Code Monkey

9 minutes ago, VGD said:

Improperly married part.

 

i.e. oval seal cart with circle seal box.

Many games were mismatched like this from the factory.

They don't define the base price.

Got some uncommons.

2 hours ago, gauauu said:

It's totally fair not to trust Kickstarter (there isn't any guarantee about what you're going to get), but I'd suggest it makes more sense to trust or distrust a particular person/creator instead of the platform.  When Khan or @SoleGoose or @K3VBOT or @IBtiM kickstarts a game, I have confidence in that person as a member of the community that they'll deliver what they promised. But I wouldn't necessarily back something by somebody I had never heard of, or by somebody who has failed to deliver in the past.

Kickstarter is just the platform.  The people are who you are trusting (or not trusting)

Except one of those guys you mentioned abuses the system by fully funding their game without Kickstarter, completing it and then using the platform to gauge interest for pre-orders. That's why you know the game will be delivered, it's done before it ever hits Kickstarter, which I don't agree with. That's not the purpose of the platform.

We need something in between this and Mystic Searches, something that could not otherwise get funded but also has realistic timelines and community support.

Every NES game on Kickstarter since 2015 can blame this game as the sole reason I have not backed them. This game killed Kickstarter for me, I just don't trust it anymore.

And Sydney Hunter.

And Mighty No. 9.

1 minute ago, austin532 said:

As of now I'm strictly focusing on licensed games. I don't count pack in games like SMB/Duck Hunt as big boxes because they never had a box. Miracle Piano is borderline for me but I suppose it is like a giant controller so I'll add it.

I consider them to have boxes with consoles included.

On 10/25/2019 at 7:17 PM, ICrappedMyPants said:

Thanks, got it off eBay for a good price from a new user after the original winning bid backed out. I was very happy with it.

Be careful. I've bid on things where the owner of the item got his friend to keep bidding until it got to my maximum bid and then his friend won the item. The seller then makes up a story that the winning bidder backed out and asked if I wanted it for the next highest amount, it's a classic scam.

What should technically happen is you should get the item for your highest amount that's below any of the winner's bids, not just his winning bid.

I'm a code monkey (software developer).

This is how you make a proper post, thanks for this.

1. The title is very descriptive, I know exactly what I will be reading if I click the title.

2. There's a brief writeup as well as a screenshot, instead of just a link and nothing else.

3. The source is included if I wish to read more.

I do have a question though, I'm curious if they simply found the digital file for the game or was a cartridge found?

1. Movie / Comic related games. I expect the values of Wolverine, X-Men, Spiderman and Disney games to go way up from crossover in collecting.

2. Prototypes. I have no idea why prototypes to some of the most iconic games are still only worth $2000, there should be another zero on there. I personally think the development prototype to a popular game should be worth way more than a competition cartridge which has more than 100 copies known.

Was it actually any good? The videos I see of it seem terrible but I really enjoyed Doom, Doom II and Doom 3.

GoCollect owns this? Did they buy it at the auction? How much?

6 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

How old are you?

I asked this same question in my standup and no one under 25 knew what I was talking about.

38

I literally didn't even know this was a debate, I've never heard of it before. I don't know why anyone would ever hit space twice after a period.

3 hours ago, MrMark0673 said:

Mega Man 2, for so many reasons. 

I completed a loose licensed set years ago, and one of the reasons I wanted to do it was to see if the system offered a better game than MM2.

A few hundred games and numerous hidden gems later...

I found the answer to be “no”!

I will get that prototype from you just like I got 3. Some day.

3 hours ago, MrMark0673 said:

Mega Man 2, for so many reasons. 

I completed a loose licensed set years ago, and one of the reasons I wanted to do it was to see if the system offered a better game than MM2.

A few hundred games and numerous hidden gems later...

I found the answer to be “no”!

I will get that prototype from you just like I got 3. Some day.

Can we get The Incident and Battle Kid on there now? I'd buy those.

Also 64 Bit Xmas 2020

Wait. One is circle seal and one is oval seal so this may be more obvious than I was originally aware of.

I realized some boxes have the REV-A farther to the right than other boxes. The ones farther to the right seem to be less common and it looks like these were accompanied by a T-shirt promotion sticker on the cellophane.

I think you mean thes age.

I already built this at www.nestalgia.ca and I have an Android application as well which I haven't published yet. I only use it personally but it works really well. I know I still need to filter out unlicensed games from the list but it has all of the data from the sealed contents game list from the other site. I spent hours entering it.

10 minutes ago, RH said:

I've very-often wondered that of the many promo materials posted in these games from the NES/SNES era, if you took the time to find the customer support lines for these US companies and asked if they still had any NOS, if you'd find anything.  I mean. It's not likely, but not impossible.  Between the 10-15 big companies that are still around and the inventory they've had, there's likely a box somewhere with old stuff in it, and if the price books kept getting pushed into new inventory management systems, there's a small chance it wasn't chunked.

I've been a database manager for a couple of companies with inventory.  When there is shelf space and you don't need the extra room in the warehouse, you'd be surprised how long NOS can set around.  The Enix stuff is almost certainly gone since they likely merged with Square and consolidated any warehouses they had with the stuff.  Still, I bet there is some of this promotional material still out there, setting on company shelves just waiting for someone to ask for the right item, with the right SKU.

Last year I called the 8 remaining Blockbusters in Alaska and Texas to ask them if they had any vintage games left for sale. Half of them said they had a bunch of PlayStation 2 games but nothing older.

Lego Movie 2

Lego Jurassic Park

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3

It was on Dragon's Den about 6 years ago.

http://www.shelflife.net/

I would put them on the shelf but wouldn't even add it to my collection tracker. So if I was at a show and checked my collection list, I'd see that I don't have a box and buy another.