Are High Game Prices Impacting Your Collecting?

It seems that everything costs more these days. Has this impacted what you collect? Comment below and thank you for coming to my channel!
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[johnhancockretro]

HANCOCK1 is a account impersonating me. Avoid

[segaboy]

My collection is roms on a file server. I never have to spend $900 to enjoy looking at a spine of a shelf.

[Evercade_Effect]

I like that you aren't afraid to speak up about these topics. The Evercade is my retro fix and a way for me to discover games I never heard of before. Thanks for your continued support of the Evercade.

[winterwraith]

Most of us can agree that vintage game prices are just absurd at this point in time. I’ve been collecting “organically” for nearly 30 years also— meaning I didn’t set out to amass games but rather kept most of the ones I enjoyed throughout the years and slowly accumulated a decent library. Now I think a large number of the people seeking out classic games are doing it as an investment or as hoarders, though I’m sure a lot are also genuine gamers who want to play them and enjoy a bit of gaming history. Sadly the thrill of “scoring big” at a thrift store is extremely rare these days. As you mentioned, many stores cross-reference eBay now. I remember finding TMNT The Hyper stone heist loose for $5 about 5 years ago, now Goodwill sells old beat-up copies of Red Dead Redemption XB360 for $10…and ships most good vintage games out to their eBay store. I’m pretty set with vintage games myself, unless I can find a copy of Space Megaforce SNES for a reasonable price somewhere. Sold my copy stupidly for $50 years ago and now I can’t buy it for under $400…you just gotta laugh man, I mean that’s silly. Keep on trucking John!

[connercoughran]

For me personally nothing much has noticeably changed, but that might be for some specific reasons:

First, when I started this hobby, I was a 6th grader with no job or income, so I have (for the past ~5years) been hardwired to hunt for deals on eBay and wait for months or longer to find something in my price point

Secondly, the area where i live/lived has no game stores in a 25 mile radius, so for most of my collecting “career”, my only options for buying NES/SNES games were when my dad took me into Seattle to watch a baseball game or something.

Thirdly, because i didn’t/don’t expand my collection very often, I play the shit out of every single game that I buy, and generally limit myself to the classics of a console.


So anyway, there’s my 2 cents. Rising prices suck

[gt]

Yes it has. Seems like the only way to keep prices down is not buy to high items. But I know someone will always still buy what they need. 😖😖😖.

[karl]

I've put the pause on it for the most part and have moved over to blu-rays for the time being. I don't have the largest or smallest game collection, about 300 over 30+ years but highly curated, and the prices are a bit much for what I want but don't have. Saw a really nice condition Super Mario RPG at Super Mega Replay the other day for $90, chose to leave with 18 blu-rays and a Jones soda for about 45 dollars out the door instead. Really looking forward to when the Switch hits that age where most games are $10-20 though.

[SFJPMoonGames]

It's been a business not a hobby for years it's a shame for people who actually just want to play the games rather than sell or brag about the value of a collection.

[dohead]

At least your thrift store is slightly cheaper than eBay. Thrift stores forget that "thrift" is in their name. I can understand $5 games, maybe even $10, but the ones near me have adopted to referencing eBay and the results are even worse. They'll price something at the highest it's been listed on eBay. Again, highest listed and not what the highest actually sold for.

A few months ago, I came across the Sears version of the 2600 and it peaked my interest. They had it in a glass case at the register and I was thinking it would be cool for $20, maybe even high at $40 (already have two 2600's though). After they brought it out when I asked to see it, it was in horrible shape with broken knobs and busted corners on the outer shell. It also looked like it sat in a rats nest as it was so dirty. The store didn't even bother to clean it. Anyways, these idiots wanted $300 for the system. No power adapter or controllers and not even a single game. No joke! Absolutely ridiculous. I told the sales person that not only was it broken and incomplete, but that it was also $280 overpriced. Her response "Yeah, I thought you were going to say that." It's probably sitting in a landfill now because of their greed. Saddens me when someone could've rescued and restored it.

Then on the other hand, I recently found a TI-99/4a for $2 at a bargain shop (the stop this stuff makes before it heads to the landfill) and a $30 Commodore 64 with the 1541 diskdrive just last week at an estate sale. Score! However, my best score to date was a Sega CDx for only $12. Like you said, it isn't a doom and gloom scenario because the bargains are still out there. They are just getting way harder to find though. Retro games, on the other hand, are simply scarce in my neck of the woods. GameStop ran all of the mom and pops out of business and they don't bother selling retro anymore. So, eBay it is or sometimes conventions (but we know there's no real deal there). To answer your question, yes it has impacted my collecting.

[EricSega-pefl]

Overall prices are outrageous. NES CIB games floors me the most of all. I remember buying NES games 10-15 years ago CIB for less than half current asking prices. NES is the biggest outrage even on common games.

[zombie]

Aside from having most what I want for cartridge systems already, I’ve moved mostly to emulation that route, last con I went to was just too pricey on things and found my hauls smaller and smaller, I feel prices will stay that way for a while, but collecting for PS3 and PS4 are still fun

[vadergamer]

Yes....
Use game market in the fields and in the wilds are based on eBay prices....
There's never a good deals anymore.

[ryanswam]

Another interesting video!! Here in the UK it's still pretty cheap to collect for SNES mega drive PS1 and stuff like that. Unfortunately anything even remotely rare costs an absolute bomb! I could buy 2 Ps5 consoles for what it would cost to buy an Atari jaguar CD console. Same for neo Geo AES. I have a 1 in one out system with consoles now. Gotta watch the

[joaomvfsantos]

I basically stopped collecting in the past 2 years. It's sad, but I like videogames, I don't like speculative behaviour. This is a hobby for me, not a necessity.

[spockhozzer]

I don't "collect", so no.

[RTRRV]

John, you really should create a video warning people about fake, impersonating accounts.. Someone made one of you and is replying to people in the comments, posing as you (they have 46 subs BTW).

Something really needs done about it before someone gets scammed and loses money. ⚠️