How do you guys afford retro games?

Look up people who post on reddit about finally buying them and then robbing them

>>11818364 (OP)
I buy one of the ten thousand other games better than that one

retro games are free, OP.

>>11818364 (OP)
I’m not a brain dead consoomer/hoarder so I just emulate. Mini consoles and flash carts and mod chipped consoles are all acceptable too.

>>11818364 (OP)
I made a stupid rule about games. If it hasn't been re-released on any modern platform I'll download it via alternative means. If it has been released, I won't download it. It's more about my mood. The good thing about this is that I focus on games I like less on quantity and more on quality. These days, games are much more accessible, and that includes old games. They always give away old games for free

Most of my collection is from before shit got stupid. Beyond that just emulate.

>>11818364 (OP)
By not being a findom masochist cocksucker and just emulating them

>>11818364 (OP)
By purchasing them or stealing them. I steal games I don't care about enough to purchase. I purchase ones I care about that much. I've been impoverished and on food stamps continuously through nearly all of my game-purchasing life, and I still have no trouble at all filling my collection far beyond what I can comfortably actually play. As long as you avoid super overpriced items (no original hardware Cubivore for me, boo hoo, I already bought it back in the day when it was cheap and GAVE IT AWAY because it wasn't very good) and don't constantly pour money into easily avoided sinkholes like cigarettes or alimony or whatever you can very easily afford to run a prohibitively large library of games on original hardware. Not that you should do so necessarily, that's up to you, but you can.

>>11818364 (OP)
Internet access only costs as much as the cheapest phone plan in your area. You can get home internet for a little bit more, but if you're desperate there are freest phone and internet providers out there(although they're shotnand you might have to scam the system to get them) or you could just go to a place with free wifi. Then hit your favorite rim site and wala.

By not purchasing over inflated niche genres with limited run games. Play a game a YouTuber hasn't made a video "essay" about.

>>11818378
tpbp

>>11818364 (OP)
Bought em 20 years ago for $5

>>11818364 (OP)
Mostly emulate at this point. I have a fair collection but I still emulate games and consoles I own most of the time, because I like gaming in bed while watching stuff on my tv. It's amazing playing pretty much any game in bed. Morrowind is cozy in bed in my God win, though I actually own most of the pc games I play because they are cheap through steam and gog.

>>11818513
Gpd win*

>>11818364 (OP)
i buy a copy from a friend, then i legally make a back up, and then resell it to my friend at the same price

>>11818451
>Play a game a YouTuber hasn't made a video "essay" about.
do their videos really have that much of an effect on the market?

>>11818529
Yes. Many games will suddenly skyrocket in price when certain YouTubers talk about "le hidden gem" or something similar. It's not like clockwork, but it happens often enough for it to be noticeable.

>>11818529

>>11818573
Do they then sell of their "hidden gems" once prices reach ridiculous levels thanks to their videos? Sounds like a fucking racket.

>>11818654
Yeah sounds about right.

>>11818653
This was mostly because of the disc swap code they found in it right?

>>11818661
Yeah, but it was still announced. Usually anything that gets a game attention will spike its price.

>>11818364 (OP)
I buy the ones that are reasonable prices and emulate the ones that aren't.

Only a total gay faggot or an autistic bitch is going to pay those prices lmao. I have a PS2 fat with a HDD full of games that I downloaded for free. Same with my OG Xbox.

>>11818393
Or maybe just stop overthinking it!

>>11818364 (OP)
I put away money monthly and make a list of what I enjoyed emulating, and buy two games a month unless I saw a good deal.
by good deal I mean 30% less than price charting.
A few years later I have a finished sega genesis collection with all the heavy hitters I wanted, with a collection worth 1400$ more than I spent, of course it's not liquid, but I saved money. Also, not collecting cultural phenomenon consoles like snes helps a lot, like right now NES is cheaper than it's been in the last decade or so, I think now might be a good time to start picking up as people dump their shit cause it's not 'fotm' anymore.
i mean really, just make a list, wait till you see a good price, I've only spent the same price as price charting on one single game, and it's my holy grail game in good condition.
anything seem to expensive? put it off. bubble bursts eventually.

>>11818364 (OP)
I steal to fund my habit.

>>11818457
>9.83TB
How many slop have you finished?

>>11818370
Robbing and killing hopefully

>>11818364 (OP)
While I couldn't, I can definitely say in retrospect it was sound advice to stay in school and get your college degree to earn enough. Since wages has stagnated for so long, those games are well out of reach for me. Without the benefits of higher education, I have to scrounge up what I can these days not only from back-breaking work at a big-box retailer and side-hustling with rideshares. That is the key to a more easier path.

>>11818364 (OP)
I amassed most of my collection before anyone called it "retro gaming" … I just called it "old games." The usenet group I voted for the creation of was rec.games.video.classic
Largely bought my stuff before youtube, or social media as we know it now, so no "influencers" driving interest towards things.

>>11818364 (OP)
piracy.
Most of these old games were made probably before you were born considering there are kids born in 2000 posting on my board now which makes me want to lay on some train tracks. The devs who made these games either retired or moved onto something else, already got their paycheck, and would be more than happy for a new generation to discover their work. At least that's what I think. It's not like you can buy some of these old games anywhere else anymore.

>>11819090
paper-anon, do any of the 3 in 1 clone consoles work with the EverDrive N8 *Pro*? You're the only person I think will know this info.

>>11818364 (OP)
I either emulate or buy on steam discounts

>>11818364 (OP)
piracy because the money doesnt' go to the devs anyway, so would I support a greedy bitch?

i download them and then i winscp them to my batocera mini pc and then i play them

>>11818364 (OP)
For me, it is buying japanese versions.
For whatever reason, my autistic ass really wanted to play SMT Devil Summoner for the Sega Saturn when I was like 13. I had to rely on poorly machine translated guides from jap sites back then and I understood jack shit, but somehow it clicked for me.

Roughly one year later I decided to learn japanese ( first casually by myself, then took lessons for 3 years ). Afterwards I continued buying exclusively japanese games through ebay. In 90% of cases any RPGs are cheaper in their jap form ( all final fantasy, dragon quest, megaten ). Due to this, I could get games such as Chrono Trigger and Panzer Dragoon Saga for pocket change coz almost no one cares about jap versions outside japan.

Now I'm 25 and roughly at N2 level vocabulary wise and maybe N3 speaking skills wise. There are still moments where I might stumble a bit with certain kanji in games , but the experience was overall very rewarding and made me experience things that most EOPs would never experience ( games like Tengai Makyo 2 and ore no shikabane wo koete yuke games ).

For example, I have roughly 50 super famicom games in my collection ( all sorts of games, FF games, castlevanias, metroid ... ), and in total all those games cost me probably around 200 bucks. I can assure you that those same games in their american form would've costed double , or even triple than what I paid for the jap versions.

>>11818903
0 it's called digital hoarding, I actually just play WoW all day while watching either SpongeBob or King of the Hill

No one recommends people getting into retro games today actually buy this shit. We all got it when it was cheap. Use flashcarts, softmod, hardmod.

>>11819294
>No one recommends people getting into retro games today actually buy this shit.
I do.

It's really not that expensive of a hobby. Try getting into cars, instruments, (actual) antiques, etc. Spending as much as $300 on a rare game really is nothing compared to other hobbies.

I list some of my rare games psx/saturn/dreamcast/pc-engine games at absurd prices.
I don't even want to sell them, just make people seethe because they're overpriced.

>>11818364 (OP)
I don’t buy games that go for retarded prices like these. Around 200 is my limit for something but it has to a game I really want

>>11818389
>>11818409
>>11818413
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>>11818513
that's illegal. you're all criminals.

>>11820091
Call the cops, bitch.

>>11820152
if your conscience doesn't already prevent you from carrying out immoral acts, you're too far gone

>>11818364 (OP)
I don't. I emulate everything I play, got a couple of HDDs filled up with full ROM sets, translations and manuals/guides, of course the real thing will always be better, but the comfort of emulation, and not having to spend a dime on it, makes it worth it, also if you get some good and accurate controllers to emulate you won't notice the difference too much when you're actually playing it.

>>11820165
Not on the ten commandments, don't care.

>>11818661
>>11818529
That stupid Piglet game spiked in price, too. The funny thing was the lack of copies on ebay probably made people think it was rare enough to be worth paying a premium, but the reality was that, until the "dude it's le kiddy survival horror game" meme, it was viewed as being of such a low value that most people didn't think it was worth the time and effort to list on ebay.

>>11820305
thou shalt not steal is absolutely one of the ten commandments, anon
>muh its not stealing
you were supposed to pay someobe for it and you didn't, but you took it anyway. morally that is theft. I don't care what lies you tell yourself.

>>11820165
It really is miserable living in a world where most people think the rules don't apply to them.

>>11818364 (OP)
>afford
2 step process:
1. Lol
2. Lmao

>>11820346
>rules
No one who originally made these games is making a single shekel off that rotting plastic, anon. Don't go on about fucking morals when all you're doing is giving scalpers more reasons to scalp. To me, that seems far more unethical.

>>11820401
your dumb little rationalizations don't matter.
if you obtain something you're supposed to pay for without paying for it, you are acting immorally. doesn't matter how wrong you think it is that people make money selling things they own.
even if selling retro games for profit is wrong, two wrongs don't make a right.

>>11818364 (OP)
GOG, or download them if they are abandonware

>>11820338
What can you buy that IP holders don't sell?

>>11818364 (OP)
Collector fags and speculators are so desperate to have items that are valued over 1000 dollars.

>>11820412
So what's the perfectly ethical, rational, and moral way to play Terranigma in 2025?

>>11820338
We're like 20+ years removed from actually supporting the people and companies that made these titles possible in the first place. The only people you're "stealing" from is some collector faggot who probably hoards and sits on dozens of copies of uncommon games. If anything it's their ruthless price gouging, gatekeeping and greed that has robbed the consumer the opportunity to enjoy these games so fuck them I hope they suffer

>find highest price game you can
>imply this is typical of all games
I love these threads.

>>11820442
with ur imagination

>>11820442
more like terrornigger

>>11820442
buy it, retard. i'm seeing copies on ebay for like 20-30 bucks.
if you can't afford that, sorry, tough shit, you don't get to play it. not if you're going to consider yourself morally upstanding, anyway

>>11820452
I'll repeat myself.
>your dumb little rationalizations don't matter.
>if you obtain something you're supposed to pay for without paying for it, you are acting immorally. doesn't matter how wrong you think it is that people make money selling things they own.
>even if selling retro games for profit is wrong, two wrongs don't make a right.

>>11820401
I don't care about the morality of it. I used the term "rules" for a reason: rules are amoral. They're prescribed, often arbitrarily, by a fallible authority. Rule following is important, whether or not you personally think those rules are immoral, or even make sense. It's necessary for social cohesion.

>>11820482
im sorry but im not spending hundreds of dollars on your copy of eathbound. yeah i know i know, im just not going to pay for it

>>11820165
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WHY DID I DOWNLOAD A MUSASHI NO KEN- TADAIMA SHUGYOU CHUU FAMICOM ROM INSTEAD OF ORDERING A USED COPY FROM JAPAN AAAAAAAAAAAAAA NOW I'M BURNING IN HELL PLEASE HELP ME AAAAAAA IT BURNS

I buy flash carts

>>11818364 (OP)
I play pirate on real hardware. Good enough for a lazy poorfag like me, and I can't stand emulators on PC anymore. I'm still missing a lot of consoles I want though.

>>11818364 (OP)
I don't. I focus on my other hobbies. Otherwise I emulate

>>11820489
then you don't get to play it.

>>11820520
of you're the type of simpleton who needs the threat of hell or promise of heaven to make you care about acting morally, you're incapable of morality in the first place.

>>11818364 (OP)

>>11820476
Aren't those repos?

>>11820595
Those are, yeah. No US release, so the shell is a dead give away. Authentic PAL copies are, like, $50-$60 I think. I got my JP copy for around $15 if I remember right.

>>11818364 (OP)
I get what I want before the market explodes. I'd tell you guys what to go for next but you all disregarded me about sixth gen back in 2014 so now you will pay for your words and deeds.

>>11820091
It's not illegal to use free wifi. Most businesses have the right to ask you to leave and if needed have the cops remove you for loitering if you're not actually buying anything but if they give you the password you can use it.

>>11818364 (OP)
Just buy the ones you want that you can afford and then pirate everything else. I emulate or load roms on my consoles, and every few months I'll look for any cheap deals to snag. The Series S was really good to me for a while because you could run emulators on it better than PCs, but then Microsoft actually began enforcing anti-piracy and I had to get rid of it.

>>11818364 (OP)
1TB SSD: $50
SATA to IDE adapter: $10.00
FreeMCBoot: Free

>>11820639
rom sites are illegal, retard

>>11820648
>conflating legality with morality
kek

>>11820648
They aren't inherently. Also we don't sign our posts here

>>11820657
you're retarded.
the post you're responding to was a reply to >>11820639 which is a reply to >>11820091, which talks about legality, not morality. I did not at any point bring up morality at all, much less equate it with legality.
to repeat: you're retarded.

>>11818364 (OP)
I pirate them and emulate them on my PC

>>11820675
you dirty dog!

>>11818370
>not preserving the addresses of known collectors in the event of an electric boogaloo

Getting the physical consoles, controllers, convertors and flashcarts is the only place you really spend. CRT monitors or fancy CRT TVs as well. For computers to run emulators, even for PS2 10 year old computers can run it just fine.

Getting ansy about pirating games over two decades old is retarded.

I only buy games I want to play, instead of collecting meme shit pushed by faggots on YouTube.

>"Piracy is theft."
Very interesting. Tell me more.
>"People who worked hard on those games deserve to be paid for them."
Sure, and they were.
>"But you stole a sale from them, they would've been paid more if you hadn't pirated the game."
How do you know? Maybe I wouldn't have purchased it, just like I haven't purchased thousands of other games. Also, if I play the game and like it, isn't that going to make me more likely to tell people about it, and effectively advertise it for free?
>"But still, you could have have paid for it."
Okay, but the odds of me purchasing that game based on the number of games I haven't purchased is so exceedingly low that I, very likely, would not have purchased it anyway.
>"...And you advertising the game by word of mouth doesn't make up for stealing $60 from them."
Hey, right hemisphere, a "cheap" ad in a local newspaper costs $500 or more, and it gets used to line bird cages and wipe asses before being forgotten a week later. I might spend the rest of my life talking about this game and exposing tens of thousands of people to its existence. They should be paying me.
>"But what if you don't like the game?"
Then I wouldn't have stolen anything, because I would be deleting the ROM. In fact, they would have stolen something from me: time. Life's most precious resource.
>"Okay, but, you see..."
No, sorry bro.

>>11820703
Not paying the scalpers is theft

>>11820791
That's another funny thing, isn't it? It's piracy when you download a ROM because the "devs don't get paid", but it was perfectly fine to rent a game from Blockbuster, borrow a game from a friend, play a game at someone's house, or buy a used game and return it. Unless you walk into a store, take a physical object, shove it into a backpack and walk out without paying, you did not steal shit. Saying piracy is theft is basically saying, "duuude... you, like, stole an experieeeence maaan...". There are plenty of games I've pirated that I spent 5 minutes on before deleting, but apparently that's a more heinous crime than going over to a friend's house for a sleepover, making a profile on his game and playing it for 4 hours after he fell asleep. The ensuing counterargument would be, "but he paid for the game!", and guess what? So did the guy who ripped and uploaded the ROM online. He's my buddy and we're at an eternal sleepover.

>>11820820
Amusing analogy, "Yeah, it's just my friend Fitgirl that shared it with me"

>>11818451
>>11818529
>>11818653
>>11818654

I have a list of some games that haven't been """discovered""" yet.
True gems that really aren't talked about much.
I'm trying to get them before their prices skyrocket eventually.

>>11820820
>it's piracy to take something without paying
>it's okay to pay a small fee to borrow something and then return it
>it's okay to borrow something that has been paid for by someone else
yes, retard. why is this confusing?

>>11820862
>it's okay to pay a small fee to borrow something and then return it
Except you paying a fee to a store renting out the game doesn't help the original dev's base line. By this logic, if I buy a game, put it online and charge people $1 a day to play it through a web browser, then it's fine, but giving it away for free isn't. Uh oh, stinky.

>>11818364 (OP)
I don't. I emulate.

>>11820703
paypigs on suicide watch

>>11820856
I'm doing that too.
Pic related is just a matter of time until the retro retards discover this series.
Luckily I've already secured 2 copies of each game.

>>11820869
>Except you paying a fee to a store renting out the game doesn't help the original dev's base line.
literally irrelevant

>>11820906
>it's irrelevant if the devs make money or not
I guess there's no problem with piracy then, lawl.

>>11820909
no, you retard, it's irrelevant that paying blockbuster a rental fee doesn't affect the devs bottom line, because the devs have already been paid by blockbuster.
not regular price either. rental licenses were very expensive. the industries involved never would have allowed video/game rentals otherwise.
buying one copy of a game at individual retail price and then digitally reproducing it for thousands or millions to play for free is very different and in fact immoral on both sides.
your dumb rationalizations will never matter. piracy is immoral, period.

>>11820915
>no, you retard, it's irrelevant that paying blockbuster a rental fee doesn't affect the devs bottom line, because the devs have already been paid by blockbuster.
Just like my fat friend paid for the game I played at his house for 100 hours?
>rental licenses were very expensive
Are you from the UK or some other 3rd world country? Here in the land of the meat, we have something called "First Sale Doctrine", which means that if you buy something, you own it, and you can whore it out however you wish. Blockbuster wasn't paying fees for renting out games beyond the initial sale price of the game that anyone else paid. They bought a game and rented it to people for $7.95 for three nights, with overages charged thereafter. I hope to God you're shitposting and you aren't actually as misinformed and retarded as you're pretending to be.
>your dumb rationalizations will never matter.
Ackshually, your le heckin dumb rationalizations will quite literally never matter because I'm going to keep downloading games for free in spite of your anal masturbation, and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.

>>11820932
>Just like my fat friend paid for the game I played at his house for 100 hours?
your fat friend who didn't invite tens of thousands of strangers over to also play for 100 hours?
you're an utter retard if you don't see how it's materially different.
>Blockbuster wasn't paying fees for renting out games beyond the initial sale price of the game that anyone else paid.
Utterly false. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. There's a reason that movies and games were rentable but music was not, for example.
>I'm going to keep downloading games for free
do what you feel. you are free to engage in whatever immoral actions you wish. I and other people of integrity will not sully ourselves with such acts.

>>11820945
>your fat friend who didn't invite tens of thousands of strangers over to also play for 100 hours?
So your issue isn't that the gayme experieeence is being had for free, but how many people experienced it for free? Interesting. So, what's the cutoff, exactly? If Fat Friend™ let 4 skinnyfat buddies play the game for 100 hours each, then this is fine; but if 500 people download the game, play it for 15 minutes and delete it, they deserve a block in the gulag? Hmm...
>Utterly false. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. There's a reason that movies and games were rentable but music was not, for example.
My dear zoomer, you could indeed rent music back in the day -- vinyl, cassettes, CDs and even laser discs. Most stores didn't offer this option because it was easier to pirate (lol!) and thus offered diminishing returns, but it was (and is) legal to do so based on First Sale Doctrine. At this point, I am 100% convinced you do not live in the United States of Based because this is an inherently third world TV loicense tier argument.
>do what you feel. you are free to engage in whatever immoral actions you wish. I and other people of integrity will not sully ourselves with such acts.
Blast! If only I had known the key to reaching heaven was giving jewish mega conglomerates money for 0s and 1s. Oh nooo, Muriel...!

>>11820962
>you could indeed rent music back in the day
exposed for larping zoomer faggot.
we're done here.

>>11820965
>w-we're done here
Apparently so, because you've conceded after finishing your gluteal dilation session without further argumentation.

>>11820971
I don't waste my time arguing with larping zoomers and their fantasy stories about how it was during a time they never experienced, sorry.

>>11820976
>w-we're done here!!
>responds again
>I-I don't waste my time with...
I am legitimately sorry that you paid for Bubsy 3D and Backstreet Boys Greatest Hits, bro.

>>11820985
here's some more of that attention you're clearly desperate for

>>11820962
>My dear zoomer, you could indeed rent music back in the day -- vinyl, cassettes, CDs and even laser discs.
No the fuck you could not lol

>>11820992
>Heh... hey, clownshoe... nothin' personal... but here's more of the attention you're desperate for that I swore I wasn't going to give you because I'm morally justified n' stuff, and I have way more important things to do than argue on 4thchin even though I keep doing it, and you're a heckin' bad guy for not giving Joel Greenberg his share of something some guys in cubicles made 30 years ago

>>11821007
Oh no, you did a heckin' google and thought it was gospel. Big problem, dudeguy: "The Record Rental Amendment of 1984" actually restricts the ability of an establishment to rent out music for the sole purpose of home-copying, not renting it out inherently. You would know this if you had read the actual amendment, but instead you cherrypicked a Wikipedia screenshot to add credence to your cuck fallacy.
>B-but that still means they didn't want you copying it!
And yet, they had no problem with you buying a CD and renting it out to 1,000 people for 200 times what you paid through your shitty brick and mortar mom n' pop shop, so long as you didn't advertise it as ezpz backup sauce. Once again, we run into a big "uh oh, stinky winky".

>>11821010
(You)

>>11821034
Me too, bro.

>>11821032
>restricts the ability of an establishment to rent out music for the sole purpose of home-copying, not renting it out inherently
there is literally no way to ensure what purpose someone is renting it out for. it's a de facto ban on renting. you are retarded.

>>11821032
Jesus Christ go back. You type like an absolute faggot.

>>11818374
If you had a dollar for each game better than that one you'd have enough to buy seven copies of it with some left over

>>11821040
>there is literally no way to ensure what purpose someone is renting it out for
Agreed.
>it's a de facto ban on renting
No, it's a "de facto" (not the right implementation of this HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE phrase, mind you, but I'll go with it) ban on renting out a piece of audio media for the express purpose of allowing someone to copy it. Since there was no way to ensure that someone renting it out wasn't renting it out for this purpose (as you noticed), it allowed businesses to rent out said media, regardless of intention, with little to no fear of being prosecuted. You're effectively arguing that guns are banned just because guns """could""" be used to kill people and not squirrels. Bad news about that...

>>11821049
>no argument
>salty reply
You love to see it.

>>11821056
That's all well and good except - whoops! - CD rentals were never a thing anywhere, zoom zoom.

>>11821060
>Okay man, at this point, I'm just going to ignore the fact you completely buckbroke my entire ChatGPT tier argument and tell you that CD rentals were never a "thing" even though they were a "thing", man
How many times did you listen to "Quit Playin' Games (with My Heart)" before you realized that paying for a Backstreet Boys CD was the right move for you, your prostate and your penile gland?

you guys are getting destroyed by this dude lol

>>11821058
>types like a faggot

>>11821079
>is a faggot

>>11821076
>>11821073
most obvious samefag ever
>n-no here's a screenshot where only one of them says (You)
everybody already knows eight different ways to fake that, newfag

>>11821080
lol yeah he is huh

>>11821081
It's weird how you've gone from defending the needs of Israel to attacking /vr/ for its lack of post IDs. What's your secret?

>>11821083
>needs of Israel
nigga what in the fuck?

>>11821090
You like giving money to jews for no reason, I don't. What's the issue?

>>11821094
>jews
nigga what???

>>11821097
>DOOD DEY AIN'T BE RENTIN DEM CD IN THE 1997, DAT SUM BULLLLLSHEEEEEEEIT
Well, alright. Anyway, was Bubsy 3D worth the 30 pack and half carton of smokes?

>>11821102
are you schizophrenic or something? because you keep bringing random unrelated shit into the conversation as though more than half of it were going on solely in your own head

>>11818364 (OP)
Data mining thread

>>11819120
I cannot afford the Pro. I have a Chinese knockoff regular N8, and it works on my Super Retro Trio. One day I hope to give the Pro a try.

>>11821110
I don't know what else to tell you dude. You've spent the last two hours ardently defending and samefagging the notion that "if you pay for a game and rent it out to other people for your own profit it's okay, but if you upload it online and give it away for free, then you're a criminal". You're not leaving much room for argumentation here. You started with a bunch of bullshit consoomer reasoning that was easily defeated, then you went down the typical panicked redditor "ackshually, the law says..." route before being proven completely wrong within the confines of your own terms, and yet, for some reason, you absolutely cannot let go of the idea that entering Valhalla is predicated upon giving money to men with big noses. How can I not liken you to a jew? Look, let me level with you: you think copying immaterial numbers is a crime, and I don't. I've provided more than reasonable justification for my beliefs, and you've provided nothing beyond surface level data, some of which conflicts with your own propositions. I could rightfully call you retarded, but I won't. I just think you're misguided, and I urge you to make better choices with your time and money.

>>11821140
idk what in the living fuck you're on about dude. I just sat down at the computer like 20 minutes ago lol

>>11821145
>I was only pretending to be retarded

>I urge you to make better choices with your time
glass house

>>11821149
I think you missed a dose of your meds or something man

>>11821153
And a very good shalom to you as well, Moshe.

>>11821154
yeah bro I think it's time to go to the medicine cabinet and pop whatever antipsychotic you're supposed to be on

>>11821157
>I no longer care about whether paying for games is morally justifiable or not, I just want to call you retarded!

>>11821158
ok bro

>>11818364 (OP)
I have a sealed copy of this.

>>11821238
Is it one of the recently unearthed PAL copies?

>>11820856
I just buy whatever. Mostly "cheap" shit that's 15 bucks and under. Played through some fairly fun games, and thankfully some are not genres people typically go gaga over.

Sometimes I pick something up I don't care for, but it is what it is.

>>11820856
yeah I feel that, I curbed out my collection a few months ago, i was praying that some youtuber didn't make a video on some of my favorite non-staples while buying stuff up
got lucky, since cross-referencing price charting, 17 games have gone up by atleast 7$ and of that 17 and 3 have gone up by 20$

I don't. Collecting or buying stuff isn't worth it anymore since the market has basically become absolutely stupid.. A friend of mine collects, but he has money and he's settled more for later consoles like Xbox 360. When we hang out, game stores are kind of just boring to me now, but I accompany him from time to time. It kind of sucks how things have become, but is what it is.

>>11820962
>you could indeed rent music back in the day -- vinyl, cassettes, CDs and even laser discs
yeah, remember Blockbuster's music rental section?
Oh wait, you don't? Yeah that's because it didnt exist

>>11821240
No. It's the real NTSC version.

>>11822087
Congrats :^)

>>11821917
>blockbuster was the only place to rent media
Begone, zoomer.

>>11822103
>he only mentioned one place so he's saying its the only place that existed
you're autistic.

>>11822107
>dooood dis store didn't rent CDs so nobody rented CDs, you're artistic
Still mad about last night, I see. Wait, let me BTFO you one more time.

>>11822114
>according to a reddit thread
ooh so authoritative

>>11822114
>Using the auto-generated AI response as a citation in an argument
Wow, you are fucking DUMB.

>>11822120
>>11822123
>this amount of seething samefaggotry over something you can easily verify for yourself with a quick google search (since you're a zoomer mulatto and never experienced these places for yourself)
>all of this shidding and farding just because somebody smarter than you explained why paying for games is retarded and you really, really like paying for games
You have been utterly buckbroken, holy moly.

>>11822135
womp womp

>>11822164
wooompp...woooooooomp....

>>11822167
I mean it's pretty easy to fake a Google search screenshot too. you really wanna pull that thread?
you think you're smarter than you are

>>11822175
You fell into your own cuck trap, bud. It's time to recognize that you're a sissie and you've been defeated.

>>11822187
>everyone who thinks i'm retarded is the same guy
lmfao. retard

>>11822202
>I'm not the same ignorant zoomer faggot, I'm a different ignorant zoomer faggot
Alrighty, then.

>cuk cuk bukbroke cuk sissie bukbrok
Holy fuck, go back to /pol/

>>11822208
No, you've been replying to the guy who said "ooh so authoritative" this whole time. I'm the guy who called you dumb.

>>11822214
no man we're the same guy. it's all been just me this whole time, pretending to be you and I guess like a half dozen other people. we (I) can stop pretending to be different people now, the jig is up, mommy's little super special smarty boy caught us (me)

>>11821238
Dude no way! Your a millionaire now

>>11821238
Sorry to hear it’s sealed, regular CIB is better and cheaper

>>11820558
Good. Fuck earthbound, hope it gets forgotten

I only buy the cool shit, absolute favorites, and I’m pretty much done getting all the $200 titles I could possibly want. Anything else would be on the cheaper side, but even then nothing I’m jonesing hard for

If you own more than maybe 100 games, it’s time to evaluate if you’re buying garbage just out of habit, expensive or not.

just play the roms

>>11822512
that's illegal. you're a criminal.

>>11820558
Too bad that you can't stop me.

you use a time machine to go back in time to when game crazy was still around and buy them when they are all like ten to thirty bucks max used

>>11818861
This and yard and estate sales. Making eye contact and small talk with neighbors is worth the deals you get, and God the babes that show up to estate sales.

>>11819554
It's less about the price and more about the value prop. Wild_Guns.smc gives me the exact same experience as an original Wild Guns SNES cartridge for hundreds of dollars cheaper. It's easier for me to justify big ticket expenses for other hobbies because what the fuck am I gonna do, download a new paddleboard?

>>11823295
Based Wild Guns enjoyer.

>>11818364 (OP)
I don't.

>>11818364 (OP)
Silent Scope is still cheap as fuck on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Scope-2-Silhouette-Renewed-PlayStation/dp/B088K6YMBH/ref=sr_1_5?crid=3S3O0ZA3OFI1P&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.WgMDZDgbjuSmHpIspbNVzSnLDINw_8Fo5zS-UqFi-VrO_msLtwLi3qpKQUklxmr-ZVSYIJ-VWFt8viOQ8B9sRVI4kwdLt10LPVwXMr1qdzzSKwiCvj1J34HZYwry8eQcIV-uWXYDoYi6vGcBM_4NOrU02wEKD-n27y2wnT8gPLegPILsNDhJhhOnSvRFkMycB16XKF2gMlSGmb4_VBI5UqAfXqhBf8ar5KlpK1zj6ur8ADc_RP_YqE4lxACNOzMz8t3jpcRYCCH4JJH_H33un1wjPks7ZfFvV-vpm4xADro.17nHiFvlgm6ufYgbOnv4u6lqWNYqKHSoXtuEtTzcXVE&dib_tag=se&keywords=silent+scope+game&qid=1750860447&sprefix=silent+scope+game%2Caps%2C99&sr=8-5

I'm probably going to Hades for posting that here, but oh well.

>>11822467
What does it matter to me. I bought it when it came out and just never played it.

I'm a pirate.

>>11818364 (OP)
>How do you guys afford retro games?
I stopped buying retro games years ago. Cant justify wasting larger sums on stuff that used to be cheap.

>>11818364 (OP)
If it wasn't for piracy my life would have been very different.

I just buy the ones I really really enjoyed playing after I beat it, luckily none have been to expensive and I don't plan on ever having a massive collection, just the games I liked a ton.
Only game that has a super high price that I enjoyed is this one

>paying for video games
lol
>paying for retro games
lmfao

>>11825973
>stealing
lol

>>11825995
I don't mind if some publisher somewhere isn't profiting on me playing an old game. Sorry.

I'm >>11818861 but who the fuck cares if you emulate, pirate, etc, or not?
It's a fucking video game, I have my preference why are people so fucking assmad that people aren't buying their games at 2000% the cost they were 17 years ago
you guys are fucking retarded, at the end of the day if I couldn't afford to collect, I'd just emulate who the fuck cares?
is it sunk cost fallacy?

some people feel happier after spending money. i can't keep up with buying this shit anymore.

>>11825998
>I don't mind being a piece of shit
lol

>>11818364 (OP)
You can still get ps2 games for $2 and original xbox games for $5, they not expensive at all. I'll buy modern retro releases like ZPF, they are cheaper than what games originally cost.

>>11818364 (OP)
I bought them when they were regular priced.
>now
I go to a lot of antique and thrift stores, got Killer Instinct in great shape the other day.
Or, just play the rom like a regular person.

>>11825995
>guilt has been eating me up inside for the last 20 years of stealing videogames
>went to the police station with my hard drive full of illegally downloaded ROMs and emulators
>confessed my crimes out loud, gave them the HDD for evidence, and begged them to incarcerate me as a form of repentance
>mfw they told me to quit making a fuss and to leave before they arrest me for being a nuisance
There is no such thing as justice on this bitch of an earth.

I buy stuff that I don't think I will have the opportunity to buy again, or at least not for a decent price. So basically there's a lot of shit I want, but if it's anything short of very rare or a very good deal, I don't get it.

I'm actually really attached to this game and find how everything played out pretty funny. I've posted about this on /v/ before. I pre-ordered this game and I remember it took me awhile to convince the Gamestop guy it even existed.

Not "rows" like a puzzle game, "rose" like the flower. It's published by Atlus. No not like a map it's "us" at the end. "I don't see it". Ok... I-it's coming out next month I promise...

I played it and I did like it but I had already developed a taste for shitty survival horror combat at this point so it was no big deal when I would die all the time to best guess hitboxes and stunlocking. RNG gods in your favor next try hopefully. You could actually have the dog find basically infinite heals by having him sniff a health item so you can tank most of it.

Beautiful game beautifully depressing story.

I was defending it online on the Gamer Critic forums (which I can't find anymore) and shitting on the Gametrailers reviewer like I was really protective of this piece of shit and shilling it in every game recommendation request. Your loss bro. You just don't get true game art™.

Funny it's now some fucked up shelf ornament. Now everybody wants Rule of Rose.

>>11818364 (OP)
I just emulate everything. Had a decent collection of gamecube, gba, ds, and psx but the anxiety of having high value items on a shelf deteriorating is annoying to me. Yes I understand you can get insurance but it all just seems like a hassle to me compared to the ease and increasing accuracy of emulation. Sold all my shit and bought a desktop, backed up all my roms on hard drives and flash drives and will probably sell all my consoles except the series x since 360 emulation is still pretty ass for now. I honestly can't fathom the type of person who would get into game collecting in this day and age, it's such a gay way to spend money.

>>11818378
The joke is the fact MI2 was priced at $65.

>>11827126
>but the anxiety of having high value items on a shelf deteriorating is annoying to me
This stuff is largely not difficult to take care of at all, just very basic dry and cool-ish storage without direct sunlight will let much of this shit keep for absolute ages.
The only things to really mind is stuff like save batteries, sometimes capacitors (a good one lasts for 20-30 years), and then the rare batches of disc media which are prone to disc rot from bad manufacturing.

Of course, if you sell the stuff off to someone else, now it's their duty to take care of that stuff instead. It's really not all that difficult though.

>>11818364 (OP)
Who the fuck buys PS2 games when you can just install an HDD inside it and load isos onto it over the network?

>>11818364 (OP)
I have a NSO Expansion Pass subscription so I get a curated set of retro games every now and then

>>11826494
I actually kind of wanted to get it at the time because the story looked interesting and I knew you had to jump on Atlus games, but I don't actually like survival horror so once I heard it was kind of shitty I gave up on it.

There's a part of me that still kind of wants to play it but I already have a big set of PS2 games downloaded I'd rather play, so I'm probably not doing it.

I should've jumped on Eternal Poison though, my tolerance for shitty SRPGs is way higher. I think I just didn't have the cash and then it disappeared.

>>11818364 (OP)
If you don't want to emulate, the only money worth spending on retro games is if you're buying original hardware and the flashcarts/mods to play pirated games on it.

>>11827603
I truly feel that this is the best way to enjoy classic console games in 2025.

>>11822512
Need to see the rest of this collection friendo

>>11818364 (OP)
I remember seeing this at Best Buy, picking it up, and taking a look at the back.

Nobody have a shit about this game back when it came out.

>>11818364 (OP)
That depends, are you trying to play games or collect games?
Playing games is free.
Collecting them, I afford them by having a well paying career.

>>11818364 (OP)
ctrl+F 'job'
0 results
never change lads

>>11827126
its so gay an pathetic to look at a long.list of roms you wont play. I need the clunk click of real hardware because I still have all the real hardware from when it came out. Plus the games were designed with CRT TVs in mind. No need to go full onions CRT fan, just get any random $20 one from craigslist and enjoy rich blacks and sex from women.

>>11818364 (OP)
Emulator

Do you honest to go think any of us played Earthbound or Chrono Trigger on original hardware? You think we are made of money?

OP here. I also made the thread about capacitors a few days ago. This thread just keeps going XD you guys are so easy to bait

>>11830430
https://youtu.be/kEMg0xUSdrE

>>11818364 (OP)
>How do you guys afford retro games?
EASY, you go for plataform of vidya that people don't care like:

ps2
xbox
xbox360

sports games
mediocre games
racing games
driving games
licensed games
and so on.
They are REALLY cheap.

>>11818364 (OP)
Flashcart, ODE, CD-Rs and softmodding.

I'll buy the system and the hardware to run the games, but I won't buy the games themselves.

>>11830431
there are people here who are that old that they could buy those games on release..

Lowball people on eBay into submission

>>11834931
I'll ignore and eventually block you if you're obmoxious.

I usually don't care and I put them on a flashcart or burn them to discs. Just playing them on the original hardware it's good enough for me