tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26498739.post5662932768945093334..comments2024-03-28T01:27:28.998-07:00Comments on Kid Fenris: Trouble Shooter Travails and Game CollectingKid Fenrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07679999989552548709noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26498739.post-67315214440430931402017-04-11T20:31:21.977-07:002017-04-11T20:31:21.977-07:00Recently I bought a copy of Hagane for 50 bucks, w...Recently I bought a copy of Hagane for 50 bucks, which for me is a lot of money, but for a copy of Hagane is dirt cheap. It was a make-your-own-repro set, a copy of the Super Famicom version, along with an empty US shell and a (very well-printed) US repro label. Considering that the game has hardly any text, and a lot of it wasn't even translated in the US version, most people would have no idea it wasn't totally kosher, even if they opened it up (the PCBs are pretty much identical).<br /><br />Part of me gets tickled at the idea of someone finding it someday when I'm dead and gone and going HOLYSHIT, HAGANE, THIS GAME IS WORTH 5 FIGURES IF IT'S REAL. Then they take onto a future version of Pawn Stars or something and are crushed when they call in the experts to tell them that it's not a real US version of the game and is only worth 300 bucks instead of 10,000.<br /><br />I never found Hagane all that terrible interesting. I can sort of understand some of the stupid-expensive games being the price that they currently are, like Pocky and Rocky or Wild Guns, but this one never seemed quite on that same level. But I've been determined to play through it and I do see why it's always mentioned as a hidden gem, even if it's bogged down by awkward controls and is generally just a semi-bland rip-off of Shinobi 3.<br /><br />All things considered, the retro scene is currently nuts. I go off-and-on collecting old cart games every few years, and have been dipping back into it the past few months. There's a good chance this time might be the last time I ever do.Tex Thylacinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26498739.post-81245383784625727402017-04-11T19:44:41.160-07:002017-04-11T19:44:41.160-07:00More or less the reasoning why I snagged a Raimais...More or less the reasoning why I snagged a Raimais PCB on my last Japan trip. $240 is a fair price for a game I both feel a strong connection to and is quite rare. (As the guy at the PCB store said, "this game should be worth more because it's really hard to find, but it's just not popular.") It was a different story when I bought the PCBs for Fighting Vipers 2, as I was convinced that was the ONLY way I could ever play that game at the time. I don't regret either purchase at all.<br /><br />Sadly I still need to find all the original art that came with the board :<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26498739.post-89503348571209044642017-04-11T18:38:24.336-07:002017-04-11T18:38:24.336-07:00@vitaflo
I think a retro game market "crash&...@vitaflo<br /><br />I think a retro game market "crash" could happen as well. I don't follow 2600 collecting, but I read somewhere that prices spiked a few years back and prices have been steadily declining ever since. I could see the same thing happening with NES and SNES...if you assume that this collecting is cyclical, with people who had these games as kids getting to the age where they are financially stable enough that they don't have any issues with paying 30 bucks for Super Mario 3 or whatever.. <br /><br />If I was more forward thinking, I would go in every Gamestop and Disc Replay in my area and start picking up games from there on the cheap. Weird licensed stuff that won't be rereleased, sleeper hits etc...Samnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26498739.post-85436434926809505412017-04-11T18:25:03.882-07:002017-04-11T18:25:03.882-07:00This post makes me want to finally buy Radiant Sil...This post makes me want to finally buy Radiant Silvergun. I wanted that game for so long and didn't want to spend the money on it, even back when games were cheap RS was expensive. Like you said there is something about the tangible object that makes it seem "real", especially if you actually want to play it.<br /><br />Speaking of how insane collecting has become, I have to think that eventually the market will crash, a little like baseball cards or Beanie Babies. I have a spreadsheet that pulls game prices live from ebay just to check where they are sometimes, and it floors me that a game like Super Mario World, which sold over 20 million copies and came with almost every console sold is still selling for $25 loose. Does anyone seriously not already have a copy of this game? It's one of the best selling games of all time.<br /><br />I get the actual rare games like the one you bought. But not the million+ sellers. Then again I remember Final Fantasy VII going for upwards of $200 on ebay at one point. Now you can get it for under $20 (even the black label). I have to imagine some of these game prices will eventually come back down to earth. But maybe that's assuming too much.vitaflohttp://assembler.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26498739.post-55074174332445284542017-04-11T16:57:58.979-07:002017-04-11T16:57:58.979-07:00Hoo boy, I had to give up on video game collecting...Hoo boy, I had to give up on video game collecting too. Like you, I started in the late 90s when you could waltz into any Funcoland, garage sale, video store or friend/relative's house and walk out with a load of classics, sleeper hits and weird but fun stuff for a pittance. My collecting really slowed down over the past couple of years -I bought Demon's Crest for the SNES a few years ago as it was really started to spike in price. Then I decided I wanted Pocky and Rocky 2 and saw that it was going for hundreds of dollars. I just got an Everdrive at that point and called it a day. <br /><br />Still, there really is something about actually owning the physical copy of the game, as well as the manual and instruction manuals. Especially if it's a title that means something to do. The price insanity is a real shame - I can't see any sane person actually wanting to get into collecting in 2017.Samnoreply@blogger.com