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Post by retrolove on May 7, 2020 13:50:53 GMT
I was just looking through buyee,mercari and rakuten and noticed some insane prices for PU.LI.RU.LA.
When did this start getting to some of the ridiculous prices it was going for?
I bought it about a decade ago for £32,which after playing it decided it was not worth that.Is it because of it being part of the Arcade Gears titles?I just dont understand how it has got to some of the prices it goes for.
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Post by zyrobs on May 7, 2020 14:53:00 GMT
It's not the only odd title to shoot up like that. I bought Keio 2 jp for 100€, not it costs almost three times that.
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Post by retrolove on May 7, 2020 15:24:59 GMT
I've just been looking at that for £120.Also 3 wonders which i paid very little for is ridiculous as well,yet some have dropped quite a bit too like Crows.
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Post by linkt101 on May 7, 2020 15:37:31 GMT
You may have heard of a Working Designs tax, but there is also a thing known as an Arcade Gears tax. The game is bare bones in terms of game play. If it weren't for the fact the developers were likely on something when making this game, then people likely wouldn't have cared about it. I got it for £75 two years ago, but it's going for over £100 now.
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Post by retrolove on May 7, 2020 15:59:28 GMT
Yes it is certainly mad i wish i had bought Image Fight/X Multiply when i had the chance as that would of got played a lot.Same with Gun Frontier but that's not as bad price wise .
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Post by Tongara on May 7, 2020 20:04:24 GMT
It's not the only odd title to shoot up like that. I bought Keio 2 jp for 100€, not it costs almost three times that. Honestly, I saw JP Keio 2 with spine and regcard for £40-50 back in 2009/10 when pretty much all the JP titles bar a few were in the £5-15 MAX range, and thought "eh, a bit expensive, maybe another time"... if only I'd known. Same with the PAL version, was seeing it regularly around £60-75 for good while and now it's just stupidly priced. Been seeing Clockwork Knight 2 NTSC-U Ver. going for US$100-125 in the last 6 months. hahaha |
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Post by retrolove on May 8, 2020 2:07:51 GMT
Clockwork Knight 1 and 2 are mediocre games in any region,i would have thought there would have been plenty of copies floating around in such a big market as the Usa.I have never had a pal saturn but at least when i look on ebay poor Saturn games seem far cheaper in comparison to the NTSC U copies and Clockwork Knight seems to be pennies in jp and in europe and we all speak different languages.
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Post by zyrobs on May 8, 2020 2:41:14 GMT
I had a chance to buy Saturn Castlevania complete with obi/reg for $100 or whereabouts a few years back, I'm still kicking myself about that. Or for selling my copy of PAL PD Saga for around 140 euro (I bought it for half of that, and it was missing the cardboard). It's not the only odd title to shoot up like that. I bought Keio 2 jp for 100€, not it costs almost three times that. Honestly, I saw JP Keio 2 with spine and regcard for £40-50 back in 2009/10 when pretty much all the JP titles bar a few were in the £5-15 MAX range, and thought "eh, a bit expensive, maybe another time"... if only I'd known. Same with the PAL version, was seeing it regularly around £60-75 for good while and now it's just stupidly priced. Been seeing Clockwork Knight 2 NTSC-U Ver. going for US$100-125 in the last 6 months. hahaha US version of Keio Flying Squadron for Sega CD is even worse. I think it's over a thousand bucks now. So is the English version of Keio 2. The illustration book for Keio 2 shot up like mad as well, directly after I bought my copy, they started selling it for twice as much. I don't understand if it is just the dollar that sucks now or if the games are just overpriced. I know that my local currency trades so low against dollar/euro that I pretty much stopped buying anything. |
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Post by Tongara on May 8, 2020 9:10:01 GMT
Clockwork Knight 1 and 2 are mediocre games in any region,i would have thought there would have been plenty of copies floating around in such a big market as the Usa.I have never had a pal saturn but at least when i look on ebay poor Saturn games seem far cheaper in comparison to the NTSC U copies and Clockwork Knight seems to be pennies in jp and in europe and we all speak different languages. Your feelings on the game aside, yes, there were plenty of copies floating around. Clockwork Knight 2 especially got great reviews in Magazines in the US, and Usenet posts of the era echo the same. A lot of copies sold. The issue with US Saturn games doesn't always seem to be about... "rarity". I'm not sure what it is, but there are just certain US games, some of them sequels that just seem to go for stupid money for no reason. US Saturn games seem to be going up in price again regardless. PAL copies of CK are still in the... "okayish" range, but not anything like 10 years ago. It wasn't that uncommon to find a PAL copy of CK1 for around £15, and CK2 usually around the same or just a bit more at £20, but I've seen them creep up over time. Sometimes you can get CK1 PAL ver. for as little as £25 (still a bit expensive imo), and as expensive at times at £40. For CK2, I've seen it usually anywhere between £35-50 max, which is still quite the increase. You might be able to get a copy cheaper still in a bidding auction, mind! I don't see the prices on PAL games getting any better anytime soon. JP copies of CK1 and 2 are interesting. Back in 2010, you could find copies for around £5-7 each on eBay, with their spine and regcards intact. Then around 3 or 4 years ago, I noticed they were being sold for around £10-12 each, which while not AWFUL, when you previously paid around half of that, it sure feels like it. Nowadays I'm seeing JP copies of both games go for around £16 all the way up to just over £25 (!!). Of course, there are listings where this is less, but this seems to be becoming common on eBay for the JP versions. There is a double pack of CK which is a Japan exclusive known as "Pepperouchau no Fukubukuro". It, of course, has both games on the one disc and a few bits of extra content including a 3D Calendar for the year 1996. For the longest time it was "cheapish", and I remember getting my first copy of it in 2010 for about £13, which was pretty good value considering it was 2 games in one and all the extras. A year or 2 ago I saw it being sold for £40~, and a quick check today is showing listings of it for that price and all the way up to £68 (!!!!). Luckily, on Japanese auction sites the CK games are all much more reasonably priced. That said, Japanese games in general seem to be once again going up. The same thing happened in the 20th anniversary era back in late 2014-mid 15, when all of the press that previously slated the machine suddenly "always loved it!", YouTube gaming channels started covering it heavily around that era, which in turn seems to have encouraged more people to buy the games and consoles (not a bad thing), which then made sellers then clock on to and they increases prices (this is the bad thing), and it's just gone up from there, because everything "retro" is SUPER RARE!!!1 I'm trying to buy up the last remaining bits I need before the year is out... Just a few more bits and pieces to go! I'm sorry for the wall of text about this, It's just I'm looking at CK stuff daily on eBay and Yahoo Japan so I've seen this happening in realtime. It's really weird. US version of Keio Flying Squadron for Sega CD is even worse. I think it's over a thousand bucks now. So is the English version of Keio 2. Yeah, it's pretty painful to see. I always kicked myself for not picking up that book when I had the chance... I think it's a combination of the two, but my god are prices shit right now. I don't see it getting any better myself. |
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Post by linkt101 on May 8, 2020 16:45:34 GMT
Clockwork Knight 1 and 2 are mediocre games in any region,i would have thought there would have been plenty of copies floating around in such a big market as the Usa.I have never had a pal saturn but at least when i look on ebay poor Saturn games seem far cheaper in comparison to the NTSC U copies and Clockwork Knight seems to be pennies in jp and in europe and we all speak different languages. That's because the Saturn while still a flop in Europe was considerably more popular than in North America. That's not to say there is exceptions like Street Fighter Collection, Courier Crisis, Mr Bones and Blazing Heroes. |
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Post by retrolove on May 8, 2020 18:12:06 GMT
Yes Tongara im on yahoo jp daily lately and the jacked prices on ebay mean i havent bought anything off there in a long while.
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Post by retrolove on May 8, 2020 18:13:35 GMT
Clockwork Knight 1 and 2 are mediocre games in any region,i would have thought there would have been plenty of copies floating around in such a big market as the Usa.I have never had a pal saturn but at least when i look on ebay poor Saturn games seem far cheaper in comparison to the NTSC U copies and Clockwork Knight seems to be pennies in jp and in europe and we all speak different languages. That's because the Saturn while still a flop in Europe was considerably more popular than in North America. That's not to say there is exceptions like Street Fighter Collection, Courier Crisis, Mr Bones and Blazing Heroes. Yeah linkt i have seen those odd few command some big prices. |
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Post by Tongara on May 8, 2020 19:38:53 GMT
Yes Tongara im on yahoo jp daily lately and the jacked prices on ebay mean i havent bought anything off there in a long while. It's become beyond a joke and it's just going to get worse. Sad. Thank god for YJP~ |
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Post by retrolove on May 8, 2020 19:50:48 GMT
I have been buying direct from japan for years but always managed to find a deal on ebay when i looked but now like you say there is nothing.
Except the "SUPER@RARE!!LOOK" bullshit like Twinbee Deluxe Pack for £60 or whatever.
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Post by Tongara on May 8, 2020 21:34:14 GMT
Been buying online from Japan since the mid-2000's, but much like yourself I'd find the occasional really great deal on eBay which you just couldn't pass up. Now it's exactly what you say with the "SEGA SATURN WITH 1 PAD! L@@k! RARE!1" crap and barely anything else. Oh well, such is life, I suppose.
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