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By the time the Switch came out, I was already running out of space to store my games. It feels like every new significant game has a limited edition in a laughably large box, especially with LRG. In the past I would've gladly gotten the huge TMNT Shredders Revenge box or the Cowabunga Collection box, but I just can't do it anymore. They're bulky and full of trinkets that i know i wouldnt let myself use or enjoy because i want to keep the big box contents in nice shape. I'll let myself do it for a select few series (Zelda, Mega Man, Metroid, Fire Emblem), but I'm just turned off by them in general anymore. Anything post-3DS/Wii U I almost always pass on. Like half of my 3DS games have bigger awkward boxes and it's hard to organize with the rest of them. I also don't own any statues/figures etc. Just the games I have already take up enough shelf space.

I had to unexpectedly sell off a lot of items in 2016 for medical bills and a new car. I've been slowly working on reacquiring them since then. I have most of what I sold off except for a few games that spiked in price since then: Star Fox Weekend Castlevania Dracula X CIB Little Samson Donkey Kong 1, Jr., and 3 all CIB with hangtabs I'd really like these again but just not worth it to me

Over the weekend I checked out a new game store twice. Did 2 loads of trade-ins with stuff that I have been unable to trade/sell, lots of loose discs, cosmetically flawed [working] consoles, scratched but working disc games, filler titles, etc. Stuff that I've recouped my money on but is still leftover from lots and other finds. Anyway, got a significant amount of trade credit and got everything here for "only" around $160 out of pocket. Not bad at all. One more Saturn heavy out of the way. Silk Worm has everything but the manual. If you have one, let me know!

I've only owned and played a Switch Lite. I love it. I rarely have time to sit down in front of a TV and play game anymore, usually only play on the go. In my mind the Switch is just the next Nintendo handheld after 3DS. I love mine and appreciate the true D-pad on it. I might upgrade if they ever announce the always-rumored Switch Pro but for now its great for what I need. History will probably consider it an interesting footnote like the Gameboy Light or 2DS or toploader NES.

I snagged the CE since it seems it's the final 3DS release. The ordering opened like 90 seconds early so I pounced on it. I normally don't do CEs, especially with LRG as I was basically paying $30 for stickers and a CD. Just worried that if I wanted it down the line I'd be gouged by scalpers.

Surprised no one mentioned Kokopolo at Linited Run Games today. The standard edition of both games is still available. But the dual pack and CE are all sold out.

Retro-Taku Video Games has a new location in Waterford, Michigan

They went under in Elyria as well. Rumor wass were they weren't paying taxes and they all went under a few years back

8/23/2022: Two lots in one day! Found a FB marketplace listing of 15 Wii games and a loose GBA SP for $45 total. Met up the seller and he actually had 26 Wii games and when I asked him how much, he honored the $45 we agreed on. All games are CIB. 1 Wii Music, 1 Star Wars, Hannah Montana, and Monster 4x4 big box are sealed. GBA SP won't power on and the charging light stays on for about 2 seconds when I plug it in. I'm almost certain it just needs a new battery and is otherwise in great shape. Second lot off FB was a lady selling 10 Genesis games for $100. I offered $60 and she accepted. All boxed titles are in great shape and complete except Ecco is missing the manual and Earthworm Jim is missing the cover art. tl;dr $105 for 36 games and a (most likely) fixable GBA SP EDIT: ordered a gba sp battery and now the console works perfectly. Great bargain!

As a long-time league member, this will be my 6th season overall. This league is tons of fun, competitive, and the prizes are great!

I like quite a few that have been shared. I want to mention 3 channels: Lost Without Translation, Hungry Goriya, and Gamezofwar. All good reviews/retrospectives without the forced "comedy" most reviewers try to force in their videos

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Jack Nicklaus Golf. I just realized I left out Mickeys Dangerous Chase and Home Alone 2 for Gameboy games that I picked up yesterday. Nothing crazy but got 5 GB games I was missing for dirt cheap!

7/30/2022: Hit up a flea market while visiting my home town. First time in a few years making it back. Got everything pictured from several different tables for a total of $51. Everything works great except the Little Mermaid has no sound. PS2 came with the cords, controller, and some memory cards. The black zipper binder us full of loose PS1 games with manuals, around a dozen or so discs. Mostly sports/racing games and common stuff like Vigilante 8 and Syphon Filter 1 & 2. Nice little haul. This flea market is where I built the bulk of my collection 12-18 years ago.

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Bump. Looking mostly for the final DC games I need Dreamcast (CIB only) Dragon Riders: Chronicles of PernESPN International Track & FieldMidway's Greatest Arcade Hits 2Plasma SwordPsychic Force 2012The RingWorms World Party

I tried calling that number and it sent me directly to WATA. Then I tried 1-800 and finally got through to GoCollect. I appreciate their underground marketing

Yeah the licensed set doesn't include Tengen, Wisdom Tree, etc. Those are unlicensed. Some people include them in the set and some don't. I personally don't, but I'm less stringent on these since they were a product of the times during the consoles' lives and my religious parents got us a few Wisdom Tree games as kids (btw Spiritual Warfare is a good game) 1991+ doesn't count because NES consoles werent sold then? The NES toploader was released in 1993. Are you suggesting the NES life was over in 1991 because the SNES came out? Nintendo was still marketing it, selling consoles, and publishing games. It's lifespan was still going for 3 more years. Seal of Quality was a just an example of going through Nintendo for official releases. It was more of a marketing thing anyway like I already said. I'm talking about the original commercially available official releases for a console during its lifetime. For example, there are the 251 North American Dreamcast games that came out during the life of the console. I'm not going to add homebrews that came out in like 2015 to the north american set. They aren't from Sega, they aren't getting rates by the ESRB, they're a decade-plus after the consoles life. I'm going to go for the batch of original releases that are from its life. For NES, Warios Woods was the final game during the consoles life and would be the cutoff. Frogger for SNES, Just Dance 9,000 for Wii, etc. All this to say the "console set" definition is subjective but generally speaking the commercially available games during a consoles life are what makes up the sets that collectors go for. Theres a whole part of VGS forums to defining console sets from the consoles life. I'm not saying I am right and my opinion is the end all be all, but VGPC already has a bloated list of NES games that include all these homebrew, LRG releases, after-market, variants, unlicensed games, etc games and it would be nice to have a filter to not have to scroll through ~400 of these when working on the licensed NES console set. It would also be nice to track completion % for a co soleibrary with these parameters. Other consoles listed om their site have games from Japan listed under the US/NTSC sets as well as the JP/NTSC sets. Just want to be able to keep using their site and filter out the noise when looking at console sets

I respectfully disagree. They're not official through Nintendo and are after market releases. Also no seal of quality (although that was more marketing/monopolizing than anything else). They're neat and I own several but I don't count them towards the library / standard retail releases

EDIT: Just got an email that Pricecharting updated a date filter and percentage tracker for collection sets. Not exactly what I had requested but in the spirit of it. Thanks for updating my idea, everyone! Hello, everyone. I use pricecharting for my collection tracking and submitted a request that I thought would be helpful to others. I wanted them to have a sort/filter feature that can show just the standard retail release library for a region when looking at a console. For example, the NES filter on pricecharting has become bloated with over 1,100 entries and determining the cost/price of completing the standard set has become more and more difficult. There are a random selection of homebrews, games from other regions, after-market re-releases (like LRG), unlicensed games, etc. that have found their way on the NES page. While tracking these items are important, being able to limit the noise and just look at the standard retail release library I think would be a valuable tool for every console for collectors. If you like this filter/sort idea, please up-vote on their request feature page: https://pricecharting.userecho.com/en/communities/1/topics/1364-add-console-sets-for-original-retail-releases-as-a-sort-feature I don't want the discussion to get bogged down with the accuracy/usefulness/efficacy of pricecharting, that's a whole other can of worms, but just to see if other collectors like this idea for the sort/filter. Gamevaluenow had this feature and it was great to look at how many games I was missing for a set or what % of the library I owned, the price of a whole set, etc. Unfortunately, GVN was sold to the goons at GoCollect and I haven't used it in a long time. Pricecharting became my backup but I miss this feature of tracking system sets. I now track the libraries I am trying to complete manually with spreadsheets, which has become tedious. Having [accurate] libraries on a widely-used site like pricecharting would be a great tool for the community so I thought it was worth sharing.

Beautiful. I'm slowly chipping away at this set as well. It definitely deserves an icon

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