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20 hours ago, docile tapeworm said:

Well I don’t mean to compare it to collecting nice uncommon physical games. I just mean to say it may have its place. Plus think of the hard drive as a multi cart tied to the console, its very hard to find these.

“this here is a low hours xbox 360 s with legit digital bangers! Non of that mod’d bootleg tacky shit. You see the thing is the games on this hard drive won’t run on another console that’s how you know it’s legit. Not to mention this baby is bone stock.”

Mmm bone stock

The hardware is super easy to hack so maybe that has something to do with it?

Haha heck ya 50 cent blood on the sand and the saw game. Some solid games in there, things still pretty cheap I'm sure you can get back on track in-between the sfc stuff

1 hour ago, avatar! said:

Very cool! Do they come with some guarantee of authenticity? There are so many fakes out there (not saying yours are), you gotta be careful. WATA has started something that authenticates video game autographs, which is great! It's similar to what CGC does for autographed comic books --

https://blog.watagames.com/2023/07/17/welcome-to-watagraphs/

That said, they've only done a handful of games, it would be lovely if they do more.

Nice, I didn't know wata was into autographs now, thanks for the info!! Unfortunately no proof. I didn't pay very much for either and it was kind of fun to do the research.

I asked the seller of Project Gotham Racing a little bit about themselves because they had a bunch of random 360 games signed by dev teams and interestingly enough they worked community engagement in tech moderating for teen people, wizard world (now fan expo) convention. It was enough provenance for me, along with the other signed games they had listed. I also looked through the games credits to find who the names belonged to and dots started connecting.. it all added up to me.

The guitar was listed only as autographed but a mystery by who signed. Did some detective work, at first I thought it could be one of the bands that autographed for giveaways through social media but 2 signatures isn't normal for a band. Kravitz signature was legible enough so I compared to known autographs and it looks right to me, googled more and saw kravitz and Franco did the ad campaign so looked up Francos signature and his looks the way it should too. I was planning on trying to bother the ad agency on social media to see if they autographed any during the shoots.

This is the kind of stuff I love, same with GBA link cable/GameCube games. Thanks for the list @AlternatorDelux!!

@fcgamer whenever you have the Xbox stuff ready for sale lemme see the list!!

I started collecting some more autographed items:

Dev team signed copy of Project Gotham Racing 2

Guitar Hero Live guitar autographed by James Franco and Lenny Kravitz from the ad campaign

Easter's almost here, here's this months gets:

More plush, squishmallow Clefairy, sonic, tails and knuckles and build a bear Pikachu.

Red dead 2 guide from the thrift and 8bit Xmas 2021 box thanks fsped

More from the thrift: Switch USB c charger, Mario Kart Live Mario for $7 (heck yaaaa,  you can print out the gates for the game and it was also a download instead of physical cart so just having the kart is enough to play. I tested it out and it was super cool.) couple of pink ds lites, psone power cable, black nunchuck, gold 360 controller and nes power block.

Stack of random games from the thrift, pc psychonauts, Xbox psychonauts demo disc sealed (been holding off for a while but finally found a nice price), sealed bloodrayne 2 for around the same price as not, and big box Mario kart Wii (was at the thrift with just the wheel and box, I just picked up copy last month to fill it out woo)

Nintendogs DS pillow, has pocket for your ds haha @MiamiSlice do you know anything about it?

Couple interesting Xbox items:

Pre release postcard for the vans triple crown of skateboarding, Xbox launch was nov 11? 2001

I collect both Xbox stuff and vans shoes so it's a nice crossover.

Dev team signed copy of Project Gotham Racing 2, super cool to find, I loved pgr and now bizarre creations is disbanded.

Finishing up with another autographed item:

Guitar hero live guitar autographed by James Franco and Lenny Kravitz who were featured in the ad campaign

Have a great easter y'all and see ya next month!!

Yes, and I really think it's gonna change again down the line. I feel like that's pretty natural though, everyone goes through phases of what they're into ya know.

Only thing that hasn't changed is slowly working to finish the Xbox set (now 118 away, wooo).

End of February is here, here goes this month:

Spacepup helped me out again because he's amazing and got another piece of true fantasy live online to view and add to the blog as well as some other Xbox goooods, thank you again my doooooood

Next up

Everything from the thrift but the Yoshi topsy turvy which came into the local gamestore after coupon came to $20 wooo!! also 20 on the snes mini which I'm stoked to add more games to Sega Saturn stickers were in a grab bag, and v rare to see boxed gba games thriftin even if it is two card games.

Plush of Tom nook and the fat Pikachu with sound and lights from first gen woo, buncha controllers and a PS2 interact game case.

Seattle Sounders soccer jersey for 4.29 at the thrift wheeee Xbox

Qubed has rez hd, lumines and e4(which I haven't played) cool to find locally for 5.99, halo 3 guide from the thrift and 2 Xbox guides from eBay, same with codename kids next door.

More thrift with battlefront and halo 5 special edition guides, bunch of PlayStation stuff I didn't have at different visits/places too :)

Finishing up with a 15$ Wii bundle

Half off day, woooo big yay for the motion plus pink controller, all the games were in their cases but most don't have instructions. Still can't go wrong. Had all cords, 2 nunchuck, 2 reg Wii motes, nyko wand mote, andWii balance board feet. 

See ya next month!

Heck ya dooood nice 1st model!!! Great score with contra too

The set looks great (and looks like it fits great) on the barrel, heck yaaaa doood niceeeee such a cool way to display!!

15 hours ago, skinnygrinny said:

Hate when the carb is on that side of the pipe. Who the fuck holds the carb with their finger?!

All the left handed substance smokers I guess

@Louis_ Absolutely! anything you would take the time to share pictures of I know we would love to see

@Louis_ heck yeah!! Hey, welcome! Fantastic information and I will gladly add em to the list, also glad to learn about the zelda card thank you!!! 

January stuffff:

Plushies were everywhere at the thrift, other thrift gets

Wii power supplies, big Mario perler set, 360 wheel and nice shape controller, found a switch pro controller at the thrift woah, ironically also found the N64 Nike's in Mandy's size at goodwill as well like whaaat, heck ya now we can match. $10 rune factory 3 and xbone controller carry case for $7 at Walmart.

Cleaned up great and no drift or other issues I've noticed yet, why someone would donate it is beyond me.

360 e model bundle from the thrift after discounts for 26$ and almost new yusss. Wow is the fan/disc drive quiet with this model! Surprise bonus game inside: halo 2. The old white controllers are a bit beat but still look decent for customizing and a random new av cable from the slim.

Finishing with some Xbox off the list:

All from eBay except the outlaw golf/sea blade combo found at the local gamestore.

See ya next month

Dang you did it in 4!! Nice work, and following through with your goals!! Congrats doooood! also I didn't realize there were so many nfr carts.

Get a crt for the Wii, maybe a widescreen HD one. Wii looks great on crt.

If you want to burn your morals you could always go wii u for the modern setup without any extra work.

17 hours ago, benstylus said:

Right now at about 2200 physical and 1700 digital games.

 

I help run a local convention with a large videogame room though so it's not all stuff I bought for me.

Ya know, I never even considered digital but that is definitely something I wanna keep track of down the line.

Ya know I've had Atari stuff (not a lot, but a heavy sixer and maybe 30 loose games) for many many years but since I don't actively collect it, haven't added it to my count. Next year's list I'm gonna add it and hopefully a little more Atari since it was my first console experience along with the 800xl computer, thanks dad.

Found the book and did my count, whew. 90% all disc based games are cib very very rarely did I bend on those.

Gb/gbc/GBA - 153 mostly loose

Nes: box: 52 loose:67

Snes box: 31 loose:40

N64: usabox: 94 usaloose:15 jpnbox:45 jpnloose 11 // 165 total

Gcn: USA 96 jpn 86 // 182

Wii: USA 163 jpn 4 // 167

Wii U 55

Switch 172

Ds USA 254 jpn 6 pal 2 // 302

3ds 103

Xbox 778 woo baby didn't count imports yet but I have some of em

360: USA 392 jpn 3 pal 4 399

Xbone/ series: 72

PS1: USA 89 jpn 6 // 95

Ps2: 168

Ps3: USA 162 pal 1 // 163

PS4: 91

PS5: 9

Vita: 11

Genesis boxed 30 loose 2 // 32

Game gear 20 loose

Dreamcast 3

Saturn jpn 3

Sega CD jpn 1

3,298 games with 149 new last year woo woo

@RegularGuyGamer heck yaaaaa!! definitely a killer price for that lovely gooooooooold!!

My favorite find last year was an nes classic mini at the thrift store for 5$ with 2 controllers - was missing the official power cord, but found it in the 1$ cords section the next day!! The kind of thrift find you get so very rarely, something you actually wanted but didn't want to pay full retail.

Ooo I always do my count in January, so thanks for this thread to remind me!! I keep it in a little notebook that my mother in law gave me couple years back, I feel like it was around 3k last year but not completely sure. Gonna have to find the notebook because we moved and everything is still not settled in but have a good idea where it is, will report back soon.

2021 please!

Heck yaaaaaa! Nice dood, those cases! What a haul.