What Did You Pay?

[Lost Monkey]

Maybe the problem is the word "worth". 

Maybe a "what did you pay?" thread would work...

I'll start:

Magical Chase - $10
Beyond Shadowgate - $25
Might and Magic III - $39.95
Bonk III - $29.95
Bonk III CD - $20
Legend of Hero Tonma - $10
Lords of Thunder - $5
New Adventure Island - $29.99
Ys I & II - $29.99
Ys III - $15

...hmmm... I guess "time" is a factor in this as well....  All of those prices were back in the mid 90's...

[toymachine78]

^^Ethics^^??? BAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Elder]

Maybe the problem is the word "worth". 

Maybe a "what did you pay?" thread would work...

I'll start:

Magical Chase - $10
Beyond Shadowgate - $25
Might and Magic III - $39.95
Bonk III - $29.95
Bonk III CD - $20
Legend of Hero Tonma - $10
Lords of Thunder - $5
New Adventure Island - $29.99
Ys I & II - $29.99
Ys III - $15

...hmmm... I guess "time" is a factor in this as well....  All of those prices were back in the mid 90's...

Thanks for the suggestion.  I think I'll edit the thread just to prevent people from going in the wrong direction.  As you said, time most certainly plays a factor in these prices. 

[Elder]

Watch ebay "sold" auction history for prices on games you are interested in and you'll get a feel for the ebay average... then shop around.  Deals can be found on a few shopping sites, Amazon being one of the better places (though there are also some real turds there, too).

The best place, of course, is right here in these forums.

Thanks for the info

The ethics?   How about just using them for the games you want to play without making a video?  To each their own, but I guess I won't be seeing you in hell.  Just so you know, that's where the party's at and just about everyone here will be attending (due to everdrive/cd-r use) so you probably don't want to bother making too many friends. ( ;

I do that for journalistic integrity.     

[Desh]

I'm new to this scene but I usually look at Price charting for the flee bay/amazon average and if I really want the game figure to pay 10% less than that.  I have been very lucky to have made trades and purchased with quite a few members on this forum for VERY reasonable prices.  In the short time I've been here my TG/PCE collection has double in size and out of the 12 games I've completed this year 8 of them are Turbo games. 

P.S. what is your YouTube channel?

[Elder]

I'm new to this seen but I usually look at Price charting for the flee bay/amazon average and if I really want the game figure to pay 10% less than that.  I have been very lucky to have made trades and purchased with quite a few members on this forum for VERY reasonable prices.  In the short time I've been here my TG/PCE collection has double in size and out of the 12 games I've completed this year 8 of them are Turbo games. 

P.S. what is your YouTube channel?

Yeah I've made some great deals here myself, and have been loving the community. 

Here's my channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ProjectCOE

[Black Tiger]

Bottom line: if you have to ask, then don't buy unless it's <$20.

If you really want a game for legitimate reasons, take your time following ads on forums and sold/unsold eBay listings until you get a feel for what you think you could get it for in the short or long term. Appreciate each new game as you get them and you will be in no rush to buy the next one and being patient will always net the most "fair" price.

[wildfruit]

£10 for a bundle that had 8 hu cards including parasol stars and legendary axe 2. A good day

[vestcoat]

Bottom line: if you have to ask, then don't buy unless it's <$20.

Amen.

if the opportunity presents itself I'll know whether to offer in the ten, hundreds, or thousands. 

If you haven't placed a personal value on something, don't know what others pay, and don't even know how many zeros to put after your offers, you obviously have no idea what you're buying. You're not a collector, you're not even a hobbyist. You're a fool with a hole in your pocket.

[Elder]

Like I said before, you're talking about someone who actively looks for Neo-Geo games and Arcade boards, these are items that you can't guess a price with.  Your personal 'value' of the game in question is irrelevant if there were only 200 copies made.  Whether or not you want to spend the money is follow-up question you ask.  That's where you determine if it's 'worth' it to you.  What I'm trying to do is learn what the scarcity is of a game so that if I have a chance to to purchase said game I can make a realistic offer in the event I'm even interested in the game.  I don't just buy whatever for the sake of spending money.  I'll be playing the game, enjoying it, typically reviewing it, and then moving on to the next.   

[Elder]

OK, Elder... we've toyed with you enough.  Sometimes the veteran forum members like to mess around with newbies by pulling shenanigans like they did in this thread (i.e. keeping the price guide away from you.)

I went ahead and uploaded a copy of the current prices to my image host.  Please note that this data is much more accurate than pricecharting.com as that stupid site doesn't know the difference between a loose HuCARD and a sealed box.  Seriously.

Anyway, here you go:

Lol, perfect! 

[jelloslug]

Some of the more memorable ones:

Bomberman '93 $29.95 at Babbage's in 1993
Cadash $34.99 at Babbage's in 1993
Turbo CD system $299.99 from J&R Music World in 1990
Turbografx-16 system for $149.99 from Brendel's in 1989 (I think)
Turboexpress for $249.99 from Brendel's in 1990

[Black Tiger]

Like I said before, you're talking about someone who actively looks for Neo-Geo games and Arcade boards, these are items that you can't guess a price with.  Your personal 'value' of the game in question is irrelevant if there were only 200 copies made.  Whether or not you want to spend the money is follow-up question you ask.  That's where you determine if it's 'worth' it to you.  What I'm trying to do is learn what the scarcity is of a game so that if I have a chance to to purchase said game I can make a realistic offer in the event I'm even interested in the game.  I don't just buy whatever for the sake of spending money.  I'll be playing the game, enjoying it, typically reviewing it, and then moving on to the next.   

Games like that are literally priceless and what any one person ever chose to pay is all the more irrelevant.

Back in the 90's when organized collecting for the sake of collecting perverted the meaning of the the term, price guides became very popular among people who lacked a genuine interest in the subject being "collected" (these self-labeled "collectors" are actually market/profit enthusiasts). But even those price guides featured common sense disclaimers for their obvlivious subscribers. They explained how it was literally just a "guide", there is no true monetary value for used objects and all they did was poll a few select stores to find out what their local markets were selling items for on average. Some pointed out the obvious: what is popular in another city in another state or even a different country won't be exactly as in demand everywhere else and even when it is, what people choose to pay or trade (the typical currency of olden collecting) will still be radically different.

Price "guides" are for people who require a guide on the subject being collected in general. Price guides are for those people who want to skip the whole 'becoming familiar with the subject' beforehand and jump straight to the commerce.

[jelloslug]

Like I said before, you're talking about someone who actively looks for Neo-Geo games and Arcade boards, these are items that you can't guess a price with.  Your personal 'value' of the game in question is irrelevant if there were only 200 copies made.  Whether or not you want to spend the money is follow-up question you ask.  That's where you determine if it's 'worth' it to you.  What I'm trying to do is learn what the scarcity is of a game so that if I have a chance to to purchase said game I can make a realistic offer in the event I'm even interested in the game.  I don't just buy whatever for the sake of spending money.  I'll be playing the game, enjoying it, typically reviewing it, and then moving on to the next.   

Games like that are literally priceless and what any one person ever chose to pay is all the more irrelevant.

Back in the 90's when organized collecting for the sake of collecting perverted the meaning of the the term, price guides became very popular among people who lacked a genuine interest in the subject being "collected" (these self-labeled "collectors" are actually market/profit enthusiasts). But even those price guides featured common sense disclaimers for their obvlivious subscribers. They explained how it was literally just a "guide", there is no true monetary value for used objects and all they did was poll a few select stores to find out what their local markets were selling items for on average. Some pointed out the obvious: what is popular in another city in another state or even a different country won't be exactly as in demand everywhere else and even when it is, what people choose to pay or trade (the typical currency of olden collecting) will still be radically different.

Price "guides" are for people who require a guide on the subject being collected in general. Price guides are for those people who want to skip the whole 'becoming familiar with the subject' beforehand and jump straight to the commerce.

A better thing to have would be a "rarity guide" that could give you hard facts like when it was produced, what it included, and how many were made.  From there a person could derive if something was truly rare in the scope of the collection.

[BigusSchmuck]

There:
http://www.gamedude.com/turbog.html
Thats the prices you should pay for your turbo goodness.