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  1. Posted

    FS: Famicom Disk System Random Bundles ! 20 games - $60 shipped

     

    Random games, mostly complete with cases and manuals, some have outer boxes...I have about 900 of these suckers, and believe me, you'll get SOMETHING decent in the pile. Anyone that has bought random bundles from me in the past knows this. $60 shipped.

     

    I have found a good amount of Zelda IIs, Metroids, Super Mario 1, 2, Doki Doki Panic, Zanac, that weird Mario Bros pipe game thing and many others in these piles.....

     

    PM me if you want one of these bundles!

  2. Posted

    no rick .... that's not an earthquake .... it's just me picking up your collection. stay away from the door :D

     

    sikorsky-sky-crane.jpg

     

     

    :D

     

    There's too many pirates and variants for 2600 =P I've got everything CIB for 2600 except for repros for a couple of the higher end games, including a repro box for Music Machine. I need the box for Lochjaw, and I have an INTL box for X-Man, but I do have the outer shipping box for Tooth Protectors (not sure how many people have that) but everything else I have with everything...

     

    I think I own closer to 16,000 DIFFERENT not variant or doubles video games right now...I don't do variants on Intellivision or Atari 2600, just makes no sense to me, but I'm not in love with either of those systems =) Atari 2600 is the one I know I will never complete because there are too many weird issues with games like Gauntlet, the box for Malagai, and Video Life commanding stupid money...so I decided to get repros on stuff like that, but I do have all the minor rares and everything else released for 2600 CIB like River Patrol, Out of Control, Q Berts Qubes, Quadrun, Crazy Climber, Tooth Protectors and all that...

  6. Posted

    Ya McLiar is scum and a gearboxing bitch but unless (until) he is banned like many of us want him to be, we will just have to rip on him as often as possible. It's the least the bastard deserves for being such a a classic gaming vampire.

     

     

    I think you have to look at McGrail this way. He provides a service by getting these games. It is not much different from what Atari2600.com does except McGrail does this as an eBay Powerseller.

     

    Now, the reason why everyone is pissed at him is because he always says he "needs" something, lowballs to get it, then resells and does a lot of his advertising and questioning on COMMUNITY forums where he can "say" he needs something and resells it. It's basically like shitting in the neighbor's yard, then acting like it's no big deal.

     

    The other issue I have is that PEOPLE CAN RESELL ANYTHING THEY WANT. GET OVER IT. You live in America. What kind of country do you think this is? If McGrail doesn't get it, someone else is going to resell it, so you can't act like it's "going to a collector" every single time in the hopes it might.

     

    If I find doubles in a lot on eBay and resell, that's great. That's MY business.

     

    What I don't agree with is McGrail coming on to the site advertising and asking questions about everything as if people don't have an issue with him in the community for "misresprenting" what he intends to do with said carts. That's the thing I am not sure he understands thoroughly, but the man does have some quality stuff, and I for one and am happy someone like that sells stuff on eBay, but NO, I don't agree with buying stuff from Shawn (20 copies of said game), games sold on AtariAge.com, and taking advantage of people who don't know about the "real" prices of those new homebrew games, but again, he's doing nothing illegal, just a bit shady feeling to a lot of the community.

  7. Posted

    I wonder how many of the harcore NES collectors have both a grey and gold NWC?

     

    Now THERE'S a waste of money! I hope to god no such obsessed freaks exist, but I'm sure there's someone. I don't know, though, if I had either I wouldn't care about the other and with the repo that exists I could care even less. I think Jason only has the gold though I'm sure the grey has slipped through his hands a number of times.

     

    Nope. I have both the gold and grey.

     

     

    What did you pay for yours? ...and hey, if you come across any kiosks let me know. ;) That was funny when you answered my craigslist ad :D

     

    AX

     

    I had 7 golds and 3 grays (not all at once) over the years, but I did have 5 golds at once, so my prices I purchased them for ranged from $50-1877.

  8. Posted

    I wonder how many of the harcore NES collectors have both a grey and gold NWC?

     

    Now THERE'S a waste of money! I hope to god no such obsessed freaks exist, but I'm sure there's someone. I don't know, though, if I had either I wouldn't care about the other and with the repo that exists I could care even less. I think Jason only has the gold though I'm sure the grey has slipped through his hands a number of times.

     

    Nope. I have both the gold and grey.

  9. Posted

    RetroFreak: Speaking in terms of "theory" means your argument can't be validated. No one wants to give away something for free. It's great that there are armchair collectors who always SAY they would do this and talk about other people's stuff, but they would never pay $XXXXX for any game by themselves, dump it for free, and just LOSE money on something that will be forgotten quick.

     

    No one plays these games much after the first few days. The hype is gone and people forget.

     

    I'm sure some smart Mega Drive collector is going to come after my stuff one day (one already has and a game will be released this year I think from one of my collection games) and do well with these games, but I have a significant amount of undumped Mega Drive and SNES stuff, and a small handful of NES to have access to.

     

    Street Hero, War on Wheels and 2 to 3 others that are translations, but I have a good amount of NTSC unreleased stuff from PAL format, but a lot of people want the "big" unreleased in all countries part which can be rough to obtain and is a whole other genre.

  10. Posted · Edited by DreamTR

    WickeyCOlumbus: If the item dies and you've already got it saved, you can reburn the EPROMS so the proto essentially never dies.

     

    There's a few things about "releases" that proto collectors don't want to deal with. It's actually a lot of labor finding donor carts, PCBs, getting manuals, boxes together, etc.

     

    If people want to play my stuff, I'll get them setup for someone ELSE to make releases, but like with the "internet", some people expect the game(s) to be available for free and such and can't understand why they would have to pay a few thousand dollars to someone to get the "rights" to the cart that is not even their own work and profit from such.

     

    Atari 2600 collectors have been doing this for quite some time, and no one said anything, but when I wanted money for a ROM for NES stuff, people were tearing into me. I'm definitely a little bit jaded from people's hypocrisy about the whole thing, so my deal is if you want games, I have them available, but I want money for them. I don't have time to go through the things in and out and try and get releases together.

     

    I don't collect just "unreleased" protos, I collect cart protos in general. WHy do people collect anything? We can't take it with us, it's just what I like to collect. It makes my collection stand out that I've got 1,100 cart protos +. ANyone can collect normal released games, but it takes a lot more effort to collect cart protos in my opinion, even though I have been lazy with them for awhile in research.

     

    If the collector is in it for the money, so what? People act like that's a bad thing. We live in the US people. Some more than other are all about capitalism any way they can get it. I'm not as bad as some people, but I'm not going to give my stuff to someone for the "love of the community" and watch them profit from it because people "say" they just want to play said game, but people really DON'T care once the game is released and available on web. Interest wanes almost immediately, and the whole ROM thing is forgotten and people want to move on to the next one.

     

    It's supply and demand. If I had to pay $1000-2000 to get something, and spend my time trying to GET it, I'm going to at least want that back.

     

    and about all these "why would you invest in so and so", invest in "XXX" instead.

     

    Please. If I listened to people, I'd be in the poorhouse right now. Mortgage investments, Wall Street, stocks, you name it. EVERYONE took a hit and I just stuck to what I knew. I'm not "trying" to have a nest egg with these items, but I know I'm making more money with video game stuff than any Money Market Fund or CDs for 5-10 years that I know of. My grandfather lost almost his entire life savings in mortgage investments and told me I was wasting my money on video games....you can just imagine my RELIEF now that I did NOT listen to him.

  11. Posted

    RetroFreak, you're using the wrong word here.

     

    People always use "selfishness" as the key word here. If the game is ALREADY DUMPED and the collector DOES NOT release it, then it's not selfish....that's not a big deal, but a lot of people assume that the owner just chooses not to save it PERIOD, and I'm a bit sick of those assumptions.......the value goes down, and money is money. If you think that's being greedy, then you should really look up the definition of being a philanthropist here, because some people are not in the business of giving away stuff for free to those that don't at least DONATE to the cause. I've lost enough money on some of these and people still call me selfish.

  12. Posted

    Yeah, but the problem is when you make repros, people still yell at you for making "copies" of said cart(s), then copyright infringement "making money off someone else's work" comes into play. The sad part is, if you own a proto, people EXPECT it to be dumped and played for free, completely forgetting BOTH making copies and dumping it are gray areas/illegal; it's more of a hassle to own protos, believe me.

  13. Posted

    I love have everyone always brings the "money could be better spent on XXX" card into this, but if Video Life was up for $5000, it would be a good deal to someone, LOL.....

     

    I wouldn't sell my gold NWC for $25K, It would probably be $100K, but I don't want to put it up on eBay for obnoxious prices...

  14. Posted

    Jess: I am serious in buying it, but not at $300 dumped...I would do it for $100 for sure, though =)

     

    Wickeycolumbus: Talk is talk. Unless you HAVE done it, or bought protos at those prices like you say, you would be the FIRST to do it, but again, unless you actually spend the money, it's real convenient to "say" one thing when you don't actually do it. It's like megasdkirby always talking smack about me not releasing protos for free if I spend all this money, but he never buys any and releases them in the first place...talk is cheap..

     

    Again, if this was realistic, people would be beating down my doors offering me all this money for my dumped NES protos, but once they are dumped, no one wants them...simple as that...

  15. Posted

    I offer $300!

     

    Though I have to say this, time and time again it is OBVIOUS the value is affected by dumped prototypes.

     

    Undumped, unreleased protos for systems like NES, Atari 2600 fetch CONSIDERABLY more. We're talking $1000-3000 difference as a ball park. Dumped, unreleased protos can go for $200-500 (sometime being generous here) because even if the item is still "rare" by definition, it's freely available on the web. It's not like people are beating down my door for certain protos AFTER they are dumped. It just does not happen. The demand goes down. This is not even an argument. It's fact. Not sure why wickycolumbus is even trying to say otherwise unless he's been dealing in protos for years and buying/selling them like buyatari or myself do, so not sure where his misinformation is coming from.

  16. Posted

    What is strange is that you have different companies there and they all have the same type of sticker layout that I have never seen before. I would guess that these were all created from the same source and yet we have different companies here ?

     

    Those are all final disks from the GDROM producing source I believe. Just missing labels.

  17. Posted

    Sometimes I can't believe people "assume" something is not a proto just by looking at a label.

     

    To quote the words of someone in the Street Fighter community, "you just don't know."

     

    Though I have to say, I have had people ask for pictures/testing/differences, the whole 9 yards, and have NO money after I did all that work. That's why I stopped doing things like that for sales....rather just get rid of something at a price and be done with them.

  18. Posted

    So, I see he negged you, I don't believe a word of what he says though. What's the real story? Did you wisely refuse to sell to him?

     

    (Note - he's been NARUed temporarily in the interim, his shill id is NARUed, the feedbacks he's left himself are gone, and his suspension is over for now, must be hanging by a thread at this point!)

     

    I was the second highest bidder too, LOL

  19. Posted

    This is a pretty hard box to find. I am going to guess that it sells for more than $250.

    $281 with near 4 days left ;)

     

    Like I said, $250 on CTCW is a steal.

     

    I like what is going on with the site, but the fact of the matter is traffic/exposure is not there. That game is going to go high.

     

    I think this "plenty" of people seeing it are just the hardcore people that follow CTCW. Again, $250 was a joke. I don't know where this $200 shipped stuff is coming from, the last boxed one went for a lot and it was 2 years ago. Why a game that never shows up with a box would DROP in price baffles me. All the rares in this economy are still fetching good money.

  20. Posted

    No reserve. Boxed 2600 Guardian compete. Let the bidding begin!

     

    http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/swlovinist_W...Q_sopZ12?_rdc=1

     

    Dang, wish you would have listed it this same way on the Chuckwagon your first go around :) I think it would have closed for the same amount it will close for on Ebay and wouldn't have cost you anything. Let's see what happens :) Have faith in the Chuckwagon it does work for items like this.

     

    http://www.chasethechuckwagon.com/item.cgi?show_item=99302

     

    I don't think it would have sold on Ebay for a $250 Buy Now either just to be fair. But I could be wrong.

     

    That should hit more than $250. CTCW no one saw that for some reason. If I knew I would have picked up another.

  22. Posted

    Dunno if it helps, but the person I purchased mine from was doing DS reviews for a website. IIRC, Atlus sent them several PSP games for review, but I don't think anyone ever so much as loaded them up. Mine still had the shrink wrap on the DVD sleeve it came in. If you know someone who writes game reviews, hit them up--they may have games for systems they don't even own.

     

    Those are way cheap. I have PSP betas for sale, but I would want $50 EACH, not $50 for ALL. LOL

  23. Posted

    many of these were not finished products, so socketed, unsocketed must not matter

     

    Yep, I had some unfinished, some with COMING SOON Sega only stuff. Like I said before....you just don't know until you play with them.....and this batch turned out to be a better than advertised one.

  25. Posted

    CPUWiz: It's just that I have handled over 400 of the things for NES alone, and from all sorts of different magazines/companies, etc. I've seen games sent out for review that were way different that were socketed, so it just depended on the company. I don't doubt you for one second, but in the proto world, Demo/Preview/Review should only be a state of the prototype, because in this case with these systems, they are definitely genuine....I've seen games with final labels almost that are way different, it's very bizarre, but that is what happens..

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