ThePhleo

I work directly with refiners and I'd get paid about $3.85 / lb. for bare bright right now. The best local scrap yards are paying $3.50, but if I were in the market I'd pay anywhere from $3.05 - $3.60 depending on the quantity right now. Though I don't do much wire these days since the market it too competitive for me. We mostly focus on shooting range materials these days since we have a proprietary machine that allows us to get huge quantities of material.

Specialty Janitor & Scrap Metal Trader.

My mother tells me I was 1 year old when my father bought "my" NES, my Father had Super Mario Bros., and I think Golf, or Jack Nicklaus. My first game that was *actually* gifted to me was TMNT 1

I don't have explicit permission to share a photo one of the other boards, but the board photo I have is a NES-SEROM-02, the PRG, CHR, and MMC1A all have a date code of 8838 and the lockout chip has a date code of 8837. This is roughly september 12 - september 25. @Funky_brewsta Your photos have the same MMC1A and lockout chip but your PRG and CHR are of a different manufacturer and date code format. your PRG is 8H5 (1988 August Week 5) has a range of August 28-31, and your CHR is 8J1 (1988 September Week 1) has a range of September 1-3. Seems they're in line

No, I just have a 3-screw with the centered artwork. Holy crap! I've been looking for this picture for ages!!! This is the only 5-screw copy I don't have the picture of. So, I now have photos of all three known copies of this game thank you so much for posting this! I'll share mine here as well. To date, all Stadium Events copies I've seen have a PRG with 7J2 exclusively, and a CHR with 7J1 or 7J2. There also doesn't seem to be any specific variant attached to them. 7J1 translates to 1987 September 1st Week. 7J2 translates to 1987 September 2nd Week. This three digit format works as follows... First digit is the year, so you need to assume the decade (and millenium I guess!) Second digit is the month, refer to the chart below for the proper code. Third digit is the week. A January B February C March D April E May F June G July H August I [N/A] J September K October L November M December Also, here are photos of all the known 5-screw carts

:V why are we taking this so serious when there’s a perfectly good topic that’s being ignored. Semantics are boring in an environment where precise language isn’t needed.

Meh, just another “micro console” to document like OnLive, Ouya, GameStick, VCS, Shield, Stadia, Zeebo, and the thousand other failed mini consoles from China.

Also; mark me down for a CIB N7 Tecmo NBA Basketball.

Hey @Hybrid The Konami/Ultra things are beginning to gain steam in the higher end spectrum of the hobby so I think it’s worth tracking whether or not the label has any sign of label lift. Also, someone said to me that the 5-screw Oddities all have Konami manufactured boards whereas the standard releases don’t. if there’s any validity to that then I think we have a solid way of tracking these things as legitimate.

No interest. This is one of those things that are “technically video games”. Edutainment in general is a boring side of gaming history. The target market is very young children. Very, very few people will have memories of this thing.

In my family, we rarely ignore the call when opportunity comes knocking. Sometimes we even go out of our way to change before things become stagnant. From the past 20 years we have been and in many ways still are machinists, metal brokers, metal processors, silver refiners, lead smelters, shooting range maintenance service providers. We are now also in the process of opening a reloaders supply business and possibly using our hazardous waste experience and enter the medical waste space. Were not rich by any means, but we diversify our skill set and swiftly move on to the next thing when the time comes. If you’re willing to learn new things, and step outside of your comfort zone I think you can achieve great things. Just always be aware that when switching gears like that, there are “known unknowns” as in a particular skill set you might need and have to learn...and then unknown unknowns” like suddenly finding out you need to spend some time learning something that seems completely irrelevant.

It’s already being done I keep an archive of all known NWC greys and half the NWC golds (can’t find more than 7 different carts even though there’s supposedly 13) Every time a new one pops up I add it to my archive (and if someone spots it before me and informs me they get $100) Everytime an old one pops up I look at my archive and compare tiny damaged spots and the glue mottling to make sure they match...if someone informs me about this cart popping up before I see it they get $10 per photo shown if it’s already a known number. I also have a private list that I can’t confirm the numbers publicly. I can say there’s more than zero on that list and that’s it Basically, I’ve been preparing for this day for years now.

@BlackbirdZero13 be very careful. I have a small collection of old reel-to-reels that I need to preserve and I’ve been told that all old fashioned tape media has a tendency to tear itself apart when you replay it today because of humidity built up over the years.

What a terrible night to have eyes. The dudes hairline, nails, and eyes disgust me more than the actual context of the comic.

He wasn't up, and went to sleep early. I couldn't have wait any longer. Yeah, I've got a little nest egg that I wanted to take 20%-25% out and try and grow but to be honestly I can sell my collection "instantly"... I don't think the markets can grow it faster than that :V My 5-year plan is to buy a house this fall, maybe the Summer if rates start to skyrocket again. Also, I want to do a 15-year mortgage on it, but everyone of my family members are telling me to go 30-year and treat it like a 15-year instead just in case business slows down.

Just cashed out my AMC & GME and stopped my losses. I put in $1000 in play money and an additional $250 of pocket money for a total of $1250 “invested” I’m walking away with $430 left in my pocket. Lesson cost: $820 Lesson learned: If your buddies, brothers, and even your LITERAL grandmother are talking about it then the time to invest has already passed you by. Memes don’t make dreams. New Direction (Option A): Stay invested in the stock market and learn more...Diversify my investments. Put 50% in “Low Risk” stocks, 30% in “Medium Risk”, 15% in “High Risk”, and YOLO with the remaining 5%. New Direction (Option B): Get out of the stock market until I buy a house this fall and wait until I settle in... honestly I feel the entire market is way too high anyway and is being artificiality propped up. Eventually the government teet of free money will dry up and then what.

@phart010 just for a record, I don’t know if you’re mentioning me. But I do not track current owners. The only copy worth knowing who own(Ed) it is Howard Phillips, maybe the three winners of NWC, and the NWC Gold grand prize winner. Full stop. . . I also don’t officially document which ones they are either just out of respect for the practice.

Excuse me, but this is the GROUNDSHOG DAY thread. Damn savages.

From my experiences and basically all of my family on both sides. “Koumbaro” is a term a lot of people use in New York, particularly with Greek and other Mediterranean vendors. The word is also Greek for “Godfather” and in NYC It’s used like this: “Hey Koumbaro, let me get a shishkabob with lemon and hot sauce.” Now put a heavy New York accent on it and it sounds like “Goom bado” New York being a mixing pot and all, the word might have shifted around here and there and voila, Goomba becomes a term used as the way mentioned in the above article.

Gonna get a lot of "Of course you did" and "duh's" But put it in terms like this: If I found a $100 bill on the ground in an empty park with no one there then I have three options. Leave it there Bring it to the police Pick it up I wouldn't leave it there, and I wouldn't take time out of my day to bring it to the police ... so logically I'll pick it up myself. However, if I found a wallet with a $100 bill and an ID then the moral dilemma is a bit different. There's now a perceivable way to return it to the rightful owner, and there are simple methods of returning a lost wallet (i.e. leave it in your postbox and the post office will return it free of charge...or at least, that's the rumor on the street) Since you have a way to return it then, the ONLY right thing to do is to return it. ... Long story short: Duh, of course you did

Aaaaaaaand insta-backed. I'm simple, I see Howard Phillips and I click Buy It Now

Pirate it just the catch-all I use for anything that heavily uses unlicensed intellectual property. For example, Sachen has a game called “Super Pang” it’s a direct rip off “Pang” the arcade game, but 100% coded by Sachen. . . However their game “Jurassic Boy 2” is a clone of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 but doesn’t use Sega IP, so it’s just a regular old unlicensed game which belongs in the “Unauthorized” territory. I also don’t consider this chart exclusive to physical media. You can use it for PSN games, or unprinted NES homebrews...even games that never had a single byte of programming done but were mentioned in advertisements and press releases. Its versatile enough that you can even use it for any gaming platform including PC. Edit: Also, I’d like to add that I have a bunch of subcategories. For example, NWC Gold ends up in the “Standard Release” category but it’s really a very special cartridge...so it gets a subcategory called “Contest Prize” ... grey is a little more different since it was also given away in a competition but it wasn’t INTENDED to be given away as so many competitors in the collecting scene say. You also have games like Star Fox Weekend, and Donkey Kong Country Competition Cartridge which were once used in competitions but then we’re available by mail order. They’re “Standard Releases” that belong in the “Mail Order” subcategory. Next you have games like “ClayFighter Sculptors Cut” which were exclusive to Blockbusters. It’s a Standard Release that belongs in the “Rental” subcategory. So each “answer” in this flow chart probably has another set of questions. Intent is key because even the Legend of Zelda test cart ends up as “Software” since it’s intention isn’t to be entertaining but rather to test the system.

Also @Tulpa I think I had some small foresight by giving the distinction of “far after” in that chart. Far can be arbitrarily long. Basically it’s up for interpretation and allows you to throw those Just Dance games into the “Standard Releases” category.

There's all sorts of fringe cases like that in game history. NES Discontinued August 1995, but Smurfs and Asterix was printed in Europe all the way up to the middle of 1996. PS2 Discontinued some time in 2013 but a couple soccer games and even a Final Fantasy XI expansion came out in 2014. PS1 Discontinued March 2006, but I think Square Enix only recently stopped printing some games. I think if you had to compile a list of "fringe" cases it would be a pretty short list maybe only a couple dozen titles long. My gut tells me that since they were printed by Nintendo themselves (or, under authorization by Nintendo) then they're standard releases with a "aftermarket" flare. Sort of like how there are "pirate" games that can be "Pirate Originals" or "Rom Hacks"

Looping back around yet again...here's this chart.