Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@ReaderRagfihs you can have my copy of My Baby 3 and Friends.

@ReaderRagfihs: It's "so bad it's good" status is well-deserved. XD My brother actually played it now and again when he was still into games. He just liked driving the semis around.

@ThanosReXXX it is American lukie games sorry I thought it was Australian . You won't get better prices any where else.

Hey guys, so I was thinking, I weirdly miss larger cartridges and VHS tapes. Not the quality but the physicality of them. To me there is something oddly satisfying about putting an old school cartridge into a device and doing something with it. I think it reminds me of old school sci-fi too. Not to mention I miss how solid and durable things felt back in the 90s. You could probably use an N64 cartridge to kill someone and have the game still work. I feel like many modern devices really lack that. Then again VHS tapes were pretty fragile too.

@Vinny Hey I missed your response somehow, sorry about that, and yeah, it wasn't exactly top of the line then either.

@Anti-Matter Wow, those titles are rare in your country? That's a shame. But HG/SS are amazing. I loved the Pokewalker they came with. I wish they'd revisit the idea - but as a smartphone app.

@ReaderRagfihs That's certainly a fair point. But there is still something gratifying to me about having your data on something the size of a VHS of SNES cartridge. And think about it, if they can cram 1TB onto a microSD card now, how much could they shove onto something the size of an N64 cartridge?

@Heavyarms55 It can probably hold an entire console

And Pokemon games, especially the DS games are expensive everywhere. Maybe not Japan, but certainly in the rest of the world. €60+ prices aren't uncommon over here. I did some searching and games like HGSS are indeed in the €80-100 range.

@Octane €80-100?! Are you serious?! That's including the Poke-Walker, I have to assume! But even 60 is absolutely nuts! I wonder if it is the same in the US, I haven't been back in several years. I'll have to ask some of my friends back home.

The game and Pokéwalker together cost anywhere from $30-80. Ironically, Lukie Games has one of the highest prices for getting both, about $70 in total. This is probably one of times that one should seriously consider digital download.

I do not miss hard drive platters. Those can stay in the past. So can storage drive cassettes, for that matter.

@Heavyarms55 No, just the game. The best prices I can find are €65.99, €70.99 and €75. The boxed version with a PokeWalker is €95; cheapest version of HeartGold with PokeWalker is €99 (and yeah, they were €45 when they originally came out ten years ago). Looking on eBay, prices range from $50 to $70 (without PokeWalker it seems). There's also an $850 graded version available lol. I'm certain you can find a copy for the original €45 launch price if you're patient enough; but that's pretty much the minimum you're going to have to pay.

Why are they so expensive? No idea. There are literally millions of copies circulating the market.

@Ninfan Well, that's kinda debatable, since it depends on what you're looking for, as @AlohaPizzaJack already noted:

But in general, I certainly agree, and I've bought stuff from them several times, and even with the overseas p&p, the overall prices were still very competitive.

On a side note: you actually managed to make me Google for an Australian Lukie Games, because I never just assume that I have all the answers, so I had to make sure that what I said was correct...

Pokemon is a fun example of how the "digital distribution = lower physical prices" argument isn't always correct.
Tax refund money came, I prepaid some future bills, now I can swing that controller. Gotta do something nice for myself after being _ugh responsible.

@Octane Holy balls that's totally nuts!

@Heavyarms55 Yeah, it is. Maybe the market is different in Japan. I know Pokemon Stadium 2 is very expensive as well, same price range as SoulSilver, but you can get an imported Japanese copy for as low as €5. Too bad it's a hassle to get NTSC and Japanese N64 games working on a PAL N64.

@Octane @Heavyarms55 Most of the pokemon DS games are super expensive, The cheapest ones I can find would probably be the older ones such as Crystal, Blue, Red, so on, on the 3DS. I don't know what happened but I got Soulsilver for 5$ with the pokewalker a few years ago, anyway, the other games like Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Black, White, They are mostly all overpriced.

@Daloblast I only own a Japanese copy of HeartGold; but I can't read Japanese. I know the game by heart, so it isn't a problem, but I should've bought an English copy a couple of years ago when they were still cheap...

I managed to get one version of most of the DS Pokémon games right a year or 2 into the life of the 3DS, when stores were still selling them. In fact I think the only one I don't own is Platinum, although I do own Diamond. It's a shame how expensive they've become, especially since they were so easy to find just 5 years ago.

@AlohaPizzaJack Since when have HDD platters gone anywhere?

@NEStalgia Well, I’m referring to the old large ones. Remember the housing that looks like a cake container? 😂 at least now they’re tiny and don’t look like a jukebox