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I love pinball, I collect quarters so I can play on location. Sadly there is not that many pinball machines in the area. Here are my favorites:

1.  Demo Man

2.  Total Nuclear

3.  NBA Fastbreak

4.  World Cup Soccer

5.  The Getaway (High Speed 2)

6.  Godzilla

7.  LOTR

8.  Iron Maiden

9.  Funhouse

10.  Jurassic Park

7 hours ago, ThePhleo said:

My lists above are just a snapshot in time, if you are in the market for Little Samson in October 2023, then it’s slightly more common/easier to find than Hatris…yeah that’s irrefutable…but it might switch spots next month.

So, in a couple months when I update the charts, we’ll have some more data to add, and instead of a “90 day” moving market, we’ll have a “180 day” moving market. The goal is to try to get a years worth of data.

Thank you for your comments! I really respect your lists and dedication to the hobby. Thank you for clarifying and I'm looking forward to seeing more. Great work!

I'm sure you have thought of this, but do you believe creating a rarity list like this focuses on the interests of Ebay sellers?

Meaning, sellers are more motivated to sell Little Samson (especially individually and not in a lot) versus a low demand, "bad game" like Hatris. 

On your list, Hatris is listed as more rare than Little Samson, but perhaps Ebay sellers just don't sell Hatris as much or would rather put Hatris into a lot or system bundle to get rid of it. There is less of demand to buy Hatris.

So it seems you would be tracking how popular a game is selling on Ebay, with the number of copies available not necessarily correlating to actual rarity.

I didn't want to stir up controversy, I've always respected your lists and this question popped up in my head.

16 hours ago, ThePhleo said:

download the chart

How do I download the chart?

Also @ThePhleo , could you explain your methodology for this chart vs. your older rarity guide? I love your knowledge and work on this subject. Especially if you could explain the "glaring examples" like Bucky, for my friend .  I really appreciate it!

EDIT: I see you added notes, pasted here:

"Rarity was calculated by tallying up the total available market + 90 days sold market, then applying a median calculation to determine the "R5 Centerpoint".
The R1-R4 and R6-R9 centerpoints were then calculated by doubling the numbers outwards to go from R4-R1, and halving the number to go from R6-R9 which gives us the final range.
This rarity value is only relative for NES Collectors and is not a "universal" rarity scale that can be applied to even other regions of NES, let alone SNES, Sega, or other game collectors.

R10 and R11 are basically made up for "The Grails" but one or two titles might slip in there by just being a R9 or even an R8 going through a 90 day drought."

I love concerts and use to go to them all the time. Here are my top choices:

1.  RATM - April 29th, 2007 at Coachella

2.  Madlib, PB Wolf, Percee P, J Rocc, Kareem Riggins - December 6, 2007 at The Black Cat in DC

3.  Radiohead - May 11, 2008 at Nissan Pavilion in Virginia. (notable due to it raining the whole time)

4.  DJ Shadow - November 4th, 2006 at a festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina

5.  (For the bass heads) Terror Danjah, Mary Anne Hobbs, Joy Orbison, Kode 9, Lorn, Roska - April 15, 2011 at 1015 Folsom in San Francisco

Honorable mentions

311 in May 2000 at the American Theater in St. Louis. One of my first shows that I really enjoyed

James Blake  in April 18, 2013 at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, CA. (notable because alcohol was not served and the show was in a movie theater).

My guess the reasons would be hype, fun factor, interesting main character with a cool name, and strong demand.

Compared to other rare NES games (Power Blade 2, Panic Restaurant, Flintstones etc.) Samson just sounds and looks cooler.  Just my two cents.

I've seen the first Iron Man and that's it.  I am not a fan of these movies, they seem derivative and it's hard for me to tell the difference between any of them. And sadly the "star" is the comic book character, not the actor playing them.

But just my opinion! I'm just not a big movie fan overall. Although the last movie I liked was Triangle Of Sadness.

If you have a cartidge of Pizza Pop I am interested, no need for the CIB

Best pick up on NA was from @arnpoly, I wonder if he remembers,

But I met him in person on 2/12/15 and bought a Power Blade with a back swap for $20. Still in my collection today. Thanks Aaron!

I went to a church rummage sale in 2018 in a small town.

I walked in soon after it opened and one of the first boxes I looked in had a smoke grey n64, controller and Star Wars Ep1 racer believe. Almost brand new looking.

I also picked up a sleeping bag and mat, cooler, a theracane and I think something else.

I went to check out and the lady looked at the n64 and said something like is this "game stuff." I said yep. How about $10 for everything (including the camping stuff)? I said great.

I recently traded the n64 for a PAL Little Samson with the hopes of getting the NTSC one day.

Good times. And funny after I picked that up, I went to like 4-5 other sales and got nothing. I should have just stopped when I was ahead!

Worst music on a game I want to play:

Little Samson. I would have loved to have stage music instead of each character having there own song. Samson's is the most suspect, with some interesting parts but overall gets annoying.

Great! I love 80's comedies

cool 

TMR is a legend, nice job!

1 hour ago, Tanooki said:

Clownifornia

How do you feel about SB1383?

It did say "art not final" but I was not expecting a different cartridge. Oh well!  Game seems fun so far.

On 5/16/2023 at 9:00 AM, fcgamer said:

I saw people getting pissy on FB saying they wouldn't have bought the game if they knew the color scheme was going to be changed. All I can say is what's the point of buying the game if you aren't going to play the damned thing, in which case the color isn't important. I'm the biggest shelf collector in the world but even this is too much stupidity for me.

For me it can be both, I want to play the game and I would like the blue or pink cartridge that was advertised, so it looks good on my shelf. It's more of expecting one thing and getting another. That original baby blue cartridge looked pretty slick and gave it that retro look! But yeah I wouldn't have bought the game if I knew this is what the cartridge looked like. I might sell mine for 1/2 off the initial price. The colors are just off and do not match the box or packaging. Def gonna play it and beat it first!

I got the dark blue clear version. I preferred the original design and colors, but it will be fun to try and play.

Congrats to the winner and all the participants.  It was a fun contest. Gonna try to beat Rad Racer now

I would say having a game collecting counts as interesting and feel free to mention it if it is your main hobby.

For me, I was crowned pickle king in 3rd grade.

Here's my entry for now.

20 minutes ago, Jeevan said:

I'm asking one of the guys from retrospect, I'll let u know.

THANK YOU!

I have one of the older RetroUSB (individually numbered) NWC repros without dipswitches.  Is the default time for that cartridge 6 minutes 21 seconds?

Any help would be appreciated! I might have to go the emulator route.

Wow I remember when Sean was selling these on NA.  I bought Mega Man 2, Zelda, and Castlevania.

I used to DJ more and played these a few times at shows.

I sold my Zelda for $100 a few years ago, if I sell the others I will let you know. 

Really cool records.

I ended up buying a cartridge, cant wait to play it on my console.