Jorbus

If other collectibles are any indication, then no. Not until the majority of the target demographic are dead. In other news, now is an excellent time to get into old cowboy collectibles and classical LPs

Stumbled across this beauty at the sister store to mine across town. Felt like opening the breifcase in Pulp Fiction!

I had heard the Nomad works with (most) MegaDrive games so when o e of my all-time arcade faves (and Japan exclusive) came in the shop I figured I'd give it a shot. The cart is a very snug fit but sure enough it fired right up!

The XTC song?

Thank you. I work in the electronics dept. at the original Bookmans location in Tucson.

Not bought for my personal collection, but dang this'll look great in my store. Original Playstation promo neon sign from 1996

Somebody get on designing a Babagge's shopping simulator game, stat!

I certainly can't speak for every store, but for my shop I know when people bring in true rarities (like the OP mentioned a Channel F) we have to pay up. Even if the seller doesn't know what they have we don't want a reputation as highway robbers to get around town or people will stop bringing us cool shit. For every 1 person who has no idea their game are "worth" a lot, we have dozens of people who will walk on our fair (imho) offers saying "I can sell it for more on ebay". And I'm not saying we are competing w online auctions. Rather, the online auctions are now dictating the market prices.

Lord I was born a Ramblin maaannn... picked this up the other day, complete with carrying case, battery pack and power adapter. It works fine, but the speaker is very quiet. Dunno if that's normal for the Nomad or if it's blown, but the headphone audio is very loud. Funny still don't own a Genesis but with the AV out on this thing I guess I don't need one

As someone who works at a gaming store (not GTG or Gamestop) I can say what yr seeing on the brick-and-mortar front is an inevitable result of countless factors in this hobby (eBay speculators, the WATA scandals etc...). It's happened to comics, coins, TCGs, vinyl records, and now the time is ripe for millionaires wanting to "invest" in their beloved childhood to inflate the gaming market. It sucks. But brick-and-mortar stores are now a slave to the online auction markets, and if they don't keep up with it they will cease to exist. I hate pricing games and consoles at orders of magnitude more than they were even 2 years ago, but as others here have said if we don't the ebay flippers will eat our lunch and I'd be out of a job. Again, it sucks. I'm sorry ?

I could not pass this up when it came into my store today. Never seen any of the SE games in box before today. Happy Halloween!

some atari 3rd party dontseeevrydays (and Freeway)

You have a Vextrex AND arcade cabinets! Nothing mediocre about it. Thanks for sharing!

Update to the NES cartridge collection. I think I've got everything lost from my childhood collection and then some