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In very broad strokes, I'd say NES has more history for most collectors, SNES has more timeless gameplay for most players. NES has more way more "firsts" and genre-defining games, whereas many SNES classics are sequels that expanded and bettered existing concepts. On NES you can see certain genres grow up from Kung Fu to Castlevania III, while SNES has technical powerhouses in well defined genres like Castlevania IV and F-Zero out of the gate. I never really see an SNES game and think "Oh that's an old SNES game".

NES just has way more depth and nuance to collecting. It's 2019 and you can still argue about set lists. Why does your unlicensed list have two Impossible Mission IIs but no Sharedata Chiller? Are Sachen games US releases? Does Cheetahmen II even count? Can I call Myriad 6-in-1 a variant? (No, you can't) SNES has fewer unlicensed games, oddballs, and homebrew, so there's a lot less to branch out into beyond plain old licensed games.

I got 49. I didn't even remember Kung Fu. 

Those shelves are sick. How long until you need to do the other two walls ;)

hi joel welcome to vgs

17 minutes ago, jonebone said:

I'd be there for marketplace so totally not my thing. Thanks for heads up

Do you need perler beads, anime tchotchkes, and $30 loose Famicom commons though??

24 minutes ago, jonebone said:

What's this about, good scene? Only an hour drive for me.

Video games and music 24 hours a day for 3 days. The marketplace sucks, the arcade is alright, the music is awesome! And NES homebrew guys show up so you can probably play some Commie Killer.

This is the most ridiculous one yet. Friggin' Aladdin for $100, lol.

There are currently 2 sealed SNES Lion Kings on Ebay for $100. One's pretty banged up. One is kind of decent. Up to 4500 people are going to choose to buy this Funko Pop shelf candy over a real new copy of the original game which is bananas to me.

First year I won't be going  Going to too many things this year (like my honeymoon) and something had to be cut. MAGFest is like 3 days off work minimum, plus however long the con hangover lasts! Have fun guys.

1 hour ago, NintendoTwizer said:

Day 3 member here, I don't think I can ever relate to you day one and day two-ers.    

Hello newbie. It's OK, you can go at your own pace, but you'll have a hard time catching up to us elite collectors. Check out my current collection:

3 minutes ago, neodolphino said:

I use an analogue Weller WES51.  It seems it has been replaced by the WE1010NA, which just has a digital temperature adjust.  I like mine a lot and have had 0 problems with it.  I figure the same will go for the 1010.  Also, pretty good price right now on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Weller-WE1010NA-Digital-Soldering-Station/dp/B077JDGY1J

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

23 hours ago, snk2d4ever said:

Here are my "collectibles":

 

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.

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.

1 hour ago, Bear85 said:

The quality of the pressing being produced these days is crap thought, and I’m getting tired of all these multi colored vinyl records 

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.

43 minutes ago, snk2d4ever said:

Third party hangtabs when Wata releases an article

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.

40 minutes ago, Daniel_Doyce said:

Besides knuckleheads paying 10s of thousands of dollars for SMB1?

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.

10 minutes ago, bubbapauls said:

I have to agree with you the background is messing up the Nintendo tape and making it look weird.

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.