/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2215179

>>2215179
Not a collector but I'd assume that's just the risk of buying second-hand. Loved your story tho op.

Learn to recognize OEM wraps, Pleb.

>>2215179
>How do you know someone didn't just fill it with rocks and re-seal it?

Because if I shake this box, there's clearly a rectangular plastic object and a pamphlet in there. What else could they...oh shit

And yet I'm still more mad at the little shit kid who had no respect for your property and destroyed what was still a perfectly fine box.

>>2215216
The box was probably fake too.

>>2215217
Okay, assuming that's also true, the disregard for personal property still rustles my jimmies.

>>2215179

>>2215179

Revelation of trickery or not, that kid still needs a beating. Personal Property and Space must be respected.

>>2215179
You should still beat his ass for destroying your property. It doesn't matter if it was fake, neither one of you knew that at the time so from his perspective he destroyed a legit factory sealed game and needs to be punished for it.

>>2215220
>>2215227

Semi-agree. How old was the nephew? Why did OP leave him alone with their videogame collection? Why was it in the kids reach and not in a locked glass case? The kid still has no manners but OP is to blame too.

>>2215179
If it was on ebay maybe it's not too late to hunt him down and file a complaint. I think your history on there is stored for years.

>>2215235
It was almost three years ago, I could file a complaint, but would it really do much?

>>2215236
It might prevent some other anon from getting taken advantage of. Can't hurt at least.

>>2215179
ahahahahah, that's why you inspect shit before you buy it. please let this story be real

>>2215230
Go back to /b/, faggot.

>collecting sealed games
dawg they're meant to be played

>>2215179
look on the bright side OP, now you don't need to worry about your Mexican leftovers spoiling

>>2215179
This post made me go open all my cartridges to make sure I didn't have any shitty repros.

You deserve it for displaying a sealed game as some sort of trophy, you fuck.

If it was never opened, you would have gotten exactly what you wanted, a pretty brick. Why are you faulting the seller?

Sealed games are only worth money if you intend to sell them.

When I buy games, I play them. Being new just means that it has the added bonus of no wear and tear from years of use.

>>2215362
>open all my cartridges to make sure I didn't have any shitty repros.
>not doing this anyway anytime you get a game

That icepack would definitely weigh more than what a SNES cart weighs. I guess that's the risk you take buying "sealed" items off eBay.

>>2215391
Are people really this paranoid?

If all you care about is displaying unplayed games on shelf, then why not just collect empty boxes? They're effectively the same thing if you don't actually take the games out.

>>2215409
I'm not a huge collectorfag, but I would definitely want to know if its fake if I were to spend a ton of money on a game. Like, if it's ebay I'd ask the seller to take a picture of the open cart.

>>2215409
i'm only talking when you buy from ebay/resellers, pretty sure anything from goodwill/garage sale isn't going to be a maskrom

>How do you as collectors even know your collections are legit?

I don't buy sealed games and if I buy online I make sure they have images of the product so I won't get fucked over. About half a year ago I noticed a shit ton of fake Sega Genesis stuff trying pass off as the real thing on ebay but it was all incredibly obvious to anyone who had been collecting for awhile, I kinda feel bad for new people though buying some fake copy of Hyperstone Heist from a guy in Estonia.

>>2215179
lel serves you right for collecting sealed games faggot

>>2215413
Because muh value

Even though it's not worth anything until you sell it, in which case why even buy it to begin with?

>>2215487
>it's not worth anything until you sell it
value is relative

>>2215179
Easy.

Since games are MEANT TO BE OPENED AND PLAYED...

I open them. and play them.

tfw i have access to an overwrapping machine at work and can feasibly get away with selling chumps "sealed" copies of games

lol sorry

>le glaçon face

>>2215896
Don't do it, man, seriously, c'mon now, don't join the jew ranks, just be cool..

>>2215429
>pretty sure anything from goodwill/garage sale isn't going to be a maskrom
So you're saying you think anything from these sources is fake.
Are you retarded enough to actually think that or retarded enough not to know what a mask ROM is?

>>2215179
>be nephew
>print repro box
>tear up
>buy freez pak
>go to uncles house
>steal sealed copy
>replace with above shit
>pretend you opened the box and found the freez pak
>??? (sell on ebay)
>profit

Luckily for me I enjoy playing games and am not a sperg that collects boxes

You were fooled by the illusion of Illusion of Gaia.

I just had an idea. I shall sell an entire line of freezer packs specifically designed to be stuffed into vidya boxes to trick folks like OP. I shall call them. . . Freeze Play

>2015
>not taking all sealed boxes you by to the radiation lab to be X-rayed before purchasing.

>>2216470
*buy, could have sworn I hit u

>>2216474
DON'T HIT ME BRO

pics of torn box or just another bullshit nephew story

>>2216169
>be nephew
>Sell uncle sealed copy of Illusion of Gaia for $40 when I'm an infant
>wait 13 years
>print repro box
>tear up
>buy freez pak
>go to uncles house
>steal sealed copy
>replace with above shit
>pretend you opened the box and found the freez pak
>Sell uncle sealed copy of Illusion of Gaia again for $400
>profit
keikaku doori

>Buy brand new Chrono Trigger SNES game from Wal-mart.
> Decide to not play and just keep it sealed in box so it will be worth lots of money someday.
> Little brother comes over and tears open box, rips up manual, breaks game and eats my turtle.
>MFW none of this happened.

This is some /b/ tier shit

>>2215179
>not looking for vertical seal

>>2215179
I don't know about games, but over in /co/ we have hermetic sealing from companies like CGC (certified guaranty company). They seal it in hard, 100% UV resistant, air sealed hard plastic with a unique ID number on the front. If you want to see if it's bonafide you go to the site and type in the ID number. If something comes up you read it and make sure it's real, if nothing comes up it's fake.

Sure this may be little extreme for most people seeing as a nes game isn't worth thousands of dollars. Well aside from the Nintendo World Championship games anyway.

>>2215179
>Collecting sealed games

letippingfedorameme.jpg

>>2216645
>>2215242
>>2215226
>>2215202
>Thinking they dont have at least one fake copy in thier midst .

Sealing a box properly is not that hard to replicate.

>>2217570
It's clear you just don't understand how impossible it is to fake a vertical seal. A horizontal seal is one thing because you can line it up with the table you're working on. But a vertical seal is rotated at an angle to that. Only the dads who work at Nintendo know what that secret angle is.

>>2217665
super secret nintendo patented 90 degrees

>>2215179
lol

>>2215179
OP you're a faggot and you deserve everything that you get

>>2215179
is there any greater faggotry like collecting sealed things?

games are made to be played, not to be collecting dust in a shelf surrounded by anime dolls and used tissues. fucking neckbeards

>>2222818

agreed, fucking idiot sealed copy collectors.pathetic. once you die nobody will give a shit anyway

>>2215179
Real collector's don't leave it sealed but play the fucking game. /thread

>not x-raying your games before you buy them

Holy shit, I don't even know what to call OP. Is there a word for that level of naivety?

>>2223068
>x-raying games
>not using your latent psionic abilities to see through the packaging

It's like you don't even mystic.

>>2216282
lol

>All these people shitting on sealed copies
>Not buying 2 copies of every game to play one and keep the other
Wow I must be surrounded by poorfags

>>2223217
Good plan, that way when I misplace my copy I can simply open the next box!

This sounds like a story meant to scare sealed collectors rather than something that really happened.

>>2223217
It's like you enjoy wasting video games.

>>2223217
>implying you did that 20 years ago
>implying you don't have 2 sealed rock boxes

I don't get people that collect games just to have them on their shelf

Like I own a bunch of games and I'll freely admit I haven't put a hundred hours into any of them but I always buy them with the intention of playing them, even the expensive ones like Burning Rangers.

>>2223217
enjoy your rock boxes faggot

>>2223217
Says the faggot who doesn't own a single cart and emulates exclusively

>>2223597
Same reason nerds collect action figures or weeabo waifu figures and keep them in the box sealed. They just think of it as an investment and don't want to depreciate the value which is understandable. I personally would not buy a sealed game because its a waste of space.

Why would anyone bother trying to find the right rocks or Freeze Pak when they could just put in a really cheap SNES cartridge instead? I call bullshit on op's story.

>>2215179
What the fuck is wrong with ebay sellers anyways? why do they all think their greatest hits version, cracked case, scratched to shit game is worth full retail price of the game?

>>2223824

because some retard will pay for it.

>>2223826
This.

>>2223676
But a cheap SNES cart won't make the same sloshing sound an Illusion of Gaia cart or freeze pak will when you shake it.

>>2215179
Im glad that shit happend to you, games are mean to be played not to collect dust on a shelve, I aplaud your nepew for making you a man!

Six years ago I bought a sealed Comix Zone for twenty bucks. I bought it so I could have the pleasure of opening a brand new Genesis game, and to at last listen to the advertised bonus cd that I always wanted to listen to because I only ever rented the game. Dem glorious mid-nineties beats.

VR, What game should this kid play to learn lesson? Am thinking KARATE_KID[NES]. Have him play that each time he visits and cannot play anything until he beat game.

>>2224381
Put the freeze pack into the SNES and let him play it until he beats it.

fucking idiots, you open your shit when you buy it and reseal it if you wanna rip someone off

>>2215179
>Theres also an el polo loco menu inside the box

This is what did it for me. Thanks for the laugh anon.

>>2224349
Woe is the world! And woe is me!
Love that song.

h-syms op

learn the slightest bit about factory sealed game collecting before buying shit

>>2228156
Oh dude you better open that game up just to make sure that middle screenshot is actually from the game.

>>2224382
Genuine lol

if you think shrinkwraped prices are crazy, you ain't seen rigid blisters prices in yuro land and especially in france.
even the shittiest of game goes wild in price if it's in a sealed rigid blister

>>2228163
>muh official nintendo plastic

>>2228163
>even the shittiest of game goes wild in price if it's in a sealed rigid blister

like a VIR-GIN~

>>2215179
pic of box ripped open, or OP is a lying faggot

i just checked my shelf, and i have two copies of ALTTP. one weighs more than the other, now im paranoid anon.
>open or resell before i know

>>2228156
>keeping the little hanging tag on

for what fucking purpose?

>>2229376
Why two you hoarder?

>>2231214
It's likely glue to the seal. Taking it off would mean ripping open the plastic wrap.

Cool pics OP.

>>2229376
>Get a kitchen/precision scale
>Weight a game with box and manuals complete that you have already open
>Compare to both copies of ALTTP
>Open up the different one and post the results here.
Go.

>>2231214
Probably because there's no reason to rip it off unless it makes your autism itch.

>>2231245
>Be retarded
>Think all carts weigh the same
>Think all manuals weigh the same
>Think all packaging weighs the same
>Post the results here
Potato

>>2231271
whoosh?

>>2231668
>whoosh
Hold your nose. Anon just squeezed off a SBD.

>>2231271
If he can feel the difference it must be something more than just some grams.

Think more before posting next time.

>>2222915

FUCKING THIS

>>2228156

OPEN THAT SHIT FUCKING NECKBEARD

>>2232080
Read more before posting next time.
Potato boy was suggesting he compare a third game. Maybe he forgot to mention that he meant the guy should buy another sealed copy of Gaia and open it to make sure it was legit and then weigh it. That's no less retarded.