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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".

I'm interested to see how innovative this will be, or if it's just a 2.5D iteration on Super Metroid. We have a lot of Super Metroid-style games these days. Metroid, Super Metroid, and Metroid Prime were all game changers, something totally new. I love Nintendo's mold-breaking games (Mario Galaxy, BOTW, Metroid Prime, etc.). I mean, I'll play it and enjoy it either way, I just hope it's at least a little more than "New Super Metroid U". Also anyone else hate 2.5D? It just looks so cheap as an art style. I think the New Super Mario Bros games are the closest to pulling it off, but even those probably have the worst style of any Mario game. Some games use it alright like Shadow Complex or Inside, but those are never going to look as good as a Super Metroid, Cuphead, or The Messenger.

WD would be on fire if they still existed making collector-focused releases of their own translated games. They could be like a better-curated, more exclusive version of LRG.

I'm so sad the recent one got backdoored. (I don't need one though, godspeed guys)

I got a couple cool versions of Chrono Trigger recently. The V-Jump edition given away by the magazine (in the copper box) and the sample ROM, a demo of the game with pre-set save points.

I don't make it through many turn based JRPGs and FFX wasn't an exception. Got bored and stopped

There is a limit to the number of people dropping G's on sealed Nintendo tapes. But people aren't limited to buying one copy

Unless there's some kind of 1-off, this is the rarest game. Go find one. I see the GBA crowd posting weird rare variants all the time. There's definitely niche stuff rarer than the top tier expensive stuff like Ninja Five-O and Pocky & Rocky with Becky. Although Ice Nine and Sega Rally Championship are two hype games that genuinely seem pretty damn rare CIB.

Mario Zelda Nintendo 64

There was a rumor/exaggeration that made the rounds that only ~400 copies were stocked in the entire US. Obviously untrue with how many copies are out there (although it did receive reprints after people started actually buying them out of stock based on the rumor, lol) https://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/rumor-only-420-copies-of-devils-third-sent-to-gamestop-nationwide/

Devil's Third is still propped up based on an incorrect print run rumor, crazy.