Is the video game collecting crash happening soon?

Makes me glad I go for Sega stuff. As proof, I found my Demo System DS-16 for $265 shipped when they used to go for $400 or more.

 

Amen. I buy games that I owned or enjoyed as a kid that I lacked the good sense to keep, or games that interested me back then, or even nor finding older games from YouTube videos. Games were meant to be played, not displayed as a trophy, unless you've beaten them. That's what I get out of it! Sure I never got the Best Speller, or Science Fair trophies, but having the reasons why I failed to achieve getting the aforementioned are my trophy of sorts. Collecting without the intention to play them is disgusting. Why even collect games if you aren't a gamer? You're just a hipster, co-opting a sub-culture that has become fashionable for your own, futile means of adopting a sense of self-identity.

Although, I'm not judging any one, it just upsets me that I have to pay $80 for a copy of MML2, to finish my adventure 13 years in the making, because of these people.

 

I hope that it happens. I only recently started into collecting retro console games and its quite redicolous seeing all these prices like 30€ for a breath of fire 3 copy for the psx. And that game isnt rare it was definiattly produced a 100 thousand times, for that price you can get an Neo geo mvs cartridge which was much less produced. I mean that stuff used to be sold for couple of euros but now thanks to ebay everything can get so much expensive simply for people copy and paste prices and other people who want to have a shelf of NES or n64 games without playing them.

For people like me who started only now collecting retro stuff its probably best if we might just as well skip all the consoles that used to be common and concentrate on rare systems like neo geo or fm towns marty. At least that stuff is really rare and prices cant go further up. I would even rather waste 500€ on an AES Neo Geo cartridge of a really rare game than wasting 500€ for 7 or 10 boxed ''rare'' snes, nes games. At least i would know that no one tried to make money out of me with speculation or i havent to worry about any crash since that stuff used to worth always that much.

 

The difference was, with the LE comics in the 90's, these comics were overproduced. Especially the death of Superman issue, which cna still be found in dollar-store 4-packs.

Overproduction isn't really an issue with a homebrewer making a few thousand carts. As long as the game is decent, the demand will always outnumber the supply.