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The juiciest details. 😛 There is nothing wrong with that, they look great. 🙂 Social media and the companies like Limited Run Games, and New Atari, are feeding into the FOMO culture we have right now. If you don't get it NOW! You'll lose out! Ebay, FB, marketplace, etc. they fall into that too, everything old is rare, even if it's not. Just to get an artificial value to something. "ATARI 2600 COMBAT CART! RARE!! VITNAGE!!! L@@K!!" -Buy It Now $1000! So people willingly pay for something that they will think is premium. Some of these limited editions though are they really limited? Some seem to be like "It's limited to how much money we can milk you for, then we'll stop making them." Others it's like limited to what, 50,000 copies? 100,000? Is it really that rare then? 😛

Yes especially when you need to split the cost among a bunch of people, that extra stuff adds up. The most vocal collectors seem to be Youtubers who want fancy games to look good on camera or in their shelf. So that probably drove things that way. Sure they can afford it, but I sure can't most of the time. Growing up I'd buy maybe one new game a year brand new. The rest, I'd grab the cheap used copies the video store was liquidating. CD-ROMs is a good point. One reason the Playstation PSX beat the N64 in sales. I remember PSX games were like $30-40 since they were CD-ROMs, and N64 games could be upwards of $70 because they were on cartridge. I would only get a new N64 game very rarely. $70 in 1996 that's like $136 for a game today. Luckily the video store had $10 and $20 N64 games back then.

Very cool, I will have to check it out! 🙂 Good pickups! 😄 I used to love that bowling game! Those boxes are very nice, considering their age.

Great info as always @Video 61 I always love reading about your tales from the trenches. 😉 I remember the days of ziploc backs pinned to the board at the computer store too with a photocopied sheet with a 5.25" floppy in there. I really lilke your packaging. 🙂 It's unique and fun.

Haha these are great. I never saw these, just the American dollars with Hollywood Hulk Hogan.

Very cool. 🙂 Local sellers are best. Nothing else damaged, just annoying the machine died. Great pickups. I remember those NES ones from the old NintendoAge forum. LucasArts too always best is that a book on LucasArts games?

I have one I got from Stone Age gamer back in the day, I think, though my memory is hazy these days. 😂 I had a Famiclone from QVC back in like 2003 that I used for Famicom games too. It was all contained in like an N64 controlled looking thing. Was great, but started smoking and burned up a few months ago. 😅 So be careful about cheap Famiclones. After 20+ years might catch fire.

Agreed! It is very handy to have everything at a glance. Definitely making my homepage. Thank you for that great new feature to the site! 👌

Yes it's laughably backward, but looks nice. 😂

Very cool, definitely gonna check it out. Very cool idea @Justin. 😁

@socrates63Glad you got a second chance. 🙂 And got some more games from Lance along with it. 🙂 Thanks for the support and enjoy it. 😄

Oh great thanks @Justin, thanks for the longer version. Something to listen to, tomorrow. 🙂

Really cool looking game! I never saw this one.

Honestly, yes. I was coding a "Director's cut" of Carrot Kingdom, before I survived the stroke. I was working in assembly, and I really liked the architecture of the 7800 before my brain got derailed. 😂

Very cool. I never heard of Trojan, the game. Looks like the nice hack and slash though. 😄

Thanks! I'll watch it later too! 😄 "Business is sex." except that Jack's Atari missed all the unlicensed Adult games as far as I know. 😝

I think Scrapyard Dog feels like it could have been an NES game. Really feels like any of those side scrolling games that regularly ended up on the NES.

Definitely not a pretty sight. I can see that's no fun to clean up. Glad there are capable people like you though who can keep them running and out of the garbage bin. 🙂

If you or someone you know still wants a copy of Carrot Kingdom™, they are sold out for now. There is one more small batch remaining. Check back soon.

Very good advice. 🙂 Mine is surely due. I'll have to check mine and see how it is before I can get someone to modernize it. 😄 Don't want them leaking all over the motherboard. 😛

Glad you found it. Did not see this until now. 😅

Thank you so much for the info @CrossBow. 🙂 I was not sure if that was something you regularly did, replacing the caps since you said it's a pain. 😛 Good info about which caps there should be using to replace too! The job you did is very nice, it looks OEM to me. 😄 I always thought Electrolytic should be used, but I am surprised some people use Ceramic SMD. Good info on your experience with Ceramic jobs. Would be a pain to get glitching or erratic games from the Caps, then have to get them redone later.

I always thought it was funny how angry Resetti would get. 😛

Darryl told me about the Jag port, but I had not seen it. Looks very smooth on the Jag.

Very good. 🙂 You got it cleaned up very well, and the screen looks very nice. Do you recommend any particular re-capper? I can't solder anymore since surviving my stroke (can't even write anymore with my dominant hand), and was thinking of getting my Game Gear modernized.