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I hate slip covers in general because all they do is make a game easier to damage (AND unable to fit in box protectors). Same with steelbooks... a case named for a strong metal that's actually easier to damage than a normal plastic case. What a rip off. I wouldn't grade a game without the slip cover personally though, I like complete stuff.

The first time I played Donkey Kong was in DK64, so obviously my childhood experience was with the greatest version on the greatest console. None of the 90s arcades I went to growing up ever had one weirdly enough. Even Dave and Busters has some modern version of Donkey Kong and they don't cater to vintage stuff at all. Like many above, I can't give DK a 10 because I'll never play it for an hour straight at an arcade like a faster game like OutRun or Robotron. But it's still awesome and basically invented my favorite genre, not some 40 year old garbage like Pac-Man. 9/10

And have nerds camping the store all day??

Mail you physical cards? $2.99 a pack? Digital NBA card packs start at $9, go to $100s, and still sell out quickly. The magic of NFTs! https://nbatopshot.com/packs

What a crazy thing that has no parallels to anything in history

The fancy modern stuff AFAIK are a couple shiny Charizard and Pikachu cards that sell for a couple hundred. Everything else is normal TCG prices, some $10s for the best stuff because it's all so mass produced. And of course anything less than a perfect 10 is garbage because so many people are putting modern cards straight from the pack to the grading pipeline. These are the cards I constantly see infecting my video game-focused social media feed:

I never really believed in the game "bubble" when a copy of Contra went from $15 to $30 over a number of years. But in the era of... this... I don't know what else to think. Crypto graphs to the moon. If you paid last month's comic prices you potentially got a $1,000s bargain. Daily queues at Target to buy out their entire stock of Pokemon and sports cards to immediately flip online... Just... lol

I've played 3 Game.com games and I could tell you that every single thing Game.com is, stands for, and purports to be sucks balls. I can also tell you PS2 is the best console ever made in part because every genre is represented so well and it's easy to find exactly the kinds of games I like to play, even if I never personally want to play a boring JRPG or old ass sports game, which are enormous parts of the PS2 library. I don't think people are giving journalistic, wholistic reviews in an internet poll. Also if there's an AVGN video about it, automatic 1.

Everything is on fire and we don't know what to do anymore. Little Samson and Flintstones 2 are old man games. We only collect Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros 3 variants now because they're keys.

The white ESRB logo is later (IIRC ~1 year after TLOU was released). CIB copies are largely the earlier version. New late-print versions were/are available very cheap for years. This is one of those games I've seen people "invest in" sealed because they can buy a stack of them for $15/ea not realizing they're buying a newly printed version. Not that the original print is at all rare sealed either though. All the VGA late print copies selling for a grand on Ebay are either uninformed buyers or fake sales. Those are garbage, lol. (Although checking Ebay it looks like early prints are nearly as cheap so I don't understand why anyone would pay $1000 for any copy of TLOU)

I don't know about anyone else over the past day... Also iOS Safari bugs: The 4 images get super squished on an iPad screen when you scroll down and the submenus don't work (e.g. I can't go to Browse > Forum, the submenu just disappears). Everywhere else on the site it works. I know I'm not supposed to use the site horizontally on mobile, but me and ZF are peas in a pod.

My wife buys stuff like this on Aliexpress, outrageously cheap. Like $3 shipped for small ones. Crafts and models are such a better value hobby than collecting video games. Some of the big expensive (relatively) ones look amazing https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002193612927.html?spm=2114.12010612.8148356.1.1f75284bXI5IbG

Here in the states that’s just a saying now!

There’s a bunch of weird games with little or no physical release. I couldn’t find the lovely “Saturn Smash Bootleg Edition” (which is actually made with permission), but did find @JamesRobot’s one of a kind work of art version of the game. Stuff like that is very cool and very legal.

On the topic of unobtainable things, anyone feel like collecting one thing now means probably shutting yourself off to other things in the future? My old plans would be like, oh after I get my Saturn wants, I'll do SNES, then 32X sometime in the future. Now my thoughts are more along the lines of, OK it will probably take my the rest of the year to get my Saturn wants, how many SNES wants does that mean I give up and does that mean I'm realistically never buying the 32X games? Prioritizing feels real important in this era.

Don't even joke with me

Wait what's this message I just found

Damn you should get a financial advisor

If it's just for the money in this era of free money, why not just YOLO 10 grand into cryptocurrency instead of paying all time high prices for a game and the added risk of shipping, customs, buyers, etc. If anything is going to insta-flip for 20k premiums, it would probably be something in mint condition or an early print, not a basic bitch pidgey Pokemon Blue!

What video game store even has a no returns policy? Shouldn't the benefit of buying from a retail establishment and not XxRetroTreasures420xX be that a store has a reputation to maintain and would stand behind what they sell?

Uhhh, is this a store in West Virginia (Gaming Paradise)?? I sure hope that's someone pretending to be that store and not the store itself. Based on the no returns disclaimer they clearly know it's fake.

Everything there is to collect or document, and non-Nintendo Miracle Piano variants are on your list? Not some kind of NES butterfly girls game or scary blue NES cart that's not supposed to be blue?

Really impressed with the new graphics. Great job guys!

Ha, that's the last con I was at before the world ended, so I constantly think about other things I could've bought while there. I was picking and choosing near mint $30 Game Boy and VB games like a princess instead of just buying whole lots.

Excuse me, Call of Duty Finest Hour is the first console Call of Duty game! A key!!!