obnoxious

I've been on and off the game for the last five days, when I have some minutes to play and distract a little. Beat the Frankenstein with that damn hunchback and now I'm struggling with the stairs and skeletons.

I started Castlevania to test a USB controller. It's been five days.

Stuck at the frigging birds throwing hunchbacks

+ stickers...?

What kind of flaws make you to turn down a cartridge purchase opportunity? Would you accept a minor label wear or with loose corners that you can glue back? Would you replace a label if it's from a game that you want very badly? How about scratches on the cover?

Wata can't even get their own labels right Look up the serial number this was graded 9.8 A++ but was labeled a 9.6 A++. Take that for what it's worth as WATA won't respond to us. I don't see anything wrong with this game and in our opinion should be a 9.8 A++.

Do 2 and 3 look the same to you too?

Probably MK2 on the Genesis

Brazil and Europe always got things later, I know what you mean.

Street Fighter II lost to Pokemon Yellow

Emotional attachment. Get a moment, add emotions and you have a memory burned forever in your brain. Left column game players can't relate to the equivalent right column games like people who played the latter when they were new, revolutionary compared to other games. Maybe some of the new vg players will get old cartridges as souvenir, decoration or something like that. But very very few of them will collect for nostalgic reasons.

People who seek making millions from a game should go fornicate themselves under consent of the king. I think people don't get that when a collector sells a cartridge for thousands of dollars it's more of a reward, a serendipity, than a goal. And sometimes just plain luck. Sorry for not knowing expressions like "dank collecting" it's my first time in a collectors forum. Used to talk about it only with friends and such.

That's how I intend to start my NES collection without the "sell it all later" part. The classic, most known titles as priorities and if good opportunities come up to buy less known/hyped titles, if grab it. I don't see myself collecting rare, obscure JP titles after spending hours searching for them. Thanks for the reply

What "dank collecting" means?

Totally agree and your comment fits perfectly the intention I had in mind when writing this post. I'm not saying that people shouldn't start or complete their collections, but that it's important to be conscious of where we're sitting right now in the collection cycle. Your Zelda/Metroid examples are the kind of historic value I was talking about, because modern systems are still releasing new continuations and stuff. Modern players will have the curiosity to see how these franchises began and emulators can provide that experience with ease. Most of them *maybe* will have no emotional attachment to them after that.

I can relate a lot to that. My first system was a 2600 clone that an uncle had, grew tired of it and passed to me. A cousin had a 2600 and later a NES clone, we used to rent games and play together when I stayed at her home. Later I got a Sega Genesis given by an aunt. My next door neighbor had a Master System, a NES and then a SNES (loaded parents) and I was almost every day at his house after school, playing the games he rented. Only at age 30+something I got my own Xbox One but I miss those Atari/NES/Genesis times so damn much.

Let me explain my very personal and amateurish reasons behind the question. You can skip the wall of text if you want but I want to get my facts straight, so it would be nice to keep the discussion around them. The reasons I describe below aren't, in any way, deep and comprehensive, they are more at the generalization's side. The value of collectible items is mostly based on the emotional attachment that the collector has to these items. Another kind of value they may have is the historic. So, putting aside the historic value of some items of video game collecting, I think it's rather safe to say that those who grew up playing from the Atari 2600 to the NES era (1977 to 1994ish), are now around their 35~50s. An eight year old kid who got a 2600 on it's release year is now 52 years old! Here goes another generalist premise: people around their 30s start to change their life focus, mostly to building a family, buying a house and so on. I know, I know... a lot of you do have a collection and kids and mortgage. It seems to me that the users here are more "hardcore" collectors. I may be wrong, no problem. Another thing that I've been noticing is that it's getting harder and harder to collect items for low prices, like garage sales or from someone freeing up space in their garages. Just as the games created emotional bindings on us, the hunting and discovery of rarities or buying cartridges for 50 cents or a dollar also developed an emotional attachment to each collected item leaving the decisions on spending "big money" to the rarest or the last missing items. Maybe (and I can be wrong about it) today's need to "pay to collect" strategy is killing the fun from collecting and turning it more into a financial decision. So, to conclude my train of thought: as games are getting more expensive and collecting becomes more a financial decision than a fun activity we may be in the last years of collecting games for sentimental reasons and starting to enter the "historic reasons" motivation. (feel free to correct my grammar mistakes)

Maybe this cartridge is so rare that it may be worth something Notice the "Gold Assembly Cassette" description and it's remarks like "since this is a sophisticated apparatus"

I couldn't even find the maker anywhere in it. Funny thing is that I grew up thinking it was original, while it was stored somewhere. When I found it was a big deception and it's not even working, just gives a black screen.

Yesterday I recounted my library and I still own a total of 1 clone cartridge. Prices are insane here in Brazil so I'll be hunting for lots of 5+ cartridges on eBay and importing them.

Yeah, ask for those educational games, without destroying or killing

I'm very critic of mobile versions of forums but this is just awesome. Lightweight and clean. Congrats.

It's from RetroPie https://retropie.org.uk/

I need closure on this, I need to end this chapter of my life... this chapter of... not beating Castlevania

Well if there's no demand for that, it's ok