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| smass:
The vintage toy market is a house of cards for sure. Vintage gaming - that is just hitting its stride as children of the 80s like myself finally get their kids off to college and have the free time and money to buy back all the gaming crap from our long-past youth. Arcade, pinball, and retro-consoles are at the beginning of a long interest and price appreciation cycle. |
| nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: smass on March 16, 2018, 06:11:12 pm ---The vintage toy market is a house of cards for sure. Vintage gaming - that is just hitting its stride as children of the 80s like myself finally get their kids off to college and have the free time and money to buy back all the gaming crap from our long-past youth. Arcade, pinball, and retro-consoles are at the beginning of a long interest and price appreciation cycle. --- End quote --- Funny enough my 9 & 11 yr old are big on NES and SNES. Primarily the mario world games. they will play those as long as I let them if it's put in front of them. as for Toy's R US. my kids had some gift cards and i got them those modular nerf guns. But other than the giant action figures there was very little of interest to them. They don't even want to go there anymore. The big hurt to my wallet now is gamestop. |
| Titchgamer:
Ya know its funny you guys saying about good memories of Toys R Us. I was just thinking, I have none!! I only remember going there maybe 3 times as a kid and everything being to expensive for my parents to afford to buy me. Obviously as a kid I didnt understand and it was a giant torment. but in hindsight I get why they couldnt buy me the shiny cool toys that were all around me. The only memory of getting anything I really wanted from there was my dad buying me a copy of Dark Wing Duck on the NES for a birthday or something. But that was about £40 if I recall when I think most games at the time were like £25-30 new. |
| pbj:
Well, they always had it, but you were always going to pay at least full retail. I only ever went when we were buying some specific toy for some super particular birthday kid. |
| shponglefan:
FWIW, the Canadian Toys 'R Us's are reportedly profitable and they're trying to find a buyer for them. |
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