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This was also a criminal conspiracy to drive up these prices by the grading houses and the auction sites. Same people who did this shit in the 80s with coins just did it with video games during Covid times. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLF...

You can emulate that for free

I found my copy complete with booklet at a yard sale for 8 bucks in 2010 dollars. This is just sad

Tax the Rich. They obviously don’t need the money.

Honestly one of the things that bother the ever loving hell put of me when it comes to trying to collect retro video games.......

I honestly have only learned about and seen this grading thing recently in a video game about running a trading card shop. 🤯

There's nothing wrong with preserving a few of these in perfect condition for collectors. Once it's damaged, you can't undamage these. The game itself isn't even rare. Buy one of those copies if you want to own and play it.

I have that game! Any buyers? Lol

The "realistic violence":

People are stupid. Games are made to be played and shared, not sealed and traded as stocks.

You don’t need me to tell you, but for those who want more information about all of this and why it is happening to seemingly every hobby….watch this video 👇 youtu.be/W2x-UQpiARc?...

It wasn't enough that it was impossible to hire an overpriced handyman now you have to add a 75 dollar fee for the various websites that he paid $75 a customer to sign up for It's the same thing

12'000 for something that I can put on a USB, and play on a Samsung fridge for free.

Did we learn NOTHING from Raggedy Ann and Andy when they were confronted by the Gloopstick machine all those years ago!?!

It was literally and legally proven to be a scam

counterpoint: at no point in history would anyone think it was reasonable to put a 30 year old commodity that sold 11 million copies in a fancy box and ask for orders of magnitude greater than the original msrp

Just wait till you discover those markets can absolutely rip people off. First step is a doozy look out.

Just remember, Blackstone owns one of the major collectible companies, CGC :3 finance.yahoo.com/news/fanatic...

They're fishing for whales, yes.

It’s that and good ol’ money laundering

Buddy if someone wants to pay you 15 stacks for a $5 used game, you should take the money

Its the strange arbitrary mark up of supposed value. Meanwhile, the thing being posted doesnt even follow its own actual rules. So if we are making up values of things, the rom buried on my emulator is just as good as this $12k display piece. At least mine still gets played every so often.

Can you get the grading graded?

Yes, it very literally was started by a singular company to prop up the market for their own holdings. It's since grown out of control and a means to create fake scarcity that doesn't exist.

Cool, here's the price of a non graded one

I understand some like that, but I’m collecting games because I love them, not because they have value.

Just download a rom lol Or better yet, get it on steam and mod it

Please tell me that's in JPY and not USD...

Saw this shit at a Trade Games a few days ago and aloud I went, "Isn't this grading shit for cards and comics?" Blank stares.

You must be fun at parties. Let people care about things that are special to them, even if you don't understand it.

When I was collecting games about 20-25 years ago, grading was informative, it let you know the condition of something before you bought it and prices didn't vary wildy. Since then, rich people have realised how much can be made by over-charging for the best condition items.

This is why I emulate.

If i was a billionaire, i would buy graded video games for the purpose of breaking them out

Spoiler: Tifa Lockheart dies! There, that should bring the price down a bit.

High school friend of mine spent nearly a thousand dollars to get a copy of Suikoden -AND- to get a PS2 to play it on. I gagged not only at the price tag but that -you can download on Steam-.

I collect retro games and systems from NES forward. It's insane what people mark grading at like this. Would much rather dig and come across one in the wild for decent pricing than get ripped off in this way.

I'd pay an extra 5 quid to avoid the Platinum edition but that's as high as O'd got for such a high selling popular game.

Blame the people buying it lol. If the demand isnt there, the price goes down.

I'd rather they get lost to a thief who then sells them for normal amounts of money, less wasteful.

PEOPLE GRADE OLD VIDEO GAMES?! I THOUGHT THIS WAS CARDS ONLY!

you can find 'graded' games in grading cases pre-packed on AliExpress. complete bootlegs. there's a good chance most graded game sellers are just reselling those.

Ikr? Binge watching Game Chasers is seeing 14 years of retro game collecting going from 2011 "$5 is too much for Kid Icarus" to 2025 "Us blue collar guys can't afford any of this anymore :("

Agreed, but grading is merely one avenue in which the retro market has completely gone to hell

to retain any where near that value it's going to have to remain sealed i just don't know - just all has a stench about it all.

I get this for stuff like coins and currency and trading cards with which you can't "do" anything and they're easily damaged. Physical media? Barf. This is like albums...quite satisfying to see the color drain from a "collector's" face when they find out you're going to rip it open and spin it.

I looked into doing this a while back for some cards. I was turned off by the fact that they seal you collectibles into those cases, you have break them and hope you don’t destroy the thing inside. Those cases aren’t UV protected they do nothing to actually protect the valuable thing sealed inside.