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I’m not sure myself

Oh man, you sold Limited Run Trading cards?? Just wait until PSA grades those

Lots of cool bosses and lots of running to the right while holding fire while everything just blows up. It’s fun and looks great but I don’t think I put it at the top of the Genesis hierarchy where it seems to usually be. 7/10

Was AC/DC the first game that came with LEDs? Maybe that's why it felt like such a leap into the future too! My favorite games of the era are probably Iron Man and Wheel of Fortune, the latter because it's almost comedically challenging for a modern game. The 2000s is definitely my least favorite era of pinball though.

AC/DC brought us out of the cheap Stern doldrums and into the modern pinball era with complex rules, cool toys, and the introduction of premium models targeted at enthusiasts. An all time classic pinball machine IMO 9/10. The music? I dunno, I mostly just play Hells Bells since it’s a solid tournament strategy. It’s aight.

I listened to a lot of OC Remix stuff and tracker music as a teenager. Chiptune arpeggio chords are just the coolest.

Having the client set a price doesn't make any sense to me. Tutors have different values. A college professor is worth more than a high school kid. The tutors understand their experience relative to the other options on the market better than yet-untutored client does, so only they can set a reasonable price for their service. Wait they're asking for a resume of like... unrelated job history? That seems a little odd, but at the same time I'd be constantly worried about choosing the right tutor so I'd want all the credentials/evidence of a good tutor I could possibly get.

I beat Ultima: Exodus. We don't need it for the thread, I just want to point out that 3 people in this thread beat Ultima: Exodus this year so if it's ever languishing on the nobody wants to play it list you can be motivated by all the 2021 completions. Melee combat in this game is absolutely useless and ranged combat is close to useless. I swapped out a paladin for a second wizard a good ways into the game. If I played through again, which I certainly won't, I'd probably do two wizards, two clerics. Maybe even three wizards, one cleric. Magic is definitely the way to go.

You should expand this to include Miniature Golf and the incredibly rare Miniature Gorf.

They're pretty close! The sellers probably paid what, $50 for Sonic and $15 for Bioshock Infinite which translated into $2400 and $1000? I think the fact that Bioshock Infinite has no historical relevance and you can still get it new on Amazon for $7 shipped makes Bioshock Infinite more impressive IMO, 10/10 sticker or not.

Imagine grading a complete Sonic 1. You probably did it what, 1-2 years ago, whenever people were on the Sonic 1 CIB hype train for some reason. It takes you a year to get your game back because what are you going to do, pay $200 to grade a CIB Sonic? The CIB hype dies down because... it's Sonic 1 CIB. You consign it the Heritage Auctions, it sits there for weeks, and a couple days before your lot comes up for sale, a copy of Sonic sells for $400,000. Lol, some people have all the luck.

The controls would be even worse otherwise because of how the camera angles change. I never made it through RE despite burning out on multiple attempts. I've played through RE2 multiple times and love it though.

Wata just proved they can net you $400,000 with nothing but their brand name. They don't need to do shit to compete with VGA, lol.

Great price IMO! CIB Blue Thunder alone is like $200 and almost never comes up for sale. One recently ended on Ebay but it's been probably over a year since I've seen one otherwise and of course I've never seen this bundle. GLWTS.

I just want a nice label, I’m out if there’s any minor label damage. But for carts the condition premiums are usually so low it doesn’t make sense to not just get the nicest you can.

I hope the Castlevania guy who doesn’t like his own art knows it’s front and center in the middle of the entire art exhibition cause it’s so rad.

We did fellow true collectors! We’ve crashed the price down to 3 lambos!

VGA is ded with a capital D. RIPPPPPP.

Sometimes, but not always. Since no one tracked this really well and components have been mixed up over time, the best advice you can get is to just make sure they're "close-ish".

Watching these auctions end in a livestream

In a world where you're paying $10,000s for shrink wrap, B shrink wrap is really bad. There's definitely a crop of people who have a cut off at A or A+ and just don't want the game otherwise. That game is 100% a placeholder for someone, while someone can probably live with a 9.2 A+. If you're "investing", you only want to invest in the top tier stuff. To that end though, all of these prices are nuts for the least desirable version of SMB.

Welcome to the frontier. For NES this stuff is very poorly documented right now:

Like 3 people have spoken to me about starting their own resource. We are in a very weird time in game collecting with both greatly increased interest in variant minutia and an information vacuum where there hasn’t been a single good source to document it all for years. Due to the value of this information and advantage it gives you over other collectors, many people keep obscure information intentionally close to their chest. How many people truly cared about rare sticker sealed NES games 3 years ago, a dozen eccentrics on an online forum? Wata put out a For Dummies guide that someone who has never bought a video game can follow and now it’s the hottest shit on the planet. There is a clear demand for this information but also it’s a small, niche hobby and probably hard to monetize the information for serious, young, internet savvy collectors like a stamp or coin catalog would. 99% of people are happy with free, basic online lists of games. I think a lot of us are waiting to see what the next big thing for serious collecting info is is this new game collecting world. The more you research individual platforms, the more you know what to look for in terms of things that commonly change. On NES for example, the seal of quality goes from round to oval, carts go from 5 screw to 3 screw, TMs turn into Rs, hangtabs disappear, various date codes go up, etc. I just researched Myst variants and was able to put about a dozen variants into a likely chronological order just based on the fact that there is only one variant with an ESRB logo, which would make it the latest. All the other variants have just one or two little changes that happen over time.

The game itself is probably nice. There is still risk in shipping, Wata handling, losing a .2 or + due to something unforeseen, etc. Plus it will be potentially $10,000s to regrade it. It’s not a missed opportunity, but a risk he would rather have the buyer take than himself. The seller is also a long time collector, so likely personally thinks 95U is more prestigious than 9.8 A++, so maybe he believes he’s able to successfully market the game as such despite a whole high end market who deal in nothing but Wata I’ll be shocked if the VGA game doesn’t sell for 10ks or 100ks less than the Wata copy. The megabucks sales are Wata games and if it’s an speculative purchase (which it is obviously) you need to have the perfect Wata game to get the eye popping, headline making resale. That regrade risk will be 1000% priced in. If the buyer publically says he doesn’t intend to regrade it, I think that’s pretty newsworthy for VGA.

That's gonna crash the market for German big box Lufias I guess, whatever that market is.