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At this point there could be a nuclear war and I think video game prices would go up because people are travelling less.

Instinctively I want to say mass suffering, panic, and a huge pause button on the entire online market would obviously cause a luxury like collectible, old video games to decrease in price. But COVID-19 happened and here we are, so truly I don't know. I would guess in the short/medium term prices increase. When the market was hazier pre-Ebay, dealers were able to exploit knowledge gaps and local supply by selling things like stamps, rare books, and Beanie Babies at a premium to buyers with less info and fewer choices. Once the online market existed, more common stuff was so easy to get, and tons of stuff crashed in price.

Madden 04

Oh shit I have a new Wii Sports

$23k for Pokepark Wii. Pokemon is a disease.

Who's bidding on the grail tonight?

Thanks so much for catching that. There's even already a picture of it in the images in the thread! I tell everyone the best way to fix all the wrong stuff in your lists is to post it online.

Wait until I tell you about Super Mario 64

Not my style of music, but I enjoy his Twitter account at least.

It’s gotta be one of the shortest RPGs ever if that helps you pop it in. You could easily play it in a weekend.

get going

Artists create more unique styles in 2D on top of the games being more timeless. Half of 3D games simply try to look as much like real life as possible, and anything but the cutting edge immediately looks old.

Everyone has this but me. So jelly And by everyone I mean a couple Xbox guys.

The sales prices and headlines always include the buyer’s premium because it doesn’t matter what the seller nets, just what the buyer is willing to pay. You wouldn’t have Pricecharting take out 10% for Ebay fees.

The bottom one has a flap code SNS-MU-USA. One in Ebay completed of the top ones is SNS-MU-USA-2, so the bottom one is earlier. https://snescentral.com/box.php?id=0455&num=0&side=front

Nooooooooooooooooo The vaaaaalue

Falcon 3.0. If both pilots die and they need someone to land a plane, I’m a professional pilot now.

I just got this FB ad which made me think of this thread. Mix our custom cases with real boxes to make a collection look complete. Not the same thing as bootlegs but it's all about the appearances baby

Just noticed another newcomer to the card world. No idea if they will grade video games like all the other up and comers. They're starting with a bang though, this Vmax Umbreon was graded SHEEEEEEEEEEESH, which a perfect grade. Great to see more competition. https://www.ebay.com/itm/384214378348

4/10, pretty much impossible to rate this game without putting it in historical context. There are times where it's great: I'm killing new dudes, I'm gaining levels, I'm finding new things. Then there's the rest of the game: walking back and forth in a line grinding to level up. Its simplicity lends to continuing playability though. An old RPG like Wizardry can bog you down with menus or Ultima can bog you down with archaic systems like food, where your character just permanently dies if you didn't buy enough. Dragon Quest is 35 years old and anyone who's ever played an RPG can pick it up and play without even reading a manual, so that's surely a point in its favor.

I back homebrew but have no reason to back a promising PC game or something that might not deliver. I have literally 10 billion game choices I can buy, I don’t need to prepay full price for hopes and dreams 3 years in advance.

The JRPG book is great. I love that import and history enthusiasts sites like HardcoreGaming101 document all this stuff that otherwise is lost on the English-speaking world but it's so great to have it actually published. It just feels so much more permanent. I also just got this Encyclopedia of Legendary RPG, which is a more of a reference-y one game per page type book but the JRPG book is more beautiful and informative (and much more English) Best thing I got recently was the PC-9821 release of Policenauts. I'm not an Japanese PC expert but it doesn't seem easy to find this at least. One big step closer to the Kojima set.

I mean, Nintendo allowed this abomination to be released before this then after this they gave Philips apparently free license to publish whatever Zelda games they wanted. They're just very selective about when they disgrace their IP!