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[r5g_on_klov]

re the crash 40 yrs ago,
i was already in the biz a few yrs during this time,
in so. calif,
83, 84, 85, 86, (crash yrs)
all these grails at that time were 50 to 300 in price
i got as many as i could and either resold for 200 or so above basis, or used them in my own route or arcade,
i sold about 10 to banning way back when, and kind of shocked to see many i sold at 300/400 go for 7000, to 12000 at the banning event, now they are on the way back to 50/300 ea. lol, not saying they are going there, but in that direction..
(but adj for inflation would be 200 to 1000)

 

[mopar5150]

Games ( and jet skis, side by sides, dirt bikes) are non-essential and take up huge space that people are paying per square foot for. Just the impact that attacks on fossil fuels and inflation have on shipping and rental trucks is making it hard for people to sell bigger and high dollar stuff. People are having to make choices between toys and bills.

The only upside is that collectors (with disposable income) coming into the hobby now will get a chance to purchase games at a more affordable price. It is clearly a buyers market right now.

 

[Oldworldman]

Games ( and jet skis, side by sides, dirt bikes) are non-essential and take up huge space that people are paying per square foot for. Just the impact that attacks on fossil fuels and inflation have on shipping and rental trucks is making it hard for people to sell bigger and high dollar stuff. People are having to make choices between toys and bills.

The only upside is that collectors (with disposable income) coming into the hobby now will get a chance to purchase games at a more affordable price. It is clearly a buyers market right now.

We have a rule now. We collect games when we see them in person and we haul our games home; we do not ship them anymore. It has allowed us to collect some of the nicest games in the country, save money and know our games are in good hands. Our own!

We make a road trip out of it like Bob Cunningham does. It is the only way to keep your sanity when doing it this way. If it is something we really want, 5 to 6 hours on a road trip is nothing for us, but 12 hours is as far as we will travel one way for a game of any sort.

And when the trip is over, we have added another gem to our collection. It is that simple. For us.

 

[KaBoom1701]

People get old and games collections get sold... It's the natural order of things. The inflation bubble we are in right now isn't helping.

Funny I was born in 76 so I was a little too young to enjoy the golden era of video games. But things have flipped as now I'm on the younger side as all the boomers and older Gen X age out I'm able to pick off cabs I've always wanted.

No panic. Just opportunity

 

[mopar5150]

We have a rule now. We collect games when we see them in person and we haul our games home; we do not ship them anymore. It has allowed us to collect some of the nicest games in the country, save money and know our games are in good hands. Our own!

We make a road trip out of it like Bob Cunningham does. It is the only way to keep your sanity when doing it this way. If it is something we really want, 5 to 6 hours on a road trip is nothing for us, but 12 hours is as far as we will travel one way for a game of any sort.

And when the trip is over, we have added another gem to our collection. It is that simple. For us.

5 -6 hours? dream drive. Remember I drove 1500 miles each way to pick up 60 monitors

as all the boomers and older Gen X age out I'm able to pick off cabs I've always wanted.

Hey don't talk about me like I'm not in the room!

 

[ElectricDreamz]

things (prices, hype) have been outta control for a long time, it's good to see things relax. i wish i could take advantage of easing prices, but i'm dialing my engagement back as well

it's a different world than it was 10, 20, 30 years ago and where it makes personal sense, it's not a bad time to cash out (hate to think of it that way, but this is life for the 99%). prices are trending downward but i think we'd be hard pressed to consider ourselves in a crash right now. but who knows, maybe soon we'll see

 

[greedycrisp]

Again, these are Scott Evans offers on FB. Not my ads, I have no affiliation to the offers.

10/17/2024

Hoei Mayday (Defender clone) $2000
"Here is a crazy game for sale. It's a Hoei Mayday. It's listed as a Defender clone, but it not really like Defender at all. It's a shooter with sounds stolen from Defender. You can see some gameplay footage here- "

Facebook

www.facebook.com

Discs of Tron, project, not actually listed for sale but it seems like a post seeking buyers in the middle of these other sales...

"Since it's DOT Thursday. Here is one I need to fix and sell. Monitor issues. The main problem is that it's stuffed at the very back of the warehouse and I need to move 30 games to get it liberated."

https://www.facebook.com/groups/560213507515774/user/1060562243

 

[Oldworldman]

Quasar had Williams sounds as well.

I love these types of games but again did not make my cut.

 

[EVB]

So AtariScott liquidating and Flynn54321 liquidating has me a little nervous. Or maybe not nervous so much as a little bit sad. These guys have been pillars in the Arcade community in both collection size and rarity as well as in reproduction efforts for nearly 20 years. Is it just me, or has this hobby gone from its peak in 2020 to almost its complete downfall four years later? Prices were steady for 15 years, then went astronomical for 2-3 years in 2020/21/22, now they're dropping like a stone. Everyone is selling and few are buying these days, very few new collectors coming in and it seems like a lot of established collectors are getting out. Hopefully this is just the market resetting itself and everything will kinda go back to normal, but I guess a lot of of us are starting to age out of being able to house these large collections in our basements. Getting older/weaker and can't move these things around anymore, kids are moving up and out causing less game nights and overall interest, not as many collector get-togethers as there used to be, the old in person Arcade auctions have become faceless online sniping conventions and older collectors' wives are probably pretty sick of the hoarding shit, etc. And yes I know there'll be exceptions. Trying to preempt the guy that will jump in and say "I've been buying games like a crazy cocksucker!" And "2 or 3 of us serious collectors have a get together almost every week at our local West Virginia Arcade collectors anonymous group in the old American Legion building!" And "You can't generalize because of two large collections being sold off, what a doomsdayer!" But if you think about it, there've been a lot more than just two large collections being sold recently. I've been in this hobby for 20 years and I've never seen the amount of sell-off and mass exodus I've been seeing lately. This whole thing is starting to make me feel lonely.

And not a single one of those games was given away for nothing. Personally, if game money was investing I should have just stacked gold for the last 20 years or bought Nvidia. The game prices still seem pretty crazy high to me. Good reason for selling if you need money. A lot of people need more money these days because we are all being billed and/or taxed to death. I really can't get any decent local games cheap these days unless I get very very lucky. Barcades and 1ups might keep some interest in these going for quite a while but people always have interest in things that are coin operated anyway. This is just one offshoot of that type of collecting.

 

[brmorr]

Don't know why you guys don't see this for what it is. I am sure these guys are in their 50-60's. Game prices are at an all time high(I am sure some of these guys bought/collected these games 25+ years ago when they were bought for cheap.

Hate to say it, but they can't wait for another downtread in game prices, and hope it comes back up. If I had any rare games at the moment, I would be selling them too. 3, 4, 5, 6 thousand dollar games, I could use that money elsewhere down the road. Plus, there isn't going to be a ton of kids who want to play/collect these obscure games in 20 years.

 

[Oldworldman]

Don't know why you guys don't see this for what it is. I am sure these guys are in their 50-60's. Game prices are at an all time high(I am sure some of these guys bought/collected these games 25+ years ago when they were bought for cheap.

Hate to say it, but they can't wait for another downtread in game prices, and hope it comes back up. If I had any rare games at the moment, I would be selling them too. 3, 4, 5, 6 thousand dollar games, I could use that money elsewhere down the road. Plus, there isn't going to be a ton of kids who want to play/collect these obscure games in 20 years.

Obscure is the word! I have maybe just a few obscure games in my collection now, and those are just for me. The rest is for the masses. And, those are priceless to me because the happiness I see on people's faces when they relive their childhood through my home arcade you cannot put a price on that.

Did anyone notice the Meteors game in the background of that picture of May Day? That game is super rare if it is what I think it is! This would be the second one I have seen.

How do you put a price on that one?

Working arcade cabinet of Meteors, Asteroids clone, unearthed three decades later

www.polygon.com

Read about it here!

 

[geech]

The background games are half the fun. Go scope out the reflections in Mazer Blazer again.

 

[mhcapps]

Don't know why you guys don't see this for what it is. I am sure these guys are in their 50-60's. Game prices are at an all time high(I am sure some of these guys bought/collected these games 25+ years ago when they were bought for cheap.

Hate to say it, but they can't wait for another downtread in game prices, and hope it comes back up. If I had any rare games at the moment, I would be selling them too. 3, 4, 5, 6 thousand dollar games, I could use that money elsewhere down the road. Plus, there isn't going to be a ton of kids who want to play/collect these obscure games in 20 years.

You mean, were at all time high. Games prices have been on downtrend for 24 months.

 

[ArcadeTechGW]

You mean, were at all time high. Games prices have been on downtrend for 24 months.

Sure seems that way, but after the bats--- crazy Captain's Auction prices, it's been pretty much downhill since there.

 

[JoyStickRick]

Well Phet, Very well put!

I sold off half of my collection to Gatlinburgh for stupid money 3 years ago, and I thought I never would, but every collector has their price if stupid enough, So I took advantage of that as well as the housing market and musical instrument market, and I kept about 35 games, and I am happy with them.

Then Banning happened, again stupid money.

Then, I saw my games I sold just get put up for sale on Facebook last year and this year and they were not selling! That is when I realized something was wrong because Erik the guy who bought half of my collection, and he spent almost 300K at Banning, has been doing this for years and he had told me in his entire collection of games, that he housed between three arcade and pinball museums in Gatlinburgh and his personal collection about 1200 games total and maybe more! He collected everything he could get his hands on!

Then I saw him auction them off just a couple of months ago or a month ago, so now I am not sure if this administration has been this bad on small business, but I have seen it (The economy) hitting them hard!

When I ran across this thread, and now see that Flynn is starting to sell? This, to me is a bad sign, I believe, for anyone who is collecting and preserving for money, because he had one of the most prolific collections I have ever heard of.

But, if you are not worried about collecting and getting your money back such as me, then I am not worried at all. I see this as an opportunity to get these rare games you may have always wanted into your collection, if you choose to do so. I have found if you have what i call "regular" people, coming over to play in your personal arcade, then they are not going to care about any of these games listed here because they were flops back in the day and not a Galaga.

A sinistar in the original box belongs in a museum. What are you going to do unbox it and hope it works only to lose half or all of your 10K investment?

I am not worried. I voted for Trump today.

This guy gets it

 

[DarkKobold]

My dad is into model railroading. Most of his friends are in their 70s and 80s. He goes to train shows, and stuff mostly sits. That, to me, is what a hobby that is aging out looks like. I imagine we all have 40 more years before video game prices get to what they were pre-2010. That said, I don't know how many 70 year olds will be able to move 500lb+ arcade machines, so this part of the general video game hobby might end earlier. It's much easier to move 100 NES carts than it is to move a single Outrun arcade machine.

 

[Oldworldman]

My dad is into model railroading. Most of his friends are in their 70s and 80s. He goes to train shows, and stuff mostly sits. That, to me, is what a hobby that is aging out looks like. I imagine we all have 40 more years before video game prices get to what they were pre-2010. That said, I don't know how many 70 year olds will be able to move 500lb+ arcade machines, so this part of the general video game hobby might end earlier. It's much easier to move 100 NES carts than it is to move a single Outrun arcade machine.

Yeah I have explored the realm of model railroading. No thanks I am not going down that rabbit hole!

 

[TheYeti]

I imagine we all have 40 more years before video game prices get to what they were pre-2010.

I think your estimate is far too generous.

I hate to admit it but I think we have 10 years (15 tops) before the bottom falls out.

When I was younger, I caught the very close end of the "arcade era" in the early 90s. There isn't single person younger than me that gives 2 licks about these games. I hate it... but it's true.

 

[Totally80sMan]

But, if you are not worried about collecting and getting your money back such as me, then I am not worried at all.

It's true, this is my attitude these days & the bottom line for me.

 

[jcar302]

I think some of you guys overlook the fact that for the most part this hobby has a shelf life.
I know people who have been slowly selling off collections. None of them are doing it because of inflation, taxes etc.
For many the hobby has run it's course. They don't "need" the money, but they could do other things with it (besides, it's hard to downsize and take 20 games with you).
I run into kids all the time in their 20's that have never (literally never) been in an arcade and i live in a shore area where boardwalks are common place.
And if they have been in them the games are either redemption or massive. Nobody goes in there and says i wish i had this monstrosity at home.
This hobby is built on nostalgia, there is no nostalgia for generations that never went to arcades. Maybe there is some from visiting you guys with home arcades, but it's not enough to keep the market going.
It doesn't help either that for a few years it was kinda nuts during covid, it was like 10 years of collecting wrapped up in 4.
For the most part, i could sell every game i own except the playchoice and speed buggy and nobody would notice them missing.
If i had a high value collection of rare games, honestly i would have sold them a year ago.

And while the pinball market too is also down, it will live on. It's interactive and there is no Xbox or Playstation to replace it.