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Sonic Mania is so good! (Sonic Heroes is pretty good too, just don't tell anyone I said so)

If it's not, it's because food elitists made a sub they really like and now pretend it's in its own category of foodstuffs because they don't want it compared to lesser subs. It's just a long piece of bread with meat and cheese. A higher quality of a footlong steak and cheddar from Quiznos.

I change my answer to April O'Neil

Don has the best, nonlethal weapon (these are HEROES after all). He's the smartest. He's mature. Purple is the best color. He's the clear choice. Raph is reckless and hot tempered. What is he 11 years old, grow up Raph. Raph is probably the only turtle that wouldn't be fun to be friends with.

5/10 I only played this at my friend's house when it first came out. It has such a flashy, good first impression (minus the crappy first level, I mean Emerald Coast). So my memories of it are just playing Emerald Coast over and over really. I played through the PC version when that came out and Jesus this game is pretty bad, particularly the "Adventure" part of it. It's so damn slow and boring!! There are flashes of what it feels like a 3D Sonic should be, running vertically down the side of a building, snowboarding down an avalanche, etc. and it's broken up by sections walking around town talking to people. Who wants to do that!!!

What? I'm not going on Pawn Stars to sell something, who does that? I'm purely there to manipulate the market, except instead of trying to hype Nintendo shrink wrap, it would be to de-hype stuff I like.

I would just want Deniz so he can rip apart my homebrew or Japanese game or PC game like he did DRob’s Atari games so people don’t want to invest in those.

I mean there are games that barely exist to begin with like Mr. Boston Clean Sweep and Air Raid, so there must be a bunch of really obscure stuff. In a world of Stadium Events case packs, I assume most everything is out there somewhere and people just aren't constantly flipping them or flaunting them on social media.

Don't forget that you'll need Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Odyssey Deluxe Edition, Assassin's Creed Odyssey Gold Edition, Assassin's Creed Odyssey Gold Steelbook Edition, Assassin's Creed Odyssey Kassandra Edition, Assassin's Creed Odyssey Medusa Edition, Assassin's Creed Odyssey Omega Edition, Assassin's Creed Odyssey Pantheon Edition, and Assassin's Creed Odyssey Spartan Edition.

I love Among Us, but it's neither a game that really needs to be preserved physically nor does this release preserve it since it's just an online game. It's like a $25 gift box full of some Amogus knick knacks you would buy at Target. Like a steelbook case around a concept art DVD, come on, lol.

Ughhh, The Bunker was so bad. I can't believe I paid to have it immortalized in blu ray form.

Journey - A boring, pretentious game and I have six words leftover.

Suck it DKC1.

As your financial advisor I am advising you to sell. Up 10,000% YTD, $83B market cap, here I am wondering how the video game market could have been manipulated to the point of $7,000 players choice N64 games, but Dogecoin is just sitting there as an $83,000,000,000 joke.

And having a perfect grade Trilogy Vice City is like getting the world's best McDonald's McRib and calling it Michelin Star-rated Pork Shoulder Structured ala Ribcage Caramelized avec Heirloom Tomato-based Vinegar Jus.

The further up the conditional rarity chain you go, the less the item itself matters, which is why I'm not really into it. A cart or CIB has value mostly from the game itself as long as it's not wrecked. A near mint or sealed game has value from the uncommon condition it's been maintained in. Tippy top graded stuff, your VGA 95+ or BGS 9.5, is mainly glorifying the production machinery and shipping process. That overwrapping machine theoretically hit that copy of Super Mario 3D All-Stars just right. And the "perfect" stuff, your CGC 10s, your VGA 100, is glorifying the grading process itself. No mass produced object is "perfect". A MS-70 graded coin didn't have any flaws... noticed under 5x magnification. Why didn't the scale stop at the naked eye? Why doesn't the scale extend to 20x or 200x magnification and make gem mint coins virtually impossible? You could bust out a bunch of MS-70 coins and use an electron microscope and AI to determine the objectively most-perfect one or you could bust them out and mix them in with MS-69s and without additional equipment, no one would be able to tell the difference, yet because of the current grading scale you just know those coins aren't the same right?? And if you think a VGA 100 or your $150k Hulk 181 CGC 9.9 definitively stands above all other examples, prove it. Resub it, get the 9.9 again, and show that it's not a subjective fluke. If it's a demonstrably exceptional book it surely wouldn't come back a 9.8 like a hundred similar books before it have.

It can only go up. Pokemon is very popular guys. Buy for $690, resell for $850 to the next guy, then he can flip it for $1k. To the moooon.

It’s really hard to get a handle on the “best” box protectors especially when companies change their products. I have noticed a few improvements in my latest lot of KP boxes though. The plastic wrap comes off much easier than before. This used to be a static-clingy hassle as the plastic would rip and not come off cleanly. They are also much easier to fold. I used to have to use t-shirt press to flatten the boxes fully so they wouldn’t be crooked. Now I can easily fold them by hand. They still have a logo (no props for stamping a logo into your product...) but at least they’ve moved it from the bottom of the box to the side of the box where it’s glued shut, so small improvement there. Didn’t hear anything about this personally so I thought I’d shout them out.

They’re the American dream. If you have acrylic sheets, a cringey generic army stencil font, a company name that sounds like a get rich quick scheme, 45 subgrades, 30k fake Instagram followers, and a dream, you too can make a grading company.

I had a lot of fun with these games but I've never beaten a single one of them. I've probably played AW1 the most though.

Pro Sport Hockey is always on those. Maybe not because it’s the absolute rarest but I don’t think anyone wants to pay for it because it’s not sexy.

SNES music all sounds like it's played through a mattress, but otherwise 10/10 console.

If you're already thinking about it, just upgrade to LEDs for the peace of mind alone. I have covered, UV-filtered fluorescent lights in my garage (with a big wall of red Genesis spines!) but I'm only occasionally out there for a couple hours at a time, it's nothing like sunlight coming through a window for 16 hours a day every day. I also think cheapy "99% UV" filters, plastics, and films are of limited benefit in terms of fading from what I've seen in one anecdotal test, but maybe there must be really high quality ones museums used to use. There's a lot of information on the topic if you look for museums and artwork conservation since museums have largely replaced their lighting with LEDs, for example: https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/technical-bulletins/led-lighting-museums.html#a8

Never heard of it