• thantik@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Owning a Nintendo 64 is a pretty big hurdle. Have you seen how much those fucking things cost now?!

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        9 months ago

        If you can manage to find a place that has one, they’re usually selling for $200+ now. I’m pretty sure I can get ebay chinese replicas for like $50 though, but there are some games they won’t play.

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          9 months ago

          The N64 had a $200 launch price, which is pretty much $400 now. So nobody is making money from holding onto their N64. Hrm, maybe I should pick one up.

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          9 months ago

          Wait, what? I just bought my younger brother an n64 with an expansion pack, rumble pack, and Majora’s Mask and OoT for Christmas, and all together that only cost 180$. All legit copies and hardware. Made double and triple sure.

          Are people just not hitting the “sort lowest to highest” option on auction sites? Or is this a new development in the last few months?

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            9 months ago

            No, it looks like prices have come way down in the past few months. Last time I checked was a year+ ago. My information just wasn’t up to date.

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              9 months ago

              Ah, that makes sense. Consoles do tend to spike in price at the height of their nostalgia wave. Probably got boosted up for a while by the rumors of an N64 mini not panning out, and instead being presented with the sub par switch online expansion. Probably created a lot of demand for the real thing.

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          9 months ago

          Prices have come down in the last year. I see several on eBay listed tested/working for around $60. One even comes with a controller. Shopgoodwill.com has similar prices when they’re available. Prices for auction items with less than 10hrs look very reasonable.

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      9 months ago

      I regret selling mine when I was 17 cause I wanted to buy a paintball gun and gear. At the time, it was a great call cause I didn’t play any N64 games at the time, and I got to have a blast playing paintball with my friends.

      But man I wish I’d sold something else back then so I could still have my original N64 and games. Still got the ol’ NES and Sega Genesis at least.

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      9 months ago

      If you don’t like the jank of emulation or the risks of going to pirate sites: An Xbox Series S, Game Pass, and a few controllers is an okay replacement. There’s a bunch of Rare games on Game Pass, classic Goldeneye, and they even have stuff like Timesplitters in the store.

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        9 months ago

        I’d emulate anything over giving Microsoft any money at all. But thanks.

        Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Activision, Blizzard – all on my shit list and will never get a penny from me.