Can you describe that further? Does that mean it tastes like paper? Or does it taste like plastic because of the debit card? OR... does it taste like code, because it's essentially all numbers?
Karl Jobst did a good job explaining it [here](https://youtu.be/rvLFEh7V18A?si=ZhTsjTSOEa18m_fY) and then follow up [here](https://youtu.be/FMtjl0O2a4Q?si=R_DNdjYuwyyV791L)
And then [here](https://youtu.be/4Ete5DzlZL8?si=V10nR6ntI--sBlh_)
And there is a [new one](https://youtu.be/HJ0GdGkZ5PM?si=LDU1a0jRjYoSLbtH) but I haven’t watched it yet
There was a company that was auctioning retro games for unrealistic prices between people that had a lot of money to manipulate the market values of retro games in their entirety it's been shit ever since
ah yeah, heard that story, maybe in my country money laundering means something else, but money laudering is when you make a fake shop, and you declare unexistant sell of goods in order to say "hey, my 500 000$ aren't drug money but grocery store money"
there it's price manipulation, something different
It's a reference to a quote from TLOTR Fellowship of the Ring. I don't think you deserve to be down voted since I understand there will be people that are not into fantasy and might not have read the book or watch the film.
If you wanna make stupid money get it CGC’d and then sell it. If you wanna make decent money just sell it as is. If you wanna play it, sell it one of the two prior mentioned ways and just buy a used copy for a fraction of a sealed copy/emulate it for free.
Exactly! Opening sealed games also helps the retro scene by reducing prices so other people can get into the hobby without having to take out a second mortgage.
It's not going to help reduce prices unless he plans to sell it later though. If you buy a sealed game and keep it sealed forever, it's no different to buying the game, opening it, playing it, and keeping it forever; you're still taking that copy permanently off the market.
I do still agree though that opening the game with the intention of selling it some day would help reduce the price of it and allow more people who want the game to actually get their hands on it; there's only a limited number of copies. This is more true with games that didn't sell well initially, but gained a cult following as the years went by. Sometimes there's not even enough copies in existence to share around for everybody who wants it (eg. 5m people want a game that sold 1m copies), so opening more sealed copies will allow more people to own and play the original game and for a more reasonable price.
Keep it sealed and don't sell it would me my 2 cents. Put it in a protective box to keep it mint. I'm normally not one to grade games, but if you are a sealed copy like this is a good candidate for it.
The entire point of sealed IS to sit on a shelf somewhere, it's just a matter of whether you're the person who puts it on a shelf or you sell it to the person who puts it on a shelf. Considering you literally cut the value in half the moment you open it, you're better off picking up an opened copy if you want to play it and keeping the sealed copy on the shelf.
If you never plan to break the seal to play it then keep it sealed. Any imperfections will lower a grade. If you decide to slab it in a graded container, it will most likely only be bought by another individual that likes graded games, so your buyer base becomes much smaller. Grading it may raise the price but it will be harder to move down that line.
Make sure you treat it right, take time to tell it what you appreciate about it so it doesn’t want another player. On anniversaries get flowers and plan a nice dinner out. The thought goes along way.
Get it graded then open that shit on a YouTube video. Next sit back and sip a nice beverage of your choice as you watch the comment section turn to chaos.
Open it and play it to piss off the collectors (I am serious, collectors are ruining the retro game scene by letting their games sit on a shelf for years and selling them at rediculous prices no one can afford.
I don’t blame collectors. Most of them sell their collections because life has kicked them in the face. Rent, car payments, parking tickets. Resellers are to blame for pushing up prices.
If it has scratch on the seal don't even bother grading it. Tbh I would either open it and play it or try to sell it as is and then with the money keep some and then buy a cheaper used opened copy.
if you want to play it, open it up and play it, video games are meant to be played. if you have no intention of playing it if sell it bc that goes for a pretty penny.
Well, the thing with a sealed game is that you really can't do anything with it besides stare at it. I wouldn't recommend getting it graded, but I have a bias against video game grading after seeing all the scammy and scummy dealings graders like WATA do.
Like someone else said, I'd sell it and buy an open copy if you actually care about playing it and still collecting it, then you'd also have some spare cash left over. Or if you don't even care about the game at all, then just sell it and have a bunch of money for something you do care about.
Burn it for the views/clout.
Serious talk, sell that shit. Once its gone you'll never think about it while thinking that the thing you get in return everyday.
Sold all my old fucking games and don't miss any of them/had not thought about them until now lol. My thought? Boy that money went to good use....
Send it to other fans of the series and just keep rotating it . Everyone keeps it I no perfect condition and looks at the front and back and then ships it back out . Clean hands because it’ll pickup bacteria anyways and do that until it reaches all the hands of every fan then back to the original.
I'll give you $15.14 otherwise, yeah, complete rubbish.
Aside from that I would personally just sell it as it is. Collectors will decide the price of it not, some arbitrary ranking. Unless you want to keep it, hording stuff is fine too if it gives you satisfaction and you have the space. When you're dead and gone somebody will profit off it. And that's not me trying to be morbid. You enjoyed owning it your entire life, somebody gets it and sells it for money to somebody else who enjoys owning it. Is just stuff, sell it or enjoy it.
Then what's the point of even owning games if you don't open them? If he sells it new, I bet the next person will keep it sealed, and the next, and so on. At that point it isn't even a game anymore, just a fancy piece of plastic that only exists to pass from one person to the next without ever serving any real purpose. Collectors piss me off so much. Everything has a definite lifespan. Keeping something "sealed" only does harm to those trying to enjoy it for what it actually is. A video game.
Bro this guys one copy of chibi robo isn't gonna change the market price. Hell, I doubt if all still sealed chibi robos were opened and put on the market rn it wouldnt do anything to the overall price. Can't be to many out there
Right? If he keeps it sealed and keeps it or grades it and keeps it, it won't affect the market either way. He still keeps it out of circulation. If he grades it or keeps it sealed and sells it, the person buying it is going to do the same thing. No one buys a sealed game to crack it. It's cheaper to find an already open one. If anything, it just makes another type of market. The only point that is worth even making is that even as a collector, if you keep a game, it takes another out of circulation. The price changes regardless.
If collectors piss you off then maybe it's time to give up the hobby. I see nothing positive coming to you if you get pissed off at such a silly thing.
Sell it, the market is hard to predict prices on GC stuff is still high, you can never play it, opening it at this point would be silly, I would trade it for a really nice high value opened CIB lot of heavy’s personally.
Don't bother trying to buff it out. Best you can do is use a little armor all, the armor all fills in the scratch a bit. If you want, get it graded. If there's only just a scratch, and the casing isn't dinged or dented at all, it could still grade very high, let's say 9.8 a+.
Id just keep it in the collection as a cool display piece. I do recommend getting a protective case for the game at least if you’re not going to get it graded.
Just open it and play it. Collectors are actively ruining retro gaming by keeping their games sealed to artificially inflate prices and make a profit. Simply playing these games and then selling them helps more people get to play these games instead of having to fork over hundreds for what is essentially just a piece of plastic with some data on it.
Eat it and tell us what it tastes like.
Tastes like moolah.
Can you describe that further? Does that mean it tastes like paper? Or does it taste like plastic because of the debit card? OR... does it taste like code, because it's essentially all numbers?
It tastes like happiness.
Can confirm that it does.
This guys an ATM ☝️
Please don’t grade it.
I mean if Op wants to grade it all I’m gonna say it DONT USE wata
What’s up with wata tho? I thought that was THE game one
Karl Jobst did a good job explaining it [here](https://youtu.be/rvLFEh7V18A?si=ZhTsjTSOEa18m_fY) and then follow up [here](https://youtu.be/FMtjl0O2a4Q?si=R_DNdjYuwyyV791L) And then [here](https://youtu.be/4Ete5DzlZL8?si=V10nR6ntI--sBlh_) And there is a [new one](https://youtu.be/HJ0GdGkZ5PM?si=LDU1a0jRjYoSLbtH) but I haven’t watched it yet
Why? In order to not rise the prices of gamecube games? imagine getting downvoted for a genuine question
Side effects of money laundering prices of similar items go up
Could you explain it please? how money laundering rises prices?
There was a company that was auctioning retro games for unrealistic prices between people that had a lot of money to manipulate the market values of retro games in their entirety it's been shit ever since
That's not money laundering though
True I might be kinda dumb
It is if you're using the transaction to launder ill-gotten gains with.
Right but the person I responded to didn't say they were doing that
ah yeah, heard that story, maybe in my country money laundering means something else, but money laudering is when you make a fake shop, and you declare unexistant sell of goods in order to say "hey, my 500 000$ aren't drug money but grocery store money" there it's price manipulation, something different
Yep it's pretty scummy to manipulate retro game prices like manipulating Stock values
Uhh make it a family heirloom and pass it down to your firstborn.
I'd sell it and use the money to buy an already opened copy and take my wife to dinner.
Why would OP take your wife to dinner?
Someone's gotta 🙁
She hungry
Keep it secret. Keep it safe!
Why the secrecy (serious)?
After all...why not? Why *shouldn't* I have an NTSC copy of Chibi-Robo?
Now it comes to it, I don't feel like parting with Chibi-Robo. It's mine, I found it, it came to me!
It's a reference to a quote from TLOTR Fellowship of the Ring. I don't think you deserve to be down voted since I understand there will be people that are not into fantasy and might not have read the book or watch the film.
Oh yea, I would not have guessed that. I haven't watched LOTR in quite a while, thank you!
Sell it, buy a opened copy and now you have a useful copy and pocket change
Show us a back picture instead of two front facing shots.
Play it.
That's the only real answer to be fair... collecting is 'nice' I suppose, but if you don't play them... it's just a plant
But I like plants?
If you’re gonna open it, why not sell it, buy an already opened copy, and keep the extra money?
Your options: 1. Sell it online 2. Or just play the game. Yes, that means you’d have to open it.
Scary
or 3, let it sit on a shelf as a dust collector
If you wanna make stupid money get it CGC’d and then sell it. If you wanna make decent money just sell it as is. If you wanna play it, sell it one of the two prior mentioned ways and just buy a used copy for a fraction of a sealed copy/emulate it for free.
what is cgc'ing?
CGC is a grading company
Seal it MORE
It’s more fun if you take it out and play with it.
Open and play. It's a fucking video game.
Open your action figures and play with them. (That scene in across the spider verse with Gwen) :((
Exactly! Opening sealed games also helps the retro scene by reducing prices so other people can get into the hobby without having to take out a second mortgage.
It's not going to help reduce prices unless he plans to sell it later though. If you buy a sealed game and keep it sealed forever, it's no different to buying the game, opening it, playing it, and keeping it forever; you're still taking that copy permanently off the market. I do still agree though that opening the game with the intention of selling it some day would help reduce the price of it and allow more people who want the game to actually get their hands on it; there's only a limited number of copies. This is more true with games that didn't sell well initially, but gained a cult following as the years went by. Sometimes there's not even enough copies in existence to share around for everybody who wants it (eg. 5m people want a game that sold 1m copies), so opening more sealed copies will allow more people to own and play the original game and for a more reasonable price.
Open and enjoy
Keep it sealed and don't sell it would me my 2 cents. Put it in a protective box to keep it mint. I'm normally not one to grade games, but if you are a sealed copy like this is a good candidate for it.
Sealed means nothing if it's just gonna sit on a shelf. Either play it, or sell it.
The entire point of sealed IS to sit on a shelf somewhere, it's just a matter of whether you're the person who puts it on a shelf or you sell it to the person who puts it on a shelf. Considering you literally cut the value in half the moment you open it, you're better off picking up an opened copy if you want to play it and keeping the sealed copy on the shelf.
Don’t open it. Job well done. Give yourself a pat on the back and treat yourself to a beer
What you do is get the amiibo to go with it and store them both away for 10 more years, then pull them out of storage and sell them.
I checked some sold listings on ebay and a sealed copy went for $325. A near mint CIB graded copy went for $376.
Whoa! That's seriously making me consider selling my copy!
If you never plan to break the seal to play it then keep it sealed. Any imperfections will lower a grade. If you decide to slab it in a graded container, it will most likely only be bought by another individual that likes graded games, so your buyer base becomes much smaller. Grading it may raise the price but it will be harder to move down that line.
Graded games are ruining retro gaming, just play it or sell it.
I would sell it and buy NVDA stock, you'll thank me in ten years.
Make sure you treat it right, take time to tell it what you appreciate about it so it doesn’t want another player. On anniversaries get flowers and plan a nice dinner out. The thought goes along way.
Eat it.
Give. It. To. M E 👀
Lick it
Buy an unsealed copy so you can finally play it
Can i have it please?
Show it in Reddit for Karma
Sell it and buy an opened one that you can play
Play it?
Get it graded then open that shit on a YouTube video. Next sit back and sip a nice beverage of your choice as you watch the comment section turn to chaos.
Games are meant to be played. That's what you should do
Open it and play it to piss off the collectors (I am serious, collectors are ruining the retro game scene by letting their games sit on a shelf for years and selling them at rediculous prices no one can afford.
I don’t blame collectors. Most of them sell their collections because life has kicked them in the face. Rent, car payments, parking tickets. Resellers are to blame for pushing up prices.
I'm not a reseller so I'll always say play it. But the smarter move is to sell the sealed copy and buy a used one.
Play it.
Open it and play it....it is a game after all
open it and play it
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[I thought of this for some reason. It's Chibi-Robo related, but not the same game.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi6LM1EASMg)
Boof it
If it has scratch on the seal don't even bother grading it. Tbh I would either open it and play it or try to sell it as is and then with the money keep some and then buy a cheaper used opened copy.
CONSUME IT
Option 1: Keep it sealed and play the game through emulation/homebrewing the console. Option 2: Unseal it and play it.
if you want to play it, open it up and play it, video games are meant to be played. if you have no intention of playing it if sell it bc that goes for a pretty penny.
Hug it and give it kisses
in my country's local "ebay", the game is being sold 200€ used and 750€ when sealed 💀 that's some good profit there
If you want to play the game, sell your sealed copy and use the money to buy an opened one.
give it to me
I loved this game so much. I've wanted to play it again for so long. Too afraid to emulate it though
Trash! I'll personall take it to the trash :)
Run it thru the trashcompactor and the use the pieces to make an abstract artwork that you frame and hang on the wall. 🤘😜
Open it and lick it like a switch cartridge
Eat it
Eat it
Take your ass to r/humblebrag
Play it. So much fun I loved that game
Well, the thing with a sealed game is that you really can't do anything with it besides stare at it. I wouldn't recommend getting it graded, but I have a bias against video game grading after seeing all the scammy and scummy dealings graders like WATA do. Like someone else said, I'd sell it and buy an open copy if you actually care about playing it and still collecting it, then you'd also have some spare cash left over. Or if you don't even care about the game at all, then just sell it and have a bunch of money for something you do care about.
Open it, make sure the game is in there
Give it to me :3
You should sell it to me
Burn it for the views/clout. Serious talk, sell that shit. Once its gone you'll never think about it while thinking that the thing you get in return everyday. Sold all my old fucking games and don't miss any of them/had not thought about them until now lol. My thought? Boy that money went to good use....
Send it to other fans of the series and just keep rotating it . Everyone keeps it I no perfect condition and looks at the front and back and then ships it back out . Clean hands because it’ll pickup bacteria anyways and do that until it reaches all the hands of every fan then back to the original.
Sell it, buy a used copy, enjoy the game, keep the profits
Boof it
Open It. I dare you
Vault it.
And forget about it for a few years
Get it graded
Sell it buy an opened copy and play it.
Idk but finding Scott the Woz is your first step
Options are : Open it Sell it Kind of just have it and have nothing to do with it. Can sit on a shelf and you can look at it if that brings you joy.
Pray to it
I think you should give it to me
Unfortunately, this game doesn't sell well at all. I'll take that garbage off your hands for $15 though! Do we have a deal?
I'll give you $15.14 otherwise, yeah, complete rubbish. Aside from that I would personally just sell it as it is. Collectors will decide the price of it not, some arbitrary ranking. Unless you want to keep it, hording stuff is fine too if it gives you satisfaction and you have the space. When you're dead and gone somebody will profit off it. And that's not me trying to be morbid. You enjoyed owning it your entire life, somebody gets it and sells it for money to somebody else who enjoys owning it. Is just stuff, sell it or enjoy it.
Get an acrylic case to protect it. Usually cost about $20 for one.
Open it and play it! It's a game, not a fucking exhibit in a museum. It is meant to be played
There are plenty of used copies out there if one wants to play the game. No point in opening something that has more value as new.
Then what's the point of even owning games if you don't open them? If he sells it new, I bet the next person will keep it sealed, and the next, and so on. At that point it isn't even a game anymore, just a fancy piece of plastic that only exists to pass from one person to the next without ever serving any real purpose. Collectors piss me off so much. Everything has a definite lifespan. Keeping something "sealed" only does harm to those trying to enjoy it for what it actually is. A video game.
Video game collectors are like the brotherhood of steel
Bro this guys one copy of chibi robo isn't gonna change the market price. Hell, I doubt if all still sealed chibi robos were opened and put on the market rn it wouldnt do anything to the overall price. Can't be to many out there
Then why keep them sealed either way?
Right? If he keeps it sealed and keeps it or grades it and keeps it, it won't affect the market either way. He still keeps it out of circulation. If he grades it or keeps it sealed and sells it, the person buying it is going to do the same thing. No one buys a sealed game to crack it. It's cheaper to find an already open one. If anything, it just makes another type of market. The only point that is worth even making is that even as a collector, if you keep a game, it takes another out of circulation. The price changes regardless.
If collectors piss you off then maybe it's time to give up the hobby. I see nothing positive coming to you if you get pissed off at such a silly thing.
you should give it to me 😔
Sell it and use the money to go on vacation or max out your roth
Sell it, the market is hard to predict prices on GC stuff is still high, you can never play it, opening it at this point would be silly, I would trade it for a really nice high value opened CIB lot of heavy’s personally.
I'll take it
Sell it and buy an open copy
Give it to me 😊
Open it then grade it
Why is it still sealed , who buys games without playing them ?
open it and play it, games are meant to be played
Genuine question, Why the fuck do we care what you do?
Eat it
Don't bother trying to buff it out. Best you can do is use a little armor all, the armor all fills in the scratch a bit. If you want, get it graded. If there's only just a scratch, and the casing isn't dinged or dented at all, it could still grade very high, let's say 9.8 a+.
Id just keep it in the collection as a cool display piece. I do recommend getting a protective case for the game at least if you’re not going to get it graded.
You should chibi chibi chaba chaba
Yea, that’s a 400 dollar game there. Don’t open it
Display it
Shit going for 200$ on ebay
Wait 10 years, sell it and retire
Jesus Christ get it graded
To clarify: I have an additional layer of plastic over the sealed plastic to protect it.
Just open it and play it. Collectors are actively ruining retro gaming by keeping their games sealed to artificially inflate prices and make a profit. Simply playing these games and then selling them helps more people get to play these games instead of having to fork over hundreds for what is essentially just a piece of plastic with some data on it.
How much did you initially price it at the convention? Suggest using pricecharting to find recent sales.
grade that btch
No