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  • Birthday 02/07/1984

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  1. Does seem a bit silly for "WATAGAMES" to grade movies, maybe should be "WATAMEDIA" or something else now. Though I blame CGC. They are a pure greed company that wanted to expand into Games / Movies / VHS / DVD / etc just to simply under price the market and get a piece of the pie. Only makes sense that Wata would follow suit after being bought out. Word on the street is that VGA may expand into CIB grading formally too... because they see Wata / CGC making money off it. Businesses are for profit so they go wherever they think they can make a little money.
  2. I watched a Stallone documentary the other day and unfortunately he had one very real quote that hit me hard, especially as I've just turned 40. "Life is addition up until 40, then it's about subtraction". Sad but true and you have to mentally prepare yourself to accept it. While you're viewing it as your parents, its everyone sadly. Most of your friends will eventually pass or you'll be the one to go. Children grow up and leave the nest. People retire and lose their social connections at work. Parents are very important and I'm extremely thankful both of mine still alive (almost 79 and going on 70), but the point is that deaths or loss of connections is something we have to cope with as we age. Make the most of the time you have as it's a finite clock. Take some vacations or research some "things to ask your parents" lists, there's a ton out there. I see my parents about an hour or so every week and typically the conversation is surface level "how's it going / what's new / so and so did this / etc.", but when you get actively plan some deeper stuff, you really learn. This past Xmas season I asked really pointed questions about their childhood Xmas memories and learned some things I never knew before. Just take things a bit deeper when you can and accept the fact that time catches up to us all.
  3. Nice Tib Sun, I still need a Mint one. Got a raw sealed version and a Platinum edition sealed but neither are Mint. My fave C&C game next to RA2.
  4. I don't see this commanding a big value either, no provenance. Same with the "Mario Party glove" that was a direct form Nintendo thing when kids were getting blisters in their palms from joystick rotation. Someone tracked down it was just a plain white glove and hard to prove. I believe Japanese controllers have the Made in China thing and could be frankensteined too. That used to be a way to verify an e3 controller, the Made in China top but counterfeiters caught on with the swapping as well. I don't doubt it's legit, I just find it hard to believe someone would pay more than a couple hundred bucks since it's niche and not really proveable.
  5. Happy birthday GOAT!

  6. I mean those sale prices are getting close to a decade old at this point, what would you expect. I don't even follow this cart and $2k+ for a rarity that is argubly one of the system's "grails" is nothing but fair game. You don't get get rares at half of 2017 prices.
  7. Smaller by the day. I've already turned a corner mentally with my collection as I approach 40 in the near future and know I don't want to take it all with me. I'll always collect in some capacity but I don't need thousands of games. I'm not sure where I'll end up, but a nice number to shoot for would be about 500-750 various items to me. That's a much more manageable number that would be my goal.
  8. Sorry for lack of pic but I'm big into Sierra and Command & Conquer. Lots of other little odds and ends too but those are my staples. Have nearly all of the King's Quest, Space Quests, Leisure Suit Larrys, Command & Conquers and Red Alerts sealed. I'm not as active in PC as I was over the last 2 years though, most of my goals were knocked out by now.
  9. I got one of those last year too, probably same guy? Mine was unfolded and unstitched, but yes those SNES nylon banners are sweet!
  10. Nice eye. I love that it seems "authentic" to have some information, but I question those numbers a bit. The Pure Evil is relatively common compared to the rest, I'm highly skeptical more Super Monkey balls were printed than it. You also think that Sonic would have printed more than Super Monkey Ball... Sonic was much more of a bread winner wasn't it?
  11. Wow they've gone up. I have the LE Ninja Turtles Pin they made a few years back and I'm pretty sure it was like $9k. Or maybe I paid $500 down and $9k on delivery, don't remember exactly. But $13k is crazy. ... And I don't think I've played it in a year or two already. They're cool but just as anything else, you get bored of things.
  12. Very nice, is that Dr. Robotnik in the middle? I could use one. As someone who collects Genesis though, the demand really fell out of Sega a ton since the pandemic peak. Still plenty of good ones there though.
  13. Went with this recommendation and I must say it has been a heck of a game so far, great for couch co-op with wife and kids. Its fast paced team play, controls aren't quite as tight as you'd like but it's a party game that doesn't need to be taken to seriously. Thanks for that!
  14. The easiest answer is to trim. If you don't even know what you have and you are the "expert", how the heck will anyone else know what you have or what do to with it? You owe it to yourself to get an inventory and at least start understanding what you have before you make decisions. Reality is that the vast majority of inheritors won't have any attachment to the items and would rather have cash. Or they may have attachment to a select few items in the collection but certainly not the entire pile. It's also unreasonable to assume that the inheritor will have any passion / time / desire to look up values or to try and piece it out. Size also matters. Put yourself in those the inheritor shoes, would you rather inherit 10,000 items worth $1 each or one item worth $10,000? Obviously it's not that simple but the point remains. If you were passing down something you'd certainly want it a bit more curated towards items of value. Either way, the simple step 1 here is to figure out what you've got. If you can't do that then you can't possibly expect anyone else to care about it either.
  15. This isn't new, the non MAC PC version has gone for much more.
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