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Thoughts? Wound up starting it over the weekend. Very enjoyable about 5 hours in so far. Plenty of exploration and enough varied content to keep it interesting. Worth a play for sure.

The one on eBay sold for $2500 FYI.

Yeah saw his IG post, think he said he got this and some other sealed games for $75? Nice payday.

Ha, I just subbed a WCW NWO Revenge last week to go with my VGA 85+. The THQ N64 games are all time greats @Jim Jimmer

In the bedroom, NES and Genesis days. Then in Xmas of 1996 I got N64 with Mario and was allowed to hook that up in the living room! Not sure how long that lasted, maybe 2 weeks until back to school, then it moved back into the bedroom with me too. While I had the TV in the bedroom it was never allowed to have cable TV. It was just for playing video games.

I analyzed about 350 data points for the Wata crossover article, about 60 85s. You got a weak 85 then, it was probably borderline 80+/85 and barely made it. Most are in the 9 to 9.6 range, A to A+ wraps. They'll hopefully publish my article in another couple weeks.

I enjoy a long Christmas season. It's hard to buy for certain people anyway, I need the extra weeks of keeping an eye out to try and find something decent. But hold off on the Xmas music until post Thanksgiving please.

What's a Starkeeper and why is it so special?

Politics and Religion go hand in hand. If you take a stance on protecting one then you inevitably have to address the other too.

Blast from the past!

Of course it will. It combined the handheld sales market into the console sales market. Comparing it to SNES is fair, but comparing it to SNES + Gameboy may make more sense. Or Wii U (even though it was pitiful) + 3DS, or Wii + DS. It's really combining two markets into one.

It's not with all of the selling out as much as a new buyer aggressively trying to purchase things. GVN turned him down multiple times as far as I know until I assume he got an offer he couldn't refuse.

Depends but probably 9.4 / A (ish). Plus or minus some on either side.

Welcome over, glad I bought from you a couple of months ago then, haha.

We follow each other on IG, and while I don't specifically consider myself a console collector, I will grab a GBA / GBA SP / GBC console bundle in a color or variant if the price is right and condition is nice.

I got probably 2000ish CIB games and 500ish sealed across all platforms. Im a CIB guy. But I'd much rather have sealed on it. You can look at 11k as priced out now but if someone had really wanted one it was easy enough to find sub 2k up until 15 to 18 months ago.

I said the advisors are literal figureheads and that is it. They used them for clout at launch, they arent paid positions. No one ever told me anything but I was magically removed shortly after Qix kept whining about me posting VGA games. Yeah, no message, no nothing. They knew from the beginning I wasnt just going to be a Wata yes man and was still going to collect VGA, so whiners got their way. Oddly enough, I've done more advising after the fact it seems. My NA thread got them to realize that grading CIB without a manual was a bad idea, and I also called for IMP shown on the front of CIBs which has since been implemented too. End of day, I try to tag up with Deniz every now and then if I see something worth talking about. I do want Wata to succeed, but I also recognize their limitations. I also would enjoy a world pre Wata, but they are obviously here to stay and completion amongst grading companies is good. I just dont like all of the injected money that quickly came along with them.

I would much rather have a sealed Tyson in any print than a first print CIB. I gladly flipped the first print CIB I came across this year and continue to keep a sealed round seal rev A in the collection. Sealed on this title is rare no matter what variant.

It's just a completely arbitrary line between comics and games. I don't own a comic, I've never read one and I don't give two shits about them. Yet, Wata copies the comic scale and heavily markets video games as the next big thing at comic trade shows. So what do you know, a comic guy comes in and tells his friends, they recruit more, the ponzi scheme continues, yadda yadda yadda. It's about artificial acceleration of the hobby due to actively recruiting new money, many of which have absolutely no eye for condition or rarity as evident with a lot of sale prices. It's obviously a strategic move, as copying the coin scale and marketing to coin guys would have been futile due to demographic differences, and copying the card scale / marketing at card shows may not have made as much sense for a 3D item vs. 2D. But still, while we all collect video games, there's other collectibles like sports memorabilia, vintage toys, art, sneakers, etc. The new money could have been sold on anything other than games, but we injected them here. For as hot as we think games are, sneakers are even more ridiculous. StockX ( http://www.stockx.com ) has literally turned sneaker collecting into a multi billion dollar online stock marketplace, they even had a SuperBowl ad last year. Wata and HA are still chump change compared to the genius entrepreneur that put together StockX... which coincidentally, is also expanding to other collectibles. Maybe video games will be on there someday too... Either way, I assume most collectors expect their collection to go up in value. But when it just blows up so stupidly it takes a lot of fun out of it. So what, a lot of us had a good year selling, it's just money. But it certainly makes it a lot more difficult to collect, which I assume is what most collectors like to do. Normal organic growth is great, injected money is not.

And here I was just thinking you were a professional sign collector. Glad you made it!

Actraiser on SNES IIRC. Sim City and platformer, pretty unique. Bayou Billy also comes to mind with lots of various level types.

To be fair, Dain didn't do that. He only collected VGA. GoCollect bought his collection, then crossed it all over to Wata, or subbed a bunch of ungraded items himself. GC / Wata came up with the Carolina Collection tagline, not Dain. Though, I do suspect he knew NA was a ticking timebomb with a server decommission date of 10/31.

Welcome aboard!

It's hard to go with that line of thinking in general. There could have been snipes at $9k or $10k that didn't register depending on the delay. I.e. someone snipes at $11k with 6 seconds left but there was a $10k snipe ready to go at 5 seconds left. The $10k snipe wouldn't hit the bidder list.

Not for a gloomy thread, but perhaps maybe just a place for reflection or appreciation of life. I had to attend my wife's grandfather's funeral this week. He lived two doors down from us (we built on the family farm) so family is very important in her life. One of those situations where he had been going downhill for many years so everyone knew it was coming, and truthfully he is in a better place. That is one thing I do worry about as I age, hoping that that I will continue to preserve my body and health and not become a burden onto others. So yes, RIP to those who have passed and perhaps a spot to reflect on how someone made an impact on your life.