Games Acquired 2024

[SyedDanishAnwar]

Just got this gem today.

[Reprise]

Have fun! I am really enjoying it so far.

[SyedDanishAnwar]

Have fun! I am really enjoying it so far.

Thanks. Same here.
I just played about 2 hours of the game today (Graphics mode) and I am really amazed by the visuals. FF Remake visuals were good. But FF Rebirth visuals are just outstanding.
The devs at Square Enix have done a stellar job with not just the environmental details, but character details as well. I was talking my time marvelling at Nibelhem and the outskirts of the Mako reactor. Also, the story telling, voice acting, and in-game movies are just a treat for the senses. This will certainly be one of my most favorite games I have ever played.

PS. I enjoyed read your game reviews of the yesteryears. I hope you continue to update your blogs as they have a human touch to them unlike GameSpot, IGN, and other reviews that seem to be paid advertisements.

[Reprise]

PS. I enjoyed read your game reviews of the yesteryears. I hope you continue to update your blogs as they have a human touch to them unlike GameSpot, IGN, and other reviews that seem to be paid advertisements.

Ah, thanks! I forgot I had that in my signature, I haven't written any reviews in a long time unfortunately. I had wondered why I suddenly got notified of comments being left

I received Project Zero 3 (known as Fatal Frame in North America), The Suffering and Killzone 2 today.



January 2024:

Project Overkill (PS1)
Under Defeat (Dreamcast)
Bleach: The Blade of Fate (DS)
Killzone (PS2)
Gungrave (PS2)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (GBA)
Red Dog (Dreamcast)
Killer Instinct Gold (N64)

February 2024:

Ring of Red (PS2)
Return Fire (PS1)
Cuphead (Switch)
Ren & Stimpy Show Presents Stimpy's Invention (Mega Drive)
Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep (Wii)
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (Mega Drive)
Sonic and the Black Knight (Wii)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (PS5)

March 2024:
Outrun (Mega Drive)
The Suffering (PS2)
Project Zero III: The Tormented (PS2)
Killzone 2 (PS3)

[emwearz]

emwearz 2024 Pickups
Running Total: $44.14AUD / ~ $28.79USD

Mortal Kombat XL (PS4) - $5.00AUD / $3.29USD
Fable II (360) - $2.00AUD / $1.32USD via
Harry Potter Quidditch World Cup (PS2) - $5.00AUD / $3.29USD
Final Fantasy XII (PS2) - $4.25AUD / $2.80USD
Wii Music (Wii) -$1.00AUD / $0.65USD
Wii Play Motion (Wii) -$1.00AUD / $0.65USD
Wii Sports + Wii Sports Resort (Wii) -$1.00AUD / $0.65USD
Harry Potter (Wii) -$1.00AUD / $0.65USD
Skater XL (PS4) -$12.00AUD / $7.83USD
Robocop 3 (SNES) -$11.89AUD / $7.74USD

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*all ebay prices include postage

Robocop 3 (SNES) -$11.89AUD / $7.74USD via eBay
While not an amazing game, I was utterly obsessed with Robocop as a kid (well done with the R rated film for a kid mum) and always wanted this, I have played it in the years after, but happy to own it.

I picked it up for the price because it had 'label damage', easy fix.

[Raging Justice]

Markies' Games Acquired List Of 2024!

1. Child Of Eden (PS3)
2. Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising (NS)
3. The Punisher (GEN)



I added The Punisher for the Sega Genesis this afternoon.

The Punisher has probably been my most wanted Genesis game for several years. Unfortunately, when the Pandemic hit the Retro Gaming Market, the price shot through the roof and I thought it would be gone forever. However, thankfully, prices have slowly begun to dwindle down and so did the price of the Punisher. While looking for the next Genesis game to buy, I checked eBay and was able to find a reasonably priced one. Happy to finally have it my collection, I decided to spend the extra money and own one of the games that I have been looking for several years now.

You're lucky. I just checked and the prices are through the roof. I hate ebay sellers. They are the sole determiners of video game prices. Sites like pricecharting just go by what they see on ebay. I went to an independent video game store once and the owners just check ebay prices. I feel like ebay assholes are the reason everything is so expensive in the collector's market.

[Raging Justice]

I almost want to see a video game crash just to see if prices on EVERYTHING would drop.

[emwearz]

I feel like ebay assholes are the reason everything is so expensive in the collector's market.

I feel the people buying at the high prices are the ones who set the high prices, if sellers did not move stock, they would lower the prices. Literally how free markets work, supply, demand, etc, etc, blah blah.

People have different views on collecting, mine, as you can probably see from my posts in these threads, is that I enjoy the thrill of the hunt and picking games up at a price that does not financially impact me or my family in any way. I collect like I did 15 years ago when I barely had any money to my name, because that is how I enjoy collecting. For others they like to treat games like investments in a speculative market, I dislike it greatly as it impacts the way I collect, however everyone is gonna do it their way.

/ramble

[Reprise]

The only thing I find more frustrating now about collecting, at least as far as eBay is concerned, is how infrequent auctions are utilised and even when they are, the number of times the seller starts the auction on an already high price or sets a ludicrous reserve price that is unlikely to be met.

I think there is no truer test of just how much something is really worth, than an honest auction set up with a starting bid of 0.99 USD, GRP or whatever your currency is. Yet you have all these chancers on eBay who are happy to have their rare games on eBay at a really high BIN price and will just keep relisting it and relisting it in the hope someone will eventually come along and be desperate enough to pay their price.

The worst though is those sellers who cancel orders when they feel their auction ended too low or they just keep relisting when the reserve isn't met (I once "won" an item three times, but each time didn't actually get the item, because the reserve was never met. I tried talking to the seller and just gave up in the end).

Otherwise though, as much as I think there are organisations and individuals here in the UK who have managed to create a bit of a monopoly in retro pricing, and that there is plenty of 'market manipulation', so to speak, that generally there is only so much control people can have over pricing. At the end of the day, things are only worth what people are willing to pay and if items sell at high prices, then that is setting the price, as emwearz says. We/you/I might feel a £200 game is really a £100 game that has been inflated, but at the end of the day, if nobody is buying it for £200, then the price will eventually drop, otherwise it'll stay at that price or continue to rise...

It is weird and it is annoying though how some games have high prices but don't seem *that* rare. For example, Streets of Rage 3 regularly sells for around £140-200 here, yet I have seen about 20 copies in the wild in the last year or two. I am always seeing it. It doesn't actually seem that rare considering the high price. Most specialist independent retro shops have a copy or two in their displays, countless CeX stores have it, I can probably search it on eBay at any given time and find at least half a dozen or more copies. There are lots of games like that.

[Raging Justice]

The only thing I find more frustrating now about collecting, at least as far as eBay is concerned, is how infrequent auctions are utilised and even when they are, the number of times the seller starts the auction on an already high price or sets a ludicrous reserve price that is unlikely to be met.

I think there is no truer test of just how much something is really worth, than an honest auction set up with a starting bid of 0.99 USD, GRP or whatever your currency is. Yet you have all these chancers on eBay who are happy to have their rare games on eBay at a really high BIN price and will just keep relisting it and relisting it in the hope someone will eventually come along and be desperate enough to pay their price.

The worst though is those sellers who cancel orders when they feel their auction ended too low or they just keep relisting when the reserve isn't met (I once "won" an item three times, but each time didn't actually get the item, because the reserve was never met. I tried talking to the seller and just gave up in the end).

Otherwise though, as much as I think there are organisations and individuals here in the UK who have managed to create a bit of a monopoly in retro pricing, and that there is plenty of 'market manipulation', so to speak, that generally there is only so much control people can have over pricing. At the end of the day, things are only worth what people are willing to pay and if items sell at high prices, then that is setting the price, as emwearz says. We/you/I might feel a £200 game is really a £100 game that has been inflated, but at the end of the day, if nobody is buying it for £200, then the price will eventually drop, otherwise it'll stay at that price or continue to rise...

It is weird and it is annoying though how some games have high prices but don't seem *that* rare. For example, Streets of Rage 3 regularly sells for around £140-200 here, yet I have seen about 20 copies in the wild in the last year or two. I am always seeing it. It doesn't actually seem that rare considering the high price. Most specialist independent retro shops have a copy or two in their displays, countless CeX stores have it, I can probably search it on eBay at any given time and find at least half a dozen or more copies. There are lots of games like that.

Yeah, most of the "holy grail" games that collector's want are not legitimately rare. For me rareness comes down to how likely you are to even SEE a copy of something. There are games, movies, etc, etc. that I look for on ebay and other places regularly and almost never see a copy for sale. Just off the top of my head, there's a variant cover for Bloodstained Curse of the Moon on the Switch that I think was only ever sold in a brick and mortar Limited Run Games store. Now THAT is something rare.

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is viewed by some as the holy grail of the Switch, and it's on ebay every single day. I regularly see copies of Ninja Five-0 for the GBA on ebay too.