Isn’t the whole game collectable rating and pricing system massively inflated by a few “totally not related” authorities, or am I misremembering?
Yes. Also money laundering.
Alright, so knowing of the numerous scandels involved in the retro gaming collection market, this is almost certainly either a backdoor deal to inflate value and was never actually sold, or money laundering.
Yeah, this is just more horseshit like all of that Wata nonsense was a few years ago. All garbage like this does is damage the hobby for us normal people.
What wata nonsense?
The I dont really follow physical retrogaming, outside of seeing games I missed as a kid in used game stores and wanting to play them… but not being able to because its being sold for 200 dollars for a bare cart with sharpie across the back and i dont care if I have President Bribing money, I aint paying 200 dollars for that shit.
That’s pretty disgusting when you think about what else could be accomplished with that kind of money
Ah yes, SMB1, a game so rare they only printed 30 million copies.
Going to point out that actual boxed copies of just Super Mario Bros. Is actually on the more rare side, since it was quickly bundled with the NES and the version with Duck Hunt came out pretty quickly.
It may have sold 30 million copies, but a large majority of them are either the Duck Hunt combo or the one with Duck Hunt and World Class Track Meet. Kinda the same way Stadium Events is that much more rare because of the bundled, renamed version.
That being said, people have too much fucking money…
Yeah, I didnt even know until just now that there was a retail package release of Super Mario Bros, by itself, without duckhunt.
cause I thought it was just a packin game with the nes.
I can see why its rare, but its stupid that someone paid 3 million for it.
Only reason I know is because I’ve been collecting since I was a kid. I’ve got three loose copies, shame they’re not worth anything… I’d be happy to separate some stupid people from their money.
yeah.
I feel the same way about all my 1st and 2nd gen pokemon games, open, but complete in box.
I’ll probably never play the physical games again, since emulation is so much easier (and eats less batteries)…but on the otherhand, they are childhood memories and its not something i want to hand over to some greedy fuckwit whose just gonna sit on them for 6 months and flip them for 30% profit.
With sealed stuff that was never opened before, I wonder how to make sure the inside is not a fake?
It’s like those diamond dealers who would sell you diamonds in a sealed pouch and “guaranteed” their value as long as you never open to the pouch. It was a scam tantamount to NFTs.
People are weird…
I like how it’s only graded 9.6. I take it a true perfect 10 grade must be worth infinity dollars. It’s like warp speeds!
This phenomena is spreading to Manga, too. Mind you, magazines with paper the equivalent of toilet paper.
