Check out this SNES lot. Someone bid $8000 with 2 hours left….. 728 games in total, most complete with box and booklets…. I think this might actually be every game released on the SNES….

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Just for laughs, Check out this auction… Poor guy who is willing to pay this amount of money for what is being sold…

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This is your chance to own a piece of history. Asking price is ten grand, but who knows how much it may be worth in 20 years from now? There are only 90 copies of this game produced in the world. There is a "low" buy it now price of $12 000, probably because it is the regular edition instead of the gold version.

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1) Garage Sales: This should be your first priority. Many people who have yard sales often think that what they are selling is junk. They would like to make a quick dollar or two on some old games that have been sitting around in a box somewhere in their garage. I once read an article about a guy who bought a ton of Donkey Kong Competitions, along with some assorted prototype NES games for $40 at a yard sale. All of this becauase the person who was selling it to him had worked for Nintendo and wanted to get rid of his "junk".

2) Classifieds: Classifieds should be a close second on the list. With alot of people who don’t have the time to organize a garage sale, classifieds are key. You may get lucky with someone who wants to sell you some rare games for dirt cheap. If you don’t know of any classifieds other than your newspaper, try www.craigslist.org. They have many according to your city.

3) Flea Market: This was ranked third simply because you would be going to a store to look for stuff. Usually at these types of booths the sellers know the prices of their games and aren’t willing to lower their prices unless you propose a deal with them. There may be the odd time where you get lucky and pick up a steal. Of course this is not likely and your better off checking out classifieds and yard sales.

Here is a BNIB Super Nintendo Super Gameboy Set. It is currently selling for $222 USD with 2 days left.

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Here is a BNIB Fire Orange Nintendo 64. It is currently selling for $152 with 2 days left. I’ve never seen one of these before it must have only been sold for a limited time. Get your bids in now!

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Here is a complete copy of Moonstone for the Commodore computer system. It is currently selling for $152 USD with 2 days left. NOTE! This is a PAL game.

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A few days ago, I read a post on MTV’s Multiplayer blog that showed what box art would look like if the creators of the game got credit for their work.  Judging from the results, some of the box art looked hideously mauled while some were more… tasteful.  Regardless, it got me to thinking about box art.

Ask any crusty music buff what they miss the most about the good ol’ days — i.e., any year prior to 1980 — and they’ll likely tell you they miss the days when bands would put a lot of work into their LP album covers.  The Beatles had "Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" while The Rolling Stones had "Sticky Fingers" — most famous because it featured a working "fly".  Of course, ask anyone who’s seen a physical copy of Tool’s "AENIMA" and they’ll tell you that CD album covers certainly had their own plethora of gimmicks.  Even so, sales of physical media are dwindling as people turn to the convenience of digital distribution.  We face not only the potential death of the album but the death of the album cover with it.  Except for mp3 players that feature color screens, no one has much use for a tiny JPG version of "Sgt. Pepper’s" famous cover while the gimmick of "Sticky Fingers’" working fly is completely lost in the translation.  Now, as gaming stands on the edge of a future where full games can be purchased and downloaded directly to your hardware, I fear that video game box art may be next to fall.  Well, maybe "fear" isn’t the right word…

First of all, we aren’t "there" yet — I can still walk to the nearest GameStop and back well within the time required to download most demos from Xbox Live, let alone the days required to download a full game; I don’t even want to think about how long it would take to download something like "Metal Gear Solid 4".  So, until the day everyone suddenly finds themselves hooked up to some serious broadband connections, I don’t think physical media will be going anywhere anytime soon.  There’s just one other problem with box art, though…  I still don’t think we really need it.

As nice as it is to admire box art as it sits on a shelf, collecting dust and taking up space, I don’t pay much attention to it while I’m playing the game.  The time it takes me to get the game out of the box and put it into my console is just about all the time I really have to ooh and awe at its brilliant majesty.  Computer games, at one time, were even worse; I was actually relieved when I noticed publishers had stopped distributing games in huge cardboard boxes.  How many times did I open one of those behemoths only to find nothing more than a jewel case, the disc the game came on, and a stupid warranty card that no one ever filled out, anyway?  How wasteful!  Not only that, but like most of the people reading this, I grew up in an era when box art either made no sense, was incredibly ugly, or had nothing to do with the game inside.  How about the box art for "Adventure" for the Atari 2600?  Here, you have box art that looks like every Dungeons & Dragons nerd’s fantasy only to find that your in-game character was a square being chased by a duck.  Oh, sure, we all knew better — we all looked at the back of the box to see what the actual, in-game graphics really looked like, but still… doesn’t that kind of prove my point?

Even today, you’ll still find box art that either looks better than the actual game or tells you absolutely nothing about what you’re about to play, so I say give the developers their moment in the sun:  put the credits on the box, but maybe move it to the back.  Superfluous, irrelevant and, in some cases, terrible box art will be here for a good while yet, so why not?  In the meantime, just remember to not judge a game by its cover; like anything, it’s what’s inside that counts.

1. Ikaruga: This is truely a great game. It was one of the last releases on the Dreamcast, around the time when the console was "dead". I do not believe it was even released as an NTSC title. It is your typical vertical shooter game, with a bit of a twist. Some enemies shoot red, some shoot white. Your ship can change  its colour to absorb one of the colours that is coming your way.

2. Clayfighter 63 1/3: Sculptor’s Cut: I don’t know why playing this game was so much fun, but it was. I think it might have been the funny intros before each round that made me laugh while playing. Clayfighter 63 1/3 was released for the Nintendo 64 the first year of the consoles launch. Although this game did not get high reviews overall, I thought this game was very addicting and it turned out to be a classic.

3. Mega Man X3: X is back at it for the last time on the SNES. This game was a late release for the console and did not sell as well as the first X did. I’ve beaten this game many times and each time you play it you get better and faster at completing each level.

4. Secret Of Mana: This has to be one of my favorite games of all time. It’s basically Zelda meets Final Fantasy. The coolest thing about this game has to be the fact that three people can play the game simultaneously. That is, when you meet all three characters. If you never played this game I suggest buying it, It is worth your time.

5. Final Fantasy VII: FFVII is probably the best game on the psx. The video game scene went crazy at the time of its release. Everyone who owned a psx had this game. Every aspect of this game was great, especially the epic storyline that was unraveled to the gamer as it was played. I loved playing this game and wish more RPG games were this good.

I had a blog entry a week ago about this in store Nintendo demo system. I have found one! This unit is in average condition but is still functional. Remember that this is the PAL version which will not work with NTSC games. If you do have PAL games, with a little TLC this can be in your living room in no time. There is 6 hours left until the auction finishes, so get your bids in fast before its too late.

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Check ou this mint Out Of Control for the Atari 2600. It comes with the game, box, manual, and cardboard insert for the game. Atari 2600 games are hard to find mint and this one seems immaculate for its age. It is currently selling for $910 with just over 5 days left. Old game collectors everywhere must be watching this one!

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   You want one, I want one, we all want one… our own arcade. How cool would that be? However not many of us ever will.

   Or will we?

   So I’m sitting here recovering from foot surgery I had the other day catching some waves on the net and I ran into this

   http://wayoftherodent.com/pa/pa_staff.htm

   A full, printable paper arcade!

   Heh, if you got some free time or want something unique to put on your desk at work or you just want your old GI Joe figs to experience the same joy you had as a kid print one out and have some fun.

   Just don’t try putting quarters in it