LutherDestroysTheGond

But fellas, who was your Secret Santa? Luther is Secret Santa! https://youtu.be/farSRgI_w5E?si=wik16yOwJNyW3IF3

Not sure who my SS is but I really enjoyed the gifts and letter! I received the letter, 2 retro-inspored Switch games, a personally recommended Genesis game that I've never tried, and 5 empty Gameboy game cases to help me in the search for the full set. Great gifts! Thank you to Secret Santa for hosting the event, my guess is it's @JamesRobot, and thank you to my personal Secret Santa! Looking forward to participating again in 2024!

This store will price 3-screw and 5-screw carts separately based on pricecharting. My guess is that since Snake's Revenge doesn't have a 5-screw entry on pricecharting, the employee pricing it assumed repro and labeled it as such.

Sorry for your loss, sounds like you and her had a special bond that even extended to your love of gaming.

I'm not looking to sell/trade at this time, but I appreciate the interest

Once more into the breach. Just like Dunkirk, eh old boy. I'm in

@ThePhleo, the region code can be viewed by looking at the cartridge label itself. On the left-hand side in the gray bar, there are codes for each title. For example, a US copy of Jimmy Connors Tennis, would be DMG-JC-USA. DMG = Dot Matrix Gameboy (standard for all original GB games), JC = Jimmy Connors (title specific for this portion of the code), and then the region code: -USA. For the ebay search link provided, only the graded game appears to be a USA copy. The others have other regions on their codes. Specifically, -NOE, -FAH, and -UKV from what I saw. Or, Nintendo of Europe (Germany), France & Holland, and the United Kingdom, respectively. Since you've filtered by item location, unless the seller is diligent enough to list the proper region in their listing, the only way I can think of to weed out other regions is to manually check each game label. For harder to find and more expensive original Gameboy games, you have to be on the lookout for fakes as well as other region codes when going for a regional set. I'm going for the -USA set and finding a -USA Jimmy Connors Tennis was pretty hard. It generally goes for 1.5x-2x what you have listed as your loose cart price and doesn't come up too often. From my experience, the pricier Mega Man GB titles, Xenon 2, and I'm sure others are also titles where other regions are sometimes mixed in despite selling from North American sellers

Pretty neat. For Gameboy titles, it's hard to sift out the non -USA versions of game though without manually scrubbing through pics of games in each active/sold listing. For example, 3/4 active copies of Jimmy Connor's Tennis are from other regions. Finding a -USA copy is very difficult and usually more expensive than the other regions. Other region copies also get lumped in when determing the scarcity/price. As a result, it appears more common and actually cheaper on the end result here than it usually is for a -USA copy of this game at least. There may be other examples but that was one that stood out to me as I had been hunting it recently

Local find this week!

10/26/2023 - found a very rare 5-screw variant for NES that was mistakenly listed as a repro cart at a local store. Bought is on a strong hunch that it looked real. Got it home and inspected more and it's legit. I'm thrilled to have it. Likely the 4th known copy to exist. Also recently got a few more harder-to-find Gameboy games off the list as well as finishing the Play-It-Loud console set by finding a green one locally.

8/9/23: Found Mega Man IV underpriced at a store that everything else priced well above the going rates. I already have this one but will likely trade towards other OG Gameboy games I'm missing. Solid deal and well under pricecharting.

Bump. One last game for the set

Cinemassacre, AVGN, the Mike Matei hidden gem videos, and Metal Jesus videos were usually to blame for prices spiking of games they covered. Last year, some youtuber did a big review video of Phantom Dust on Xbox and it jumped from a $15 game to $100+ basically overnight. It's been in slow decline to around $50 since but that was the most recent one I'm aware of with an easily trackable video/event inflating the price. For me it was always the Mike Matei hidden gems videos that seemed to define/inflate a chunk of the NES/SNES heavy hitters that are still expensive to this day and were mostly very cheap prior to those videos.

Happy belated birthday! Thrift in my area got a new manager who I noticed last time I was in. He eagerly asked me what I was there for (most employees know me) and I said my usual video games, etc and he proudly took me to the glass case where I saw a similarly priced Wii console and games marked above ebay: $30 Wii Sports, $26 kirby Epic Yarn, etc. He let me know he priced them himself. He was disappointed/confused that I didn't buy anything but I'm bummed that one more hunting spot in my area is likely no good. Aucks this seems to be getting more and more common in our area

The one I linked to is a graded CIB. I know a sealed game like this would likely sell for orders of magnitude more than a CIB copy. I just don't k iw what kind of weight people give graded CIBs since the whole graded thing is silly to me. Maybe I named the thread poorly as I don't think grading adds value, just trying to compare to regular ass stuff that I usually buy, i.e. CIB games. My takeaway is that insuring this game / my collection will be a pain regardless and that a dumb graded CIB copy isn't apples to apples with a regular CIB copy. Hard to gauge value with past sales data as a lot of loose and HuCard w/ manual onky copies are captured by pricecharting for this title.