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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.

It's Survivor Day

Oh dear

We should all just move to the most commonly spoken native language, Mandarin. It only makes sense.

SFC games have like the best Nintendo art of any console and CIB they cost what SNES carts do sometimes. Imagine having this wimpy, black bordered tree stump Compared to the whole ass tree But again shhh, keep these cheap. Japanese games don't matter! It would devalue my TM, matte sticker, no code, all-wheel drive, 212 horsepower, dual-zone automatic climate control US first prints if people started caring about these.

Guys there's apparently a club

Hopefully it's not coming. It's painful enough watching someone pretend to care about Punch Out. I'm gonna be seeing people talking about how much they love the classic box art of Popeye no Eigo Asobi. They've graded Japanese N64 games which have different sized boxes from US versions though.

Guys I'm so nervous

Like 15-25 bucks my dude

Also Mariodoes what Bonkdont.

Ha, it's not shade for giving up, it's that Game Gear is the greener pasture when I typically think of it as one of the more difficult platforms to collect. Also it's probably a little that Game Gear ruined my childhood because I had a GG and not a GB

Are people still calling the Wii U the next Sega Saturn? It may seem on the surface that everything has been ported off Wii U and there's almost no reason to own one... but people are definitely going to need a Wii U in the future for all those hot rare remaining exclusives. What if they lost the source code to Game & Wario and it can't be ported just like Panzer Dragoon Saga!

"This is too hard, I'm going to collect something easier like Game Gear instead" said one person for the first time in human history ever.