much more for you.

The premise of the thread is stupid. Those are collectors. They buy those games so they can display them on shelves. They play burns/roms on an emulator or original hardware. Anyone with a brain does the same.
>quality autist? emulate and crank it up
>accuracy autist? burn the game or get an ODE, then play it on original hardware

>>714630921
Metal Arms. I see Metal Arms.

>>714622057 (OP)
The collections in here gives me a new level of nostalgia for Gamecube. I'm almost tricked into thinking it had enough games even.

>>714655061
>I'm almost tricked into thinking it had enough games even.
That's the funniest thing. I hope you like platformers.

>>714622057 (OP)
I can emulate all of these with retro achievements on my steam deck free of charge.

>emulators run better than original hardware could ever dream of
>getting scalped from beyond the grave by thrift stores
Why are you putting yourself in a humiliation ritual of your own creation?

What I don't understand is how people are in a perpetual state of denial regarding these prices rising. I have been hearing "this bubble will burst soon enough" for twenty years now, and back then people were talking about 20€ games.
>There are jews, scalpers and hoarders in video game reselling too? This is fucking outrageous oh my god, surely not, how can this be happening?

>>714656707
The killer is that all these systems are emulatable and/or hackable, so it doesn't stop play. People just act like fags for no reason.

I want to fucking play GameCube games but it's so expensive to even start. I don't want an emulator since that isn't accurate. I want actual games and consoles.
Fuck investors

>>714656892
Mod it you nigger

>>714656892
Use Nintendont or CUBEODE

>>714657153
>>714657162
How much does modding ruin the original software? If someone theoretically wanted to return it to normal is it just stuck modded?

>>714622141
Bet you feel nothing when trying to play personally new games these days.

>>714622057 (OP)
there are 3-4 good games in that stack at best

>>714657327
I'm not an expert all you're doing is allowing the console to run games off another storage. It is way better than emulation ever could be. Do your research

>>714639263
women are moralfags and too scared 'stealing' 20 year old software

>>714649694
I always think the best approach to introducing kids to games is through old games.
Otherwise they probably start out with some f2p phone because those are free or gets influenced by hype and ads to play the latest fotm.
Old games let you appreciate the game as a game, not as a simulation of reality.

>>714624846
I bought a bunch of PS2 games back when GS was doing their PS2 liquidation sale. It was like buy 2 get 2 free with a lot of games for 2 dollars. Most of them came disc only and I still haven't gotten cases and manuals for most of them.
No disc listings are ridiculously rare on ebay and they usually try to sell for around the same price as CIB. Of course, prices have only gotten worse.

>>714653806
bro when I was a dumbass kid I sold a lot of my PS2 games for Oblivion on the PS3. What a fucking mistake

>>714657327
bro you could buy another wii for cheaper than how much it costs for the average gamecube game

>>714622057 (OP)
I’ve made over $1000 selling old vidya because of people like this

>>714658787
was it dumb?
even if you could sell every single ps2 game for $100 now, that's equivalent to a like 2.4% saving plan. At least you got to play Oblivion and didn't waste your childhood saving money for later.

>>714659238
Yeah that's why I don't regret it. At the time It made sense so I'm not too hung up on it. I'm just aware now how predatory gamestop was so I'm only slightly upset

>>714629983
Somebody had to. He'd just become more of an asshole otherwise.
People like this pop up in society because nobody confronts them on their behavior because people have been conditioned to be non-confrontational.

Just emulate them or mod your console. You do actually want to play the games, right? You don't just want to display them on your shelf like a faggot, right?

>>714622057 (OP)
Completely irrelevant when you can play all those for free thanks to emulation. Let the retards get scammed, it's their money after all.

>>714622249
I've been selling all of my old games recently, and you would be amazed how much interest there is.
These prices are fucking ridiculous, and it seems to be entirely nostalgia-driven. People want to replay the same games that they played as kids, and prices don't seem to reflect what's actually good. For example I got $180 for Pokemon LeafGreen, but I could only get $40 for Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga.

I've had two separate trannies show up. One for a broken copy of Pokemon Yellow, and one for a Nintendo 64 with Mario Kart 64.

>>714622057 (OP)
thats craazy if only there was a way to not pay a fucking cent for it..

>>714659076
What's your favorite game to play?

>>714659238
No one knew that used games would triple in price.

>>714625436
Disney reprints their classics every 2 years. I see shrek trilogy always on sale at walmart. 5 dollar movie bins at stores have old movies in sealed cases, from Holes to happy feet. Maybe you should retail shop more. Movies are constantly reprinted.

>>714645926
Its demand.
Like I have kind of collected Xbox games(stopped after 120) and like you had some pretty good 8/10 games that sold a 100k copies going for 2 bucks and halo 2 going for 16,-.
Nobody really collects for xbox, everybody collects for nintendo.

>>714660270
In early 2000 most people knew about collectors shit, even for games. Obviously as a kid you wouldn't care about such things.
What people didn't expect is the possibility of emulating everything and transition to digital only.

>$100 ... triple
maybe for some un-opened games, most games value just returned to the original buying price.
You would've made more money buying some Nintendo stocks at that time. Having any regrets for this is stupid, its just gambling.
My brother used to have Pokemon cards that possibly increased a hundredfold in value.
That's where you can have a little regret, but we just joke about it now.

>>714622141
>missing the point
>opinion no one cares about

> I NEED to own this 25 year old game!!!!! I just do!!!
>NO I can NOT emulate it!!!!!! I have to physically own it and put it on my shelf
self inflicted problem

>tfw i own all the gamecube games I wanted to own
I got all my essentials, nothing else matters

>>714622057 (OP)
You can thank ppl like picrel for this nonsense. iykyk

>>714661782
the stop killing games guy? what

>>714622057 (OP)
Good job emulation is free isn't it? If you do happen to be a zoom who never had the chance to own retro as a kid, then you're a fucking poser and retard for propping up the insane second-hand price gouging market. If you still have your original consoles, ODE's or flashcards are readily available, reliable and many ODEs are plug & play with no soldering req'd these days. There is literally no excuse to prop up this market.

>>714661409
autism isn't self inflicted

>>714664263
It is. You choose to be autistic.

>>714622867
Kirby was never good.

>>714622976
>he boughted
>peel the sticker

>>714664348
I agree with you and people should just emulate it if it's a cost issue but my sister is the more autistic one that needs the physical copy. She is the paypig and I just laugh. I'm only here for the emulation discussion to be honest so I can get her favorite games for free.