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11 hours ago, phart010 said:

Looking at this gives me chills. There was a time between N64 and GameCube when I began hating video gaming due to the elimination of my favorite 2D genres. Metroid Fusion gave me some temporary relief.

I preordered it and picked it up on day 1. Unfortunately my box has seen better days, but I still have it with the original preorder receipt 

That's amazing! I wish I had my original copy. I played that game into the ground. hah

My sealed Metroid Fusion. By far one of the longest of goal games. Finally saw a mint copy show up for a mildly bank breaking price but considering said grail status I had to get it. Will probably never sell it.

17 hours ago, broncofantd793 said:

I think a year minimum is a good expectation for turnaround time for grading anything at this point. 

their turnaround times have been increasing by about 1 month, each month.

ive made four speedrun subs this year so far: right around the 20th each month of 2-3 games each.

January: order back by mid-feb

february: order back by mid-april

march: order went into post grading three weeks ago. Should be arriving this month  

april: expecting to receive around august or sept.

as an added metric, I’ve noticed my orders always being listed with an id about 700 higher from the last. which could mean wata is receiving a linear number of orders and is still losing momentum. I’m assuming the order id correlates to the order number in their system, so this could be wrong. lol

i've got a few completed mainline sets plus spinoffs and console bundles here and there. right now the big focuses are mega man battle network, mega man zero/zx, and pokemon. it might sound obvious but i haven't and may never finish a pokemon video game set (with the exception of its mainline entries). i dont think i have the patience or motivation to do all spinoffs anyway. hah

the photos are kind of old so i've since added a few items to each set, such as the keychain bundle of pokemon ultra moon/ultra sun and pokemon stadium 2. i also added mega man battle network 6: cybeast gregar to finish the sealed my BN sealed collection (except for chip challenge which i dont care for, and network transmission just isn't in these photos, but i do have a couple copies of it). zero/zx has been done for a long while already.

EDIT: oh this probably goes without saying but i dont collect label variants or really variants in general. i just go with what i can find within the umbrella of CIB or sealed, but sometimes will align subsets (e.g., gen 2 pokemon) to the same production runs (e.g. all y-fold or all double-ended boxes).

(sorry images were deleted on imgur)

hi dad

Hi all. Figured I may as well join since this place appears to be an important hub of info for game collectors.

I’ve been collecting my whole life pretty much. Started taking it a wee bit more seriously in 2019 where I pioneered to get every Pokémon game CIB or sealed (currently have all gen 4 and newer sealed, rest CIB!).

And just this year started grading some of my game boy collection (bad timing considering price hikes but that’s just 2020-2021 I guess lol)

Anywho, excited to meet some new people! Ta

I’ve started grading this year for my personal collection.

I did one sub with 2D labels and another in 3D. Yay mismatch!