How do we stop hipsters and people who didn't grow up with

By trolling them with shitty anime reaction pictures.

if you want actual mouth-frothing anger I would suggest baiting /v/.

>>3980729
And thus no one would want to be cause SELLING games anymore than collecting them, and the shit will end up in the landfill.

You people just don't have a knack for looking into the future, do you?

>>3980734
We need to come together and figure out a plan on how to end this "retro gaming culture" before it spins too much out of control. But maybe it's just too late and emulation is our only friend.

>>3980746

Could we use your fatass as meat to hire the Somali navy? They could help us stop the collector menace. We'd also have our own pirate fleet, which is always bitchin'.

>>3980734
Unlikely, but it might push buyers away, making sellers more desperate with their pricing, at least marginally.

I just think it would be funny. We should try to do it. Shouldn't be too hard

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>>3980723
It's been tried and it doesn't work.

>>3980763
They both look like Oblivion characters

>>3980763
Metal Jesus is one of the biggest faggots /vr/ has ever known.

I met a guy at a thrift store today who noticed that I came in from time to time. He was trying to sell me games from his collection. I quickly realized he knew jack shit about video games. Even clueless about playstation games because to him they were always on the shelf and had no value. He was really pushing me hard to buy nes consoles to. This guy just hoards everything sega and nintendo and knows jack shit about it.

For about 3 minutes he was telling me how he bought up a ton of legos because he saw some guy buying them up over time. Now he was stuck with a huge box full of them and wanted to know if someone I knew would buy them. I really wanted to punch the guy in the neck.

>>3980716
>hipsters
just wait a few years

>people who didn't grow up with retro games
why is that a requirement to buy retro vidya? are you only allowed to enjoy retro vidya through nostalgia? shouldn't the people who haven't had a chance to play them have a chance now? if you grew up with them then you'd still have them, unless your some normie who sold them/gave them away.


>>3980785
you should teach him how to sell retro vidya, and by that I mean dupe him into selling stuff to you for cheap

>>3980716
There's nothing wrong with people who didn't grow up with them buying the games so long as they actually play and enjoy what they're buying rather than trying to show off on facebook how much of a nerd they are.

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>>3980716
It's a complete non-issue.

If you are actually old enough to have bought this stuff new then it's not a problem. The only people affected by the rise in prices are those still actively buying and it's their fault for missing the boat in the first place.

If you're collecting old games in 2017, you are now a collector of old things and part of what that comes with is the prices of collector's items. Anyone who complains about it doesn't understand basic economics and shouldn't be worrying about video games in the first place.

Cry on the internet even harder. That'll show them.

If these games are so important to you why don't you still have them?

shelf decorators complaining about other shelf decorators

>>3981006
Fuck you cunt I love shelves

>>3980785
This reminds me of the retards in the 90s who would buy all the 1# variant covers shat out by image and marvel as a financial investment. HAhaha.

I've stopped buying old games. The new rule is I have to get rid of something before I get something new. Otherwise things would just take up too much space.

I have a few things I consider to be 100% off the market that I'll never sell. The rest, including some extreme rarities, I'll let go once I'm done with them.

Collecting for the sake of collecting is terrible. First game I'm going to let go is absolutely Xenogears... That game is a massive peice of shit.

>>3981046
Variant covers are bigger sellers in comics now than they were in the 90's, dude. It's their main way of boosting sales. Marvel esp does it constantly these days.

>>3981046
>>3981057
Anything mass produced has no collector value.

That's how I view it.

Obviously, people disagree with me. Mostly because people crave a "complete" set for arbitrary reasons.

When at least 75% of teh library is total garbage, going for a complete set is retarded.

>>3980984
This - and the same people complaining about the current price of 20th century console games will turn right around and disdain collecting games that haven't become hip to collect yet like PC games and 6th gen games. Then the very moment that the prices on them start significantly ballooning they'll complain about them too.

>>3981062
>Anything mass produced has no collector value.

You're clearly not a collector then. Which is fine. Probably for the best. But those people exist and it's why variant covers and that stuff get made.

>>3981063
They want to collect and they want to be special snowflakes for wanting to collect games. Getting both prestige for having a big collection, but also not having to spend money or work for it.

They're just posers.

>>3980984
>>3981063
While you both are right I can kinda see how this is annoying if you find out about a game you never heard of before and wanna get it only to find out it goes for an absurd price. That being said there's so many ways to play video games it's hardly an issue unless you REALLY wanna own a copy for some reason.

>>3980769
Kek.

We need to somehow craft the meme that retro gaming (as opposed to PS4 gaming or Iphone gaming) is creepy virgin territory and that having a large collection on display will repulse females of all ages.

It works for Dungeons and Dragons. The low social status of this hobby serves as an effective normie filter. The more astute members of this community understand and are grateful for this.

It shouldn't be too difficult to achieve this.

Consider that jewish pornographers in the 70s invented the BBC meme which people still believe decade later.

How many generations now have people believed that mice love cheese, when in real life tests rodents ignore cheese in favor of grains every time and throughout eons of evolution dairy has never been a part of their diet?

>>3981267
>having a large collection on display will repulse females of all ages.
well it's true

>>3981267
Or you need to get over yourself and learn to share your games like a big boy.

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>>3981124
We don't pirate shame around here like at all but newer retro gamers from other communities might have been hit with that and developed a complex.

>>3981292
isn't retron 5 emulation anyways

>>3980716
>TRUE and HONEST

>>3981267
So you'll go to vast lengths to try and change the overall view of the things you care about in the hopes of being able to get them a little cheaper. But you won't simply budget your money or do meaningful work to make some more? That's legitimate retardation right there.

As for mice and cheese, it's mostly for trap baiting where this came from. The reason being that things like cheese and peanut butter have volatile oils which give them a much stronger odor to attract mice more readily.

>>3980763
This is the worst human being in the hobby. He is the ultimate collectard who hoards games but doesn't even play them. He doesn't know what he has half the time and his guests have to explain basic facts to him. He focuses exclusively on rarity and value over gameplay. I will never understand his popularity with anyone other than resellers.

>>3981312
Subpar emulation in an overpriced box.

>>3981279
no fucker listen to what he said about tabletop, I want this with old videogames too

>>3981424
I'm not listening to anyone. You hear me? LALALALALALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA

>>3981424
That guy doesn't know anything about tabletop gaming. It's been attracting "normies" since the 90's and doing better for it.

We don't, since there is nothing wrong with somebody enjoying something, regardless of the era they were born.

Reselling is a whole different thing, though

And nicely vieled bait, OP

>>3981438
Everyone I know who plays tabletop is a fucking deep level nerd, maybe it doesn't seem like that in context with your circle of friends lol but it's definitely still a seriously niche thing. Not being "normie" in this case doesn't mean the absolute extreme where people are completely nuts/socially incapable.

Either way old videogames becoming any more fashionable than they are would suck and you know it.

>>3981449
I don't see a veil

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>>3981474
It's not that they're not typically nerdy, but I remember the days of gaming clubs in the 80's and 90's where literally everyone who went there looked like they fell out of American Movie. Those guys still go, but there's also a healthy mix of people who at least appear pretty normal on the surface.

>Either way old videogames becoming any more fashionable than they are would suck and you know it.

I actually powerfully disagree with this. I love that there are younger people now into old games. But also I am largely done with collecting. Only keep around a few things I like and emulate most of the time when actually playing.

All that said, I don't think watching kids cry about how they can't get everything they want for cheap will ever stop being funny.

>>3980716
If you stop collecting and that's one down.

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>>3980718
*bam

you are all 10 years too late. Back in 2006-2007 I bought so many games for a REASONABLE price and now you need to have DEEP POCKETS sonny. fuck it, I went flahcart baby.

>>3980746
>How do we solve the problem of people getting interested in an interesting hobby
really thinkers my thunker

>>3980746
delete youtube

>>3981409
Doesn't it output 240p though?

>>3981853
>I went flahcart baby
I know how you meant that to come out but I think the way you actually wrote it is correct. Without the comma.

>>3981565
For a second I thought the nomad actually said "LOW BAIT" instead of LOW BATT on it. Damn that would been Sega's way of really taking this thread on.

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Resellers are now demanding 1300 bux for sealed copies of Atlus PS2 games.
Enough is enough!

It's time to get this meme off the ground.

How much evidence do I need to gather before I can send it to CNN to transmit this meme into every living room in America?

>>3981978
nope, HDMI only

>>3984430
One of us has to take one for the team.

>>3981565
Do you post your Nomad in every post you make?

>>3985289
No, I post here a lot. But I do often have occasion to post it.

>>3984430
You can still buy all the ps2 SMT games for $15 brand new on Amazon.

>>3981292
>drawing tre/vr/ enjoying emulation on a PSP and laptop
Makes me vomit in rage. The guy wears a NES powerglove for fuck's sakes.

>>3985760
>The guy wears a NES powerglove for fuck's sakes.

He likes the games and wants to play them the best way. Sorry you're mad Kiddo.

>>3980763
His place has the worst security. Doesn't even take inventory.