What gaming lessons would you tell your young self?

[Arvaos]

What have you learned about games that you would tell your younger self?

[Netaris]

Originally posted by Abaddon the Despoiler:

Weed and beer do not enhance performance.

Can be changed in : Your body need only air, natural food and water, everything else will kill you faster.

[SHAZBOT]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Don't open that original press gold Zelda cart. Don't even take the price sticker off. Just put it back and forget about it for 40 years.

i have a feeling spoiler alert is moot here. i think you know what it says.

$870,000

[secuda]

Originally posted by Nargo:

Stop spending money on DOTA 2 and Eternal Return.

True stop buying cs go cases.

[Birds]

Originally posted by Gr_nd "Juror #462" Ay_t_oll_h:

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Don't open that original press gold Zelda cart. Don't even take the price sticker off. Just put it back and forget about it for 40 years.

i have a feeling spoiler alert is moot here. i think you know what it says.

$870,000

there was only a limited run of 100 and it's a question how he got one. they were basically handed out to nintendo investors only, meaning the price is literally due to their intentional scarcity.

if he'd held onto it the price would have dropped, significantly, as there would be an unaccounted cart outside of the trade circle.

it's like how doge wouldn't have gone up if i'd kept my $100 in it.

[Birds]

Originally posted by Leon S. Kennedy:

to not game for too long bby
often times i forced myself to play until my mood was ruined

maybe someone ruined your mood because you were playing too much, like the agents that manage our internet access.

[braindead]

people are good at games because they are good at getting good at things, and that's something everyone can learn

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by Birds:

Originally posted by Gr_nd "Juror #462" Ay_t_oll_h:

i have a feeling spoiler alert is moot here. i think you know what it says.

$870,000

there was only a limited run of 100 and it's a question how he got one. they were basically handed out to nintendo investors only, meaning the price is literally due to their intentional scarcity.

if he'd held onto it the price would have dropped, significantly, as there would be an unaccounted cart outside of the trade circle.

it's like how doge wouldn't have gone up if i'd kept my $100 in it.

I won it from the Nintendo Fun Club. Later to become Nintendo Power.
Edit: It was a retail copy.

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Absolutely nothing.

Figuring it all out is part of the fun.

[Birds]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Originally posted by Birds:

there was only a limited run of 100 and it's a question how he got one. they were basically handed out to nintendo investors only, meaning the price is literally due to their intentional scarcity.

if he'd held onto it the price would have dropped, significantly, as there would be an unaccounted cart outside of the trade circle.

it's like how doge wouldn't have gone up if i'd kept my $100 in it.

I won it from the Nintendo Fun Club. Later to become Nintendo Power.

I heard the person who put their cart in that contest ruffled some feathers doing so, and that the price of the carts dropped from ~$450-$3000 down to $80 overnight because of it. Then were repurchased for $10,000 or so.

Originally posted by TGC> The Games Collector:

Edit: It was a retail copy.

yeah I got sent a decoy in a trade. had the real serial underneath. supposedly, it was the nintendo power cart.

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by Birds:

I heard the person who put their cart in that contest ruffled some feathers doing so, and that the price of the carts dropped from ~$450-$3000 down to $80 overnight because of it. Then were repurchased for $10,000 or so.

There was more than one contest. This wasn't a mail-in or anything. They were going around setting up in malls showing the NES off, and if you had your Fun Club Member Card you could enter the drawing.

I won mine at West Towne Mall in Knoxville, TN. Second Place winner. First place was Nintendo Power Set with ROB.

[Birds]

wait i'm thinking of the oot/mm one.

I don't recall the original ones.

i think the oot/mm internal trading pool happened because people put such a high price on the rare original ones, and they figured they could capitalize on that.

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by Birds:

and they figured they could capitalize on that.

I wish I could, but I played the HELL out of that game. Even replaced the battery a decade later and my save was still there wtf?

[Birds]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Originally posted by Birds:

and they figured they could capitalize on that.

I wish I could, but I played the HELL out of that game. Even replaced the battery a decade later and my save was still there wtf?

as long as the power doesn't cycle the sram won't clear the save.

if a time traveler held the connection closed to prevent any kind of atmospheric cycle they'd technically be generating power. albeit only a coin cell's worth. so it would cost them nothing to do it, energy-wise. and anyone that broke the seal would be costing themselves energy, which could easily be recaptured to negate the attack and re-preserve the seal.

could con god out of a lot of juice just holding that save.

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by Birds:

as long as the power doesn't cycle the sram won't clear the save.

Thus PLEASE HOLD RESET WHILE YOU TURN THE POWER OFF, eh?

[Birds]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Originally posted by Birds:

as long as the power doesn't cycle the sram won't clear the save.

Thus PLEASE HOLD RESET WHILE YOU TURN THE POWER OFF, eh?

yeah the hardware department's sony rep wanted them to contribute to battery expenditures.

sony has some kind of obsession with batteries.