Cost of games going up

[Justinjcox20]

I would actually be very open to anyone recommending games for the pc engine. I'll start a thread on that. In the mean time. I actually see some very valid points. I'm bitching about games that were already rare, when I should see what else there is

[xelement5x]

This is a shameless repost of something I wrote at another forum but I think it applies here:

My hypothesis on this has a couple of factors.

1) Retrogaming has increased in popularity with people in the 20s-40s who have more disposable income
2) Youtube personalities promote videos that drive interest in "hidden gems"
3) People remember when you could get the games cheaper and everyone knows prices have gone up a lot in the last several years

I propose, that it is mainly people who have been collecting for awhile and have had "backburner" titles they meant to pick up or hoped to find in the wild, but have seen prices rise so quickly and drastically that they are willing to pay higher and higher prices now, just to lock in owning a title before the price escalates even further.

I can speak to this of my own experience, as there are lots of titles I was hoping to find in the wild (such as Warsong) that I know I will never find cheap in the wild at this point since I'm fighting an army of resellers in my own area alone. I've debated a couple times just saving the cash for awhile and shelling out for a copy just so I don't have to watch it go from a $100 game into a $200 game (I've already seen it go from a $30 or less game into near $100, ugh).

I'm sure there are many other old timers like me there that want certain titles and would rather pay now and hedge their bets instead of watching prices continue to go up, and it contributes to the inflation even more. Unfortunately there isn't much of a solution except to stop paying those prices for the games, but that only works if everyone does it, which is unlikely to happen, so prices keep going up.

[Liquid Snake]

When did dracula x become a $200 game???!!!!!!!!!! 

[Black Tiger]

I would actually be very open to anyone recommending games for the pc engine. I'll start a thread on that. In the mean time. I actually see some very valid points. I'm bitching about games that were already rare, when I should see what else there is

It used to be that newer members would ask for suggestions of good but cheaper games. Most non-sales threads by newer members now are market or collecting related. There are still lots of great chip & CD games that aren't expensive, but the first thing everyone should buy before any HuCards is a Turbo Everdrive.

If you can narrow down the kinds of games that you do and do not want and your budget, you'll receive a lot of suggestions quickly.

[Bionic_Chef]

I was pretty hard into playing alot of NES games probably around 2008 or 2009. I have gone to the TooManyGames convention for a few years in a row and I lost it when I saw SMB 3 in person for 35 dollars. Since then Ive played alot of turbo games on emulators and a year ago i got my first turbo. Its such a great system but even over on Nintendoage.com, you always see  new posts stating "Want to trade for turbo grafx/ PC Engine games." That happens pretty often. Im highly debating a turbo everdrive now.

[Caseh]

My hypothesis on this has a couple of factors.

1) Retrogaming has increased in popularity with people in the 20s-40s who have more disposable income

That's about right for me. I'm finally settled in a well paid job with most necessities paid off. Rather than go nuts with collecting I'm gathering games I used to own or games I missed out on.

 It started out as a mad rush, pokemon-esque gotta catch em all style for fear of the prices escalating but then that fever cleared once I had cleared my bank balance several times.

I don't regret that initial rush though, I have the majority of what I wanted and I'm happy to stalk eBay for reasonably priced games I'm missing. Everything in-between is covered by everdrive devices else I figured I would ultimately fall into the collectard category that gets thrown about quite a bit on here.

[majors]

... Im highly debating a turbo everdrive now.

"get ready to black friday sales on krikzz.com"