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If it went to $0.25 I was going to get a bonus though!

Also hold up if your Spiderman is cut into a rental case, spend the money on a Spiderman box upgrade!

It would cost what, like $4000? Surely you can better your collection more with $4k by buying cool stuff and not obliterating your shelf space by grading Toughman Contest. Also one graded game looks nice, like a showpiece case for your big fancy doo dad. A shelf full of them is awkwardly spaced out and plasticy and doesn’t have that... room of doom feel of having a shelf crammed with cool video games.

Once Oreo had the "The Most Stuf" Oreos, it kind of ruined Oreos for me. The cookies are just a pretense for the direct hit of pure crack cocaine sugar for me. Even Mega Stuf seems wimpy by comparison now.

3, I get the appeal but on the grand scale of video game platforms it's certainly not even average. It's just a neat gimmick. If Nintendo made this and it wasn't just an obscure bit of monochrome vintage gaming failure, it might be mocked like the Virtual Boy. The first time I saw one I was like "Whoa a Vectrex!" now I don't even stop to play one if I see it because I'm over the novelty.

Whole Oreo because I'm a lazy POS who just wants to shove Oreos into my mouth as fast as possible.

Hey I appreciate your effort in writing up this detailed explanation of a game collecting culture we're unfamiliar with, unfortunately no one cares about stupid PAL games. (jk thank you). This all sounds like a great reason to just stick to Ebay and YAJ and only venture into Europe when absolutely necessary. Also I apparently bought a bunch of stuff from CeX in 2016 and I obviously do not live in the UK. The prices were outrageous, much of what I bought was between $0.25 and $2 for decent common PSP, PS2, and Wii stuff and IIRC about half of it came complete. Also, all of it shipped separately! So I got dozens of bubble mailers, each with like 1-3 games, sometimes not even totaling $2. So I recognize them at least, looks like they stopped US operations 3 years ago. I sure could use some of that cheap used media love by me. But I mean, not stupid PAL games.

8, to be fair I haven't played the continuing adventures of Shovel Knight and friends, just the first campaign when it originally came out. Cool weapon and cool style. I love The Order of No Quarter. Could be harder because it has a million checkpoints, but that's every modern platformer.

The only thing you have to lose is your chance at greatness

@ThePhleo buy buy buy

I dunno if I’ll watch a movie about this but I’ll watch the amateur Youtube documentary about this.

I'm looking into the Ballistic perforated card variants and the Accolade trading cards that followed and putting together what goes with what since I don't think there's a good list of all variants/possible variants. Really all that's poorly documented is #2 vs #3 I think. I'm largely basing it on random CIBs so far, but it's a start. If you can add something, neat. 4 perforated cards, 4x5.5", Hardball through Turrican. The right edge of Turrican won't be perforated. 6 perforated cards, 4x5.5", Hardball through The Duel Coming Soon 6 perforated cards, 4x5.5", Hardball through The Duel 10 Accolade trading cards (came sealed) Hardball (1991) #1 (Daddymulkz CIB, Ebay CIB) #2 (Ebay CIB) Hardball (VG Classics, 199X) Unknown Mike Ditka Power Football (1991) #2 (Ebay CIB) #2 or #3, unknown variant (Verified from sealed copy VGS spreadsheet) Mike Ditka Power Football (VG Classics, 199X) None (Verified from sealed copy on Sega-16) Onslaught (1991) #1 (Verified from sealed copy on Sega-16) Star Control (1991) #3 (AtariAge CIB) Turrican (1991) #2 or #3, unknown variant (VGS spreadsheet CIB) Universal Soldier (1992) #3 (Ebay CIB) Winter Challenge (1992) #2 (Ebay CIB) The Duel: Test Drive II (1992) #4 (VGS spreadsheet CIB) Double Dragon (1992) #3 (Ebay CIB) Double Dragon (VG Classics, 199X) Unknown Bubsy (1993) #4 (VGS spreadsheet CIB, VGS thread CIB, 2x Ebay CIB) Super Off-Road (1993) #3 (Amazon CIB) Super Off-Road (VG Classics, 199X) #4 (Ebay CIB) Hardball III (1993) #4 (2x Ebay CIB) WarpSpeed (1993) #4 (DefaultGen CIB) Summer Challenge (1993) #4 (VGS Spreadsheet verified sealed, Twitter CIB) Jack Nicklaus Power Challenge Golf ("Includes Baltusrol" sticker, 1993) #4 (Ebay CIB) Jack Nicklaus Power Challenge Golf (no sticker, 1993) None (Verified VGS Spreadsheet sealed)

Three variants of Bubsy I saw while not looking for Bubsy variants. Sega SOQ sticker in bottom left, TV special star flash No sticker, TV special star flash No sticker, no star flash

Fifa pog has Fifa on front, EA sports on back (similar to the Madden pog). I’ll check the posters. Looking into Ballistic cards today too. I’ll post what I’m working on, hopefully you smart people can help.

Not sure what you’re looking for but try small game stores. I mean 6th page of Google type stuff. Also if you have a local game store, give them the word on what you’re looking for, because then they can look for it when they’re out on the convention circuit so you don’t have to. That’s how I got my All-Star Baseball 97 and Battlesport when both were dry on Ebay for a long time. If you mean like the Shrek Super Party toy watch which is just stupidly rare and dumb, I think you join the huddle of nerds with perpetual saved searches for years and whoever gets it first becomes king of the nerds.

A kinda squished one was posted on Facebook a couple weeks ago for $300 and no one was interested, would’ve been gone if it was English. US is way more desirable since that’s what people want for their sets.

Hard for me to rate. They're musically amazing but I just never listen to them.

Are you looking for a single player D&D like game, multiplayer D&D like game, or way to host D&D online? I feel like all 3 have been mentioned. To throw 2 more out there, Neverwinter Nights is the closest game to D&D 3e in terms of rules and has tons of multiplayer content and a Dungeon Master role if you want it. Divinity Original Sin 2 isn’t D&D at all but comes the closest to feeling like a roleplaying game due to flexibility, no grinding, and big mix of non-combat roleplaying things. If you don’t like Baldur’s Gate, hope may be lost though.

These sales are still eye-popping to me for such a modern "random rare" with no significance. Surely there are many similarly rare undocumented oddities and variants on Wii, modern platforms are absolutely the wild west of poor documentation! I wonder if the top bidders are nostalgic Wii fanatics in their 20s, or old man investors looking for the next Stadium Events?

9/10, love it. I was surprised as how good it was on its own when I rewatched it honestly, because I put T2 on such a pedestal of action movie greatness. All I really remember about T3 is the crane truck demolishing that building, which was god damn fantastic.

Yoshi's Touch and Go doesn't end at all (AFAIK) whereas games like B.C. or Scramble loop the same levels. I would've guessed it's Canabalt simply because that's the game that exploded the genre, but YT&G has a lot of the same qualities. Most endless runners are a lot faster paced, so I'm not sure if that's part of the genre definition in a post-Canabalt world. When you get looser with the definition a lot of games could count like that helicopter cave game or SkiFree, so I bet we can come up with something before YT&G.

You really, really don’t have to spend $300 on a Famicom Abadox. There may be one or two cooler things you can buy for 300 freaking dollars. Like a few copies of Super Mario 3!

Here’s the buyer of $10k GTA and GOW. A German reaction Youtuber. He brings up @jonebone’s Wata to VGA DESCRIPTION GUIDE at one point (ie the guide that says “near mint” is 9.4 or 80+, NOT a grade translation, crazy!) He also seems to know that the Pokemon Red variant matters a lot, yet still bids on God of War. Anyway it was all a rich guy doin’ it for them sweet views.

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I am real familiar with the history and collecting-info books in America (and even the print-to-order and PDF stuff) but know basically nothing about what's available in Japan. I want to be less dumb. One book that was recommended to be was GAME 19XX. The Perfect Catalogue series also seems real nice. What are some other good books that would be useful to some gaijin just trying to eat up all the video game knowledge (variants, LEs, rarities, hardware)? Platform doesn't really matter, I'm thinking of starting with the Game and Watch, X68000, and Famicom Perfect Catalogues. I know zero Japanese so would be Google Translating these as I read, so I need pretty pictures for dummies and small chunks of text, not narratives.