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.

Yeah I know what grading is but does the 9.0 materially increase the perceived value compared to an lightly worn / average worn ungraded CIB copy? You said I could adjust the value accordingly with a lower grade, I guess that's what I'm getting at. Is a 9.0 some super high grade that is normally like 1.5x-2x a regular/average CIB value? Or is it only marginally more? Can I just shave off x% from this sale as a fair value? Or is it just not apples to apples in this instance and I just ignore this sale and wait for another ungraded CIB? I don't follow graded stuff at all so is like a 9.0 a mint copy or lightly worn? I have no clue

I recently acquired a CIB Magical Chase and trying to value for insurance purposes. Mine is ungraded, with average wear to the box and HuCard. Manual has one word written on it but otherwise in great shape. No idea on a grade an honestly not interested in grading. Turbografx tapes were meant to be played! I know what I gave up to get it in trade and the rough $ amount there. So in looking for insurance, the (only) most recent sold auction for a complete Magical Chase was a graded copy with a 9.0 grade: link I am not one to dabble in grades (and not trying to start a debate about it) and am not sure if the 9.0 grade adds significant value to a CIB copy. I know in comics and cards and sealed games, a 0.1 difference can mean a material change in value. I am not sure how or even if these recent sale would apply to valuing my copy or other ungraded CIB copies. Normally I'd look at other sold listings but there aren't any others and pricecharting is not accurate in the sales it captured for pricing historically. Any insight would be helpful on if the graded copy is a good benchmark in this instance or if I should look into other methods.

6/24/2023: went to a local store that I don't frequent too often. Had a 20% off coupon plus a little bit of trade fodder. Ended up getting this for $620. Great condition and CIB but sadly no poster. Definitely a harder NES boxed game to come across in good shape! Happy to add it to the collection

6/20/2023: Found a Gameboy lot on Facebook Marketplace. Seller was asking $125 and I offered $100 and they accepted. I have now found all if the Play It Loud colors for Gameboy consoles locally except for Green. Only game I needed was Mortal Kombat 3n the rest will be upgrades in my copies and for trade/sale. Console is definitely being kept to finish the PIL set. These are in great shape and were adult-owned by the seller's brother who unfortunately passed away. I passed along my condolences but more and more of my finds lately are from people who have passed. The Atari 7800 was from someone's father who passed. Toy lot was in the attic of an old lady who passed away and had her old kids' toys; the person who bought the house was unloading the toys for cheap. Just a sad reminder that whatever we have when we die needs to be dealt with our family. In the past, almost every find was from people downsizing or moving. Makes sense that it's shifting to death as this stuff gets older.

I had one in the past and got rid of it since I only used it for 2600 games. With this one I fired up the 7800 version of Donkey Kong Jr and was shocked at how good it looked. And yeah, I've owned 6 OEM Controllers for the 7800 and only 1 has ever worked, usually a bad button or joystick or both. The quality and layout and shape of it is just terrible in everyway. Should be in textbooks for how to not design a controller

6/17/23: I have been going back and forth with someone on Facebook Marketplace for about 2 weeks for an Atari 7800 lot that's been sitting. Finally decided on $80 for the bundle and met up today running errands (seller originally wanted $200 and kept only coming down on price every few days). It comes with OEM power cord and 3 controllers. 33 total games with manuals for almost every one packed in the box for Reactor. There are some random 2600 controllers and a 2600 power cord. I have most of the 2600 games included but some gems like Frogger 2 Three deep, Sorcerer's Apprentice, and somehow Mario Bros are new to the collection. I'll test it all out once the kids are in bed tonight but very excited to have a (hopefully) working 7800 again!

6/16/23: Stopped at a few random garage sales this morning after dropping my son off at daycare. First sale had the 5 DS games and all Wii games except Monster Hunter for $0.50 each and all CIB. Next sale had the Genesis console and games for $50. All are CIB except Fatal Fury, Metalhead, and Robocop 3. Left my contact info with the guy if he has more and he said he'll be cleaning and putting stuff out all weekend so I'll be stopping by a few times. Next garage sale was a dud. Sale after that had Monster Hunter 3 Tri for $2 CIB. Last sale had the Alf doll for $0.50. Still in packaging and all tags and dated 1986. Might be a great buy. All in all spent $57.50 for everything pictured. Devilish CIB and maybe the Alf doll are probably the biggest gems here. Shinobi has a Sega 90s sticker on it which I don’t think I've seen before and is neat. I have been going hard garage saling the last month and this is the first noteworthy video game find that I've had. Wasn't even planning on it this morning and ended up doing well!

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