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Some NES boxes added and a CIB Pinbot

22 hours ago, RH said:

Well, I’m probably going to post this on Reddit too just to see people both lose their collective minds, and call me a liar, but I just got the pick-up of a life time.

 

Tell them you’re going to get the sealed stuff graded and that you bought the lot to resell.  Revel in the chaos  
 

Plucked Chip & Dale and Blaster Master from a larger lot you guys will probably see later elsewhere on the forum Super happy with this pickup and will probably end up being one of my favorite scores of the summer.  I’d kind of written off getting chip & dale as a lower priority Duck tales which I still need.

I too have never played a proper Pokémon game.  By 1998 I was in full teenager PlayStation mode.  My younger brother had Pokémon.  At the time I definitely would have considered it and the accompanying tv show for little kids.

On 4/24/2024 at 12:56 PM, RH said:

I own Metal Gear Solid, but other than 5 minutes of the original NES Metal Gear game, I've never played a Metal Gear game.

They are high on my list though.  I definitely need to get the PS2 titles before they get too insanely priced with time.  I feel like all of those games would be right up my alley.

None of the other games are as good as the PSX MGS.

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.

On 4/11/2024 at 11:32 AM, G-type said:

 

and also... why was Winston left out of this scene?! They show him at the very beginning of the trial, but then he just disappears!

Expedited sentencing because…well you know.

2 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

In fact, I would say the defining feature of Gen-Z, when boiled down to one word, is Minecraft 

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.

On 4/29/2024 at 8:25 AM, SilverspoonGaming said:

I respect your comment here, but what if they remade a game like Color a Dinosaur, which has no real fun value to it.

Also, I think I came up with an answer, even though I havent played the remake.  Shaq Fu.

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.

2 hours ago, Link said:

I don't disagree with either of you, but I think Splain is saying that it's only valued because other people want it. And museum level is very high up that scale.

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.

11 minutes ago, DK said:

This sticker was on a lot of games. I'm guessing the rebate involved sending in the UPC code.

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.