Will there ever be a TG16 price crash?

[Jason_dicarlo85]

God I hope so

[GohanX]

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."

I've pretty much been priced out of TG16/PCE for some time now. Part of it is that I only keep the absolute best games that I love, and the fact that I already have a lot of the essentials. I have maybe 20 hucards and 20 CDs after purging most of my hucard collection. There are a few games that I want, and I still pick up a random game from time to time, but at this point I don't see my collection growing much larger. And it doesn't really need to, I've already got some great stuff.

[Groover]

For far too long I wanted a TurboDuo. I did get one finally a couple of years ago and I picked up a couple of games. This year I have been going hard at picking up games. Also this year is the year I got my Framemiester and RGB became my new favorite analog connection. Im glad for what I have and I will continue to pick up a game here and there. I only wish the price could crash but these things are harder to find and people are less willing to sell. I can't blame them I have all the games I had since I was a kid. I know I'm late to the party I'm just glad I'm here. Growing up my best friend had a Turbo Grafx 16 and we played the hell out of it.

[tbone3969]

Nope, no way, never.  TurboGrafx is better than gold.

[BlueBMW]

Ive been priced out for a while now.  Granted taking a lower paying job and going back to school full time has put an immense damper on my funds so...  But even still, I got tired of the chase, tired of having stuff that got little use.  Now I have a hand picked library of just the stuff I want to have and I am much happier for it.

[Black Tiger]

Nope, no way, never.  TurboGrafx is better than gold.

Then why can't you sell a sealed copy of Dragon Slayer?

[Mathius]

Ive been priced out for a while now.  Granted taking a lower paying job and going back to school full time has put an immense damper on my funds so...  But even still, I got tired of the chase, tired of having stuff that got little use.  Now I have a hand picked library of just the stuff I want to have and I am much happier for it.

This is the way to go. I see full on collecting as more of a burden. Just buy the games that you want to play.

[Opethian]

Nope, no way, never.  TurboGrafx is better than gold.

Then why can't you sell a sealed copy of Dragon Slayer?

shots fired

[Otaking]

I was just reading through this old thread and I noticed o.pwuaioc edited and deleted one of his messages.
it's message number #198 https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=16341.198
(can someone tell me how to link to a particular post in a thread?)

It seems really random to go to some random post in some random old thread and remove it before nuking your own account.

But was it a random message? What did the message say???



Disclaimer I have no problem with o.pwuaioc deleting his own post, that's totally up to him if he wants to do that, (I think I may have done it myself in the past), but my curiosity is piqued on this one

[NightWolve]

https://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=16341.msg419995#msg419995

Is March 30, 2016 also around the same time he nuked his account ? Whatever the case, I suppose if you run into him at the DoxPhile chatroom you could ask him there...

[Necromancer]

Yarr, 'tis strange to delete some random old post.

<<  edit  >>

Make it posts, plural.  He removed dozens of 'em (many of which were quoted anyway), and most all of 'em were presumably quite innocuous. 

(can someone tell me how to link to a particular post in a thread?)

The title of each specific post contains that posts direct address.  Right click it and 'copy link address' in Chrome or whatever the equivalent is in IE, Firefox, etc.

[Punch]

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.

The origin to esteban's timeball obsession was finally revealed.

[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.

The origin to esteban's timeball obsession was finally revealed.

POSSIBLY!

Blodia was often thrown in as a free, loose HuCARD back in the day.

But I always thought Timeball was unappreciated.

GODDAMIT! Don't get me started...

[Otaking]

The general price of US TG16 games seems to have constantly been going up and up as the years go by.
Do you think the prices will keep going up indefinitely or the prices will stop increasing and plateau or even possibly dip and have a price crash?   
Say for example if the market gets flooded with high quality repros of the more expensive games this I think could cause a price crash.
 

3 years on from when I made this thread and still no sign of a crash, I'm starting to suspect there never will be one.

[Mathius]

I'm finding myself flip-flopping with this idea. But with the YT scene bloated with nostalgic gamers, Facebook bloated, forums bloated, conventions bloated, ...you can't say the word Magical Chase anymore without getting slammed with 3,000 different emotions from 1,000 different directions........it seems logical that "retro" is self sustaining yet completely illogical at the same time. I truly and lovingly hope that we'll see a healthy implosion of the market.