NGPC Prices on the rise and rare games thin on the ground!

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Some big prices being paid for the more desirable UK releases!
Several have been making over £200 GBP complete on fleabay.

Interesting to see. Is the NGPC having a revival?
 
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No it's collectors. They won't play the game and let them sit on a shelf and pound their chest about how much they spent. Period.
 
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I'm lucky, the NGPC was my obsession at the time, so I bought all the UK39 and many others for cover price or less.
I shudder to think what a mint complete UK reversi would fetch on fleabay now!
 
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Most of the games going for silly money aren't usually that good. Which saves the rest of us. Look at Legend of Success Joe on MVS, game is ass but fetches a pretty penny still.
 
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Wish I had picked up a Gal Fighters when I had the chance. A lot of games are expensive now UK or USA. Spent a lot of time trading my USA versions for UK/JP clasp version (they look cooler to me). I can see why some people would pay more.
 
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I was seriously considering getting into the NGPC not too long ago but to only collect loose carts. Are they still rising prices for loose as well or is it just clam shell cases?
 
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ggallegos1 said:
I was seriously considering getting into the NGPC not too long ago but to only collect loose carts. Are they still rising prices for loose as well or is it just clam shell cases?
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Looseys aren't so bad, it's the cib ones that get out of control.
 
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Kid Panda said:
No it's collectors. They won't play the game and let them sit on a shelf and pound their chest about how much they spent. Period.
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It's a shame that affordable games have become expensive due to collectors. It only takes one game to really screw it up for everyone else, and then other collectors think that shittier games should be expensive. So sickening already.
 
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ColdWolf35 said:
It's a shame that affordable games have become expensive due to collectors. It only takes one game to really screw it up for everyone else, and then other collectors think that shittier games should be expensive. So sickening already.
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Reminds me a ton of the NES. Besides Little Samson, every triple digit game is absolute garbage to play. I just cant bring myself to drop $500 on a game I know will play like shit regardless of rarity.
 
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ggallegos1 said:
Reminds me a ton of the NES. Besides Little Samson, every triple digit game is absolute garbage to play. I just cant bring myself to drop $500 on a game I know will play like shit regardless of rarity.
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Action 52 for that matter. The Angry Video Game Nerd claimed that the game was about $300 retail when it first came out.

I'm basically slowing down with older games, and getting games that I really want to get when they first launch.
 
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As long as the loosies are still cheap I don't care.
 
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apart from 3 all my games are loose, all uk/USA ones and did not cost to much, not into paying crazy money for them just to be complete, that's what the AES is for :)
 
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Came over here because I was thinking of getting back into the NGPC, I had a pretty solid collection years ago that was mostly in the nice snap cases that I sold on here because I wasn't playing it much. It seems like all older systems are going up in prices lately, NES is out of control and even in the last 2-3 years Jaguar prices have gone crazy. Hopefully there are still some deals to be had so I can get back all the games I liked. I've no interest in a complete collection, so hopefully it wouldn't be too crazy to get what I want.
 
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I want MM Power Fighters before it get ridiculously expensive.
 
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It's the same with the US releases too. I need 3 more carts for my set and two of em are stupidly priced. Gals Fighter loose is over $50 these days which is absurd IMO.
 
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Gals fighter jumped a ton lately. Sellers are catching on.
 
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Holy shit, I got that new and loose for like $4 two years ago.
 
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It wasn't a deal then, eBay was flooded with $4 NGPC loosies.
 
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At my local flea market, some guy was selling ngpc for 100 bucks LOOSE. Guy doesn't even know his prices.
 
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ngpc stuff is a bit overpriced a local ebay clones too. As long as the loose games are affordable I don't care too much - then again I've not found a loose big tournament golf yet :)
 
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