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Damn, that's gonna be like 10% of the sealed VHS where the REAL value is.

I had a seller send me an extra big box PC game once. No issue I forwarded it along to the end buyer. Apparently he had put some contents of the wrong game into some of my games though so it didn't arrive complete. I offered to send out the inserts, but he said it wasn't worth it and got mad at me for trying to fix his fuck up, never repaid me the $8 to ship back the original box, lol. If you send me wrong stuff I'm keeping it unless you pay me in advance now.

9/10, although really that's from RB2/3 and all the DLC that goes with it. If you're really just rating Rock Band 1 with its okay setlist, cover tracks, and shitty drums who knows. It's pretty fantastic I think, getting 3+ people playing a rhythm game simultaneously at different levels, and a singer who can just be a drunk person who doesn't play rhythm games at all. It's too clunky and slow though. Buying DLC is a huge chore, let alone having to transfer it between games. Playing Phase Shift instead where you can load up 10,000 songs is the way to go these days.

FWIW, the dozens that sold after the first sale were all the ones with the orange sticker on them. These are more readily available from case packs in the $15 shipped range. But how often can you repeat a sale for $100s when the game is on Ebay for $15 shipped, who knows.

For everyone who thinks the nostalgia classics are timeless must plays that all will enjoy, just check the latest IGN twitter poll thing: https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1438563571286167552/photo/1 Rise of the Tomb Raider beat Half-Life 2 Burnout 3 beat Chrono Trigger Skyrim beat Ocarina of Time Smash Ultimate beat Super Mario World Batman Arkham City beat Super Mario 64 Apex Legends beat Super Metroid These are the opinions of the next big generation that will grow into collectors, lol. They do not give ONE F.

@OobgarmIf you had it CIB why didn't you take a picture Actually the mystery makes it more exciting.

No one's dumb enough to buy PAL games

Back in ye olden days of 6 years ago the sealed guys were too few and isolated, so our squabbles had to be collectors who collect Nintendo tapes vs. collectors who collect even more Nintendo tapes! Now collecting anything but the D A N K seems crazy since only the dankest games will sell for millions.

Nintendoage 2015 thread : A dank collector is a collector that only collects the main stream, power titles whether they be played out, over hyped or genuinely good. A dank collecor mocks those who have genuine interest in rarity, obsurity, creativity and generally any other collector who has an opinion other than what all the total rad brajs on youtube think. Dank collectors spend hours reading wikpedia articles highlighting the general information, never questioning the hype or being critical of the genuinely good games.So whats up w em all? It's strange to me to see how these collecting scenes have evolved from full sets, unlicensed, bootlegs, region specific, homebrew/repro, etc to such a level high level of dank collectors. Its confusing to me because all of these dank ass games (Mega Man, Zelda, Mario, even Earthbound) are so easily played and experienced legally for like $5 from Nintendo. I get it. People wana play NIntendo's. But to collect a fuckton of dank Nintendo games just to play them on a Nintendo just doesnt make sense.When I lurked these forums in 2012 and joined in 2013, obscurity collectors ran wild. Whether it would be collecting every GameBoy Color color to hundreds of JP carts, going for after these daunting tasks was encouraged and supported. So, what happened?From what I seen, these dank collectors chastise those who go for sets, criticising them for "buying that shovelware/crap", or "why would you buy 20 GameBoys? You cant play them all", and "Who would pay that much for such a bad (actually rare) game?". So what happens now is, the dank collectors chase all the creative collectors back into the shadows. Websites like these were made to make these kind of people for comfortable sharing their collections and spreading information of the obscure onto the web.Probably the most telling trait of a dank collector is their retreat from the "hobby" as fast as the come. They sell their dank collections to other dank collectors and move on. Things like back story, heritage, the culture of gaming are not important to the dank collectors. Dont get me wrong, being a dank collector is cool. Mega Man is a great series. Mario is my man. Zelda bores me but I fuck w first party titles as much as the next guy. It just gets to me seeing dank collectors coming at people who care collecting whatever they want.

I think NES popularity has a ways to fall, but the historically important and iconic Nintendo games will be popular as long as Nintendo is. But the way people look at those old AtariAge boomers collecting their CommaVid games and tracking Spectravideo Compumate serial numbers, all stuff that “no one cares about”, the NES crowd is going to become that. We’re going to still think Myriad 6-in-1 is such a cool story and Minnesota State Lottery is so mysterious and Stadium Events and NWC are the ultra rare grails and no one who is 25 years old in 2040 is going to give one shit about that old man crap. Atari people think Atari was the foundation of home gaming, NES people think NES was the foundation of home gaming, SNES people think SNES is where “games really started to get good”, (N64 people… ???). The cycle goes on. I don’t think Zelda or Metroid have anything to worry about because they’ll always have the iconic factor, even if everyone thinks they’re unplayable in a couple decades like people think golden age comics suck. Is anyone under 60 going to care how obscenely rare your sealed Ninja Kid is a couple decades? Doubt it.

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There are a bunch of Sharedata Chillers right (double digits, I don't remember where I got that number. I remember a new one coming up in an Ebay lot this year or last year too). Is AGCI Wally Bear still a one-off? There are a suspiciously "high" amount of Sharedata Chillers for it to be completely dismissed as not counting. Although, I think publisher variants shouldn't "count" because they're never, ever consistently applied across sets. No one has ever listed a Majesco Mega Man X as a completely separate SNES game, BUT that's a different conversation. @ThePhleocan probably give me an exact count on Chillers and explain why it's the coolest, most counting-est unlicensed game ever.

That German streamer MontanaBlack got robbed recently I think, as did Trade 'n Games but both times those were high profile graded game targets. A sealed Punch Out is worth about the same as every single CIB Sega console game ever made put together these days, so it probably makes more sense to plan your Ocean's 11 heist around something that doesn't require a U-Haul and moving crew.

There's not even a copy to buy if you wanted to spend $350 on one right now. You can spend $1000 for the only CIB available though, a deal! One at a time baby. I haven't really bought lots since I was collecting NES carts over a decade ago and I've only become pickier with time. It's tough to find a lot that has all stuff I want right now, is all in nice shape, as complete as I want it, and is selling for enough of a discount.

Set fillers are so expensive right now. $350 for Frankenstein: The Monster Returns just to check the box, jeez. I pick at the Atari and Activision sets and one day might go after PS1 or PS2 but money and spacewise sets are a bad value for me compared to individual wants right now, and I love sets.

I have never even seen a picture of a real Tom Clown, floppy or cartridge. If you ever come across one let me know. Someone asked the Belarusian guy who dumped it to post a pic years ago and he didn't follow up There are a couple reports on Usenet that the other 3 Realtec games were found at Kay-Bee Toys in the US, so those came out here. Tom Clown is a mystery being apparently bundled with the Realtec Magicom on a floppy, a disk copier it's difficult to find discussions of period, let alone in English. You can find some pictures of it all on Mega Drives on the non-English internet. IMO Tom Clown never had any kind of real US release someone can show me the slightest evidence it did.

My strategy is to get something like a Kadabra ASAP and spam Psychic through the entire game.

Boxes are going to get knocked around in handling and packing too, preventing 9.8s straight from factory cases. The grade should be the condition of the wrap, not the condition of the wrap minus what we think might have happened at the factory. I've got Atari games with these crappy holes in them but I don't look at them and sell "A+ for you, you get a gold star for trying your best!"

Here's a compiled list of prices from Reddit. Most of these must be all time highs for what these games have ever sold for, barring the highest of high end restorations for some. Even in the Covid boom these prices are nuts. There is some mega collectible stuff in here (Varkon, Tattoo Assassins, Spirit, Joust pinball) and some common and C-list games fetching outrageous prices (Twilight Zone, Flash Gordon, Apollo 13?????, $10,000 for Bad Cats???????????, $14,000 Back the Future????????????) You can check Pinside.com for an idea of what these games normally sell for on the second hand market. Has the spec life come to 400lbs arcade equipment? Popular franchises are clearly getting a huge boost over the best playable stuff, which is usually the most desirable in terms of games you're going to have occupying this much space in your house.

Ha, I randomly went to HA to look at A+'s and this is the third one I looked at. Avert thine eyes. https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/gravitar-wata-94-a-sealed-1988-red-box-2600-atari-1983-usa/a/312137-67007.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 I hope you guys are buying the game not the grade, etc.

Looks like it went down in value. Sealed copy used to be worth $1056, now it's only worth $247!

This loose SE that "sold" for 30k is back up for sale. I'm surprised the seller didn't wait for his old sale to age out of Ebay history so it would only exist on price tracking websites and make it harder to realize the sale didn't go through. If anyone is actually spending $10,000s based on price history of "sold" items these days, truly godspeed to you. https://www.ebay.com/itm/284446164213

I've played Pokemon games for a decade now saying "Oh that was... fine. Maybe the next one will be amazing!"

Sun/Moon is where I really started questioning why I even still play Pokemon games, because man does the formula not change at all. Game Freak is a technically incompetent developer with no ambition. I feel bad for Pokemon fans who play every underwhelming gen of games while watching every other major franchise pushing technology and offering new experiences. It's the biggest franchise ever, we're in the world of the latest GTAs, Assassin's Creeds, Breath of the Wilds, Horizons (which all came out years ago)... and the latest Pokemon open world game looks like a PS2 BOTW knock off and isn't going to have every Pokemon in it. Imagine the justice a Capcom, Ubisoft, or Rockstar could do an open world Pokemon game... just to bring it up to the standards of the 2010s, not even offering anything truly new! Now realize we will literally never even have that game.