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N64 has big #2 energy. Just looking at it makes you want to #2.

Watching these auctions is weird as hell. A NWC sells for $180k (a record sale??) and it's like "Oh, that's it? NWC is dead". Can't even hit half a mil? Weak!

My local store did a "screw the customer" B2G1 sale once when I was buying a bunch of stuff at various prices (Like $1 to $60). So I said ok... can I ring it up in multiple transactions. They said no because that would be gaming the system. So I put all the cheapest stuff back and didn't buy it

Panic buy everything

Damn it's just a biggish suburban house and Zillow's estimate is $2.5m. You guys who live in LA are baller as hell. I wouldn't buy separate real estate for my tape business either!

You’re right, that is neat too. But the thread says to rate my enjoyment not historical significance so I’m not allowed to give considerations for the time!

Blue Toad Murder Files is an obscureish episodic puzzle adventure game. It's pretty badly executed, except that for solving a mystery your character doesn't click on obvious clues that go into a collection log and get testimony that gets put into a bulleted list of the important bits so you the player figure out the case 3 hours before Phoenix Wright inevitably does. You have to notice all the things in the background and put together all the testimony yourself. You don't get a "No Phoenix, that doesn't make any sense" message if you choose the wrong culprit because you missed the clues along the way. You just lose. You're wrong. It's brilliant. I love it. I would play better-made whodunnit games like this! It looks like it's only 4 bucks on Steam now so you can probably excuse its low-budget faults.

3/10 Altered Beast is really bad. But at the same time, it's literally like 8 minutes long. Mega props to the devs for making a beat 'em up that doesn't drag on for an hour, because the genre is repetitive enough as-is. The only thing in this game that resembles interesting game design is the stage 4 boss.

I still thought Optout was dead. @OptOut give us a sign

Yo, welcome to the Sage!

I don’t get it. It just has a CD drive and USB ports and runs an emulator? So it’s the world’s lowest budget Mac Mini?

Dave Mirra is unfortunately deceased. That was my only explanation.

It takes a lot to shock me these days but did Dave Mirra himself buy this game

I downloaded and started playing it and I suck. Haven't wrapped my head around how to use combos. I want to hit all the fireworks when they're green but that's clearly not the best strategy in terms of exploding groups.

Prepare to get wrecked! (Actually sometimes 1-2 slip through the cracks and don’t sell for “HA prices” but probably not with a hundred eyes on this one). Whoever bids weeks in advance is probably bidding against the item owners, lol.

It makes it less interesting as a collectible IMO. A sealed thing without electronics that degrade is theoretically mint condition. A sealed Xbox is slowly killing itself and is in worse condition than a maintained mint CIB. Yeah it’s sealed so it doesn’t “matter” but just because you can’t see in the box doesn’t mean I wouldn’t think about it I wouldn’t want something like sealed old lithium ion batteries. I don’t know if a 2007 iPhone with a battery that has no room to expand will be a fire risk if I hold onto it for another 30 years.

SML is way too short with 12 easy levels. In terms of old ass GB games, Castlevania: The Adventure is equally short but at least it was hard as balls comparatively so it felt longer. SML2 is generic for a Mario game, which meant playing it on a Game Boy blew my mind as a kid because it's a damn Mario game! I'm not a big fan of Wario Land's backtracking or the charge mechanic in general. I'm a simple man who wants to run to the right and stomp on dudes as Mario. But it's a big game and brings new ideas to the Nintendo platformer table, so I'm definitely putting it above SML. 2 > 3 > 1

I'm sure DP hasn't been updated in forever so I dunno. Sega Retro is a great source for Sega info IMO and they have region-based lists, but you'll still find wonkiness. SR's list includes Sega Rally Netlink Edition but not Daytona Netlink Edition when most people I feel would either include neither or both. SR's list combines Mysteria and Blazing Heroes into one game, but DigitPress doesn't. DP and Sega Retro both include "Netlink Game Pack" which is just the bundle that includes Sega Rally Championship and Virtual On, both games already on the lists separately. Wikipedia on the other hand includes Netlink Game Pack, but not the individual SRC Netlink or Virtual On Netlink separately, and does include Daytona Netlink separately! NA could've had all of that plus the Netlink web browser or something, or maybe it counted multiple Virtua Fighter Remix variants because NA lists sometimes broke out particularly collectible games into a separate database entry. Looking at multiple sources and you'll always find these edge cases that lists disagree on. If you're using these lists to build a collection you could just pick one, then when you get 99% of the way done, start worrying about the nitty gritty?

Pricecharting has all kinds of weird stuff (competition carts, homebrew, non-games). If you just want something to work off, you would get less nonsense just starting with Wikipedia. Wikipedia incorrectly calls their list a "list of licensed Genesis games" when it includes unlicensed games like Ishido and Onslaught, although I've never seen a Sega list distinguish out licensed games like NES. The Wikipedia Game Boy list also combined publisher variants from the NintendoAge list, although the NintendoAge list was far from complete (e.g. Majesco and Accolade Centipede don't have separate entries on Wikipedia). But hey, I don't like any list. You have to start somewhere and fix it yourself.

Actually I think NintendoAge's list of 91 included Dizzy the Adventurer. That's the one Phleo's list above is missing because it's an Aladdin exclusive.

These are the games from the NintendoAge lists: https://www.videogamesage.com/blogs/entry/18-usa-nes-rarity-guide-licensed-unlicensed-games-and-more-v13/ Although Sharedata Chiller and AGCI Wally Bear are on the above lists and weren't included in NintendoAge's list of 91 that everyone considers the unlicensed set. IMO the NintendoAge lists were wonky especially with regards to whether or not publisher variants counted. NintendoAge's death is a chance to break free from the tyranny of the old lists and decide for yourself IMO.

Spreadsheets baby

I like exploring and collecting stuff. 10/10.

FOMO bought a sealed OOT and SM64 in 2019 because they're my favorite two games, and they're like what, 5-10 grand now in just decent shape. Didn't buy them to ever sell, but hey, didn't end up missing out so that's nice. Doing my best to avoid games that fit into Wata cases these days so I don't have to compete in markets like that.