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Post by megamixer on Aug 17, 2022 17:09:12 GMT
With my recent return to Pokemon with the eshop port of Pokemon Red, it reminded me that I never got to play the excellent Heart Gold/Soul Silver remakes of Gen 2 on the DS. But damn, they are expensive. £50+ used. Admittedly, they have dropped down a lot after the Pokemon Go hype but still. If you want a copy with the outer box and pokewalker device, you're looking well beyond £100...for a DS game!
Over to you...
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Post by pratty on Aug 17, 2022 17:22:54 GMT
Fire Emblem: Path Of Radiance, for the Gamecube. Goes for £150-£200 last time I looked. I could get it if I really had to have it but no single game is worth that much, I just can't justify it. For the money I could several, probably better games. Also the day so splash out on it is probably the day Nintendo announce a much cheaper port or remake of it.
Also Kirby's Air Ride and Metroid Zero Mission.
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Post by TromaDogg on Aug 17, 2022 17:47:19 GMT
I've mentioned this before on the old forum, but Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology on 3DS. I stupidly missed my chance to pick it up while it was still reasonably priced and now the price is seemingly just climbing every time I check it. I'm fussy about wanting a UK copy with English text on the box which makes it worse too.
I'd like a boxed copy of Star Wars: Battle For Naboo on N64 too but I'll be damned if I'm paying in the region of £200 for it.
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 17, 2022 17:50:15 GMT
Fire Emblem: Path Of Radiance, for the Gamecube. Goes for £150-£200 last time I looked. I could get it if I really had to have it but no single game is worth that much, I just can't justify it. For the money I could several, probably better games. Also the day so splash out on it is probably the day Nintendo announce a much cheaper port or remake of it. Also Kirby's Air Ride and Metroid Zero Mission. I have Path of Radiance, it's my second copy cost me £40 second hand before prices went nuts my first copy cost me £20 I lent it to a friend with a few other games and apparently she was mugged with my games on her, I think she sold them to be honest, she was the reason I stopped letting people have my games. I'd love symphony of the night but as it's loads and I have the psp collection with it on and it's on my Xbox I can't Justify the cost to myself. |
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Post by megamixer on Aug 17, 2022 18:18:16 GMT
I've mentioned this before on the old forum, but Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology on 3DS. I stupidly missed my chance to pick it up while it was still reasonably priced and now the price is seemingly just climbing every time I check it. I'm fussy about wanting a UK copy with English text on the box which makes it worse too. Shame that they didn't reprint that with all the various expensive and hard-to-find RPGs that had a second run a few months ago. Brought prices back down to normal RRP on quite a few games and they apparently come in slightly slimmer, Japanese-style cases. |
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Post by megamixer on Aug 17, 2022 18:26:55 GMT
Fire Emblem: Path Of Radiance, for the Gamecube. Goes for £150-£200 last time I looked. I could get it if I really had to have it but no single game is worth that much, I just can't justify it. For the money I could several, probably better games. Also the day so splash out on it is probably the day Nintendo announce a much cheaper port or remake of it. Also Kirby's Air Ride and Metroid Zero Mission. Path of Radiance being that sort of money is one of the games I think of when I lambast Nintendo for not getting Gamecube games re-released digitally. I'm fortunate that I bought mine for £22 back when it was just a "normal" used game on the racks in Gamestation. It is a fantastic game but It isn't worth £150+ I would still say that Awakening for 3DS is a much better game.
The sequel for the Wii - Radiant Dawn - is also pushing £100 on ebay, with some people asking more. Again, bought that one in a 2 for £20 Gamestation deal back in the day, but sadly sold it off when I was able to get £70 for it on ebay.
Air Ride is one 1st party Nintendo game I've not owned for the 'cube. Don't recall ever even seeing an overpriced copy in the likes of CEX either.
Zero Mission I bought for £5 brand-new back when I briefly worked at ASDA and the entertainment manager mistakenly ordered loads of chart GBA games reduced to clear despite the objections from the staff that they weren't old stock. She didn't listen so I grabbed that when all these £5 GBA games were stacked up on the till as clearance lol. I don't have that one any more either. Definitely sold it for more than proper RRP, but nowhere what it is worth now. I also tried to buy Metal Slug Advance at the same time but they couldn't find the cart for that one...
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 17, 2022 18:33:32 GMT
Fire Emblem: Path Of Radiance, for the Gamecube. Goes for £150-£200 last time I looked. I could get it if I really had to have it but no single game is worth that much, I just can't justify it. For the money I could several, probably better games. Also the day so splash out on it is probably the day Nintendo announce a much cheaper port or remake of it. Also Kirby's Air Ride and Metroid Zero Mission. Path of Radiance being that sort of money is one of the games I think of when I lambast Nintendo for not getting Gamecube games re-released digitally. I'm fortunate that I bought mine for £22 back when it was just a "normal" used game on the racks in Gamestation. It is a fantastic game but It isn't worth £150+ I would still say that Awakening for 3DS is a much better game.
The sequel for the Wii - Radiant Dawn - is also pushing £100 on ebay, with some people asking more. Again, bought that one in a 2 for £20 Gamestation deal back in the day, but sadly sold it off when I was able to get £70 for it on ebay.
Air Ride is one 1st party Nintendo game I've not owned for the 'cube. Don't recall ever even seeing an overpriced copy in the likes of CEX either.
Zero Mission I bought for £5 brand-new back when I briefly worked at ASDA and the entertainment manager mistakenly ordered loads of chart GBA games reduced to clear despite the objections from the staff that they weren't old stock. She didn't listen so I grabbed that when all these £5 GBA games were stacked up on the till as clearance lol. I don't have that one any more either. Definitely sold it for more than proper RRP, but nowhere what it is worth now. I also tried to buy Metal Slug Advance at the same time but they couldn't find the cart for that one...
Radiant Dawn is a game I got on release from Tesco for £35 still have the same copy. I used to get quiet a few switch games from tesco they were always pretty good week of release
Zero Mission I have as a loose cart that I picked up at some stage It would have been proberbly somewere around £5 or so blooming saw a loose cart of that in CEX Today next to a cart of Pokemon Emerald both were £75.... Zero Mission is ok but If I was going to say get a GBA Metroid it would be Fusion every day of the week and I think thats less than half the price of Zero Mission.
I have so many GBA carts loose and I never really think about what they are worth.
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Post by pratty on Aug 17, 2022 18:48:26 GMT
The other problem with expensive GBA games, and DS games to an extent, is the risk of getting a knock off. I seen some scarily convincing boxed, and even sealed, knock off Pokémon games.
I was lucky to get a legit loose Metroid Fusion years ago before the retro prices really took off. Ive got Zero Mission digitally on the Wii U so at least I can play it.
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Post by kiwimike on Aug 17, 2022 19:16:16 GMT
Pricepoint along with space is the reason I've opted to stick to emulators and a couple fo favourite Minis.
A holy grail for me would be a Vectrex. Have always wanted one of those, but just can't bring myself to pay what is asked for them, for old tech that may crap out. That, along with being a nightmare to freight safely. If I saw one at a reasonable price where I could literally travel and personally pick up, I'd consider for sure.
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Post by TromaDogg on Aug 17, 2022 19:22:18 GMT
I got fairly lucky with Kirby's Air Ride. The honest story of how I got it is that I was picking up a couple of Gamecube games a few years back while I had a bit of spare cash and put a status out on Facebook about it saying it was one of the games I was trying to find as I've never seen it in the wild and only on Ebay for daft money. Not sure if you guys remember Felgekarp from the old forum? He replied back to me and said he had it anyway, he'd somehow managed to pick it up dirt cheap from Gamestation years ago. I think he was even gonna send it to me for free 😮 but I didn't want to feel like I was ripping him off, so I traded him a spare Game Boy Micro I had for it, as I'd somehow ended up with 2 of them over the years. Anyways, I sent him the Micro, he sent me Kirby's Air Ride and even now I've still not seen it in the wild outside of Ebay. It must have had a pretty low print run I assuming, in PAL regions anyway.
It's a massive longshot, but if you're on any social media platforms like that and have any retro gaming friends added, it might be worth putting a shout out if there's any particular games you're after. Worse that can happen is nobody gets back to you but sometimes it can work.
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Post by learnedrobb on Aug 17, 2022 20:43:39 GMT
I'd dearly love a few more "long box" 3DO titles to add to my collection. But even the truly dire games that came.in them go for a pretty penny these days.
Oh, and a Vectrex.
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Post by sega2006 on Aug 17, 2022 21:04:42 GMT
Most of the Tabletop Arcade stuff and G&W stuff, just can't justify the cost for something that is realitively simple.
Alwin and a real Pinball table, not just initial cost but space and maintaince especially in the Pinballs case, an Addams Table is a minimum of 6k and an Alwin is usually about £600 and maybe doesn't need as much care as a pin but you can spend months looking for parts if it does break and they usually aren't cheap.
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Post by mattb on Aug 18, 2022 1:43:11 GMT
Yeah, you ideally want Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn because it's a continuation of the same story. The series was a rather niche one for strategy fans twenty years ago but has become much more mainstream since, particularly after Awakening, and the older games are in a lot more demand now.
You get the same with the older Monolith Soft games now that Xenoblade has blown up. See how much a copy of Baten Kaitos Origins goes for, for instance. |
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Post by phillv85 on Aug 18, 2022 9:28:32 GMT
There's loads of things I'd love but cannot justify. I'd like a Multimega, a JVC X'Eye, FM Towns Marty and loads more, but those first two I've already got covered with much cheaper options, and let's be honest, do I really need an FM Towns Marty over whatever else I could spend £1000 on (before buying games at £200+)?
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Post by lupogtiboy on Aug 18, 2022 10:27:50 GMT
I'd dearly love a few more "long box" 3DO titles to add to my collection. But even the truly dire games that came.in them go for a pretty penny these days. Oh, and a Vectrex. Are any of these ones worth anything? I didn't start collecting because I thought it may be worth something one-day, I genuinely love collecting stuff in general!  I'd love to own a NEO GEO of any original model, I have a Gold version, the one that opens up and has a hand held unit inside, but even those are expensive now. I narrowly missed out on a Sony TV with the PS2 built in, but at the time I had nowhere to store it. |
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Its just some interesting potential opportunities for AI and automation to help and free humans in the future, rather than enslave us. We need General Zod to implement it.