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They probably didn’t pay attention to the games. One who wasn’t paying attention would think the Break Man fight in MM3 was a Proto Man fight. Of course he is apparently the bad guy in MM5 but you see the plot twist if you finish the game. In MM7, you actually do fight Protoman but it’s just to test your ability (although he can kill you, what a jerk). But that’s probably not relevant to the cartoon as MM7 came out well after the cartoon.

It’s not necessarily malicious behavior by the seller. It could be that he just duplicated someone else’s listing and doesn’t realize the difference between brand new sealed and very good CIB Theres a button at the bottom of every listing that says “sell one like this” If you click it, eBay will create a duplicate of that listing for you and allow you to make any necessary edits. This may explain why his price is $150 also, I think that’s a little high for a used copy of Dragoon

I am still missing Dragonquest V. Wish I had bought it before it went crazy. I’d even settle for a loose copy at this point. I was lucky to find an extra loose copy of DQ IV during this hunt for Dragon Quest DS games. Not willing to sell IV straight up, but I am willing do a trade+ for V

1. Battletoads Turbo Tunnel (no time limit, one try) 2. Mike Tyson’s Punchout, Mike Tyson fight (timer starts, one try) 3. Gradius Stage 1 (use any time remaining from Mike Tyson fight, one try)

Hey @Gloves Can we make the eyeroll emoji thing look more eyerolly

I don’t see why that’s considered special. We already settled this on the other thread. Everyone already knows it’s more correctly called PSX

Id rather get $1M worth of dogecoin

And 1 screw Zelda also. It’s the rarest, there are zero known to exist

It was a part of my childhood but I’m so burnt out from CE’s. I hate CE editions, they make me feel sick now.

Is GBA considered old school?

If you look at the screw holes on the back shell, they are part of the injection mold pattern. They are not drilled. You can tell because the inner surface of the holes is smooth. If the holes were drilled, they would have a rougher surface with swirl scratches. I doubt Nintendo would have made another mold with either no holes or only one hole. Assuming there are no other molds, there would be no one screw Zelda like you described.

I smell a new market for Queen of England edition homebrews and mods. Limited production of 10 units intended as tribute to the Queen. Unfortunately she did not accept them, so now they can be yours

The article says the queen never even took possession of it. I have a regular Wii that the queen never took possession of. Mine is only $10k

Haha I’m quoting myself here My vague memory proved to be correct.. Just picked this up on a local Craigslist sale. Unfortunately looks like the previous owner attempted to peel the refurbished sticker or something, it’s raised from the middle but not from the sides. But I’m not complaining, haven’t even seen this since it was for sale in 2016 and I’ve been looking the whole time.

I used to think that there would be a crash in retro game collecting. But now I’m starting to think that it’s actually asset inflation caused by money creation. We are seeing inflation in many things: stocks, commodities, crypto, real estate, collectables, cars, you name it. Even consumer goods are beginning to see some price inflation. Everyone is busy “investing” their money into things rather than spending it in the real economy. Unfortunately, parking money into these investments means the money is no longer circulating quite as much through the real economy (ie. services, restaurants, tourism, consumer retail, staple goods, etc.) Indicators that the real economy is not getting the money circulation it needs (money velocity) means the government will just pump more money into the economy in the hopes that the additional money in people hands will stimulate more spending in the real economy. But instead people just take that additional money and invest it, which creates even more inflation in these investments.

x2 A lot of employer selected 401k custodians will charge high fees. They figure most people aren’t going to pay attention to what they’re charging and won’t work with a secondary broker. When you get outside of the broker that your employer selected you’ll find there’s a lot more competitive brokers out there. Continue getting the maximum match from your employer as that’s free money, but put any excess cash into a secondary broker

Your right, I’m not drawing down yet, so have thought all that through yet. I get that you should be in stable investments by retirement age. But assuming you got 1M by age 43 and if you can afford to work and extra 10 years after that (not touching investments) you should be able to stay in growth funds for an average of 10% another decade right? You may get a low return some years but averaged out over the 10 years, should come out ok right?

I wasn’t criticizing anyone who may be retirement age. Just pointing out to the younger generation, there’s a lot of learning resources and YouTube videos nowadays. Dave Ramsey is an example. If someone has a modest annual income of $45k and they save 10% pretax monthly, that’s $750 a month or $375 biweekly. At 10% average annualized return (pretty easy to find with many mutual funds) that will get you $1M in 25 years (assuming no major collapse of the financial system as we know it) Anyone who is 18 years old right now, follow this and retire at 43. 10% annual return on $1M is $100k spending money each year.

If you are the average working American and you don’t have at least a million by retirement age, you have not been doing it right and may not even be retiring comfortably

Sounds like it was a reseal to me Ba-boom!

Haiku time: Doge coin is a joke. If you spend money on it, The joke is on you.

You should see if Wata will grade it

I’ve had many chances to get these CIB over the years for less than $100 sometimes as low as $40. Always hesitated then declined because your essentially buying cardboard. Those old magnetized floppy disks just don’t seem very appealing to me, they might even be rotted out from all the years.