Price list For current US Titles (NOT UPDATED IN 3 YEARS)

[alexsduo]

I would love to get bomberman 93, jacky chan, nuetopia 2, hero tonma, magical chase, time cruise, and world sports competition on here! 

I don't think anyone would laugh at those prices, I would love to pay those.. If you want the games right now, then you are going to have to use ebay, or wait and schmooze with members, maybe there are deals hiding or people with dupes...

[Sparky]

maybe i am just lucky with finding games and deals.

I have 3 duo games left and there all pretty pricey so i will wait for that right price or trade to come along as long as it takes. Why pay top dollar for the game on ebay, or feel you have to.

If your going to collect be smart about it, the hunt is always better than the catch.
It may take years to get those 3 games i need but oh well i am sure i will find something else to do

[mrhaboobi]

the hunt is nice sometimes... took me 8 years to get a magical chase complete in the end im very happy but it took alot of patience, i ended up with a fairly mint complete game for a realistic price though.. 

[kattare]

The problem with the hunt, (and your theory) is that as time goes on, the rarer games get more and more expensive, and the longer you hunt, the more expensive they get, especially in the open market, and the more people become aware that they're worth a lot, the more people you end up with in the hunt...

I suppose I could wait year after year, garage sale hunting, forum searching, etc... but I don't enjoy scavenger hunting, I have a day job, I have 3 kids, and a wife.  For me, the hunt is just a PITA.  :-)

My feeling is that with a lot of these games, good deals are going to get fewer and farther in-between, and a good forum deal a year from now may very well be what I can get it for on ebay today.

[Sparky]

The problem with the hunt, (and your theory) is that as time goes on, the rarer games get more and more expensive, and the longer you hunt, the more expensive they get, especially in the open market, and the more people become aware that they're worth a lot, the more people you end up with in the hunt...

I suppose I could wait year after year, garage sale hunting, forum searching, etc... but I don't enjoy scavenger hunting, I have a day job, I have 3 kids, and a wife.  For me, the hunt is just a PITA.  :-)

My feeling is that with a lot of these games, good deals are going to get fewer and farther in-between, and a good forum deal a year from now may very well be what I can get it for on ebay today.

Then ebay is your answer and that is fine, pay the so called "market value" and get the game asap.

I have a day job, wife, 2 kids and a stupid dog and i have been collecting/gaming for years, hell my wife even helps me look cause i enjoy the hunt, maybe i am a lucky bastard but the rare games seem to fall into my hand in trade or for a good price in time, & ya know what if i don't find it so what. I tell ya 1 thing, i never have to justify what i have paid for a game with "well that is the market value"


EDIT: look i do not mean to keep on with the ebay hate i just hate seeing fellower gamers/collectors give up and pay the big bucks over there to sellers that are laughing all the way to the bank. <<sigh>>

[kattare]

EDIT: look i do not mean to keep on with the ebay hate i just hate seeing fellower gamers/collectors give up and pay the big bucks over there to sellers that are laughing all the way to the bank. <<sigh>>

Heh, I hear ya there.  I'm no ebay fan myself, having tried for a year or so now to eeek out some hobby cash using ebay, it's been nothing but rape...  the listing fees, final value fees, requirement that you use paypal, and the paypal fees... it really is unbelievable.  My problem is that I try to share the love and sell things at somewhat reasonable prices.  I have also looked at the alternatives... forums (where I've made many offers of $500 or so for Magical Chase, etc.) and other auction sites... (duked it out with wmaconagle (sp?) at one point for a magical chase on chase the chuckwagon and gave up at $800+)  I don't live in a large enough community for craigslist to make sense... and there are no flea markets anywhere near here.  heh.  such a bummer.

I didn't start out trying to collect all of the TG games... It's just slowly become an obsession.  :-)

Then ebay is your answer and that is fine, pay the so called "market value" and get the game asap.

I wish I had two years ago.  I think some of my frustration is that two years ago I told myself I'd wait until a good deal came up, as $300 seemed expensive at the time.  Since then I've only seen it get exponentially higher.  heh.  suxxxxxxxx.

[mrhaboobi]

haha i turned down boxed complete MC for 300 or less many a time thinking it was insane a few years back   Crazy how things can change, at one point turbo collecting was dead, i knew of just a couple of people, and then a whole stack of new people pushing the prices way way up..

[Turbo D]

I blame Nintendo. They brought all these awesome TurboGrafx-16™ to their "wii" and created a whole new fanbase. This "noob" fanbase had no idea what our beloved games were worth and began to be exploited on ebay. Sellers like gamesquad and the such continued to exploit said noobs until the "ebay market price" of games became insanely high. Since TurboGrafx-16™ games are so bad-ass, these neofans continue to go nutz over having the real thing and are forced to pay $1000+ for Magical Chase.

[unclebugspayton]

Thank GOD i bought my MC (card only) in Florda backin 2000 at a flea market. I only paid 80 plus a broken duo system. THANK YOU GOD! I due wish i could have the booklet.

[turbo_sage]

Why exactly isn't this thread stickied?

[vestcoat]

Why exactly isn't this thread stickied?

Well, winddancer isn't a member anymore and hasn't updated his post for a year and a half.

Since it's hard to keep such a thing up to date, perhaps a stickied "price check" thread would be a good idea.  It could have a link to this as well as instructions for everyone to put their "how much is this worth?" questions in one place.

[nat]

Price guides are a horrible idea for any number of reasons that we've gone over time and time again, which is why it isn't stickied.

vestcoat's idea isn't half bad, though.

The only kind of price guide I'd really like to see is a thread where everyone can chime in with what they paid for any given game and then let the end user be the judge of what's fair based on other's contributions.

[Sparky]

I think it is time for some sort of thread... how about.. "your guide to a fair price" so we can link that thread to the ebay f@ckers that drop by. I am willing to even look after this (plus bluebeamer as well).

Since i have been here values for "fair" prices have not moved much... we keep saying the same shit over and over again to new guys... why not thread it?

[SMF]

Hi all i know I'm new and haven't really had time to be on here but i did find a Racketboy kinda gives the going rate for all TG 16/Due/PC engine rare games. Ill post the link.

I thought these was kinda up to speed.

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/turbografx-16/2010/07/the-rarest-most-valuable-pc-engine-turbografx-16-games.html

[blueraven]

I almost threw up when I was this thread resurrected. 

nat's comments stand.