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I've been using the WES51 for about 6 years, good stuff.

M82 and no M8? No sealed TLOZ? Haven't graded your Ninja Gaiden III? Dusty Diamonds only a 9.8 A++? You've got a good starter collection mate, I can't wait to see what it's like once you get serious about it

Loose SE I'm hoping loose games, set collecting, and bad games only popular because they're rare lose interest long term. SE still has a cool story behind it, so I don't think it will ever be "affordable" but it doesn't have enough going for it for me to put serious "investment" money into it. I can buy a $100 game that I think might be worthless one day, I can't afford to put $10,000 into a loose cart that might lose most of it's value one day. Loose Hagane. Same deal. I'm waiting for the right price/condition and I'm in no rush to overpay for the shitty copies all over the place.

Poor Mah Jong and PAL games getting shafted here.

That Haunted House display is sweet. Basic Programming will forever be my favorite Atari art. It looks so "basic".

I feel obligated to beat most games, even when they're bad. I have a backlog, but if I just taste everything and don't beat anything nothing is ever getting cleared from that backlog. Honestly, I kind of like beating bad games every once in a while, in a "there is no light without darkness" kind of way.

Alakazam. I just think he's cool AF and he always hovers towards top of strongest gen 1 Pokemon. Every time I play a Pokemon game I basically get an Abra ASAP, then just spam Psychic through the entire game because Pokemon is the easiest thing ever.

I couldn't afford all these fancy ass mattresses so I got the most expensive mattress at Big Lots the last time I was mattress shopping. I went with that because if you only have a few hundred dollars to spend, mattress stores take you to the dumpster out back to browse and put a peasant name badge on you while you're shopping. Big Lots made me feel like a king for spending like $600, alarms went off in the store, everyone started clapping.

Well, you don't buy vinyl records for high sound quality or to actually listen to it. You buy it to discuss the nuances of a bad media format with other enthusiasts.

PriceCharting has an API you could subscribe to to pull in pricing data. I don't personally see the need for a third pricing website unless it's going to add something the other two don't already do (variants, true completeness, condition, etc.) which would be a ton of manual work.

It’s kind of funny how just knowing an article is coming already hyped the hangtabs. It’s good Wata puts out like less than one article a year I guess. James and Mike Mondays is 100% over, Wata articles are the new hype machine.

Yes, that’s so 2 weeks ago. Now the hot thing is to pay $10,000s for Golf and Gumshoe.

I’m on team OOT. ALTTP, MM, TP, and BotW are on deck.

What's an economics forum without the next big spike thread?

I need my cart labels to be near mint. Carts are so relatively common and easy to find in nice shape I’ve never had reason to settle. The only time I settle is for something like ISS on SNES, where finding a cart without at least a little edge wear is an ordeal. I still don’t want rips/tears. I’m in the market for a loose Hagane but all the Ebay listings are asking collector prices for essentially rekt carts IMO. I’m a little looser on boxes because they’re harder to find very nice. I’ll take a 7/10 until I can upgrade but those 3 junkers you pictured I’d give away for the cost of shipping.

The what now? You mean the magic U?

This was your chance to have someone else make the thread. You've just taken ownership for the next half decade again, thanks buddy.

So your username definitely wasn't an initialism for Run Like Hell, got it.

I'd say I "beat" Forza Horizon 4. I'm not sure that game ends but I beat first placed all the showcase and capstone type events. Great driving, but the DLC and progression is a bummer. All the best cars are locked behind real money and the game gives you loot wheel spins that randomly throw other cars at you constantly. There was literally not one second playing the game I felt like there were any stakes or I was trying to achieve something like in my older racing games where I would save up for my favorites. Still, the racing is awesome.

Dude, I have some of my favorite worst opinions on the internet too!

There are lots of ways to play Game Boy games well enough from GBA to GBP to SGB, so I don’t see a crazy rush of demand as everyone suddenly goes to buy GB games they could never play. I was worried about Sega import prices with the Mega Sg, but how long has that thing been out and they still don’t have the cart adapters? If/when they make an SG-1000 or whatever adapter I think the hype will have died down enough to have a smaller impact than if it launched with one. I also think because it has an SD card slot, tons of people are just going to load it up with ROMs. Many people don’t care about playing carts they just see the letters FPGA and want that thing.

Oh, a man of taste. I only play OSRS for like 1-2 months at a time but go hard on it when I’m in. I’ve been playing Telling Lies. It kind of sucks for a bunch of reasons, and Her Story is one of my favorite games of this decade.

I’m here to play 8-bit tapes and have corporate overlords and I’m all out of corporate overlords.

Oh my god, I signed up on day 2. I can never be one of the OGs now.