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10/10. Best CRPG I've played until a couple hundred hours of PoE finally convinced me something surpassed D2, but I certainly have played D2 longer. Everything about D2 is rad. Even just the sound effects are the best the genre's ever had. If I had to complain about anything, the Sorceress is simply overpowered, because teleporting is the single best ability in the game. Hammerdins can teleport (more slowly) too, but how did you make Enigma? That's right, you used your MF Sorceress. Other classes just aren't mobile enough, something fixed in PoE which has all kinds of fast, useful movement skills. But hey, it's 20 years old and still holds up amazingly while everything else in the genre is still trying to be it.

Oh no, say it ain't so. Not the game with the deep speedrunning community!

Do you think Gen Z is bidding on the Donald G. Patrick Collection of the world’s finest known Brasher Dubloons? Old people use mail. Also, they take $1000s in fees and it probably makes sellers feel warm fuzzies to have their stuff in a print catalog.

I was going to call them overpriced if they charged $1 for SMB/DH but it’s just $0.39 Old price lists are fun. Cool to see one not from Funcoland.

Cash grab. $30 for an “art book” no one cares about full of art we’d get with the manual if games still came with manuals plus some postcards. Anyway, I want one because it’s Metroid.

Man, I forgot about my Icicle Pyramid days. It's too bad OptOut's family can't figure out how to play DKR because it has some great multiplayer too. Although MK64 block fort is probably my favorite multiplayer map out of any of my options between the two games.

Yeah I don't know enough about correct pairing, I just think if you're going to blow $1,000s on an ugly matte Mario to check a box you might as well get the earliest everything in it, let alone if it's cheaper to do so. But I'm sitting here looking at IC and FDS date codes which are beyond what no one cares about monetarily, so my thought process is different than the average HA buyer.

The 6.0 Mario has the "wrong" manual ("Year"). The 5.5 is uglier but has the correct/earlier manual (No Year). Both are pretty rekt, neither even still have the sticker which is like... the thing you're buying right! I'll be surprised if the later one sells for $1000s more based on eye appeal in the same low grade, since the only reason to buy one of these at all is to say you have the earliest, and the 6.0 isn't the earliest. Then again I won't be surprised because nothing matters anymore.

Looks like I need a FDSStick to investigate more So one anomaly which isn't a typo is K15J04. @Sho do you have any disks with 6 character codes? My only thought is early disks didn't make sure the date was always 2 digits (e.g. it's 1 instead of 01). From at least 1986 on at least, days 1-9 are 2 digits. So K15J04 could really be K015J04, which would put it right in line with other 1985 date codes (November 1). The earliest Zelda I've seen so far is J145I24 (October 14) and there are November 15 and 21 dates too.

6.0 Stadium Events cart went for $9.6k on Comicconnect. 3 SEs for auction at once, lowest grade, smallest market, summer, investors aren’t interested in incomplete/randomly rare games, etc. Still interesting to see it at basically 2017 prices after the absolute madness of the past few years. The two on HA should be interesting.

PAL Version? Did you not have like a slip of paper to get signed instead?

I mean, I don't know. I'd call myself a Super Monkey Ball fan because I think the first two games are amazing, despite being frustrated with over a dozen subpar spinoffs, collections, and re-rereleases.

I don't know what it's worth, I've seen a few modern games with lots of signatures like this. Who on the dev team signed it though? Uncharted 3's credits are 14 minutes long. It's like a Pixar movie. This stuff is novel and cool, but I'd personally take one signature from a name I recognize than 30 from people I don't.

DKR had a lot more to it (world map, 3 vehicles, more tracks, boss fights). Normally I'm all about getting straight to the meat of a game but the open world and progression of DKR is so much more fun than choosing a difficulty level for a GP in a menu in MK64, racing it, then waiting for your friends to come over so you can actually play the game.

It's so high quality! Think of the craftsmanship that went into burning that CD.

More like Bullcat-Doug am I right

Found another Ninja Gaiden date: 90426. I wonder if there's a 908XX now, since there's new dates every month or so. The variant game never stops.

Ok ok I bought one. Stop pressuring me banner ad.

No interest in it, but I ended up with a PS4 four years after it came out. I'll check back in in half a decade and see if there's something I can't miss.

They're both super strong 10/10s for me, but Metroid Prime is my favorite. If the scenario was to pick one game to play for the rest of my life, I'd go Super Metroid since it looks more fun to speed run and get good at replaying.

God I love VGS

Is Metroid Dread Special Edition going to be one of these BOTW Master Edition deals where it actually sells out immediately and they don't make more. I will be sad if that's the case.

@VGCollectaholicYou might be interested in this thread

Weren't those just photos of post-its essentially (or rather bits of construction paper?). Were they even permanent art pieces? I'd be shocked if they existed. If one did and was remotely obtainable I'd have seen it as one of the art peoples' forum avatars sometime in the past 20 years!

If you're a collector you probably already have a decent pulse on this though, or at least know where to look for that kind of info. The pop report lets someone with zero knowledge look at a glance and see "Oh, the Nintendo tape Pro Sport Hockey or whatever has so few graded copies, I should buy all of those up!". And I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing, I think more info is a good thing. But in terms of prices, a pop report will probably hurt collectors more than anything. Hulk 181 and Jordan Rookies are extremely common, but still command crazy prices. I think rare games are more likely to get hyped-via-pop-report than some common Mario games will get devalued for being common. The thought process will just be "It's Mario/Pokemon/Fifa/Spider-man, doesn't matter how many there are".