Retro tech is becoming trendy again - and selling for big bucks

Old-school technology like iPods, flip phones and Walkmans is seeing a big rise in popularity - and shoppers are spending big bucks to buy the vintage items. NBC’s Stephanie Gosk reports for TODAY.
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#retro #nostalgia #technology

[@U2WB]

There’s a reason why retro is becoming popular again. I believe it’s because so many of us long for past times when the world was a better place, life was more cheerful and less stressful, and the future looked bright instead of bleak.

[@ChemicalCorpse91]

Give me a break 😂

[@tw8464]

True

[@GameZone-tz7lc]

agree very true I feel the same way that is why I still use retro and vintage stuff still

[@sejjr79ify]

Totally!!! I’m on board

[@snarkyalyx]

Where everyone was living in peace & where technology lasted. Now I can't even go to the public restroom without being harassed

[@amandamedina2533]

Aaaaand this is why I never get rid of my old gadgets. They’re all still in perfect working condition. 😂

[@madero-jb5ri]

I still have my old Super NES.

[@amandamedina2533]

@@madero-jb5ri Me too and I have many other retro consoles as well.

[@BadThrusher]

I have kept mine in their original boxes and are in perfect condition. My kids love to see these funny technologies

[@zerocal76]

I have all my retro consoles in mint condition, same w my old laptops. The issue is when u start collecting today. I'm currently at 16 laptops, 3 tablets and like 30 video game controllers 😵‍💫

[@ZealKingdom]

I have 650 games, about 50 consoles and handhelds. Kept everything!

[@BenjaminHartleyReturns]

Because it works and because analogue physical mediums can’t be deleted from history by corporations.

[@tw8464]

Exactly

[@humankerbal3623]

yeah.. I guess but cassettes and VHS can degrade, I think that CD and Blu-Ray is actually the best preservation methods we have now. You can always build a new player, you cant un-degrade a VHS tape

[@zerocal76]

Sure but the best is to have a hard copy + digital copy + digital backups!

[@chronology556]

As long as a tube has life and the flyback transformer works, a CRT TV analog TV is repairable. That can’t be said about digital flat screens. You can always digitally backup all your tapes and then re record tapes onto new VHS, if you desire.

[@tw8464]

This is why we need paper books too. 📚

[@stormmitchell2776]

Boys, we're back in business!

[@TheLegitAlpha]

The thing is a lot of old tech has better build quality. Problem is more common materials need that level of build quality.

[@unkono]

Nintendo and Nokia was really durable.

[@hanbury22]

But companies won’t do that unfortunately

[@Dani_1012]

​@@unkono Thats true, my 2009 Nintendo DSi still works perfectly

[@shanewooten941]

Because there is no profit in making them durable, but there is profit and selling the customer another one

[@Tony78432]

I’d say streaming services and corporate greed was the impetus for this resurgence in embracing physical media. In 2024 I still buy CDs, DVDs, Vinyl Records, and original N64 cartridges

[@bluestingerborg]

I still use reel to reel

[@eksbocks9438]

Because the devices don't have Paywalls.

[@chrisbailey7384]

Not to mention that most of everything has became a monthly subscription model! We live in a world that you'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

[@sukottotsukeshi.]

@@chrisbailey7384plus they might not have everything

[@strangewayfaringstranger]

I'm not paying for that wall.

[@chrisbailey7384]

@@UberFoX It's the fact that they expect us people to be happy and not complain about owning nothing.

[@AdamBorseti]

I just enjoy owning physical media that doesn't require internet, isn't tainted by DRM or any other limitations. I still use CDs daily and own a bunch of DVDs too. There's a comfort in knowing that if the internet goes down or something happens to the grid, it's not the end of all the media I've collected. It's all right there on the shelf!

[@ms.pirate]

You are so right. I love physical media

[@BizzyJ1987]

90s kid here and it's so nice to see some of the stuff that I grew up with becoming popular again

[@unkono]

Same

[@TheMcGuireLife]

Me too!

[@anthonyxavier6300]

You should show the sold listing instead of the asking price.

[@Sirmeatwad]

Exactly. Random asking prices mean nothing. You have to look at what the sold listings are actually selling for. Whoever did the research for this video must have never really bought anything on Ebay

[@StephSH]

I thought the same thing- there are things for sale on eBay, and there are things that sold on eBay. Very different categories .

[@thunderbird1921]

I'm not surprised to see TVs from like the 80s and 90s becoming a bit more popular again. Yes, they're heavy, bulky and not always in high definition, but guess what? The quality/durability is often FAR higher than the modern stuff that will be in the junk yard in like 10 years or so.

[@dougfisher1813]

I rescue the tube TV's from the landfill every time I see one, and they always work. I have about 20 of them. The new TVs I see out there always have shattered screens.

[@Paul_Wetor]

I made a DVD copy of a movie from VHS. On my HDTV it looked terrible, but on my tube TV it looks decent.

[@nunyabusiness896]

@@Paul_Wetor Learn to de-interlace.

[@nunyabusiness896]

Delusional. CRTs are good for composite video out of an old game system or VCR, but it's just blurry crap for anything HD. Lasting 10 years is trivial when a solid 40" HDTV is $200.

[@bn5445]

For retro consols, crt's are superior

[@butterflygirl13]

Everything old is new again! I never got rid of my VCR or record player. Vintage rocks!

[@matthew_natividad]

Ugh I miss my vcr with Thomas and friends recordings

[@JoeBuck207]

It's not worth nothing.

[@SuperFlashDriver]

@butterflygirl13 To this very day, we have kept old cables, wires, VCRs, TVs, etc. They may not be in use or no longer used anymore, but I told my parents that if they plan to get rid of the magnavox VCR, I'd tell them to give it to me and keep it, even if I'm not able to use anymore. So for us, ever since the mistake of throwing out our N64 Pikachu console, I've told my mom not to throw out stuff unless I'm absolutely sure that I'm not longer using it anymore. Otherwise, it ends up stored in our bins and go from there.

[@Yoyomu205]

I still got my vcr,cd player,sanyo flip phone from sprint, tapes and cds my nirvana smells like teen spirit cd would sell more

[@ned_interrobang]

LOL now everyone thinks their old junk is worth something. now all the marketplace and reseller sites prices will jump up, and everything just sits there, nothing being sold. yeah, i like my old stuff... but i'm not paying more for it than i did when it was brand new!

[@noaharkadedelgado]

Fax

[@jojokabo78]

hear that!! agreed

[@moteroargentino7944]

Yeah, unless it's collectible like a special edition of something or brand new in it's original box, it's just a novelty that no many people will buy at high prices.

[@3DJapan]

​@@noaharkadedelgadoI don't know if fax machines would be popular in the states but they're still used daily in Japan.

[@bsanchez3563]

@@3DJapan ooh nostagia of 04 an or else 05 an 06.

[@SmallBallPoker]

Sellers on eBay can & always have asked for ABSURD prices for their items. The real question is: WHAT ARE THOSE ITEMS ACTUALLY SELLING FOR?

[@goodwillundercover3735]

Filter by "sold" to see the selling prices.

[@RudieObias]

A VHS player? Also known as VCR 😂

[@littleredflying-fox]

A Betamax player is also a VCR.🤣

[@RudieObias]

@@littleredflying-fox Yes, but back in the day, NOBODY called a VCR a VHS player - especially after Betamax died off.

[@TracyAdams-ry2fc]

VHS player just plays it but VCR stands for Video Cassette Recorder so it plays & records

[@Burritosuupreme]

Thank god they didn’t say “vinyl players”.

[@Servergmr]

I call them that because I'm a weird nerd.

[@humankerbal3623]

I hate these news stories because they encourage people to sell their old things to hoarders and collectors for absurd prices instead of hobbiest, its especially frustrating with things that are usually extremely common

[@trappy69420]

Literally what I was thinking-

[@Warp3326]

yes

[@KokoroKatsura]

you don't want to digital foundry and linus make fw900 videos?

[@zerocal76]

By the time it hits the news its old news already. Retro stuff has been taking off for yrs now. The news its so late retro video games are actually going down in price (at least the most expensive ones)

[@chronology556]

If anything, it demonstrates there is a market to make these things again. FPGA consoles and making new cathode ray tubes or at least telling people to stop dumpstering them, because it will increase the value of existing stock and we won’t be able to experience analog TV, ever again.

[@RokushoHasashi]

I grew up with retro tech, and I still have my Nintendo 64 because it may be retro but it's still fun to play. This generation will never understand how fun it was playing on an N64 or listening to music on a Walkman, CD Player or iPod.

[@unkono]

Split screen multiplayer.

[@RokushoHasashi]

Yes that too 😎📺🎮

[@R_A_3000]

​@@unkono Stop looking at the corner of my screen. 😆

[@_AR_216]

My kids (9,9,5) and myself play N64 regularly. Mario Kart, Goldeneye and Revenge being are go to games!

[@DimitriosChannel]

Make Rambus memory great again!

[@goggleuser12]

Shoutout to all the dvd/CD collectors 😅 And if you still own an Apex DVD player, you're the real MVP

[@kieranmorley2833]

I hated this video for so so many reasons but I have lots of CDs and I won’t ever be getting rid of them. Same thing goes for my old consoles. They’re mine and I know if I sell anything now it’ll go way way up in value afterwards.

[@TracyAdams-ry2fc]

I have a Sony VHS/DVD recorder player combo

[@rustymixer2886]

That thing was cheap and could do it all

[@NonameNoname-tr8uv]

I feel so seen

[@TheCynicalTuber]

I still have my Apex with the region free fix, and the other fix.

[@LaoTzudonym]

Finally I can justify to my husband why I have a drawer full of ourdated cell phone chargers

[@xerxestelevision6666]

lol! That would not be included in the list of desirable retro devices. They can make new chargers today that work better than the originals for cheaper. It’s the complex electronic devices that you plus the chargers into which hold the value. Clean your drawer out!

[@helendropinski3754]

Back in the day, there was no need for charging and worked when the power went out too. Those were the days😊!

[@xerxestelevision6666]

@@helendropinski3754 lol! You miss your infections from lack of antiseptics too? How about not being able to refrigerate food before we invented refrigerators? Life sure was better before they went and invented the wheel too, now everyone is zooming here and there, I miss the old days!

[@guillermoestevez1168]

Nobody looking for those, throw them away

[@LaoTzudonym]

@@guillermoestevez1168 😆 Exactly what my husband says! hahaha

[@Nemo71340]

I'm in my mid 30s. Recently got all of my vintage video games out of my dads house when he passed away last year. My mind is blown on how much some of the stuff is selling for. But the crazy thing is I ended up keeping a ton of it though because I started playing it to test the games and it brought back so many memories.

[@JB_Hobbies]

This just makes me sad that I lost my Gameboy Color a few years ago. Found the box, found the cartridges, absolutely can’t find the actual unit. Sadness and tears.

[@Dudeguymansir]

Now, you’re a GameMan. 😢 loss of innocence RIP

[@BPJJohn]

I got one a Purple One with a couple of games.

[@NonameNoname-tr8uv]

It’s better to have all of the games than only the console. You can get another one for around $100. The game prices are ridiculous. Pokemon yellow is like $200.

[@onelphil8832]

Pokemon Yellow is $60@@NonameNoname-tr8uv

[@moseskuria1234]

Try going to conventions they'll have some decent prices

[@icecreamhero2375]

I hope DVD's make a comeback. I like owning movies and tv shows. Streaming services always delete shows. You have to pay for another service to watch it.

[@Anonymous-wb3nz]

*DVDs. Punctuation is hard. Also, they have already made a comeback. You must live in a bubble.

[@icecreamhero2375]

@@Anonymous-wb3nz I buy them all the time. I know there are people who still love to buy them but target and bestbuy stopped selling them.

[@eily_b]

They do

[@slayerized27]

Oh yay, an inferior format. Why not bring back laserdiscs as well.. they're called blurays. 😅

[@icecreamhero2375]

@@slayerized27 I can go either way really. More people have DVD players so they work on more things. The HD is nice but I'm grateful to own movies I buy at all.n

[@littleredflying-fox]

I guess I'll hold on to my Atari 400, ti994a, and C64 computers after all...

[@moneynoob1372]

When TF did the GameBoy Advance become retro. GAWD. 😂

[@tankmchavocproductions6907]

It’s 23 years old. When the GBA came out, 23 years ago was 1978.

[@chrisbailey7384]

@@tankmchavocproductions6907Time flies way too fast!

[@chrisbailey7384]

@@tankmchavocproductions6907 PS5 will soon become retro/vintage in a matter of time!

[@matthew_natividad]

Glad I still have mine

[@lapis591]

@tankmchavocproductions6907 It's not 'retro.' Retro specifically refers to things from the 70s and 80s. Vintage refers to things from the 50s and 60s.

[@phakeAccount]

Just because that's the listing price doesn't mean that's what people are paying for it.

[@lilPopper]

In a digital world where retro tech is back, let’s be honest. Many of us want to own the content we buy and take back control. The subscription economy is bleeding your expenses. And you can only watch, play and listen to so much content for a limited time.

[@GoonieLord]

A few years ago I was walking around my neighborhood with my cassette player on hand enjoying the Greatful Dead. I got stared by a few when I had to flip my cassette to side B. Clearly the folks staring were those who had no clue to the ancient tec in my hands

[@twdjt6245]

As an eBay/Facebook seller who has also sold a few of these vintage items….I’ve noticed most of the people buying these things aren’t even old enough to have been born when they were manufactured. I think that within itself says something.

[@strangewayfaringstranger]

Yeah probably that more younger people are getting into these things, thanks to shows like Stranger Things.

[@KyleReeseCel2029]

How would you know that?

[@SoupyMittens]

@@strangewayfaringstranger Thats not really an influence, some young people just like older stuff, and don't want to deal with the BS of newer products

[@user-nf9or7pp6o]

I prefer old school items. They lasted for years and were better made. I have 2 tv sets d old versions and they are still working. ❤❤❤

[@smorris281]

When I need something new for my house, I head straight to the thrift store to buy older items from the 90's, or older. I have a 1940's Waring blender and a KitchenAid Classic from the early 80's. Both items in perfect working order. Also, a 1950's rotary phone, and a 1987 ITT wall phone, both used regularly.

[@dgwaters]

I got a couple of old TV sets from the 60’s and 70’s…and they still work too!

[@evanchapmanfanman]

I am an antique and vintage fan/light collector, I do also have a 1960s rotary phone. There’s something really fascinating about these old devices and it brings me joy to resurrect some of these appliances.

[@jckorn9148]

I love my retro collection, because it's mine and I bought it when it was new. But to go back and get these systems and games again, for the price people want, isn't worth it. $200 for a Switch Lite and you're set for many many years.

[@klausschwab11]

For real. I have accumulated a large retro game collection over the years but that was when prices were cheap. I would not do the same today. What people want for this stuff is insane now. The Switch is definitely a modern classic and is all people need now.

[@lexa_power]

Yeah why pay more when you can play all the n64 and snes and nes games on the switch? I still have my own snes and n64 but they are difficult to hook up on modern tvs and it’s easier to just play with the switch.

[@locutiss100]

Well see how serious people are when you mention 8 track tapes 🤣

[@rwj777]

I actually own three 8 track players and over one hundred 8 track tapes. Lol

[@AveryKiwi]

These retro techs have been trending since the pandemic started, most of them were at their peak in 2021, however they are starting to declining slowly in popularity recently.

[@unkono]

That was mainly retro gaming

[@beanbon666]

Of course, life gets too easy and boring when you have a device that does everything withing 3 seconds with little to no effort. Analog tech comes with it's distinctive quirks such as its look, noise, touch, and its feel.

[@bsanchez3563]

True.

[@snakeshadows6993]

Not for me. I rather enjoy the ease my modern devices give me. At the same time, I definitely appreciate the devices that came before.

[@SoupyMittens]

Yeah, honestly the seamlessness of the modern internet and just life as a whole recently has really started to wear on me, it no longer feels fun to use devices and machines

[@bsanchez3563]

@@SoupyMittens an if it was fwiw in brick mortar stores fwiwvI would buy them if new in box with all the stuffs but.. fwiw sadly it kind of is expensive to do regardless if it was possible it still would be costly to have that be a reality fwiw.. plus not enough others would want in on it fwiw..

[@joshs3916]

Loved the pre smartphone era.

[@helendropinski3754]

Seems with every new smart phone, people get dumber😂😂😂😂

[@rickytrux]

Exactly….well said!

[@savirsblacktop4069]

Because the 90s were the best and today is 💩 god I’m glad I lived in that era

[@Alaryicjude]

They REALLY showed the yellow sports walkman that I literally took apart when I was like 11 for skirt $1,000?! 🤦 One of the springs for the door got me RIGHT in the eyeball, I'll never forget that! Lol! I miss my Talkboy and remote control Kit from Knight Rider the most though.

[@OmniEthereal7]

This is why I keep all my game consoles to the best of my ability, we live too far in the digital world and these devices I grew up in still has their charm! Always have something like a Game Boy to enjoy the simplest things

[@ByteSizedSociety]

Game Boy Walk Man Child Hood Don't deny it Some of these devices were really fun

[@LostMySauce]

*digs up Motorola Razr from garage*

[@sukottotsukeshi.]

Glad I’m not the only one who wants a rotary phone

[@dgwaters]

This is great! I collect old telephones, mostly Western Electrics from the 1940’s to the 1970’s…and they still work! I also have a couple of the old televisions from the 1960’s and 1970’s. They still work too! I’ll take old school technology any day.

[@TheLordOfNothing]

Neat. How'd you wire them to work?

[@dgwaters]

You can get one of those wires with the modular connector and splice it into the phone.@@TheLordOfNothing

[@battlestar976]

“I long for the days when things were more inconvenient.”

[@TheLordOfNothing]

And more reliable.

[@eyeseer1]

Nostalgia like a boomerang has a way of coming back to you. Older technology was built to last.

[@overcomingwithin]

just cos its posted on ebay for 9k doesn't mean its going to sell for 9k

[@burgundycobalt5665]

Wish I never got rid of my old childhood gadgets now 😢

[@user-hu6lr3vr7g]

I thought it was GenZ into retro tech but it seems like the millenials, it makes sense, it's nostalgia for them.

[@noaharkadedelgado]

Gen Z too because of the Y2K and Frutiger Aero Aesthetic that’s been taking off

[@matthew_natividad]

There are somethings I miss from the early 00s

[@ACD1994]

GenZ are too young to have used most of the retro items, featured in the video.

[@sukottotsukeshi.]

@@ACD1994and there’s somethings we like for aesthetics

[@ab8817]

@@noaharkadedelgado "taking off" lol no gen z just pillages anything for a meme for 6 months, there's going to be nothing left by the end of the year

[@callibor3119]

Uh, yeah, because life is good when you have something that holds a lot of emotional memories with. Radios, portable dvd players, boom boxes, MP3 players, Zune and so many other things to cherish that holds a lot of thoughts and memories in our lifetime. When people say “back in the day,” they really mean the best of times when everything was good and too many have those moments to live through the dread of the present.

[@3DJapan]

I've been trying to learn how to repair old consoles but even broken ones are outrageously expensive.

[@monsterenergyaxe]

All offline with no garbage subscription and updates.

[@MrSomeGamerdude]

when i was young my parents said to me that the New Sega Genesis is too expensive and 30+ years later, they are still right (original sealed in box is over $4k on ebay)

[@dragoon1090]

I've been buying a lot of retro tech lately. It satisfies my nostalgia and lets me show my kids the technology I had at their age. I'm tired of corporations telling me what I can and can't do with my stuff.

[@smorris281]

I have a rotary phone on my nightstand, I use it regularly. I also have an 80's ITT beige wall phone in my kitchen.

[@helendropinski3754]

I have and use my old Princess push button phone. Works great at 50 years old

[@chrisbailey7384]

It makes such an iconic sound when you use it.

[@jacobpatriot8885]

lol *EVERYBODY* *LOWBALL* *THOSE* *RESELLERS*

[@thelemon5069]

Pleaase

[@Beatleboy-fc3kh]

For real 😂

[@professorquack]

basically this is every who's 40 is buying things they couldn't get when they were a kid. Soon it will be fortnite cards or something like that.

[@stanford-nf4jk]

I had to sell my vinyl in order to pay for a funeral but I still have all my CDs, a Sony Discman, my Gen 2 iPod touch and too many old consoles and portable gaming devices and games for them to list here.

[@josephlalock8378]

i would sell my cds, players and changers before i would sell my vinyl and turntables

[@stanford-nf4jk]

@josephlalock8378 I understand where you’re coming from. I really do. But *nobody* wants to buy the stuff you mentioned. At least not for any substantial amount. What was I supposed to do? Let my grandma’s body rot in the senior facility? Besides, I never had time to listen to them what with my job and then spending time with my widower grandpa after work.

[@tankmchavocproductions6907]

Tastes change. I’ve been saying that having everything consolidated into one device (smartphones) only works in modern history’s buying preferences. Show an iPhone to someone in the 1930’s and they’d ask why they’re paying a pretty penny for features they’ll never use, and remark that if it gets stolen, then they lose everything.

[@GoonieLord]

I am still collecting retro handhelds currently only missing the GBA Micro

[@amartyaroy3754]

Always loved those spinning landlines

[@TheLordOfNothing]

I presume you've never actually used one.

[@amartyaroy3754]

@@TheLordOfNothing I have, dialing a number is a headache have to wait for the whole spin to complete first

[@chrisbailey7384]

Rotary dialing phones

[@Mo.Jo.]

I remember we had 2 old school TV's, and one of them was in storage. There was some rainfall that got into the storage room and so my dad decided he would use the spare TV for parts. I remember even when he did need the parts, they would work perfectly in the TV in our living room. I still remember him opening up the TV's and fiddling about. Lol, good old times. Now they're disposable. Any small issue and you throw it away for a new one. If there's warranty, most likely the provider will just replace it for a new one because its cheaper for them that way.

[@Anonymous-wb3nz]

*TVs. Punctuation is hard.

[@Shawn666Hellion]

The sony watchman pocket television needs to make a comeback

[@justayoutuber1906]

its has. Its called a smartphone

[@chrisbailey7384]

😀@@justayoutuber1906 Lol!

[@gomerhanger2285]

You can thank the entertainment industry for this. Most of what you see are because of sellers market to entertainment industry for props😊

[@mew19forever]

I grew up in the 80's and still have a lot of those items, guess i'm trendy now!

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Nothing beats the satisfying SNAP of an original Motorola RAZR flip phone when you hang up on someone... ;-P Still the best physical design (drops in a shirt chest pocket), just need to update the guts to Android from Java, and to 5G.

[@gedaman]

The Motorola RAZR is possibly the best flip phone of all time. I remember keeping mine active for about 3 years even when the battery was almost completely worn out because it was such a great mobile phone.

[@Techno-Universal]

Reminds me of the famous Gameboy that got damaged in a bomb blast within a US soldier’s pocket during a war in the Middle East in the early 1990s and it amazingly survived and still works today with it on display in it’s demo mode within the NY Nintendo store museum! It’s just the LCD display on it has faded quite a bit and they also featured that Gameboy in a Nintendo Power magazine issue from just after it was initially damaged in the bomb blast! :)

[@unkono]

Nintendium

[@shareofmoney]

There is nothing wrong with this, in my opinion. I still have some physical media myself because it is simpler as opposed to having to be consumed with everything digital. I think people want simple so its good to have these simpler mediums lying around. Its not just about nostalgia.

[@williamnessanbaum7464]

I really regret giving up my Sega Dreamcast... By the same token, I'm really glad I held on to my Sega Saturn.

[@sukottotsukeshi.]

I’m glad I got a new Xbox 360 for my birthday

[@luisreyes1963]

And here I thought the only retro tech gaining popularity again were video game consoles & physical media. 🤓

[@misterjohnson3363]

I was just looking at Sega Genesis games yesterday hahaha and saw the prices....no Sir

[@baltimoreluke]

they should call this program "Yesterday"

[@noaharkadedelgado]

Pun intended

[@glassowlie]

In the UK, we have a channel called Yesterday.

[@GameZone-tz7lc]

Older stuff was made to last longer newer stuff they make it so that we keep buying faster I do repairs and I am surprised how these big companies cheap out on components and thermal paste it's crazy

[@Flipclockfans]

No mention of Flip Clocks. Prices have skyrocketed on eBay.

[@larryboysen5911]

I have a collection of Sony cassette and CD portable players...one is the first CD player...about the size of a typical paperback book. Some of the later CD players look like miniature flying saucers! The collection features other makes as well. Going back further, my collection also covers 100 year old radios, Victrolas, as well as telephones...1918-1963. On the TV side of things, I have one of the first Watchman sets. My HiFi Stereo system features Sony components from 1981, and broadcast turntables from 1960. Record collection covers Edison cylinders, 78s...1900-1958...45s, covering the classic rock era of the 1950s-early 60s...as well as many LPs. from 1948-1970! Love the past!!

[@flashflame4952]

The cassettes I made back in the late 80s and 90s still sound good playing in my Denon double cassette player through my baby advent speakers ...through a Denon receiver!!! I wish they would have not stopped making Walkmans...Then I went through 3 iPods from Apple! Then the buggers stopped making and supporting them. So I went ahead and bought 3 Sandisk 32gb and have 2 of them hooked up to speakers and a small stereo amp in different rooms. One is for when I go to the gym.

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

I grew up with record players. We had a tube TV when I was a kid (B&W) My favorite thing ever of the modern era was the iPod classic!

[@justayoutuber1906]

20 years from now EVERYONE will want CDs again. Mark my words.

[@locutiss100]

How about 8 tracks 😂

[@saintriss]

I bought a blackberry pearl and a Nikon coolpix

[@homeinthecountry2]

Wow, we have a goldmine of these classics, lol!!

[@DaKrawnik]

Proves how bored we are on this planet.

[@noaharkadedelgado]

Wym

[@tbc9096]

I have two VCRs and many tapes. It’s so much fun. However, thrift stores are being greedy and jacking up the prices on VCRs

[@beanbon666]

Vintage games are quite a waste of dollars due to high resallers imo. I just download the rom instead

[@noaharkadedelgado]

Emulating is a great substitute but it’s not the same

[@beanbon666]

@@noaharkadedelgadoI agree, it is not the same, but the resellers sell these games at a ridiculous high price. I collect CDs, VHS, DVDs, Order bulk cassette tapes to make custom mixtapes because they are very cheap compared to as collecting PS1/2, DS games. There is a way to make pirated GBA on the cheap though and add the rom onto it if you want to go analog with gba games.

[@curiousnomadic]

People that missed out on the 80s and 90s really missed out.

[@ET_Explorer]

I still own and play a panasonic SL-SW515 portable cd player. The music is great with headphones.

[@emiliaganchorre]

My Nikon F2 is still banging with 135mm f3.5

[@travelchoice89]

🕹💰 Fascinating to see how retro tech is making a comeback and fetching big bucks! 💸🔙

[@2riel]

This is crazy accurate. I just switched back to a flip phone in December!

[@GameZone-tz7lc]

I agree I refurbish retro electronics and they sell fast and mostly it is younger people buying them

[@jonlosito2004]

Vintage rocks!! My friends uncle has a 90s Toyota Land Cruiser 80 Series SUV with 270k miles on the odometer. He loves it a lot and he would never trade it!!

[@Paul_Wetor]

It's not just the retro tech, it's also simpler tech. I've been looking for a basic Mahjongg game for my tablet, but they all seem to be jazzed up with weird patterns. I just want the basic game! I have one on my Windows 98 PC but it's a bear - I might win 1 out of 50 times.

[@therongperson]

I own alot of retro tech. My favorite being a single slot rotary pay phone. Great memories. 😁

[@Techno-Universal]

0:38 pretty much the Lynx was Atari’s attempt at a handheld gaming system in the early 1990s but it ended up barely selling any units compared to the Sega Game Gear and especially the Nintendo Gameboy! :)

[@elultimo102]

I have 7 turntables and over 20 VHS-VCRs. 1100 LPs and around 1000 VHS tapes, not counting at least 100 sealed blanks. Also a red JVC Video-sphere. Then there are the Ma Bell dial and touch-tone phones, including some rare ones. I forgot about the video game I won in 1978, that is still in the un-opened box.

[@zemmay]

Isn’t it funny how when talking about VCRs people call them “VHS players” nowadays? No one called them that at the time VCRs were commonly in use. Maybe some time after dvd players, mp3 players, and Blu ray players, etc came out.

[@only1muppet]

I still have a few duel cassette players and nice linear tracking record player. Now I’m wondering what they’re worth, I don’t think I’ll sell the record player. But it would be interesting to see if it’s even worth anything.

[@TracyAdams-ry2fc]

I have old phonographs, Stereos with a remote control, 8 track tape players, portable phonograph, CD players, portable cassette players with radio, Nintendo, Sega, VCR , VCR/DVD combo player, an old “box” TV, Apple computer CDs, VHS m9vies, DVD movies, vinyl LPs and all are in excellent working condition!

[@DavidLS1]

Who doesn't want fuzzy lines of static across their videos?

[@mysterymayhem7020]

those who don't want to worry about if they actually own the item online.

[@magzmoney]

Naw, I'm okay. I can't go back to that. 😂

[@Thedaleb1]

My 2095 4Runner haz a factory cassette player along with 6 disc cd, I have mixed tapes from high school (1984-1988) that still sound great and are in the glove box right now.

[@bstaznkid4lyfe392]

Don't buy it, you don't need it..

[@noaharkadedelgado]

But I do :))