Armageddon Potato

Long time no bump! Beefy update to the lists I need!

More PAL NES down! Only 24 Atari Lynx games left!

Heya guys! I recently realized I have a factory sealed Road Rash II soft box that has been sitting in my back room stock since forever. What is something like this worth nowadays? Seems pretty crisp! I tried doing some research but all I came up with was this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/164786460320?hash=item265e09d6a0:g:zv8AAOSwN9NgYRgM This was for Road Rash 1, but why so much? Just a fluke? Is that just what it's worth? What's the sealed soft box Road Rash 2 worth by comparison? (If it's even comparable?)

Cleared the remaining heavy Dreamcast games! Need the manual for Vapor Trail and Chase H.Q. II.

Been a while since I've updated! Some big ones are out of the way! A few extras for trade as well: Tombs & Treasures CIB is an extra and is up for grabs. (Has some ex-rental stickers on the cart.) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure disc only. G.I. Joe Cobra Strike is sealed. (Has a small tear on the corner of the seal.) The Quest For The Rings. Sealed Odd World Demo. Everything else I needed. Super surprised to land both King Neptunes at once! I have both boxes and manuals, but was missing the carts. Final NES manual is pending!!!

Just thought I'd post this here. Little Nemo on the NES is definitely one of my favorite NES games, and remaking the game with the original art style and making it what appears to be a metroidvania-like game is a solid idea. It's almost all there way there and I don't think it's gotten much attention. I hope it at least hits it's minimum funding goal! What do you guys think about a giant flaming potato being in the game?

Bumperoni!

I believe Ninja Gaiden 3 on PC-10 doesn't actually exist. I was told over 15 years ago that and a few other games(RBI Baseball?) which were supposed to released never made it out. I've never seen one either.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/20/22292964/dinosaur-planet-rare-n64-game-leak-star-fox Hopefully one day we will see Conker's Twelve Tales leaked as well!

I knew something is up when you said Sacramento, haha! Anyways I found this a while back. It was in a defuct McDonalds building. Two dungeons deep I had to fight off a vampire with some old Mickey D's meat to get it. The real find is the Mayor McCheese statue!

Two left!

Two more down! Three manuals left! Also finally nailed down a nice black version of Hollywood Squares. Much harder to find than I expected!

Getting closer! Just a fewwww more manuals! Also El Viento down as a find in the wild today!

6 manuals left! Bump!

Only 8 NES manuals left! Bump!

Still looking! Bump!

Bump! 17 left!

I'm in!

You may have an early version of the game that has the "poison ladder glitch" still present. Play until you reach the point marked in my attached picture. In the early poison ladder glitch version the Red Arremer on the right(or left?) incorrectly spawns invisibly on top of the ladder. To "correct" it climb up partially near the top of the ladder, but then head back down and get the hidden armor far below. Then walk back up and the Ogre in the picture will turn into scrambled letters and the Red Arremer on the ladder will be visible now.

Bump! 18 NES manuals left!

Whoa, this topic is giving me flashbacks! It's funny how little this topic has changed even over the last 20 years or so. I can only give my opinion based on my personal experience. Some of my personal ideology for collecting: 1.) Have consistent naming conventions for quick and easy reference as to what you are collecting. It's ok for sets to literally just be for fun. (Variant NES set, Standard CIB NES set, Capcom only NES set, all games that include the word "Taco" CIB set, etc) 2.) Have clear consistent definitions that would equally be able to apply to any game console set. 3.) Collecting will always be in the eye of the collector. There are two different sides of how "much" of something needs to be collected for the collecting "end goal" to have been achieved. This depends on the collector's view. One side is the "Full True Interdimensional All Universes Any% Set" and the other is "Like, I got all 3 Mario games dude." Most people will arrive somewhere between those two points. The thing here is the words used to describe the build of each set. Some emphasis words like "Full" or "True" are unnecessary since no one has a "Empty" or "False" set of games. An example could be: USA licensed/unlicensed variant CIB NES set. This would contain every single USA NES game licensed and unlicensed, all variants & revisions, CIB. That's a lotta copies of the same game CIB across the board! Matching those boxes and carts is gunna be a lot of work! Personally I collect: USA licensed/unlicensed CIB NES set. This simply contains one of each "game" and excludes all redundancy in variants and revisions. This also means boxes don't need to match the cartridge revision, etc. I do own some variants(Punch-Out!!, King Neptune, Flying Scroll, etc.) They actually don't count towards my main collecting goal. They are just for fun! Most of us probably have some variants somewhere in our collection even if we don't collect them specifically. Now onto the Stadium Events issue. This game originally wasn't a big deal(just like Little Samson), but after appearing in a lot of news articles and circulating around different collecting forums it's gained a lot of hype. With hype and rarity it's price has certainly jumped up sky high! It's rare for sure, but what is its placement in a particular set? We would need to define what a "game" is first. I would say "Punch-Out!!" is a game. If you own the one with Mr. Dream, or Mike Tyson each one is an example of "Punch-Out!!" the NES game. If you own just one of these, you own the game "Punch-Out!!". If you own only one of these however you do not own all the variants and revisions of the game "Punch-Out!!". Variants and revisions get tricky because some are very hard to spot. Here's a few examples: The first one is pretty obvious, but the second one is an example of when they revised the death screen in Zelda for the NES. The last one is a total box, manual, cart art overhaul. This gets even trickier when you consider there are games with no discernible outside differences other than playing the game to a certain point that exist(Ghosts 'n Goblins original versions that have the final level poison ladder glitch, etc.) Something else to consider is that if you hacked any version of "Punch-Out!!" and changed Don Flamenco to be another character like Ivan Drago you would simply consider this an alteration of an existing game. Not a completely new independent game. If you want to claim you're collecting a complete NES set and that includes Stadium Events to stay consistent in your own definition you would also need to own all those small minuet variants and revisions as well. I often see Stadium Events is kind of just thrown in randomly and all the lesser known ones go ignored. I don't see any reason why it should be mandatory for anyone else who is just collecting a standard NES set to have to own it since World Class Track meet is the same "game." In fact it's more the same "game" than some of the other variants and revisions that exist out there. I don't get why Stadium Events would get any kind of special treatment or rules that would force it's inclusion into that category.

Anyone remember that trimmed Honus Wagner? Things can definintely happen like that. While I'm not a sealed guy, I understand the concern about conflicts of interest, and other such shenanigans when it comes to graded items. It's inevitable since accountability is often limited and grading by nature is subjective. I've cracked open graded MTG cards and let me tell you an 8 doesn't always mean an 8. It was subjectively an 8 when it was graded and by whom it was graded. I get the idea of population reports, but there are a lot of people who have mint/near mint items or just overly large collections that just don't care to get them graded or don't want to have to grade 100s of games so there could well be more out there that aren't currently graded with a particular grading service. Just some things to keep in mind when it comes to this stuff!

Thanks for the info guys! It could easily be real and I could just be paranoid. The material it's made out of is my only concern. Strange that it could be the only glossy NES manual in the whole library and I've never heard anyone mention that before. It's glossy like an N64 manual would be almost? I am going to meet up a friend on Tuesday and compare my manual with his. That should clear it up for good! I'll post my results as soon as I do! Just got to meet up and I indeed confirmed it is real! VGS won't let me attach photos at the moment, and I don't know why I just keep getting errors saying the upload failed. I'll message a mod to ask if I can upload them.

More pictures for clarity!