31st August 2021, 4:25 PM
It's not likely, it's literally what happened. They're taking so many games off the market just to horde them and artificially boost their prices. I'm already seeing things like the grey version of Turok Rage Wars (and other SNES and N64 games) jump DRAMATICALLY in price. Seriously, look up Turok Rage Wars right now. Do it.
More to the point, having a high grade game "still in box" says very little about the quality of the game sealed inside. So many other factors could cause capacitors and other things to degrade that a solid plastic seal won't tell you about at all. Rating them like that doesn't help as much as one might think. I think if we're going to go with "grading", our system should allow for game boxes to be opened and the game thoroughly examined for things like component failure or (in the case of magnetic or optical disks) bit rot. Then rate accordingly.
I would also add one thing. It's a shame what happened to Nintendoage. I used to go there all the time and they provided so much information from other game fans.
More to the point, having a high grade game "still in box" says very little about the quality of the game sealed inside. So many other factors could cause capacitors and other things to degrade that a solid plastic seal won't tell you about at all. Rating them like that doesn't help as much as one might think. I think if we're going to go with "grading", our system should allow for game boxes to be opened and the game thoroughly examined for things like component failure or (in the case of magnetic or optical disks) bit rot. Then rate accordingly.
I would also add one thing. It's a shame what happened to Nintendoage. I used to go there all the time and they provided so much information from other game fans.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)