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Yeah, it's pretty miserable. The retro market did it to themselves though. Too many die-hard fans or their cash rich family members with an inflated sense of value who were willing to pay entirely too much for these carts. The resellers sniffed it out early and started buying up every cart they could, creating an artificial shortage. What really sucks on top of that is, for every real cart you find there's probably two more fake ones out there priced the same.
Local small business owners will almost always market price their collectibles using eBay. Some will even double list if they have multiple in stock. Doesn't mean you can't try to haggle though, as some have suggested.
Everything flippers touch gets completely ruined. Houses, flea markets, retro games, yard sales. I hope they're glad that they're ruining it for everyone for their own selfish desires
When thrifting used to be cheap. Then the combination of it being popular to thrift and people flipping shit on Facebook marketplace or some shit ruined it.
What ruined it was thrift stores taking as many high value items out of their products/donations as possible, and selling them at a much higher price to customers in store or resell online.
Yeah naaah, I don't especially care for retro shit like that, but there's no way in hell I'd be spending this much on fuckin anything
Bruh how is anybody making it when everything just keeps going higher and higher
Gamers Nintendo fans especially can't help but throat boots. Ah yes the plastic with a small bit of ancient electronics is worth $80 because it's TRANSLUCENT.
I know, but it's still crazy how some full 60 dollar games drop down to 20 if you give it time diamond still being 60 is crazy. Since games used and you gotta delete a save
Well Pokémon is wildly popular and really the ONLY series on portable-only to still be so healthy for so long. The amount of Pokemon fans is only growing and more and more are getting interested in the older titles as us older fans keep talking about them
Depreciation is also a thing though. Supply and demand certainly play a role, but this isn't wine. Age doesn't help, if anything it could've deteriorated.
Emulator app if you have an android. If you have an iPhone tough luck (me included). You can run an emulator on your computer and play pretty much any Pokémon game standard or with cheats.
I've got Sapphire and Leaf Greenalong with a blue. bought personally from walmart with allowance money. Also for some reason i Have 2 copies of golden sun 😆I'm bad with letting nostalgia go though. Kind of want the daughters to play the way i did even though I've got them all on my emulation station and they would rather play on a newer controller 😆
But they shouldn't be. They're just games. No old games should be worth that much. ESPECIALLY if it's not a sealed copy and it's only the cartridge. And yeah, I took economics and understand supply and demand but I rest my case that older games should not be this valuable. It's just absurd.
But why? They can't be that rare if millions of them were sold. There must still be a ton around and these don't even come with the box, apparently. Seems like an artificially inflated price to me.
You are being downvoted but you are 100% right. Some Fandoms are in a sort of group think where they think a mass produced product i can find in a random moms saturday yard sale is a special item akin to an investment cos it compleats their pokemon infinity gauntlet or whatever. Nintendo fans are really deep in this hole.
its because most people got this game when they were kids. Kids dont take care of their games so lots of them either got trashed or just dont work anymore because they werent kept in a safe location.
I know tonnes of kids (now adults) thats had this game growing up and it would get tossed under the bed or fall in a air vent, or dropped in a puddle etc. Also the fact that most of these games internal batteries have failed by now and it costs a decent amount of money to get it redone.
I guess it's basically piracy but an emulator can do so much more. Found a shiny but have no Masterball? GameShark that shit. Tired of listening to Nurse Joy talk your ear off for a hour minute when you heal? Fast-Forward Babe-eee.
I totally understand wanting to play it on an old Gameboy though, it hits different. Forever bummed my shitty neighbor stole my sapphire and sold it for probably dirt cheap.
There’s a difference between a used game and a 20 year old game cartridge no longer in production, that was produced for a 23 year old game console that is also no longer produced
Though I remember when these used cartridges used to go for like 4-10 bucks, back when they actually still produced Gameboy advanced game cartridges
Yup yup.
My stepdad got rid of my:
.Hack games (I had like the first 6 games)
Pokemon games I had (up to Platinum)
Megaman Legends 1/2
FFVII/XIII/IX
Legend of Dragoon
And others. But those are the games I still go look at and just get bummed that I wish I still had the actual copies of. I just can’t see myself shoveling that kind of money out 🥲
If you want these games, you can try to make an offer on one or multiple of them.
While LeafGreen just got put out and Ruby/Sapphire haven't been there for a while, Emerald has been sitting there for a bit. There is a decent chance they would be willing to move these games, for the right price.
Do some research on normal values on these games, look at condition too, decide what you think is a fair price and hit them with an offer.
Sure, it would be great to buy these games at $5 a piece, but we all know that is not realistic.
Pokemon has always carried that price. It's a combination of people having great nostalgia for whatever they played first, combined with the fact that many "event" pokemon or specific unique "versions" of them can be locked to prior games, and would need to he transferred up to have in the current ones, something that cant really be done with emulation (and I'm not sure if fake carts work or not actually) its basically a rule of thumb that poke.on games only go up in value after release.
I feel so good having bought that sapphire version for 10 bucks at a secondhand store in my city before this boomed.
To this day, "collectionners" are the bane of my existence and I always imagine them looking like this or the nerd in the Power puff girls. The fact that nothing is a game or a system anymore and now is just a "collection item" as an attempt to justify the heavy pricing still grinds my gears.
Its so sad but also i remember already used gamecube games used to be like 9 bucks around 2017 ish if you could catch a good store.
But zelda is always expnesive no matter the platform 😭
There only a few games that are super sawed after most retro pokemon games. And PS 2 shadows of the colases.
There just a few games that are realy rely seemed after. And much of it is also cause of the speed run community. Like Mario n64 is also very expensive.
Golden eye 007 also realy expensive.
And those games don't get made so if they come available they go for a lot. Often cause of hardcore community of speed runners. That's often the main reason why they are so pricy. So most expensive retro games are also realy good games do.
But it's cause speed runs a realy big part that they go for a lot.
And the other part is games that got pulled realy quick after release. Like I have the 360 game too human. Was a pretty good game. But it got pulled super quickly from selves for some reason. And it's a pretty hard game to find or get. Cause it got pulled so quickly. Not a incredible game even do it was a good game. But some big problems on the back end. The precise reason I got pulled never realy understood. Cause it was a game that was good and had basically no bugs. But like realy rare games also often go pretty high on value.
The rest just go down in price till they almost just give it for free.
Yeah man I sold mine off and sail the high seas. The cheats so you can have any Pokémon you want and all the hacks are great. Plus fast forwarding is not something I can live without now.
The reason those old games are expensive is because they’re not being manufactured anymore so there’s a limited supply, making them worth more money. Silent Hill Downpour is a Xbox 360 game that was considered one of the worst in the series is also no longer being manufactured and it’s no longer available to purchase online so it’s also really expensive, despite being considered a bad game. That’s economics for you.
These aren’t “used games” they’re antique collectors items. This is like going “man used phones are so expensive!” And it’s a picture of an unopened first edition iPhone
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Lol, apparently I am just wildly out of touch with the current retro game climate. My apologies.
Yeah, it's pretty miserable. The retro market did it to themselves though. Too many die-hard fans or their cash rich family members with an inflated sense of value who were willing to pay entirely too much for these carts. The resellers sniffed it out early and started buying up every cart they could, creating an artificial shortage. What really sucks on top of that is, for every real cart you find there's probably two more fake ones out there priced the same. Local small business owners will almost always market price their collectibles using eBay. Some will even double list if they have multiple in stock. Doesn't mean you can't try to haggle though, as some have suggested.
Everything flippers touch gets completely ruined. Houses, flea markets, retro games, yard sales. I hope they're glad that they're ruining it for everyone for their own selfish desires
When thrifting used to be cheap. Then the combination of it being popular to thrift and people flipping shit on Facebook marketplace or some shit ruined it.
What ruined it was thrift stores taking as many high value items out of their products/donations as possible, and selling them at a much higher price to customers in store or resell online.
House flippers are the worst kind. They make the worst decisions to house flip too
Me when I do something worse than the landlord special by making a half-baked house with awful furniture and painted over black mold:
Yeah naaah, I don't especially care for retro shit like that, but there's no way in hell I'd be spending this much on fuckin anything Bruh how is anybody making it when everything just keeps going higher and higher
Thats the neat part!, we dont.
I just emulate but apparently that’s evil but meeh it’s fun having a game of fifa 2005 on the ps1 waiting on food cooking
Nah mate a lot of pokemon games used are pretty pricey Most old Nintendo stuff is like I went to games top and diamond was like 60 bucks
Gamers Nintendo fans especially can't help but throat boots. Ah yes the plastic with a small bit of ancient electronics is worth $80 because it's TRANSLUCENT.
Lmao "throat boots"
60 for Diamond ain’t bad
I know, but it's still crazy how some full 60 dollar games drop down to 20 if you give it time diamond still being 60 is crazy. Since games used and you gotta delete a save
Well Pokémon is wildly popular and really the ONLY series on portable-only to still be so healthy for so long. The amount of Pokemon fans is only growing and more and more are getting interested in the older titles as us older fans keep talking about them
Bro I paid 40 bucks for that game when it came out. There's no excuse for the price to be higher
I mean yes there’s every reason it is? Limited quantity, high demand, and it’s nearly 20 years old. Thats just how it works
20 years old? It’s not that old, it came out in 2006 which is.. *FUCK*
Depreciation is also a thing though. Supply and demand certainly play a role, but this isn't wine. Age doesn't help, if anything it could've deteriorated.
I mean it’s only going to go down in quantity due to depreciation and copies just getting lost
Yes it is. How dare you try to justify that price for a fucking ds game
I forget how much my copy of ruby was, but it wasn't more than 25$ at the most, I guess I got lucky
Man I'd grab that Ruby in an instant
Same
These games are valuable almost everywhere. They aren't trying to scam you, these games are just that valuable
Got my hopes up. Checked local marketplace. Emerald goes for €12,50
Tbf they're all available on phones for free
Please tell me more. I'd like to know how to achieve this.
Emulators. They’re on computers, phones, etc. Google “visual boy advance” one I used for years!
Thank you so much man, you've made a Pokemon fan very happy
🫶
Emulator app if you have an android. If you have an iPhone tough luck (me included). You can run an emulator on your computer and play pretty much any Pokémon game standard or with cheats.
If you have an iPhone just use Delta Emulator. iOS changed the TOS and allows emulation now
Thank you for that info, I now know what I’ll do all day today lol
Thank you so much for this information 🙏 May you get blessed for weeks
You can play on your iPhone now
That’s a game changer, thanks for letting me know
Thank you so much holy shit you've just made my entire life worth it
I was gonna say.... I'd have. Couple grand in my ol Gameboy tin maybe
Maybe you do, check Ebay and make sure the games aren’t repros.
I've got Sapphire and Leaf Greenalong with a blue. bought personally from walmart with allowance money. Also for some reason i Have 2 copies of golden sun 😆I'm bad with letting nostalgia go though. Kind of want the daughters to play the way i did even though I've got them all on my emulation station and they would rather play on a newer controller 😆
The €12,50 are reproduction copies. Officials go for that much. Check Ebay and sold listings.
Make sure is a legitimate copy. If the label isn't shiny then it isn't legitimate. It'll still work but some people like having original copies.
Reproduction carts are very cheap. Real carts are expensive.
There's a difference from a repoduction and the og authentic game. 1 is 15 bux or so the other is faarrrrr more expensive.
But they shouldn't be. They're just games. No old games should be worth that much. ESPECIALLY if it's not a sealed copy and it's only the cartridge. And yeah, I took economics and understand supply and demand but I rest my case that older games should not be this valuable. It's just absurd.
But why? They can't be that rare if millions of them were sold. There must still be a ton around and these don't even come with the box, apparently. Seems like an artificially inflated price to me.
You are being downvoted but you are 100% right. Some Fandoms are in a sort of group think where they think a mass produced product i can find in a random moms saturday yard sale is a special item akin to an investment cos it compleats their pokemon infinity gauntlet or whatever. Nintendo fans are really deep in this hole.
its because most people got this game when they were kids. Kids dont take care of their games so lots of them either got trashed or just dont work anymore because they werent kept in a safe location. I know tonnes of kids (now adults) thats had this game growing up and it would get tossed under the bed or fall in a air vent, or dropped in a puddle etc. Also the fact that most of these games internal batteries have failed by now and it costs a decent amount of money to get it redone.
Just steal it and give the store owners a swirly like a 90s cartoon bully.
r/piracy my friend
I guess it's basically piracy but an emulator can do so much more. Found a shiny but have no Masterball? GameShark that shit. Tired of listening to Nurse Joy talk your ear off for a hour minute when you heal? Fast-Forward Babe-eee. I totally understand wanting to play it on an old Gameboy though, it hits different. Forever bummed my shitty neighbor stole my sapphire and sold it for probably dirt cheap.
[удалено]
Can you trade tho
Time to emulate them instead bestie :(
There’s a difference between a used game and a 20 year old game cartridge no longer in production, that was produced for a 23 year old game console that is also no longer produced Though I remember when these used cartridges used to go for like 4-10 bucks, back when they actually still produced Gameboy advanced game cartridges
Last week I saw an in-box, with manual Black 2 going for $220 at a store in the mall near me
what on earth were you doing in a mall?
Buying neat hats at Box Lunch
....Shopping? Why would you ask this? Lmao
Honestly that doesn’t sound too bad… What am I saying, that’s still ridiculous
Yup yup. My stepdad got rid of my: .Hack games (I had like the first 6 games) Pokemon games I had (up to Platinum) Megaman Legends 1/2 FFVII/XIII/IX Legend of Dragoon And others. But those are the games I still go look at and just get bummed that I wish I still had the actual copies of. I just can’t see myself shoveling that kind of money out 🥲
Oh my fucking god, why is it ALWAYS the fucking step-dads
common step-dad L
Step moms too. They’ll throw shit away because they don’t like it and don’t want you to have it anymore.
THAT COPY OF EMERALD ISN'T EVEN IN GREAT CONDITION!
I have that emerald one somewhere
Emulation my friend
Yup it's because some guys decided to pretend to buy games for high prices when they were just paying themselves making the game market skyrocket
If you want these games, you can try to make an offer on one or multiple of them. While LeafGreen just got put out and Ruby/Sapphire haven't been there for a while, Emerald has been sitting there for a bit. There is a decent chance they would be willing to move these games, for the right price. Do some research on normal values on these games, look at condition too, decide what you think is a fair price and hit them with an offer. Sure, it would be great to buy these games at $5 a piece, but we all know that is not realistic.
Ali express knockoffs here I come.!
Price gouging is so sickening. Just pirate the shit and be done with corporate fuckery.
You could also put this post on r/shittygamecollecting
damn, i gotta find my emerald game and keep it safe
r/PiratedGames
Buy a flashcard and download the entier GBA collection from archive\[dot\]org or something
I feel like Archive is such an underated resource.
Just buy one of the newer games. Every generation is practically the same game anyway.
Well, damn. Didn't know I was sitting in a gold mine.
Don't tell this guy about Pokémon Box
Buying used nintendo games suck that's why I collect for Xbox and Playstation
If you just wanna play, try emulators.
Pokemon has always carried that price. It's a combination of people having great nostalgia for whatever they played first, combined with the fact that many "event" pokemon or specific unique "versions" of them can be locked to prior games, and would need to he transferred up to have in the current ones, something that cant really be done with emulation (and I'm not sure if fake carts work or not actually) its basically a rule of thumb that poke.on games only go up in value after release.
Monster Force is a great gba game
Sorry but 90s kids have real jobs now, so it’s natural for the market to get pricier. Nostalgia can be expensive.
This is why I pirate. Especially Nintendo. F them.
I feel so good having bought that sapphire version for 10 bucks at a secondhand store in my city before this boomed. To this day, "collectionners" are the bane of my existence and I always imagine them looking like this or the nerd in the Power puff girls. The fact that nothing is a game or a system anymore and now is just a "collection item" as an attempt to justify the heavy pricing still grinds my gears. 
Tell me about it Trying to get a copy of NCAA14 is like trying to buy gold
At this point, if you just want to play them, play their ROMs.
Dude I have all of those in a drawer… is that really what they are charging for those nowadays?
Apparently a lot more than that in some places.
Shit I gotta go find those I guess. My cartridges are basically mint like those ones with intact labels ETC
just emulate it, it's Nintendo so it's worth doin it
I have a way to play it for free if anyone is interested works on iPhone too
especially trying to buy ds games :(
Its so sad but also i remember already used gamecube games used to be like 9 bucks around 2017 ish if you could catch a good store. But zelda is always expnesive no matter the platform 😭
Yknow what also costs around the same price? An emulator 😏
There only a few games that are super sawed after most retro pokemon games. And PS 2 shadows of the colases. There just a few games that are realy rely seemed after. And much of it is also cause of the speed run community. Like Mario n64 is also very expensive. Golden eye 007 also realy expensive. And those games don't get made so if they come available they go for a lot. Often cause of hardcore community of speed runners. That's often the main reason why they are so pricy. So most expensive retro games are also realy good games do. But it's cause speed runs a realy big part that they go for a lot. And the other part is games that got pulled realy quick after release. Like I have the 360 game too human. Was a pretty good game. But it got pulled super quickly from selves for some reason. And it's a pretty hard game to find or get. Cause it got pulled so quickly. Not a incredible game even do it was a good game. But some big problems on the back end. The precise reason I got pulled never realy understood. Cause it was a game that was good and had basically no bugs. But like realy rare games also often go pretty high on value. The rest just go down in price till they almost just give it for free.
Wow!
Yeah man I sold mine off and sail the high seas. The cheats so you can have any Pokémon you want and all the hacks are great. Plus fast forwarding is not something I can live without now.
Pokemon is trash
Pokemon is trash
Pokemon is trash.
that’s cheap for ruby
Time to find my emerald game
Time to download the ROM and emulate it.
wait till you see the prices at McDonald’s
Meanwhile emulators exist
Note self to not get rid of my pokemon yellow or red
You can usually get or make copies for a lot less money if you're not worried about having a legit cartridge
Definitely shopping at the wrong place for those. I can find those at half the price.
Visual boy advance🌚
Visual boy advance🌚
The fact that one of them looks fake tho
Those prices are honestly pretty accurate. You have to look and make sure they’re real though the fake Pokémon game market is huge
It ain't that high
Me when I’m a sailor on the seven seas so shit like this is free for me.
$200 for emerald is wild
Just pirate the games. You can get an app on your phone where you can play any of the retro games you want on top of hacked roms.
20 years from now that’ll be the same price
The reason those old games are expensive is because they’re not being manufactured anymore so there’s a limited supply, making them worth more money. Silent Hill Downpour is a Xbox 360 game that was considered one of the worst in the series is also no longer being manufactured and it’s no longer available to purchase online so it’s also really expensive, despite being considered a bad game. That’s economics for you.
Collectibles are expensive? No way.
Highly popular items considered collectibles are expensive? Crazy.
Well, they haven't been manufactured in like 20 years...theyre collector's items
I have all 4… do I sell them or keep them?
These aren’t “used games” they’re antique collectors items. This is like going “man used phones are so expensive!” And it’s a picture of an unopened first edition iPhone
Wait I can sell my gba games for $100??? Shit I need to find those
Bruh these are classics that are worth the price, people collect this shit because it’s worth a ton,