“Friend of mine received this sealed and graded original copy of Pokémon Yellow,” Kick said. “U.S. Customs: Broke the acrylic case, ripped and discarded the seal, [and] sliced the front of the box off. Maybe they weren’t fans of Wata Games?”
Wata Games is an independent company that grades and certifies games for collectors. Chances are you’ll encounter Wata Games if you’re looking for high-quality, mint copies of old games. The company was responsible for grading and certifying The_Master_Of_Unlocking’s copy, giving it an A+ rating and a score of 9.2. According to Wata Games’ website, the game is in “exceptional condition” and worth $3,800. Or it was until U.S. Customs came through and decimated the certification.
“So…either they hated the battery inside the cartridge…or they thought it’d contain drugs or something,” one tweeter suggested in Kick’s mentions. “Can U.S. Customs just destroy things without recourse,” asked another tweeter, with many others demanding consequences against the agency.
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“Says here this package contains a… Game Boy game, valued at 4,000 dollars.”
“No way that can be right, there’s gotta be drugs or something inside that thing” :pika-pickaxe:
Can U.S. Customs just destroy things without recourse?
Yes
Okay just so we’re clear no level of law enforcement should be able to just break your stuff and not pay you for it, unless we as a society are saying “You are too rich and we’re taking your stuff”
No matter how you feel about collectibles I feel like “The TSA shouldn’t destroy people’s things with no recourse” is a pretty easy line to draw
On one hand; fuck these people driving up the cost of games that they will never even open or play. I hate treat grading and overvaluing with a passion. Thank god for emulation or these nerd fucks would make playing old games impossible for normal people
On the other hand; fuck US customs.
On the third hand; lol lmao get wrecked
There should really be a museum that has these retro video games preserved while treat consumers should really just be left with emulators.
Honestly I wish someone would flood the market with cheap reproductions just to fuck with treat investors
I think the classic game collections should be viewed similarly to that of art. And by that I mean we should break into the houses of collectors seize their shit. Video games are a medium where we have a chance of preserving most of if not all of it. Imagine if we could have done that with movies.
We need a centralized authority dedicated towards the preservation of video games, presumably under the authority of a global communist historical preservation society. These games, they aren’t going to last forever, their parts have shelf lives, dvds expire, batteries expire, we have no “permanent” means of storage. What we need to do is have all the retro games in one place and restore or emulate them. Also it probably won’t be bad to just destroy shit like clusters revenge or other racist video games.
Thank god for emulation or these nerd fucks would make playing old games impossible for normal people
Sometimes they’re successful. There’s a handful of canceled games that only exist as prototypes in private collections, doomed to bitrot, their code never released.
This media dark age happened at a much bigger scale when copyright hit, with culturally significant works like films of Pancho Villa’s fighting and Metropolis being left to rot. Same deal with literary works.
for display on my office desk
Who is that attached to Pokemon Yellow? It was such a minor blip between Red/Blue and Silver/Gold.
It was my first Pokemon game and the early interaction with a Pokemon following you around constantly was super cool, but I definitely wouldn’t spend money on a new-in-box copy when I can just run a ROM on my phone if I get specifically nostalgic for it.
I always wondered if you could trap yourself in a one way alley with a dead end with pikachu behind you
You could just have the box printed for you for a lot cheaper. What a fuckin dweeb lol
