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5 for me Wii motion controls suck and not in a "motion controls suck" kind of way, in a Wii motion controls suck kind of way. They're just laggy, imprecise, and the worst. Playstation Move was amazing, it just had no games. It basically got left out of an entire era of RPGs and action games because it was underpowered. There is no Elder Scrolls, Far Cry, GTA, Uncharted, or Mass Effect equivalents on a Wii. Lots of developers decided shitty 3D was a better option than 2D. Ctrl+F Muramasa in this thread for proof enough of that. If there were more 2D games or games with timeless art styles, a wider variety of non-Nintendo games would get represented looking back on it. It should've been "Nintendo's PS2" in terms of third party variety and quality, after all PS2 was underpowered and extremely popular. But it wasn't. It was a dumping ground with a number of diamonds in the rough.

15 years ago I watched every press conference, argued about it online, and got excited with friends. Unless there’s something really new and exciting in games, a 4D console or something, I have way more than enough to play so don’t really care what’s coming out beyond some Nintendo stuff.

VGA does too! Oh you mean intentionally.

Anyone remember that Reddit post about a guy who was considering buying 677 empty clamshell cases and printing out NES box art for them. No intention to ever buy the carts. It was wild.

Sad, you have to play SMB3 40 times before you've extracted the fun out of it, meanwhile 5 minutes at Walmart with SM64 is enough to set you for life because it's that good.

Mario 64 because N64 is a great console with an ergonomic controller that isn’t blurry and has a deep library But for real it’s way more fun to dick around in SM64 even after 120 stars. Movement feels too good. You can also max out the coin totals for each level as a goal.

Literally the only thing that matters is that your game isn’t PAL or Japanese

It’s a rare first print tho

I'm starting to think Estil doesn't even have a Metroid Prime bobble head and made the whole thing up.

I think it's great all around. It's not overly long so I didn't get bored of the stealth, combat, or walking simulatoring around super detailed areas like I eventually did with 30 hours of Part II. It does a good job not letting any one of those aspects overstay its welcome. It does repeat the same plot cycle like 4 times of: We need to get to (far off structure) > Oh no, zombies! > The real enemy... is man! Ellie is probably the strongest female child character in any game in TLOU1. It's easy to get behind the survival-at-all-cost characters on a quest to save humanity even if they're not "the good guys". TLOU2 made that pretty impossible, and it was filled with long sections trying to sympathize or humanize characters that are actual murderous psychopaths. 8 for me

I would bet anything it's just because people think they look cool and there's no cost difference between boring gray and kewl transparent blue. Mega Cat Studios occasionally has plain gray ones, but mostly do the snazzy color thing.

Are you getting hit with double taxes on this? Does Otis pay their capital gains, then you have to pay capital gains on your gains? From a tax perspective, this seems like literally the worst thing if that's actually the case. Like we're certainly in a period where it's impossible to lose money on collectibles, but as if 28% + Otis fees wasn't high enough, do you get hit with the bonus 28%?

77600 + .99 * 77600 = 210,000 - ~30% for taxes? A few thousand more than the actual 28% tax rate but what's a few thousand between friends. They're definitely lumping something else they're keeping as taxes, do they say what and how that's calculated? I went through the SEC filings of another one of these companies and they had a huge fine print list of fees they will charge for warehousing, maintenance, etc. but don't tell you how much they actually are. Congrats to anyone who doubled their money in 4 months on this super long term investment! 2021 to the moon!

"Garcia, nobody can hire my feelings!". Last Alert is a treasure. One of many awkwardly delivered, awkwardly scripted lines in this game. And it's not like one weird line in the middle of a cut scene, they stopped the game for a second specifically so the protagonist can say this important line. "AHHHHH! Nothing is pointless! And the reason is... because I'm the President of the great United States of America!". I don't know how well this line stands on its own, but the protagonist of this game (the POTUS) constantly, ridiculously says "And the reason is... because I'm the President of the United States", so him saying it while jumping onto a Space Shuttle is the cherry on top of the perfect sundae that is Metal Wolf Chaos.

But I want to keep it sealed on my shelf now!

Wasn't sure if it was going to be the ultra rare 7 controllers BOTW or the masterpiece FF7 for 40k before I clicked, but it was a nice surprise.

This is Cena’s heel turn. People have wanted it for decades. His new gimmick is going to be CCP apologist. This is going to be like a modern day Iron Sheik thing right?

Research jobs sound fun. In my mind it’s people poring through archives for info on obscure ancient coins and books. In reality it’s probably entering all the latest Italian set Yu-Gi-Oh cards into a database. Being a grader sounds like everything bad about working for the post office but also requires specialized knowledge and ruins your eyesight.

I have like 50 cultural artifacts ready to be deported at Zenmarket now. Hope it goes well Their website is SO much better too.

So always just check sold listings, got it.

Also to answer your unanswered questions: Boat shipping (surface) is cheap. If you combine a few games and are willing to forget about them until Christmas, you can do that instead of EMS or Fedex. EMS is just starting up again after COVID shutdowns in a couple weeks, so shipping has been more expensive than normal the past year. FDS games are rewritable, so the only thing that's unique is the stickers (and there are fake stickers, woo!). If you're buying FDS don't forget to check the code on the back of the out box, it's unique to the game and often incorrectly paired. There's nicer bootleg stuff generally than what I've seen in America, made to fool collectors not just for Timmy who wants to play Mario Kart 64. I want games like Recca and Gimmick, but I'm not confident enough to buy them off YAJ. I might need to enlist local help one day from the smart people here. I used to use Dejapan, the bargain basement proxy whose prices are so low it has to be some kind of drug front, but their sniper failed on 2 big lots for me. Some weeks later 2 more snipes appeared to fail but were manually corrected to show I won days later. I don't trust them anymore. They also used to double-box my packages and stopped doing so in the past few months.

Also good luck @Hammerfestus on your quest to steal Japanese heritage and export it onto American shelves. It is currently my favorite part of collecting video games.

Is Armadillo not garbage? I played it after I played the similar homebrew Rollie and it's just the choppiest, most intermittently sluggish, most motion-sickness inducing NES game I've ever played. It beats Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout.

Hasn't changed my overall interest, just what I'm targeting. I do prefer the laid back "Oh, that's all over then?" feeling of the 2018 plateau compared to the FOMO gold rushes of 2020 and 2021. Overall it's probably making my collection better because I'm quickly and predominantly getting all the stuff I've put off until a hypothetical one day. The day is here to pare down that long term want list, particularly what doesn't cost 3x what it did 2 years ago. Can't plan on prices to increase hand in hand with rarity anymore. Some of my want list stuff is inevitably an article, Wata case size, or auction sale away from becoming the next hype thing. How many GB games used to fill bulk lots more than Super Mario Land? Today it's solidly $150+. Super Mario Land was garbage just a couple years ago. Who on Earth thought CIB SML was collectible? It was worth less than Klax. KLAX. Now it's like the hottest Game Boy game you can post on Instagram, do ya got the green screens??

Gilligan's Island is the only one I've seen. It was alright. I guess I saw it on Nick at Nite? I've seen a bunch of 1960s shows growing up in the 90s/00s thinking about it. Do kids these days get random 80s and 90s sitcoms mixed in with their cartoon channels? I'd rather watch cartoons TBH.