austin532

I assume you plan to keep it sealed or do you plan to open it?

Not gonna lie. I read that in my mind as Mickey's voice.

Same here, I'm more of a visual learner and I've learned alot from Youtube. I was planning on doing a collector's series which focuses on certain things like the differences between NES sleeves, styrofoam pieces, inserts, etc. but now with Coppa I'm not sure.

I don't recall seeing him but if he is here that's awesome.

I consider that the beginning of the Silver Age. Once the 3D foundation was laid down, developers had more time to spend on a more engaging story and really put a focus on quality and creative gameplay.

I still miss the old NA and the vast archive but I admit the site was starting to feel clunky and outdated. I'm surprised how many new features were added to this site. Adding emoji's, pictures, and polls is so much easier now. Plus you get notifications when someone replies and you can now "React" to someone's post. The site designers clearly had a vision in mind.

We are still missing a few veterans like Braveheart and a few women like Daria but hopefully they make the jump over.

I chose 97 as the cutoff point because we were still getting excellent games between 95 - 97. Chrono Trigger, Yoshi's Island, DKC 2, DKC 3, Kirby Super Star, Super Mario RPG, Mega Man 8, Mega Man X4, and SotN just to name a few. I'd even through in some early 5th gen games like SM 64 and Tomb Raider. Those games had a huge impact on the industry and helped jump start the generation.

It was part of the tech boom during the 90's. Within 10 years we went from primitive looking 8-bit NES games to photo realistic 32-bit DC games.

"Shredder's my ass and Splinter's my balls."

Maybe this is all just a scare tactic? The fine does seem like someone just made it up. Like how did they come up with that random number? Again though, why should we have to suffer just because they didn't follow the FTC rules?

You can't sensor the internet although it seems like they are really trying to.

So Youtube made a mistake but the creators are penalized.

That being said, I marked my channel as "not for kids" but what's to stop a random bot looking at my video of me unboxing a Mario game for example and say "Oh, Mario? That's for kids. This channel is in violation" I definitely can't afford to pay $43,530. I would have to sell my entire collection which I've been collecting for over 20 years now and I'll be damned if that's going to happen. I think I'd rather spend a month in jail then do that.

Why someone would even get fined when they clearly marked their channel as "not for kids" is just plain stupid. That's no different than having a kid walk into a strip club which clearly states outside with multiple signs that it's for adults only and then having the kid's parent sue because the strip club wasn't kid friendly.

I'm not sure if my unboxing videos would be considered "for kids" but I am a little concerned they might get marked as them. I think my only saving grace is I use a very sharp knife to open the games which I guess could be considered a weapon which means it's not kid friendly. Not really sure what I think of all this. I really hope I don't have to shut down my channel as I'm just getting started.

True, if we were to go by generation then definitely gen 3 and 4.

I consider 1972 - 1983 to be like the Platinum Age/Beginning. Developers were learning how to make these new things called Video Games on very limited hardware and quality control was not a thing yet. It laid down the foundation for the next age. I would mark the early 80's as the start of the Golden Age but the crash completely killed the market.

Maybe I'm misunderstood but I always thought the term Golden Age meant when something was at it's best/peak?

I often go back and forth on this but if I had to choose a Golden Age for console video games that spans about 10-15 years I would say 1985-1997. When 2D games died and the emphasis was now on 3D, that's when the Golden Age ended and Silver Age began IMO.

I have various Official US Playstation Magazines if anyone is interested.

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Wow, those 5th and 6th pics look near identical to my writing when I was a kid. Where did they come from?

Maybe Play Action Football is not the best manual to compare as I feel like the star on the first print might be a mistake.

For the NES TM I assume you mean on page 2? If so, I have one. It came with a label 1 Zelda.

1 hour ago, Jim Jimmer said:

Nice, you rarely see that game sealed.

1 hour ago, m308gunner said:

Thank you, that was a nice informative YOU CUT INTO THE TOP OF THE FRICKIN' ABADOX BOX YOU MONSTER MY GOD HOW COULD YOU BE SO AHHH AHHH AHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! -additional incoherent railing and shaking fist at screen while cradling own copy of Abadox-

Almost but not quite. Exacto knifes are very sharp so it's easier said that done.

I wanted to pick a jingle that wasn't very obvious like Mario or Zelda. Being the big fan of composer David Wise, I chose the jingle because I also grew up playing those games.

1 hour ago, Gloves said:

The opening jingle on your video is from the NES Sesame Street games. Well played.

Yup. You are the first person to notice that.

13 minutes ago, m308gunner said:

So would that be inserting the butter knife down the front over the main flap or into the side at the top? 

You want to lift it up from the sides. One side at a time. I just use the exacto knife as I already used it to cut the seal but a knife works as well. I do this in all of my videos if you want to see how.

*cough* channel plug *cough*

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH2OtZzlJtHLagtqjPzjhEw

Thank you for creating it all those years ago. It's a great idea and has helped lots of collector's including myself.

Show use some before and after pics when you clean it.