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Re:AVS RetroUSB: FPGA-Based Re-Implementation of the NES/Fam... by khedoros1 on Sunday December 04, 2016 @06:37PM (#13102373)
On Ebay+Amazon, It looks like the front-load consoles are going for $75 and top-load ones are going for about 30% more. When I bought mine (front load) a couple of years ago, I think I spent $20-$30 on it, so those numbers are a little bit of a shock to me.
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Re:AVS RetroUSB: FPGA-Based Re-Implementation of the NES/Fam... by mmastrac on Sunday December 04, 2016 @06:44PM (#13102412)
Hmm. Is this a sign of the publicly available stock dwindling? I guess we could see the market for these original systems start to really dry up and prices increase dramatically.
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Re:AVS RetroUSB: FPGA-Based Re-Implementation of the NES/Fam... by badlucklottery on Monday December 05, 2016 @03:44AM (#13104169)
> Is this a sign of the publicly available stock dwindling?

Could be. The front loaders tend to wear out their cart connector due to the weird VCR loading mechanism. It's easily fixable now but at the time it probably doomed them to the trash.

The top loaders were always sorta rare because they came out way late in the NES's lifetime (post SNES and Genesis) and IIRC only sold for a couple years.

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Re:AVS RetroUSB: FPGA-Based Re-Implementation of the NES/Fam... by serge2k on Sunday December 04, 2016 @06:47PM (#13102425)
Demand increase. Retro gaming is big right now.
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Re:AVS RetroUSB: FPGA-Based Re-Implementation of the NES/Fam... by Tobold on Monday December 05, 2016 @08:29AM (#13105169)
Seriously. I bought The Legend of Zelda (the original one) 10 years ago for <10 Euros. Now it's over 100! And that's a super common game (I assume)!
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Re:AVS RetroUSB: FPGA-Based Re-Implementation of the NES/Fam... by khedoros1 on Monday December 05, 2016 @01:47PM (#13108059)
Wow. I see it around $35 on Amazon, and I know that I didn't pay that much for it around 6 years ago (can't find the order though, so I probably bought it in a large lot of games from Ebay).

A Link to the Past: Bought for $17.56 about 5 years ago, and it seems that I'd be paying around $45-$50 to get it now.

Zelda 2: Adventure of Link: bought for about $5 in 2010, selling for about $15 now.

Oof! This one's the biggest jump I've seen so far. Metal Warriors on SNES. I bought that in 2009 for $40, and the cheapest listing for it on Amazon right now is for $200.

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Re:AVS RetroUSB: FPGA-Based Re-Implementation of the NES/Fam... by anonbanker on Monday December 05, 2016 @05:25PM (#13110335)
Fear not. In less than 5 years, they'll be back to $20. This is a bubble. Soon, N64 consoles will see similar jumps in prices. Gotta cater to the mid-30's gamer with extra income.
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