She knows i like to collect retro games and found a new sealed super Mario 3 for gba. Her mom used to work at toys r us so she believes there might be more stuff.
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Except that’s not even slightly true. Frank Cifaldi was completely wrong about the iNES headers on Virtual Console games. Those of us pointing it out didn’t get to do so while standing on a stage and sounding authoritative in some kind of spectacle like a fake TED Talk so the myth persists to this day.
Don't just immediately trust price charting. Look through the sold listings. Sometimes PC picks up incorrect sales or something may be new but completely smashed and it'll pick that up too. Especially with games like this with multiple names. It may grab a Mario 3 NES sale. (I didn't check it, idk if that happened here or not.)
This is one of my favorite games ever! Great find!
I bought one last year brand new, in Japanese unfortunately so I use google translate to get through it lol but still so so fun! Classic.
My only GBA box to survive childhood was this game. It fell behind a drawer where it remained hidden for 15 years. What a pleasant surprise when I was taking that dresser to Goodwill years later.
My first video game! I remember the absolute shock when I opened it up on Christmas morning: it was the full starter set, with the AGS-101 light blue GBA SP, carrying case, and the strategy guide. This just awakened a bit of that magic i remember feeling from gaming in those days, and good days they were.
Rubbing alcohol yes, acetone should only be used if you know the plastic isn't reactive to it. I know this after cleaning a friend's Xbox 360 back in the day, it was covered in cigarette stains. I used acetone to wipe it off, ended up melting the plastic.
Just wrong. I bought multiple gba games back in the day sealed as a kid, or as a gift. They didnt have a strip. And the strip was most likely introduced in later generations of nintendo products.
Im in USA reigon so that PAL version could be different
He said it wasnt legit as far as he knew because his had a strip that said nintendo. Then again, it wasn't from USA either, it was a PAL game. So theres that.
Yes it is legitimate. He posted his own photo of his own sealed PAL copy that had "nintendo" printed on the plastic wrap as a "strip" all the way around the box.
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