What's the most ridiculous resell price you've seen for a retro game?

>>11801459 (OP)
Outside of some graded stuff, I've never seen any sold listings that felt unreasonably overpriced to me.

Someone recently told me they paid 70 for crash bandicoot.

>>11801459 (OP)
I mean there's far FAR worse examples I'm sure, but around a dozen years ago I saw a loose copy of Super Mario Bros 3 in a game shop for 30 dollars. I was so disgusted it more or less made me stop actively collecting at that point.

>t. guy that's been collecting since the late 90s

>>11801459 (OP)
I think my top two most overpriced games are Nintendo World Championship and Rule of Rose. The former lets you play maybe five minutes in total from several NES games and is only really in demand for completionists. The latter is a budget horror title that retailed for literally $20 when it released but for some ungigly reasons now sells for 700+. Pic related: recent Ebay sold listings

>>11801579
The original sale price doesn't matter. They could have handed them out for free. What matters is that there's not very many of the things. If you're going to complain about a PS2 horror game's price, at least make it Kuon. It's a significantly worse game, and a fair bit more expensive.

>Work at a retro game shop.
>A case less copy of Ku-on comes by.
>Aw sweet, it's pristine and it works fine. I wonder what it'll be priced a-
>700.
>Wtf, why?
>Big guy says so.
Then it sold in a week.

>>11801459 (OP)
I can remember people paying close to $200 to play this garbage.

>>11801628
>Wtf, why?
Post-Dark Souls FromSoft retro game + semi-rare

>>11801459 (OP)
There’s a shop near me that has had a sealed copy of Street Fighter 2 SNES for $2000 sitting there in the case for years.

>>11801673
FROMsloppers are subhuman.

>>11801579
>>11801590
What’s annoying is that it doesn’t even seem to be rare. So many people are trying to sell it

Theres a store near me that i'm surprised stays in business. They feel more like a museum for retro games than an actual shop. They have a lot of cool, rare items for sure, but most everything is marked up 30-50% from online. Really has me wondering who is buying from them to keep them open?

>>11801693
I'm seeing 15 copies on eBay right now. I'm sure there's a lot more than 15 people looking to buy a copy for their collection. Sellers can just ballpark Pricecharting, plus or minus some based on condition, and wait a week to a month for a sale. It's their market right now, and probably will be for the foreseeable future.

>>11801693
> It's not even rare
That's why I picked Rule of Rose. It was a budget title that wasn't even all that rare. It got controversy at the time due to having child protagonists in a horror game which stopped the print run, but there's plenty of copies in the wild. This reputation and people claiming it's rare when it's really just uncommon is why the price is higher. It's pure hype driving prices.

>>11801590
The game itself is a mediocre at best Silent Hill clone with bad tank controls and a metric fuckton of backtracking. The voice acting is terrible, the translation is shoddy... I was shocked to see Altus (the people who brought us Persona) actually publish it.

>>11801721
I think Rule of Rose's narrative is substantially more interesting than Silent Hill's. I do have a bit of a soft spot for Love-de-Lic and co., though. I do agree that it's an irredeemable piece of shit mechanically, however. Still, better than Kuon.

Also, Rule of Rose is absolutely rare relative to other retail releases. It sold very poorly in Japan, and almost didn't get localized in the West at all. I'd be very surprised if the print run was much higher than 10,000 copies for each region.

Some places sell the original super Mario world for the nes for $100s. A game that is no ones favorite Mario and is probably the most common cartridge there is.

Around 2013 or so I bought Demikids Black from a local game store for around $10. Now I see it running $100+. No idea why. Hard to say if P5/Smash Bros garnered increased interest in the series, but it's hard to say for such a niche spinoff.

>>11801590
I was at TooManyGays one year, and this fat dude came up to a booth I was at and paid 1000 for Kuon. Didn't even try to haggle. Glad i went with the nip version.

So here's the thing with Blockbuster exclusives, every Blockbuster in North America got anywhere from 5-15 copies. Let's just do 5-10 to keep it simple but bear in mind there's more copies out there.

At its peak in 2004 Blockbuster had over 9000 stores world-wide, but 4500 in North America. Let's just say it had 3500 in 2000. If each of those 3500 stores got 5-10 copies of these games each how rare do you think they actually are? At least 17500, but upwards to 35000. The reality is many more were likely produced. Clayfighter remains the most well known of these titles but a title like Razor Scooter is the same thing - small distribution through Blockbuster only but a far cheaper price tag 25 years later. Neither of these titles is particularly good but one is even semi-redundant as there's a common retail copy of the game missing a small amount of exclusive content.

I've seen so many games ive gotten over the years that were under 5 dollars now cost close to or over triple digits.
Pocky & Rocky With Becky was a 2.99 game at most from GameStop. Jackie Chan Stuntmaster was maybe 9 dollars. Drill Dozer was sold at liquidation shops like Ollies for 10 dollars. 5Below had a lot of copies of Chulip around 2013. NeoGeo Pocket games were 3-5 a piece for loose copies on liquidation websites. Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 and their respective ports shoot way up from the movies. Big Rigs is entirely valued on being a meme. I'm glad im nearly done collecting all the games I wanted for these platforms.

>>11801738
2020 caused a stupidly large renewed interest in SMT again. Mainly from Persona fags waiting for a new entry, the hype for SMT V building up, Pokemon causing people to look at other RPG's with monsters, covid and covid's influence on older game prices
Makes me wish I could've gatekept

>>11801579
>for some ungigly reasons

70 pence for God Hand

>>11801738
>>11802024
Even fuckin Robopon 1 and 2 shot up to over 100 last time i checked. Pretty sure same happened to Medabots on GBA(the rpg ones) and maybe the gamecube action game.

>>11801459 (OP)
40 buckz for og xbox gaem without teh cover is more worth than teh console no thanks

>>11801579
This hasn’t changed in price since Covid
That effectively is a huge price cut
> Pic related: recent Ebay sold listings
Retard-kun please try again

>>11802153
I double checked your UI is different what in the FUCK

>>11801459 (OP)
pal psx platinum games at 200-300-400-500 eur (ffvii platinum, ffviii platinum, ffix platinum)

>>11801459 (OP)
Loose cart of Little Samson for a thousand bucks

i saw rule of rose for sale at a flea market type place for $800. A locally owned retro store near me currently has cubivore for $500. i shamefully purchased disc only megman legends for $70 from a chain retro store.

>>11801590
looking at the current retro market has taught me that horror fans are subhumans

>>11801739
Was he wearing glasses and a Gengar shirt?

I guess I'll only count what I've seen in person, which is not a lot since I'm a hermit. A couple years ago I saw Kirby Air Ride in its box for like $180. I still have my copy. I saw that and I was a little torn between "the game's not that good" and I still fucking love that game

>>11801459 (OP)
Here's a sealed copy of Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Cortex on sale for 300 euros
Ignoring the fact that you can buy this same game sealed for a fraction of the price on ebay, this is still absolutely nonsensical
First off it's a Platinum Hits copy, it's also got a massive price sticker on the front, and worst of all it's the PAL version.
In terms of pure collectible value sealed PAL PS2 games have basically no extra value because it's not possible to collect a full set of them, so in terms of resale value they're equal to mint condition copies

I seem to be the only person that likes this game. I owned it briefly for the PS1 when I found it at a bargain bin at an EB games back in the day.

>>11801459 (OP)
A couple years ago my local game store had a loose copy of Jack Bros behind the glass for $1200, and someone bought it after month or so. Also saw a copy of Persona 3 FES for $300 at a Half Price Books and somebody bought that too

A store near my house wanted 5000€ for a sealed, albeit slightly sun-faded copy of Pokémon Sapphire.
This one day it disappeared from the store so I thought someone bought it but it turns out the store owner just took it to the back to film a YouTube video on it.

>>11801462
That doesn't seem terrible if it's cib in great condition and not greatest hits. If loose your friend is a fucking moron, wouldn't be surprised to still be able to find it at a flea market for $10 loose. If with the case and book he only overpaid a little.

>>11802335
Nope, it wasn't Justin.

>>11802302
I still kick myself for not getting MM Legends from CVS of all places, which had them for 20 dollars each (i already had the N64 version)

>>11802338
I had a copy of air ride, and for some dumb ass reason, i found a 2nd copy for 3 dollars at a goodwill, and instead of keeping it just to have an extra copy, i traded it to a game store for a copy of King Kong for the Atari 2600.

>>11802357
>it's not possible to collect a full set of them,
As a burger, why is this not possible?

>>11802410
The mech parts are fun and almost proto Pikmin with how you control the servbots. That should have been the whole game.

>>11802419
Isn't the FES version super common and was reprinted well into the 2010s and its the original version that is actually uncommon?

>>11802674
Yes.

>>11801459 (OP)
I think it was around 10 years ago and Ace Combat Zero was going for $100. There was also a copy of FFVII going for $80. There was also a bunch of retro game stores that popped up. Most of the disappeared, but they would sell stuff at insane prices and most of it was junk.

>>11801459 (OP)
I was a HUGE (still am) Gundam fanboy. There was a place called Bookman’s when I lived in Tucson that had MSG: The Perfect One Year War. So I used all my money I saved up and bought it for 80$ in 2001. I didn’t know about regions and I popped it in my PS2 and got a message in Japanese saying I couldn’t play it.

>>11802695
If you had to pick 1 Gundam vidya, retro or modern, that you consider a must-play title, what would it be?

>>11802828
The PS2 had the best Gundam Games
>MSG: Zeonic Front
It’s probably the most unique out of any Gundam game. You have to develop a plan and route. You also have to chose weapons and other gear to fit the mission.
>Encounters in Space
It has the best space mechanics of any game and tons of missions.

>>11801459 (OP)
what do you mean, OP? retro games are free.

>>11801459 (OP)
I saw EarthBound in the big box at Sears in 1995 for $80. I don't need to tell you how much it would go for now.

>>11803238
I remember buying saturn Rayearth online for 70 odd. And considering it a mark up then.

>>11801459 (OP)
More than $0 for anything that can be emulated

>>11801459 (OP)
Imagine paying over a hundred bucks for Wind Waker

>>11803262
imagine paying for wind waker. just emulate it bro

>>11802410
I got this shit for dirt cheap and sold it right before the price got nuts. It's a decent game though not all the minigames really work for me.
>>11803238
I've had a few big collecting regrets in my life and one of them is seeing a stack of EBs at a Best Buy around 1998 for 20 bucks each and not buying a single one. I did manage to get a copy of the game with box and (slightly beat up) guide around 2001 or so from a video store.

>>11803263
I didn't buy Wind Waker. And don't tell me what to do.

>>11801459 (OP)
Free

>>11801673
Jesus Christ I got home not to long ago and we basically stole from this guy.
>PS2 Slim/Fat
>Dreamcast
>Saturn
>Lightguns for each.
>Ace Combat 1-5 + Belkin War, Power Stone I and II, Duke Nukem 3D, Tomb Raider(Both Saturn copies), and more.
>Looking at around $850~$900 all together.
>We offered him $200.
>"Well shit, no idea they were worth that much."
I fucking died a little inside.

>>11802410
Not the only one. It's actually my favorite of the Legends subseries. I bought it and Front Mission 3 at the same time and still have them both.

>>11801459 (OP)
I very recently saw someone claim Metroid Prime is worth $200 and I highly suspect someone actually swindled him because he got angry when I brought up my $30 CIB copy

>>11803503
he won because he's going to have sex

>>11803674
I didn't lose my virginity until after I started collecting retro games. I think it may have been the difference maker!

>>11802624
There's a few horrible shovelware games with known copies barely in the double digits, and they've never been spotted in the wild sealed
Realistically the only fullset you can complete at all for the PS2 is the NTSC-U library, which I'm fairly certain can also be done sealed. PAL has the aforementioned shovelware, while NTSC-J has dozens of mail-order only titles that are equally as rare

Back around 2010 or so I saw some place trying to sell Castlevania 1 for $40

>>11802026
300 for GTA 3 shouldn't be possible
Someone give a justification for this

>>11803997
>Someone give a justification for this
Anyone can put any price they please on anything. That doesn't mean anyone will actually buy it.

>>11802024
I bought all the major MT/SMT games for famicom/super famicom for under 10,000 yen in Japan. The only one that was remotely expensive was MT2, and it was $35~. None of them, even the CIB ones they also had (which I didn't buy) were even being marketed, I had to dig through hiragana alphabetized shelves to find them. Meanwhile, the display cases at the stores that most tourists know about are full to the brim with Gen 1 Pokemon, LSD Dream Emulator, and Serial Experiments Lain, with Gen 1 pokegames CIB running around $150, and LSD/Lain going for close to $1k.

So while SMT is well known to persona weeabs and romhacking/translation playing fags, that's a way smaller audience than the poketuber watcher/twitch IRL watcher/e-girl brainrot Lain crowd that the Japanese game stores have turned into a milkable cash cow.

i just want to own a game i like, is that too much to ask ?

>>11805041
depends: how many commas ya got in ya bank account, kid qB^)+<)8

>>11805041
if you're poor and it's an expensive game then yes.

>>11804087
It's the DS/3DS SMT games that have gotten up in price
Not even in the PS2 ones, I think I got Nocturne for a normal price and Digital Devil Saga weren't unreasonable either

>>11805324
Are all Atlus games that expensive or is it just SMT/Persona?

>>11805550
I think it's just the DS and 3DS games that had lesser copies, so the prices went up faster
Etrian Odyssey got hard to find too. Most of the PS2 games were easy to get last I checked, except the Raidou ones which got a lesser print run

>>11803997
Clueless retarded boomers.

>>11801748
Can confirm the Chulip anecdote, my Five Below had at least a half dozen and I stupidly didn't even pick up one.

>>11805634
I recently sold the little pre-order keychain for $100.

local hobby shop near me has Mario Party 1 (i can't remember if it's in-box it was in a plastic bag though) for like $100
but they have Twisted Metal 1 for $140 and some other shit for like $120
genuinely don't know what the guy putting it there on concession or whatever was thinking

>>11801459 (OP)
Jeez... looking up this thread for curiosity's sake makes me glad I'm exclusively emulating nowadays, feels like I'd endure a lot of frustration because of prices, long gone are the days where this hobby was relatively cheap, thankfully emulation makes it so I and many others have a free option, even if it's not as authentic and fun overall... or, dare I say, not SOVLFULL, but it works.

>>11801459 (OP)
Rule of Rose, PS2,for two hundred and ninety pounds, UK

>>11805754
If it weren't for emulators, e-shops, and Limited Run re-releases I wouldn't do any retro at all these days. People buy games as an "investment" now. It's not even about the fun anymore. It's pretty sickening.

>>11802410
I really love that game. It was hard for my mom to find even back in 2003. She managed to get a copy of the disc itself from a Hollywood Video. Still has the rental sticker decal on the disc.

>>11807430
I’m not really surprised that games have become like Barbies and Beanie Babies, but I wish it wasn’t this way.

>>11807607
I wish some crazy autist would start selling "sealed" copies to people, with no game inside. I know scammers can reseal shit to look authentic. You could potentially make a fortune doing this. Fake a sealed copies, then get it wata graded. They aren't gonna open it either. Who cares at this point, those games will stay sealed for years and years.

>>11807615
> Reproduction box
> fill with NES golf
> shrink wrap
> ???
> profit?

>>11807867
It would have to be an original box. No repro holds up under even mild scrutiny from someone who knows what they're doing.

>>11801459 (OP)
those $500 sega cd games that are point and click story adventures

maybe theyre okay, i cant figure out why its $500 good though

>>11801459 (OP)
All

The famicom disk system, it goes for around 200 dollars. Forget it, I bought an new instead.

>>11801459 (OP)
Magical Chase for Turbografx sells for something like 20,000$ NIB and just the manual is 2,000. Honestly that's beyond absurd.

>>11801459 (OP)
uhh i got psychic assassin taromaru sealed from a friend who's from japan for 50 usd about 12 years ago. sold it last year to a private collector for 1300, and we split 75/25, he didn't want anymore, i tried to 50/50 but hey, we both made a lot of money

>>11810136
It's because you quite literally had to fill out and mail in an order form just to get the game originally, because at that point the Turbografx16 was already out on its way into the trash heap. I consider myself insanely lucky for buying like a dozen or so TurboGrafx16 games for 7 bucks at a thrift store one time.

>>11810556
you obviously dont play them. at this point why dont you just sell them and invest that money into something more meaningful like an index fund or do you believe these games will outperform the american market? I ask that investment related question in particular because as long as you dont play them they are an investment. actually curious here.

>>11810865
What the fuck are you on about you schizophrenic freak? Take your meds, dumbass.

>>11810875
its rotting plastic and electronics just curious why you keep this trash if it still has resale value. these arent games worth playing. you must be some kind of autist to not understand that.

>>11810556
Weirdly enough while low print run mail-in exclusives are a fairly common occurrence in Japan, they're rarely high priced.
Presumably there's just not that many people even considering trying to collect that shit due to the insanely low print numbers, thus they don't really fetch a high price.
Pic related, you had to buy 10 other titles in the same series, then mail in their spine cards to Sega to get this one. Pricecharting claims it goes for like 50 bucks sealed so in terms of pricing this is far closer to the bottom price bracket than the top ones.
There's some japan-exclusive PS2 updated re-releases that were mail-in as well and they're also going for very cheap, sometimes for less than the original game releases.

>>11810136
its not. only 5000 copies were produced and its one of the best games on the system. its also graphically superior to the japanese version

>>11810902
>Pricecharting claims it goes for like 50 bucks sealed
Pricecharting does this awful thing where, if there's no sales data in a given category (loose, CIB, sealed, etc.), it just assumes one based on the sales data of other categories. That $55 price point is baseless speculation, as there are no recorded sold listings.

>>11801721
>>11801719
nobody is actually buying it for that much. it's a scam where buyers will self-bid to artificially raise the value, to try and bait some gullible fool into buying in in the hopes they don't "miss the boat". It's the same tactic used by art dealers.

>>11810556
I think, if true and not an urban legend, it also has to do with excess stock that was made of MC, was supposedly destroyed with a steam roller.

It also seems like the devs for whatever reason just couldn't afford to ever release it in large quantities. The jap version is also rare, the game boy color version is rare and even the PC port is rare and expensive, though probably the cheapest version to get.

>>11807430
it happens to every generation's hobbies. baseball cards, bottle caps, coins, stamps, comic books, old cars, band memorabilia. on and on.
the prices will go down... when the millennials are all dead so there's nobody left to be nostalgic for them.

>>11810865
What kind of mental deficiency do you have to come up with that response?

>>11811354
by that point all those games will have stopped working

>>11811367
and tech will have reached a point where you can 3D print replicas of the disc for 7¢.

>>11811354
We're already seeing this with NES games.
Everyone who wanted them either has everything they want, gave up and/or sold their collection off because they are 40+, or died.
NES games have never been cheaper.
Game stores can't get rid of these cartridges if they wanted to.

>>11811341
This is a cute conspiracy theory, but no, that's not what's happening.

>>11811373
Why do you go on the internet and lie about things you don't actually know anything about?

>>11811376
And this graph is tracking...what exactly? Online sales? Sales from game stores? If you want me to care about this data you need to provide context.
Because if you actually stepped foot outside your trog den you'd see that game store shelves are full of NES games for dirt cheap.

>>11811373
Semi true. I personally know collectors with complete/near complete nes collections considering selling it all or downsizing it, but they are going to do so for current market value.

>>11811386
It would probably be easier to sell them as an individual for market value and harder to sell them as a business.

>>11811383
>And this graph is tracking...what exactly?
If "Pricecharting" in the header isn't enough to tell you exactly what this is tracking, you probably shouldn't be having this discussion to begin with.

>if you actually stepped foot outside your trog den you'd see that game store shelves are full of NES games for dirt cheap.
Sure. But what games, exactly? I don't see a lot of Metroids, Mega Mans, and Zeldas when I go to my local shops. The bulk of it is sports games and misc. shovelware.

>>11811397
Brother they have to get the prices from somewhere lol. The data does not match up with what I've seen so I'm asking you to clarify.
If you can't clarify where these prices are being sourced from then I frankly don't care.
Also your second point kinda just further refutes it in that, yeah averages and medians don't matter when every game is priced on an individual basis.
Obviously your Mega Mans and Zeldas are gonna be more than your average licensed game.

>>11811418
>Brother they have to get the prices from somewhere
What I'm suggesting is, if you don't already know where they get their data from, you probably shouldn't be having this discussion. Virtually every game store and online re-seller uses PriceCharting when pricing their stock. If you're not familiar with how it works, it's a good sign you really don't know what you're talking about.

>The data does not match up with what I've seen so I'm asking you to clarify.
It's largely derived from eBay sold listings. A proportionately small (as in, between 1% and 5%) of the data is derived from their internal marketplace. For graded listings, they pull from Heritage Auctions as well.

>Also your second point kinda just further refutes it in that, yeah averages and medians don't matter when every game is priced on an individual basis.
Your statement was, and I quote, "NES games have never been cheaper." This is wrong. You made a statement about the status of the NES market as a whole, for which averages and medians are applicable.

>Obviously your Mega Mans and Zeldas are gonna be more than your average licensed game.
Is NES shovelware cheaper? Possibly. But who cares? (Almost) nobody wants those games, and they were already very cheap to begin with.
The games that people actually want still haven't recovered from their COVID spikes. So in what way, exactly, are NES games cheaper than they've ever been?

>>11803872
Why would anyone care about this? Do you think some mythical megadweeb will try to collect ALL THE GAMES? Why not just get the games you actually want to play lmao, and not all the garbage.

>>11811493
completionists are deranged