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As a lad I had a recorded Mortal Kombat movie VHS. One day I went to pop that guy in and wouldn’t you know it — someone had recorded Species over most of the movie. That was a good day.

Snapped a pic of the video game nook I set up with my loose NES, SNES, and Genesis collections. The real reason I’m here though is that I was investigating the prospect of snagging the Dragon Warrior cart from my nice complete copy and switching it out with my more beat up childhood copy. Reason being that I picked up an extra box awhile back and I wanted to sell it. I don’t want to sell my childhood copy, I also don’t want to sell the copy my boy is playing on, so my logical conclusion was I would just steal the cart from my complete one since that DW would be the very last piece of my collection to go. Yeah, no. I couldn’t do it. Looks like I just boxed my childhood copy then lol. Anyways, when I was in there I found this receipt from 1990 I forgot was in there. Love finding these with games.

52. D’oh Tetris. Pfft can’t remember every obscure title.

Expedited sentencing because…well you know.

It’s still kind of a thing today. Look at all the themed merch that’s ubiquitous in toy sections. I’ve got a 13 year old nephew who’s into it. Just questioned the 6 year old and when I asked where he heard about Minecraft he says just learned about it from “somewhere”. Says he doesn’t really play it though because it’s too hard to play on his tablet. He and his buddies were into Roblox. I think that’s supposed to be similar? but a lot of parents I think put the kibosh on that because it’s really easy for them to get into some weird shit.

Don’t know what’s cryptic or inside joke about messing with Optout. That’s like SOP round these parts. Should’ve been a companion banner at the bottom shit talking N64.

A few more Gameboy Manuals added Buy a bunch of PS2 stuff so I can give you a sweet deal.

They call themselves targeted individuals. The govt uses mind control waves to make Taylor swift stalk them.

Lol oh man, I totally forgot I’ve got a copy of this remake. Never played it. Sealed baby oh yeah call the watas. Shaq Fu rocks

I just assumed these digital items were only relevant to children with their parents credit cards.

Hey! I just heard my name. Very cool. That means I’m famous now I think. So, update on that last comment — I’ve been pretty addicted to listening to back episodes. It scratches an itch for me. I like hearing from known, respected collectors that are targeting more experienced collectors. I also like that it involves a lot of community characters I’m familiar with. You guys got me coming out of my collecting hiatus and I’m starting to actively collect again.

added some Gameboy manuals and a Dragon quest IX.

I don’t see where in the PlayStation 9 future the NWC carts mean as much. It was a nostalgic video game tournament for the NES based collecting community. It is an interwoven foundational part of the NES collecting story. It matters to NES collectors. It doesn’t mean that much in a greater video game context. When you tell the story of gaming it’s a footnote. Is it really on the level of genre defining releases? Truly revolutionary stuff? Or what boils down to some marketing.

Oh nice. well that was easy

Why are they cut out of the back of boxes so often? So often I will see what appears to be a great looking Tengen box only to discover the UPC has been chopped out when I see the back. Some sort of rebate program? I’m not really seeing this with any other publisher but this happens all the time with Tengen stuff. I’ve only looked so much but I’m not seeing any inserts or print ads that mention collecting the UPCs. I can’t find any discussion of this but you see it with enough frequency that someone must remember.

1221. Peter Gabriel is no Phil Collins.

My local spot? With the way they price stuff? A loose copy of Legend of Zelda. Ok ok. That’s not completely true. I could also get a copy of Mario 3. Literally priced at $40 the last time I went in there. These days with NES I‘m pretty picky about condition and price so I‘d probably pick up some Wii games. I’ve been meaning to set it back up and I’ve been thinking about expanding my collection a bit.

Solid rocking cover of a classic and while we’re on the topic of Beat it, Steve Lukather (who did all the guitar but the EVH solo) and ToTo do a nice Beatles cover:

Dick‘s Sporting Goods does this shit and I hate it.

This was not released in the US and certainly not in longbox form. To my knowledge a mock up long box doesn’t exist of this like you see for Space Hulk or that one football game quarterback club 96. Like I said, I’ve never seen this before and it’s just a Vidpro card. I certainly wouldn’t pay close to that. But umm I also don’t have money

I don’t that this would be considered a reasonable price by people that spend that kind of money but something I don’t know that I’ve encountered before and I didn’t know a better place to share this https://www.ebay.com/itm/156175725382?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=kX7JdD9lRPS&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Cb-WHZBETpm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Toto They’re touring with Journey but they were solo here. A little disappointed I didn’t get to see Journey but they put on a good show. Everyone in that band can really sing; pretty impressive. I love grandpa shows at the casino. Out of there before 10:30 is nice.