Donkey Kong Country and Land Games Now Available/ VC games and Market Value

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noemann:
this thread reminds me that i need to finish that DK cover. I am extremely busy since my last attempt to finish it. I will busy for most of the year but i am trying to make time to finish it. The tiff files and PhotoImpact .ufo files (like .psd) are taking up too much hdd space. I'll get around to it sometime as well as a few other projects...

larryinc64:
Who uses ROMS depends on your demographic, in Middle and High school, a TON of my friends used roms. I have a USB stick full of NES, SNES and GB games that I spread around to a lot of people and we played them anytime me had accuses to a PC. I flunked out of Spanish Class and was put into a low level math lab, where we used computers. I, and 3 or so friends in that class, were great at math and would complete the work in the first 15 minutes and played on emulators for the rest of the class. I beat SMB2 in 2 classes. In middle school, all the PCs are connected on a network and we made a folder in the shared folder that anyone can access, and it was filled with roms, also GTA SA, Minecraft and Halo. It eventually got spread around and dumb asses found it and abused it and got games banned.

For the younger generation, ROMs tend to be the way to be the way we find out about retro games, this was how I got into it, after the Nintendo DS and Mario Kart DS sparked my interest.

Roms and VC, ROMS mostly, are keeping prices of carts down, the prices we have now are the result of it. Do you think SMB would be $5 if that was the only way to play SMB? but DKC on VC is not going to bring the price down because there was already a way to play it without the game cart. Xenobale 3D might bring down the Wii version, because there is not other way to play it, Wii Emulation is not as easy as SNES, the players will go for the 3DS $40 version, over the $100 Wii one. Did the Wii U VC version of Metroid Trilogy bring it down? (Actually, Looking at eBay, looks like no)

Maybe, the prices are unaffected in a major way because there are always going to be more people who wants the original VS how many there is. The casual gamer who just want's to play is not going to spend $100 on a game, I refuse to for Earthbound, so are they even a factor? Hmmm . . .

I changed the topic name to reflect the discussion.

RealPlumpBox:
I got all the OG GB ones. I don't care if it is digital. I would still ge the physical one. I get A LOT of stuff digitally due to the convenience of playing more easy.

TDIRunner:

--- Quote ---DKC on VC is not going to bring the price down because there was already a way to play it without the game cart.
--- End quote ---

This statement is not true for ALL people.

I'll give you one example. My brother has never used a ROM in his entire life. I doubt he knows what one is. However, I know that he likes video games and I know that he loved Donkey Kong Country. The two of us played the hell out of that game when we were younger. If he wanted to play that game before today, the only way HE would know to play that game would be to get an SNES and buy the physical game. However, I know for a fact that he would be more than happy, in fact he would probably prefer, to download this game into his Wii and play it that way. He isn't the only person in the world like this. There are many and those people are no longer in the market for a physical copy of the game.

The change in the value of these games might be small, BUT IT ISN'T ZERO.

;D

monjici:
There may be less people searching for a physical copy of Earthbound since it's available as a virtual copy, but you should not under estimate the mental condition of some collectors ;)
I've seen some crazy auctions lately, where people were bidding more than some concurrent buy-it-now for the exact same thing.

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