just emulate you fuckin retard

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>bubble gon pop soon! you don't need that plastic right? sell it to me for cheap now! It's going to ve worthless soon!

>>12424878
>>When will the bubble pop already?
When gen-xers and millennials are dead

>>12424878
>collection
>reasonable cost
Oxymoronic in 2026

>>12424887
What makes you think zoomers will want to sell retro stuff for cheap? If anything they will value it even higher

If yoy haven't started building an affordable collection now, you never will.

>>12424878
Just get a high paying job then you don't have to think about the costs. What you have is a poorfag problem.

>>12424895
I bet they don't give a damn about old stuff.

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>>12424878
>>12424883
>Cherry picked examples to represent the entire market
Well yeah collecting is expensive if you're only searching for games that didn't sell super well and/or games for systems that didn't sell super well. That's why I don't get into comic book collecting. You really expect me to pay $1.5 million for Action Comics #1?

>>12424895
>implying zoomers will ever care about "unc shit"
lol
lmao, even

>>12424910
I have a respectable collection of NES/FC, Saturn, and 2600 games. There will be exceptions just like with Model T guys.
>t. 20 year old zoomer

>>12424878
Just get a flashcart or emulate. If you are insisting on purchasing used games at this point then playing the game isn't what you're even interested, you just want to collect for the sake of collecting, and in that case you probably just want to spend money.
Playing Megaman off a flash cart is literally the same experience of playing it on an official cart.

>>12424910
I am a millennial and I care about movies from the 50s-80s. I can't speak for everyone else, but you don't have to grow up with something to enjoy it.

>>12424924
I don't understand why /vr/ hates young folk taking an interest in retro gaming like they aren't going to be the people who keep consoles and games running in the future. I get being mad at the faggots who want 7th Gen here or just come here to post their startling realization that Mario 2 isn't the real Mario 2, but lord forbid if a zoom zoom asks an earnest question.

>>12424895
we don't care about 8/16 bit shit, it will die with you just like atari

>>12424910
>implying zoomers don't care about "unc shit"

>>12424954
>we dont care about good games
Yeah, that was obvious.

>>12424954
Atari was just squares
NES already has defined graphics and game models that are still popular today and franchises that are still popular today.
You wish you could afford to collect it, though.

>>12424879
fpbp
You can even just get an everdrive if you're dying to play on a TV.

>>12424967
>Yeah, that was obvious.
My pops reacted the same way when I told him that only boomers cared about Atari and Amiga.

>>12424954
>we don't care about 8/16 bit shit
zoomers shit and piss themselves over the 16 bit "aesthetic", you arent fooling anyone trying to play aloof.

>>12424909
You..........havent been on Ebay since the 2010s dont ya?

>>12425071
Have you? I was on there recently and the prices have only slightly changed.

>>12424967
the games don't have any depth and are very basic like atari
>>12424969
>you wish you could afford my old junk shovelware titles!!!11!!
no thanks you can keep them, nes is just squares aswell and is only marginally better looking than atari kek
>>12425035
I don't know anyone my age that gives a shit if a game has pixel art, we aren't soillennials

>>12424878
You’re not going to get to build a collection for a reasonable cost. Get over it. The correct time to do this was pre 2000s when you could get NES games for literal pennies.

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>tfw I just own the games I actually want, like and play and the collection actually has value for me personally and sentimentally instead of just buying shit for the sake of buying

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>>12425116
>nes is just squares aswell
Cute anon jr

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>>12425159
This, I will never understand the collectors' mindset.

>>12425159
Well sell your shit to me for cheap.
What? You want to keep it? Naah it's just plastic! Also the bubble gonna pop, sell it now or else you will have to pay someone to take the plastic out of your house very soon.
>sentimental value
pfft it's just plastic anon. Sell it for cheap now!

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>>12425165
majority of the titles don't look like that, they look like pic rel.

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>>12425193
Fine but did you ever actually played any Atari 2600 game, anon jr?

>>12425186
>>12425159
We like to own a piece of actual history. Think of it like owning a Picasso painting. Collectables are unironically the renaissance art of modern times.

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>>12425205
Oh, okay, yeah. I'm gettin' what you're spittin' out.
This box of rick and morty mcdonalds sauce is high art.

Why is Pokemon shit so expensive? The games sold millions and millions of copies.

>>12425225
Millions and millions of people want to play them again.

>>12425116
>I don't know anyone my age that gives a shit if a game has pixel art
Ok and I do, how dumb do you have to be to think that is an argument?

>>12425283
Why don't they emulate?

>>12425324
They don't know how, or think it's illegal or something.

>>12425324
>It has to be just like how it was in muh childhood!!

>>12425225
>why are popular things so expensive!!!!
it's infuriating how many of you don't understand basic economic principles

>>12424879
fpbp

>>12424878
You are literally the problem, stop "collecting" and just buy games you actually want to play
You are mad because a piece of plastic is sitting on someone else's shelf instead of your shelf

I really wish all collectors had their games given to people who wanted to play them and the only retro gaming market was people who actually play the games selling them among each other for $5 each. It wouldn't matter how "rare" a game was then because once you'd finished playing it you'd just sell it on so someone else could enjoy it. Instead we have a bunch of hoarders and I can't enjoy legitimate copies of games I'd like to play because theres thousands of them collecting dust on some manchild's shelf.

>>12425324
You can't emulate the original box and cartridge

>>12424879
If you emulate you should be put in prison

>>12424878
I wish niggers like you were permabanned. SHUT THE FUCK UP no one cares about the price of Mega Man 1 play the fucking game or don't. I do not fucking care what some dumb shit faggot is selling this piece of shit for on Ebay. You do not want to build up a collection you disingenuous shitposting poopdick, if you did you would have done it. Guess what nigger these games are free, every single NES game is 100% free given you have a PC made after 2003 and internet access. I wish we had actual moderators to purge worthless shitbag "wawa this item is soo expensive bubble this bubble that" no one cares just play the fucking game.

>>12424954
Gaming wasn't a well established hobby during the 2nd gen, the best Atari games could no compete with playing Solitary, of course most people wouldn't care about collecting that shit.

>>12426261
snoy take

>>12425336
Real. Authentitards get the rope

I like collecting and owning games that I enjoy. What I will never understand is people who collect full sets or stuff their shelves with a bunch of garbo platformers and sports games. That seems performative to me. But then, I'm sure most people would argue that me owning CIB of hundreds of NES, SNES, PS1, TG16 etc titles is performative

>>12426261
>What are you in for
>Giving the middle finger to Nintendo
>Woah you should be on death row.

>>12425324
Some people were born retarded.

>>12424887
>movie about retro gaming is released
>prices shoot back up and higher
just like what happened with elvis memorabilia

>>12425078
For even worse

>>12424924
If you were born before 1990 you are boomer, post that you are retard zoomer no matter age (because all think in the same way and have same mentslity either the 35 year old or the 10 year old zoomie both are the same).

>>12424878
When the hoarders start dying and the estate auction services for the deceased began auctioning all this worthless plastic for a couple of bucks

Stop owning things

>>12426261
If you pay $500 for a digital toy you should be euthanized.

You can download and play every game for free on og hardware you don't even have to be an emutranny. If you buy games you are mentally ill

>>12427664
I've yet to have seen an argument against game collecting that isn't just sour grapes. The only one that holds weight is trying to have complete sets because that's retarded, but even that still boils down to "You have something I want". Emulation is awesome, buying original hardware and games is awesome, don't be a fag and fight about it.

>>12427742
Throw your childhood games to the trash. NOW.

>>12427664
Based communist.

>>12426261
What if I dumped my own ROMs and extracted ISOs from games I own? Should I be imprisoned for playing games I bought?
I shall remind you, this was before license agreements that said that the games I pay for are only a license to play the game.

>>12424878
Zoomers are right, these games are trash. Face it, millennials had nothing but slop growing up and the reality is these games are garbage. Everyone should cancel their Ebay orders now because these games are completely irredeemable.

>12428420
>zoomlet ragebait post #42069

The truth is once prices come down, that will mean retro gaming isn't trendy anymore so you won't be care anymore.
Every trend chasing nostalgiafag thinks he's a special snowflake and prices should come down so they can be 'cool' like the youtubers they watch.

>>12424878
it won't, why do you think it will get cheaper? the games will only get rarer since they're not being made anymore so it will get more and more expensive in time

>>12428420
You mean gen X right? Because milenials discovered the nes through the AVGN

These games havent even gone up in value. Look up i itial price and adjust for inflation. At best you are break even with inflation lol

>>12424895
No market no value. Some boomer collectables like figurines and elvis crap has plummeted in value because the collectors are dead or in retirement communities.
>rare but no one cares

>>12428615
Ok let's see if IPs like Zelda, Metal Gear, Cadtlevania etc suddenly become unknown once millennials die

>>12425336
I had a snes emulator on my psp back in 2004-2005~ in middle school and I grew up with a nes and snes.

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>>12428589
this. you look at how worthless money is today, kids were paying $150 in 2026 dollars for games back then.

>this thread again

>>12424918
Yeah, born in 2003 here. We actually care a lot about this stuff because of the youtube we consumed growing up. I have a Super Nintendo & N64. I'd like to get an NES but they weren't really around where I am from, and shipping is costly.

>>12424878
>tariffs
>located in USA
you mean you're europoor who have to pay 100 percent tariffs on USA goods? 2bad.

>>12425219
>>>/ck/

>>12425225
which games? last i checked prev gen games typically sell for half of original price 2nd-hand, but that's not /vr/.
not sure about GBA and GBC carts. if those old carts can even work anymore.

anyways you can still buy pirated carts. have some ass
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1327398670/pokemon-my-ass-version-gba

>>12429242
No, no, see it has transcended from being an expired foodstuff, it is a piece of history and high art. When you collect and don't play games, they cease to be games, and transcend into high art.

>>12429248
wtf ASS for GBA is sold out!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1577407693/pokemon-my-ass-version-glow-in-dark
fug. glowie ass is sold out too!