Holy crap game prices are out of control

Whoa, $100 for pokemon games?? Which ones? I was playing OG Gold on my 2DS last night and I have no desire to play the shitty Heartgold/Soulsilver remasters because of all the stupid changes they made to the mechanics and events, among other things. I think this just goes back to all the complaints I've made about remasters of good games and how much I hate it when publishers force remasters on gamers. I'm so glad that Nintendo hasn't forced the pokemon remasters on us, at least.

In regards to the skyrocketing price tags on these old pokemon games, I have two theories: ONE is that none of the post gen-two games are (to my knowledge) available digitally, so demand for original carts is going to be high, and TWO it's because they are official Nintendo products. First party Nintendo titles always demand a ton of money used, even the shitty ones like Super Paper Mario. I've just come to understand that as an owner of Nintendo products.

I think bringing these old games (like Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire for example) to digital stores would help bring down prices on the used games a LOT, but Nintendo is terrible about re-releasing their older games digitally nowadays.

This reminds me of how great of an investment most games are, though. I bought my copy of Bomberman The Second Attack for N64 back in 2010 for $25 at a local store and now it always sells for over $150 dollars. I bought my copy of Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn for Wii for $70 in 2014 and I'm sure it sells for way more than that now. And Melee? I got my copy as a christmas present in 2002 and today it goes for more than it did new.

Moral of the story: if you like making gambles, then game collecting is the hobby for you.

Yeah that's insane, and some things rarely go down, they just keep going up.

WHY??

You're probably going to regret doing that down the road. I did a similar thing back in 2011 when I sold roughly half of my game collection, which is something I still regret doing to this day, because I had a ton of awesome and prized games/systems, like Streets of Rage 3 (one of my favorite games of all time), Darius Gaiden (Saturn version), Astal, Mischief Makers (one of my favorite childhood games), my Sega Saturn, my Dreamcast, my Sega Genesis, my top loading NES, my SNES, many controllers, and other gaming stuff. Granted, I didn't mind getting rid of some of that stuff, especially my NES & SNES stuff which didn't leave much of an impression on me, but I still think I went too far.

Overall though, I've learned not to sell my games + other gaming stuff, because whenever I have, I've always regretted it in the end. I hope you don't regret this decision down the road.