Old Games, Big Bucks

A new hipster craze. Those words make my eyes roll straight out of there sockets, figuratively of course. However hipster gamers are not anticipating and pre-ordering the latest and greatest we saw announced at last weeks E3. Instead, they’re hunting through garage sales, flea markets, eBay and specialty stores for old games that came out 20 years ago. On top of that they are paying outrageous prices for these old games. looks like its time for trip to moms house to rummage through the attic for some aged tech treasure.

The nostalgia theme taking a chunk of the video game market these days it all but fantastic. Nintendo, Atari and Sega have all brought back classic mini consoles or you can grab a raspberry PI kit and DIY. Its the Peter Pan in us aging men that is driving this desire for the enjoyments of our youth. This nostalgia isnt very discerning either as the old games and consoles that are bringing in these high dollar scores. They value is in all consoles from the Atari 2600 to the PlayStations of the 2000s.

Odd Collectors are now finding them sitting on valuable assets, and hipsters are parting with tons of their parents money to get back their youth. Some games are bringing in as much as $50,000. If you are sitting on a copy of “Nintendo World Championships 1990?” Then you could have a $100,000. While its not only about the cash, please take the cash now while this market exists and the bubble hasn’t popped.  If Im writing about this then you know clever investors are plotting a what to capitalize so rest assure this bubble will pop, plan for that.

The Final Thought

While most collectors are more interested in rounding out their personal game libraries, reliving the games they loved as children or simply exploring the history of the gaming industry first-hand. The hype is real and these old games are back and getting a second dose of attention.