MiamiSlice

OK hold your horses there. The version you get direct from LRG is a different cover art and sometimes comes with different extras than what is available at Best Buy, not to mention they always come with a trading card and there's a chance that you get one of the more rare gold foil trading cards. There is also no guarantee that Best Buy will pick up a release or how many copies they will have. The one advantage with the Best Buy releases is they rarely sell out (these games are truly niche) and I usually prefer the cover art Best Buy gets (usually it's the artwork on the card). SRG also has a similar deal with GameStop, it depends on the game but they published Enter the Gungeon and then GameStop had a retail version with different bonuses. To me it's the best of both worlds because I just want the option to buy the game sooner or later, not feel pressured to buy them before they sell out because they are artificially limited. But I think everyone here understands variant collecting, and I wanted to point out that these are variants. They are not the same product.

I have converted my lot of 22 games for PSX / PS2 / PS3 to be an auction starting at $19.99 with free shipping. If this ends with just one bid I'd rather it go to someone from here! https://www.ebay.com/itm/254429508700

I paid $220 for Cubivore earlier this year. No regrets...

Bump! Just lowered my prices on the PS games lot and the Amiibo lot. Let's make a deal!

Bump! Buy my stuff!

Here’s all my pickups from the past week or so! I also got Downwell in the mail but don’t remember where I put it - Fairune, the left-con and the Pokeball were all from trades - the N64 games were BOGO from GameStop, $8 altogether! - Plants vs Zombies was an eBay find, finally found it with a clean slipcover, that was important - Louvre guide popped up on Mercari, didn’t expect to finally get the English version

Don't forget that the Pokeball Plus will be $20 at Best Buy. Just look at this spreadsheet and search by 3DS / Switch.

I don't have anything too crazy, but [pun intended] the gem of my collection might be my loose North American copy of Jewel Time Deluxe for Nintendo DS. Found it through GameStop, had it shipped to my local store, had to control myself when I went to pick it up. Probably the only time I'll find something like this in the wild! It's really nothing special other than being rare but it's a game about literal gems.

I had the very first DMG that came with Tetris and headphones. Everyone had this. I kept playing it even after the Pocket came out. I didn't upgrade until the Game Boy Color. I figured, the gray monster fits in my cargo pocket, so what do I need a "Pocket" for? One of my favorite obscure games for the system that I have fond memories of is Ninja Boy 2. This was an RPG but the mob battles were all real time action brawls, only boss fights were turn based and you could use items in either context. Playing this game at 6 years old I never got very far. A few years later I came back to it and discovered how to get off the first planet and managed to play through all the way to the end. The story and settings were just so creative and fun. I still think about one of the locations in the game (a space station inhabited by dinosaurs where it never rains) all the time. Few RPGs have topped this one in terms of style for me.

Monday bump, added some new items and lowered some prices.

Bump! Lowering price for the bundle!

Just got this in, will post more later

Uh, my post broke Edit: nevermind, it's working again. Bump!

I'd love that. I'm a buyer far more than a seller. Most of what I buy, I never have any plans to sell. But I think the prices always look too high. I've seen threads from years ago where people said "these prices don't make sense, wait a few years and they will come down," and guess what? They didn't! So I do hope these "spikes" are just that. Hey, for all we know, we could enter a recession and that could present some excellent buying opportunities. But absent people stumbling on boxes and boxes of sealed retro games, it's not like these things are getting more common. Prices could totally keep going up.

I'm only interested in standard versions. Do you have a wantlist? Just in case I may be able to come up with something.

MAJOR bump, removed sold items, added some new items, lowered some prices too. BUY BUY BUY

It was fetching $170, maybe $180 over the summer!

I've been watching listings for these two GameCube games for months (this is what I do for fun I guess) and recently I was quite shook when I saw these auctions end in the same day with Go Go Hypergrind going for more money. I don't know if the winning bidder fat fingered their bid or something. I wasn't too surprised about the Path of Radiance price since it has been coming down for a while now but seeing Go Go Hypergrind go for that much is a bit frustrating since it's one of the higher end games for GameCube that I still don't have.

I was enjoying the fact that VGS has been a safe haven from this nontroversy and all the long winded regurgitated posts about it but no longer.

Update: finally found an online review. Looks good! http://www.gamevortex.com/gamevortex/hard_rev.php/170/n64-controller-n64.html

Just to add: I think it's funny that people threw out numbers like $15k or $25k which is basically what a Stadium Events will go for, and we know those are not "one of a kind." I also think it's funny someone was talking about "you can't do much with it" on a forum where many people buy and talk about sealed games they never intend to open. This is the mythical, legendary prototype. Of all the important pieces of gaming history one could own, this is up there with the most important ones. Like an NWC cart, and even those aren't as rare as this. Also the seller clearly has no urgency to sell. There's no opportunity cost and probably very little chance of this item losing value because more are discovered. If he ends up coming down on his price he will still walk away with a lot.

$3M is a price for a company or museum to pay. There are companies that will buy stuff like this to have in their "vault" aka historical archive. Like Nintendo has certain items from their history preserved and puts some on display. For a museum like National Videogame Museum this would be a good investment. I think it's smart to ask for a high price, better chance it will be preserved and made accessible if it goes to a business entity than if it were to go to a private collector.

I'm about to do a trade for this third-party controller and I want to first check if it's good or not. Can someone tell me from experience? Couldn't find any reviews online.

Bump!

Here’s my pickups from the past week! - got N++ in a trade - found a PS2 game for a very good price on eBay - Psyvariar Delta was $19.99 from GameStop.com - and I found a Wii gem and something for the kids in-store at my local GameStop A good week IMO!