The purpose of this thread is to see if anyone else has had a great amount of difficulty collecting for the SNES and Saturn in recent years? The reason I mention these two consoles is that it seems like it's becoming harder and harder to collect for these consoles without taking out a second mortgage, selling your organs, or consulting a loan shark. I typically find most of my games at places like thrift stores or flea markets, however less common SNES and Saturn games have evaded me almost constantly at these places. I've got lucky a few times, but overall, they are the two main consoles I have the most difficulty finding good deals on. I don't even attempt Ebay anymore and video game stores are even more expensive. It's just frustrating because there are so many great games on those consoles, however they are not worth the $50+ pricetag to me. For several, I'd gladly pay $50 even, but those games are the ones that consistently break $100 (ie Earthbound, Hagane, EVO, ect). Please share your own frustrations in collecting for these consoles, or even other consoles that you've had a hard time finding good deals on. Oh, and good resources for finding cheaper prices on these console's games is appreciated.

[QUOTE="Heirren"]My only advice is to check out yard sales. They sort of die down during the cold winter days, but spring is a big time for them. [/QUOTE]

I do this, however I usually strike out more at these then I dod flea markets or Goodwill. I went to a garage sale earlier this past summer that promised Saturn and SNES games, needless to say I was very interested. What I found was mostly a bunch of disk only sports games on the saturn, and a copy of Astal that looked like it had been buried in a sandbox for years. I did find a copy of Super Mario All-Stars which was cool, but other than that it was pretty disappointing.

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Now, I don't collect SNES or Saturn games but I go to Goodwills all the time and I have never seen any video game at a goodwill other than like NBA 2K3 on PS2 and Two Worlds on PC. hahaha I would kill to find some good/old games.

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I've heard other people say this as well. I don't know why our Goodwill is special. But we have plenty of games, just not for rare systems. I usually find PLENTY of PS1, PS2, XBox, Gamecube, and PC games. And I can usually find some NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, 2600, Dreamcast, and even a few Sega Master System games there. There's even a small handful of Wii games there. There's often consoles, too. I've seen plenty of PS1s, Gamecubes, and XBoxs (original) go through there, a couple Genesis's, and even an XBox 360.

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I know some Goodwill stores sell all their potentially valuable stuff (incuding retro games) on their auction site shopgoodwill.com or on Ebay. I understand that it's within their best interest to make as much money as possible, but it has made finding good retro games in their stores for a good price very difficult to say the least. I know of maybe 2 goodwills in my area out of the probably 20 that still occassionally put out rarer titles, however I fear that someday they'll turn to the dark side as well.

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[QUOTE="Darkman2007"][QUOTE="rilpas"]yeah it's getting harder and harder these days, the retro gaming boom is really hurting us collectors :P[/QUOTE] theres a retro gaming boom?[/QUOTE]

yep, I think it's due to the popularity of the AVGN, screwattack and other such internet celebreties.

but yes, I think there's a retro gaming boom, just like there was a retro toys boom back in the early 00's

the price of old/vintage toys kept rising every year until it reached a point where even relatively common vintage toys had reached disproportionaly high prices. That was around the point the boom came crashing down an though the prices never completly reset they are now a lot lower then they used to be (this was told to me by a friend who collects vintage toys)

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I'm personally hoping that the retro game bubble bursts here soon because it is so discouraging trying to find certain games for a reasonable price. I would love to own EVO for example, but there is no way in hell I'd pay $100 for it. Part of me thinks it's just going to get worse though with the way modern gaming is turning a lot of people off. Unless I'm making 6-figures someday or I just get really lucky and find cheap copies (it's happened before) I may never own some of these games. It's so sad :( . . .