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I use it for memes and to keep tabs on the pulse of the game collecting community as a whole. You'll find me hanging out on /r/nes and /r/gamecollecting mostly. Though it's very rare I make a post. Reddit as a whole feels a lot "younger" than I am. The retro gaming communities on reddit are more or less casual retro gamers, but it's good to keep tabs on the community as a whole. I'll talk with guys on the casual side, all the way up to the upper echelon of game collectors on Facebook and in private. I just like old tendo tapes and appreciate anyone who does as well.

If you aren’t an audiophile, just get a bundled open box Samsung 5.1 set from your local Best Buy or Walmart Tim Hortons or American Tire. 7.1 won’t work in that room since there’s no room.

Wow, what a matchup!

Of course! Small set + rarity + bleeds right into NES

Yes, 100% CIB with all inserts...including the two potatoes, ninja boy 2, F1 pole position, kid Dracula, and sumo fighter, and Of course the Sachen games for it as well!

So when y’all finally get yours can you help me get mine? Im almost done with NES and I’m eyeballing GameBoy as my next target instead of going international with NES.

I need an adult.

Html, css...and all the JavaScript. @glubs @casyulekart and you too @OptOut Whats in this eggnog.

Brown for Goomba I’m willing to bet more people died from the first Goomba of Super Mario Bros. Stage 1-1 than any other villain or hazard in the game. Dude is a straightforward mass murder.

Lots of stuff on heritage piques my interest. Metals, Meteorites, Fossils, Coins, Jewelry, Timepieces, Bullion, and also Stringed Instruments are cool too. Historical documents are awesome, especially stuff for American history. Religious texts are nice as well. Then for entertainment, original movie posters just seem like some amazing pieces of memorabilia that I’m scared to get into.

Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World. Obviously. ... or Super Scope 6

Not gonna lie. I wouldn’t let them near baby Jesus. They got those crazy eyes.

Just realize Caltron is chilling out with Color Dreams...wat?

Cart only. I personally consider them 9s loose, but my 9 is a bit different from the NintendoAge 9. the NA list considered Stadium Events a 9 cart still, the top end of the spectrum needs to be adjusted because it factors loose price way too much. Loose prices plays a satisfactory role on the lower end (helps weed out R1s-4s properly) but it needs to drop some weight starting around R5 and have almost zero weight starting around R7. Theres still some work that needs to be done to this list, like adding in relative rarity for the screw variants...and adding rarity for the manuals and boxes. For now, if you can point out any other glaring errors it would help a lot! Will fix! Thanks for the heads up. What type of color blindedness do you have? I’ll try to fix the issue.

Yeah, it's a no contest across the board for the PS2/Gamecube/Dreamcast/Xbox generation for basically everything except online games. PS2 completely dominated that generation. Everyone else was just fighting for the scraps. It dominated so hard that it made Sega completely retreat from the industry entirely. (well, that and their horrible business practices but still!)

Very great article! We are extremely fortunate that the gaming medium is so new and is directly linked with the rise of the computer. Even the earliest demonstrations of gaming are documented to at least exist. Though there’s a fine line between archival and preservation. Me personally, I consider myself an archivist and not a preservationist. As an archivist my goal is to document things. Basically in essence, simply to write. A preservationist in contrast curates the actual experience. Eventually all digital media will fail, consoles will no longer work, computers will stop powering on, and hard drives will corrupt. Emulation is the only way of the future but even that must be continually monitored because technological paradigm shifts can happen and somewhere along the lines we might realize that some software is physically unplayable on the computers of the future. Theres also the issue of laying out a blueprint on how things should be preserved. What may be obvious today might not seem obvious in the future. Not many people would realize that a game like “The Mafat Conspiracy” is a sequel of “Golgo 13” or that “Pokémon Stadium 2” released in the US is actually the THIRD game in the series. Functionality would also need to be preserved somehow. The Lightgun for example is completely incompatible with modern day televisions. As CRTs begin to fail around the world Games like Duck Hunt, or Time Crisis are unplayable beyond a mouse and keyboard...but even then the overall experience is lost. Finally, the experience of the arcade needs to be preserved. The layout of the controls and the form factor of the arcade cabinet contributes to the experience. There are some functionalities that can’t be reproduced purely by emulation. All in all, we have a good starting point but the job of game preservation is still in its infancy.

Agreed. Sqoon, Chubby Cherub, Color A Dinosaur, and Pro Sport Hockey *should* all be R9's but the way my calculator works factors in loose price a little too much for the higher end items. I need to get a little more complex with the way I weigh things, but it will skew games like Mega Man into the yellow since that game is extremely overpriced. I need to completely revamp the way I calculate the top end of the spectrum.

Small edit. Adjusted the rarity on a like...4 games. Also, forget about price charts...they change daily.

It's time for the Christmas carols again, but who wants to hear Maria Carrey, and Michael Buble on loop anymore? Share your favorite Christmas music here! P.S. Don't fall for GilvaSunner / SiIvaGunner "remixes" they're funny as hell, but always show up first and aint the song you want (sometimes) Super Mario World Overworld Remix (SNES) - Super Mario's Sleigh Ride Diddy Kong Racing (N64) - Walrus Cove Diddy Kong Racing (N64) - Frosty Village Banjo Kazooie (N64) - Freezeezy Peak

Oh my, so you're the one who creates nightmares.

Lol, I gave away my childhood collection to a guy on NintendoAge for free because he wanted some Pokémon cards. I only collected from base set to I think base set 2 as a kid. The dudes name was “ThatNintendoGuy” I think.

That’s so ‘90s...but not in a good way. Just needs some construction GIFs and a godawful midi track that doesn’t properly loop.

Keyword: “Expect” What you do is for the love of the hobby. The only sealed NES game I still have is Legend of Kage, and Abadox. I think both of which are on the list already. I definitely wouldn’t be brave enough to open some of the games you have. I still wouldn’t expect you to open a single game more and greatly appreciate what you do.

Sarcasm is hard to convey over the internet! Either way, a casual reader of the site now has the “scholastic” reasoning to our madness. Those codes are just information that’s basically meant to be used in the 80s and 90s to help a company track any potential flaws in their products. It just so happens that it has a practical application to collectors and archivists like us...what investors do with that information is none of my concern since I myself have a few titles that are definitely not “gamers” copies, or even things that I can flatten to scan...