Sealed game collections

maybe this week I'll get a sealed copy of "Tingles Ballon Fight" JAP for the Nintendo DS. has this game any value at all? got it for 30 euros incl. shipping ^^

Does anybody know, how much pieces of this game were available?

 

If i ever win big in the lottery I'm going to buy some sealed collections just for the pleasure of ripping them open and deflowering some old games.

 

Yes of corse, the smell of an new opend Chrono Trigger :lol: ...

 

Factory Sealed Dreamcast WWF Attitude bought it at a market for £5 havent had any urges to open it up considering it might be of some value

 

I had what appeared to be a brand new Mark III system. The box did not have any shrinkwrap around it - not sure if it was sold this way or not, but everything inside appeared to have original shrinkwrap around it. (blue sega stamping on some of the shrinkwrap)

I, like some of the other people on this thread, coulnd't resist opening it though and firing it up. I even have a SMS Japanese model, but I really wanted to feel and play the Mark III.

If I could go back in time I would leave it sealed, but I was poor back in the day and thought I would never be able to afford a used one. Oh well...

 

LOL

Same here :rambo:

 

As almost every Japanese console, the MkIII was sold without any additional shrink-wrap around it, so yours was probably new ^_^ There are few ways to prove if it really is though, but generally if the bags are still tight and uncrickled, you can regard it as NIB.
Here's a picture of a yahoo auction I observed (went for 38k inkl. the extremely rare new Telecon adaptor):



Another case where you don't know if it is just "like new" or really "new". This is also why I couldn't stand the stress of sealed collecting, with some items you can never be 100% sure that it is entirely new. And I wouldn't consider items that were ever taken out of the box as "new" because they could have easily been used for a game or two.

 

Yep looked just like that without the Telecon adapter. I will have to look at the shrinkwrap again on mine because I think the main console had blue sega stamping on the shrinkwrap. (I saved the shrinkwrap to re-wrap my system in case I ever put it away)

I think my Famicom Disk Drive was probably new too. Everything inside was packaged up even though the slip box was not. This is probably why my disk drive belt is still working fine.

 

It has been new if it still had the yellow strip stuffed into the disk slot (an indicator like the paper strip on the back of Dreamcast VMUs).

 

Yep - sure did.

I just ripped the shrinkwrap off of a sealed copy of Alundra and Suikoden for PSX. Were these games worth anything sealed? I don't have the energy to navigate E-Bay today... it makes me get angry.

I was looking through my game collection for sealed items to post on this thread and I found that I much rather like opening up sealed things. I feel sad for them otherwise.

 

Trying to get organized I have shelf reserved for the sealed NES/SNES. Here is howit sits today. More to follow...

note atleast 5 of the snes are complete not sealed. the 2 FFs, Qbert, battletank

 

:thumbsup: excellent stuff buyatari !
nice selection !

 

Can someone explain sealed items to me?
how you can see the difference to fake and real, on nes for example?

It's because we have a machine at home (fathers company) that can seal items. to think that there are maybe persons who also have such a machine, or know someone etc,.. and then can sell the fake sealed items for a lot of money. That wouldn't be fair. So I want to buy some sealed old games but don't know how to indicate difference in sealed items. Please explain it to me

 

of course there are many fakers out there. you really have to know sometimes if a game was just shrinkwrapped, had thicker plastic (maybe even blisterpack) or was not sealed at all.

we have some experts on that subject here.

 

When a box is opened the paint on the seam cracks. Sometimes fakers will color it in with a marker. This is the easiest way to tell a fake. Check the seam on the flap.

 

Buyatari: ... Wow. Colour me impressed.

 

I'm in awe. Outstanding selection of sealed Nintendo games... did you buy them towards the end of each consoles' era or later?

 

When I was first collecting you could still get a few titles on clearance but I took little advantage of that. Most are newer purchases. I have more than this but I am very disorganized. As I sort my collection out I'll most more pics.

 

A box is printed. It isn't paint, it's ink. Furthermore, the box starts off as a flat piece of card, is printed and bent to shape. It is probably closed, then opened to put the game in, then closed. So the edge has already been bent, at least in one direction. Would this really happen on the first opening? And if so, wouldn't it happen in the factory?

I'll have to look through my promo stuff, find an unformed flat-packed box and have a try, heh!

Incidentally, how many sealed copies of Zelda do you need?!?!?!

 

I see thanks