>>10418100My local retro game shop carries vintage figures although the prices aren't usually that good. And every time I go in there I'm fucking depressed because I'll see a game that I almost passed on years ago thinking "this isn't worth $20" is now going for $80.
Sorry to go off on a tangent but if you are getting into retro gaming, you've basically been priced out of the hobby unless you're going to stick with reproductions, bootlegs / multicarts, flash drives and emulation. I've grown disenchanted with it because I already have all the games I grew up with, and everything even slightly above mediocre goes for like $100 now.
I like toys. With toys, you can get one that's dirty and clean it up and add new stickers, or 3D print missing parts, or get that shitty character that you loved and nobody else cared about, or do customs, or wait for the new, latest and greatest hyper articulated figure, or some cool retro throwback figure depending on what you're into. There's hardly anything like that in retro gaming. It's a fixed supply economy. Once in a blue moon Limited Run or Retrobit will do an official re-release of an old cartridge but they're always extremely limited quantities, and end up costing almost as much as the original on the secondary market, and just like in the toy collecting community, reproductions may as well be called REEEEEEproductions due to the amount of asshurt they cause some people. And when retro consoles get any kind of official re-release, it's always a shrunk down emulation box that can't play the original cartridges, which likewise does nothing to address the fixed supply problems in the hobby. You can walk into Wal-Mart and buy your favorite album on a vinyl LP, but good luck finding a copy of your favorite old game at a retro game store.
Again, apologies for the vidya rant, seeing a carded POTF2 figure just reminded me of my last trip to the game store and how disappointing it felt compared to the first few years I shopped there.
