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When collecting: Go for the big ticket or little tickets first?
Einhander:
--- Quote from: pringlesman on December 20, 2014, 08:55:22 AM ---The way I prioritize my game buying.
1. Games I want to play are the first i'll buy. Because if I don't complete the collection at least I'll have the games I want to play Your Super Mario 64's and Ocarina of Times of the console library.
2. Then Big ticket rare games I'm not likely to find in the wild. Your International Superstar Soccer 2000's and Super Bowlings. I want to cross off some of the harder to get stuff because it is the stuff most likely to go up in value.
3. Then your big ticket games that I might find in the wild like Conker's Bad Fur Day. I figure I might find it in a lot of games at a discount while collecting.
4.And then the smaller bulk games. Your Madden's. I figure if I buy a collection I might get one or two of these games and it's always a drag to have multiples of a game that are impossible to get rid of.
At this point I have all of the level one games for the N64. I'm about 5 games away from having all of 2. I just picked up the last of the 3's. And I have a crap ton of random football and NBA games to pick up.
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Well this makes me feel better. So you think it's practical for a collector to go for what he wants most and what may be more rare and pricey as opposed to getting the easy ones like Madden first, then working your way up? I'd rather work my way down honestly because I know that some titles will always be there at a cheap price.
pringlesman:
--- Quote from: wiggy on December 20, 2014, 09:13:51 AM ---What are these "levels" you speak of?
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--- Quote from: Einhander on December 20, 2014, 08:01:23 PM ---
Well this makes me feel better. So you think it's practical for a collector to go for what he wants most and what may be more rare and pricey as opposed to getting the easy ones like Madden first, then working your way up? I'd rather work my way down honestly because I know that some titles will always be there at a cheap price.
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Yeah pretty much. I want want I'm going to play most. And you are always going to be able to find crap sport games later at low prices. But it's going to be difficult to find something semi rare like Ogre Battle. So you should prioritize getting that before it goes up too much. For instance I kept on putting off getting Smash Bros 64. It was a $35 game when I started. I ended up just saying screw it and bought it last week for $60. If I would of bought that when I started instead of getting some of the bulk I could have bought that bulk now for essentially the same price and had $25 more to pick up manuals and stuff.
wiggy:
^^^ that's exactly where I'm at. N64 is going up in price quite quickly now. I'm really happy that I had the cast majority of the pricey titles out of the way when I decided to get a full set. I'm down to two games that'll set me back more than 20 bucks at this point, with about 70 more games to go total. Thank goodness.
pringlesman:
I still have sculptors cut to go on N64 big big ones. I'll buy that in july when I get my comp time check at work. After that I have starcraft, snowboard kids 1+2, paper mario, NFL Blitz Special Edition, and Mystical ninja goemon 2 left to go for decent priced ones. After that I think I'm down to sub $20 games.
wiggy:
Blitz ain't bad. You can get it for $20 right now if you're patient. The rest, yeah, those ain't cheap at this point :(
How long do you figure it's going to take to complete your set? I'm sorta hoping that I'll be done by March. I just bought 15 more <$10 games on ebay, so that puts me at 57 to go :D