85Collector

Lots of *states* have begun tracking e-commerce sales. It hasn't been the case that you could safely leave this stuff off your taxes for at least a year. I've always declared this income myself, but many people never did. However, that changed with the Supreme Court's Wayfair decision awhile back.

Sold a working w/ lines in the screen original Gameboy on eBay, the buyer says that the motherboard is tampered with and sent this picture. The globs are supposed to be chips. Is this is a known variant of the Gameboy board as Nintendo manufactured it?

Yeah for NES SMB is obvious, but here I'm going for Tetris. SML was ok, but the sequel was more like a real Mario game. Had SML 2 been a launch title, it would have been quite impressive 

29 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said:

Looks great!  Do you, by any chance, have any of the other VS games available?

No, only one sorry!

Not sure what these go for exactly, would like to take offers. Bought this in 2014 or 2015 as a curiosity, barely used it. I even have the original bubble wrap and envelope! It works, played it a bit back then and tested it for sale. Comes with the slipcover too. See pictures.

Aside from the entertainment value, this thread is fascinating to me. From my time at NA, I had understood the "anything except a 1:1/counterfeit is okay" rule to be pretty much universally accepted for the hobby. It's interesting to see such a variety of opinions. It sounds like these debates were had back on NA as well but I must have missed them.

By the way, semi-on-subject, does anyone know if these RetroBit multi-carts are licensed/approved? I don't recall stuff like this from a few years ago, where it's walking right up to the "not a 1:1 copy of a real product" thing. https://retro-bit.com/cartridges.html

I just want to say about the "hasn't aged well" thing, I think of that similarly to how your food preferences often evolve as you get older. Kind of like how so many of us loved stuff like chicken nuggets and pizza rolls, and now perhaps can still enjoy them but understand they're, well, not exactly fine dining.

When we were kids in the 80s and 90s it was easy to be wowed by stuff, taken by the hype, etc. As you get older you realize a lot of the games released were kind of crappy and were only impressive because we didn't have many reference points. Frankly, when you look at the libraries of most consoles, only a small or moderate percentage of most of them have much gaming value today.

While I do take into account how a game has "aged" or whether it was "impressive for its time" I don't really think of those as qualifiers, more just historical descriptions. For example, games that got the most out of a limited sound chip, used heavy parallax scrolling, etc. 

On a bit of a tangent, I can't tell you how many 8- and 16-bit games I've picked up, played for 2 or 3 minutes, and gotten stuck. I've gotta wonder if I'm an idiot, or if as kids we just had a lot more perseverance and less of a sense of opportunity cost/not having time to waste. It's neat to me how many serious thoughts pulling these old games out can spark.

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1 hour ago, Californication said:

I would take a couple of those games instead of the manuals

Yeah, I would too!

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Oh sure, I'll try a deeper clean on it. I was just wondering if I was seeing a known defect specific to this game. Sounds like probably not. I have seen other games behave this way but have always been able to get them 100% with just the qtip and alcohol (sometimes a rubber eraser too - the Magic Eraser is a good tip I have not come across before!)

1 hour ago, austin532 said:

No, don't throw it away. Sometimes it takes more than isopropyl alcohol to get the contacts clean. Could also be from a bad trace, bad chip, bad system.

Are you using an original NES? Have you tried the game on another system?

I think I've only tried it on my NES clone, (FC Twin), but I recall looking up whether this game has clone-system emulation problems and not finding it on one of those lists. 

I was going to open it up, but I was afraid of breaking it, and never looked up how to open a Tengen cart. I assume it can be done without cracking them?

Hey folks, I've had a copy of Tengen After Burner (black Tengen-style cart, don't recall if they made a different version) and the game boots up and plays but it has severe graphical glitches. I've cleaned it pretty thoroughly and over the years it always displays exactly the same way. Does someone know if this is a known defect with Tengen carts? Should I just throw this away?

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Selling my SNES manual accumulation off, at one time was going to try to assemble most of these into CIBs but I'm paring down my collection to my core favorites. Here are photos, list to come. Some are very nice, some are pretty worn. Most are "good," intact and solid but with visible normal wear. Can provide pics and more details. I've got a lot of GB and NES manuals as well, you can DM me a want list too!

TMNT Tournament Fighters (Cover loose, torn, worn)
Super Adventure Island
Batman Returns
Alien vs. Predator
Super R-Type
Final Fight
Super Scope 6 (black cover)
Super Scope 6 (photo cover)
BioMetal
SNES console booklet (x3)
Gradius III
Contra III Alien Wars
Super Double Dragon
X-Men Mutant Apocalypse (worn)
Super Game Boy
Mega Man X
Super Nova
F-Zero (x2)
Sunset Riders (crinkled/worn)
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Doom
Joe & Mac
Cool Spot
Pocky & Rocky (torn, worn)
Super Mario World (x4)
Super Mario Kart (x3)
Pilotwings
Super Star Wars
PGA Tour Golf
Super Tennis
Star Trek Future's Past
Aladdin
Killer Instinct
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Super Mario All-Stars
Mario Is Missing!
Several precaution booklets (SNS-USA/CAN, -1, -2)

Hi folks,

I was 85Collector at Nintendoage, active from 2014 to 2018 more or less. I was only interrupted by the whole NA acquisition saga, and now that this community looks like it's sticking around I'm back. I'll be posting for sale stuff like I used to have (I handle a lot of papers/manuals/boxes, in particular) and looking forward to the forum discussions. Happy Holidays!