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Am waiting for the sequel, Teats of the Kingdom.
Um, how about OUR LORD JESUS?"there's no better way to see the light"
We put those things in the sun and it ended up burning out the screen in the long run.Before Gameboy Advance SP we had no backlight.
There was the Game Boy Light before.Before Gameboy Advance SP we had no backlight.
My fav combo was hitting "controller + hit"..this was mine:
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Ah! the dark ages (literally)..Before Gameboy Advance SP we had no backlight.
Yea, and looking up to a dead man nailed on a cross with cuts & blood all over him isn't (for some reason)..Um, how about OUR LORD JESUS?
Videogames are poisoning our youth
A giant influx of new collectors I'm recent years have been kids that were born or grew up after these old game been released originally and want a piece of that time. This seems to have been as much as a piece of inflation as older people with nostalgia. Which is fine, as long as they appreciate, make use and preserve their collection, though I must admit I have a pet peeve with some YouTubers that incentivize the consumerist aspect of it. I, myself have been guilty of the nostalgia factor, but didn't buy stuff at those crazy prices. Another great motivator that did affect me was the growing industry of improvement hardware mods for old consoles. The GBA scene, for instance, absolutely exploded in the beginning of the pandemic with IPS screen mods and other stuff, it allowed people to re-live that past but better.
A giant influx of new collectors I'm recent years have been kids that were born or grew up after these old game been released originally and want a piece of that time. This seems to have been as much as a piece of inflation as older people with nostalgia. Which is fine, as long as they appreciate, make use and preserve their collection, though I must admit I have a pet peeve with some YouTubers that incentivize the consumerist aspect of it. I, myself have been guilty of the nostalgia factor, but didn't buy stuff at those crazy prices. Another great motivator that did affect me was the growing industry of improvement hardware mods for old consoles. The GBA scene, for instance, absolutely exploded in the beginning of the pandemic with IPS screen mods and other stuff, it allowed people to re-live that past but better.
I'm lucky to already have a nearly full collection of consoles that I'd want (and yes, their pricing is getting ridiculous), though nothing stops the obscure games I find myself searching for having obscene prices. Most of that is growing up in a region that was generally behind the times in tech, so I'd score big out of yard sales where kids were selling all and everything to get the next new console.I'm not commenting on individual factors that led to the prices being what they are, but the fact is that prices of original hardware are now ranging somewhere between prohibitive and complete bullshit.