Super Mario 64 costs far too much

[Thunderblaze16]

EDIT - Basically, if you think a game is too expensive, don't buy it. Go get another one and stop moaning

Funny thing relating to this. I was watching this item on ebay, it was a very nice original snes Yoshi's Island box and manual, wanted to get it for my loose cart. After seeing how in the last 5 mins that bitch was already at $55. I said "FUCK THAT SHIT" and went to bid on my new Super Gameboy 2 instead.

The auction for the box and manual ended with a high bid of $66. I mean really? I was actually almost able to get the box and manual for only $23, 2 weeks ago but forgot about the auction, I rather just wait for the right price to come than be one of those people who buys an item with a ridiculous high price for not being patience and making others believe that's how much the item now is.

[Hidden_Darkness]

Funny thing relating to this. I was watching this item on ebay, it was a very nice original snes Yoshi's Island box and manual, wanted to get it for my loose cart. After seeing how in the last 5 mins that bitch was already at $55. I said "FUCK THAT SHIT" and went to bid on my new Super Gameboy 2 instead.

The auction for the box and manual ended with a high bid of $66. I mean really? I was actually almost able to get the box and manual for only $23, 2 weeks ago but forgot about the auction, I rather just wait for the right price to come than be one of those people who buys an item with a ridiculous high price for not being patience and making others believe that's how much the item now is.

damn, thats alot for a box and manual. with that price you might as well buy a complete and sell off the cart to recoup some of the cost.

[Obviously]

I'm really glad I don't concern myself with trying to get complete versions of games for systems that used paper boxes. I would go mad and probably be very broke. The only complete SNES game I own is Mega Man X only because I got it like that from a flea market for $5. All my SNES and N64 games other than that are just carts with a few random instruction booklets. I have a couple NES boxes just because I stumbled up on the games in the wild that way. Would have had a lot more if I didn't sell all my NES stuff back in the day, oh well.

[Drakon]

damn, thats alot for a box and manual. with that price you might as well buy a complete and sell off the cart to recoup some of the cost.

You should look into the arcade collecting scene someday. For a lot of arcades games the difference between buying just the bare pcb and the bare pcb with the box, artwork, and suction cup is around 500$. I remember reading a funny post on cavestg forums where someone said "d#mn, that's one expensive suction cup". People pay crazy money for a lot of common things that you can pay someone to make for less, just because it comes from the company the made the game.

But I say if it makes them feel happy, let people pay it. I find it entertaining to see what people are willing to pay for something.

[Baloo]

With declining arcade cab prices and increasing console game prices, arcade gaming is looking kind of viable actually, haha. But considering the cabinets, they're not that expensive if you just look around for the deals.

[16-bit]

"Games are only worth what people pay for them"

It's true, I'll admit. But it's certainly not that simple. Like any market there's a lot of factors that go into the price of games. IE how much services like rarity guide thinks you should be paying for things, or how one seller get's really lucky by managing to sell a really common game for a large amount of money and all of a sudden other sellers get the idea that they should be getting the same amount. I'm not complaining. I'm probably going to sell my copy of Earthbound and buy a Super Everdrive.

I'm done with collecting for the American SNES and NES, if I find cheap games that I'm interested in I'll buy them. I've found that I've saved a ton by buying for the Famicom and Super Famicom, even with all the added shipping costs! Why buy the NES Ducktales 2 for 200$ when I can get the Japanese version for 15$?

[Drakon]

With declining arcade cab prices and increasing console game prices, arcade gaming is looking kind of viable actually, haha. But considering the cabinets, they're not that expensive if you just look around for the deals.

No need. Building a supergun is cheap. Why buy a big heavy cab when you can buy or build something that lets you play your arcade games on a regular tv, sound system, and a home arcade stick? I built my supergun with around 200$ worth of parts. For that money I got some very nice sticks and made a very nice looking supergun that works with any arcade board I throw at it. You just need to do your homework first and enjoy this sort of thing. You can also alternatively pay someone to build one for you.

[kidpanda]

"Games are only worth what people pay for them"

It's true, I'll admit. But it's certainly not that simple. Like any market there's a lot of factors that go into the price of games. IE how much services like rarity guide thinks you should be paying for things, or how one seller get's really lucky by managing to sell a really common game for a large amount of money and all of a sudden other sellers get the idea that they should be getting the same amount. I'm not complaining. I'm probably going to sell my copy of Earthbound and buy a Super Everdrive.

I'm done with collecting for the American SNES and NES, if I find cheap games that I'm interested in I'll buy them. I've found that I've saved a ton by buying for the Famicom and Super Famicom, even with all the added shipping costs! Why buy the NES Ducktales 2 for 200$ when I can get the Japanese version for 15$?

yea the nintendo market is getting way out of hand, i blame the fact for all the paper nintendo has used, at least sega stayed mostly with clamshell till the 32x

[WarmSignal]

Mario 64 is about $8 - $15 and Kart 64 about $12 to $18 on the reseller market. So those prices were a little inflated. However unless its a yard sale vendor who doesn't hold a market value on them, you can expect those prices. The rule of a flea market is however to negotiate.

[Hidden_Darkness]

You should look into the arcade collecting scene someday. For a lot of arcades games the difference between buying just the bare pcb and the bare pcb with the box, artwork, and suction cup is around 500$. I remember reading a funny post on cavestg forums where someone said "d#mn, that's one expensive suction cup". People pay crazy money for a lot of common things that you can pay someone to make for less, just because it comes from the company the made the game.

But I say if it makes them feel happy, let people pay it. I find it entertaining to see what people are willing to pay for something.

i've looked into the arcade collecting scene for a few years now and I do agree some of the prices are insane but i've actually seen some decent deals for arcade cabs. there's a few arcade pcb's I want to get eventually with a supergun setup but i'm in no rush.

[David J.]

I've paid the market price, or hell over the price. At the same time I have gotten rare and good games at a pittance. But then again I college Sega, so whatever. There's not too much I really want to buy left. For the Saturn, its all imports and not too much there... Dreamcast I have every game I want, just want a link cable and Genesis I am really in no rush as what I want is rather cheap and only two or three titles are more than $20 maybe.

[Thunderblaze16]

damn, thats alot for a box and manual. with that price you might as well buy a complete and sell off the cart to recoup some of the cost.

You see!? I was being patient and now today I was able to score a sweet Yoshi's island box with many inserts for only $15. No manual but I can get one for like $8 on eBay. Now look at the other one I was talking about.

Here's my winning


Here's the one that just got carried away by some bidders.


Hehe, funny ain't it?

[Drakon]

i've looked into the arcade collecting scene for a few years now and I do agree some of the prices are insane but i've actually seen some decent deals for arcade cabs. there's a few arcade pcb's I want to get eventually with a supergun setup but i'm in no rush.

Why I think cabs are sort of a waste of money:

they're huge, royal pain if you ever want to move.

the speakers are teeny.

you can't move the controller so sitting on a comfortable couch while playing is out of the question.

you're forced to be really close to the screen, again because the controllers are kind of stuck where they are.

Why I love superguns:

All of the above, and the ability to play the real arcade hardware.

Also I don't see how someone can be a retro sega fan and not into arcade stuff....Sega was HUGE in the arcade back in the day. I do understand why people take their time getting into arcade collecting. The pcbs are huge, have no cases, and are more expensive than most console games. Superguns are pretty much all custom made so there's no such thing as a cheap supergun, which is why I built one myself. And then there's the arcade boards that used a suicide battery which mostly got thrown out so now they're rare as f#ck because barely anybody kept their non working arcade board until someone found a way to revive it many years later. Arcade collecting certainly it's "plug in and play" which is what makes it difficult. And also if you want a great arcade board that's hard to get expect to pay lots and lots of $$$$$$$$ and take forever just to find the board for sale.

[Hidden_Darkness]

You see!? I was being patient and now today I was able to score a sweet Yoshi's island box with many inserts for only $15. No manual but I can get one for like $8 on eBay. Now look at the other one I was talking about.

Hehe, funny ain't it?

$14 was definately a score for the yoshi's island box, I can't believe the other one went for $66 when there are two complete copies with bin's of $49 and $46. you've got some major dedication going for a collection of complete snes games since boxed snes games are getting very hard to find.

Why I think cabs are sort of a waste of money:

they're huge, royal pain if you ever want to move.

the speakers are teeny.

you can't move the controller so sitting on a comfortable couch while playing is out of the question.

you're forced to be really close to the screen, again because the controllers are kind of stuck where they are.

Why I love superguns:

All of the above, and the ability to play the real arcade hardware.

Also I don't see how someone can be a retro sega fan and not into arcade stuff....Sega was HUGE in the arcade back in the day. I do understand why people take their time getting into arcade collecting. The pcbs are huge, have no cases, and are more expensive than most console games. Superguns are pretty much all custom made so there's no such thing as a cheap supergun, which is why I built one myself. And then there's the arcade boards that used a suicide battery which mostly got thrown out so now they're rare as f#ck because barely anybody kept their non working arcade board until someone found a way to revive it many years later. Arcade collecting certainly it's "plug in and play" which is what makes it difficult. And also if you want a great arcade board that's hard to get expect to pay lots and lots of $$$$$$$$ and take forever just to find the board for sale.

I like arcade cabs a lot but I really don't have the space for one, i'd like to own at least one cab someday but i'd rather just buy the pcb's instead when I have some extra space. i've heard about the arcade boards with the suicide battery, weren't they the capcom cps1 and cps2 boards? i've heard of people doing the phoenix mod to them so that they continue working. I wouldn't mind owning both of the cps megaman games at some point and both sega sonic arcade, sonic the fighters. there's also a few beat em up's I wouldn't mind buying.

[Drakon]

I like arcade cabs a lot but I really don't have the space for one, i'd like to own at least one cab someday but i'd rather just buy the pcb's instead when I have some extra space. i've heard about the arcade boards with the suicide battery, weren't they the capcom cps1 and cps2 boards? i've heard of people doing the phoenix mod to them so that they continue working. I wouldn't mind owning both of the cps megaman games at some point and both sega sonic arcade, sonic the fighters. there's also a few beat em up's I wouldn't mind buying.

Only the later cps1 games had suicide batteries and those're some of the boards that became super rare because most of them got tossed. The entire cps2 library ran on suicide batteries. CPS3 runs on a suicide battery cart but I wouldn't buy a cps3 anyway it's a garbage system, you sneeze on that thing and it breaks. Plus the cps3 is a cdrom based system....bleh, and it has a library of only 6 games, three of which are different versions of street fighter 3. There's a bunch of old sega arcade boards that use suicide batteries too. Here's something to get you started on the subject:

http://www.arcadecollecting.com/dead/dead.html

You also need to worry about normal batteries on arcade boards. There's plenty of threads where after so many years the battery on the pcb would leak the battery acide and eat through the traces. There was a thread on arcadeotaku showing dodonpachi dai-ou-jou boards with batteries that had burst and eaten the board to the point where it no longer functioned. ddp-doj pcbs are like 400-500$ each so...uhm....yeah....arcade hardware can be a little tricky. Also I STRONGLY recommend the phoenixed cps2 boards, they run 100% like the non phoenixed board and come with cool extra options like the juke box mode.