Opinions On Nintendo Age?

[FieryReign]

So I recently watched a Gaming Historian video about the Sharp Game Television. Never knew these things existed, now I'm intrigued, and would like to do some research in obtaining one. The Sharp C1 looks even more impressive, but this is all dreamworld for now.

I looked on ebay and found two of them, all beat the fuck up and missing key components. I then looked at another search result and up popped a thread on the Nintendo Age forums. It looks like they are trying to track down every single one of these things, even going as far as a mod calling them "our" televisions. They seem to do nothing but raise prices on the market. I've thought about registering at this site but browsing thru, it comes across as a bunch of rich pricks and elitist collectors. Not to mention that dumbass annoying Solomons Key thing in the corner when browsing with a phone/tablet. What the hell is that?

Why is that place way more active than this forum?

[celerystalker]

Yeah... I only post on Digital Press. I lurked here for years first, but I like that this is generally an older forum in member age and experience that seems a little more grounded as human beings and less prone to elitist nonsense. I'm sure they have some great members as well or even share quite a few here, but I prefer a more seasoned crowd that's less prone to getting swept up in trends.

Good luck with the TV, seems like it'd be pretty neat.

[Gatucaman]

So I recently watched a Gaming Historian video about the Sharp Game Television. Never knew these things existed, now I'm intrigued, and would like to do some research in obtaining one. The Sharp C1 looks even more impressive, but this is all dreamworld for now.

I looked on ebay and found two of them, all beat the fuck up and missing key components. I then looked at another search result and up popped a thread on the Nintendo Age forums. It looks like they are trying to track down every single one of these things, even going as far as a mod calling them "our" televisions. They seem to do nothing but raise prices on the market. I've thought about registering at this site but browsing thru, it comes across as a bunch of rich pricks and elitist collectors. Not to mention that dumbass annoying Solomons Key thing in the corner when browsing with a phone/tablet. What the hell is that?

Why is that place way more active than this forum?

They are active due to them being speculators, that's it, the only thing one would go to that cesspool is for the option to keep order of your own collection.

[sfchakan]

a bunch of rich pricks and elitist collectors

Pretty much sums it up!

[JSoup]

Why is that place way more active than this forum?

Narrower focus, harbors avid collectors, crap-tons of cash flow through the buy/sell boards (largely due to the first two parts), participates in gaming community events, holds it's own community events and, regardless of how people around here feel about Dain, NA's fearless leader didn't ditch them at the drop of a hat.

[Gentlegamer]

ResellerAge.com

[Tanooki]

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[CastlevaniaDude]

The kind of people who see videogames as legitimate financial investments are not my kind of people. When I first joined this forum, the larger part of the community was into gaming. Before I joined, I lurked, and I recall the days when retro games were unbelievably easy to come by. Obscure stuff (even relatively obscure) like the TG16 and Jaguar were things that people wanted to get rid of. They weren't worth anything. Speculators such as these and eBay have sucked so much of the fun out of it.

Earthbound is one that really baffles me. I remember Best Buy practically giving these games away in the late 90s ($25, brand new) and even Funcoland for a while was selling it for a similar price used. It's not a rare game. It's a game that got some hype and has a very vocal following, which has caused hysteria about it and speculators saw that coming and are now able to scalp people for a game that you couldn't even give away 15 years ago.

People trying to buy up every single instance of something is just an extreme example of that kind of thing. It's no better than ticket scalping, really.

[Bratwurst]

If I recall right the North American Sharp television is just using the standard composite output of the NES, I remember seeing one in person years ago and didn't consider the image anything special. You'd probably get a better picture out of a Commodore 1702 monitor or any CRT made much later like the Sony Wega if you were sticking with the system's stock A/V jacks.

[Tanooki]

It's not that great. If anything the TV is a bit off color since it's tuned for the NES itself. There's a slight difference than what you get playing it over a normal TV, kind of like the old magazine camera pictures from a TV on a demo station where it never looked like what you saw at home. The image is definitely not sharp, but since it's a direct feed from board to board, you don't get bad ghosting like RF does. The audio is nothing great, it's mono and not a good speaker either as it has a little noise to it. It's just the collectors and scalpers value, it has no good value if you want to play your games and have them look and sound great.

[Az]

I joined their sister site SegaAge and personally find it mostly useless. I have nothing wrong with a site being collector and not gamer oriented, but the entire content is virtually filled with conversations that say nothing. Very rarely is anything of merit discussed and when it is brought up it goes silent immediately because nobody cares. If post content or grammar, punctuation, and structure are indicative of the poster's personality then many appear as vapid and immature.


Banned for something off site, because they felt it harmed the socialist collective of gamers there because it could bring down the value of their own games and things that go with them.

That is something that I just can't stomach. You'll have one group of people that produce very convincing counterfeits carts that have no problems in finding business and others that will gladly discuss counterfeits and point users toward these sellers, then you have a diametrically opposed group that wants to see anyone selling new SNES box inserts eternally burn in hell. They'll launch a crusade to blacklist every person on eBay or any other site and do everything in their power to see such a person be punished for selling such a product. What's ironic is that one of these holier than thou crybabies that loves to pull out his goodguy badge is the very bird that constantly sells pirated SMS/Mark III carts on eBay.

Opinions are like assholes and people are free to spread their asses to the point of a colonoscopy, but if you view these actions as a heinous crime wedged somewhere between murder and child molestation then why constantly inhabit a forum that allows it? Why post a topic complaining about an eBay seller selling shitty Chinese Sega clamshells that's going to appear between a guy looking for a Wily Wars counterfeit and how to mod Darxide for a NTSC Everdrive setup?

[Bratwurst]

assholes

You have my attention.


heinous

Heinie!?

[FieryReign]

Wow, so apparently when you try and register it redirects to their beta website? That's not what I wanted to do. Because they need to "review" my request and approve me because they value "quality" members. What the fuck is this? Freemasonry?

[Gentlegamer]

Wow, so apparently when you try and register it redirects to their beta website? That's not what I wanted to do. Because they need to "review" my request and approve me because they value "quality" members. What the fuck is this? Freemasonry?

The beta website is what you want to use for the forums, anyway.

[Niku-Sama]

yea I don't think the beta version has that annoying "mascot" in the corner.

I have an account there, I like the idea of some of the things they have as part of the forums but I don't like the format
1 finds post per person, why not make it like ours? it doesent get out of hand that way.

but yea a lot of people with more money and time than the general population.
and as far as collecting for investment, I collect for fun but when I get to a point where I need money it comes in handy to be able to offload some of those games.

it saved my ass last month after work effed me on my check and sick time. I managed to make enough selling doubles to pay for gas and food since I didn't have enough for any of that after making the house payment

[Penguin]

Yea the new beta website has been working great, still a few bugs but its coming along nicely.

[Tanooki]

I've always kept that thing off, it was so big and in the way, especially on my smaller laptop before this and the mobile devices.

[skcin7]

Delete

[Niku-Sama]

Compliance

[skcin7]

Delete

[calgon]

I'll speak on two issues I've had there, but please just judge for yourself.

1.) Any time I've looked on their buy/sell forum for a single or group of games, I've always found eBay prices to be cheaper. Definitely odd considering how great/respected our own buy/sell forum is here and has been for years.

2.) I don't make it a habit to read the site often but on those rare times I hunker down and dive in I'm always surprised with the amount of pure hissy fitting and rage going on directed at collectors, eBay, craigslst, other forums. I mean if you're a grown adult and your spending your time that way.....yipes.

[Gentlegamer]

There was a thread on NA inquiring about having sealed amiibos VGA graded.

[Tanooki]

Aww geez not this shat again. Odds are this could bring out the NA defense force new guy.

Various members of the site, including staff have accounts here, as do some of their most notable trolls and it seems at least a couple times a year something pops up, they come in and pop off over it, then certain people here who are more quiet will lay into them for sport, then it peters out, because the site won't concede to demands or harassment.

I think your problem here though is that you're a game lover, a player, someone in it for what they were made for and still today are made for -- enjoyment, not dust collecting the nicest version possible or largest pile of it and keeping the cash in mind. You care about the game, the story, the history of the game itself or the games as they progress (like the whole Hyrule historia that fanned out of Zelda.) The place isn't a loss even if the database has issues. If you ever need to look up something obscure or weird, just fire up google, use a 'site:' search on them and you'll probably find it. If you don't want to be tracked, use the covert option on your browser or a proxy. It's not a useless site, it has use for some information, but being a member there you have to be part of the pod culture or you're going to eat it quickly or slowly. They're also not the only source as google is your friend. I've not had a reason to look there since shortly after I left, and no desire to, because there's nothing there other than the retailers you're being cut off from at this rate (most are on ebay anyway, some other sites, using other names to lay low at least with ebay) because the site is publicly view able if you just want to browse it.

[goldenband]

Eh, I visit NA fairly often and have never had an issue, though I mostly stick to the gaming forum rather than the collecting forum -- but I have bought and, to a lesser extent, sold a fair amount of stuff there too.

They have a reputation of being a collectors' forum and not a gamer's forum, but they've actually managed to play through the entire NES library (licensed & PAL) in a single year, which shows there are some real gamers there. I think that's awesome, personally, as no other site I know of has managed to pull off a full console library playthrough in a year.

More broadly, just about every forum I visit has people on other forums who talk smack about how awful it is & describe it as a wretched hive of scum and villainy -- and vice versa. Yet I've never had a problem at any of them. :hmm:

Maybe it's just that people who are adamant that things should be A Certain Way inevitably clash with people who are equally adamant about A Certain Other Way, and the visiting team usually loses to the home team. Meanwhile, the rest of us quietly carry on.

EDIT: And the VGA stuff, shrug...it's utterly stupid, but I just don't see how it's relevant to me. Everyone has their lunacy, so why would I care about theirs?

[o.pwuaioc]

While I've never actually had a problem with NA, I've seen enough of their moderators banning people for honestly pointing out how scammy VGA is to know to stay away.

[Pikkon]

I'm a member over there but never had any problems with anyone.
About VGA.

I remember saying getting a game encased in a plastic tomb is not the best idea if you want to preserve it as a game with a battery will eventually leak and destroy the board.

Some people are just clueless.

[Steven]

I enjoy NA and browse it daily. Moreso than any other gaming forum because it's fairly active. But I mainly view Collector's Corner, Gamer's Gauntlet and Everything Else. Really don't bother with the other forums there.

I understand how some can view it as an "elitist" type site or group, but eh. I never had a problem with NA.

[jredmond3]

I don't do much there except sell, the Gamer's Gauntlet section is okay tho, can't really comment on much else as I haven't paid attention to the parts that don't interest me. I guess as far as collecting goes they are kinda like the Borg or something.

The thing with video game collecting is that the really zealous collecting used to only exist with stuff like the Neo Geo, which was already a high dollar console. Whatever NA is harboring was already growing and was always going to be. The rise in popularity of gaming in general (Youtube: AVGN, let's plays, etc ) coupled with the "retro" (well, retro in an 8/16-bit sense, etc ) crowd growing up and gaining more disposable income led to what we have now.

Ebay also switched over from primarily auction-style listings to overpriced fixed-price listings ( not sure if that was cause or effect ). Other than that, the public at large finally picked up on the notion that old games shouldn't necessarily be lumped in with VHS tapes in the garbage bin.

I would agree that the rat race aspect of collecting has become off-putting in ways. More people involved = more collectors and profiteers = $500 Panzer Dragoon Saga. Which, on the bright side, this also equates to a more active community for independent game companies / homebrews. So at the end of the day it's not all bad.

[JSoup]

This seems like a good time to repost Port's Top 20 Reasons Why NA Sucks (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?156892-The-3rd-rarest-licensed-NES-game&p=1856133&viewfull=1#post1856133).

And for the hell of it, addendum #21:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvWMmd0iiaI

[Tanooki]

Some of the come back posts at the time (2011) almost seem like a fair assessment against what port had written for that top 20 reasons, but now going beyond the disgusting explosion of price/abuse that came out of summer 2012 which has ever increased since they're basically irrelevant now. That's a pretty on the nose list, though maybe a bit unfair on some what it was written, but if you take it by today 4 years later it's far more accurate sadly.

I'm not sure what it would fall under, the collecting number on the list, but you could also say there's a move to suppress the sharing of information with others in need to protect the so called value of the item. Took me awhile to get a Faria Map, and I didn't even want a real one because of the expense involved. I tried twice spread by quite a few months apart to get a decent legible scan of the front and back to play the game as the inside areas are brutal. Ended up being told I was stupid, entitled, illiterate, and other fun crap. As a mean tease I finally got one, that was run through a pinwheel filter in photoshop which made the teeny pointing arrows for dungeon rooms and other little notes head ache inducing. I ended up giving up threatening I'd release the thing if I ever got it. Then I did, stupid cheap ($20~) and immediately did a 4000x3000 sized scan front and back, release them as PDF in one and JPG alone on DP here. I warned ahead of time, ended up getting a mix of begging and threats if I did it or did it and wouldn't watermark it first. Well you can see what I did checking the archive here or the link in my sig. :) For a good year or so it did kill the value on the thing, but it has since shot back up over the $100 mark. What's important though is that it wasn't suppressed to stroke some fools egos so that people with a general need could use the document and it has been digitally preserved for public use.

Keep in mind not everyone, even staff, are messed up to awful there. Some can be downright helpful, friendly and even surprising. I stil have a staff member or two I'm friends with among a few other members I keep in contact with off site (and off gaming forums entirely) as it's not worth just cutting the cord when you find the gold nugget among all the rubble. Not too long before I left the place one of the mods (jd) help me skewer a whale of mine I had been after a good year with no results, the warezy illegal retrozone I'm Kid Dracula cart. One day just found it in the mail box with a hand written nice letter from him as a gift. As much as I've scaled back my collection of old 8/16bit Nintendo console carts, it remains (along with Gradius II which I traded for.)

[Gentlegamer]

"Price check on my sealed Wii U collection"

http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=152381&StartRow=1#bottom

[Daria]

Took me awhile to get a Faria Map, and I didn't even want a real one because of the expense involved. I tried twice spread by quite a few months apart to get a decent legible scan of the front and back to play the game as the inside areas are brutal.

I played through that earlier this year with graph paper; it was tedious but not impossible. No different than having to map out any old school dungeon crawler.

On NA: Some people are assholes, real assholes. They ban way too many people and aren't transparent about why. Nearly every thread you read that's say more than a week old will have a banned user in it. They're also pretty nosey about shit that happens offline. I saw a guy get banned for a story he told on facebook about a local deal a friend hooked him up with in a thrift store. They're also hypocritical about bootlegs. Everything's weighed by the effect a person's actions will have on their bottom dollar. So making reproductions for profit? Love em! The more limited the edition the better! Reproduction labels on existing games? Break out the pitch forks! Your personal copy might one day leak out into the big wide world of garage sales where an NA member might over pay for it. BAD.

But I think a vocal minority overshadows a good community underneath. Not everyone is like that, and some good discussions occur (mostly because they're so damn active). I just wish they'd talk more about gameplay. Everything's so focused around profit and display shelving.

[Daria]

"Price check on my sealed Wii U collection"

http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=152381&StartRow=1#bottom

Well that was mildly amusing. Thanks.

Edit: I was going to argue that I've never experienced any sexism at NA in response to port's addendum but then goes this guy running off his mouth.

[Tanooki]

On NA: Some people are assholes, real assholes. They ban way too many people and aren't transparent about why. Nearly every thread you read that's say more than a week old will have a banned user in it. They're also pretty nosey about shit that happens offline. I saw a guy get banned for a story he told on facebook about a local deal a friend hooked him up with in a thrift store. They're also hypocritical about bootlegs. Everything's weighed by the effect a person's actions will have on their bottom dollar. So making reproductions for profit? Love em! The more limited the edition the better! Reproduction labels on existing games? Break out the pitch forks! Your personal copy might one day leak out into the big wide world of garage sales where an NA member might over pay for it. BAD.

But I think a vocal minority overshadows a good community underneath. Not everyone is like that, and some good discussions occur (mostly because they're so damn active). I just wish they'd talk about about gameplay. Everything's so focused around profit and display shelving.

That about sums it up without the top 20 list keeping it short. Like I said, there are some gold nuggets among the rubble. I don't hate the site, I just hate what some of the people have become on there at the cost of doing the right thing and separating the forums from the real world. What people do with their paid for items should never be in any right of their concern, ever, especially to the point of offline/off site stalking someone and banning them. That's overly controlling and very petty, it's like digital gestapo tactics. Do what the state police say fall into the rules, anywhere, or else, and you will be monitored. Put that to the side, there's nice people on there, not much talk the games, but some do, yet I found contacting some via PM then off site suddenly walls of fear break down and conversations start that would get harassment or a ban, but the discussions are far more fun when the fear factor is removed such as like here and most other spaces about old gaming.

[skcin7]

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[Tanooki]

I think Dain is fairly well disconnected from the reality of the site. Sure he keeps it up, but I don't believe he actively administers it unless it's necessary which is why there are other admins. As long as it's popular and brings in the money so it doesn't cost him anything out of pocket I imagine he's fine with however it plays out.

I have to ask, what was your user name there as I'm guessing you got shown the door for not being part of the solution.

[Gentlegamer]

Here's another great NA thread: http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?StartRow=1&catid=6&threadid=149389

New member, with no feedback selling Hagane CIB (box not mint and cart with crappy sticker residue) for $1000 firm. Money order only (though he later amended that).

I don't do many online sales, and the main reason I'm posting here is because I just found out how much Hagane is worth 2 months ago.

That guy fits right in.

[Kevincal]

Nintendo Age and Atari Age are chock full of stupid ASSHOLES! Especially the so-called MODS at those sites. FUCK THEM! I have been banned from both sites because the moderators did not like me. Digital Press is great. A place where adults can be adults.

The gaming website that takes the cake though, for nearly everyone there being an asshole, is TNL or "The Next Level" I think its pretty much dead now. Also, I don't think very highly of the TG-16 site or Sega Age...

RF Generation is mostly cool...

I HATE places that are over moderated, those pathetic fucks that think they are god and above everyone because they moderate a gaming forum. They don't understand people can have a difference of opinion. Basically a lot of these mods, if your opinion doesn't match up with theirs, they will treat you like shit and eventually ban you. And then you have those clown forum members who hang from the nuts of the moderators and agree with everything they do and say, like a teachers pet kinda bullshit. Makes me sick. Brown nosing idiots.

[Tanooki]

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[o.pwuaioc]

That's a bit much, they're acting like adults. Just those in boots to goose step by is all. :) I get rules are meant to be followed, but when you have a sub-set of shadow rules and monitoring to remove people who don't fall into the same mind set despite not making a ruckus or violating the terms.

I don't understand any part of this post. The third sentence I probably could have, but it's an incomplete thought. But the first two sentences? Huh?

[Daria]

I don't understand any part of this post. The third sentence I probably could have, but it's an incomplete thought. But the first two sentences? Huh?

Pretty sure he just called the NA mods a group of Nazis.

[JSoup]

Edit: I was going to argue that I've never experienced any sexism at NA in response to port's addendum but then goes this guy running off his mouth.

Interestingly enough, part of why that was relevant at the time is what was going on. While we were talking about rare licensed NES games and bitching about NA, NA was dealing with some social fallout. (http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=57262)

[Daria]

Interestingly enough, part of why that was relevant at the time is what was going on. While we were talking about rare licensed NES games and bitching about NA, NA was dealing with some social fallout. (http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=57262)

Yeah that's pretty disgusting.

[Gentlegamer]

What Should I Collect Next, NES or SNES?

There are alot of factors to consider, But Number #1 is which of the two Consoles Librarys have gone up in Value over the years, I dont want to regret not picking up a certain game or two that later could be worth hundreds. (Little Samson) or (Hagane).

which Library would you invest your Time and "Hard Earned Cash" on?

http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=152389&StartRow=1#bottom

I should stop, but I keep seeing examples of problems in the 'collector community' manifested regularly at Nintendo Age.

[Tanooki]

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[Niku-Sama]

I think this should be an example of

"hey things could be worse here"

I think most of the level headed people around here would keep that sort of traffic in check
maybe here at DP we can bring the collections to be more about the games and less about the money.

long story short...

it could be a lot worse, Joe.

[Tanooki]

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[Tanooki]

Yeah you came up the 4 years I was there, never did get why the negativity around it as I just don't see the problem. I didn't when I was happy there, and after either. I know my post count was up there, but I was stuck at the time so I was on there a lot and responded to anything thrown my way directly or was interesting at the time so it was just an effect of it. Starting some anti-NA movement sounds like a time waster as the self destruction alone seems to have taken some toll considering you can hit a lot of forums around that cover Nintendo and you can use the search tool and find some less than happy people about one thing or another and it's not the usual sour grapes over being tossed but you get that anywhere really regardless if someone was tossed or it's just an observation.

[Bobo Mcloud]

I visit the NA site among others twice daily and I've met some really cool and helpful people, sure there are some idiots and assholes but it's the internet!
I've only been a member here for a little while but I've seen quite a few "entitled" people who are exactly the same as the people they are complaining about.
About VGA, 90% of members hate VGA and think it's a joke so I'm not sure who is getting in trouble for voicing their opinions on the subject.

[JSoup]

Btw, skcin7, you have absolutely no ground to stand on dumping on NintendoAge. You know why.

Oh, please do share.

[Leo_A]

Edit: Had 2nd thoughts, so ignore this...

[skcin7]

Delete

[Bing147]

I suppose I'll be a minor voice of dissent. I like NA for the most part. It's my 3rd or 4th most read forum and I end up posting there a lot more than here, though I admit I probably enjoy the posts here a lot more on average. They are a lot more active though so there are a lot more opportunities to have a discussion.

I agree completely that they are much more collector focused than gamer focused. I don't consider that necessarily a bad thing though, they are a collecting forum. There are a million places to talk about gaming and they have a great gaming forum as well. If some prefer the collecting side of things though, I say live and let live.

I've never felt like I couldn't post what I wanted to post on something. I'm very anti VGA and have posted that many times. But I don't go looking for VGA threads to crap on. Even when I do post that I'm against it I do so respectfully. I've been a member for a little over 3 years and never even been modded. Are there some serious jerks there? Absolutely. Are they a bit heavy with the ban hammer? Definitely. The buy/sell section has gone to hell too. I have only done one transaction there in the last year whereas I used to do them regularly. eBay is almost always cheaper. At the end of the day though, the jerks are far outnumbered by the good people and the amount of knowledge and discussion is hard to beat. I've only posted in 37 threads so far this year, which breaks down to about 4 a month so I'm not particularly active there anymore for that matter but I still find it a worthwhile forum.

[Daria]

I suppose I'll be a minor voice of dissent. I like NA for the most part. It's my 3rd or 4th most read forum and I end up posting there a lot more than here, though I admit I probably enjoy the posts here a lot more on average. They are a lot more active though so there are a lot more opportunities to have a discussion.

I agree completely that they are much more collector focused than gamer focused. I don't consider that necessarily a bad thing though, they are a collecting forum. There are a million places to talk about gaming and they have a great gaming forum as well. If some prefer the collecting side of things though, I say live and let live.

I've never felt like I couldn't post what I wanted to post on something. I'm very anti VGA and have posted that many times. But I don't go looking for VGA threads to crap on. Even when I do post that I'm against it I do so respectfully. I've been a member for a little over 3 years and never even been modded. Are there some serious jerks there? Absolutely. Are they a bit heavy with the ban hammer? Definitely. The buy/sell section has gone to hell too. I have only done one transaction there in the last year whereas I used to do them regularly. eBay is almost always cheaper. At the end of the day though, the jerks are far outnumbered by the good people and the amount of knowledge and discussion is hard to beat. I've only posted in 37 threads so far this year, which breaks down to about 4 a month so I'm not particularly active there anymore for that matter but I still find it a worthwhile forum.

I may have come off as negative with my original post. And I stand by my complaints, but let me reiterate I like NA. I'm fairly active there, and really any forum that size is going to have it's fair share of issues. You kind of have to take the good with the bad and not get sucked into the drama.

[JSoup]

What Daria says. NA has issues, but there are people there I enjoy chatting with and the off hand topic I'll post in. Pretty much every forum you'd like to mention has problems like that, nothings perfect.

[GrandAmChandler]

I absolutely do have every ground to stand on for the way I feel about NintendoAge, same as you. I have literally thousands of positive transactions with people over the years and no negative feedback. I am an honest person, and very passionate about collecting and retro-gaming, and one of the easiest, friendliest, and quickest traders to deal with. We've both seen and experienced many similar things about how that community has become over the years. So I absolutely do have every ground to stand on for how I feel about it.

Man, I don't come around here much, but I am one that loves nostalgia. Has it really been almost 10 years? Skcin7, you know you aren't supposed to be here, isn't that right vididiots (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?80509-Vididiots-Arrested!-Fined!-(Page-8)-NEW-INFO-12-06&p=991270&viewfull=1#post991270)? or was it /b/tard (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/member.php?18435-b-tard)? Or is it Nick333 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/member.php?12419-Nick333)? or is it burnambill333 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/member.php?11537-burnambill333)? Maybe it was mister_slug? Or even don_bills? Nah it has to be bananaphone812 (http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/member.php?14209-bananaphone812).

If you want some reading to check out Skcin7's "honesty" feel free to check out:

http://forum.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?80509-Vididiots-Arrested!-Fined!-(Page-8)-NEW-INFO-12-06

and

http://nintendoage.com/auth/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&threadid=17560

[skcin7]

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[Emuaust]

As a rule of thumb when I deal with people on the internet I generally get a red flag about a person when they feel the need to use an infinite amount of different usernames...

[o.pwuaioc]

As a rule of thumb when I deal with people on the internet I generally get a red flag about a person when they feel the need to use an infinite amount of different usernames...

Even before finding that out, for me the big red flag is one a user, without being accused of anything specific, immediately calls himself an "honest person", and then proceeds to list all their good qualities. This is maximized when the first line of defense is "I've never been found guilty of anything."

I don't know this user or hang around NA, so maybe it's all unfair, but those are definite signs to stay away.

Edit: Looking at those threads, holy shit this guy is super slimy. Why is he not banned again for evading a ban?

[skcin7]

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[Milenko]

skcin7 is my username. I've used it since like 1997 when I signed up for AOL Instant Messenger.

Evening. So, here's my take on all of this.

First of all, we're all adults here. So the hearsay is funny to me. Not a single one of those links offers proof for or against skcin7's shenanigans. Is it possible he did dumb shit when he was a kid? Absolutely. Is it possible he didn't? Absolutely. But where is the actual evidence to these claims? Realistically, a mod is going to listen to the claims of their users. That's a given. But nowhere in these posts does anyone show any screenshots or proof of the claims against this dude.

That being said, I've known him for about 3 years now. He's never done anything to fuck me over, or any of my users. As far as I can tell he's a pretty good dude, even if he's just a good dude now since he's grown up.

[o.pwuaioc]

There were too many people looking through his ebay listings noting reseals, and given the fact that at one time he bought a resealer, that seems pretty incontrovertible evidence to me.

[Gentlegamer]

Evening. So, here's my take on all of this.

First of all, we're all adults here. So the hearsay is funny to me. Not a single one of those links offers proof for or against skcin7's shenanigans. Is it possible he did dumb shit when he was a kid? Absolutely. Is it possible he didn't? Absolutely. But where is the actual evidence to these claims? Realistically, a mod is going to listen to the claims of their users. That's a given. But nowhere in these posts does anyone show any screenshots or proof of the claims against this dude.

That being said, I've known him for about 3 years now. He's never done anything to fuck me over, or any of my users. As far as I can tell he's a pretty good dude, even if he's just a good dude now since he's grown up.

Another alt appears!

[Milenko]

Another alt appears!

Nah man, definitely not an alt. I'm just adding my two-cents and looking for info.

[Daria]

I am an honest person. I was never arrested...


It's true I was arrested, fingerprinted, and a mugshot was taken of me.

So... were you lying then or now? And what does that say about your honesty?

[Ryaan1234]

Another alt appears!

Hello! Digitalpress user and occasional poster since 2004 here!

I believe Milenko is just a lurker that finally decided to get an account and not one of this guy's 23989224 alternate names.

That is all.

[Milenko]

So... were you lying then or now? And what does that say about your honesty?

To be fair that could have been some dude just messing with people. He has three posts in his history, two being sarcastic, one saying he was finger printed and arrested. There's really no proof that's even Nick.

[Daria]

That being said, I've known him for about 3 years now.

Really? Cause on NA you said you had no idea who this Nick Morgan person was, before you edited the post to say "nice score" anyway:

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm284/ztakxilef/milenko_zpseaq5hql8.png

[Milenko]

Really? Cause on NA you said you had no idea who this Nick Morgan person was, before you edited the post to say "nice score" anyway:

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm284/ztakxilef/milenko_zpseaq5hql8.png

You are correct ma'am. I don't go ask people there names online if I don't personally buy from them.

I didn't know he was Nick Morgan, I only knew skcin7 through reddits r/gamecollecting sub reddit.

[skcin7]

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[skcin7]

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[Bloodreign]

*farts in thread, leaves*

That should scatter them.

[Milenko]

Really? Cause on NA you said you had no idea who this Nick Morgan person was, before you edited the post to say "nice score" anyway:

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm284/ztakxilef/milenko_zpseaq5hql8.png

I thought about it again, I never admitted to knowing him in that thread actually.

What you see in your screenshot is actually said by JosephLeo.

http://imgur.com/B7rOiEB.png

[Daria]

I thought about it again, I never admitted to knowing him in that thread actually.

What you see in your screenshot is actually said by JosephLeo.


I guess that doesn't matter much since you guys met on reddit and you didn't know his name a year ago anyway right?

Edit: Dude. Resize your images.

[Milenko]

I guess that doesn't matter much since you guys met on reddit and you didn't know his name a year ago anyway right?

Edit: Dude. Resize your images.

I mean, honestly yeah. It doesn't matter considering it wasn't me that you quoted. The only reason I know his name is 'Nick Morgan' is because of the Secret Santa from the gamecollecting IRC channel.

I still don't see what this has to do with my previous comments about actual proof of him being an asshole and my personal experiences with the kid not being the norm.

Its extremely possible he was a dumb fuck kid, and screwed people over. But he hasn't screwed me or my friends over, that's all I'm saying here.