OptOut | 8,889 Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 Back in Taiwan, working through the backlog in my online shopping cart. None of these were steals, but eventually you have to embrace the grind of fullset box ticking. At the very least I did pick up a nice copy of Monster World IV, got another PAL exclusive here in Taiwan of all places, and I did find another random MegaDrive plug and play. This one has a small but decent list of games included, and overall the box presentation and design is very appealing. I'm developing quite a nice collection of these MegaDrive spin-offs now, there seems to be an neverending range of different designs! 9 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog | 19 Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 Oddworld Abe's Oddysee UK promo mug. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,819 Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 On 4/25/2023 at 5:22 PM, Code Monkey said: I have no idea what's up with this Donkey Kong box but I had to have it. I'm currently in the process of asking those more knowledgeable than I. Ghoul School was a pretty good steal at this price when I saw it 2 weeks ago but I didn't have time to buy it. I was amazed it was still there today. If I had to guess, I would say this is a homemade box by a small-time business that once catered to renting video games. Of course I could totally be off the mark, but nevertheless that's what it looks like 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOURTURN | 1,256 Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 And among the money losing failures I have faced in 2023 alone... The gods have granted me another chance to own a rare gem when it comes to my grading goals! With this one being approved by Guy Sensei himself! For the record, yesterday and today was a duology of me finding out that my sacrifices were wasted efforts. But in between those cases I managed to obtain this uniquely rare gem! Alright... Here is the lone reason why it's a rare gem! In this case it is the typographical error. According to this article (click here) Namco Bandai Games has posted a report that they were aware that "some" printings of the game say "NARTUO" on the spine. But not much else beyond that. As for condition, I think mine is nice enough to be submitted to Wata Games. My guess is that it get a 9.6 A+ grade. Which is fine just because... 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyree_Cooper | 757 Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 woah that's a nice promo mug! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintegageo | 582 Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 Legitimately been looking for years for one. 9 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1nz | 612 Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 April Abstainin' 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flan | 243 Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 10 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,819 Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 1 hour ago, flan said: Funny, the Nomad was my first Sega system It was basically a portable Genesis, but really cool for the time. I ended up trading it, which is fine since I much prefer to play on the screen, but good memories... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flan | 243 Posted April 29, 2023 Share Posted April 29, 2023 9 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,742 Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 This is only the second time since COVID that I've found games in the wild, and the first time that they were priced at a bargain. It's worth mentioning that these days I don't look for games in the wild all that often, but still it was fun to find these at a yard sale. Everything in the picture was a dollar each. The PSP stuff is all complete. I passed on an SNES and N64 that were extremely dirty. I just didn't feel like cleaning them up to flip. So hopefully someone else got a good deal as well. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD | 1,411 Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 These arrived over the past weeks... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code Monkey | 2,011 Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 Some Wonder Boy games. I honestly don't even remember ordering this, nor why. Also these. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDIRunner | 2,742 Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 1 hour ago, TrekMD said: These arrived over the past weeks... I was considering one of these, but they cost a bit more than I would like to spend. They also have them for the AVS/MVS. Let me know how you like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RegularGuyGamer | 2,013 Posted April 30, 2023 Share Posted April 30, 2023 22 hours ago, flan said: How 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 On 4/29/2023 at 11:18 AM, flan said: It's hilarious to me that the trend of Special Editions that don't include the game started so long ago and still continues. Nice pickups. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyree_Cooper | 757 Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 I wonder who won an AUTHENTIC SEGA ARCADE UNIT. Was there only one to win, or several? Did they mention what game it was? Virtua Fighter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerkobra | 268 Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 Just returned from an Excellent video game themed road trip to meetup with some very cool VGS members 300KM away. The pickups were really flowing for me Note: both Sega CD games are Sealed. Very cool to find 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
360collector | 289 Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 Hucardfreak returns 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jynx | 140 Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 I made my own thread now, but this was ordered two weeks ago before I started my thread. This was the successful purchase that made me want to buy NES games in the box. I don't like to spend more than $150 Canadian on any game, so I try to shop under that amount. That makes many games I love too expensive in the box, so I've never seriously tried before. I saw a boxed NES game that would normally be too expensive in interesting condition, and put it on my watch list. The seller sent me a really good offer, and after shipping and tax I bought a boxed Balloon Fight for $149.81 Canadian! ($110.59 US) Isn't it strange and neat? For such an amazing price, who am I to complain about fading? It taught me to look into flawed copies of games, as good deals can happen with them. Balloon Fight was one of the five games I owned for NES the first time I had one as a little kid. It's one of my favourite NES games, and my favourite of all black box games. I'm also pretty good at it! 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nesmaster | 402 Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 (edited) On 4/30/2023 at 8:55 PM, killerkobra said: Just returned from an Excellent video game themed road trip to meetup with some very cool VGS members 300KM away. The pickups were really flowing for me Note: both Sega CD games are Sealed. Very cool to find I was there, can confirm. Edited May 3, 2023 by Nesmaster 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flan | 243 Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 (edited) last one Edited May 3, 2023 by flan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MiamiSlice | 3,096 Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 I haven't posted in a while! Haven't been collecting aggressively but some cool things have come through. Please excuse the bad lighting on some of these. Sing 4 is an interesting one, it's not rare, but I haven't seen a brand new microphone bundle with the contest sticker before. That Rocker Power PC game was like $0.25 at the library. Still not worth it, but I couldn't just let it sit there (it's been sitting there for months). I still don't have a copy of Metroid Prime Remastered, but I have the My Nintendo reward. Finally got the Harvest Moon GB registration card to make mine CIB (I don't know what happened to my original card, I usually was very good at holding onto those). Also picked up another of one of my favorite variants, the Crafting Mama iron-on jewels variant. And another sealed button variant of Ninja Town, and another jigsaw puzzle variant of Zack & Wiki. GBC homebrew! And something to read 8 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avatar! | 1,819 Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 3 hours ago, MiamiSlice said: I still don't have a copy of Metroid Prime Remastered, but I have the My Nintendo reward. Haha, I know the felling Although in this case I have an extra copy of MPR for trade - if interested just drop me a line! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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