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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

I don't know a lot about international trade, but shouldn't customs be like looking for illegal items and tax fraud in a billion items going across the border. Why do they have time to do this crap.

I think collecting is probably only fun with some level of challenge. Anyone can buy the 1992 Upper Deck baseball full set, all 800 cards, for $5, so where is the fun in collecting it? If you're Will Smith and you're so rich that Nintendo games are like 1992 Upper Deck baseball cards, you probably aren't looking for the world's coolest 1992 Upper Deck baseball card, you're probably buying art or coins or cars or wine, things with a "challenge level" suitable to your finances. I think everyone does this to some extent. If you started collecting coins as an adult, are you going to seek out, beg for, and hoard shiny modern pennies like a kid would or are you going to collect something more expensive? It's just as fun to gather, sort, and organize all the pennies as it would be $1000 Morgan Dollars, but when you can go on Ebay and buy every penny made in the past 75 years for $40 and you don't have to put in any effort, collecting pennies seems like a trivial pursuit. But hey, Logic and Steve Aoki is out here buying Charizards and NWC is rare too so maybe someone needs to remind millionaires what NWC was. Because everyone knows what Charizard is and no one gives a damn about NWC besides NES collectors.

You're not going to find a better list than ThePhleo's. Other than that, just search Ebay and see how many are for sale and recently sold compared to everything else. Your only easy option to get a Cowboy Kid right now is a $3000 CIB. Probably pretty rare game.

Oh neat, apparently it was patched in 2020. When it came out there were complaints about stretched-aspect ratio, broken music, bad lighting, so I just wrote them off as more bad console Doom ports. Cool to see that it's potentially the best console Doom port now. This feels like information I am learning for a second time. Stop releasing broken games Once I see stretched pixels to fill a widescreen display, your company is dead to me and I won't remember that you fixed it.

It's a cool box that says Castlevania on it (same with Doom) which is enough to look nice on a shelf I think. The Doom ports are also some weird Unity remake thing that isn't a super great version of the game. These shadowbox CEs look so much better than their boilerplate black box CEs though. I can't drop $200 every time they get an IP that I like into a box, but I think their brand should focus on the big stuff like this and not... Metal Masters on Game Boy because they can make those cheap.

You're not supposed to open it

I have to get on that while prices are close to zero. I don't feel any inclination to collect Japanese N64 but... it's so small and reasonably priced. I've got Getter Love already, there aren't really that many heavy hitters even, right?

Congratulations dude! Are you going to go for the any regions that matter next, or just collect more PAL games for other systems?

Hong Kong Mah Jong baby. It’s so rare, you’ll say it doesn’t count There are a couple ridiculous PAL games like Phantom Air Mission too. None of these will get you as many social media likes as a Stadium Events though, gotta get the games that get you clout, not just the rarest of course.

There’s only one TRULY collectible gold Nintender https://www.ebay.com/itm/Analogue-NT-NES-24K-Gold-Plated-Factory-Sealed-Brand-New-System-9-out-of-10-/193258367366?_ul=IL

Does the queen normally take part in foreign marketing campaigns? I thought her main role is British marketing.

Yeah, all the language surrounding this console is “made for the queen”, “intended for the queen”, etc. If I intend to give my copy of Super Mario Bros. to the queen and she doesn’t want it, I don’t have the queen’s personal Super Mario Bros. It’s a curiosity of the THQ bankruptcy, lol.

That is some good stuff