n8mac

http://cgi.ebay.com/Motorodeo-CIB-Sealed-i...1QQcmdZViewItem $60 bid $80 BIN 100% positive feedback (not me) This is the second sealed motorodeo I saw on ebay this week. Last one was someone from south america. Should this be a level 10?

Hello all I just came across this thread looking for a way to clean my carts. I notice that it's bad to clean them with any kind of dyes. For about two years now I have been cleaning them with a soap and water mixeture (50/50) that my dad makes for his detail business. He says that it's 96% water before I dilute it but it does contain a small percentage of a dye to make it yellow. I was wondering what kind of damage this will cause the carts. They do look fine but I haven't play tested them in a while. I have over a hundred carts. Would I need to go back and clean them all with alcohol? Thanks nathan

I wasn't implying that be 100% accurate off the bat. If one was started it would no doubt be refined over time by serious collectors. A condition guide would be more vague covering major tears and writings. I would consider more than half the games taken care of out there mint, not something to be looked at under a microscope. For example: One of the conditions to judge a comic book is by page yellowing. Older books before mylars were allowed more yellowing because of what time did to them unsealed. Compared to comic books video games are young and so I wouldn't want a price guide yet. It's true, the best time to grab up a collection is before price guides come in. Since video games keep coming out like comic books and coins, it is inevitable that a price guide will eventually appear. I would be happy if they just came up with a simple category in which to place a cart, similar to the photography example. 1. Sealed 2. With box and or manual 3. Loose mint 4. Minor damage (Tear or writing) 5. Major damage (No label or does not work) Nothing official - yet...

(I didn't know where to put this topic so I put it in a popular forum.) Dear Atari Age, I would like to see a conditions guide made for us video game collectors. I used to collect comic books and am used to this when evaluating collectables. Apparently video games are too new to have an official price guide but a conditions guide could help not only in buying and selling more accurately, but to bring a price guide sooner. A conditions guide could also include manuals and boxes. If I were to make a conditions guide I would make a mint loose cart the default value, say #1. I would then deduct all imperfections in three categories: Working, cart condition, and label condition. Example: A cart with no deductions is worth 1 or 100% the default. If it doesn't work and the cart has writing, then I would deduct a set amount of numbers, say 5 for not working and 2 for writing. So the carts value is -7. Having a manual would add 2 to the value, and a box another 2 for a total value of -3. Each number would represent incriments of 10% from mint value so the game is worth 70% the mint value we give it. Most of my games are near mint and working, but a few have torn labels and I don't know what to think of them. If I could put a number to it... thanks for reading, n8mac

Hello, new user and collector here so be patient. Going through the rarity list with my games I found that 'Ms. Pac-Man' is only 1982, yet my 'Ms. Pac-Man' is 1987. The art is all the same. The list made it a point to list the 1982 but not mention 1987, missing or not important? Thanks [edit]sorry, I guess this can be moved to the rarity guide forum[edit]