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I would understand this more if it was a CIB set selling for a huge premium. I don't know how many rich Saudis are collecting carts in UGCs.

My best guess would be it was damaged or worsened when they actually put it in the case, but after they graded it. But could just be loose grading. Buy the game, not the grade But real answer, it's a sealed River Raid who cares.

I think as time goes on, more younger, modern gamer, and graded collectors will enter the hobby and will care more about what a game represents than its gameplay value. I mean, look at black box mania. Soccer, Mach Rider, and Gumshoe aren't the best NES has to offer but are lately some of the more desirable NES games just because they're in that set. I think Super Metroid obviously holds up incredibly well, but teenagers of today might think anything older than Xbox 360 is archaic and anything older than that they buy purely to put on a shelf. Or people collect who don't play older games at all and just like the history. There will eventually be a crop of people playing old games like Gears of War and Halo 3, which they think is the "first era of games that's actually playable", which is something collectors of every generation thinks about their preferred console generation. Except N64, nobody knows what N64 people think.

Nothing on N64 is even rare. You could literally click BIN on Ebay for every single cart for way less. Either the buyer messed up and doesn't know what an N64 box is or massively overpaid for readily available games, which wouldn't be a sign of things to come but a sign of the present.

The only reason I want Jaguar games is because Jaguar emulation is bad. This concept affects the arcade market too. Games that you can't just throw on a MAME cabinet like Paperboy and 720 get premiums. And if you're going to take up that amount of real estate in your house, it might as well be a game you can't just play on MAME and get the same experience.

The PAL copies look 100% complete with the baggies and everything, the US copies aren't. Also nothing in this market makes sense and everything is volatile by the week, so who knows.

It's truly the last hidden gem of NES. Never forget.

Or type iddqd idkfa idclip and blast through all the levels because playing it like an 8 year old in the 90s is the truuuuue Doom experience.

Games are too expensive now to take risks. And why bother when you can just rerelease a game and everyone is just as excited. The first KOTOR game in 17 years was announced... KOTOR 1... and the crowd went wild! Switch is the most beloved console in long time and people cite it's library full of ports and rereleases as a positive. It's great if you haven't played those games but I wouldn't call it exciting. There's still indie games with new ideas or made for niche audiences though (and still a lot of reskinned Metroids and pixel platformers). You can find cool new interesting games, they just don't come with the amazing next-gen technological boost that playing Super Mario Bros, GTA3, or Bioshock for the first time did. Baba is You is a very "Oh, there are ideas in puzzle games that we still haven't explored in the past 40 years" experience, but you don't need an Xbox 7 Million to play it.

I've beat Ninja Gaiden III without dying except for the last act timer, so I always take a death on the last checkpoint in the game here to reset the timer. I gotta learn some speed strats one day. The timer is ridiculous. Beating the entire 9-part stage plus 3 bosses on one timer is the hardest part of any Ninja Gaiden game IMO. I wonder if they intentionally made the timer difficult as the final NG challenge or just figured most people would probably die at some point to reset it.

Yes, all the versions not on PC are the worst version (Actually I think @Sumez corrected me a while ago that the latest console versions made in Unity are excellent now).

Don't ruin history the first time you play itttttttt. Brutal Doom is pretty cool though.

Doom is 10/10, my favorite computer game. I love the nonlinear exploration and individual levels. They can be big, open labyrinthine backtracking complexes or more linear action levels. There are gimmicky levels full of secrets and giant open rooms just full of a million dudes (more of that in Doom II really). You can spend an hour going through an episode taking your time exploring or you can crash through it at top speed and do every level in like 2 minutes. It's the full package. They literally and unfortunately don't make games like this anymore. The 3D maze aspect of FPS is almost completely gone now in favor of bad guys shooting galleries or an entire focus on multiplayer, and I personally loved the maze. 2016 Doom isn't really anything like Doom. It's like a Quake III/Serious Sam game with Martian horror paint on it. It's entirely linear with a bunch of single player Quake III jump pad arena battles. Still a super cool game because of how fast and violent it is. I'd personally take Quake or Quake III over it though. 8/10

We used to hide it in the recycling bin when the custodian came around to delete it, haha.

MTPO because I feel it will only get harder/impossible as I get older. It's probably the rawest test of reaction speed there is. Muscle memory doesn't help you very much. Basically anything else is just a matter of practice (I mean MTPO is too, but Tyson is also physically demanding). Apparently our reaction time gets a few ms worse per year, so the longer I put it off, the harder it will be.

YOU do better at the same scale nerd. But yeah one set of Bob-omb Battlefield would be better than these, but I think they're sweet. Or they should have an N64 that opens up into Bob-omb Battlefield instead of, you know, a ?-block that isn't in the game. It can be like the Micro Machines sets that transformed

Man, considering the scale (12x12) the worlds are so detailed and recognizable. It's amazing.

Looks awesome. They're great at milking that nostalgia. What the heck is with the question block being the main thing though? Does SM64 even have question blocks?? It feels a little mismatched to me: guy annoyed about minutia of a random toy on the internet. Doesn't SM64 have these:

Surely for 301k this comes with ironclad provenance showing it's Bill Gates' personal copy. Or at least John Howard or Jason Jones. Or at least someone who worked on the game. Or at least a Microsoft employee? Surely no one would pay $301k for a copy that was maybe owned by a random person who might've worked on Halo or was maybe a Canadian Xbox Adrenaline Pack console pack-in. Right. Right??

Ultima Exodus is ridiculous between grinding, semi-permadeath, requiring exploration but also not being able to run from hopeless random encounters that will wipe your party, being able to step on tiles that wipe your party, effing… FOOD. I can’t believe TWO of you masochists already beat this for the NES thread this year so this playthrough won’t even bring any good to the world. It’s the only RPG I’ve played where resetting the console to my last save and losing an hour of progress was a preferable option to playing out an encounter and dying.

I was last in line for a Switch itself. I was the only person who wanted the red/blue version who got a black one

Talk about a promo that screams "We were able to get a ton of these for CHEAP", haha. If guess I'm getting thrown into the secondary market fray if these don't become available again. Hopefully it's not as bad at BOTW Master Edition...

N64 has no depth. There's a few rare variants and a super rare test cart I guess. The other consoles have more than twice as many games, competition carts, homebrew scenes, huge import libraries. NES alone has a huge, interesting unlicensed universe plus being the most important Nintendo console. I think NES wins both from a historical perspective and you can literally collect it forever and never run out of things to collect. N64 loses because after you collect the 25 nostalgia classics, the library is really boring, and even after you collect everything N64 you've only collected like half of what a basic licensed NES or SNES collection consists of.

Even if the £800 sale was fake, someone making a Youtube video and getting 1000s of random people who weren’t even thinking about that game to look at your sale is literally the best outcome for the seller. Even if every single person thinks the £800 sale is fake, there will be people worried others are going to fomo into it so they fomo into it themselves.

It's only Pokemon Blue. The middle of the box has a misprint saying "playing the red version", when it should say blue version. Here's way too much info about it