Will there ever be a TG16 price crash?

[Gentlegamer]

Screw it, let's clean out the pockets of collectards with Magical Chase booties.

[esteban]

I'll burn a copy of Last Alert and do a poor drawing of Guy Kazama on the label side of the disc. RARE!!! Only 1 copy in existence!

PM sent.

[Ozzy_98]

Collectards are already paying more for several PCEWorks releases than the originals.

For the life of me, I can't understand paying extra for a known forgery.

Because it is literally more rare.

I think cause in part cause of the great package they put together with stolen artwork around their stolen games.  (At least I'm assuming they stole most of the artwork used).  I'm also pretty sure the ton of youtube reviewers who talk about how great this is, many of them got free copies.

[HailingTheThings]

Collectards are already paying more for several PCEWorks releases than the originals.

For the life of me, I can't understand paying extra for a known forgery.

Because it is literally more rare.

I think cause in part cause of the great package they put together with stolen artwork around their stolen games.  (At least I'm assuming they stole most of the artwork used).  I'm also pretty sure the ton of youtube reviewers who talk about how great this is, many of them got free copies.

Ya think?

:3

[HotJuicyBurgers]

At what point does everyone think they will be priced out if they haven't already been? I've been thinking about this quite a bit for myself, especially for other systems that have much larger libraries with quite a few games in the 100 plus range. I love physical and owning a game as much as the next guy but I just feel like the hobby is fast approaching a point where it just doesn't make sense to go after most games.

I would think a situation like what is happening to me would eventually cause a bit of price decrease, but as far as I can tell there seems to be no shortage of people willing to pay the ever increasing prices.

[Black Tiger]

If you're afraid of being priced out and just want to play the games without issues, just play HuCards on a TED and spend the money you saved on CD games. For CD games that the Turbo version isn't necessary to play (Godzilla, Super Air Zonk, Terraforming, Dungeon Explorer II, Vasteel, etc) just buy the PCE version.

The difference between a fully functional set of Turbo games and a complete set of original Turbo collectible games is probably $20,000.

[HotJuicyBurgers]

If you're afraid of being priced out and just want to play the games without issues, just play HuCards on a TED and spend the money you saved on CD games. For CD games that the Turbo version isn't necessary to play (Godzilla, Super Air Zonk, Terraforming, Dungeon Explorer II, Vasteel, etc) just buy the PCE version.

The difference between a fully functional set of Turbo games and a complete set of original Turbo collectible games is probably $20,000.

It's not that i'm afraid of being priced out, I'm more curious how many people are close to, or have already been priced out. Just curious what is the point at which people say... "Ok. Maybe instead of buying 5 retro games a month, i'll buy 3, or 2, or maybe 1."

For a lot of us collecting these games is a passion that I don't think will stop anytime soon, but speaking from personal experience, I can definitely say I've slowed down on buying things for "full price."

[geise]

What is full price though?  That can mean anything to collectors.  Maybe you meant to say "Premium"?  I know what you mean though.  I barely buy anything anymore.  Luckily I was around as a Turbo fan when it was fully available everywhere when it was released.  It is the system where I never sold any of my games, so I haven't had to deal with this craziness. 

[Necromancer]

Unless you've decided that only the $100+ games are worth owning, you can't get priced out of shit.  For every overpriced Dynastic Hero there's a dozen comparatively cheap games that are worth less than original MSRP.

[HotJuicyBurgers]

Unless you've decided that only the $100+ games are worth owning, you can't get priced out of shit.  For every overpriced Dynastic Hero there's a dozen comparatively cheap games that are worth less than original MSRP.

Of course there is a price spectrum, and some games are cheap, but more likely than not, a lot of people pick up the cheap, good games relatively fast.

I'm not really talking about collecting for those that want a full set of something I suppose. That has never really interested me, but more collecting and finding games I enjoy, popping a game into the system and getting some really enjoyment out of my hobby. (Although scoring a sweet deal sometimes is even better  )

[esteban]

I did things backwards: I bought cheap crap games 10-15 years ago. I should have purchased the more expensive titles, but I was too cheap.

Basically, I feel like a dumbass.

But, it's OK.

[geise]

LOL!  We've all been there este!

[tbone3969]

I don't think they will ever crash.

[Black Tiger]

Unless you've decided that only the $100+ games are worth owning, you can't get priced out of shit.  For every overpriced Dynastic Hero there's a dozen comparatively cheap games that are worth less than original MSRP.

Of course there is a price spectrum, and some games are cheap, but more likely than not, a lot of people pick up the cheap, good games relatively fast.

I'm not really talking about collecting for those that want a full set of something I suppose. That has never really interested me, but more collecting and finding games I enjoy, popping a game into the system and getting some really enjoyment out of my hobby. (Although scoring a sweet deal sometimes is even better  )

Of you're blindly buying games just to find out what they're like, you're only creating price inflation.

Why not play through games on cdr/flashcart or emulation first and then decide which ones are worth owning at any price? Then you won't have stacks of games you don't care taking up space and all that saved money to spend on the "permium" priced games that you actually know are worth buying.

Otherwise what you are currently doing is literally gambling with money.

[HotJuicyBurgers]

Unless you've decided that only the $100+ games are worth owning, you can't get priced out of shit.  For every overpriced Dynastic Hero there's a dozen comparatively cheap games that are worth less than original MSRP.

Of course there is a price spectrum, and some games are cheap, but more likely than not, a lot of people pick up the cheap, good games relatively fast.

I'm not really talking about collecting for those that want a full set of something I suppose. That has never really interested me, but more collecting and finding games I enjoy, popping a game into the system and getting some really enjoyment out of my hobby. (Although scoring a sweet deal sometimes is even better  )

Of you're blindly buying games just to find out what they're like, you're only creating price inflation.

Why not play through games on cdr/flashcart or emulation first and then decide which ones are worth owning at any price? Then you won't have stacks of games you don't care taking up space and all that saved money to spend on the "permium" priced games that you actually know are worth buying.

Otherwise what you are currently doing is literally gambling with money.

I'm not sure where you are getting the idea that I am blowing a ton of money on games willly nilly on the hopes of finding a good game, but I should probably make it clear that I literally can't remember a time when I bought a game over like... 10-15 bucks without having done research and knowing pretty much exactly what I was getting.