I used to be really upset that this older kid stole my copy of Mario 64 when he visited. His parent denied it to my mother. Which is why it made me so happy that last year's PC port blows it out of the water. Looking forward to Ocarina of Time. It has been 95 percent debugged. I might finally get all the Skulltullas, since I barely play anything these days and have the time. My brother still has his copy somewhere.
Except your games would never fetch those kinds of prices because you don't have connections to auction houses and grading firms like WATA Games to
Well consider me somewhat less disappointed then. Thank you, kind chimp!
I don't regret selling my N64 and PS1 outside of maybe 1 or 2 games. A lot of them have not aged well, I still have my PS2, GC, and nearly all of the Game Boy handhelds. I still have those and that does not bother me in the slightest.
Not my mom. She would never throw away our games, unless we asked her too. My dad would never do the same either, even though he does have a lesser view on video games. Aside from a couple of the classics any way.
I think emulation and preservation of games online have kept the value of original carts from becomes too crazy for the most part. Outside of hardcore collectors, which there are very few, people aren't going to drop loads of cash to collect games. And even the rarest treasures tend to top out around $100-200 in most cases. There are a couple of notable exceptions but for the most part if you really wanted to do it you could probably collect almost every N64 cart for a couple thousand.
Really mundane games like Super Mario Bros 2 aren't getting auctioned for ludicrous amounts because of their rarity, exceptionally perfect condition or lack of hardware to run them on. Karl Jobst has done an excellent video on what is actually going on in those cases (yeh, I know, thumbnail and title are rather clickbaity, unfortunately)
Or buy mini versions of the consoles with a whole bunch of emulated games on them, but event that is not fool proof from price gouging as we have seen with the NES and SNES mini.
I’d say they should be called out for this, but it’s not like it fucking matters to them.
Yeah that's true, Nintendo likes to drive false scarcity to be a bunch of shitheads which is why emulators are morally correct in preserving their games....or something. I'm not saying you should do that, but I'm also not saying not to do the thing we can't endorse.
It does when they get death threats and want to act like they did nothing wrong, or as if they are innocent victims.
I find it ironic that a Genesis mini (goes on sale a lot during Black Friday and holidays), Commodore 64 Mini, Coleco Vision Mini, Neo Geo Mini, and T-16/PC Engine Mini (most of the time) are all cheaper than both Nintendo Mini consoles.
It also shows you where the limits of Nostalgia lies really. I don't particularly know why Sega's Mini isn't nearly as popular other than it less people grew up with those games than anything Nintendo. As for those Atari systems and such, I just think that even though they are important parts of gaming history, they simply aren't really good games or experiences to ever want to revisit. They are novelty items and nothing more, because I highly doubt even the oldest gamers ever have the urge to go back and play fucking Asteroids or E.T. for any reason.
The Sega Mini is still popular all things considered, but not as popular. I know at least in Michigan and places around the Detroit area, you're gonna find more Genesis Minis than NES/SNES minis by comparison. Hell, I've seen more people ask for Genesis Minis than NES/SNES mini for the past 2 years. You still get the occasional people asking for the Nintendo minis and such, most people realize (non-gamers and the like) are a lost cause unless they're willing to take out a loan.
Tell that to my parents or older relatives in either side of my family that game. E.T., a majority of them don't know, or forgotten that video game version even existed. My parents would be more than happy to play Asteroids, Galaga, Pac-Man & Ms. Pac-Man, Centipede & Millipede, and many other single screen arcade classics.
But would they go out and buy one of those mini's, or even the 1up arcade machine to have that available to them? Or better yet would they go out to get ahold of the original hardware and discs for those games? Am i right in guessing probably not?
My parents have an Atari Flashback, but they have not touched it in years. I got that for them as a Christmas gift.
No. And No. I don't want a 1up, unless I can get it for a really good price.
www.videogameschronicle.com
Still not playing their piece of shit game, but progress.
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Sony now uses PlayStation PC label for its PC games
Sony keeps releasing its older games on PC.www.theverge.com
Probably a nothing burger, but Sony has made a Playstation PC publishing label for it's PC versions of games.
