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That would surely be a commercial hit

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But then you wouldn't have all those cool game tapes anymore

I would sell a chunk of my collection and pay $20,000 for OOT or SM64 if I had to. I think there are some games like that people will literally pay anything for if they have to. Look at Chrono Trigger prices. Thankfully, actually must-have games are common as hell and usually $1-200 tops. I can’t think of anything I don’t already own that I would pay car money for like a comic nerd who has to own AF15 or FF1. Mega expensive stuff is usually just popular and rare and almost always there is rarer or cheaper stuff I can get with research or specialized knowledge instead by just not buying the most obvious/hyped/popular rare thing. Games like SE and Myriad are mostly interchangeable tokens of rarity and status. They’re sweet and I want them but essentially meaningless outside the hobby. You can’t replace OOT with anything comparable.

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These are super cool

Yep, I can't get over price memory of stuff of stuff that has literally gone 50x. It makes everything else look like a better deal by comparison which has led to me buying the same stuff I used to think is too pricey for those same prices. Someone spent $90k on Pokemon Crystal, a game whose only significance even within Pokemon is that it sold many millions rather than tens of millions. It's the third bestselling GBC game, super rare, not the most and second most common GBC games like Gold and Silver! Maybe $500 for that Blockbuster New Leaf cart isn't such a horrible price after all.

It's harder to flip because it's an even more niche market than sealed games. The sales pitch is "This unopened copy of Super Mario 3 is one of the nicest ones you can get and just look at how much Action Comics 1 and Wayne Gretzky rookies sell for!" not "This butchered and sharpie'd Kid Icarus cart was a sample cartridge or like a development cartridge used in the games development, but not like, the actual development because the game had already been out for over a year overseas, really just the localization, or maybe it was sent to some guy at Game Pro, really it's a piece of history if you think about it" But hey, buying good stuff that people currently aren't flipping for $1000s rather than thinking the people spending $4000 for a sealed Monopoly are spending their money the best possible way is a good strategy.

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This Thunder Force II is trash, but it scored 9.8 A+ and sold for $2600. Literally has half the ink faded off it and sharpie on the front. WTF Wata, lmao. https://comics.ha.com/itm/video-games/thunder-force-ii-wata-98-a-sealed-gen-sega-1989-usa/a/7242-97219.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515

Graded Mario/Pokeman collecting is like a different hobby from collecting video games. People are just looking for a token to park money into. You can get pretty amazingly collectible games for $1000. One might even say more collectible than a poor condition CIB Mario.

I have to say D-Force is probably the worst shooter I've ever played, at least the worst scrolling shooter, maybe there's some Atari nonsense that's worse. They spent their whole technical budget figuring out mode 7 rather than implementing hit detection or making the game run at more than 15fps or making the audio sound effect for the bullets firing not clip every 2 seconds. If anyone has a recommendation for a worse one, I'd like to try it out of sheer curiosity.

I think AtariAge is and will always be simply because younger people don’t often use forums. I think we’re mostly gen X/millennials and most people our age congregate on popular social media sites. On AA even the Lynx and 5200 forums have posts every. single. day. I truly can’t believe how active AtariAge is. Forums are cliquey though so where you fit in might not be the only good place. Neo-Geo people probably know a lot, but they’re toxic gatekeepers in my brief experience braving that site. PCEFX from my experience had a negative stance towards inexperienced collectors. AtariAge has old man energy which can be good or bad. VGS itself has a negative stance towards investors and graded games and I see people dumping on them all the time when they join.

Holy crap is that a 5-SCREW??

7/10. Enjoyable both as a super weird dark fantasy movie and as a “bad” movie because it’s so far off from how anyone would interpret Mario. Really enjoyable either way I think. It sure isn’t boring.

I would’ve thought the date was removed because it’s 1996. I swear this isn’t the only game to do something like that.

$26k for Pokemon Stadium 2 or $90k for Pokemon Crystal is still dumber. 5 figure comics are all either the rarest or most desirable issues out there. 5 figure Pokemon games are fuckin’ B-listers. At least SMB is SMB.

I’m was never in one of them, but I enjoy ex-cultlike religion Youtube channels for whatever reason (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons) like Lloyd Evans. The way they control thoughts and actions and develop followings is pretty interesting.

It's a good business model. Charge for different tiers of service, then send people back their games whenever you want anyway, lol.

Crazy that grades barely matter for some games and have exponential multipliers for others. Like I know Pokemon games are common, $5k for a 9.0, $50k for 9.8. Mario Kart 64 on the other hand sells for $35k for an 8.5. What would a 9.8 be, two million dollars?

The VGA 90 $38k Tyson finally sold on Ebay, lol. Took what, an hour? The flippers need faster trigger fingers! Someone finally realized there is a $10,000s disconnect between the one that sold for $100k and this one in identical condition.

3/10, maybe a little better than it gets credit for but worse than everything but unplayable old crap in the grand scheme of things. Talk about small libraries, literally half the O2 games were made by one dude! The controller is sturdy and reasonably comfortable at least, which is kind of rare for the time. Pick Axe Pete and Quest for the Rings are my favorite games out of the few to choose from.

It looks like they're down to $25-30 so far, which is that sweet spot where I wonder how it's worth anyone's time to go physically scalp these for so little profit (assuming you can only get 2 per store) but also too expensive for me to pay the scalper premium for.

I've seen imageboard posts both ridiculing foreigners buying fake games and mad that they're sucking games out of Japan. I have zero clue how representative that is of the general collecting community, but I would probably feel the same way!

Man I didn't even know there were yaoi console games. Japan really has it all compared to America.