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When you boil it down, a video game is just a form of entertainment. If it doesn't entertain you then regardless of what the world might think, it deserves an honest opinion.

Somehow I still don't own these CIBs! I'd like to buy chunks of them at a time if possible. Let me know what you guys got! I'd prefer it if they have all their inserts, or at the very least the posters. Arch Rivals: A Basketbrawl! Bad News Baseball Barker Bill's Trick Shooting Bases Loaded 3 Bigfoot Chessmaster Circus Caper Classic Concentration Cobra Triangle Dance Aerobics Defender II Destination Earthstar Fisher-Price: Perfect Fit Flight of the Intruder Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll Gauntlet Gauntlet II Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode Greg Norman's Golf Power Harlem Globetrotters Heavy Shreddin' Hoops Hydlide Jeopardy! Jeopardy! Jr. Edition Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf Lunar Pool Magic Darts Michael Andretti's World GP Millipede Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival NFL Football Nintendo World Cup Pin-Bot Racket Attack Remote Control RoadBlasters Rocket Ranger Seicross Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide & Speak Shingen the Ruler Ski or Die Sky Shark Snake Rattle n Roll Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship Star Voyager Stealth ATF Super Spike V'Ball / Nintendo World Cup Super Team Games Taboo: The Sixth Sense Tecmo Baseball Tecmo Bowl Wayne Gretzky Hockey Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition Win, Lose or Draw Wrath of the Black Manta WWF WrestleMania Challenge WWF Wrestlemania Steel Cage Challenge Xenophobe

Cant wait to open

@Bearcat-Doug @Goodvibes Not my list to post...but eff it. Doug, yours was #367,809 GammaRay N0006798 Nesguy N0009000 Pedro N0011092 Livingfora1up N0039604 got it used about 2 months ago from a garage sale for $15. It came with some games including a Famicom converter Gyromite! One interesting note that I'm not sure has been mentioned, The AC and RF cords for this system are about 4 feet longer than standard adapters. K.Thrower N0054786 NES-CPU-01 1985 Smooth Top WA State Service # (No Door Sticker) (Pre-Deluxe Set) mb7241 N0058304 (non-"Deluxe Set" Deluxe Set CIB) Pats1717 N0065144 GammaRay N0077993 Steverd N0078730 Deluxe Set with ROB jamespmt N0079020 penguin N0090071 Penguin N0090071 Blarky N0095700 dmaxwell N0121347 Tanooki N0142379 steveOh N0159429. It has a non textured top and bottom and has NO,1 underneath next to the expansion slot. The motherboard is a NES-CPU-03. ihavethatpma N0165555 dafoomie N0203814 NES-CPU-03 1985, smooth top, 'no. 1' and inside Washington number on bottom 8-bit boice N0213033 Pats1717 N0241132 Pedro N0243439 ulasamosa N0247522 mischa316 N0250301 Pre Deluxe set ThatNintendoGuy N0276932 8bitdreams N0306484 gtoyoda N0320678 MontrealGators N0324265 bearcat-doug N0367809 from a CIB test market Deluxe Set w/ the matching warranty sheet. uiengineer N03742479 Redivivus N0481951 uiengineer N05129387 ihavethatpma N0608012 Koopa64 N0781060 Brideck N0809808 NintendoNinja N0828725 Suicidalparrot N10095494 K.Thrower N1028559 Deluxe Set 1985 tekfox212800 N10344153 Megamanfan N10395311 K.Thrower N10415779 NES-CPU-10 1987 Textured Top 2602 Service # (No Door) --Serviced/Replaced Board? K.Thrower N10735250 NES-CPU-07 1987 Textured Top 2602 Service # (No Door Sticker) K.Thrower N10863528 Control Deck w/SMB 1986 BouncekDeLemos N10947402 NickyP N10995104 mb7241 N11002524 videogamehunter N11101204 jamespmt N1115541 mb7241 N1122341 MuNkeY N11543891 Yardsale AtariMaxx N1175629 K.Thrower N11928283 NES-CPU-07 1987 Textured Top 2602 Service # (No Door Sticker) stillplayingnes N11944285 mb7241 N12021487 GameBoyScotty N12703575 (original owner) Generic N12765390 GameBoyScotty N13032804 Laurie N13069379 K.Thrower N13588535 NES-CPU-07 1987 Textured Top 2602 Service # (No Door Sticker) jamespmt N13698506 thunderhayes N13763873 RetroNESNerd N14020011 ZOMG N14073317 K.Thrower N14122174 NES-CPU-07 1987 Textured Top 2602 Service # (No Door Sticker) darcotrigger N14249399 Hades Rejects N14355573 Generic N14631591 Generic N14653470 i2a2n2 N14668294 Pat the NES PunkN N15006326 Non Deluxe Set MontrealGators N15071958 Bolt Vanderhuge N15435462 Action set Second owner, first owner was uncle K.Thrower N15543744 NES-CPU-08 1989 NINTENDO Textured top 800 CUST SERV (no door sticker) Generic N15568665 jamespmt N15645720 Jordiway73 N15964060 Sammi N15975397 Hades Rejects N1677352 Koopa64 N16817634 Redivivus N16932193 Herbalist N17272838 Sean3614 N17359037 K.Thrower N17548074 Power Set w/Grey Zapper 1988 gtoyoda N17656078 K.Thrower N17747855 NES-CPU-08 1987 Textured Top 2602 Service # (No Door Sticker) MuNkeY N17816591 Bought locally through classifieds Crashman N18055807 K.Thrower N18331444 NES-CPU-09 1987 Textured Top 2602 Service # (No Door Sticker) DaronMalakian N1848476 K.Thrower N18604313 NES-CPU-09 1987 Textured Top 2602 Service # (No Door Sticker) Kid Dracula N1880214 jamespmt N18803002 Benihana N1910710 bukeus N19978611 Generic N20049309 bukeus N20321908 Tanooki N20378399 mischa316 N20522955 mb7241 N21236858 bearcat-doug N21240412 (from a Control Deck set w/ Super Mario Bros) bukeus N21356326 mb7241 N21511765 Redivivus N2162869 8bitSpriteLimit N21775577 GameBoyScotty N21917985 bimmy lee N22108366 K.Thrower N22384034 NES-CPU-10 1987 Textured Top 2602 Service # (No Door) Redivivus N22613863 Sargon N22624609 s41793 N22747308, CPU-10 MuNkeY N23201450 Yardsale mb7241 N23328551 K.Thrower N23425400 NES-CPU-10 1987 Textured Top 3700 Service # (No Door Sticker) Laurie N23779901 Algus N23806728 Action Set, original owner Redivivus N25129794 K.Thrower N25172036 NES-CPU-10 1987 Textured Top 3700 Service # (No Door Sticker) mb7241 N25429728 Redivivus N25602972 Topload Dogbone N26097602 K.Thrower N26943691 Action Set w/Red Zapper 1989 Redivivus N27556033 K.Thrower N27904269 Action Set w/Red Zapper 1989 the_wizard_666 N28378817 Original owner. I have N28378817. It's part of an Action Set, NES-ACMH-CAN-1, purchased in late '89 (I got it for Christmas K.Thrower N28447664 Action Set w/Red Zapper 1989 xxtheenslavedxx N2846458 K.Thrower N28670475 Generic N28753779 Miss Clawful N2920130 K.Thrower N29208971 (My Original got 12-25-1990, Action Set w/Red Strip on box) Redivivus N29343407 gtoyoda N29862809 s41793 N30090326, CPU-11 K.Thrower N30243674 NES-CPU-11 1987 Textured Top 3700 Service # (No Door Sticker) BouncekDeLemos N30312880 jamespmt N30328177 EvilEyeball N30841393 K.Thrower N31095897 NES Sports Set 1990 mtgmackid N31442925 Rachel N32386877 US toaster 8-bit boice N3289821 gtoyoda N32898972 K.Thrower N33104050 NES-CPU-11 1987 NINTENDO Textured top RED CUST SERV LABEL (grey door sticker) K.Thrower N33517701 (My Wife's Original got 4-5-1991, Challenge Set w/SMB3) K.Thrower N33548913 K.Thrower N33811300 NES-CPU-11 1987 Textured Top Revised Stickers-Red 3700 Service # (Grey Door Sticker) mb7241 N33979483 K.Thrower N3474754 NES-CPU-07 1987 Smooth Top WA State Service # (No Door Sticker) jamespmt N3713021 Redivivus N3859935 Nintendo Workshop N40070292(4) K.Thrower N4008826 NES-CPU-07 1987 NINTENDO Smooth Top 800 CUST SERV (no door sticker) Nesmaniac N400964292 K.Thrower N4172381 NES-CPU-07 1987 Smooth Top 2602 Service # (No Door Sticker) BouncekDeLemos N4173532 bearcat-doug N4220887 (from a Deluxe Set) Benihana N4384151 Rachel N4559343 US toaster Nintendo Workshop N4833565 stardust4ever N4851956 Action Set ZOMG N4947556 MuNkeY N5381765 Yardsale Sean3614 N5635390 EvilEyeball N5735663 PDXsonic N6149251 K.Thrower N6259800 NES-CPU-07 1987 Smooth Top/Textured Bottom 2602 Service # (No Door Sticker) --Mixed Textures mb7241 N6570906 (parallel-port CopyNES) mb7241 N6705968 Palcom N6903559 jonnylentilbean N7200914 Redivivus N7225861 K.Thrower N7425070 NES-CPU-07 1987 Textured Top 2602 Service # (No Door Sticker) bearcat-doug N7561101 (from a gray Zapper Action Set) Redivivus N7564001 MuNkeY N7935224 Goodwill profholt82 N8148319 Topload Dogbone N8181925 bukeus N8257621 mb7241 N8271152 K.Thrower N8350354 NES-CPU-07 1987 Textured Top 2602 Service # (No Door Sticker) (Action Set w/Grey Zapper) Slash Man N850039816 bearcat-doug N850672983 (loose red customer service label unit w/ smooth top) bukeus N8592305 Mouser N8748109, a Canadian machine in a box from 1993 that is Canadian (Basic Set) (also it's post-Mattel distribution but the console has a Mattel plate on the base, possibly just stock obtained by Nintendo. GameBoyScotty N90024143 Miss Clawful N9184718 Megamanfan N9300114 sconley666 NN10008215(9) jbholio NN10011498(0) mb7241 NN10012230(5) stillplayingnes NN10032559(1) TheNEScollector NN100452167 Bolt Vanderhuge NN10070296(5) 8bitSpriteLimit NN100907636 Redivivus NN10140680(0) gtoyoda NN101543833 Catfriedrice NN10166396(8) Tanooki NN101742014 Kid Dracula NN10199218(1) bearcat-doug NN102223499 steveOh NN102232859 K.Thrower NN10256156(0) Top Loader DreamMary NN10263640(4) Benihana NN102771679 BouncekDeLemos NN10304929(6) whitetrashshayno NN103275107 pats1717 NN10338138(9) dmaxwell NN10365910(5) K.Thrower NN10402974(7) Top Loader sconley666 NN10420662(9) Kid Dracula NN10457799(6) uiengineer NN10463906(9) thewalrusisal NN10483412(1) videogamehunter NN105091194 Redivivus NN10512665(0) Rachel NN10538052(6) US toploader uiengineer NN10556557(2) Quack NN106023507 8-bit boice NN10605004(6) Speedy NES NN10607017(4) BloodyBill NP10000108 OzNEScollector NP10003492 BloodyBill NP10003678 Speedy NES PA277009 ninn PE 366874 bergmn PE001149 bergmn PE1180205 bergmn PE1568663 bergmn PE3503273 Speedy NES PE5349917 (HOL) Speedy NES PE5401592 (NOE) Speedy NES PE5621073 (NOE) Speedy NES PE840069 (HOL) Palcom PE863900(FRG) Speedy NES PE864505 (FRG) shyft PM320241 (Australia) stillplayingnes SN32368519 1987 MB gray 1800 label in door

Yes, they are. If you took more then one then I only have the one with it on a white piece of paper. Since its your photo I'll share it...the other two I have are also publicly posted on Instagram somewhere so I'll attach those as well. Since you're upgrading a photo for me, I'll still honor it as a photo of a already known cart and pay you $10 per image...as long as its not something like 10 or 20 photos As for #0165, I have 6 photos. Since you're the current owner I'll share them with you privately to do with as you wish. They aren't *actually* my photos, so don't go putting them in a commercial product or anything.

Interesting to know. This means the glossy stickers were also included in the pre-deluxe sets. Maybe the Matte seals are legitimately rare after all!

Yeah one thing to keep in mind is they had to have 17 games ready for an unproven market on October 18, 1985 AND they were still pumping out games for other platforms...they had like 100 Famicom, and 40+ Game & Watch titles at the same time. They probably had very little down time as evident from the use of Famicom converters in US test market releases, and likely just used whatever time they had to produce chips in the early days. One part of Nintendo history that’s poorly documented is what happened the months right after October 1985. I bet that there wasn’t just one production run of the “first print” titles, especially considering that one of the highest known pre-Deluxe test market sets is around 350,000. It used to (maybe still does) belong to @Bearcat-Doug Thanks for @DefaultGenfor making me dig up that list.

Forgot to add. When I scan boxes I have to remove the cellophane. I don’t have a 100% success rate of putting it back on though.

This is actually valuable material. When they print stuff like this they usually just fold a single sheet and trim the edges to turn it into a “book”. Seems the printers forgot to print one side of the sheet and the result was this book with seemingly random blank pages. You can determine the fold pattern with this information. ... Ok so it’s not valuable in the sense of money, but just valuable as insight into the production history of these things Also, can I bug you for a full scan of this manual? There may be tiny variations that I can detect if I had scans. I only have two DK manual scans though, but I’ll gladly go outbid my way to buy DK manuals to identify the print.

Thanks. This is one of the titles believed to been released during the transition from TM to R so it’s nice to have a solid lead. I still need more data points though but I’m also pretty confident that there isn’t a TM variant on this one as well. Still not confident enough to remove it though! Edit: Keep in mind I still consider a 5-screw Karate Kid, and Side Pocket in the realm of possibility. There are some things that will never be removed from certain “unconfirmed variant” lists.

No doubt, I’m just trying to make sure with absolute certainty they don’t exist. I can’t be the only one trying to finalize the seal of quality list Afterall!

I can’t see what variant you have on the last post. im looking for the type of trademark symbol they use. If it’s a “TM” or a “R” symbol.

Interesting. I gotta check mine now.

Awesome! Thanks So this leaves only four others in the "April 1989" subcategory that need TM variant confirmation...Dynowarz, Super Off Road, Snake's Revenge, and Wrath of the Black Manta. Conflict and Heavy Barrel are oddities in the "March 1989" subcategory that I just can't find TM variants when they *should* have them if they were actually released in March.

You can say you're essentially...reserving your investments. Also, a box aint 100%+ cib without the Cello.

Why are you posting strangers videos Austin?

Hey guys, so I'm working on my biggest and best list so far and I'm almost ready to share. I just need to verify the transition between circle seal of quality, to oval TM seal of quality, to oval R seal of quality. I've got a good idea of when and I just need you all to check your games for me. It can be a cartridge, box, or even a manual. DO YOU HAVE A CIRCLE SEAL OF QUALITY FOR ... Ultima: Exodus Dance Aerobics John Elway's Quarterback Ninja Gaiden DO YOU HAVE AN OVAL TM ™ SEAL OF QUALITY FOR... Conflict Heavy Barrel Dynowarz Super Off Road Snake's Revenge Tecmo World Wrestling (Cart confirmed) Wrath of the Black Manta Here are my current findings: Nintendo transitioned from the "Circle" seal of quality to the Oval ™ seal of quality some time during March 1989. Nintendo transitioned from the Oval ™ seal of quality to the Oval ® seal of quality some time during April 1990. The titles above are titles released somewhere in between that are sort of anomalous since their "believed" release dates are before, during, or after those transition times. Most notably, Ultima: Exodus which is believed to have been released in February 1989. Nintendo filed a trademark for the Nintendo Seal on April 24, 1989, and was granted the trademark on December 12, 1989. On the application they said the first use of the seal was March 1, 1989. This means that theoretically speaking, any game released from December 12, 1989 can have the "Oval ®" seal of quality. The USPTO Number for this trademark filing is 1570911

$1500-$2500 depending on condition and completion. Im not in a rush to ever own one. As cool as it is historically, it’s just a small piece of history.

Hmm...I wonder if this is what they were going for when they filed the trademark in the USA for QBoy.

For the cause! So few titles left with questions around them on my list. I’m happy to scratch this one off. I sort of want to make a video like how you do, or even send it to you to open.

I wish it worked that way, but it doesn’t on this little decade long project. The only thing I have sealed left is a sealed Abadox, and a sealed Legend of Kage. Those are already on the list though so I have no need to open them.

I’m biased because I want them alot but I’ll be transparent. I hate to see them go to someone else but $150 each is perfectly fair both to you and him. You can squeeze a little more out of them, but even at $175 a lot of these sit on eBay for months at a time. . . It all depends on whether or not the 5 or so Sachen collectors like me and that dude have that particular game or not. I will tell you that Penguin & Seal, and Auto Upturn are a lot harder to find than the others. But that makes little difference in price for these things. All Sachen original art games are R10 out of 10’s...but they’re not particularly valuable except maybe for Little Red Hood.

GVN and VGPC are a pretty good measure for loose carts, and an okay measure for the “average” CIB in “average” condition. GVN doesn’t count NIV Bible, King James Bible, Spiritual Warfare, Joshua, and Exodus. It also doesn’t count the players choice stuff. You can safely tack on another $500 just for those alone. So $9500 + $500 is a safe $10,000. Add in your variants, depending on how many you have I bet you can add another $1000 so $11,000. The best you’ll get in a bulk lot in a short amount of time is about $7500 I think. Of course the opposite can be true and you can get *more* if the right buyer is looking right now. Im about to jump in the Game Boy train myself starting from the top and work my way down...just gotta get a couple more NES lots before I’m ready. But I’m going CIB w/ inserts. P.S. I’d pay some money for scans of rare labels and photos of circuit boards (front & back) since I want to throw this info all in a guide.

I definitely had my doubts in GameStop, I even thought COVID would bring it to its knees even faster

$200 later... I will still open mine when it gets here.