Nesmaster

On 8/13/2022 at 8:30 AM, WhyNotZoidberg said:

 

 Mega Man 6 is also a favorite of mine, my favorite in the NES series and I won that on ebay (from one of you guys maybe?). It actually closed _below_ my maximum bid so can’t complain there. Ran me 325$ CAD shipped/customs, that’s actually very good. 

I think MM6 is fantastic. Right behind 2 for me, probably because that's the one I had as a kid.

Been after Snoopy for at least a year. Bizarrely hard to grab in Canada cheap, and getting one shipped from the USA would be costly. $21 with tax + shipping.

Banjo and Basketball were loose pickups for IBs I have had for a while. $40 and $20. Pink Panther I grabbed on a $4 BIN, but had to pay up to get it up here. ~$30 CAD. It had the reg card which was not shown, so bonus!

Thrifting stack. 360 worked out to about $5 each, $3 each on the rest.

Found a bag of 90 or so cards for $5. I know very little overall about Pokemon TCG, but I'll buy them cheap. Turns out these 9 tally to roughly $90, but I just bought the stack because I liked the Eevee evolution promos. 

This piece of tape scared me like no other. After 2 1/2 years I decided to try again. It was so jagged and dried out, fought me for every millimeter. After a couple dozen or so lighter fluid soaks and 20 minutes of picking, I'm free from that personal nightmare.

Some fingernail marks on the smaller A from before my ownership can't be helped.

1 CIB GBA, 1 sealed NES

I will pay online price to online shipped if the condition is there, but it usually isn't, and is price at online + 10%-25%. There are fewer shops here compared to the past, and the selection is way down overall too.

Hit an antique mall with my dad today. Pretty happy at $2/$69/$13. The HM will replace or be an addition to my -CAN CIB.

On 2/27/2022 at 8:48 AM, killerkobra said:

Pickups from yesterdays 20th NintendoAge Edmonton Meetup!

 

Same! Crazy it was #20!

18 hours ago, MiamiSlice said:

Sega Rally Championship is a beaut. And Chu Chu Rocket on the GBA does not get enough love. 

Honestly by this point I totally wrote off getting the game since it spiked so bad. Tried landing one for a few years and missed the (very few) that did turn up under $100. This one isn't mint, but I was more than happy to pick it up for the sticker price. Cart's mint anyway, of which I see loose ones with wear flirting with the $200 USD tag. $350 CAD for this CIB, is a win in my eyes! 

Pretty good game too, given the platform!

Not much in the last while. Some sealed NES and CIB GBA.

CIBs, Park Builder is sealed.

I played a very crude bike game on a cousin's computer years ago, not sure what kind. From what I remember, it was black and white, and you'd have to set speed and whatnot to clear ramps on screen, which would change each level. Only the correct settings would have you ramp between successfully, or you'd crash. This is about as best as I can remember it looking, where the ramps would change shape/size and distance each level.

18 hours ago, Code Monkey said:

I remember scrolling through pages of Little Samson and Flintstones: Surprise At Dinosaur Peak for $400 each and thinking I would come back to them after I built up cheaper areas of my collection.

I still don't have them.

I feel you, still don't have a CIB Dino.

8 minutes ago, TheGreatBlackCat said:

being a longtime collector and letting CIB Little Samson slip by at $300 because it was "too much for a video game" back in the day taught me a hard lesson.

Yes. I sold mine for $100 and paid $260 3 years later to get another back. I would not be buying it today if I needed it, with the price it goes for.

2k is probably my limit, unless it was something over that and a no brainer deal.

It's definitely gone up though, My first $440 purchase made me feel kinda ill for the day dropping that much.

On 4/4/2021 at 2:03 PM, Reed Rothchild said:

I remember when $250 seemed ridiculous.

You are right, I felt like I was paying a ton when I bought a very nice cart off NA for $250. No regrets these days.

16 minutes ago, DoctorEncore said:

also grabbed It Takes Two since I heard it's amazing.

 

 

 

It is, I can't wait until my buddy is free to get back to it. Super cool so far.

3 hours ago, tidaldreams said:

How about this one? A 5.5 CIB Mario Bros for over 1k, which might be even worse than salvation army quality: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Mario-Bros-WATA-5-5-CIB-No-Rev-A-Round-SOQ-Mid-Production-NES-1985-/333934329585?_trksid=p2047675.m43663.l44720&nordt=true&rt=nc&orig_cvip=true

I bought that exact version in very similar condition off jjgames for $22 and felt like I overpaid. I'll happily grade it to dump it if I could find a second bidder lol.

Madness.

Definitely explains why they're so plentiful vs. other 94 games.

3 minutes ago, 0xDEAFC0DE said:

Hmm, usually it's not split up like that. It might be YWW plus 2 meaningless digits, so 1996 week 1. Do you have the chip part numbers? I usually use those to look it up in bootgod if it's not an obvious one.