Years ago I sold all my games, but I kept all my consoles. I'm still trying to figure out why I thought this was a good idea. Clearly my heart wasn't all in it if I kept the consoles.
Anyway, 10 years later (i estimate), is it too late to start buying physical games? I'd like to rebuild my Super Nintendo and Playstation 2 collection.
It is way too late for Super Nintendo but PS2 games are cheapish but they are starting to rise. Just get an everdrive or mod your systems instead
Why is it way too late for Super Nintendo? How bad is it?
Just check the prices on whatever game you want and find out. I stopped paying close attention to SNES prices a few years ago but the prices kept going up. I sold all mine and had more than enough to buy a SD2SNES and have not looked back
At this point you can emulate all the SNES games that matter on PC
Did a basic boomer-tier google search for super nintendo game prices and found "Pricecharting". I guess this is a good starting point. Is this a reference guide for "the community"? Is this how much I could be expected to pay at GameXChange/Disc Replay or whatever?
>At this point you can emulate all the SNES games that matter on PC
At this point you can emulate all the SNES games that were ever published and a few that weren’t on a fucking toaster, though I personally use my old Wii
>Is it too late to start buying physical games
Why have these dumbshit threads started popping up recently?
No. They're sometimes expensive, but you can still get what you want with relative ease on ebay or whatever.
New games are still coming out on physical discs, and the PS2 is dirt fucking cheap at the moment. SNES can be cheap if you widen your tastes out a bit. All first party stuff is going to be expensive.
If you just want to play the games on original hardware then flashcarts and console mods are the way to go. I would say it's more worthwhile to upgrade your analogue AV setup than waste cash on games, but that's just me.
No. Price charting is a guide for shelf collectors and resellers to justify their greed. None of these games are rare.
As long as you aren't trying to pick up the extremely rare or coveted games, you should be fine. But expect to pay at least a hundred bucks for certain games like Earthbound, Ogre Battle, or Chrono Trigger... though people are now making reproduction carts for those titles and you can get them for under $30.
>No. Price charting is a guide for shelf collectors and resellers to justify their greed. None of these games are rare.
Even if that's their main userbase, it's still a reasonably accurate resource to see how much you're probably going to end up paying for a game. Might as well just go straight to eBay sold listings though.
Whats a shelf collector? I'm going to put mine on a shelf but in one of these on the shelf because I held onto this too for some reason (not my pic).
Someone who buys games just to say they have them, not to actually play them
>New games are still coming out on physical discs
When something needs a 50gb patch is that even a physical game anymore?
People who buy games just to put them on a shelf and never play them. Typically wannabe (or "successful") YouTube personalities.
(Funny enough that was the first result for this guy on google images)
You're right, but it still kind of stands.
I did that for a period of about 8 years. For six of those years I was working at EB Games and had the pick of the litter every time someone would trade in something rare. I got complete copies of both Lunar games, Valkyrie Profile, Star Ocean 2, black stripe FFVII, and several other RPGs. I continued this into the PS2 era for a bit, but continued to limit myself to RPGs. In the PS3 era I would gobble up most collector's or limited edition games just to have them because maybe I will play them someday. Now I am much more choosy about which games I pick up. I only get games I actually want to play, and often pass on limited editions. The funny thing is I make considerably more now than when I was working at EB and could afford to buy everything. I just don't anymore.
Yeah I did this when I first got into Steam. So many $5 games wow what a steal! Now I find the whole of digital gaming pretty
>souless.
I did give every game I bought an honest try but I hated a good 75% of them. Wish I could sell this indie trash for a few pennies.
wow you sold low and are about to buy high
wow
Do you think the "retro game bubble pop" is real?
You can get some repros pretty cheap but getting any game that is well known will cost you. Spend the money you would have otherwise on an everdrive
>avoiding emulation
>still lugging around back-breaking CRTs
the worst kind of hipster
Prices may eventually go down a little (NES games already have a bit) but they will never be as cheap as they were in the 2000s when people treated retro games as literal garbage, when now they are relics of a bygone age.
It was much easier to get my 19 inch Magnavox Smart Value Series CRT out of my house than my 60 inch Samsung KS8000 in.
Buy a wii + big old crt
Full pof win
I'd just get everdrive and make fcmb for ps2. but i don't know. ps2 games are really cheap. and if you just want to rebuild your collection then it probably won't cost fortunes. unless you're talking about huge collection of games and not just the stuff that you had as a kid.
WIi + CRT = Win!
Most of the good games are more expensive than the consoles. You fucked up.
Then I better get in now before they get more expensive.
The only ones that are gonna hurt are Haunting Ground and Rule of Rose on PS2 and Chrono Trigger and and R-Type 3 on SNES.
They're going down in price actually. Earthbound went from being 300 bucks to 150 in a matter of like 3 years.
>ever needing more than 42 inches
lol