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    Steam Machine waiting list goes live, starting at £879 with a 512GB SSD

    The week after Spring Break '86 ('87?), my friend Paul came back to school with a new NES he got for his birthday. A gang of about 8 of us met up at his place for days playing with that thing. We had SMB, RC Pro-Am, and Prince of Persia. That's it. At some point one of the guys said something...
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    Steam Machine waiting list goes live, starting at £879 with a 512GB SSD

    It's that's sweet Catch-22 where the people with enough actual free time to justify the expense of this thing also don't have a job (hence all the free time), and so no money. Conversely for those who can afford it, you'll probably never get your money's worth out of it before it becomes...
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    Are you excited for GTA6 and are you going to buy it upon release?

    Have not spent one second of my life playing any GTA release, so no reason to break that streak now.
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    Things you recently bought or got

    I got some news today I guess, if you can call it that. Last summer in Tokyo my daughter found me a LNIB N3DSLL Happy Home Designer Limited Edition. She wasn't looking for that model specifically, it's just what she ran into. With the currency exchange it cost me about $320. You can see a photo...
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    Things you recently bought or got

    Can't speak for anywhere else but the Pikachu N64 was for sure sold in the US. I remember it being on the shelves at ToysRUs. Wish I'd bought one then.
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    Help on 3DS prices...

    Holy schnitzkes.
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    Help on 3DS prices...

    I don't think they ever intended / anticipated that opening 30+ 'presents' at one time would ever be a routine occurrence lol.
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    Help on 3DS prices...

    No problem. You mentioned "300 bucks" in the OP so I thought you might be in the USA. I hope you are able to find a winner. Edit: I was just looking on estarland and the trade-in for a cosmo black original 3DS is $120. That's insane. That's more than I was gonna sell it to you for lol. And I...
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    Help on 3DS prices...

    If you decide you'd be happy with a "cosmo black" launch 3DS (launch model as in it qualified as an "Ambassador" when 3DS wasn't selling well at first), let me know. If you're in the US so the transaction's easy, I'll want a fair price but I won't gouge ya. It has not yet been modded. Or...
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    Help on 3DS prices...

    My answer to that is "yes." But that's not the case for everyone. So yeah I agree with that - OP needs to distill his priorities and choose accordingly.
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    Help on 3DS prices...

    Depends on how you gauge this I think. In 5-7 years the Thor or Odin 3 or any of the other current crop of handhelds will most likely be worth, well, nothing to most people. While a well-preserved N3DSXL/LL will probably be worth more than even the current prices we're seeing. Especially for...
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    Help on 3DS prices...

    Valid take but I don't think that's it.
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    Help on 3DS prices...

    Yeah I'm aware I paid a premium for the special edition model and that retailer's certificate, but in the long run well spent I think. You got a very good deal. Sadly yes, and I wasn't even a great fan of the guy. But Miyamoto didn't and never did have the business tenacity, just goofy...
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    Help on 3DS prices...

    3DS was the last Nintendo game console that actually felt, played, and looked Nintendo, and offered games that had a classic Nintendo vibe. I can't say any of that about Switch, which was a fine console but more in a generic sense. Like the Nintendo I had been a fan of since 1986 (I was 19yo...
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    Things you recently bought or got

    Yep. Altera Cyclone IV. Basically does the same thing as the NESRGB mod, without the massive internal alterations. Pallette can be changed over usb with an app called blastcfg on krikzz' site. I haven't looked into it or tried yet, and depending on how games look once I start really spending...
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