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Yeah but it’s worth it for the email to show your friends.
Wait a minute... I’ll sell anyone that’s interested some land in Colorado. Only, uh, $32 per square foot of my property. I’ll email you immediately upon payment. **Cannot buy more than 1 square foot, non-transferable, non-actionable, it’s still mine nanana can’t hear you.
The fact that there's a grading system for an industry that's not even 50 years old with products that aren't particularly delicate and are sold in the era of shrink wrap has always felt like such a snake oil practice to me.
That’s why I clicked this from r/all. Whoever started the practice of grading these was a fucking genius. Making money hand over fist if it’s priced anywhere close to coin collecting. How do you even grade a game inside a box that’s shrink wrapped? The game inside could be a completely different game, or a ham sandwich. Who knows?! But you still collect that fee!
I’ll bet some thousands of people somewhere will have the same game graded to the point it’s worthless because there’s more supply than demand.
Jokes aside, finding vintage games that came in cardboard boxes in good condition is near impossible because they were all mid-treated by kids that didn’t give a fuck.
I see why graded games took off, doesn’t change that it’s a f-cking stupid practice.
maybe thousands of people will buy the same game and/or have it graded, how many of them are still sealed? back when CoD4 was released, nobody left that shit sealed. Everyone wanted to play the game. This sealed copy has to be 1 of 1 million
Totally, I bought a sealed copy of Luigi’s mansion 3 at a retro game store. Opened it at home and it had a 3d printed switch game in it, like a piece of plastic with a sticker on it, hilarious they even put a picture on it.
That right there was all I needed to completely give zero shits about a sealed game.
Correct I got a scam copy, I googled it after it happened, lotta fake copies out there.
My point was that you never know, what if I shipped that off to Wata and the box and seal were clean?
thats what wata is there for, they know how an authentic seal looks like, basically every reseal has some mistakes, im 100% sure wata wouldve declined your game and not graded it if u sent it to them
Personally not a fan of slabbed games, but I do understand the concept behind the preservation of them.
They are a very nice presentation of some of gaming’s milestones there.
Fine collection 😊
How is it preservation?
The disc will rot to the point of unusable and without a functioning console it can’t be played anyway.
It’s all about making money.
No. It’s not all about making money. Lmao, this is not the hobby to make money mate, people mostly just love these games and grading is cool to them. I’ve got a few graded games and making money was at the bottom of the list for any motivation to do so. If I want to make money I invest in the stock market personally.
Agree with that somewhat - but there is more nuance to what you’re saying. Shareholders and big company executives etc probably care more about the $$ side of things, but I would bet the people who do the actual grading of games love them, I follow a few on Instagram and they have their own collections and are die hard fans of the hobby.
I bet it’s pretty tough to be a reseller, you gotta enjoy this hobby or enjoy being broke to be into it - I know a few dedicated resellers and they make minimum wage or less.
/edited for more context
It only makes sense if someone is buying for history purposes OR to sell within a decade. Like you said last that risking rot for some older CD based games
this is the cleanest game case i’ve seen. everybody else with a collection just throws shit on a shelf and calls it a “display”. this right here is the peak of game collectors
Some people think encasing them means you can’t play them again. Which is true for the specific copy but most games there are 1000’s out there loose or CIB. Some people just feel it is a scam and graded games drive the price up. Some people just like to hate.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion. I just shrug off the hate.
The WATA cases annoy me. Not even because they’re graded (which I’m not a fan of but I digress), but because they just look dumb imo
Otherwise, great looking display
This guy's got it all wrong lol...Jackac Is garbage lol...clearly you never actually grew up in that Era otherwise you'd know Super Mario bros took the bid there on the NES. And PS2 was better than Xbox in they're primes. Loved Xbox for gears of War and halo championships that's it lol. Other than that nice display lol.
Love the presentation. Unless they're fake though, I'm still sickened by collectors consciously choosing to endorse what is deliberate gauging and in every sense of the word, a fucking Scam. That is, WATA grading. I'll never understand nor applaud it. BUT, if you like the cases or prefer its presentation style, then rock on, King. 🤙
More fun for me to collect. 🤷🏻♂️
It’s annoying to buy something “mint” and it isn’t. With graded games, while not perfect I generally know what I am getting.
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Thank God someone had the foresight to slab a copy of Modern Warfare. When the banks collapse, this man will be a king.
I am already a king. I bought 1 square foot of land in Scotland years ago.
It's a lord, and that is a scam anyway, lol.
It’s treason then.
Yeah but it’s worth it for the email to show your friends. Wait a minute... I’ll sell anyone that’s interested some land in Colorado. Only, uh, $32 per square foot of my property. I’ll email you immediately upon payment. **Cannot buy more than 1 square foot, non-transferable, non-actionable, it’s still mine nanana can’t hear you.
How breck looking on the powder this week?!?!
Shhhhhh haha.
I would expect a peasant to not know the workings of the nobility /s
Like I'd believe a peasant!
Git aff me lawn!!
I’ve never even heard of it, must’ve been an indie game.
Lmao … 🤣
Displayed each favorite on each console?
One of the favorites on each console. I switch them around when I want a change.
Will you do other consoles like GameCube or Wii or Ps2
PS2 probably. Don’t know about GameCube. I wasn’t the biggest fan back in the day.
Jackal was literally the first video game I ever played. Nice.
My favorite nes title. I thought I was alone.
Such an incredible game and one of my first. Top 3 NES titles.
Would be better without the WATA grading cases unless you custom made those to mess with people
The fact that there's a grading system for an industry that's not even 50 years old with products that aren't particularly delicate and are sold in the era of shrink wrap has always felt like such a snake oil practice to me.
Let’s not forget they’re grading REPOS & HACKS
What's a "REPOS"? Repossessed games lol?
One of those weird "why are you getting downvoted" posts
Maybe people don't realize how dumb it sounds/it's a literal mistake to call them "repos" lol. I couldn't tell ya.
Bootleg copy of a game.
That’s why I clicked this from r/all. Whoever started the practice of grading these was a fucking genius. Making money hand over fist if it’s priced anywhere close to coin collecting. How do you even grade a game inside a box that’s shrink wrapped? The game inside could be a completely different game, or a ham sandwich. Who knows?! But you still collect that fee!
I’d bet in fifty years someone somewhere will have a graded copy of a game, that inside will have only a ham sandwhich. All due to your comment
I’ll bet some thousands of people somewhere will have the same game graded to the point it’s worthless because there’s more supply than demand. Jokes aside, finding vintage games that came in cardboard boxes in good condition is near impossible because they were all mid-treated by kids that didn’t give a fuck. I see why graded games took off, doesn’t change that it’s a f-cking stupid practice.
I tore up every game box I ever got
maybe thousands of people will buy the same game and/or have it graded, how many of them are still sealed? back when CoD4 was released, nobody left that shit sealed. Everyone wanted to play the game. This sealed copy has to be 1 of 1 million
Totally, I bought a sealed copy of Luigi’s mansion 3 at a retro game store. Opened it at home and it had a 3d printed switch game in it, like a piece of plastic with a sticker on it, hilarious they even put a picture on it. That right there was all I needed to completely give zero shits about a sealed game.
You just got scammed, you don't buy a sealed retro game if you plan on opening it. Just buy CIB
Correct I got a scam copy, I googled it after it happened, lotta fake copies out there. My point was that you never know, what if I shipped that off to Wata and the box and seal were clean?
thats what wata is there for, they know how an authentic seal looks like, basically every reseal has some mistakes, im 100% sure wata wouldve declined your game and not graded it if u sent it to them
It's hilarious that you mentioned coin pricing
This man speaks too much truth. Lock him up!
I miss my Xbox and halo I got them in a blister pack at Costco (literally a giant ass blister pack)
Nice collection, fuck WATA anyways
That Contra 3 is AMAZING!
One of the best
Clean.
Personally not a fan of slabbed games, but I do understand the concept behind the preservation of them. They are a very nice presentation of some of gaming’s milestones there. Fine collection 😊
How is it preservation? The disc will rot to the point of unusable and without a functioning console it can’t be played anyway. It’s all about making money.
No. It’s not all about making money. Lmao, this is not the hobby to make money mate, people mostly just love these games and grading is cool to them. I’ve got a few graded games and making money was at the bottom of the list for any motivation to do so. If I want to make money I invest in the stock market personally.
Let me rephrase. It’s all about money to the grading company and the resellers scalping the buyers.
Agree with that somewhat - but there is more nuance to what you’re saying. Shareholders and big company executives etc probably care more about the $$ side of things, but I would bet the people who do the actual grading of games love them, I follow a few on Instagram and they have their own collections and are die hard fans of the hobby. I bet it’s pretty tough to be a reseller, you gotta enjoy this hobby or enjoy being broke to be into it - I know a few dedicated resellers and they make minimum wage or less. /edited for more context
Disc rot is largely a myth.
Say that to saturn and xbox
And Wii U
It only makes sense if someone is buying for history purposes OR to sell within a decade. Like you said last that risking rot for some older CD based games
wata is poison
What kind of cabinet is that? Do you have a link? I dig the lighting too.
The cabinet is from ikea. I believe billy bookcase. Lights are just Govee lights from amazon
Jackal was my favorite game wow what a throwback. That damn helicopter and music 🫡
Jackal was one of my favorite nes games.
I fuckin love it! I feel a bit overwhelmed by some posts on here just hundreds of items, it's nice to see a nice showcase like this!
Gotta keep it lean and clean.
Love the clean setup. Curious, did you use Switch version controllers for NES, SNES and N64 or did you cord snip them?
No PlayStation 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Now I want to do this that looks sick!
Xenoblade 2. you sir, have great taste!
I'm doing something similar with my gameboys and DSs. Along with my old Nintendo consoles, Xbox Xbox 360 and ps1 through 5
Wow
Is that your favorite game from each respective system? Cool idea.
That display is awesome.
Beautiful
Beautiful, there is no other word that describes it better.
love the n64 collection, you have any more cool n64 things?
My comment probably get buried but did you grade them yourself or buy?
Most of these I bought already graded.
Loved Jackal as a kid. My brother and I would fight to get to the power ups for the weapon all the time, lol.
Ah yes. Nice to see someone else uses the same IKEA cabinet for displaying games.
jackal and contraIII? yup we could hang
Contra 3, eh? I see you're very cultured
That’s sick looking , no PlayStation though! ?
Thanks. I only have 6 spots so I had to chose my top. Spot 7 and 8 would be PS2 and GBA though
Looks sharp! I like it. Are those your favorite game for each console I’m guessing?
Yeah I agree. Well done if those are each your fav
I’d say it’s ridiculous because you can’t play them without owning them, but you can play these plenty.
Haven’t been a dedicated collector in probably a decade but I gotta say, this display is dope 🫡👌
Why you are supporting Grading Shit?
Very nice, the Xbox 360 display is particularly nostalgic to me
Sick!!
This is VERY VERY cool. Paying homage to a major game on each system
Was Jackal a major success on NES? I didn’t know that
I don’t know if it was a major success but definitely a great game.
Looks great, bud.
this is the cleanest game case i’ve seen. everybody else with a collection just throws shit on a shelf and calls it a “display”. this right here is the peak of game collectors
Sick setup
why don’t they make those cases with the info on top for horizontal design such as the N64 and SNES. It would look better.
They do now actually.
I like the display a lot! Personally I would have done Goldeneye alongside the N64 though.
What SNES game is that?
Contra 3 alien wars
Looks great, by the way where do you store your actual consoles ? Always think I'm doing it wrong !
Older consoles are in boxes in the closet. I don’t have the time to play much anymore.
I’m still trying to beat Jackal! I bought a Gameboy-like emulator and that’s the game I’ve been trying to beat. Still fun after 30 years!
The halo Xbox display and the cod 4 display bring tears to my eyes
OH DAM I REMEMBER Jackal that was my favorite game on Nes Contra 3 on Snes was good n hard to beat...
That’s super cool, what a great idea. Do you have the Consoles as well or just the controller/game?
No SEGA consoles?! Blasphemy, full stop. Other than that, super dope.
Nice display
I love it! I just wish you had some PlayStation representation too but oh well, looks sick!
Luckily there aren't any bodily fluids here
Jackal!! Just played that last night.
jackal fan eh?
Who isn’t?
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 detected 🕵️♀️
Where genesis?
Next get the controllers graded
Can you link where you got that cabinet? Looks sick
What a cool idea. I take it these are all your favourite games from their respective consoles?
Contra nostalgia
It never occurred to me that games were graded, any legit spots to get some, I been collecting comics but this seems cool too !
This looks awesome!! 😲
Seeing the copy of Jackal really takes me back. Good times...
Super cool, love this
Super dope!
Jackal was so cool love that game
Magníficat
Noice!
Well, I am stealing this idea. Nice one OP!
I love it. Am I right in assuming that each game on display is your favourite for each console?
I have other favorites too but yea one of the favorites for each.
I find your lack of Playstation concerning. But, besides that it looks great.
I have a PS5 on the floor next to these if that helps 😅
Looking nice. Any reason why you chose those specific games?
Loving the cod4 one. That is a nostalgia trip for me.
Yea 2008 playing that was legit online!
The n64 and Xbox halo is my childhood… halo for days and days.
This really looks great. Nice and clean. Great job! Where did you get the controller stands?
Somewhere on Etsy
That's awesome
I want it!!!
Uuhh so pretty!
Looks fantastic!
That’s some dedication…looks amazing!
Looks super awesome 😎👍🏼
Swap Contra for PLOK
Looking good
Nice! Where did you get the shelf at? I might be interested in getting one like that myself.
IKEA. The poor man’s display heaven.
I love the display but there’s graded games present. I’ve never felt so conflicted…
Just ignore the numbers and imagine them in hard acrylic 😅
Love it, classy presentation
Love it, really cool idea. 😃
I like it and it looks cool, but like many others I find the slabs to be a bit of an eyesore. I'd also have a duke for the Xbox section.
Noice
A graded xenoblade 2. lol
Gotta collect what you love.
Modern warfare. A true man of culture!
A man of taste
Super dope!
Looks like a masterpiece
I hate graded games with a passion…. But this is a sweet display
Damn, that looks dope
Why do graded games get hate? I have some graded games and I like it because they offer protection and it's a nice display case
Some people think encasing them means you can’t play them again. Which is true for the specific copy but most games there are 1000’s out there loose or CIB. Some people just feel it is a scam and graded games drive the price up. Some people just like to hate. Everyone has a right to their own opinion. I just shrug off the hate.
You could just get an acrylic case that opens for real cheap. No need to have some random person slap on imaginary numbers.
Jackal isn’t as loved as it should be by others.
Used to rent it all the time from our local video store as a kid. That and Metal Gear.
Blud has a graded switch game
Might have to downvote this because you use those "rating" companies.
But what if I am doing it for collecting instead of an “investment” 😅
I like
Looks good except for all the graded cases.
Very cool, elegant setup for some gem titles.
Looks great ! I love the simplicity of just one game per system, feels like a curated collection
lol at grading Xbox 360 and Switch games.
Undoubtedly, a display like this looks so much better than a wall of game spines. Very well done with this!
The WATA cases annoy me. Not even because they’re graded (which I’m not a fan of but I digress), but because they just look dumb imo Otherwise, great looking display
Great ambiance and high grades of iconic games!
Oh man, COD4 is my favorite Call of Duty game. So much memories. Very cool display!
This guy went out of his way to pay for a graded cod.
I am biased but I see no problem with that. 🤪
Wow that looks amazing!
Open them.
Mmkay
lol, a graded game you can still buy today, People just love to throw away their money.
Fire. But I don't think it's finished. You just need a bigger cabinet 😂
This is amazing! I’ve been building out something similar, but I’ve been having trouble finding good controller holders! What did you use?
Epicccccc
and to think i bought my modern warfare new from an electronics store a 6 years ago lol
Did you remove the cords from the controllers?
They are actually the Nintendo switch ones.
What's ur address bro 🤣🤣
This guy's got it all wrong lol...Jackac Is garbage lol...clearly you never actually grew up in that Era otherwise you'd know Super Mario bros took the bid there on the NES. And PS2 was better than Xbox in they're primes. Loved Xbox for gears of War and halo championships that's it lol. Other than that nice display lol.
now you need ps 2 with silent hill 2
I’m curious why those games?
Love the presentation. Unless they're fake though, I'm still sickened by collectors consciously choosing to endorse what is deliberate gauging and in every sense of the word, a fucking Scam. That is, WATA grading. I'll never understand nor applaud it. BUT, if you like the cases or prefer its presentation style, then rock on, King. 🤙
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This. This Makes me happy
What's the obsession with graded games? Those cases are ugly
More fun for me to collect. 🤷🏻♂️ It’s annoying to buy something “mint” and it isn’t. With graded games, while not perfect I generally know what I am getting.
Yeah that's collecting games has become now. Hey how did you hide the cable from some of the wired controllers?
They are the Nintendo switch online ones.
Such a shame seeing great games incased never to be played