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I think most people agree it’s a QA stamp which would identify where exactly it was manufactured in case of defects or like you said a factory indicator. Im not sure if this is still up for debate or not though.

I suck at math so someone check me but 1-1: 40/203 1-2: 29/208 1-3: 77/200 1-4: 26/205 Totals: 172/816

Nah the picture of the fly trap is the official greeting lol

Check for contact info on the site: https://www.retrousb.com - I don’t think he comes around here anymore so that might be your best bet.

Thanks to @fsped09 for the hookup on the 8bit Xmas boxes that I didn’t have. The aesthetics of this pleases me greatly!!

So like every single thread gets derailed into the abyss but this one has to be cleaned up?

My wife is dead, high five!

Seeing this an adult makes me question how this was a kids show lol I definitely loved it as a kid though

Super glad I’m not into PCEngine lol

Gotta make you happy that dude is banned now and his title is raging lunatic haha edit: his profile bio is also epically written by the mod that banned him. It’s….the greatest story ever told

Nine games and one modem for a total of ten according to Wikipedia under the Games heading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/64DD

I’m chill on newcomers, I was one once and sometimes when I learn something I didn’t know before I still feel like one. People who create accounts and ask what the value of something is so they can sell it on eBay though, go away.

We can’t afford the hourly rate for your advice anyways

Collect coins, take pictures like how hard can that be?

And people ruining the NES weekly contest for casuals the first day of it

I like that the goal is coins and not points

Agree. This is parallel to every eBay seller claiming whatever game they are selling is “rare” and a “holy grail” and listing things for 100x the actual value. People need to be accountable for not taking something at face value and do the research. If this was securities and not games this would be a slam dunk market manipulation SEC case. But it’s not. This is why Jim Halperin is involved in hobby items, it’s unregulated territory and he knows it from his run in with coins/comics/video games/trading cards/etc. People are always looking for get rich quick schemes and this was just the next one to take advantage of people. The people who got caught up in this and lost their shirts, well play with fire and get burnt is all I can say there. Hopefully the civil action has deep penalties, which it probably won’t, and we can all just move on.

You could really use their own scam against as they themselves propped themselves up to be the most trusted video game grading company and used that to hype up prices and put grading the games they owned and selling them before customers. Seems highly unethical. But if you charge all companies who act unethically with crimes there would be no companies left lol

I think the agreement is that there will likely be no criminal charges but I can see the civil suits being ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. The fact of the matter is WATA offered grading services that had documented SLAs and failed on a majority of them to meet their own deadlines. That coupled with a financial reason to grade games higher to charge more on insurance without giving the customer a chance to refuse seems like a win. Now depending on the judgement levied it may bankrupt the company or at least put them in an operating hole.

This whole setup makes me miss the 80s/90s lol

The Legend of Zelda is the perfect video game series. Super Mario 3 is the perfect video game. I’ll die on this hill

Box has left the station!

Why not just post on eBay with a crazy BIN and accept offers? Way more likely to find a whale there to overpay for it. At auction one sold in late February for $5,300 so there is your market price. https://www.ebay.com/itm/134935554065?itmmeta=01HRTAC1JTPANM7DDA11T8CCM7&hash=item1f6ac92811:g:xhUAAOSwG0plzHq9&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8NVVnFARwaaZDEBQiwKPCbgM7sXldkb0U%2FXenzsqAhJ5cYabBeWTkwmSOMXhEYR1jdR12TpMLMy5rsxW73utUFEqn7i1p2kvQFyIqaFumlc4jZKI8E%2BUCfus1ZvfKojEFzbqF17lsjKgt1QZB0wU%2BIs21yK704J0DL34I8oNrup%2F5l3ENcA9X%2FyVbJ94V0nOh3DmrAA2NyIfbhiOVvbIKccd%2BzcKw0bJyJhdn0i77xUa6xLbLVhDFyymS6lSp%2B5N43ExEnGRfittMVtZUpe9Qz3XRJOwQALfEYahii64mAmkL5JBuwKruDNFybb95rKb3A%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR7qZsMrGYw

I’m hanging onto this until Thursday at the request of @wongojack