Mindl3ss
Well-known member
This is just a bit of a rant.
I've been collecting video games for as long as I can remember. I always loved picking up systems and games from Goodwill and local pawn shops.
I could say I more actively started collecting games when I was around 18, as I got a job and had access to more. This was in 2005. I remember seeing stuff like Stadium Events going for a few hundred and thinking that was pretty crazy. I worked at a game store, so I would buy just about anything. I didn't have focus.
I started getting more focused a few years back and now I primarily collect Nintendo and Sony. The current market is making me think even more.
I don't collect for value. I Don't care what my games are worth. I collect because I love the systems and I'm a fan of gaming in general. I'm really cheap. I don't think I've spent more than $5 on any single NES game with exception to a few CIB titles from my favorite series. If I ever sold everything off I would try to hook people up with sweet deals (unless I were selling because I really needed the money).
Recently Stadium Events has sold for as much as $2500, and keeps going up. Games like Little Samson have doubled in the last few months.
Is this a bubble? Will these prices stay steady? I want to have every (licensed) game for the NES, but I don't want to spend that much money on them. My two rarest games for NES are probably R.C. Pro AM II and Contra Force. I paid $0.50 and $0.35 respectively. Even less for Contra if you factor in the systems that came in the bundle I got. They aren't super rare, but they aren't common by any means.
Maybe it's just because the local market sucks. I moved down here in September. There are no pawn shops around with anything but a few crappy PC games, and the closest thrift store checks Amazon and doesn't even look at the actual asking price, just the original MSRP.
I'm hoping garage sale season helps out, but I have over 280 NES games now; it's getting more and more difficult to find stuff I don't have in the wild.
Whenever I buy duplicates I try to hook up people who don't have them. I bought a Mega Man X3 (currently around $50-70) for a great price. Since I already had it so I sold it to my cousin for less than the going rate. This was before I moved though, so now I haven't even found anything remotely close to that.
I've almost given up hope. I want them all, but I honestly can't see it happening. I can't justify hundreds on a single game (arcade game not included).
Well... rant over I guess...
I've been collecting video games for as long as I can remember. I always loved picking up systems and games from Goodwill and local pawn shops.
I could say I more actively started collecting games when I was around 18, as I got a job and had access to more. This was in 2005. I remember seeing stuff like Stadium Events going for a few hundred and thinking that was pretty crazy. I worked at a game store, so I would buy just about anything. I didn't have focus.
I started getting more focused a few years back and now I primarily collect Nintendo and Sony. The current market is making me think even more.
I don't collect for value. I Don't care what my games are worth. I collect because I love the systems and I'm a fan of gaming in general. I'm really cheap. I don't think I've spent more than $5 on any single NES game with exception to a few CIB titles from my favorite series. If I ever sold everything off I would try to hook people up with sweet deals (unless I were selling because I really needed the money).
Recently Stadium Events has sold for as much as $2500, and keeps going up. Games like Little Samson have doubled in the last few months.
Is this a bubble? Will these prices stay steady? I want to have every (licensed) game for the NES, but I don't want to spend that much money on them. My two rarest games for NES are probably R.C. Pro AM II and Contra Force. I paid $0.50 and $0.35 respectively. Even less for Contra if you factor in the systems that came in the bundle I got. They aren't super rare, but they aren't common by any means.
Maybe it's just because the local market sucks. I moved down here in September. There are no pawn shops around with anything but a few crappy PC games, and the closest thrift store checks Amazon and doesn't even look at the actual asking price, just the original MSRP.
I'm hoping garage sale season helps out, but I have over 280 NES games now; it's getting more and more difficult to find stuff I don't have in the wild.
Whenever I buy duplicates I try to hook up people who don't have them. I bought a Mega Man X3 (currently around $50-70) for a great price. Since I already had it so I sold it to my cousin for less than the going rate. This was before I moved though, so now I haven't even found anything remotely close to that.
I've almost given up hope. I want them all, but I honestly can't see it happening. I can't justify hundreds on a single game (arcade game not included).
Well... rant over I guess...