teh "what did you buy today"-thread

[reson8er]

Ain't no mullet like a Gaiares mullet.

[xelement5x]

Those are all good games for the genesis

Do you have a lost of games you'd like for the genesis?

I do, kinda. To my amazement genesis games have become stupidly expensive (I guess I should have expected it) but my short list is somthing like this:

Shinobi III: Own this on Sonic genesis Collection PS3 but would love to play it on original hardware.

Streets of Rage 1,2: Same for these though I owned them both back in the day.

MUSHA: (Can't believe what this is going for these days, its really nuts. This is one of the games I owned and LOVED before selling my Genesis to the dirty rats at EB Games. The game has stayed in my mind all these years later as my favorite Genesis game)

Castlevania Bloodlines: Never owned this, but after getting back into Rondo of Blood recently I'm very interested in checking this out.

Alisia Dragoon, Granada. Never played either but after seeing them on Gamesack I'd like to check em out. They look pretty cool.

Probably some more, I dunno to be honest I've kinda been shell shocked by the prices in general and have put off picking anything up unless I can get it for a decent deal, though even that is relative.

CIB Genesis used to be a lot more reasonable with the standouts being MUSHA and Crusader of Centy, the only ones in the 3 digit range.  It's gotten much worse just in the last year though, I think all the SNES folks are jumping ship because the prices are astronomical over there. 

[reson8er]

Those are all good games for the genesis

Do you have a lost of games you'd like for the genesis?

I do, kinda. To my amazement genesis games have become stupidly expensive (I guess I should have expected it) but my short list is somthing like this:

Shinobi III: Own this on Sonic genesis Collection PS3 but would love to play it on original hardware.

Streets of Rage 1,2: Same for these though I owned them both back in the day.

MUSHA: (Can't believe what this is going for these days, its really nuts. This is one of the games I owned and LOVED before selling my Genesis to the dirty rats at EB Games. The game has stayed in my mind all these years later as my favorite Genesis game)

Castlevania Bloodlines: Never owned this, but after getting back into Rondo of Blood recently I'm very interested in checking this out.

Alisia Dragoon, Granada. Never played either but after seeing them on Gamesack I'd like to check em out. They look pretty cool.

Probably some more, I dunno to be honest I've kinda been shell shocked by the prices in general and have put off picking anything up unless I can get it for a decent deal, though even that is relative.

CIB Genesis used to be a lot more reasonable with the standouts being MUSHA and Crusader of Centy, the only ones in the 3 digit range.  It's gotten much worse just in the last year though, I think all the SNES folks are jumping ship because the prices are astronomical over there.

Makes sense, I also think the release of the Retron 5 had an effect on prices going up since you have to use real cartridges. I really couldn't have picked a worse time to be looking for games, lol.

[Mathius]

SNES, Genesis, Turbo, and oddly GameCube have skyrocketed in the last year. I was at a retro game shop a few weeks ago and they wanted $115 for a loose Chrono Trigger and $50 for Mario Kart on GameCube! I paid $12 for my copy just recently! Hopefully this is the prices peaking out.

[reson8er]

SNES, Genesis, Turbo, and oddly GameCube have skyrocketed in the last year. I was at a retro game shop a few weeks ago and they wanted $115 for a loose Chrono Trigger and $50 for Mario Kart on GameCube! I paid $12 for my copy just recently! Hopefully this is the prices peaking out.

I think, ultimately, the best thing to do is get a Mega Everdrive and pick up the real games I cherish as funds permit. I found the Turbo Everdrive was a great tool in for "I just want to play the game" with the prices as they are.

[jeffhlewis]

Buy Megadrive (JP) - the low end is more expensive but the mid and higher end games can be a lot more reasonable in a lot of cases (but not every case)

[TR0N]

Those are all good games for the genesis

Do you have a lost of games you'd like for the genesis?

I do, kinda. To my amazement genesis games have become stupidly expensive (I guess I should have expected it) but my short list is somthing like this:

Shinobi III: Own this on Sonic genesis Collection PS3 but would love to play it on original hardware.

Streets of Rage 1,2: Same for these though I owned them both back in the day.

MUSHA: (Can't believe what this is going for these days, its really nuts. This is one of the games I owned and LOVED before selling my Genesis to the dirty rats at EB Games. The game has stayed in my mind all these years later as my favorite Genesis game)

Castlevania Bloodlines: Never owned this, but after getting back into Rondo of Blood recently I'm very interested in checking this out.

Alisia Dragoon, Granada. Never played either but after seeing them on Gamesack I'd like to check em out. They look pretty cool.

Probably some more, I dunno to be honest I've kinda been shell shocked by the prices in general and have put off picking anything up unless I can get it for a decent deal, though even that is relative.

Prices have been going up for complete genesis games.Though if you want to play musha,do you're self a favor and buy a everdrive and that will save you some money.

[Mathius]

^^And if you haven't gotten your Genesis S-Video modded do so NOW! Musha is beautiful in S-video.

[reson8er]

^^And if you haven't gotten your Genesis S-Video modded do so NOW! Musha is beautiful in S-video.

Yup! I have a Framemeister and go RGB, games look so beautiful.

[Medic_wheat]

^^And if you haven't gotten your Genesis S-Video modded do so NOW! Musha is beautiful in S-video.

Yup! I have a Framemeister and go RGB, games look so beautiful.

Framemeister

Man dont those things go for $300 and import from Japan only?

[reson8er]

Framemeister

Man dont those things go for $300 and import from Japan only?

About that yea, but in my honest opinion its worth each and every cent. The picture you can get on a modern TV is stunning I honestly love the thing. Obviously if you have the room a nice CRT or Monitor is probably the best way to go, but adding another screen for me is not an option.

[Medic_wheat]

Framemeister

Man dont those things go for $300 and import from Japan only?

About that yea, but in my honest opinion its worth each and every cent. The picture you can get on a modern TV is stunning I honestly love the thing. Obviously if you have the room a nice CRT or Monitor is probably the best way to go, but adding another screen for me is not an option.

Yeshhhh. Look on ebay its closer to $450-500.

[reson8er]

Framemeister

Man dont those things go for $300 and import from Japan only?

About that yea, but in my honest opinion its worth each and every cent. The picture you can get on a modern TV is stunning I honestly love the thing. Obviously if you have the room a nice CRT or Monitor is probably the best way to go, but adding another screen for me is not an option.

Yeshhhh. Look on ebay its closer to $450-500.

!! Man prices are freaking absurd now, but many of those are of the BIN > Price it high because we can variety.  Several of the last sold were around $350 though and a used "Mint" condition one sold for $200. If you're in the market for one, don't pay more than $350 and can probably do a little less if you wait for used one to go up.

Edit: Interesting. If you look as some of the higher priced "last sold" models the price listed is NOT the price it sold for. What happened was several units were sold, and since then the seller has increased the price and that increased price is what's showing up as the sold price, when in actuality the real sold prices were much lower.

For example, the seller who shows the last sold for 680, but when you check the buyer history the only 4 sold were all between $360 and $372. Dunno if this is an error on ebays part or not, but I guess the moral of the story is to do a bit of checking before you buy/bid

[munchiaz]

^ i saw one of these in action recently and they are pretty amazing. The amount of options they have is crazy. They are pricey though, and i have a PVM so i don't really need one. but if i had to just stick with a HD i would have to get one of these

[xelement5x]

Tales of Hearts R [VITA] (GameStop Exclusive)
Victorious Boxers Revolution [Wii]
White Knight Chronicles II [PS3]

So I went to pick up my preorder of the new Tales game, just to discover that GameStop had gutted the last copy (mine) and had it on display.  They could give me no good reason for this, since they obviously didn't have any other copies to sell there should have been no reason to open the one I'd already reserved.  Sigh...

I got them to transfer my reserve to another store that hadn't gutted their copies and picked it up there instead.  While the transfer was going on I looked around the other store and found the Hajime no Ippo Wii game for a couple bucks, plus used a $10 coupon I'd gotten to buy White Knight Chronicles II for about $5.  It could have turned out worse I guess, but at least I have my game now!