Current Events > I use to think that game collectors were ruining reto gaming...

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Nah its these reseller youtube channels. Like holy shit they suck.

Yep. Theres a bunch of idiots too door going thrift shopping hauls and garage sale hauls too. Sucks

Darkprince21 posted...

Yep. Theres a bunch of idiots too door going thrift shopping hauls and garage sale hauls too. Sucks

Theyre literally excited to rip people off. Literally. They dont give a fuck about what it is.

Even collectors would snag some good deals to trade for games they didnt have. Thats so much better than just buying anything you can scalp.

It's not collectors. There's a scam going on right now between a collectible ratings company and an online auction company to artificially inflate collectible games' value so they can cash in on big headline-making sales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLFEh7V18A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKbuNwS-gaI

SNES and NES are the two systems I like to collect for.

NES games are usually cheap, barring a handful of later games and some oddball things.

SNES is different. I bought a retrobit wireless controller and exactly one game this weekend. Super Off Road and it was $25ish. I just buy a game every few months or so, slowly expanding my collection. The secret has been out for a while about SNES collecting, but it's not too bad if you actually *PLAY* that expensive RPG you purchase. You can get a few dozen hours of enjoyment and either hold on to it or sell it for more than you paid.

YT has pretty much ruined second hand prices of a lot of hobby stuff.

Youd think PC and emulation would render them useless plastic junk, but somehow theyre worth so much $$$ lol

I collected NES games like 20+ yeras ago. Last time I counted I had around 500+ games.

I think I have (3) copies of Dragon Quest III - but they are my friend's copies with their save games on them. I doubt they saved all these years later.

I have a complete snes and ps1 collection

CinderLock posted...

I have a complete snes and ps1 collection

Time to realize it was just chasing the rush and to sell them all.

i stopped collecting a few years ago. I have about 350 nes games, 100 ps2, 100 atari, 50 snes, 50 gen, 100 ds, 20 n64, 30 psx, 10 dc, 50 gba, etc etc.

IDK I just stopped caring about collecting. Ran into too many hardware failures. Mostly play PC games now.

A lot of game I play, however, are just really fucking hard. Playing TMNT on NES pretty seriously, for example. I've owned the cart since I was a kid, but I don't want to train on that game without savestates. Obviously I don't consider beating a game with savestates to be an actual "victory," but training with states is about 100x-1000x faster.

These games are so much harder than something like Super Meat Boy or Cuphead because of the limited credits.

The fact is most of us could spend years slamming our heads at something like Battletoads or TMNT and get basically nowhere. You can easily get that kind of training in a weekend with savestates. It's not even close.