Retro Game Price Gouging Thread

I've tried heading to the 3 retro stores within my 50 mile radius and every single one is a slovenly hole that won't price anything until they whip out their iPhone and search up the most expensive prices possible on ebay right in front of the customer

God, I fucking HATE this. Because it's always people that don't know shit about games and are only in it because of the retro gaming boom. Don't know how many spats I've gotten in over telling someone that their price is a rip-off in all honesty.

Really, the best luck I've ever had is finding Saturn and Dreamcast games surprisingly. Most of the time, people are just desperate to get rid of that stock and will part with entire collections for a little over the price of a brand new game or less.

Or maybe I'm just taking advantage of the mentally retarded.
 
I sold some games in my collection that go for a lot back last spring. Conker's Bad Fur Day for N64 went for like $300, and I paid ~$10 for it when my local video store was selling off its N64 rental carts back in the early 2000s lol.

That was enough to buy an EverDrive 64 X7 and pocket $100.

I don't understand people.

I have a Super Nintendo hooked up to a good CRT down in a corner of the basement, but I have a RetroN 3 HD hooked up to the big TV in the rec room. I am autistic enough that I took the real super Nintendo hooked up to the CRT and the and the RetroN 3 playing Super Mario World side by side. While the color is over-saturated on the RetroN, and the games naturally look better on a CRT, there is zero latency on my LCD TV using the RetroN. Push B on the actual SNES/CRT in Mario World and the timing of the jump is exactly the same as on the RetroN 3/LCD. If I had not put both side by side, I would not even notice the color saturation. NES was a terrible experience on the RetroN as the sound was way off, but Genesis was the same as SNES. The included controllers are better than the originals, as the originals are all 30 years old and starting to fail.

Get a RetroN 3 HD, get a SD 2 SNES from Ali Express, get a Genesis Flash cart from Ali Express(No issues with voltage mismatches on new clone systems ). You've just spent like $200 and you have access to 99% of the SNES/Genesis library and it's 95% the same experience someone would have had playing them in the 90s even with the color issues because the quality of people's CRT TVs varied wildly anyway. You could say a kid in the 90s, wouldn't have access to all those games on a cart at once, but a kid in the 90s also wouldn't be able to take out a second mortgage to bankroll an eBay spending spree. The authentic experience of going into your local department store and looking at copies of SNES and Genesis carts inside the little glass case is gone and it's not coming back. I have played these games for 30+ years; if I can barely distinguish between the RetroN 3 and original hardware unless they are side by side, you won't be able to either.
 
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