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I got one of those newfangled first print Pokemons (so newfangled @AdamWpointed out a Reddit post from 8 years ago that mentioned it). It took a while to find a decent one! I think it's rad, dare I say cooler than left bros since it's the first version of the first-ish game in the series. Too bad it isn't a Japanese variant so it can never be truly first

The top Google result for "rarest video games" is dominated by Atari FWIW. https://www.businessinsider.com/the-rarest-most-expensive-video-games-2014-6 If pure rarity is the only metric to go by, nothing that had a retail or even large promotional release would even quality. There were computer games burned to order and sold essentially no copies, all types of self-published works that got zero distribution. The first Touhou Project game sold 30 copies. Not 30 copies are known to exist or are in collector hands, it sold 30 copies ever and that's the first game in a (relatively) major and well-documented series. How many one million percent unknown computer games have been entirely lost to history, but a physical copy of them might still exist out there? In terms of what some collectors care about, it might be all Atari, but in terms of pure rarity it's probably mostly lost computer games no one's ever even heard of.

Ooh, that's a fancy idea. For what it's worth for the thread, I removed one of these super carefully with bestine over the course of like a half hour and it still left an impression. I'm not sure how much of that was my fault or how much of it was inevitable due to the type of sticker.

Am I nuts, was this not posted here yet? I guess some cool people knew about it but I sure didn't. There's a rarest 6-in-1 variant on NES. Everyone's Myriad 6-in-1s are all silver medals. This was bought by @Speedy_NES on Ebay in February from a store in Washington, apparently up on Ebay for a while but we're all dummies who didn't buy it. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CTdLTZhICaA/

I feel like “Old Nintendo games lot” is exactly the auction title someone would use if they were trying to trick someone into thinking some rare cart had been overlooked.

I got 2 Orb 3D boxes and 3 manuals all with 00828 codes.

I mean TECHNICALLY this is the HA thread not the “omg headlines” thread.

Here’s 2 more hours of Karl Jobst. I haven’t listened yet but everyone get ready to overreact and quote mine!

I haven't found the data too useful for a long time now, except for the roughest of comparisons (e.g. what are the most expensive games). Condition and variants factor into prices way more than it used to and the automated tools miss way too many sales. Different note, but I care less about price history than before personally. So many things have moved in price so fast as the market goes to the moon and tries to balance the greater importance of popularity against pure rarity, I feel a lot games are out of sync relative to everything else. I do more determining my own values. I would pay double VGPC's $30 price for Air Fortress on NES if that's what the price history told me, so I don't worry about "overpaying" a few bucks since to me it's worth more than some magic graphs say.

Don't do it! That's worth between $10 and $1100 depending on the market!

A maroon 90s Mercury Mystique. My elderly grandmother gave it to me because she called it a "go kart" and it truly was an enormous piece of shit. One day going up a small hill, the accelerator completely died. I drove/rolled it backwards into an empty strip mall parking lot and within like 8 hours it was towed. I told the towing company to keep it. My brother had a Saab 900, way cooler first car

IIRC he paid double that for it, or in graded game terms, 1.33 copies of Contra. https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/456-contra-original-illustration-art-sold/

I'm going to say it aged poorly because of the quote "they have taken the time to address all the issues presently faced in collectible video games by closely listening to and making decisions based on the concerns of our community" when so many of my problems from nice CIBs disappearing into slabs to me becoming a shut in FOMO hoarder is linked to the new graded games market Also this so called "Qix Master" appears to have changed his online alias in a bid to hide his identity. Rumors are it's breakfast related now. Very shady.

A guy on Yahoo is selling multiple bootleg Charumera Zelda no Densetsus and apparently try to make his label better. Rather than keep this in a PM I figure a thread would be useful to anyone looking into this. The only differences between Charumera and a regular copy of Zelda would be the disk label and disk date code, the rest of the packaging is the same as a regular early production Zelda AFAIK. These two are fake: This one is real. This scan is from Gaming Alexandria, but it matches other real ones: Some differences: The A side of the disk has a date code to the top right of the label (e.g. K145J11). All the Charumera Zeldas have similar date codes. The number between the K and J should only be one or two digits off and as far as I've seen they all end in J11. These two fakes don't have any date code, but one made from a regular Zelda would. All the fonts are wrong, the fakes are too bold in this case. The leaves above "Hyrule" are missing on the fakes One of the fakes is way too red

Depends how big a chunk of the the Saturn market is games being sold from someone who's never put it into a console being sold to someone who will never put it on a console. I would guess it's 99%. Everyone I've ever talked to who's played Dragon Force, MKR, Shining games, etc. played them 20 years ago and that's the stuff that's popular to play, let alone all the bulk. The high end is pink logo trophies for the most part. And hey I'm a collector, I have a ton of games that could be dead and I'd die myself before I noticed. If all the carts in CIB Earthbounds stopped working after the first boss, how long would it be before the first person noticed?

$110k for the Canadian pack-in Halo, lol. Whoops, sorry I mean the developer exclusive only copy of Halo that was definitely only ever given to developers. This is gaming history.

The most amazing thing is that Seth both posted picture proof and the name of the still-existing Ebay account instead of saying something like "We now bring to you that Proof has determined via concrete physical evidence that Mark Haspel, Chief Advisor of WATA per their own website (See "Executive Team", third picture from the left) is sending WATA graded video games (mostly Atari) via the United States Government Postal Service, headed by Louis DeJoy appointed in May 2020 by the Board of Governors, to unknown buyers in exchange for United States Dollars, a fiat currency controlled by the Federal Reserve System, a sham institution with no place in the United States Constitution"

This quote is amazing: "Why do I mention this? Because by selling only Atari games—if in fact what Haspel is selling now, which comprises exclusively second-generation Atari games, is indicative of what he typically sells—he ensures that most or perhaps even all of his business on eBay escapes the notice of U.S. journalists" He's arguing Mark's doesn't attempt to hide his sales (which he presumably wants to hide) because no one would find them anyway, because no one cares about Atari games. Excellent.

Imagine spending $1500 for the loser’s trophy

Excuse me GOLDIN Auctions, you just wandered in the wrong thread buddy. I'm actually just curious to see which one sells higher. 95U is probably a bit more prestigious than 9.8 A++, but the Wata copy will be easier to liquidate (so basically the Wata copy will sell for more, what am I even saying). I would complain this Goldin Auction is just the same old stuff that comes up in every big auction, but they do have one interesting lot https://goldinauctions.com/1997_Original_Grand_Theft_Auto_PC_Fail_Script_With-LOT107329.aspx

A week! Jeez. You're just begging Chinese youth to become game collectors so they hang out on forums and snipe Ebay lots all day instead of playing games.

Literally one of the holdover Doki Doki Panic characters, come on!!

Influencer bump confirmed

Yes, I'm making fun of an article that original said he was a mystery man, possibly named Dan, lol but it was "uncovered" that his name was revealed! In the NintendoAge E-Zine like 14 years ago.