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Services like Xbox Game Pass and Apple Arcade absolutely seems like the future to me. I get a big list of games I sort-of care about, a couple big releases that make it feel like a good deal, it's cheap, they get my money every month, and I don't actually own anything. I think we're each going to 1-2 game subscriptions then occasionally buy our favorites like we all have Netflix and sometimes buy a blu-ray or Amazon movie now. I think big standalone games like an Elder Scrolls are going to figure out how to constantly monetize without upsetting the entire fanbase or simply re-releasing the same game 100 times. Fallout 76 was a big failed experiment in that aspect, but a $5 used copy of Skyrim with 200 hours of gameplay is "too good of a deal" for gaming in the modern age. I think single player games will likely have more MMO-like structures where you subscribe to content updates or something. I think we're a long ways off from people accepting streaming games due to bandwidth requirements, input lag, and the limitations of compressed streaming video in a world where it looks increasingly like high refresh rate, ultra high def gaming is on the horizon for consoles.

I mean, I don't disagree, but it sounds like Jim's grading inflation problems were largely that he graded/misgraded coins on the established 70 point coin scale, whereas Wata and VGA both use different 10 point scales they made up themselves and Wata's numbers are just higher, intentionally or not. I think there's a mix of the Wata scale still being relatively new on the scene and dealers trying to push high-sounding grades as "high grade" causing price inflation for middling stuff. My guess is once more Wata games flood the market and we get past the feeding frenzy and period of people grading literally any old pile of SMB3 parts, the actual high grade stuff will be seen more like comics where picky collectors and investors specifically want high 9.6s and 9.8s, not just an 8.5 because that sounds relatively close-ish to 10. And if people are buying Wata games right now based on a number rather than how nice the game is...

That's a Sega Genesis game actually.

I 100% hold B every time I catch a Pokemon, in every version of the game. I don't care that it doesn't help, it helps.

We try to be the scariest house on Halloween. No inflatable Frankenstein's monsters and pumpkins, we get creepy dolls from thrift stores which my fiancee paints and we hang around the property. I stand in the upstairs window with a black wig on backwards and my friends pop up in windows. We've got triggered strobe lights and fog machines this year, and this year's music is going to be this version of Let It Go at 0.75x speed. Maybe we're assholes because trick or treat kids are really young and some are legitimately too scared to come up to the door (victory), but we do give out full sized candy bars. The parents love it at least.

I skim AEW and pick up bits of WWE news through osmosis. I've been out of the loop for a while though. I'll probably still watch Wrestle Kingdom because that's consistently been my favorite show of the year, but I think I'm a couple years behind on even Wrestlemania I burnt out on how bad WWE has become and need to muster my enthusiasm back up for AEW.

Hey, do you open collab TAC cases? Maybe we're already IRL buds and we don't even know it.

I do videoconferencing support. I hate videoconferencing because it's just a way to have a phone call where people can tell you're multitasking, but rich people and executive types seem to love it.

Howdy mate.

I bought a nice loose one on Ebay last December for $2000 ($1900 after Ebay coupon). It was sitting on Ebay BIN unsold for a while, so I don't think it was a break down the doors price, but I don't think I overpaid too much. GVN has another one at the same price from March. Star Fox Super Weekend has had a bit of a bump in The Year of Our Hype Two Thousand and Nineteen. I'd guess $2000-2500 as my 2¢, although I realize half of that price data is what I was personally willing to pay. Edit: I thought the data would show DKCC as a consistent multiple of the SFSW price because they're probably two most comparable games to each other, but it looks like it's increasing in value faster than SFSW. If you agree SFSW and DKCC are related in price, I'd still say $2000-2500 is a solid guess without using my own purchase data.

Porn isn't shady on Japanese systems!

Heyo.

NES for all the reasons: history, first games in my favorite franchises, favorite era of game design, and there's so much stuff to collect outside the walls of "normal" releases. If there isn't some shady underground ring of porno games on a console, I don't see how it could possibly be the best to collect for. Atari, NES, and 3DO are like the only platforms even in contention.

Wii U set badge *clap clap clapclapclap*

Check out the NESWorld list, you're missing a bunch: http://www.nesworld.com/article.php?system=nes&data=neshomebrew. Also Galactic Ascension is missing from NESWorld and Martin didn't add it even after I messaged him Check out the NES Oddities book by Jeffrey Wittenhagen. It does a good job going over early stuff and LEs.

Already noticed that while trying to Google Mega Man stickers. The new site will probably break all the existing links to NA threads, but hopefully Google eventually links to the archived threads. I've been trying not to post on NA to encourage holdouts to make the leap (although that hasn't been hard with the activity drop). Looking at you KHAN... Kevin Holding-out At NintendoAge!

I had no idea there were 5 types of styrofoam, that is 2OCD4ME. Is what goes with what documented anywhere, even by you? Or is that a WIP? It might be worth mentioning the "extras" that came with NES games because there are very few. Besides the big box games and posters/reg cards/inserts, there are 3D Glasses, Tyson and Startropics Letter, MIMP figure, a couple comics, Big Nose and Mega Man stickers, how much else?

I know HA sales are cheating, but we're all going to be rich. Even our shitty Punch Outs are worth a grand now if we put them in a plastic case.

Me either. It's fine, it will only mildly annoy me until the end of time. I was so proud of my 2007 NA join date

Gloves is a freakin' hottie.

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I love Golgo 13 which has different screens with different types of action gameplay, culminating in a 3D maze (a genre I also love!) Phantom Dust blends genres smoothly instead of having multiple distinct things. It's essentially a collectible card game played as an action game.

Hey, I have a picture with Garry Kitchen and David Crane of Activision/Absolute fame.

Telling Lies. It's bad. Lots of listening to one side of two sided conversations, lots of irrelevant videos, lots of rewinding, not a super interesting story in the end after you slog through it. The developer tried to imitate their past success with Her Story in a way that entirely doesn't work IMO.