October 2005
Beginner
501 pages
15h 5m
English
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Buy Retro Games
Go shopping for classic videogames, online and offline.
It used to be so easy.
Anyone who’s been collecting retro games for some time now remembers the heyday of the early 1990s. For that glorious half a decade, buying retro games on the cheap [Hack #14] was like taking candy from a baby. With the advent of the Super Nintendo and Genesis hardware, the Atari 2600 and its contemporaries were two generations old. ’80s retro would not come into fashion for another decade. The Internet was but a gleam in the eye of Al Gore.
Nobody had any clue that people might one day pay big bucks for their old Colecovision. It was just an obsolete hunk of plastic taking up precious closet space, ready to be unloaded at the next neighborhood yard sale. But there was never any shortage of collectors ready to scoop them up. And it was hard to resist buying multiples of the same games and hardware—how could you resist buying yet another Atari 2600 when it was only ten bucks and came with thirty games?
But as more and more games and systems entered the possession of collectors (who were far less likely to sell them off on the cheap out of their own garages), as the ’80s started to become cool again, and as the advent of online auction sites started to raise the prices of retro games, Atari systems and such started to disappear from the flea market. But it’s still possible to get out there and buy some classic gaming goodness, and this hack will explain some general tips.
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