normies didnt really give a shit about retro gaming before the early 2010s, but then fucking youtubers and influencers just had to make it mainstream and ruin the fucking hobby for everyone. I have to take out a fucking loan now if I can even dream of getting CIB copies of anything. Normies. Ruin. Everything.

Have you tried emulation or using backup copies?

>>11898521 (OP)
But aren't you glad that more people can enjoy something else that you do? Count your blessings. :)

People will argue with you, but yes, collecting games, particularly outdated games, was absolutely a turbonerd hobby until the early-ish 2010s. If you told some retrogaming roundtable forum member back in 2004 that in the future there would be people who make a living simply by making videos about collecting old gaming shit, they would call you crazy. Hell, they'd call you crazy if you told them that TONS of old games would eventually cost well into the three figure range, or even that people would pay more than literal pennies for SMB/DH, they'd call you delusional.

>>11898530
I like owning the physical games.

>>11898531
This but unironically. The people on this board were whining in 2009 about how the masses are too stupid to appreciate retro games. Ironically, it was a great time to buy retro games except for these people who could barely scrape their minimum-wage pennies together to pay rent.

>>11898521 (OP)
>If only you knew how bad things really were
https://youtu.be/LbTxfN8d2CI?si=IWCfIm8penEECdET

Kill yourself with your irrelevant question. What a putrid thread. Die motherfucker

>>11898535
Yeah I remember these days. Going to flea markets and salvation armies was always fun. Not even just for games, but for all sorts of odd electronics and crt TVs in abundance, I mean just tons of them for like 10 bucks. People really missed the boat and now that FOMO is settling in hard. Back then, these same people would laugh at you for buying a crt.
>"It's so big and heavy, where are you when going to put it?"
>"The picture quality sucks, we have Blu-ray now, whats wrong with you, you're an idiot, I'd never buy an old fashioned TV these days, etc..."
90% of those faggots spent $600 on a pvm and a VCR. You say YouTube is the reason and I think it's the 2nd half of the equation. The first is generational nostalgia. It's about that midlife crisis time for gen x/Gen y. The perfect storm of nostalgia, YouTube and then what really wet it off was covid. It was absolutely insane how fast prices went up during covid.

^ bot post

>>11898543
It wasn't in the form of a question? are you retarded? the fuck is your problem anyways?

>>11898548
Reaching. You're more likely the bot post. Have fun living in your delusional world of AI bots and transvestigation, kiddo. I bet you're also being gang stalked and you're the nobody.

>>11898530
fpbp. "The hobby" is playing games. If your hobby is spending money, you can burn it and get the same thrill.

Everyone always thinks it's everybody's fault but their own, but guess what, you are a part of it, everyone is. Even if you don't buy anything (and OP sounds like someone who does) you're still contributing to the increase in prices with your online talking raising game awareness, and saying "I'm an oldfag it's not my fault" is even more ridiculous, the longer you've been a part of it the greater your contribution to th phenomenom. in b4 >resellers, resellers appeared because you were there.

>>11898656
OP here, Im a zoomer desu but ive been into the hobby for many years. I somewhat agree that everyone is "part of it" but not equally. I dont buy overpriced shit at conventions or on ebay. I usually scout garage sales or local mom and pop shops that sell vintage things.

>>11898685
>I usually scout garage sales or local mom and pop shops that sell vintage things.
Where do you live?

>>11898521 (OP)
We should have gatekept everything harder
>videogames
>internet
>memes
Fuck normalfags

>>11898689
Why?

>>11898698
Curious what country is it that lets you buy games noticeably cheaper in small shops compared to online. Here in Poland I've had no such luck.

>>11898704
Ah, USA

>>11898540
Perfectly describes this entire board

>>11898709
>USA
Makes sense.

>>11898540
>Heeeey guys, welcome to this week's episode. Before we start real quick shout out to milk duds. Anyways [weird shitty youtube poop spliced in random noises] today we're talking about the creepy liminal spaces in Super Bomberman... let's dive in, Shout out to Milk Duds!

>>11898521 (OP)
It wasn't normies you moron it was collectors, retro systems were considered trash not even worthy of the bargain bin until a bunch of "OMG This person got $25,000 for this old NES game!" articles started cropping up about those stupid NES Championship carts and then suddenly everyone wanted to act like their dingy copy of Super Mario Bros from when they were 5 was literally made of gold and tried selling it as such. Then the collectorfags arrived with with "grading" and all that bullshit.

Normies never gave a shit, and still don't, it was collectorfags started trying to turn old games that nobody wanted into investments.

>>11898521 (OP)
Its because Millennials, the first generation to abolish nerd shame, became adults with jobs in the 2010s

All the expensive shit, is shit that only became retro and nostalgic by our adulthoods, aka NES - N64 eras

>>11898521 (OP)
retro gaming =/= retro collecting

>>11898521 (OP)
It's a game of patience. You don't need a CIB copy of a game when you can emulate it for free, so there is no reason to purchase the first one you see.

>>11898978
I like having the physical games on my shelf. What is so hard about this to understand?

Youtubers have constantly made videos about those games. It was just a matter if time that the algorithm picked it up. Most people play it through remasters or emulation (official/unofficial). The price increase was bound to happen. So keep seething about not being able to get a full complete in box collection.

>>11898521 (OP)
>had to make it mainstream and ruin the fucking hobby for everyone
How? Don't confuse playing old games with collecting plastic. Exposure doesn't make games automatically worse.

>>11899039
Cool but there's no reason to be in a hurry when you can emulate and wait for a good deal.

>>11898521 (OP)
This happens to everything, you should dread the day a hobby truly goes mainstream.
Fucking generic branded whey 80 is getting expensive

>>11898521 (OP)
bandwagoners didnt really give a shit about retro gaming before the early 2010s, but then they continued to get their opinions from fucking youtubers and influencers even when those were telling them to take out a fucking loan to even dream of getting CIB copies of anything to impress strangers on the internet. Bandwagoners. Making my retro collection outperform the nearly every other investment since the early 2010s.

Holy shit console faggots are so annoying
I can boot ANY fucking game anytime I want
You're a slave to your digital medium, willingly, and that's the worst part. Then you go complain that you don't own anything and that your masters owe you something. Fuck off and go own something and stop being a serf.

>>11898536
>i like hoarding plastic
mental illness.

>>11898521 (OP)
I have news for you, frog man. Most of the good collecting was done by the mid 00's. If you waited tgis long and now in 2025 are having a tantrum because the games you want are now too expensive, then you are the very normie you are raging about. You are the reason games are retardedly expensive. If you want to own things from an earlier generation then of course you're going to pay for it.

>>11899039
What's so hard to understand that many other people also want the physical copy on their shelf? What metric do you use to determine that you are more worthy to have that CIB than someone else?

>>11899635
Based nomad chad

>>11898536
You will still own a burned CD-r. Same thing. The rest is junk (inlay, box, manual).

>>11899646
I got that thing for 50 bucks in like 1999, some of the best money I spent. Playing Beyond Oasis riding the train to and from school was great. Then I sold it around 2015 or so for around 200 since I pretty much just played Genesis on PSP by then.

>>11899776
>that scaling
bro

I'm the one that told the normalfags. I did it because you wouldn't quit saying normies instead of normalfag

/v/-tier thread.

>>11898521 (OP)
They didn't care because the games they grew up on weren't retro yet.
Now they're like
> remember brown and bloom X360 bargin bin trash it's so good
10 years from now Gen Alpha will be slurping today's games as misunderstood classics.

>>11899802
Epic win

>>11899791
The PSP screen is small enough that I prefer it scaled up, either way they look better than it did either on the tube tvs I used to have or Nomad so it's all gravy.

>frogposter whining about normies

>>11898521 (OP)
If you're not a normie, than why didn't you buy you're CIB copies when it was a obscure hobby and they were cheap?

>>11898521 (OP)
Just play your fucking games, you contrarian frog posting retard.

>>11898521 (OP)
>normies didnt really give a shit about retro gaming before the early 2010s,
Incorrect.
>but then fucking youtubers and influencers just had to make it mainstream and ruin the fucking hobby for everyone.
Their influence was minimal.

Calm down.

>>11898535
>collecting games, particularly outdated games, was absolutely a turbonerd hobby until the early-ish 2010s
Video game collecting is a very mainstream geek hobby. Literally millions and millions of people participating.

Yeah, all those normies buying Sega Saturn games. I'm sure.

>>11900806
because im a zoomer. dumbass.

>>11900838
>is
Yes. Not how I said
>was
It absolutely did not used to be mainstream, and old games were largely seen as discount bin fodder or Goodwill junk. You know how you go into a Goodwill nowadays and see a whole bunch of dirt cheap CDs stuffed into a shelf? That used to be the state of the overwhelming majority of old cartridge games.

>>11901154
That's because they were clearing out old stock. Of course there aren't going to still be bargain bins of cartridges 15 years later. You're such a strange mix of entitled and ignorant.

>>11901154
>It absolutely did not used to be mainstream, and old games were largely seen as discount bin fodder or Goodwill junk.
No shit that's because old doesn't mean retro, you dumbass. Retro implies old enough for a generation to have already grown up with it as children, and its now something that's nostalgic. Being five years old isn't retro, like when you could buy Genesis games for a quarter in the year 2000, it didn't become nostalgic until we were in our 30s-40s looking back at our youth, thats how everything works. A fucking action figure isn't rare or worth anything five-ten years after it came out, it is after like twenty-thirty years

>>11901187
>>11901191
My whole point was that videogame collecting was absolutely not a mainstream hobby, and similarly the majority of old games, even Atari, did not have a high value because not many people were looking to accumulate them as collector items. It was a relatively small group of people buying any kind of outdated game, compared to now where it seems like the majority of people into gaming have some desire to "collect," even go as far as having multiple services will to grade and "authenticate" old games. Why is it so hard for you to accept that the state of game collecting today is entirely dissimilar to what it was before you were born, or at least while you were still a toddler?

>>11898535
>If you told some retrogaming roundtable forum member back in 2004
someone should go back there and bump all their 20yo threads telling them
they raly like it when u do that

It was fun while it lasted at least. Hunting for cheap retro treasures in the wild back in 2002~2007
And nowadays I just enjoy vidya without caring about youtubers and communities. It's my own experience, and I was here before them.

>>11898521 (OP)
Most people playing retro games play single players and the few tools to play online outside of steam are obscure enough for normies not to bother, even fightcade might as well be arcane magic to the average gamer, so how the hell can normies ruin your experience playing old games? If anything, more companies are willing to put their old arcade only/japan exclusive game out in the open because of the added profit of doing so, making those who were already interested have easier access to those games, with added bonuses like the recent capcom collections. Unless you are talking about hoarding plastic, in which case I guess it might inflate some prices.

>>11898521 (OP)
>>11898960
I'm a millennial and confirm this. Not just buying but hoarding when the stuff was everywhere and cheap. It took a long while until boomers realized retrogames as a valuable antique.

From time to time I manage to score like in the old days, but resellers make it a very contested game now. I've been doing this since 2008, and I'd always wait for vendors to take out the merchandise while walking around, a sort of duck duck goose other millennial collectors implicitly agreed to play. Well, boomers want to be so ahead of everything they will pest vendors to check the truck/cart/boxes before they open. Then buy nothing and say "thanks" after leaving a mess of scattered stuff. Down the line, after selling to them a few overpriced antiques, vendors will ban them from buying, but then a new one will try to do the same and so on.

>>11901187
>>11901191
You goys must be late to the party or something, by your logic around the early 2000's the Atari 2600's and similar systems should have been worth a hell of a lot more than they were. People were quite literally giving these things away and it wasn't until 08-09 everyone started trying to get money for these things. Obviously some systems were more expensive than others but none of them broke $50 for a complete working system until 09, atleast in my experience.

I don't blame youtube perse but rather just information in general. Barely anyone knew what a Magnavox Odyssey was until that information was easily available in their pocket. Combine that with being able to see what people are willing to pay for these systems through sites like Ebay is what drove up the prices more than anything.

If you want to see something more interesting the Arcade machine market is far more interesting and stable despite being in a similar (arguably worse) situation to home games. Some machines have been roughly the same price for 20 years, same for pinball machines. I don't really know the market well enough to speculate to why that is, but I do know that outside of some very specific models and systems arcade cabs are kind of like Steel Battalion where you buy one, have your fun with it, then pass it on to the next person for basically the exact same amount you paid for it. Obviously there's the whole buissness and money making aspect to them but how many arcades are left, not many. Most machines these days are in the hands of collectors and private owners.

If you really want to boil it down to nerd economic terms the supply hasn't changed in decades but the demand has skyrocketed Yubtub is part of that but it's not the only thing.

>>11901829
I can say that some models of Japanese sitdown/candy cabs have absolutely exploded in price over the past decade. You used to be able to pick up an Astro City any day for around $400-$600 (I think I paid $450 for mine back in 2010, with original monitor, good condition), now they're more like upper $1k to $2k.

Let’s be honest here thr more people that know about something and get into it the worse it gets passed a certain threshold. this is only one more isolated example of this concept. if YouTube was never monetized, and people didn’t create YouTube channels to farm views for money, the prices for these games would never have gone up anywhere near where the are today

I'd care more if pirating wasn't as easily accessible as it is. As is you can play and experience the games perfectly fine and all the whining and bitching about retro prices and scarcity really just is unrelated to the actual games themselves

>>11898521 (OP)

If there is a demand, someone will always turn up to supply, and if supply is scarce prices go up. If you don't like it - emulate.

I bought a second hand N64 with 10 games for £40 in about 2012 (No SM64 or Mario Kart, no original boxes). I sold the whole lot for around 3 times the amount 10 years later. I'd say, 'I win capitalism, suck my dick' but clearly I could have parted with it for it 5x the amount by now or more.

If anybody is trying to hop on the investing in pop culture things bandwagon, here's what you do.
Ask yourself, was this thing GENUINELY popular? If yes, did prices tank to the point of it being given away or trashed, and is it still in this phase or at least cheap? If yes, then BUY. It WILL become more valuable again, almost without fail. Fun facts - old Pokemon cards were once considered almost worthless, and common belief was that they'd remain so. Even when cartridge era games started to get expensive, many were convinced that disc games would remain cheap; even when some disc games started to go up in price, people were sure that 6th generation would remain cheap. PC games? Hah, nobody will ever pay a premium for THOSE!

>>11898521 (OP)
You spoke nothing but truff

>>11898547
Chink flu really was the straw that broke the camel's back, not only did our USD lose ~25% of buying power in a couple years but all the extra time people had caused a shitload more people to get into retro games

>>11901829
>>11901691
Because culture changed starting with the 16 but era and the kids of that time. We became the first to accept geek culture and refused to "grow up". Comic con was tiny before around 2009, when 90s kids were entering adulthood. Connect the dots

>>11902473
It's similarly crazy how much CRTs have exploded in price. Late Gen Zs will look at you like you're a retard with money because you have a pro CRT, assuming you shelled out $500++ for it, not realizing that, for the longest time, most sets were free, and even meme sets like decently sized PVMs would maybe sometimes break $100 if you were shopping online, with only the bigger pro sets like the XM29s or whatever maybe reaching a few hundred. Now you can expect to have to pay for most any halfway decent consumer CRT, with even funsized PVMs reaching several hundred, and some of the larger pro sets costing well over $1k (if you can even find them now).
They really can't seem to, or don't want to, grasp just how relatively cheap the overwhelming majority of "retro tech" stuff used to be, and how little most people gave a shit about it (some of whom are the very same people who now have to spend hundreds to buy everything because they sold off their childhood collections 20 years ago, and continued to consider it all to be outdated junk... until it became a fad and/or they became nostalgic for it, of course).

>>11902317
>if anyone is trying to get advice for a retarded child listen to me
lol

>>11903193
It worked for me.

>>11902535
This. 90s kids were the first gen to just keep gaming.

Go talk to someone 50+ who actually grew up in the 70s or 80s for real, if they were into gaming, at best they're just nostalgic for the games that they played as kids because once they got old enough, they didn't continue gaming.

EXCEPTIONS to the rule exist, but generally speaking generations older than the 90s kept childhood shit in childhood, they didn't keep watching like the new Transformers or buying the new Donkey Kong etc as they entered their teens and twenties

>>11903223
No. It didn't even work for the youtuber you're parroting.

>>11901829
>You goys must be late to the party or something, by your logic around the early 2000's the Atari 2600's

I was early to the party, but you do have a point that Atari only really ever started getting expensive after the meme collecting started, similar to CRTs. Most people I know around my age, of eary 50's, late 40's didn't really care much about Atari. It was cool when we were kids, but 8 and 16 bit were where things caught their stride and you started to see the pattern of things being incredibly cheap for a while after the generation ended then slowly creaping up.

CRTs are a funny thing because in my experience anyway, it seems almost exclusively people who didn't grow up with them who now want them. That's why they were so cheap for so long. Most of us hate them. I'm the only one of my friends who keeps one around and that's only because we have a lot of VHS tapes.

>>11904780
Could be because "getting a flatscreen" was a status symbol for Boomers and Gen X. A lot of CRTfags do seem to be millennials who did indeed grow up eith CRTs, and probably though LCDs were the hot new thing, but in either case were just things their parents bought and (like myself) didn't really attach much particular symbolism to them. I think my first experience with a color computer monitor LCD was playing Doom on my dad's laptop in the early 2000s, and I thought it looked like difficult-to-see crap compared to playing on my desktop. I basically never stopped playing videogames on a CRT, especially since the "big TV" in the house was a widescreen rear projection that was kept into the 2010s, which is what I used to play Wii and PS3, and my bedroom TV was (and still is, though I rarely use it) a flat tube Sony CRT.

>>11898521 (OP)
>normies didnt really give a shit about retro gaming before the early 2010s
Yup, and you still had people on cheapassgamer whining that an NES cart cost a whole 75 cents or whatever.

>>11903493
Not exactly. Lots of adults played arcade games and had an Atari at least. But, yes mostly, 90s kids grew up and held onto videogames and anime like no other generation. That doesn't mean all of them let the hobby overtake their life. I know tons of millennials who work 6-7 days a week and still game a few nights a week.

>>11898535
What blows my mind is 3DS is like $200. Didn't that come out like 10 years ago? I swear anything with Nintendo on it is beanie babies 2.0.

>>11904926
The timegap between something being "old crap" and a "vintage collectible" seems to be narrowing.

>>11904829
I can't speak for others, but at least personally I have always despised CRTs. Neurodivergence probably plays a part, but the way light comes out of them looks both harsh and blurry. Even as a kid long before better displays would be available I always dreamt of something better. I understand the reasons why people who like CRTs do, but don't agree with most of them. I am heavy on hand-held and emulation though, hence why I got a Nomad >>11899635 but also why I sold it once the PSP could emulate it all better.

>>11904780
worst.larp.ever.

>>11905750
You must be new here. I've been using that same photo to bitch about how much I've always hated CRTs on this board for almost a decade now. My detestation is no larp, it's quite genuine.

>>11899591
>mental illness

>>11906802
>I've been using that same photo to bitch about how much I've always hated CRTs on this board for almost a decade now.
>no photo
Congratulation, another worst larp ever, in a row even. You wanna go for a hat trick?

>>11908283
So you think I secretly do like CRTs? lol

>>11898521 (OP)
Just pirate it?

>>11908721
>So you think I secretly do into reading comprehension
No. But I know you're so mad that your mommy won't let you have a CRT at the foot of your racecar bed that you can't stop publicly humiliating yourself seething about it.

>>11909182
>his mom lets him have a racecar bed
Fuck you

>>11898536
Then backup all your roms onto a VHS and put it in a Faraday Box with a small kit to read and write the data onto discs and run them on real hardware.
Fag.

>>11898521 (OP)
I'm so glad that retrogaming is mainstream, on top of having roms, emulators, and dedicated devices as available as ever; it being mainstream also ruins the bank account of retards like you who don't play and just collect

>>11899956

I wish I'd done more that zero research when I spontaneously really got into video games in 2023. Thankfully my /vr/ mistakes have been few and far between, the biggest being paying $55 for a Model 2 Sega Genesis with crappy third party controllers. I haven't ever bought a fake game save a Splatterhouse 3 ROMhack cartridge

>>11909365
>that
Than. Fuck

>>11899635
Can confirm. I started my collection in the mid 00's and even just between 2006 and 2010, the prices were already going up. In 2006 I could easily find Dreamcast stuff brand new and sealed, cheap.

>>11904926
Nintendo plays into the insanity of their fans by deliberately restricting supply. They'll stop printing games that are still selling well.

>>11909220
>you just keep nailing it so im gonna have a tantrum and prove you right
lol

>>11909182
Lol no. I had my own TV from when I was around 12 or 13, I played the heck out of games on it. In later years we even got some pretty good ones. We had a computer too, but same thing. Anyway, I have just always hated the kind of light that comes off them, everything is always kind of blurry no matter what. I always wanted to see the crisp clear pixels, like on Gameboy but with nice colours and every CRT just looks like dogshit to me.

You're free to disagree, but as I say even among my friends who are into old games I don't personally know anyone who actually likes CRTs. That's why you could find them on the curb so often for so long.

>>11910186
>Lol no. I had my own TV from this year to next year
Your iphone isn't a TV, sweaty

>>11910404
Dude, I'm in my 50's. You're clearly new to this board and are trying way too hard.

>>11898521 (OP)
Video games were never not mainstream, silly kid. You were never special for playing them.

>>11898535
>collecting games, particularly outdated games, was absolutely a turbonerd hobby until the early-ish 2010s
This. Anyone who disagrees exclusively interacted with other nerds. You could buy N64 and PS1 games for less than $1 at Gamestop at one point. Normalfags had this retarded "New = Better" mentality that only iPhone users seem to have today. Yahtzee was the only one normalfag adjacent who was criticizing all the slop being put out and he was seen as a huge contrarian.

I genuinely believe there is no way the normalfags came to retro games on their own. I blame the video essayists, speed runners, indie spiritual successors and streamers/lets plays for this. I remember the conversations. They would buy whatever slop came out, play it, say it was good and then never think about it again.

>>11898960
It's because mainstream everything has gotten so bad that pretty much everyone has retreated to nerd hobbies.
Even take something as basic as beer is so low quality that Millennials had to create micro breweries just to get what Boomers could buy on store shelves with no effort.

>>11898694
Do I deserve to be gatekept?

>>11910186
lookin good

If you didn't buy physical copies of your favorite games before 2010, you didn't love them enough and therefore deserve to be fucked in the ass now.
Also, you should only be keeping physical copies of a few dozen of your favorite games, at most. If you collect 50 or hundreds of games you have an undiagnosed hoarding problem.

>>11912351
This + I hate how most retro games run interlaced on original hardware. It's so distracting and makes my head hurt. CRTfags never mention this. I'd rather play retro shit on emulator because it gets rid of interlacing issues.

>>11912532
I know others disagree, but personally I think by far the best display for old games is a handheld with a good screen where everything can be crisp but doesn't look like huge blocks. It's ironic how bad this photo looks, but it's the M2 3DS port so in real life each pixel is clear and in stereoscopic 3D.

>>11910186
Crisp pixels weren't some esoteric secret.
Mario Paint, a mainstream title, included a stamp maker where you could create your own sprites.
They look better on CRT as it's the intended display, once scales down. The colors and forms are meant to mesh together at smaller resolution.

Quick story
I went to a con a couple years ago that had a big used vendor hall. I showed up mid afternoon, and couldn’t find anything good for a fair price. There were dozens of vendors. It was a huge room. All crap/overpriced.
On my way out I actually ran into someone I knew who works at the convention center. He asked how the show was and I told him the above.
“Yeah, I’ve been here since 8am (showfloor didn’t open till 11) and there were these three fat guys sitting in the lobby with a big list of games. Their paper had game prices were talking loudly about re-selling what they found.”
Anyways, my point is that in my experience it is not actually the normie casuals ruining the resale market, but old fat gatekeeping losers who would rather artificially jack up the prices than get a real job.

>>11912808
Ohh yeah and I played the fuck out of Mario Paint.

>>11911518
>Dude, my IQ is in the 50's. I'm clearly new to this board and am trying way too hard.

>>11898521 (OP)
There is a retro gamestore near me I visit every couple of years
+10 years ago it was exclusively retro games with some game merch. I remember silent hill 1 was $10 and most games were $5-7.
5-8 years ago all the games shot up in price and they started adding music gear, DVDs, etc it basically became a pawn shop
I just checked it the other day and it is almost entirely records, DVD and Bluerays. The game section is now in a corner, it's tiny and was mostly sports games.

>>11903493
>fellow kongers

>>11902535
>>11903493
>All forms of entertainment universally go to shit at the same time during the 00s to the point the various monopolies are collapsing
>It gets more expensive to do basic things without feeling the pain even if you're "middle class"
>This is a widely accepted fact by anyone old enough to remember the 90s
>An entire generation of people don't do the same thing the prior generation did
I wonder if these are related

>>11898530
i'm currently cashing out, i'm up 344% so far from what i've spent originally and I still have 4 dozen left mostly heavy hitters, just swapping everything to flashcarts at this point. Thinking about making picking up some rgb modded stuff for my setup though.

>>11913427
This happened to my local GameXChange. When it first opened it was fucking awesome. Cheap retro games, they had a deal where you buy 2 games $7.95 or under and get one free, I think they also had a similar deal with games $9.95 and under too, they had a DVD collection but the games were plentiful. I went recently and they had barely any games, what they did have was expensive and were probably sitting there for a year, it was mostly just pop culture junk, toys, random merch, records, VCRs (?), soda and candy, just shit like that. All in complete disarray too. They had cheap Atari games but probably because they weren't moving. I bought one and left, most likely never to come back.

>>11913540
It sounds 1 for 1 the same situation except for the candy. Modern pop culture trash, the atari games, etc. The only thing you missed was all of the Nintendo console games being behind glass for some reason and that all the games with cases (GC, PS2, Xbox) were facing front out like pic related instead of spine out, because they just didn't have any inventory.

It just doesn't make sense to have a retro game store today unless you're in a small town that doesn't have a ton of scalpers. The stores can't mark the price up, because people can just buy it online for cheapter. The best they can do is match the shipping cost.

>>11913540
>>11913427
The well continues to run dry, as fewer retro games are left in circulation, and those that are are more likely to go straight to some online marketplace. I applaud them for trying to find a way to make it work, but at a certain point you have to wonder if it's like the restaurant switching to offbrand ketchup and "streamlining" their menu, where they're basically just delaying the inevitable.

>>11913559
They're probably fine. Movie Buffs didn't arbitrarily have their movies stop being distributed, so the well wont dry up there. The people who collect Funko Pops will buy anything.

>>11912827
>>11913427
A combination of these two things. The early days it was the mega nerds who saw that games they spent $60-$90 bucks on just a few years before were going for a fraction of that price. So instead of just getting one copy of Duck Tales from the bargain bin for $1 so they could play it, they just buy the whole bin. Then they try to turn it into a brick and mortar store selling it all, but that brings overhead. So they have to scour every flea, market and garage sale then to try and get every old game available so they can put it in their store, jack the price to make a profit so the store can stay open.

It's basically how all antique stores work, except most antique stores have a wide array of items which makes it at least a semi viable business model (but only barely if you know anyone who does it). But video game stores are so niche they have to do everything possible just to stay open. Which is why that copy of Duck Tales that was $1 in a bargain bin in a department store is now in a glass case with a $150 price tag and an authenticity sticker because if he sells it any lower he can't pay rent.

>>11913570
>Movie Buffs didn't arbitrarily have their movies stop being distributed,

That is actually a massive, massive issue in the movie buff world and why certain VHS and DVDs especially are beginning to skyrocket. With games it's not hard if you want to get a few full ROM sets of pretty much everything. With movies abd TV, there are masses and masses of things never rebroadcasted now and never put to digital so if you don't have a hard copy there is no other way to see it. To bring it back to this >>11905040 I have never, ever liked CRTs. The only reason we keep one around is there's a pile of VHS tapes of movies and old shows we still have and that's the only practical way to watch them.

>>11898521 (OP)
you were never special for consuming product you could buy at every hypermarket and shopping mall

>>11911518
What game?

>>11916053
Monster World 4

>>11898536
Get ODEs and flashcarts for your consoles. Softmod them, run CD-Rs on them. Get an old CRT TV for cheap or free.

I only buy the consoles and controllers now. All my physical games have been packed away for over a decade.

>>11902535
>>11903493
With retarded childish hot takes like those who would argue that you didn't refuse to grow up. But in typical narcissistic millennial fashion you claim your lame attempts to appropriate culture is anything other than filling your emptiness with anything that requires the least effort. And you're full of self loathing because you know you're nothing but second rate try hard copy cats, so you imagine all the things you've appropriated are bad and childish.
The reality is that "geek culture" was accepted, wildly popular, long before you can along. Problem is, compared to you fembois the Tri-Lambs look like Greek Gods. You'll never catch Pac-Man Fever because you play alone in your parents basement, double masked. But you have no real identity because lack any real knowledge, interests, personality, or soul. So you ape the identities you saw on TV or online. "Quite the Retro Gamer" being one of the most popular as it's low cost and low effort. You don't need to buy a snake. You don't need to learn how to play a few chords on a guitar. You don't have to learn to talk sassy with a lisp and suck cock. Just throw on a Mario shirt and agree with everything the other Mario shirt wearers say.
Most people who grew up in the 70s/80s didn't stop playing games. We just didn't need to make it our identity. We have other interests, hobbies, jobs, families. Lives. We never had your perpetual nagging obsession to "fit in" because we already did. With many groups. Because we're normal mentally stable people who others want to be around. And it's absolutely hilarious how much "normies" makes you seethe. Sure, we can beat you at any game, own more toys than you could dream of, and really enjoy playing with them. But that's normie behavior reeeeee! Real quite the retro gamers spend all their time crying about prices, talking about deepest lore, and making backlogs they'll never complete because they can't git gud.

Retarded contrarian take. More interested people = more mods, more hacks, more custom content created by people who actually care about these games. Also post-2010 modern games are quite bad, so people rather play old games.

>>11917439
Video games were culturally 'normie' before they were culturally 'nerdy' and really, they always kind of have been. There is a certain kind of nerd who likes to try and take possession of things they like and gate keep them, but the reality is that games are always striving to find a large audience as opposed to a niche one.

>>11917439
>The reality is that "geek culture" was accepted, wildly popular, long before you can along.
No it wasn't, it was popular no shit but geeks got made fun of and bullied. "Chads" and "Stacies" didn't walk around wearing Mario shirts or Batman shirts like they do now, it was kind of counter culture/not giving a fuck to do so and the stereotype of a gamer or superhero fan, star wars fan, etc, was a negative one.

I know this because it was like this all through my own childhood, up until like fucking 2008, coinidentally the same time the MCU started, the same time gaming became mass normie and the birth of e-girls and streaming, coincidentally the same year comicon went from the biggest little nerd convention to a fucking major media hub with A list celebrities and tons of hot chicks and normies going to hear about the new Call of Duty game or whatever the fuck

>>11919684
Don't be silly. Nobody except a few basement dwelling geeks ever played video games until the first millennial posted a picture of they/them selfs on myspace pretending to play mario while wearing a mario shirt with the caption "omg i'm so nerdy! lol xd" You can shill for Big 2600 all you want with your fake ads. But we millennials know that literally nothing happened in the world until we were born and that we invented everything.

>>11911717
I will decide the answer to that once you tell me your top 5 /vr/ games

>>11919739
My dad was like a Camaro driving ACDC guy in 1980 and he told me how adults were expected to give up video games and that he beat up the nerdy guys at the arcade who made it their life. Like at best you went in drank a beer and kicked around but actual "gamers" were poindexters as was anyone into computers

>>11919739
My dad was like a Camaro driving ACDC guy in 1980 and he told me how adults were expected to give up video games and that he beat up the nerdy guys at the arcade who made it their life. Like at best you went in drank a beer and dicked around but actual "gamers" were poindexters as was anyone into computers

>>11919757
1. Quake 3
2. DoDonPachi DaiOuJou
3. Akumajou Dracula (x68000)
4. Dragon Quest V
5. Puyo Puyo Tsu

>>11919764
I want to have sex with your dad.

>>11919767
>Dragon Quest V over Dragon Quest IV

Your waifu illness betrays you

>>11919739
>I know this because I wasn't there
lol. How could anyone argue with that. Sorry kiddo. Your degeneration didn't invent adults playing video games or "geek culture" or any of the other shit you slap a new name on and pretend to have invented. Maybe you invented calling femboi culture geek culture lmfao.

>>11898521 (OP)
So why didn't you buy games before 2010? Do you know what I did before 2010? I opened up a used game store and bought everything the town had to offer for 30% of it's estimated value... AT THAT TIME.

>>11899635
BASED

>>11919915
>bought everything the town had to offer for 30% of it's estimated value
You overpaid. I did the same thing and only offered 10%. Store credit.

Gen 4 and Gen 5 games were still expensive in the early 00s. FF Tactics was $80 used at most game stores before it got a reprint, Chrono Trigger was $100 CIB at any funcoland, software etc. I bought Suikoden 2 CIB used at a gamestop back in 03 for $70. Panzer Dragoon Saga was $150 used.

What happened is the market for everything gen six and under crashed when HD signals replaced SD and everyone threw out their old tv's. They find out their old consoles look like shit on HD displays so they decide to sell or get rid of all their old games. So you have a combination of a plummet in demand and massive spike in inventory. That rare snes RPG you had that was worth over $100 CIB is now worth maybe $30. This is something you faggots never bring up.

>>11919907
I was there from 1989 to now

I guess magically, geeks stopped being cool right when I was born? No retard. Also, I'm friends with a lot of people who grew up in either the 70s or 80s because I've been involved in the music scene, and they'd all agree with me because that's what they fuckin say, meanwhile I highly doubt you're over 50

>>11920385
>I was an infant for a few months in 89 so I know how it was growing up in the 70s and 80s
Were they really making kids this dumb as early as 89?
>I'm friends with lots of people 10-20 years older than me and we talk about what geeks were like in the 70s and 80s
I've got bad news for you kiddo. Those old guys in the music scene who've been promising to make you a star for the last couple decades if you suck their cocks aren't gonna deliver.

>>11899635
>you are the very normie you are raging about. You are the reason games are retardedly expensive.
100% THIS

>>11905040
>I have always despised CRTs
That's a common thing with the younger gen z crowd.

Being upset about game prices makes no sense. If you're passionate about the hobby, and can afford to collect US releases, there's no reason to be upset. You'd understand why others value games to the extent that they do, and you'd simply pay up. If you're passionate about the hobby, and can't afford to collect US releases, you'd probably already know Japanese by now, as their games are much cheaper. You sound like someone who's upset that they can't afford something they only kind of, sort of want. I'd encourage you to perhaps find a new hobby. One you're so passionate about that the idea of spending a five figure sum of cash or a couple thousand hours learning a new skill seems like a minor hurdle when you consider the joy on the other side of it. Even if the hobby you choose has no such barrier to entry, you should ask yourself: would I still want to pursue this even if doing so was really difficult and costly? Life's too short to waste your time on things that only kind of interest you.

Also, like >>11899635 said, if you didn't already have a decent collection before the price spikes, you're probably the exact kind of casual late-comer you're complaining about.

>>11904926
Not too long ago you could've gotten a New 2DS XL for $99 at Walmart and Best Buy.

>>11898960
PS2 and especially Gamecube (because tendies and cubies love the gay lunchbox so much) are fucking expensive even for common games right now.

>>11920440
You're a retard. I know how nerd culture was as a kid and teen, it wasn't accepted the way it was going to the 2010s

And I trust actual boomers more than a LARPer on 4chan, nobody over 40 uses this weabshit site still

>>11920623
>You're a retard.
Silly child. Being able to do math is racist, not retarded.
>I know how thing was during not the time we're talking about
I'm beginning to think you might be so dumb you don't even know what year you were actually born in. You never experienced "geek" or "nerd" culture in the 70s or 80s. The things you attribute to it, such as adults playing video games, were mainstream. You experienced femboi culture rebranded as those in whatever decade you actually grew up in. Based on your posts that looks like 00s or 10s
>And I trust actual boomers more than a LARPer on 4chan
And the penny drops. It's usually the people shouting about a thing that are the ones actually doing that thing.

>>11898521 (OP)
>>11898535
OP is a retard and blaming normalfags (when the actual culprit is speculators), but yeah, a lot changed for the market.
I was rewatching old episodes of Irate Gamer and there was a particularly funny moment where he's talking about Super C I believe and stressing how absurdly expensive the game is at... wait for it... FORTY DOLLARS.
Like, that's just how it used to be, that's why all those guys had big tall shelves of cartridge games- because people didn't really treat them as valuable. That's why CIB versions are so rare, the box is irrelevant to why you're buying, but today, older games are purely a collector's market so everything goes up.

>>11898685
Based born at a different time than me anon

>>11921196
You don't speak English so you

>>11904926
>>11909508
Nah, covid shot up 3DS prices across the board for some reason.
It shooting up game prices, sure, makes sense, but the console itself shot up in price? I imagine it has to do with the 3DS making most models of the DS functionally irrelevant to normalfags (like how the DS did with the GBA), but it's still absurd, usually major consoles always depreciate in value outside of ones produced in limited quantities (or the unique PS TV situation where its value became well-known after it got discontinued).

It's interesting how much for games in general changed within the last five years though. Everyone knows Dragon Quest titles going from $20 in the 2010s to fucking $150-$200 in today's market, but there's other smaller things I've seen occur.
For one thing, nearly every Silent Hill game went up in price. Everyone knows about SH1-4, 2-4 in particular went from $30~ to $150~, but Origins? $20 -> $100. Shattered Memories? PS2 version is one of the highest valued games on the console. Even shit like Downpour and Book of Memories took a steep price hike.

But what will remain baffling to me is the Resident Evil turnover. All the games were excessively overproduced, and now they're all rare (except 4 I guess).
I decided to finally complete my RE collection by buying Outbreak File #2 (didn't like File #1, never cared for the subseries), stop at a local expecting $50, which is what it was back in the late 2010s, and guess how much they were trying to sell it for- $200. TWO. HUNDRED. DOLLARS.
Dead Aim, widely considered a giant piece of shit, I bought it for $5 back in 2007. I saw it being sold for $60 some time back.
The GCN ports of 2, 3, and CV, they were rare yeah, like $60 rare. Now they're in the realm of SH games.

Thankfully this will die down in 30 years when the people actively buying tons of shit are people who only hold nostalgia for phone games.

>>11921281
>You don't speak English so you

>>11920490
It's a thing with the boomer crowd too. Literally outside of weirdo retro game nerds obsessed with pixel blur, no one liked CRTs. That's why there was no aftermarket for them and a TV that cost $500 new would just leave in on the curb a few years later as soon as they got anything that wasn't a CRT.

>>11898521 (OP)
>normies didnt really give a shit about retro gaming before the early 2010s
Then explain all the retro game compilations and retro game stores that existed before 2010. Enough people cared about retro gaming to make these things profitable enough to exist.
>then fucking youtubers and influencers just had to make it mainstream and ruin the fucking hobby for everyone
I agree with you on this. Retro gaming, and nerd culture in general, were way more fun before 2010.

Old games and consoles increasing in price was inevitable as they get more rare, especially in pristine state.

>>11909365
>I spontaneously really got into video games in 2023
You an old man or something?

>>11921470
I'll take lies youtube told you for $200

>>11921290
People who like the 3DS REALLY like it. I got mine repaired but am still thinking of buying another just to have a back up. There are a ton of amazing DS and 3DS games and it's the only way to really play them. Also if you're one of the blessed few who the stereoscopic 3D works for then there are certain games where it's the only way to play them. By far it's the definitive version of Snake Eater for me.

>>11921674
I'm probably closer to your parent's age than yours. I speak from experience.

You don't have to be a follower or a youtube watcher. Let them in their bubble. No follower, no watcher, no money. Don't be a sheepb
I go back on my atari 7800.

>>11898960
>Millennials
>abolished nerd shame
Did we really abolish it, or did we just buy into the trend? I remember nerd shaming being very alive and well until nerdiness became trendy circa 2008. By 2015, every former dudebro jockfag was wearing nerdy glasses and video game tees.

>>11898960
>>11921789
"Nerd shame" was only ever really a thing in tv and movies

>>11921680
No one my parents age or my age would cope like that. Hell, even my youngest kid would know better. So you're either underage or an incredibly stupid and insecure adult. It doesn't really matter which. The hot takes of either are irrelevant.

>>11898960
By the 2010s Millennials already were out of college and older zoomers were the main demographic. There was a massive top-down effort to "make games cool" during the Millennials time. 2000s brown and bloom dude bro shooters, in the 90s any game that wasn't for children was edgy, etc. That's why platformers died.

>>11921854
People wearing anime nd childrens video game merch for sure got ostracized

>>11921860
Do these eyebrows and liver spots look more like yours, or your parents? Post your eye if you aren't just a cowardly troll.

>>11922089
Post feet pics, please!

>>11922092
I've got you covered, bro.

>>11922092
I've got you covered, bro.

>>11922168
Based boomer!

>>11921470
I remember LCDs had an initial "Wow" factor from clear it was, but then you started hearing that games "Looked worse than I remembered" when the polygons, billboards and blurry textures were easier to see and a lot of tricks they used to do don't work. It's like how some people prefer to stretch a game that displays in 4:3 to 16:9 even though it distorts everything, or play games with pre-rendered backgrounds at 1080p causing all the 3d models to pop out. It's the same mindset.

>>11921274
OP is literally a speculator complaining about buying in too late.

>>11921470
You wouldn't know since you grew up with LCD televisions.
I remember when LCD televisions first came around and every single one of them looked like shit for everything.

>>11921854
Gaslighting will get you nowhere.

>>11898521 (OP)
It feels good to exclusively emulate nowadays.

>>11922258
Uhh huh... >>11922089
Show me your grey straggley brows and say that again

>>11922229
Yeah the early days of flat screens were gnarly, which only reinforces the point more. Even with as shitty as those were, people would still kick their tube TVs to the curb as soon as they came along.

>>11922393
You're not old you're just dying of GRID you caught from the bathhouses.

>>11922089
>>11922168
please be ai

>>11898521 (OP)
Retro gaming in 2002 was just still owning and playing your snes and buying shit at local stores for dirt cheap.

>>11922458
It really was.

>>11922448
In your dream, tourist.
I'm all too real.

>>11922570
The unstable contrarian boomer.

>>11922089
You look pretty damn good for someone close to 90 than my age. What's your secret?

>>11922393
When early LCDs came out they were still low res enough that people didn't notice the polygons and billboards as much. When resolutions got better it became so obvious that LCD is pretty much a direct downgrade for some games.

>>11922570
>let me show you what a shining example of a typical normie boomer i am by doing batshit crazy things
You sure showed him

You can try and blame those TV shows that show a dude selling an "NES 01" for 4 figures or whatever but remember, TV FOLLOWS trends, it doesn't create them.

The true culprit, the real seed of the issue was the Angry Nintendo Nerd. Not "James" himself, but him and Mike Matei working together on the ANN then turned AVGN.
James and Mike put together those first few videos and then they were caught by Gametrailers. That's a LOT of modern gamers looking at videos about old-ass games thinking "Yeah, I had an NES as a kid, that actually WAS fun. I shouldn't have sold it to buy a SNES/PS1/whatever".

Then when the show was picked up by Screwattack it only got worse. Even more gamers of all ages, both young and old being exposed NOT JUST to AVGN but Craig himself was also a big retro gamer. Then came Moviebob with the Game Overthinker and Pat the NES Punk and-

Basically a bunch of nerds got reminded of their childhood and the younger nerds thought "hey these consoles are cheaper than a PS3/360 because they're literally 25 years old". Add to that the thousands of Flash animations and games based on old SNES/PS1 games stuffed in Newgrounds and the underground retro gaming scene was born. Of course nothing stays underground for long because when a market shows up it's infiltrated and exploited, but the creation of that big retro market can be traced directly back to James Rolfe showing up at Mike and Bootsy's apartment in college and seeing them play on a dusty old NES instead of new modern games.

>>11898521 (OP)
>before the early 2010s, but then fucking youtubers and influencers just had to make it mainstream and ruin the fucking hobby for everyone
True

>>11923130
Probably blood transfusions from boys.

>>11921854
>nerd shaming
Was totally a thing, if you liked anything outside of a narrow band of acceptable interests (or if you liked those acceptable things too much), you got shit on.
>>11922458
It wasn’t even that, having a snes was just an old system or it was your older brother’s console, etc. Back then retro meant 1970s and early 80s stuff like pong and Atari.

>>11924025
I have no idea who those people are.

>>11898521 (OP)
Video games have always been mainstream and normies have always played video games. kys latefag or play video games

>>11898521 (OP)
>normies
So what are you exactly, are you one of those fabled frogposting incels or something? lmao!

>>11924324
>Video games have always been mainstream and normies have always played video games.
100% Wrong
> kys latefag or play video games
100% Right
You're half way there you giant anon asshole!

>>11920616
I got one on those, sadly it got stolen by a tweaker in the park.

>>11922704
Unstable perhaps, but outside of this board and retro gaming groups nothing I've said is contrarian at all. The overwhelming majority of people never liked tube TVs, they were just the only real option going.

There's really nothing controversial, it's just a simple explanation of why you could find $1000 TVs from only a few years back kicked to a curb in the rain even though early flat screens were also pretty shit still.

>>11923830
That's why I was talking mostly of non gamers.

>>11904829
I like this guys energy

>>11916140
Unfathomably based. Same thing here.

it annoys me than anybody would insist on playing retro games outside of emulation
>t. dude who finds emulation far better than the original hardware
collecting is another thing I get that

>>11924708
You tell him. Being into a hobby that was shared across millions of people actually makes you very special and different.

>>11898521 (OP)
>normies
...

>>11926804
Oh yes, I remember everyone hating their televisions they spent real money on effort getting into their living rooms that they would brag to their friends and neighbors over.
They just hated them because they could see into the future and see how much better OLED televisions were fifty years into the future.
You giant contrarian retard.

>>11927351
>Gaslights

>>11927541
They liked them because they were the best thing available, but they're huge and heavy. Once even shitty flat screens became available almost everyone switched. It's not like I'm saying anything crazy, everyone knows you could pick up TVs put out in the trash that only a few years before were luxury items. Retro game nerds just happen to be one of the few groups who actually revere them.

>>11898521 (OP)
Lmao nigga you are 20 years late
Get dabbed on daddy 'o

>>11899635
Based as fuck

>>11898521 (OP)
Nintendo cartidge games IS normies OP.

Real people used systems like the Amiga, ST, Atari 800, TRS80, Spectrum, Commodore etc

Garbage like the NES and the Gameboy were crappy toys for normie children and 99% worthless arcade ports, the missed whole genres of games that are the bases of retro gaming like text adventire. Zork and colossal cave are more important inn gaming than the entire nintendo library


This board SUCKs by the way.

>>11926804
>never liked
I'd imagine most people were of the big TV vs small TV mindset. The big TV was the good TV, the small TV was what was in the kitchen or the kid's room. Probably why rear projections were so popular and most buyers didn't fixate on their obvious issues, it was just a big fucking TV. And even now, a lot of people just like getting a big TV and don't obsess over picture quality beyond "can it do 4K." For the smaller secondary TVs in the house, they just want to make sure they fit and are cheap. Color depth, refresh rate, contrast, black levels, local dimming, etc etc is beyond the concern of most TV buyers (outside of rich ones who want to show off, and even then said qualities just happen to often align with it being the big and expensive TV).
So yeah, typically it requires some form of nerd, be they a computer nerd, retro gaming nerd, or a videophile to care much at all about the specifics of their TV beyond is it big enough, can I afford it, and (maybe) can it do what is the current high resolution.

>>11927780
>This board SUCKs by the way.
That's the only correct thing you stated.

>>11924324
>Video games have always been mainstream
LOL

>>11899635
Supremely based

>>11929945
Video games have been advertised on TV through out the world since Atari. How is that not mainstream?

>>11927831
>I'd imagine most people were of the big TV vs small TV mindset.

To a degree, yes. "Normies" mostly all wanted big screen, but the problem with tube TVs is that a bigger screen means a bigger box, and to have a large nice looking one in your living room was like getting a whole cabinet put in. So even though the picture quality of early flat screens was bad, to most people it just not taking up as much room made that irrelevant.

Just to be clear even though I hate them, I understand there are people who value them for some of the same reasons I find them annoying. I'm just trying to give context from experience as to why as everyone has seen that what had been very high end expensive electronic products only a few years before were usually just put in the trash rather than being resold. Only a few niche groups of nerds like them or ever did.

>>11929945
Video ga started out super mainstream, then became more niche after the Atari crash, but have been getting steadilymore mainstream ever since.

It's just games, in an electronic form and nearly everyone likes games.

>>11930794
A youtube said so

>>11931028
Yea I watched a youtube to figure out video games were always mainstream you retard.

>>11931157
You sure it wasn't a tiktok? You're clearly underage.

>>11931243
40 with parent who played video games is underage? So man but atari, nintendo, sega, and arcade games were never underground shit

>>11898521 (OP)
>normies didnt really give a shit about retro gaming before the early 2010s
Normies think nintendo is retro gaming

>>11898535
>People will argue with you, but yes, collecting games, particularly outdated games, was absolutely a turbonerd hobby until the early-ish 2010
This is tue, most of my collection was basically free, no one wanted old games especially for obsolete systems

>>11898536
>I like owning the physical games.
We all like owning physical games anon, pay no attention to the emulation rodents the real joy is the original machine and media. Everything else is just peeking though a keyhole.

>>11898543
>Kill yourself with your irrelevant question. What a putrid thread. Die motherfucker
NTA but the same right back at you.

>>11898969
>retro gaming =/= retro collecting
They sit beside each other on the shelf. I am both

>>11899082
>emulate
nah
>>11899440
People who wree into games had game collections e,g I have all the early resident evils and silent hills etc etc because I bought them in the 90s, I have all my big box and 80s computer stuff because I got it in the80s and 90s

One nice thig is if you are looking for an old part or game you are more likley to find it for sale somewhere as opposed to it just not being available.

>>11899473
In the end though the real faggot all along was (you). If you were playing these games back in the day why did you throw them out? Because you did not value them? If you valued tem why did you not pick tem up when people were giving them away for free?

>>11899591
Yes you have a metal illness its called missing the boat syndome. You did it to yourself too.
>>11899635
>I have news for you, frog man. Most of the good collecting was done by the mid 00's
Nah that's not true, I boughht up whole libraries of 100s of games for the PS1 and PS2 when video rental stores were shutting down by ust offering a manager cash down for a ceratin number of games, the staff were demoralised and did not care as the stores were shutting, a lot of the best PS1 and PS2 stuff was only showing up in estate auction boxes about 2010

>>11899985
>X360
was a great era, stop being a tard. Plenty of people started collecting that because they had got them for their kids and liked the system. It was a great library. Its already widely collected

>>11901154
>It absolutely did not used to be mainstream, and old games were largely seen as discount bin fodder or Goodwill junk.
This is correct. Eve a decade ago you would find stuff like PS1 games for nothing stuffed in with piles of CDs.

If you think the butthurt over physical media and games systems is bad, when until the normies find out that the DVDs and Bluerays are vanishing fast and already gettinng pricey for some fairly common movies from the 70s while streaming jacks prices and torrents and putlockers start getting blocked on national backbones, while 'security' software and infosec like firewalls and security appliances starts categorising it all as illegal malware because hashes of frames have been put in blacklists.

The screams of rage are going to be very loud. DVDs are rising fast in price now for TV series and movies . End of availablity for most can't be more than a few years out. When it is gone it is gone.

Physical media can be sold, gifted, inheirited, donated, loaned etc with transfer of all rights. Digital stuff can't. It has value for that reason alone and corprations came to hate it for that reason

>>11930794
Thinks marketing is mainstream.

>>11931383
You responded to the wrong comment.

>>11930794
>Video games have been advertised on TV through out the world since Atari.
Not really, It's always been mainly a US phenonomen. I've often wondered exactly what the marketing budget in EMEA for companies like microsoft is spent on becase they don't run TV slots and most promotions lie competitions with prizes are US only. I gues someone just steals it, Its anti marketing because it just makes EMEA consumers dislike the brands that act that way and shove it in their facesm stuff like Mirosoft and disney.Maybe ad slots are way more expensive in EMEA or something. TV is dead now anyways it's for the over 60s.

>>11930798
>Only a few niche groups of nerds like them or ever did.
I liked them because they are the only things the huge number of excellent light gun hardware and software works with, or other retro hardware like light pens, pic related

>>11928456
Yeah? Many would disagree with you.

Video games have always been seen as something for children. If children are into something it is mainstream. No kids are into underground shit until at least teen years.

>>11931714
>Video games have always been seen as something for children.
That stopped being true with the PS1 and its acceptance into the after drug rave club party scene which is why you get games like wipeout with the amazing club soundtracks, the use of drum and bass in a lot of the race games in general, wipeout branded by red bull etc. Of course it was also a CD player as well at a time when a lot of comparible quality CD players were componets for expensive stack HI FIs

By the time of the PS2 launched in 1999 the marketing was targeting solely adults not children. See this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAiOcFaUOcI

In fact it was clinging to being an overpriced helcopter parent bought kids toy that nearly wiped out nintendo in the 90s along with greed, overpricing, weak marketing, incomptetence and cartridges

>>11931714
its not about being "underground" its about the fact that cool people made fun of you for being a nerd, and they did, now they all want to be nerds and love the mcu and think gaming is kewl

same thing happened to the underground shit you speak of, normies all wear metal parody shirts now but really they just like rap, but they want to look like actual underground people who like metal and punk

This thread is stupid. Were you not even born yet when hipsters were making belt buckles out of their NES controller shells and scene girls were making rawr faces holding them next their cheek back in the mid-aughts? FOH

>>11898521 (OP)
I'm actually autistic and as a late 20s guy I kinda latched onto older games as a kid since I grew up with a ps1/n64, so i was buying stuff since around 2007-8 when I had saved enough up and saw the prices spike in real time.
As of today I'm about to be free of all my physical games since I care less about owning the cartridge than playing them, so I've just moved everything to ODEs and flashcarts over time. I'm getting rid of about 2000 USD of genesis games for 1600 which I spent about 650 on so I guess I'm happy? I just bought them cause I wanted to play them and I didn't like emulation and still don't. Flashcarts and ODEs have been a good alternative and I'm ahead by about 63% over all.
and for op, just emulate or get flashcarts man
it's not worth it now, with the yout*ber pandemic talking about old games shit got super popular. People like you and me are the problem, thankfully I'm coming out ahead and jumped the gun due to autism.
but what about muh crts
you can find them on the curb and if you don't wanna go that route, just get an oled and a nice upscaler.

>>11932083
also why do you need cib
most manuals can easily be found online
just buy the cartridges of cartridge based systems and then CIB for discs, or if you're a menace, loose discs.

>>11931353
>40 with parent who played video games is underage?
To be fair, any bot that spews that shit out must be at least several years old.
>So man but atari, nintendo, sega, and arcade games were never underground shit
I'd say get well soon, but bots as broken as you just get deleted.

>>11932096
>also why do you need cib
youtube

>>11932083
>>11932096
>>11932841
>I'm actually autistic

>>11933184
there are a lot of autistic people on this website, anon.

>>11898960
>abolish nerd shame
soilenialls didn't created big bang theory

>>11921854
if you liked mortal kombat, megaman or sonic as a kid you were a normal kid.
if you liked mortal kombat, megaman or sonic as a teenager you were a nerd that hasnt grown up, everyone was playing gaylo, CoD and metroid prime.

>>11898535
>People will argue with you
Why would anyone argue? You could barely get pennies for retro games and consoles back then, only a retard or zoomer would argue.

Frogniggers on /vr/?

>>11913534
with that much you can just reorder repros of your entire library including boxes and manuals and still come out well ahead

>>11898960
>abolish nerd shame
I wouldn't say abolish, being a nerd (in the modern sense of collecting comic book memorabilia) has started to be something that's looked down upon again in the past couple of years, doubly so if you do actual nerd shit like coding or reading nonfiction outside of college. You see this stigma manifesting a lot in the dating market; very few male nerds are pairing up, hence so many nerd hobbies now turn into incel group therapy.

>>11911545
Nerddom has been mainstream since the late 00's, so even nerd shit has gotten bad. You mentioned beer as an example of normie shit that sucks now, but look at what's been going on with 5e and cosplay. It's less that everyone's retreating to nerd shit and more that everyone's retreating to old shit in general. I've been seeing House popping up in discussions again after 20 years because there's fuckall to watch on television and streaming services anymore.

>>11933227
It was more about that anon's train of thought through their stream of connected posts.

>>11933248
Ohhhhh Bazinga!

>>11933335
>has started to be something that's looked down upon again in the past couple of years
Thanks to modern audiences. Look at how awful comic books have become. Who the fuck is reading that queer garbage?

>>11931636 here, I forgot to add this a screenshot from the Xbox Series board. idk if that matters

>>11933268
>if you liked mortal kombat, megaman or sonic as a teenager you were a nerd that hasnt grown up, everyone was playing gaylo, CoD and metroid prime.
Not true of Mortal Kombat, every alpha male liked it whether jock, wigger, or metalhead. MK and TMNT were two things literally we all were nostalgic over

And none of these groups owned a gaycube, it was the manchild/femboy console and way too nerdy anyway, Metroid is the kind of thing I would have had to play alone back then, because I knew some people who even raised eyebrows at Halo for having scifi and not just army guys.

>>11935323
literally everybody was playing melee and metroid at the time. There was this thing called friends you see, and that's how everybody played the most popular titles, visiting them and playing together.
That's why literally everybody played melee despite not owning a gaycube.