GRcade Retro Gaming Chat 2.0

PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat 2.0 by **kerr9000** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 7:13 pm

Todays Retro Purchase was expensive by my terms, I spent £42 for the following 3 games all boxed with manuals but not in the best condition in the world but I think very fair for the price

Nice, these titles are likely to be pretty scarce now, especially boxed copies.

PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat 2.0 by **kerr9000** » Thu Sep 30, 2021 8:40 pm

Vermilion wrote:Nice, these titles are likely to be pretty scarce now, especially boxed copies.

Yeah I cant see a lot of copies of Beavis and Butthead being out in the wild

PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat 2.0 by **kerr9000** » Sat Oct 02, 2021 7:53 pm

I got a few games today

Snowboard kids N64 Cart only for £4

Super Mario World SNES Japanese cart only for £5
F-ZERO SNES Japanese cart only for £5
Super R Type SNES Japanese cart only for £5

A closer look at my boxed copy of Starwing...

kerr9000 wrote:Todays Retro Purchase was expensive by my terms, I spent £42 for the following 3 games all boxed with manuals but not in the best condition in the world but I think very fair for the price

I remember renting the top one and get stuck really early on. I also remember playing a rented SNES Simpsons game, but I think it had Krusty the Clown as the main character. Do you play these games or you just like to have them?

PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat 2.0 by **kerr9000** » Mon Oct 04, 2021 9:55 pm

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:
kerr9000 wrote:Todays Retro Purchase was expensive by my terms, I spent £42 for the following 3 games all boxed with manuals but not in the best condition in the world but I think very fair for the price

I remember renting the top one and get stuck really early on. I also remember playing a rented SNES Simpsons game, but I think it had Krusty the Clown as the main character. Do you play these games or you just like to have them?

I play them as well, If you look theres a forum topic thats something like 161+ snes reviews so ive played a lot of them enough to review with youtube vids and the whole works

kerr9000 wrote:
Zerudaaaaa! wrote:
kerr9000 wrote:Todays Retro Purchase was expensive by my terms, I spent £42 for the following 3 games all boxed with manuals but not in the best condition in the world but I think very fair for the price

I remember renting the top one and get stuck really early on. I also remember playing a rented SNES Simpsons game, but I think it had Krusty the Clown as the main character. Do you play these games or you just like to have them?

I play them as well, If you look theres a forum topic thats something like 161+ snes reviews so ive played a lot of them enough to review with youtube vids and the whole works

Ah ok, sorry, I should've seen that. I'll check that out.

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:
kerr9000 wrote:
Zerudaaaaa! wrote:
kerr9000 wrote:Todays Retro Purchase was expensive by my terms, I spent £42 for the following 3 games all boxed with manuals but not in the best condition in the world but I think very fair for the price

I remember renting the top one and get stuck really early on. I also remember playing a rented SNES Simpsons game, but I think it had Krusty the Clown as the main character. Do you play these games or you just like to have them?

I play them as well, If you look theres a forum topic thats something like 161+ snes reviews so ive played a lot of them enough to review with youtube vids and the whole works

Ah ok, sorry, I should've seen that. I'll check that out.

No need to be sorry I am very happy to answer questions, I hope you enjoy the reviews

Pokemon Crystal USA version (apparently less prints) is now selling for over £500 CIB https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Gameboy-Colo ... 4951250562

I've got a CIB copy of the US version of Crystal and it's in better nick than that one.
I've got no intention of selling it, but it's interesting to know just how ridiculous prices for these are getting.

PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat 2.0 by **jawa_** » Fri Oct 08, 2021 9:12 am

It seems that even Pokemon Blue is now going for £150+ (boxed, complete in good condition). I'm genuinely a bit disappointed that retro gaming is turning into an expensive business now; I kinda wish that people just felt that the games are old, crap and worthless as then the folk who are into them could just build up great collections and not even think about value.

A post went up this morning on an N64 FB group I'm part of.

Non-rare CIBs being advertised for £100 a pop. Good condition to be fair but it's a grim situation.

It's a vicious circle. As soon as one person is desperate enough to offer silly money for a game they want badly, that sets the mark for the price, then all the greedy bastards swoop in.

I've got 3 megadrive games which are in immaculate condition and considered rare, and they go for crazy money now. They're probably worth £10 in second hand terms under normal circumstances, but I could probably get £500 in the right place. It's just stupid.

It just makes me wish I'd taken better care of my games as a kid.

To be fair pokemon has always been an expensive series, so while retro prices do keep going up pokemon is on the high end.

And yes I feel that pain c-m, all my bashed up N64 and GB cases

All my non existent N64 and GameBoy-Advance cases :lol:

Seriously though, not a collector of older games by any means but this is a properly grim situation for people who are, why the hell would anyone pay circa £500 for a copy of Pokémon Crystal, bet the internal battery doesn’t even work by this point!

I sometimes wish I'd never sold all my N64 games but then I remember that money funded my GameCube.

PostRe: GRcade Retro Gaming Chat 2.0 by **jawa_** » Fri Oct 08, 2021 11:18 am

I've barely bought any retro gaming stuff over the past decade; I was fortunate to be buying in the period 2006 through 2011 when prices were not nearly as crazed as now.

As many collectors advise, the best time to buy is during the period just after a generation has ended. Right now, that means XBO and PS4; many people want to sell that stuff on and the market is flooded... hence cheaper prices.

Robbo-92 wrote:All my non existent N64 and GameBoy-Advance cases !

I can't even find most of my Gameboy cartidges, nevermind the cases! :slol:

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