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Kenneth said this on FB as well. Here's a Made in USA Metroid Prime with a receipt 2 days after launch to back it up if it makes anyone happy. Once you get into Wii territory, there's probably plenty of launch day Youtube unboxings you can squint at to try to glean info from. https://www.ebay.com/itm/174779360930 Side note... while I do think much of the disc stuff is contemporaneous, I love that people want the Made in Japan thing to be the firstest first print but aren't willing to get... the Japanese versions. (But also I have some USA garbage I wish was MIJ )

Fo' real. At first glance you might think a seller made something like $500 on this sale, but actually Wata made like $5000

The only CRPG in history that can hold my interest for 200 hours (without some kind of loot grind like a Diablo or something) is Divinity Original Sin 2.

People with their sealed copies of Super Mario 3D World and The Last of Us wondering when they can be a millionaire too

The first two forms you can kill with one hit by bringing the jump and slash power up through the entire level, although the second form is what most people have trouble with. The power up will only one-hit the head of the last boss, you still have to kill the rest of him.

I don't think I've made it past Act 5 of Neverwinter Nights and it's one of my favorite CRPGs, I've played up to act 4-5 like 4 times. I just always get exhausted in super long games because I'm completionist. My favorite CRPGs are often the first ones in the series because they're shorter so they feel like they have less filler (e.g. I like Baldur's Gate 1 more than 2, Fallout 1 more than 2)

Triiiiple post

You can cheese him by bringing the jump and slash technique in 6-3 through the whole level without dying or picking up another power up. One hit kill. Just don't tell anyone how you beat it

I do combine my searches right now to meet the limit, it's a pain! I have like 5 different strings from Commodore games. If I find something and want to remove it from a saved search, I have to figure out what search it's in and edit it out. I also want to make sure the search doesn't return too many results so I can easily browse it in my morning emails! I'm going to try this third party stuff and see if it makes managing my searches easier.

I keep running into the saved search limit by putting in items that literally never show up. Does anyone know of or use a service that basically allows for 1000+ searches with at least daily email alerts? I don't need one of these fancy power buyer instant listing tools like uBuyFirst (most of which seem to cost around $40/mo), just somewhere I can shove a rare bootleg Commodore 64 game saved search that will probably never get a hit without it eating my Ebay saved search limit. I use ItemAlert when I need to stay on top of instant new listings but I'm looking for a service that will run these one a day searches automatically without needing to be logged in. Edit: Automated Searches and SearchDome seem like two ancient freemium services that do this. Search Siren looks like a newer service that allows 500 free searches/day but doesn't seem to have a business model.

That is super rad

Wait until you find out you thought you have Namco Pac-Man but it’s Tengen Pac-Man.

This licensed list should be the same as the US licensed NA list https://www.videogamesage.com/blogs/entry/18-usa-nes-rarity-guide-licensed-unlicensed-games-and-more-v13/

Every time I log onto VGS now I’m just like

I'd probably pay anything to have a CIB OOT. I'd feel dumb collecting all this other garbage instead of just saving up or selling off lesser stuff to have my favorite game. I'm just happy we don't live in a world where there are like 40 copies of a book from the 1930s, basically any CIB game is reasonable if it's really a priority and not just something that will get lost on a shelf.

Yes! We're celebrating again baby! Completing the set twice in the same weekend

If the games are broken, just send them to Wata and don’t pay the fee to test them. Bam, full price again.

I always get the most expensive primer and spray paint I can find (Which is what, like $7). One day in college I splurged on like a $4 can of spray paint and my eyes opened the world of not everything on the shelf being the same thing with different branding.

I messaged Stephan too. I would bet anything he ends up with this because I'm pretty sure he doesn't have it. Depends on how many Gs he has to throw around right now I guess!

I'm more on top of releases than the average person but still sometimes miss a game that was released through a smaller channel (or I just didn't type "NES" into Kickstarter one month). With LRG, I'd probably never miss that a game is coming out given how much discussion they get in non-homebrew circles. Otherwise, I don't care either way how a game is released. Someone needs to make a homebrew release newsletter.

Congrats! Ubisoft IJ is a completely different game from the Taito one, so you might one to pick that up though!

It's a rare version of Yoshi's Cookie sponsored by an oven company. https://www.mariowiki.com/Yoshi_no_Cookie:_Kuruppon_Oven_de_Cookie

Holy crap dude, that was a gem mint sealed version of the very first Fallout game (according to investor rules where PC doesn’t count)

Bidding on this went up to 225k or so in the last 5 minutes then someone BIN'd it for 500k (~$5k USD) It's been sitting with no bids in the 200-300k range until he finally open auctioned it.

It's one of the "most PS2" games I can think of because it's unique, it's exclusive, it's very Japanese, and the hardware isn't powerful enough to run it. Great game. I love a unique concept that does its own thing and doesn't just put a twist on an existing genre.