Current Events > So it's been 12 days since I bought an N64. In that time, I bought 52 games O__O

(+) Yeah! (+)

That is insane! It's gonna be a crazy pick up video next time I go home and open all them packages!

Dankkyawww
---

Yes Battletanx

---

Is one of those games Chameleon Twist?

Because if not it should be. Massively underrated tbh
---

And I bet you wont even play half of them
---

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

And I bet you wont even play half of them

Or any of them.

But I guess buying games you'll never play to get attention on the internet is still better than getting high on cough medicine or doing meth to get attention on the internet.
---

One better be Conkers Bad Fur Day and youd better let me come over to play multiplayer with you one of these days.
---

a-c-a-b posted...

0AbsoluteZero0 posted...

And I bet you wont even play half of them

Or any of them.

But I guess buying games you'll never play to get attention on the internet is still better than getting high on cough medicine or doing meth to get attention on the internet.

---

That's great

...if this were 1998.
---

I want to get a complete N64 collection. Probably the easiest console for it

---

darkprince45 posted...

I want to get a complete N64 collection. Probably the easiest console for it

It is crazy lol. 296 NA-released N64 games, 1,300 PS1 games.

552 GameCube games, 1,850 PS2 games.
---

Shablagoo posted...

@darkprince45 posted...

I want to get a complete N64 collection. Probably the easiest console for it

It is crazy lol. 296 NA-released N64 games, 1,300 PS1 games.

552 GameCube games, 1,850 PS2 games.

quality > quantity

also:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Complete-Nintendo-64-Video-Game-Collection-All-296-North-American-N64-Games-/270638233009
---

Thats gotta be way overpriced right. I figured no more than 2 grand? Conkers is probably the most expensive and I have two of them

---

TreyFlowers posted...

Shablagoo posted...

@darkprince45 posted...

I want to get a complete N64 collection. Probably the easiest console for it

It is crazy lol. 296 NA-released N64 games, 1,300 PS1 games.

552 GameCube games, 1,850 PS2 games.

quality > quantity

also:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Complete-Nintendo-64-Video-Game-Collection-All-296-North-American-N64-Games-/270638233009

Lmao they are asking waaaaay too much for that
---

If you limit it to physical Wii U would probably be the easiest and cheapest system to buy every single game for I would think. For now at least.
---

$22/game
---

Battletanx is off the chain
---

MC_BatCommander posted...

TreyFlowers posted...

Shablagoo posted...

@darkprince45 posted...

I want to get a complete N64 collection. Probably the easiest console for it

It is crazy lol. 296 NA-released N64 games, 1,300 PS1 games.

552 GameCube games, 1,850 PS2 games.

quality > quantity

also:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Complete-Nintendo-64-Video-Game-Collection-All-296-North-American-N64-Games-/270638233009

Lmao they are asking waaaaay too much for that

Agreed. It'd be nice to have but not for $6500.
---

There's been a boon with retro collecting in the last few years unfortunately so game prices are skyrocketing quick. I think it's hit the 2D stuff more.
---

TreyFlowers posted...

$22/game

Yeah that seems like a lot but not if what Darmik says is true I suppose.
---

Kotaku did an article the other week on this actually
https://kotaku.com/deep-pocketed-collectors-are-fueling-a-retro-game-gold-1837073847?IR=T

Danielle Smith has spent half a million dollars on rare video games, most of it in the last nine months. And shes just getting started.

I really just want the best of the best, said Smith, 35.

That half a million bucks has only bought her around 200 games. Last week, she spent $2,650 on a sealed copy of Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo. Smith, a comic dealer from Florida, is just one of many deep-pocketed collectors who have only recently started splashing out in earnest on games.

Comic book people and art people are coming in, and we want rare games that are hard to find, she said.

Even longtime video game collectors like myself have been stunned at the news as of late. Games that just a few years ago might have only sold for a few thousand dollars are quickly exploding into five- and six-figure valuations. First, there was the sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. that sold on eBay for $30,000. This year, an earlier print of the game sold for $100,150. And its not just the first Super Mario thats powered up in price. By now youve probably heard the story of the sealed copy of the NES classic Kid Icarus that sold for over $9,000. Sales of sealed games are shattering records left and rightand if you want to know why, just follow the money.

Numerous sources speaking to Kotaku for this story have all said the same thing: The past two years have seen an influx of new money coming in to the classic game collecting scene, primarily high-end collecting experts from other areas of interest like comic books, Magic cards, and coins. They see video games as the next big thing. Like a mint-condition Action Comics issue 1 might be the ultimate trophy of nostalgia for the superhero age of the mid-20th century, so too might a sealed Mario be the perfect bottling of the pop-culture moment of the 1980s.

And these new collectors are ready to spend to get their hands on the best, rarest, mintiest copies, because theyve seen what happened in their own collecting fields when prices started to rise.

I truly believe that we are on the brink of something really epic and incredible happening, said Smith, who says shes recently been selling off rare comics to fund more video game buys.

Not sure how badly this has hit the N64 games but I suppose in that instance you're primarily paying a lot more for the convenience to get them all at once.

If it hasn't hit N64 yet it will eventually. Even some 3DS games are starting to rise in price already.
---

Jeez Louise lol. The whole collecting thing doesnt really sit well with me tbh.
---

The next big tech thing that comes out I'm buying the first edition and leaving it sealed in storage for 50 years.

Don't original, sealed iPods go for like 20k?
---

Yep.
---