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I remember playing this in a kiosk before the GBA even came out, so it must be from that.

Anyone else see the trend of sellers moving away from dedicated webstores or ebay to go to the app WhatNot? I decided to try it out and was not a fan of it. It's live auctions that are scheduled, games sell in about a minute. I saw a lot of games go for more than they should be worth. I wonder if sellers are using this to get around eBay's new tax rules. I hope live auctions arent the future of buying videogames, I don't like this format at all.

Reddit also turns into a brag fest of what people buy. I like discussion of retro games more than some guy showing off what he bought on eBay.

Very interesting! Maybe this can somehow legitimize by neighbor's story! (Although no way did they know anyone in the press).

A few: -From my Neighbor at the time Smash 64 came out: Ness in Super Smash Brothers is from a game that's a sequel to "paper boy "called Pizza Boy, and for his moves he says "Pizza Fire and Pizza Thunder". I thought this was true until Melee came out and I unlocked the trophy that says Ness' story. -A retrogame store employee talking to a customer 3 years ago when asked about what the rarest video game is: My dad has the original Zelda Nintendo cartridge made of actual gold. It's worth at least 4 thousand dollars. -If you jump into the window above Peach's castle entrance in Mario 64 you can ride Yoshi -Use strength on the truck by SS Anne to get Mew. -Level all 3 starter Pokemon to 99 and they will turn into the 4th evolution

This is actually pretty likely to have happened. To what extent he did we don't know.

I suppose so. Retro gaming to me I guess was never a money thing. I started in the early 2000s when I was a teenager and the hobby was not expensive by any means with the exception of niche things like the TG16 or some rare Saturn games. The "collectors" were pretty much all players. I liked it at that time because everyone was genuine because you didn't have to have a high income to have a collection. I'm glad I've always been a bit of a hoarder of games. No way would I buy my current collection of games I own at today's prices. I don't know how anyone can get into the hobby of playing older games unless they do emulation or everdrives. Not hating on collectors by any means, everyone is different and the market is based on demand. Just miss the days when the hobby was smaller.

5-6 years ago was thinking of picking up Sonic Jam for Saturn (went for 60-70 dollars). Today I see it goes for 300-400 dollars. Yikes. I'm glad to have a modded saturn and a computer with a disc burner still. I feel everdrives and optical drive emulators are the future of this hobby.

I've noticed the same. I feel like Spring 2021 things were going crazy high. Now things have cooled down somewhat.

It's cool seeing everyone back. Where's NGD and Rhetoric?

Been on NA since 2007. I knew Dain was scummy for selling the site everyone donated to and contributed to (database). Had no idea he was a founder for Wata and sold the site to a Wata director. Yikes.

Very true! Good point!

Not saying there arent a lot of functioning ones still, but failures are becoming more common. I bought a PS2 and OG Xbox this year from people locally, both worked great initially had laser failures for me within a week or two of use. I've heard stories of people opening sealed PS2s and Xboxes and the lasers dont even work. It's definitely a consideration to make at the very least. I think in the future it will be very important to have modded laser based systems whether its an optical drive emulator or using the PS2 fat HDD/Network Adapter or Gamecube Action Replay. With the original Xbox the system EEProm locks the harddrive to that system, when you have harddrive failure on an unmodded system you are hosed.

PS1, PS2, and original Xboxes all now very commonly have laser issues. I think it's inevitable that unless someone just wants a copy for their shelf, no one will be buying these games to play them.

I'm not a big Shantae fan, but in summer 2020 was buying some wii u games I missed and almost bought it many times for 15ish dollars. Now it's going for 60. Twilight Princess HD now sells for 80. Yikes