Where to find decent priced games in U.S

No.

The best time to scoop up old games is 1-2 generations behind, just as gamestop and normies are trying to push things out the door.

You missed the window for anything /vr/. Scoop up as many 6th gen games as you can before shit like Melee starts blowing up like Earthbound.

Just buy flashcarts, kiddo. The prices you see online ARE the market prices, just check "sold" listings. Most of the shops still carrying old shit just mark up to maybe a dollar below ebay price anyways.

Dumb frog poster

>>3267697
I agree, now's the best time to buy PS3/360 and Wii games.

Unfortunately I think a lot of people are just holding onto them, or they're retaining their value more for the most part.

I was looking for asura's wrath because a friend wanted to play it and the only NTSC-UC version was like 45 CAD.

So yeah, unfortunately you're 20 years too late friends.

I don't know if this is serious or not, but don't collect games. Buy ones you really want, ones you'll play more then once. My father gave me good advice when I was a kid, "Don't buy something just to buy it."

I recommend making a list of YOUR must have games and just focus on getting those.

Beyond that just emulate them.

>>3267725

This is good advice.

I love collecting games, but 90% of the fun of collecting (and I think this is true for most collectors) was finding games out in the wild at flea markers, thrift stores, garage sales for reasonable prices.

Then the retro-boom and smartphones happened.

>You're just mad you can't fleece old ladies selling their son's SNES collection for pennies on the dollar.

I admit, there is a high in finding a honeypot like that, but that's not my gripe. I would love to find "wild" games now for even 50-60% of their eBay price, which I think is a reasonable value for games/systems sold in a Craigslist, garage sale or thrift store setting, but since the advent of smart phones, all these sellers do now is bring up the game on eBay, look at the highest BIN price, and price it at that.

>>3267697
>before shit like Melee starts blowing up like Earthbound.
Trashed and unreadable copies of Melee can already go for $50-60.

Get as many Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, and GameCube games as you can. F-Zero GX and Metroid Prime are starting to balloon, same with Mario Sunshine and Luigi's Mansion.

Shit's going to be over 100 dollars soon.

Definitely start grabbing up 360, PS3, etc.

>>3267791
Is it even worth buying 360/PS3 games?

Half the data isn't even on the disc and patch servers won't be up forever.

>>3267830
Patch servers don't matter, the data will be hosted online forever.

>>3267830
As soon as the Nintendo Wii's service went offline, someone started a pirated/hacked one.

Like, when online services fall, as long as there's a demand of even 100 people, someone somewhere is hosting that shit.

>>3267838
How do you back up patches from the 360?

>>3267842
No clue, but someone will have it up.

>>3267839
What Wii games even had patches?

Can I have more information on this?

>>3267830
>>3267838
A lot of games already have patches hosted in places and you can just patch manually.

If/when servers go offline you'll just be using the on disc version of the game, and you'll have to patch manually if you o choose.

>>3267664
too late frogposter

Even in the stores around my house they use eBay prices for all their games. I do have one store that will take eBay price and knock off a couple of bucks but that's the cheapest I've ever found.