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What should I know before getting into game collecting?

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gen5 is a lost cause
gen6 is rapidly becoming a lost cause
gen7 is your only hope

Just buy the shit you want to collect. Check prices so you dont get ripped off. Also it aint worth it in general. You'll get bored of it eventually. You think now it'll be awesome to have this huge collection but just save your money. Or if you really want to have some sort of collection make it a theme. My theme was to buy shitty fighting games and every dinosaur game on ps1.

I just want to buy games I want to play or that I have played in the past and want to play again.

Thats fine. Just don't end up buying games you have no intention of playing just to buy games.

If I have the generations right
5 - PSX/N64/SAT/3DO
6 - DC/PS2/XBX/GCN
7 - 360/PS3/Wii

I don't know if id want to collect something that relies on DLC and patches so I guess I'll just try to grab what I can from Gen6. But just based on what I've seen today, remember I'm new at this, there are far more Gen6 games that break the $100 barrier (kind of a personal limit) than Gen5.

at this point it's all about luck for collecting games pre-gen7 for cheap

Game collecting got very expensive if you want to play older games just emulate them

You can only get good deals on PS3 games. That's about it.

If your collecting N64 games Jap versions are usually 30%-70% cheaper on the resale market

That no matter how full your game collection is, you'll never actually feel complete on the inside.

Won't they be in Japanese? I took a semester of Japanese and I barely made it out.

Just buy a flash cart/mod your system then, it will cheaper in the long run if you plan on buying a bunch of games and you can play whatever you want. Unless you got a bunch of money you don't want go for it, game collecting is expensive these days

No shit they will be in Japanese, but some games you don't really need to read much to play them

Don't store them like in that OP image. Get some display cabinets with the right heights and widths.

Prices will not come down anytime soon. If you really want something, it's better to pay the ridiculous price now than the ridiculous price 6 years down the line.
>tfw could have got Path of Radiance for $30 years ago but only had a twenty on me

Or you could just emulate it if you wanna go down that route

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If your collecting to play get the English versions, but they will be much more expensive. Super Mario games go for $60+ CDN for just the cartridge, rarer games can be $100+ and sealed in box or just in box is even more.

game collecting is aboot never selling your games
and buying games you actually want to play

that's it

if you think people are buying games only due to rarity and hope the price goes up should slit your throat

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>getting into game collecting
Why would anyone do this? Hoarding games just to so you can say you own them is ridiculous.
Buy/emulate what you want to play.

Check this export I just got one I won't be selling lol

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Well 15 years ago I sold my games and I really regret it.

If I buy those back does that make me a fake?

>my hobby is buying cheap consumer items and hoarding them

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yes it does

But not if I buy games I havent played before?

It's gun collecting but more retarded
Buy the physicals of games you absolutely fucking love
Emulate everything else.
It's the same for music, favorite artists you get physical releases, everyone else gets youtube-mp3'd.
Merch isn't usually too bad

You should see about buying stuff abroad.

It can be worth it to buy some stuff overseas where people dont care about old stuff

Collecting shit is such a brainlet tier hobby.

OP probably doesnt even want to play the games he buys, just wants to put them on a shelf for display.

More likely a bootleg if it's overseas however

No I do want to play them. What's the point in keeping games you dont like?

Game collectors tend to be pure cancer. Paying ebay or price chart prices could actually be a bad investment. I sold a lot of my collection in 2015 and prices ive noticed have actually gone down on some of the old shit. I'd suggest only collecting games you plan to play and keep it small. A guy with thousands of games he never will play is kinda sad. Life is short

>It's gun collecting but more retarded
o-oh no

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I'm a poor retard and all I got is an enfield, a westinghouse mosin, and a bunch of less interesting guns

the ship has long sailed. i started collecting in 09 when stuff was still easily found at garage sales and goodwill, now everyone knows its worth something. get flash carts if you want to play.

Jesus Christ... I just checked the price on this game. I fucking had this. I sold it for $80.

Are all my games going to be this expensive??

unless you can use the guns you "collect" having them is pointless, atleast i can always pop in a game

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just get good at surp collecting
go buy a box of turkish mausers or something, they're like 2-300

Kek

Fuck I just started rebuilding my gamecube collection and it hurts. Joined the military and after I got out 5 years later I realized my younger brother traded in a majority of my collection to gamestop so he could keep buying AAA garbage that doesn't hold any value like Ubishit, 2k, and Battlefield.

I still have my Zelda Collectors Edition and Prime1/2, but I lost a bunch of Black Label games like Mario Sunshine, The Thousand Year Door, Chibi Robo and Melee to name a few.

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I kind of avoided Nintendo during the Gamecube era. It was basically a Resident Evil (remake/2/3/4/0) and Killer 7 machine. Are any of the Nintendo games on it good? I did have Double Dash.

Thousand Year Door is great

Mario Sunshine
Thousand Year Door
Double Dash
Custom Robo
Star Fox Assault
Star Fox Adventures
Megaman Network Transmission
Zelda Collection
Zelda Master Quest
Zelda Four Swords Adventures
F Zero GX
Kirby Air Ride
Fire Emblem Path of Radiance
Billy Hatcher
Metroid Prime 1/2
Super Monkey Ball 1/2
Pokemon XD
Pokemon Collesium
Mario Party 4/5/6/7
Pikmin 1/2
Baten Kaitos
Baten Kaitos Origins
Chibi Robo
Wario World

There's probably a lot more I can't remember off the top of my head.

I tried to omit the stuff that got ported like Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. The Gamecube could actually handle multiplats at the time and while out shown by the Xbox it often traded blows with the Ps2 at the time. For example RE4 looks like ass on Ps2 compared to Gamecube, but Def Jam Fight for NY looked better on PS2 than the Cube.

Disagree, many firearms tell an interesting story, someone or a group of someones sat down and tried to figure out the most efficient way to propel a small chunk of lead as fast as humanely possible as reliably as possible as much as possible. Machines and how they interact with each other have always been an interest of mine and firearms exemplify that in a really cool way.
Why did the designers of the hakim go with 8mm mauser on a DI tilting block system? Why did the remington model 8 use long recoil in .35 rem? Who in their right fucking mind thinks .300blk aks are a good idea?
Videogames are the same way in their art direction, storylines, and gameplay. Why did they make this game for the n64? Why did they make doom 2016 a blurry over detailed mess? Why did Valve creat dozens of iterations of half life 3 over the years and not release a single one?
Where's my fucking Deathmatch Classic HEV figure it's been 20 fucking years valve jesus christ.

Not nintendo but if you want other games
>THUG 2
>Need for speed series
>Battle for bikini bottom
>Lego starwars
>Spyro
gc had a lot of shit, and I stand by that the Wavebird was the best fucking controller ever made at the time. With very minimal updates you could reintroduce it to the modern market and have a playstation/xbox/steam controller killer.