This is the end result of every marginally employed gez Z pencil neck thinking they're an investor because they bought pokemon cards or video games or a fell for a crypto scam. Games aren't games anyone, they're a retirement plan.

>>11867559 (OP)
mfw i just emulate that game

Nah zoomers are not that obnoxious, even TikTokers are better than 30+ year old retards who are actually the ones doing all that shit. But who cares man, just play the games: emulation, modded consoles, flashcarts, etc

>>11867564
Millennials are the only ones emulating.
Zoomers are too scared that pappa Nintendo will come knocking on their door for downloading roms, not to mention that zoomers don't even know how to use computers

>>11867559 (OP)

>>11867568
Most zoomers don't have $1500 to spend on old video games. I don't give a shit how you play but $1500 for a video game is insane.

>>11867568
>Millennials are the only ones emulating.
Yeah I'm not talking about all millennials of course. I mean that zoomers either don't care about old games at all or buy them on Steam and PSN and shit. They don't coomlect old games and as for actually playing them on real hardware using an authentic disc, they are not autistic enough to buy a PS2 in 2025, then buy an actual TV that they can hook it up to and then also spend 1000$+ on an obscure survival horror granted they hate the genre because it's 'clunky'
>>11867579
>I don't give a shit how you play
The vast majority of video game collectors don't give a shit about video games and I'm not being snarky or ironic

>>11867586
I think that's more of a vocal minority who don't give a shit. I know a lot of collectorfags who actually enjoy gaming. It's a few pricks giving everybody AIDS.

>>11867568
>not to mention that zoomers don't even know how to use computers

Which is why Retroarch works on phones and has that shitty UI. A normal computer UI they wouldn't understand.

>>11867579
They have zero interest in playing the game, they ask for daddy's money to make an "investment"

>>11867598
>uhh i'm not too dumb to understand how to use retroarch, i'm actually too SMART... yeah it's the zoomers who are dumb for using something i'm not able to

>>11867559 (OP)
Why the fuck is this game so expensive, even the PAL version?
I bought this used for cheap years ago just because it was a japanese horror game and I never touched it.

>>11867732
I don't know people probably figured out it was rare or some shit
>just because it was a japanese horror game
If you are into J Horror then you should absolutely play it

>>11867559 (OP)
>go into game store that isn't a chain
>see prices like OP
>the guy running it is ten years older than myself
Ah yes, zoomers. Right.

>>11867732
Isn't it a From game?
Soulsposers will retroactively claim to be fans of all From works.

>>11867749
Is that why Echo Night also got expensive?

>>11867619
If the kids are zoomers, what generation are mommy and daddy?

When did Kuon and Rule of Rose even get so expensive? Mid 2010s?

>>11867762
Gen X, probably

>>11867757
Horror in general exploded in popularity a few years back and got crazy expensive. Also that guy is a faggot who things it's criminal to like a game series and then go back and play the older games by the same company and also like them. Why would you ever take such a retarded post seriously?

>>11867859
t. Guy who got into From with Souls

>>11867559 (OP)
>gez Z
>my thread won't go anywhere unless I pander with some generation mindslop

>>11867867
Yep. Glad it makes you mad.

>>11867764
The pandemic fucked over everything.

The collector/investor scene is completely separate from people who actually play games for real. Only a complete retard would actually buy retro games in the current year, there's hundreds if not thousands of scumbags whose entire job is finding them for cheap from old people and flipping them. And this only works because there's even more retards who just need to post their latest sickgrab to social media.

>20x my investment by keeping my old video games
lmao

>>11867568
Believe it or not, humans reproduced between 1997 and 2001.

>>11867559 (OP)
The wata games scam documentary showed that it was all jews buying and then inflating the price of these

>>11867570
Based (bassadissimo)
I have like 10 of those.

>>11868057
The graded market and the open-box market have virtually no overlap.

>>11867881
Wtf? So you are telling me that those games being over a 1000$ is a recent phenomenon? I started paying attention to that shit a couple years ago, I'm a thirdie who's been pirating and buying bootleg copies (because that's the only shit our stores used to have back in the 90s and early 2000s) for my whole life so I've never really been all that into seeking out authentic video games. Well that's just baffling to me. Jesus fuck look at how cheap Kuon used to be

>>11867910
>The collector/investor scene is completely separate from people who actually play games for real.
Where does this myth come from?

>>11867878
>gives me the reason
>i'm somehow mad

>>11868076
Nah, man. Some dumbass will see a graded Mario 64 sell for $1M and think his beat up cartridge that has been molding in a forgotten box in the attic for decades is worth its weight in gold.

>>11868291
And a moldy copy of Mario 64 with an absurd asking price sitting forever unbought on eBay effects anyone how, exactly?

>>11867559 (OP)
Thanks OP, I don't know what I would do without these daily sour grapes threads

>>11868032
except for you, chud.

>>11867859
no one said it's criminal, he was just explaining why games developed by From Software (like Kuon, Shadow Tower, etc) increased in value so massively after DS started to get really popular (which correlates directly with how much of a success Elden Ring was in the mainstream)

>>11868028
well there is a point of diminishing returns, especially depending on the console the games are for and what technology used to make them. they won't last forever and when they are broken they will be worth a lot less. especially stuff like CDs with discrot. at least a broken NES cart still holds value for some reason because of the unique physicality of it, it's like a more tangible artifact than a broken ps1 game which comes in a format that is much more abundant and less unique. if that makes sense. same for gameboy games and other carts. the consoles themselves and their components are much more valuable than the games, from an investment standpoint.

for me the best example is my childhood GCN games, they are pumping right now. i'm considering parting with a good amount of them because they eventually won't work, and i'm someone that just emulates all my physical games already to preserve the discs. they are just sitting there on my shelf collecting dust and the basis of that is purely nostalgia, if i really want to i can just make some fake/empty cases of my library since in a shrodinger's sort of way they already are. i'd get a bag for them and when they inevitably rot or fail in the future it will long since have been someone elses problem.

>>11869929
It's not true though. It's because horror in general fucking shot up a few years

>>11867559 (OP)
During the early 7th gen I felt like the only one on earth who was absolutely appalled at the state of gaming. I was buying 5th and 6th gen games for less than a $1 whenever I had the money just because everything coming out was so fucking bad. It was being a complete contrarian at the time, and yet here we are. A bunch of those games can cost more than a new release today.

>>11870046
>I felt like the only one on earth who was absolutely appalled at the state of gaming
>It was being a complete contrarian
You must be forgetting things because most people absolutely hated 7th gen games from like 2007 to 2012 but then it feels like everyone got brainwashed or some shit. Shitting on 7th gen games was the norm at the time, even normalfags were memeing about the state of gaming

>>11870046
and soon 7th gen nostalgia is going to kick into high gear and make game prices go bonkers

>>11869951
i think it can be a little bit of both. games like parasite eve, silent hill, kuon, res evil, all went up in price around 2020, but so did the entire "retro" vidya market, or games in general, but when you look at all of fromsoft library trends, you can definitely see that the success of elden ring into the mainstream ontop of the already cult popularity of the dark souls and bloodbourne, brought them a massive amount of praise and attention that has sustained as reflected in their older game's price appreciations. i'm just glad ever grace is still mad cheap, one of my favorites OSTs ever.

>>11870069
Lmao Project Phantasma got even more expensive in 2023 because of AC6 aka 'this is like Dark Souls with robots'. In all honesty I don't usually get mad at mainstream audiences because I'm not that much of a bitter retard but holy shit this is making my blood boil not gonna lie
>Fatal Frame meets Souls, underrated early FROMsoft gem for the PS2

mfw my goat is still under 30 bucks
i fear the day when the zoomers get wind of this game's existence

You people are giving zoomers too much credit when you claim that they care about /vr/ horror games

>>11870062
7th gen hate for sure wasn't mainstream as you think it was at the time. There was console wars, but that was it outside of /v/. Normalfags who watched Yahtzee just assumed he hated everything. Even on Youtube you didn't really get people calling it out until 2010-2012-ish.

>>11870065
It's already happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5u8jyPIrIY
Can you really blame them, though? I couldn't imagine things getting worse than the 7th gen, but things are so comically bad now. It genuinely is a parody of itself at this point. It makes the 7th gen look like a golden age.

>>11870095
it's hard for those of us without tiktok to conceptualize, but really it's apt to correlate it to zoomers and that app. it's the same for any other aspect of 2000s culture, zoomers are obsessed with it. it's not just /vr/ games but other tech, clothing, music, etc from that era. personally, i don't think it's a bad thing really, every generation has nostalgia for old tech, before zoomer it would have been millenials buying and collecting atari, neo geo, snes, gameboy color etc while not really caring as much about ps1 ps2 gamecube xbox etc at the time it was relevant (no nostalgia factor)

"i've never owned a ps2 in my life"
https://youtu.be/d_0Ccnjbs8w

>>11870110
>it would have been millenials buying and collecting atari, neo geo, snes, gameboy color etc while not really caring as much about ps1 ps2 gamecube xbox etc at the time it was relevant (no nostalgia factor)
The only 2 people I knew at the time who had any interest in consoles before their time was 1 dude who was a gigahoarder that filled his entire house with random electronics, and another dude who couldn't afford anything and just took his neighbors old consoles that they were going to throw out anyways. There weren't influencers content farming old consoles for millennials in the same way there is today outside of AVGN who mostly just talked about how shit they were.

>>11870110
>it's the same for any other aspect of 2000s culture, zoomers are obsessed with it. it's not just /vr/ games but other tech, clothing, music, etc from that era.
Yeah I've noticed that, it honestly feels forced as fuck when some 19 year old zomerette who wasn't even alive back then tries to mimick that style and posts pics of Heather in her blog and all that other stuff

>>11870125
>only 2 people I knew at the time who had any interest in consoles
>only 2 people i knew
that's because we just knew less people in general back then and didn't get exposed constantly to a bunch of niche algorithm induced trend echo chambers. i mean that was my experience as well b back then, only knew my dad and his cousin were kind of nostalgic about neo geo and amigas and shit while me and my brother played gameboy advance, gamecube, ps1, ps2, and eventually xbox 360. so we were playing the current stuff but my dad and his cousin could care less about it, whereas they'd be hype asf on tabletop RPGs or some castlevania or bionic commando as they grew up the in the dnd and arcade era and all the sort of subculture that came with that. there was probably a massive amount of people out there that were his age and nostalgic for the same shit even though we never knew them or interacted with them unless you'd go on a forum or game shop, now zoomers are hyper connected online so you never have to leave your bed when you can collectively engage in nostalgia porn with people on tiktok for an era that was before their time, add that to the fact all this stuff is so abundant and accessible now. you learn of a game from a tiktok and you can open a tab and buy everything related to that game you could ever want right away. previously it actually took some effort of leaving the house usually to go collect shit.

I hate speculative market morons
I hate 'collector' cunts
I hate reseller retards

Everyone whos fallen for grading scams and thinks their old, mass produced, off the shelf shit is a treasure to be gouged for should be shot
eBay idiots who go by the highest Asking price instead of Sold for get the rope
PriceCharters who want online profit without online selling get fucked too

>>11870170

Someone post the guy with the basement room full of games & with a flat screen TV done up like a Switch

>>11870173
Whered you get this pic of me about to shoot a 'RETRO VINTAGE RARE GAMING CRT i know what i got' clown for thinking their drained battery roach shit covered one of millions copy of Pokemon Sapphire is worth 500 bucks!?

>>11869948
Honestly not an awful plan.
While there is a little bit of tantric pleasure in grabbing a box down and popping a cart or disc out and leaving it near the console, in reality the appeal of physical media such as shelves of games is the space it takes up and the visuality. Moreso if you already play backups instead.

It'd probably be fine, and fun even, to just shelf a bunch of repro boxes of your favorite titles and oddball random choices to represent the not-so-good entries in every library. Might look into that now.

>>11870089
They won't care about it until it gets ecelebbed hard enough to get translated. I've had issues finding a complete copy that isn't falling apart though

Yes, another thread about zoomers from people who never meet a zoomer and don't know anything about zoomers.
Men, that's what a board about old video games needs!!!

>>11870216
>t. offended zoomer

>>11868303
Others will see that asking price and think their copy is worth the same. It causes a chain reaction that over time will increase the price.

>>11870165
The barrier to buy retro wasn't really that high. Gamestop sold used games or you could go on ebay and it was SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper I'm talking a couple of dollars at most. The idea of "New = Good" was pretty mainstream back then. Even people on forums were shilling the latest game.

>balding soilennials raging about zoomers thread #7335106

>>11870216
>>11871418

>>11870216
>tearful flossing
>>11870132
It's even funnier because while sure, there were SOME women who liked Silent Hill back then, the overwhelming majority of actual teenage-to-twenties millennial girls did not give a single fuck about any videogame back in the late 90s through the early 2010s. Most millennial girls dropped videogames by the time they finished elementary school, despite revisionist history trying to claim otherwise, simply because gaming and game collecting is now considered trendy. Zoomer girls might get wet because some dude can afford a room full of old videogames, but 15+ years ago that shit was absolutely pussy repellant, and any guy who wanted to get a girlfriend instead of being branded as a loser nerd would not be caught dead playing a GB/GBC/GBA/DS back in 90s or 2000s high school.

>>11871418
he's right doe. and not only that, you're showing how poor you are by seething at a market being a market. and not only that you're poor, you're a poor coomlector that cares more about hoarding plastic instead of downloading the rom and actually playing the game.

>>11867559 (OP)
It's funny how stores will unironically list stuff with these kinds of prices as if anyone is going to walk in and just decide to drop almost two grand on a video game.

>>11868032
Seems improbable.

>>11867594
>It's a few pricks giving everybody AIDS.

>>11870658
i don't think you're really understanding what i was saying. it's not that there was a high barrier to buy retro back then, but used games from gamestop were not retro games at that point in time. it would have been the previous generation of shit, so ps1 games, dreamcast games, GBC games, which is the same sort of value at the time as xbox 360 or ps3 games are now, where they arent retro yet but they are outdated, so you can get them for pennies. retro collectors at that time would have been collecting older shit like atari, commodore 64, arcade cabinets, NES, and maybe getting into some 89-90 era stuff like neo geo, sega genesis, game gear, etc, and no you weren't buying an amiga at gamestop when we were kids and people were shilling "new=good" or whatever.

i'm just saying, every generation has people that are seeking out "retro" shit, and the goal posts move with time. that stuff that is in my mind as "retro" is now "antique" and the stuff that was new=good or mainstream is now the new "retro" except due to the nature of society as a whole, no one can even pretend that new=good anymore. so even more people now would rather collect the old shit than was previously the case when we were younger.

only the interconnectedness of social media has made being a part of that "community" of nostalgia obsessing collectors much more visible and thus more accessible. and between youtube videos titled "THIS JAPANESE HORROR GAME IS SO RARE AND UNDERRATED" pushed via the algorithm and the amount of information access in general, basically means the natural barriers of the unknown are diminished when it's easy enough to get a list of every single game ever produced for every console and what the general consensus about it is, and what the gameplay is like, and so on. we did not really have that type of access, you learned about games through word of mouth, friends, game magazines, commercials, demo discs, going to the game shop, etc.

now u just scroll on phone ez

Collector kino!

Neat!

>>11867809
yea
it's why i like CGR
he reminds me of my dad