I'm sure some of the recalled copies never made it back, but when I worked in retail, they were pretty strict about getting merchandise back to the vendor.
From that point, the vendor just goes and dumps it in a landfill somewhere.
I'm sure some of the recalled copies never made it back, but when I worked in retail, they were pretty strict about getting merchandise back to the vendor.
From that point, the vendor just goes and dumps it in a landfill somewhere.
hmmm wonder how well the shrinkwrap would protect a game underground for 20 years
Most likely the ones that were actually recalled were just plain thrown in a big bag, in a dumpster. Sometimes, in the case of magazine returns, the company will just request the UPC or cover back and tell the vendor to destroy the rest.
im sure kids torn the game out of the box and it went to the gargage. then once they learned to play the game no need for instructions into the trash. then mom sells everything at a yard sale lol
I didn't start saving my boxes and taking care of them until SNES, I guess I was just too young to want to take care of my NES and Atari games. No boxes exist for those.
What pisses me off more is all of my vintage Sierra stuff got thrown out in one move. I had every KQ and SQ games boxed from the EGA/VGA era. Now all I have is a random assortment of 5 1/4" diskettes from a few later games. Talk about keeping the wrong aspect of the game.
Wow, that sucks. I was pretty good about keeping PC game stuff together. They tended to have boxes that were sturdier and manuals that were more like books.
I remember backing up a bunch of 5 1/4" diskettes to 3 1/2" the last time I had a machine with both drive types on it.
I think you missed my point. Baseball cards died over time. It took quite a few generations (3-4).
NES games, not Nintendo games, will do the same. As we get farther from the original NES generation the less likely kids will even care pick them up.
Their retro-gaming fad is likely to fall on things like PSX, XBOX, PS2, etc.
This doesn't mean that there won't be SOMEONE who wants this stuff, it just means that NO ONE is going to pay some of the insane prices some people do now while the market is hot.
All we can do is speculate right now... but I believe there will be Nintendo collectors for a very long time. True, It may die out one day and I understand your point. In my opinion NES games will continue to go up for now. We both will only know for sure in the next few years! Baseball card collecting hasn't died completely either... there are still collectors out there that will pay 100k for a single card. Their is a card right now on ebay for 85k. While there may not be as many who still collect cards or games in the future... as time goes on items get ruined, thrown out, broken, ect. and become harder to find. I would not be shocked if a gold NWC hit over 50k one day. Just my thoughts!
I agree that they will probally go up or at least stay the same for the next 20 or so years. But With Video games it is really anyone's Guess. Who knows in 10 years what games will be worth a ton of money and what wont be worth anything. I Remember seeing stacks of ffinal fantasy 7s at target and walmart for 9.99 each. Todays market will bring each copy from 300 to 1,000 depending on the seal.
So we have some vague estimates as to how many of copies of SE made it to retail sales originally, my question is how many made it to Canada. I cautiously use the rarity lists we have available to us but it seems what is rare to the USA has been fairly easy to find in Canada. Im mostly talking about unlicensed carts stuff that is claimed to be rare seem to be in abundance here. So could that be the same for licensed stuff also.
So we have some vague estimates as to how many of copies of SE made it to retail sales originally, my question is how many made it to Canada. I cautiously use the rarity lists we have available to us but it seems what is rare to the USA has been fairly easy to find in Canada. Im mostly talking about unlicensed carts stuff that is claimed to be rare seem to be in abundance here. So could that be the same for licensed stuff also.
Rarity differs between regions, just for example, there's a lot of dragon fighter here, I saw 4-5 just in my town, and this game is considered to be rare.
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From that point, the vendor just goes and dumps it in a landfill somewhere.
I'm sure some of the recalled copies never made it back, but when I worked in retail, they were pretty strict about getting merchandise back to the vendor.
From that point, the vendor just goes and dumps it in a landfill somewhere.
hmmm wonder how well the shrinkwrap would protect a game underground for 20 years
^^ well also everyone knows most of the time when a kid got a nes game they tossed the box right in the garbage..
it pains me to say this but i used to be that kid. just throwing boxes away
^^ well also everyone knows most of the time when a kid got a nes game they tossed the box right in the garbage..
it pains me to say this but i used to be that kid. just throwing boxes away
Yup. I have no distinct memories of doing that. But I must have since I never saved any boxes until I was getting SNES games.
What bothers me more is all of my manuals that just "disappeared".
What pisses me off more is all of my vintage Sierra stuff got thrown out in one move. I had every KQ and SQ games boxed from the EGA/VGA era. Now all I have is a random assortment of 5 1/4" diskettes from a few later games. Talk about keeping the wrong aspect of the game.
I remember backing up a bunch of 5 1/4" diskettes to 3 1/2" the last time I had a machine with both drive types on it.
I think you missed my point. Baseball cards died over time. It took quite a few generations (3-4).
NES games, not Nintendo games, will do the same. As we get farther from the original NES generation the less likely kids will even care pick them up.
Their retro-gaming fad is likely to fall on things like PSX, XBOX, PS2, etc.
This doesn't mean that there won't be SOMEONE who wants this stuff, it just means that NO ONE is going to pay some of the insane prices some people do now while the market is hot.
All we can do is speculate right now... but I believe there will be Nintendo collectors for a very long time. True, It may die out one day and I understand your point. In my opinion NES games will continue to go up for now. We both will only know for sure in the next few years! Baseball card collecting hasn't died completely either... there are still collectors out there that will pay 100k for a single card. Their is a card right now on ebay for 85k. While there may not be as many who still collect cards or games in the future... as time goes on items get ruined, thrown out, broken, ect. and become harder to find. I would not be shocked if a gold NWC hit over 50k one day. Just my thoughts!
I agree that they will probally go up or at least stay the same for the next 20 or so years.
But With Video games it is really anyone's Guess. Who knows in 10 years what games will be worth a ton of money and what wont be worth anything. I Remember seeing stacks of ffinal fantasy 7s at target and walmart for 9.99 each. Todays market will bring each copy from 300 to 1,000 depending on the seal.
you were just a twinkle in dad's eye
Lol true
So we have some vague estimates as to how many of copies of SE made it to retail sales originally, my question is how many made it to Canada. I cautiously use the rarity lists we have available to us but it seems what is rare to the USA has been fairly easy to find in Canada. Im mostly talking about unlicensed carts stuff that is claimed to be rare seem to be in abundance here. So could that be the same for licensed stuff also.
Rarity differs between regions, just for example, there's a lot of dragon fighter here, I saw 4-5 just in my town, and this game is considered to be rare.