ThePhleo

My rule of thumb is "Can you reasonably expect it to see it at a garage sale one day" If it fails that general rule, then it's not a rare game.

My secret's out! I've been manipulating the Samson market since 2011!

Nah, they have those weird greek alphabet ratio things that calculate this stuff for them and they like to pretend it's just supply/demand so us "normies" can think the world is ezpz. I WANNA SEE THIS DEFAULTGEN...I WANT TO SEE THIS

I think you need to plot price trends on a 3D membrane graph to make full sense of the hobby as a whole. Current Notoriety + Current Scarcity = Current Price I bet there would be some nice sensible peaks and valleys in a graph like this that would give you a "eureka" moment. Like, Little Samson isn't super rare, but it is currently pretty scarce...and very notorious so it has a high price. Firehouse Rescue on the other hand is VERY rare, but not talked about at all so it has very little motivating it to push upwards.......Super mario bros. is EXTREMELY common, but also EXTREMELY rare in (conditionally speaking) in nice condition and EXTREMELY talked about so it's "the grail" in mint condition. Actually, scratch that...you also need to add a fourth dimension to represent condition as well...so include colors to represent condition.

Oh! I was just hyped up to denounce my favorite president everyone loves :V They're all strange people really...it takes a special type of person to want to lead an entire country.

FDR was fortunate to leave a legacy by being a wartime president and used his executive powers to spearhead spending that we're still paying for to this very day. Overall he was a very racist and terrible human being though. He nominated Hugo Black to the Supreme Court. A known KKK member He established concentration camps (just like Hitler!) for Japanese-American's during WW2 He refused to acknowledge Jesse Owens and other black athletes after the 1936 Olympics. Jesse Owens even said "Hitler didn't snub me. It was our President who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram" He was a known anti-Semite, and refused to help the Jews, Romani, and gay during and after WW2. The New Deal & WW2 increased U.S. debt by almost 800% But yeah, the New Deal was a good thing overall...but again, we're still paying for it to this day. In fact, we haven't paid a single cent down of U.S. debt since I think, Calvin Coolidge...every administration since his has added debt, again, meaning to this day we're carrying 100 year old debt forward.

HEY! This is America, we get to choose between an old man with memory problems, and an old man with legal issues.

I've been away. DM sent back

I knew you'd be in here. lol

"Please regulate me so competitors can't pop up"

I NEED that Indy Heat with the sticker. Please consider selling it to me directly if you're going to be selling the lot.

More or less confirms it's an actual label variant. Pretty cool stuff :)

Man, I know it sounds weird but I'm so proud to see you doing all of this Living the hobbyist dream, and doing cool stuff like this and the books!

I pronounce it Xexyz.

I'm still shocked at how you manage to get so much emotion in a character without eyes and a mouth... Also, what did T-Pac do with Casual Carts body? CLEARLY we seen them in a room together a few posts ago, but I'm assuming we'll never see CasualCart ever again. :[

Great artwork, but nope. kill it with lots of fire. ...And take Cat Mario with you.

So your name is...Chai + (Ornamentation - Men) = T-Pac Noun Pronounced: Chai-Ornation (tʃaɪ - oʊr - neɪ - ʃʌn) Definition: An non-consumable object used for decorating a glass of tea.

Woo! New look Welcome back

Anyone headed to TooManyGames this year? https://toomanygames.com/show/toomanygames-2023/ I'll likely be there this year on Saturday I think. Wondering what the scene will look like now that the game collecting speculation market has simmered down a bit!

Guy Den.

Wow! I had no idea you were working on a game Dave. Very cool and I wish I could go. You're living the dream it seems, hopefully I can get some downtime myself and wrap up my stuff.

Check out the screenshot. It's Mario, no "Ossan" from NES Golf.

WAIT A MINUTE. This is a Mario Game... This is officially the rarest Mario game...

Super Jeopardy, and Tecmo Bowl are confirmed 1995 prints in the USA. Ninja Gaiden III, and Tecmo Super Bowl may be another. Also, @acromite53 just posted one of the final NES prints, but also, Asterix is another and I think it has a November/December 1996 print run too? I can't remember off the top of my head at the moment, but I think it would be reprinted along side Smurfs as well. Finally, I think "The Lion King" is the final officially licensed title to be made for the NES anywhere around the globe. May 25, 1995 was its first print run, making the Nintendo 8-Bit Family game launch window officially 4332 days long, almost 12 years. (July 15, 1983 the Famicom launched in Japan with Donkey Kong, DK Jr., and Popeye, And then the launch of Lion King being the final game launched) If you count just the final confirmed print date of Asterix at 1996 August 9th, and the FC Launch of July 15, 1983 then you have a ~4774 day lifespan of the entire Nintendo 8-Bit console family...roughly a bit over 13 years.