Seriously ruining an already expensive hobby. Then you have the simps for the company in their YouTube comments section defending the prices and poor shaming people who call out the scam.

“Lol ur just mad becuz u can’t afford it.”

Retro gaming used to be cheap as hell until around 2019

‘Treat investors’ ruined it like they ruined VHS and Comics.

They’re bad for video game preservation too because they never dump the roms.

Pirates and emulators are the real heroes of gaming.

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“speculators” ruin almost all hobbies they plague.

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digital scarcity isn’t real anyway, pirate everything

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Salute

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Just use an Emulator. They’re free.

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Why are n64 emulators still so bad tho :hasan-smash:

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As I understand it, the N64 uses computer chips that are designed very differently from other consoles. Its emulators had to start from scratch and their devs can’t transfer as much knowledge from other emulators to help them.

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GameCube worked just fine for me

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I already do lol, I can’t afford to collect retro games anymore lol.

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???

I don’t understand the problem

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Sometimes original hardware is better. Some consoles have weird controllers that are hard to emulate. Cartridges, manuals and boxes have nice art too.

Emulation is great, but it still sucks that people are priced out of a choice.

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“Lol ur just mad becuz u can’t afford it.”

I hate when people say that shit as though it isn’t totally valid to be mad about that. It’s bullshit for people to be priced out of their hobbies for some shitty speculators who largely don’t give a shit and just want to turn a profit.

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Yup. Happened with comics, now they’re onto retro video games.

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Man I’ll see a brand new in box dualshock 3 and think “oh sick, it should be perfectly functional”, but also get sad that some loser bought it as an “investment” instead of to enjoy it.

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wtf is dkoldies

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Retro video game store.

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