Outside of playing games, one of my favorite parts of the video game industry is collecting. These articles will range from keeping track of your collection, protecting and storing the games, playing them on modern TVs, and this one, which is all about finding and buying the games you want. Besides this advice from my own experiences, I wanted to point you in the direction of people, articles, and videos that have helped me along the way on building a retro game collection.
I am by no means an expert or have a massive collection, but I do feel like I can offer some solid advice. Without further ado, here are my best tips, tricks, and pointers for finding and buying retro video games. It could be the white whales like a boxed copy of EarthBound. Heck, it could be to just get one of everything in a series. Whatever your goal is, make sure you establish it first. With that goal laid out, you may or may not want to make a hit list. I find that using a note on my phone is easiest, but some people use spreadsheets, websites, or apps to keep track of their hit list for collecting retro games.
One last tip before striking out that I can recommend is creating a budget. This will help keep you grounded when the bidding gets heated or you happen to see a boxed copy of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages in the wild. Another helpful pre-hunt idea is to research the games that you are looking for.
For a decent idea on what a game should cost, I recently have discovered Price Charting. Combine that with a look at the current going prices on eBay and you should have a comfortable idea of what retro games are going for these days. The biggest piece of pre-hunt advice I can offer you is to learn how to spot a fake copy.
Especially when dealing with GBA games or other handheld titles, reproduction carts can really ruin your day. Bidding online can make this especially tough.
Check out the photos and compare them to the real deal before bidding. In retro stores, ask if they authenticate games or if you yourself can open them up in the store. EarthBound was in the bundle, but not directly named. I ended up calling Goodwill and retracting my bid. Now for the part of the editorial you probably came here for—where can you find some cool, old games!
A flea market is one option that comes to mind for example. In the suggested reading at the bottom, there will be other ideas for you to try out too! Haggle Notes: Haggling is just as acceptable at the flea market as at garage sales, although the vendors are more likely to be experienced negotiators in their own right. Bundling items up and asking for one price works here as well. Either way, just bringing up the subject is never a bad idea. Haggle Notes: Straight-up asking for lower prices is probably going to be considered rude at a retail store.
They might also have the ability to reduce a price if the item is damaged. Once you get there, think of it like a big flea market. Concentrate less on the big professional vendors at this point and more on the collectors who use these conventions to offload their extra stuff. There will probably be more bargains buried! Coming back for the second day of a convention can be a good opportunity as well. Sometimes sellers will bring more items for the second day, so check around for new bargains.
Haggle Notes: There are all different kinds of convention vendors. Some might be retail stores and therefore less likely to be able to do much of a discount. Some might be collectors who will happily knock a few bucks off the price of anything if it means making a sale, or give you a big discount on stuff if you bundle it all together. These will surely be a boon to your collecting hobby. In general, stores tend to price and display the most popular stuff, which today means s console games and hardware.
But that store might also have things like loose game manuals, big-box PC games, magazines, oddball hardware, import games, or older Atari-era games sitting behind the counter. Manuals are an excellent icebreaker slash litmus test. Every video game store on Earth has a giant box of game manuals in the back. Ask if they have manuals for sale. But if they respond by bringing out a big box of instruction booklets, that opens the door to asking more questions—and you might also get some manuals you need!
But if you are going to be frequenting a store, try to build a long-term relationship and let them know what you want. I guarantee you that whatever the store is, they have people coming in looking to trade old PC games, magazines, or other things that the store cares less about.
Maybe they could hold a box of stuff for you. The mother of all marketplaces, eBay connects buyers and sellers from all over the world. Other uncategorized cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.
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