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I mean whoever bought it has another 20 million dollars at least. They still could do things beneficial to humanity. I'd personally want the shiny rock if I was mega rich too. #materialism

Sweet! I need more TV-Game variants. The boxes are always rekt and my brain doesn't want to process that they're 45 years old so it's not going to look like a nice Super Nintendo box.

https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/123623470 Poor guys who donate this stuff only for someone in the Goodwill back room to recognize this oddly shaped, unlabeled cartridge for what it is.

Never looked interesting to me so I've never played. I didn't really like De Blob that much. I do love that Nintendo made a totally new popular franchise with all new characters though.

Damn, 40 hours a week when you're 16 on top of school? Get a life kid, you're only 16 once! This isn't too different from what a lot of us did. Buying from an underpriced market (whether $2 copies of Contra at the flea market or Switches at Best Buy) and selling for market value on Ebay. This kid is just doing so at a massive scale. I always blame buyers more than scalpers for creating the opportunity. I live a comfortable life and I wouldn't pay $25 over MSRP for a Switch, I'd just wait. People paying $500 for a Switch due to impatience are just nuts to me. Props to the kid for the head start in life. I still personally wouldn't sell one of my teenage years for $100k though. 16 is a cool time to be alive and with friends that aren't your employees.

Loose Stadium Events, lol. I know it's a default answer for most NES cart collectors, but it's a game I would pay $1000s for. Since the high end world is all about conditional rarity and popular franchises, I'm not keen on spending 20 grand for a loose cart of questionable significance compared to other significant games that might go up in price. A CIB Papillon Gals has been on Ebay for months (years?) with no buyers. Gonna need someone to maybe correct me, that's much rarer than SE, Myriad, or Panesians right? In terms of opportunistic FOMO buying, I'd probably do better off buying mint, common Pokemon and Mario games I don't have than something that only has rarity going for it. I do want to be in the loosie SE club, it's just the wrong time to buy. I was looking for a real nice CIB Bucky o Hare when it was in the $400 range, then it went into a drought for a long time and the next ones that came up started going for like $900, and who knows what they're at now. Cool game, but not worth a grand to me. Still weird to me living in a world where "normal" video games are just casually $1000 now, not the highest of the high end stuff.

Some interesting high end collectible auctions today at Sotheby's. The two most hyped stamps on the planet got demolished, millions under their estimates and what the seller paid for them. The 1933 Double Eagle coin sold for millions over the estimate, highest selling coin ever. Can't beat collectible money when you're selling to the money! https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/three-treasures-collected-by-stuart-weitzman In the truest of 2021 fashion, it looks like the one-cent magenta is turning into a fractional share investing company. Own your own piece of the stamp that gone down a million dollars in 7 years of a bull market. What a deal! https://www.1c-magenta.com/ Not sure if the what the actual wolves of Wall Street are buying affects the sheep of video game Wall Street, but I like watching this stuff.

Those guys should just make you write out merge sort in pseudocode on a whiteboard like you're supposed to for a dev job! (Is that still a thing btw)

My favorite bad interview was a huge group interview for Freddie Mac, 2012 or so. Maybe 50-100 people round robining between different interviewer stations. It seemed... impersonal and bad. But the best part is we got a FOURTY FIVE MINUTE presentation on why Freddie Mac wasn't a cause of the 2008 financial crisis. It was masquerading as a "So what is Freddie Mac?" presentation but was 100% an attempt to convince people that they weren't involved or at fault in the mortgage crisis. It was hilarious with everyone looking around with the "Is this for real?" look on their face. You know what companies that weren't involved in the 2008 financial crisis don't do? Give you a 45 minute presentation absolving them of being involved.

Is that your poster. What a hidden gem that one is. Movie Jesus should cover it.

I kind of like this thing. At the very least it's not just "another screen on which to play games" with just of phone or PC games, looking at you Amico, Ouya, Luma, Stadia. I'm interested in how much ongoing developer support it's going to get. The biggest issue seems like no backlight. I don't know that there's any device without a backlight I've ever really enjoyed looking at.

I like real obscure stuff like the Coen brothers and Parasite. You probably just watch Marvel movies and wouldn't understand!

9/10. Wish I was in film school so I could put the poster on my wall so people know I'm into films.

Not a rental, but Aidyn Chronicles on N64. Probably got it used at Hollywood Video used for <$10. I only had so many games, so I generally played the hell out of everything, but Aidyn Chronicles was just too awful. It was likely around the time I was playing Neverwinter Nights too, which made it seem like even more of a joke.

10/10. Literally the system for everyone. You could purely enjoy Japanese rhythm games and historical tactical strategy games and there are dozens of exclusive games worth owning the system for alone regardless of how you feel about the popular GTAs, GoWs, SotCs, and MGSs.

I know 10s are rare, but what are we even grading? You can open 100 sealed copies and how many discs would get graded a perfect 100/100 by the Disc Grading Authority? I'm sure it's basically impossible to get a CGC 10 Zelda Wii U manual insert if you send the manual insert to CGC, should a CGC 10 be worth $1000s in that case? The world's most perfect incomplete collectible is still incomplete. The people tossing big boxes to grade their components are just the most egregious to me. People are going to start opening sealed big box PC games to grade the inner jewel cases for higher numeric grades, lol.

An actual 10 on something in original packaging is one thing, although I personally wouldn't pay $1000s more than a virtually identical 9.8. Throwing away the only condition-sensitive part of the collectible, the outer box, then just grading the inner case and calling it perfect is crazy IMO.

Is the end buyer of random 10s a "Wata collector"? Not a collector of video games graded by Wata games, a literal collector of items produced by Wata games? I think someone on VGS bought an incomplete TLOZ they graded from HA, AFAIK literally the only incomplete game they've ever graded without a manual, which I guess in a way is a "Wata collectible". I guess there are mistakes and test runs you could collect too? I just can't imagine the mental gymnastics for someone to seriously think this is the best condition Wii U Zelda TP ever, even if you believe the gap between a 9.8 and 10 grade is worth extreme premiums.

$4000 for an incomplete Zelda TP remake. What's the motivation? Is it a number-collecting thing? Hoping you can short term flip anything that says Zelda/10? Buyer didn't know it's a big box game? Does someone seriously think this DVD case outside of its packaging is one of the most collectible video games of all time? https://www.ebay.com/itm/164896558800

Shush on computers games. They've gone up enough already. Even as a computer game collector I'll see some BS like Mach Rider or whatever and be like "$100, yeah that makes sense now", but something actually on my want list like an Oregon Trail or Might and Magic variant I'll see and it will be like "$100, that's nuts, I'll wait to see if the seller lowers the minimum bid".

If you’re dropping this money on a JRPG promo item you’re at least XL buddy

9/10, love it. My favorite Layton game. Why did they get rid of the matchstick puzzles? So fun!

Not many exercise games actually resemble a workout pre Ring Fit Adventure, although maybe someone can give me one. I mostly think of games that emphasize jogging in place or using a bad stationary bike. Wii Fit is yoga and balance crap. I've never broken a sweat with Wii Fit. It certainly failed at its goal IMO. Other Wii fitness games like EA Active are just crappy minigame compilations that use excessive motion controls. DDR is more exercise than any Wii game!

Actual art and history museums have tons of stolen one-of-a-kind cultural artifacts. Looking at you UK! I’m not too worried about keeping mass produced media in its country of origin. Foreign games belong one place: my shelves! It would be weird to stop yourself from buying a Roman coin, a British stamp, or a Gutenberg Bible because your area of interest isn’t where you live.