I couldn't afford Nintendo 64 games, after a while since a lot of them now are way over $200. The same goes for 90s toys as well, it's just the 90s generation getting older and wanting stuff they sold ages back and not doing their research about prices.
Gamester81 is just a guy with more money than sense. That said he's not even that bad when it comes to overspending. This one dude on youtube called bizznes17 pays like $15 for a copy of brawl with a destroyed manual and says it's "still a pretty good deal". FYI he has a "1000 GAME HAUL!!!" when a good 90% of it it is sports games. He claims he made profit reselling them but it cant have been that much that it made up for labor and gas,
He is probably referring to pal games in Australia. Sure we have the cheap shovelware but even cart only mario karts and the lime can go for good money.
From what I've been told, he's the "Your collection doesn't count because reasons X Y & Z, you're not a real collector UNLIKE ME" type of person. I really don't get how people like that get followers on youtube. He doesn't produce a show like, say, RetroHardware from RetrowareTV or Classic Game Room. It's more like him filming his stuff, sans lighting, with a sony handicam, speaking unrehearsed lines directly into the microphone. but then again, I'm also one who can't stand Let's Play videos for the same reason (I vastly prefer a Long Play video when trying to decide if I want a game or not).
Who? Gamester or Bizznes? Gamester is just a jumped up dick and his collection sucks anyway. There are people with bigger, vaster, and better collections, and they probably didn't pay as much either. Bizznes is just a guy who has a bit too much money [he works for it though, not a trust fund kid]
I was speaking about Gamester myself. It's usually the people who hype up their collections the most who are the biggest jerks about it. I'd say I have a sizable collection, probably similar in size and scope to gamester, but I never let it get to me because... well, primarily because I've seen some jaw dropping collections on this very site over the years and it keeps you humble lol. I mainly can't stand the types who try to dictate the rules of collecting. I post over at penny-arcade quite a bit, and we have a retro collecting thread. This dude wanders in one day and says he's from a lower income area and is often afraid to post in collecting topics because his collection is made up of game compilations (like the gradius collection, instead of each game separately) and that people would jump all over him for posting pictures of that sort of stuff. That attitude towards him really irks me. I don't collect for anybody else but myself. People shouldn't have to justify their hobby or collection to anybody else. From the things I hear about Gamester, he's really elitist.
I saw that later on. Even still though a quick look on ebay.au and I didn't see any so called "Graded" or "Rare" games with assholes putting a bin of $50,000 on it. That is a plus in my book. Don't even get me started on those days. Remember how back in that time frame a lot of retailers like K-Mart and Meijer received shipments of loose nes carts (Mostly the good games) and stuck them on end caps for a few bucks a piece. Good times.
lol, his elitism just falls flat on its face for me. Every time I hear him blunder through a video and flat out make up shit [guy aparantly didn't know the PS1 used to ship with composite inputs, misinformation at its finest] his credibility takes a knock.
That time period was the golden age of NES collecting. I got TMNT2: The Arcade game and Star Tropics 1 and 2 from Kay B Toys around that time for a total of like $10. All brand new in box and everything. I got to dunk the slip of paper from Star Tropics into water IRL. Such a cool moment. I don't even want to know what an untouched copy of star tropics would go for on ebay.
Good old Kay Bee. I Passed on buying Snatcher there for $10.00 when they had a stack in the bargins bins up front. Did the same thing later on at K-Mart later on only in that case it was a stack of Panzer Dragoon Saga for $20.00. Two of my three worst calls in not grabbing deals in front of me. If we knew then what we know now, am I right?
I got my copy of Snatcher for a similar price from EB Games when they were liquidating their stock of Sega CD games. Unless you were there at that time, most people probably have no idea that Snatcher, originally, was considered a bomb, a flop, and often got thrown in with FMV drivel like Tom Cat Alley. I bought the game simply because I was looking for another sega CD title to purchase, I had no idea what it was, or would wind up being. Snatcher is such a perfect example of a game becoming ridiculously expensive well, well after its time. It's just like earthbound.
While I can't say the same for some of my other missed opportunities like Panzer Dragoon Saga I knew at the time that Snatcher was special but still passed. That one stings a little more than the rest. Earthbound was one I would rent often but never got around to buying. Oh well.
Ugh... me too. I never bought Earthbound because I beat it during a rental. On a less painful side note, I never bought Final Fantasy III for the SNES because I beat it when I borrowed it from a friend.
