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I've only used Oculus Rifts and HTC Vives on PCs so my opinion is only worth so much. If you're buying into a walled garden platform (those poor custom Beat Saber songs!), I'd go Oculus Quest all the way. Wires (and headset weight) are the #1 worst part of VR IMO.

I've probably bought nearly 1000 games from JJ over the years. They are the best for variant hunting. Shhh. Never had an issue except their shipping packaging sucks.

I love Night Stalker so much.

CS is broad. Tons of technical jobs have CS on their list of recruited majors. Very useful degree, even just in name IMO. I know nothing about Cyber Security so can’t compare. I dual majored in CS and IT. IT is for nontechnical business management types as far as I understood the coursework (and classmates), which my dumb ass didn’t realize before studying it for 4 years. You need to do tons of self study (i.e. Googling) and side projects to learn and apply the material. Go make your computer. If you’re good at math and taking tests, you can fly through college without learning much you can directly apply to your target job immediately. The single semester projects and homework actually required by my coursework were insignificant compared to a “real” project. That was my experience anyway.

I grew up without all the main things I collect, especially NES, which I only ever played at friend's houses. My parents took my Game Boy out of my hands and traded it in for a Game Gear because they thought it was better. Only a couple rich kids I knew had Sega CDs and Saturns. Basically all the main stuff I collect is from childhood envy more than personal nostalgia.

Holy effing balls. $171 for a loose cart??? Edit: A Jimmy Connors loose cart sold for $250?? No offense to us cart only Game Boy collectors but who the hell is collecting cart only Game Boy games?

I pressed some button combination that made my post happen, I'm still trying to figure it out!

Odyssey 2: Atlantis (got two copies on the same day!) NES: Flintstones 2 (Stadium Events ) Game Boy: Toxic Crusaders (Had one that turned out to be a bootleg) Virtual Boy: 3-D Tetris Genesis: Aero the Acro-bat 2 (took forever to even find one) Sega CD: Keio Flying Squadron N64: Maybe ISS 2000 Saturn: Crypt Killer (It was/is overpriced for what it is so I avoided it) Xbox: Def Jam Fight for NY (Popular game with high price tag so I avoided it) Wii U: Axiom Verge

The Messenger. It's real good, maybe a little too much repeating screens in the second part. Enemies pose virtually no threat to you, but it's so fun zipping around anyway.

I have it on PC. It's perfect for me, because I don't care enough about modern games to pay full price for anything, and there's more modern stuff than I'll ever have time to play, so I can just dabble in the top cuts in the game pass library. I'm currently going through The Messenger. Getting to play the game locally installed rather than through some stupid streaming service is of course what makes it compared to crap like Stadia or PS Now. It's even great just to demo games. Everyone talked up the West of Loathing game and for "free" I learned I don't like it and got to play something else instead!

I'd pay off my debt, buy a Stadium Events (cart only, let's not get out of hand) and maybe 1-2 expensive wants, then save/invest it. Buying graded NES games right now is not my idea of risk averse investing. A million sure isn't enough to go hog wild on toys.

Oh hey I was there too. I'm not in tune with LRG enough to know what weird expensive things to look out for, but I got Bloodstained, Celeste, Night Trap, and Revenge of the Bird King. I heard the people in front of the line got some crazy deals from the damaged goods section, lots of $13 stuff, etc. It was fun hanging out with people in line and seeing all the LRG games in one spot though. Definitely saw lots of games that sell for a little more than MSRP. It would've been a dream for those resellers that scalp LRG games for $5 profit after shipping/fees.

OOT has some issues (things like shooting an eyeball being a "puzzle" constantly) so I'll concede it isn't perfect but it will probably be hard to top as my favorite game ever. OOT is definitely worse than I remember. Goldeneye and SM64 are just as good I think, I beat both again this year. I don't get the hate really. I guess Goldeneye multiplayer wouldn't hold up in an era where I won't even touch console games because of low framerates but the campaign is so damn good. Here's a deep cut: Winged Warrior, an awful DOS RPG that felt epic as a kid. It was clearly made by someone who didn't really know how to make a good RPG and just tried sort of copying the style of popular JRPGs.

Nostalgia: Super Mario Bros. 3 Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers American Gladiators Kirby's Adventure Contra Best Super Mario Bros.3 Ninja Gaiden III Ninja Gaiden Castlevania III Battle Kid 2 I didn't appreciate the games in my "best" list until I was an adult except SMB3, so those are basically the same for unknown. Add in Golgo 13 for #5.

They're kinda good and totally worthless. Maybe they don't hold up, but I had fun with both games. Excitebots came out in 2009 so it wasn't even just the Wii honeymoon phase when I liked it.

Chatting here instead of bidding, CIB video games, non-NES games. Take you pick. I know sealed people's tastes is an entirely different world than us normies, but seeing Renegade sell for more than Rockin' Kats sure surprised me. I don't know anyone who cares about Renegade but Rockin' Kats is in that cool uncommon/enthusiast-favorite sort of tier of NES games. Looks like Jone sold a Renegade for $600 recently, when was the last sealed Rockin Kats you sold buddy?

Ebay is a nightmare. HA is risk free for the buyer and seller, no shenanigans, no item not as described, no cancelled orders, no non paying buyers. Not saying their fees aren't crazy high, but they offer a much better service for people who don't give AF about money. Certified Link is the low-fee HA competition. The Chase the Chuck Wagon of the modern day.

I know what you're saying but Wario's Woods has a CIB label, PAL SE has a sealed "NS" label:

If Bubble Bobble is $7000, what's Contra, $50000? Edit: For those not watching along at home, it went for $14k after BP.

Ohh, jealous. Name of the Wind is so good.

They even put a nice purple mark there to remind you where it opens!

Did Wata stop the NS designation or is this an error? At a glance a 9.8 CIB is more impressive than a 9.8 NS IMO, so that's kind of weird. I guess you're talking about the fact that someone paid to have an unsealed Wario's friggin' Woods graded... yeah.

Kid Klown way ahead of Myriad. Send help. Maybe I missed the historical significance of Kid Klown, after all Myriad is just some random rarity... compared to Kid Klown! (Kid Klown is kinda good though)

Tornado Rex and Crash Canyon were pretty big too. Old board games kind of suck, so the only appeal I see in them is the neat Mouse Trap like toy appeal of them of them.

They're fantastic. Half-Life is the first FPS I remember that starts you out having a normal day at work, and not straight into a shoot out or training level. The game plays as one long narrative with a mix of of scripted exposition, puzzles, and shooty shoots. While that's pretty damn normal now, at the time the average FPS was Quake II, a series of individual shooty shoot levels. Half-Life 2 made similar advances in narrative, graphics, and physics that were mindblowing at the time. I don't know anyone who would say it doesn't hold up.