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ExplodedHamster

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  1. I bought a few things, felt a bit like Black Friday at Target during the launch lol. Site is a bit glitchy (stuff I bought is still showing as available for example lol), but Dan is around and making sure it's all good. Some standard launch stuff, I suspect that back end stuff will be fixed shortly. Overall, love the look and the options. I'll check out the content a bit later.
  2. @Dan64 is a well known commodity in the sealed game world. So for people talking about "shady" this and that, the opposite is actually exactly what he's providing. Ebay is sketchy, MinusWorlds is not. The other really cool thing is that his site appears it's going to be dedicated to video games only, and have some cool content that I feel is missing pretty much everywhere else. Videos, signed celeb/athlete agreements, hopefully some social media, that's exactly what this the graded universe could really use, which is more fun and focus on the games and history behind them than just the investment aspect. Auction houses focus on so many different mediums that video games never really get the time I think they deserve, so a website that offers a BiN option and I can learn a lot about games and enjoy some content is actually something that I think is really needed. Other collectibles hobbies, which are more mature, have all these things in droves. Video games right now has videos of people yelling at each other about what the best way to collect is. Be nice to get some more fun involved in the graded games scene.
  3. I heard from a good source it will be sealed mostly to start, with some of the higher end NES CIB grades for stuff like sticker seals or TM Zeldas. It will be clear what is sealed and what is CIB. I think this is going to be a lot more info than people are giving credit for, even without the seals. Those will be coming, btw, I believe they are just working on how to best format it for viewing.
  4. Finding a nice one of these is a real pain in the ass, I’ve been looking for a long time lol.
  5. Forgot to take a pic, but finished Jungle Book with the daughter. Decent Disney game!
  6. Bah, I used to be able to beat W and W 3, no problem, but it’s been a while. I could probably do it if I can find the time.
  7. Knocked out Zoom tonight, first time playing it. Super fun black grid game.
  8. I mean yeah, they are a business and their data was IP. They’d have been dumb to publish it before a sale from that perspective. Negotiations of this size usually take a long time, as well, which didn’t help. The sale likely played much more of a role in this release than Karl’s video, but nobody here is really claiming programming is what held this up to begin with. It’s more answering why there are no seal grades right away and figuring out the best way to do it.
  9. Within each game there are also variants, so I don’t think it would be super user friendly. There has to be a better ways to display them all for comparison purposes visually without having to click in, take a screenshot, click back, click new variant, another screenshot, etc.
  10. I know there’s a 9.0 still in cello with a Canadian collector from a local find, and I THINK a 9.2, but I could be wrong. Most are gonna be like 6.0.
  11. No, and they don’t pop up much on Ebay either. There’s I think one on there now and it’s beat (like almost all are).
  12. Yeah, those were all mine. I had been collecting them for a while and sent them to Heritage all at once like an idiot lol. Not too many have come to market since, outside of I think 2 really nice 8.5 CIBs.
  13. I do not know who owns it, though others do and claim it is never coming to market. I do know it isn’t Bucky. Then there is the 9.4 from the Hawaii collection. I forget that collector’s name, he is old guard.
  14. Yeah, but PSA only has one grade to show, which makes it easy. Card/variant as the column, and grades as the rows. How do you do that with two grades to show? You probably need something like box grades in the rows and then you click on the box grades to get a seal distribution? Or hover for a pop-up?
  15. As for the population report and sealed games, the more I have envisioned it, the more I see how difficult it's going to be to put everything into one matrix. There are so many combinations that a matrix would be just gigantic if it was a simple excel type of chart. It would be unreadable the way I was thinking it could go. You'd have like 1 million columns. Once you get it into app form, it will probably be easier, but in terms of giving a simple picture, like PSA does, it's far more difficult, if not impossible. There's too much data to make it that simple, particularly given the number of variants out there. There's going to need to be some clicking involved, or maybe some pop up tables when you hover a mouse over data.
  16. Grading fresh ass case packs? VGA has graded ONE case pack in its nearly 15 years of grading games, and it was many years ago. Anyway, the numbers will likely be available in the next 6-12 months, so the noise right now is just that. We'll find out. All good here btw, I sleep just fine lol.
  17. I mean that’s a sealed TM Zelda…it’s the third to be publicly unearthed. VGA’s pop forever was 1. It’s the first to be publicly available in…10-20 years? More?
  18. It was definitely 2 as of the time of the 1.56 auction (Heritage even said so during the auction) and I know of one other that came about after. Of course someone is dumping their 9.8 right after that sale lol. The fact more have not surfaced is actually quite telling imo.
  19. I’m not sure it says that. It says you won’t get the seal rating, but it still might say you have, for example, 50 sealed Mario 3 at 8.0 and 20 Mario 3 at 8.0 CIB.
  20. There was also no distinguishing whether they were sealed or CIB. There were like 750 SMB 3, I’d guess 2/3rds or so are CIB.
  21. The 9.8/A++ population, I believe, is 3 or so. I’d guess there are also more graded SMB 1 overall, but that’s just a guess. Could go either way.
  22. VGA ended up grading this lol. Then they got wind and got it off the market.
  23. At some point, WATA essentially being shut down with little coming back to customers was going to reflect on the weeklies.
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