Video Game Collecting

Today I’ve added the SEGA Dreamcast price guide and the Nintendo Gameboy price guide.  The SEGA Dreamcast guide looks pretty accurate.  There are alot of games that are obscure to me (which would probably be expected since I’ve never owned a Dreamcast).  The Nintendo Gameboy list is huge.  It contains the original Gameboy games and Gameboy color.

There are few more price guides I hope to add over the next couple days including Nintendo Gamecube, Colecovision and possibly PSP.

Well, today was a busy day for http://www.videogamepriceguides.com/ .  In addition to adding the Nintendo Wii price guide, I had also added the Tengen games (licensed and not) to the Nintendo price guide.

I was hesitant to include them originally, but I had recently added Mike Tyson’s Punchout!! which wasn’t part of the original list (it isn’t officially recognized by Nintendo on http://www.nintendo.com/).  I included this because it was, at one point in time, an officially licensed Nintendo game.  Simply because Nintendo moved on doesn’t mean the game never existed, thus I included.

This would also mean I’d have to include the Licensed Tengen games as well.  Pacman, Gauntlet, and RBI Baseball were all licensed at one point in time.  Simply because Tengen and Nintendo had some bad blood doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be included.  Besides, it’s not like the games were terrible.  The truth is that the majority of the Tengen games were way better then some licensed titles.  Many people praise Tengen Tetris for allegedly being superior to the Nintendo version.

Also alot of the Nintendo games were corrected.  In case you never noticed, any game that had an apostrophe in the title wouldn’t appear.  It would show as “0″ available.  Well, this has finally been corrected!

I’ve added the price guide for Nintendo Wii to the videogamepriceguides.com website.  You can also visit it using the link near the top of this page.

The list of games was lifted from Wikipedia, and its possible that there might be some omissions, and some games that are listed even thought they have not been released in stores.

Sometimes when using the http://www.videogamepriceguide.com/ it can be difficult to know what auctions are ending soonest.  Sure, I’ve already implemented a feature that shows those that are ending in an hour with some cool flames, but what about the ones that are ending later today, tomorrow, or on payday?  To make things easier I’ve included a sort by ending soonest link.

This is a soft-launch and the feature is only available on the Nintendo Game Price guide here: www.videogamepriceguides.com/nintendo

Once all the bugs are out I’ll include it on all of the game pages.

I started Video Game Price Guides after deciding to collect all of the original Nintendo Games.  I started looking up random games from a list I had compiled and then eventually just started doing random searches on eBay for lowest priced Nintendo games and working backwards.  I looked at Nintendo Rarity guides and other sites that claimed to have an accurate price guide, but nothing ever seemed accurate.  So I decided to compile my list of NES games, and make direct links to eBay to make it easier to not only find the games, but to peg a rarity on them and an approximate value.

This went so well, that I expanded it to other systems including Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, all three PlayStations, TG-16, the SEGA systems, and more.  I decided to include a blog for the site that was meant to include updates and another information, but with updating the http://www.salzmafia.com/ blog and a few other sites I’m responsible for I’ve decided that its time to pull the plug on the http://www.videogamepriceguides.com/ blog.  The site will still function as the Price Guide for Video Games, but with out the silly blog to update.  Besides, I’ve done many posts on this site concering VGPG that it seems silly to run two sites.  So anyways, in a few weeks, the main splash page to VGPG will change to the archive
 of pages related to VGPG that I’ve posted here.

I also hope to update the games list and to add the rest of the missing consoles.  There are some errors on some of the pages that are coding related that need to be cleaned up as well (I’ve only recently figured out how to fix the YouTube code.)

I’ve mentioned Pedro! Games frequently here and with good reason: this is currently the only eBay seller I can truly recommend.  My first experience was with Iron Tank, which ended up being a penny auction.  It was a purchase made on a whim, but it was worth it.  The game was in perfect condition, and it was delivered promptly.  Even if it came from North Carolina, all the way to Las Vegas.

But Iron Tank wasn’t the only excellent purchase I’ve made through Pedro!.  Thus far I’ve purchased 11 titles, and all of them have come in perfect condition.  This says alot since many of these titles are around two and a half decades old.

I found PedroGames.Com originally through the site I created (http://www.videogamepriceguides.com/), and although I do occasionally purchase from other sellers I know I can do no wrong with Pedro!

Anyways, with a major change coming to http://www.videogamepriceguides.com/ I did not want this feedback about Pedro! Games to be forgotten, therefore I’ve included to original reviews below.

Pedro! Games

VideoGamePriceGuides.Com not only provides you, the user, with game prices, but we also use the guides ourselves. Recently we purchased IRON TANK for the NES from frequent power seller Pedro! on eBay.com.

Anyone who has searched for games on eBay will have no doubt noticed that Pedro! sells tons of games. Not only does he sell vast quantities of games he also seems to always have some fairly rare games as well.

In this instance we bought IRON TANK. It was an auction and it ended for a penny. That’s right, one-cent. The game isn’t really popular at all, and for a penny with $3.95 shipping we figured it would be an easy purchase to get an idea of Pedro!’s service. The way a seller treats a cheap sell is a good indication of how they treat everyone. Anyways the auction ended on Thursday May 28th. Within minutes of the close of the auction we received the invoice.

It’s All Yours! Now Just Send Us A Payment…

It doesn’t get much more direct then that does it? There wasn’t any delivery confirmation or tracking purchased along with IRON TANK so we can’t verify a direct date of shipping, however we did receive an email from Pedro! within an hour of making the payment indicating that 1. positive feedback was left for the buyer, and 2. you should expect to receive your game soon.

Now We Wait…

I have confidence in Pedro! As of writing this he has a score of 18852 with a rating of 100%. My only concern at this point is that Pedro! shows screenshots of the game (with a Pedro! watermark) and not a picture of the actual cartridge. I thought of emailing and asking Pedro! for the condition but with that 18000+ track record I have a hard time bringing myself to believe that the cart will be in deplorable condition.

Pedro! Games Part 2

Well for an auction that ended Thursday May 28th, and paid for on May 29th, we were amazed that our one cent copy of IRON TANK arrived on Monday June 1st.

The game arrived First-Class in a well protected envelope complete with the Pedro! Games logo on it.

But what about the IRON TANK cartridge? We professed a minor legitimate concern with the first part of this seller review that Pedro! Games shows screenshots of the games rather than the actual cartridge itself. So what was the condition like? Although not 100% mint perfect, the cartridge itself was acceptable. Very acceptable. There was a negligent amount of wear on the label, but not bad considered the cartridge is around two decades old. The pins were shiny and appeared new.

So what criticisms if any did we have? Actually none. This isn’t to say we should judge a seller on the basis of one good sale, but in this case we were very pleased, and as an advocate for video game collectors www.videogamepriceguides.com was impressed by this transaction.