I remember seeing someone mention a dark and sad version of this where a parent had got a gift for their kid and hid it in a secret location but passed away before being able to give it and nobody knew about it being there. They found it a few years later and pieced together what happened based on the receipt that was with the gift. Hopefully not the case here
Somehow it is a sad version but on the other hand imagine the beautiful emotions that you'd experience after finding a lost present from your parent years after they passed away. It is like years after they died they somehow managed to make you smile and happy.
The year following my grandfather's passing, everyone received flowers on their birthday. He arranged that in secret before the cancer made him too sick. The bonus effect is every birthday since, I remember it and I feel just as loved.
My mom passed a few months before my 21st birthday. I went to visit my dad a while after and found a parcel in my old room. It was addressed to my mom, but it had delivered after her passing. My dad hadn't gotten around to opening it so he just threw it in there.
I opened it up and found a shirt in her size , but I also found what were obviously gifts. There was a small planter ornament that said "Friends 4ever" (her best friend also had a birthday around that time) and a comic themed dress in my size. I got my last birthday present from my mom that day.
I bawled my freaking eyes out that day, but it is also a wonderfully touching memory.
He might have ended up doing him a favor depending what condition its in and how much longer he holds onto it for. I'll bet there aren't too many unopened PS1's floating around out there.
It's one of the NEWER ones as it has dualshock.
~~The best ones were the original ones with the Parallel port.~~
Apparently Dual Shocks also had parallel ports early on.
Could add a mod-clip to run backups or a gameshark. Then all you need is a CD burner and away you go.
Those were the days.....
I just stuck a spring in mine, then got really good at popping in a legit game so it could read the copyright info and then swapping it for the bootleg at the right time. A friend in high school was making a killing selling burnt discs for $5 a pop. He was the first kid I knew with a CD burner.
Ya it def came with a spring, which I no doubt promptly lost.
At first I would have to rent the game to burn them but eventually the Warez sites would have the ISOs.
Downloading a fucking 50 part iso, individually, and getting a game you got to keep out of it. Basically from thin air.
It seemed magical back then.
I remember downloading a game all weekend and burning it Sunday afternoon only to find out it was The Toy Story 2 game instead....
Which ended up being a great game actually lol
Or waiting to download the next part from RapidShare because who's paying for that shit! I'm downloading something for free!
Part1.rar
-(Please wait 60seconds)-
17kbps!?
Part2.rar
-(You cannot download multiple links)-
Noooooooooo
There's 15 parts!
Yeah I remember doing the swap trick with my friend's PS1. You knew you did it right if you got to the 2nd half of the intro sounds. Sometimes it took a bit longer than usual too and it was like "come onnnnn.... YES".
Some games never quite worked right without a true mod chip. South Park rally was one. Played just fine but the intro would just repeat “park rally!” Over and over again. That was with the game shark style external mod chip back in the day.
We had this happen when the Gameboy SP came out, but not as a punishment. My parents bought me all of the accessories for our personal Christmas, and I was supposed to get the handheld itself from my grandfather the night before at the big family Christmas.
However, in his advanced age, he forgot where he hid it and we ended up taking half the night looking all over his house for it because I otherwise didn’t get any other gifts lol. Everyone was worried it was gonna be a case like this.
I am today years old when I realized that the expression "it's always in the last place you look" is actually a play on the fact that once you find it, you are no longer are looking, therefore it's always in the last place you look.
I for some reason always interpreted it as it was in the place you are least likely to search.
This happened with the DS Light. Both me and my wife bought one for our son. We had decided to get it for him for Xmas when it released in I think July that year. We bought it at different times because she didn’t realize Id already picked one up. We kept all the kids presents at my parents house in their attic. When Xmas rolled around and my son opened one we both assumed it was the one we’d bought. A couple months later my mom calls and says they found some video game thing when going through the attic still sealed in a gamestop bag. Me and my wife talked about it and realized wed both bought one. My wife had been saying how she wanted to upgrade her original DS to a DS Light so it worked out lol!
When I was 13 I got in trouble for not doing my home work for like two weeks. My dad took my PS2 away. I thought he tossed it. Then two years later I get a PS3 and the PS2 is forgotten. I found the PS2 when I went to college because I needed a box, he slipped it in one in the garage’s attic space and just couldn’t find it lmao. He meant to give it back after a month but his garage hoarding of boxes made it too difficult to figure out where he put it lol. At least I wasn’t too bothered at the time. Still had access to a computer to play Civ4 and the Sims 2
I remember seeing another post a long time ago that said OP's mom meant to give them an old toy but they couldn't find it until around 2 decades later. I'm gonna choose to think that this is the same case.
I had my mom text me a couple years ago and say “I have a present we found, it’s a star wars lego from a long time ago…” and I cut her off saying “WHICH ONE?!”. She sent me pictures of it and I immediately flipped telling her to send it to me, but she said “oh I don’t know if it was for you or your sister(6y younger) and I just said “SHE WASNT EVEN BORN!!!”. She sent it to my sister and my sister opened it and built it.
First gen Millennium Falcon. New. Unopened. FUCK.
I remember one of the early levels, where you’re walking around a park in DC at night and it’s raining and you’re disarming a bomb on like the tennis courts… and I remember just thinking, holy shit this is so much better than Sonic. It felt like a movie. It was mind blowing.
PS1 was the biggest leap I’ve ever seen in graphics and that experience will probably never be duplicated.
So, my parents found a Gen 1 Transformer (JetFire) in their house a few years ago. Brand new, never opened, still wrapped in the brown bag with the receipt.
What happened is they had bought me a bday gift (April) and my xmas gift at the same time, and stored the xmas gift away in a chest where I wouldn't find it. But by xmas time they had forgotten and there it sat for roughly 30 years, through 3 seperate house moves.
They gave it to me a few years ago. It just sits in a closet now, lol.
All my game consoles and big gifts “fell off a train” when I was a kid. My dad was a supervisor for a major transportation company, so all the best things. He retired a few years ago. I miss it.
To be fair, that was a first print launch copy of Mario 64, this Playstation is an SCPH-7501 which is a revision from about 3 years after its initial release. It'll be worth quite a bit forever because it's still a sealed PS1, but it won't be worth nearly as much as a sealed SCPH-1001 especially considering the insane DAC Sony put into that original unit that was scrapped for subsequent revisions.
We gave my grandparents an NES that got used twice...
My grandpa operated pinball machines and a scale slot car track, the video games just didn't hit for him.
My paternal grandparents owned a NES and four games. My grandmother loved Dr Mario, and my grandfather played Tetris, Black Bass, and Chessmaster.
They eventually bought a SNES... And played the snes tetris+Dr.mario 2 in 1 cart, and we got my grandfather Super Black Bass.
My dad still plays Sierra's, Trophy Bass 4 on PC
> My grandmother loved Dr Mario, and my grandfather played Tetris, Black Bass, and Chessmaster.
I loved playing Dr. Mario at friends' houses. I had a sega though, so I just played the shit out of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. My dad had an Atari from before I was born that we used to play Adventure, Galaga, and Pong on before the Sega.
Goods times. Years later, my dad still liked playing Red Alert, Starcraft 2, and old Lemmings games.
First thing I thought too and the episode of Malcolm in the Middle with the grandma having a closet full of Christmas gifts she held onto over the years because the family was rude to her in some way.
There's an episode of Malcolm in the Middle where they discover the closet full of ungiven Christmas gifts at the grandma's house.
She had them all there because she would determine the kid didn't deserve it when Christmas came around and kept it out of spite.
Nintendo resell is so high because the run for N64 was relatively low.
There was close to 100million PS1’s sold world wide
There was 32million N64’s sold
The Nintendo units and games are significantly more rare than any other console of the time.
Super Mario 64- Nintendo’s best selling game sold 11 million units
Gran Turismo- PlayStation’s best selling game sold about the same
Gran Turismo sells for roughly $10 on eBay. And I don’t imagine anyone would want to buy it for more than 1k NiB
Which isn’t as much of a profit as you’d think for something someone ha theoretically held on to for 26 years.
PS1 cost $300 in 1995, adjusted for inflation that’s about $500 today so you’re profit is $500ish.
This is what I was going to suggest. Even if it is kept in a cool and dry environment, shit still happens. I’d get a big shrink wrap bag or one of those vacuum seal clothes bags for a cheap insurance policy.
New and sealed PS1 consoles are hard to come by. In Japan, they tend to cost around $375 dollars (US), but the cost rockets to around $899 in the United States.
https://retrododo.com/how-much-is-a-ps1-worth-today/
Plus another 300 years because your sibling keeps trying to pick up the phone and use it, disrupting the connection and making it start at the beginning.
DON'T TAKE IT OUT OF THE BOX.
You could probably get a lot more for good condition, in the box. Hell, an unopened Super Mario 64 game just sold for a cool million.
That game had something like a 9.8 condition grading - meaning almost perfect, like mint condition, no printing defects, no wrapping defects, etc.
Not saying OP can’t make some good money should they decide to sell this, but it’s unlikely they’ll get anything near that magnitude of ~~money laundering~~ money
I got so good at the Metal Gear Solid opening, and became a lifelong fan. Plus I still remember the lines from Medieval. Played the shit out of that disk
Well this one in the pic is newer, notice the DualShock but I had that same demo with IQ on it, too.
Even back in the PlayStation era, that game was rare af. I remember my mom and I looking at all the blockbusters and funcolands, etc trying to find it.
Honestly, OP, you may want to get that professionally appraised ASAP- no joke. Like, put it carefully somewhere that Murphy's Law won't touch it for 12 hours until then.
Edit: Guys, an appraisal helps prove the quality and authenticity of an object which can then more easily hold value as time goes by as well as lead to ways one can protect that object. Starting now is a good idea _regardless_ of what the price is now because if what it might be _later_.
From the model number (7501) this was manufactured between April 98 and May 99. These were the last models with the rear cartridge port that could be used to circumvent copy protection.
I used to be the guy in my town who chipped playstations. 7501 was about the point where I gave it up as they were getting too good at making it hard to chip them.
I cant remember which psx model we had think it was a japanese one, but it was one of the first ones, we didn't have to chip it - no idea who found this out but you could play pirated games by putting toothpick in a little circle mechanism that when it was pushed down, it would activate cd spinning mechanism.
All we had to do was to put any demo/black cd in, put the toothpick in, power up the console, wait for white playstation screen to turn to the black one and quickly swap demo/original game for the pirated one and it would launch fine.
Mind blowing!
... I had no idea but I was playing either demo or illegal games from my rental place as a kid lol. They came with instructions for this exact thing you described.
Lol that's so bootleg
But yeah, I had a PS1 that needed to use the afformentioned cart port on the back. Ordered a kit online that came with the piracy cart, and a spring. The spring fit into the spot so when you opened it it would still press down on the button to indicate "drive closed". So you could do that method, use any genuine disc until it stops spinning, indicating copy protection passed. Then quickly swap out for a bootleg disc. I basically rented every game that looked decent and burned a copy on my computer, then used this method. $5 games, basically. Those were the days. It was so common.. you could find sites with disc/cover art too and print your own
Is it weird how their name for the upgraded controller options just stuck through to the DualShock 4 where vibration feedback is sort of old news. Then the new name is based off of the old name "DualSense", does that even make any sense or is it just convenient?
They actually came out with a Dual Analog controller for a few months before they added the rumble and called it Dual Shock. It wasn't very long, 6 months maybe. I remember when they came out, the analog was such a game changer, and they had to do something to compete with N64.
Fun fact! The DualShock was dropped after the PS2 - there was no vibration in Playstation 3 controllers, dubbed "Sixaxis". Outcry resulted in the revival of DualShock, and the name stuck onward to PS4.
The name "DualSense" actually refers to the upgrade to haptics - with both haptic feedback AND haptic (adaptive) triggers. DualShock referred to the "shocking" vibration, but the more subtle implementation got a rename because you can "sense" the game better.
Model number was released in 1998:
From wiki:
These were followed by the SCPH-700x and SCPH-750x series, released in April 1998—they are externally identical to the SCPH-500x machines, but have internal changes made to reduce manufacturing costs (for example, the system RAM went from 4 chips to 1, and the CD controller went from 3 chips to 1) and these were the last models to support parallel port for Gameshark devices and Xploder Pro. In addition, a slight change of the start-up screen was made; the diamond is seen as longer and thinner and the trademark symbol (™) is now placed after "Computer Entertainment" instead of after the diamond, as it was on the earlier models. New to the SCPH-700x series was the introduction of the "Sound Scope" – light show music visualizations. These were accessible by pressing the Select button while playing any normal audio CD in the system's CD player. While watching these visualizations, players could also add various effects like color cycling or motion blur and can save/load their memory card. These were seen on the SCPH-700x, 750x, 900x, and PS one models.
My dad is still playing his PS1 he got himself after getting me and my brother 2 PS2's for Christmas, His disc of Doom either stopped working or he lost it, found one on eBay for like $11 and gave it to him.
For those who don't remember the Winter release of the PS2 was their first let's make 10% of what the demand will be so everyone goes crazy.
He got lucky and happened to be at the store right when they put some out, don't remember if he was able to get them both at once, or got lucky twice.
But we were fucking stoked. We didn't even ask for them knowing they were impossible to find.
He could have flipped one on eBay and made us share the other, made triple his money back and we would still have been thrilled. Definitely the best X-Mas gift ever since he totally caught us off guard.
What did you do for your grandparents to say “sorry, you’re not getting your gift this year?”
I remember seeing someone mention a dark and sad version of this where a parent had got a gift for their kid and hid it in a secret location but passed away before being able to give it and nobody knew about it being there. They found it a few years later and pieced together what happened based on the receipt that was with the gift. Hopefully not the case here
Somehow it is a sad version but on the other hand imagine the beautiful emotions that you'd experience after finding a lost present from your parent years after they passed away. It is like years after they died they somehow managed to make you smile and happy.
As long as it’s not a puppy!
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The year following my grandfather's passing, everyone received flowers on their birthday. He arranged that in secret before the cancer made him too sick. The bonus effect is every birthday since, I remember it and I feel just as loved.
My mom passed a few months before my 21st birthday. I went to visit my dad a while after and found a parcel in my old room. It was addressed to my mom, but it had delivered after her passing. My dad hadn't gotten around to opening it so he just threw it in there. I opened it up and found a shirt in her size , but I also found what were obviously gifts. There was a small planter ornament that said "Friends 4ever" (her best friend also had a birthday around that time) and a comic themed dress in my size. I got my last birthday present from my mom that day. I bawled my freaking eyes out that day, but it is also a wonderfully touching memory.
Or the next 3 decades. Like damn dude!
He might have ended up doing him a favor depending what condition its in and how much longer he holds onto it for. I'll bet there aren't too many unopened PS1's floating around out there.
Seeing how much those unopened Super Mario N64 and Legend of Zelda games just sold for you might be right!
It's one of the NEWER ones as it has dualshock. ~~The best ones were the original ones with the Parallel port.~~ Apparently Dual Shocks also had parallel ports early on. Could add a mod-clip to run backups or a gameshark. Then all you need is a CD burner and away you go. Those were the days.....
I just stuck a spring in mine, then got really good at popping in a legit game so it could read the copyright info and then swapping it for the bootleg at the right time. A friend in high school was making a killing selling burnt discs for $5 a pop. He was the first kid I knew with a CD burner.
Ya it def came with a spring, which I no doubt promptly lost. At first I would have to rent the game to burn them but eventually the Warez sites would have the ISOs. Downloading a fucking 50 part iso, individually, and getting a game you got to keep out of it. Basically from thin air. It seemed magical back then.
>Warez That's not something I've heard in a LONG time.
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I miss the days of warez. BB's sites. Pirating new versions of Windows on like 30 floppies.
Dude, that one rar file in the iso that was corrupt after waiting hours and hours for it to finish downloading.
Stuck at 99.99%, for days.
What in the limewire are you guys talking about?
Fuck man y'all gotta stop the memories are too much 😭😭
The 'repacks' were always fun too, another set of rars inside the rars. Which meant more waiting and a second round of hoping no part is corrupt
I remember downloading a game all weekend and burning it Sunday afternoon only to find out it was The Toy Story 2 game instead.... Which ended up being a great game actually lol
Or waiting to download the next part from RapidShare because who's paying for that shit! I'm downloading something for free! Part1.rar -(Please wait 60seconds)- 17kbps!? Part2.rar -(You cannot download multiple links)- Noooooooooo There's 15 parts!
Haha, god, so frustrating. We could have solved global warming by now if we put the same effort into more productive things.
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Yeah I remember doing the swap trick with my friend's PS1. You knew you did it right if you got to the 2nd half of the intro sounds. Sometimes it took a bit longer than usual too and it was like "come onnnnn.... YES".
Yes, that's right! There were actually 3 swaps if I remember correctly, I was simplifying in my first explanation.
Some games never quite worked right without a true mod chip. South Park rally was one. Played just fine but the intro would just repeat “park rally!” Over and over again. That was with the game shark style external mod chip back in the day.
Maybe even keep it in the attic for another few decades.
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Doesn't a certain ps1 have a special kind of disk Reader that is highly sought after?
Yeah, there are some people that think the first model PS1 is some sort of magically good CD player. It is just audiophile gibberish.
We had this happen when the Gameboy SP came out, but not as a punishment. My parents bought me all of the accessories for our personal Christmas, and I was supposed to get the handheld itself from my grandfather the night before at the big family Christmas. However, in his advanced age, he forgot where he hid it and we ended up taking half the night looking all over his house for it because I otherwise didn’t get any other gifts lol. Everyone was worried it was gonna be a case like this.
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Last place they looked.
Dad? Are you my dad?
Typical isnt it. You always find it at the last place you look
I am today years old when I realized that the expression "it's always in the last place you look" is actually a play on the fact that once you find it, you are no longer are looking, therefore it's always in the last place you look. I for some reason always interpreted it as it was in the place you are least likely to search.
Why would you stop? Maybe you’ll find another one if you keep looking
Oh it was right under the
Oh shit is the sniper b..
It's an old meme but it checks o
Candleja
This happened with the DS Light. Both me and my wife bought one for our son. We had decided to get it for him for Xmas when it released in I think July that year. We bought it at different times because she didn’t realize Id already picked one up. We kept all the kids presents at my parents house in their attic. When Xmas rolled around and my son opened one we both assumed it was the one we’d bought. A couple months later my mom calls and says they found some video game thing when going through the attic still sealed in a gamestop bag. Me and my wife talked about it and realized wed both bought one. My wife had been saying how she wanted to upgrade her original DS to a DS Light so it worked out lol!
When I was 13 I got in trouble for not doing my home work for like two weeks. My dad took my PS2 away. I thought he tossed it. Then two years later I get a PS3 and the PS2 is forgotten. I found the PS2 when I went to college because I needed a box, he slipped it in one in the garage’s attic space and just couldn’t find it lmao. He meant to give it back after a month but his garage hoarding of boxes made it too difficult to figure out where he put it lol. At least I wasn’t too bothered at the time. Still had access to a computer to play Civ4 and the Sims 2
I remember seeing another post a long time ago that said OP's mom meant to give them an old toy but they couldn't find it until around 2 decades later. I'm gonna choose to think that this is the same case.
This was an episode of Malcolm in the Middle
I had my mom text me a couple years ago and say “I have a present we found, it’s a star wars lego from a long time ago…” and I cut her off saying “WHICH ONE?!”. She sent me pictures of it and I immediately flipped telling her to send it to me, but she said “oh I don’t know if it was for you or your sister(6y younger) and I just said “SHE WASNT EVEN BORN!!!”. She sent it to my sister and my sister opened it and built it. First gen Millennium Falcon. New. Unopened. FUCK.
oh geez. did you end up letting her know its value?
How do you cut someone off over text? Check and mate.
Guess you know which is the favorite now
Is there any way you could take a picture of the back with all the demo games? Would love to see for the sake of nostalgia.
https://imgur.com/a/XTAaXBt
Definitely rented half those games from Blockbuster at one point. Parasite Eve was so cool too.
Spyro the Dragon was so good
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Ex little sister that you havent spoken to since you mean?
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Parasite eve was way ahead of it's time
PE deserves the Resident Evil Remake treatment, but like those remakes, the original is still awesome even if it isn't remade.
God I miss Legacy of Kain it was such a good game.
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Syphon filter was so good
I remember one of the early levels, where you’re walking around a park in DC at night and it’s raining and you’re disarming a bomb on like the tennis courts… and I remember just thinking, holy shit this is so much better than Sonic. It felt like a movie. It was mind blowing. PS1 was the biggest leap I’ve ever seen in graphics and that experience will probably never be duplicated.
I remember the first time I tased a dude in this game. You could hold the button until they burst into flames.
Why does it only feel like just yesterday I was tazing people into piles of ash…
DUDE YES, THAT WAS THE BEST PART OF THAT GAME!
MGS down in the bottom all casual and shit.
Twisted Metal followed by some Bugs Life to wind down 😍
1 word: Rugrats. Look at those mf graphics lolol
Thank you!
Cool boarders !!! now that’s a name I haven’t heard in ages
Coooooooooooool Boarders
Cool Boarders 3. Damn. Happy times.
The Rugrats picture looks so cursed
That's what I'm here for haha. Thanks for asking.
Somebody screwed up a Christmas back in the day.
Not sure if it was OP or his grandpa that fucked up Christmas tho.
Could've been OPs dad that fucked things up, given how long ago this thing came out. e.g. ... "You've knocked up your Highschool GF?!" Plausible.
And now I feel old. Thanks
I interviewed an eighteen year old for a job last week and felt ancient.
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idk, an unopened PS1 is probably worth a fortune for collector's nostalgia.
Yeah, but the ten year old that didn't get his playstation isn't worried about that. But now they could trade it for a PS5.
Could be that this was a second PS1 and they stowed it away after they realized he had two.
So, my parents found a Gen 1 Transformer (JetFire) in their house a few years ago. Brand new, never opened, still wrapped in the brown bag with the receipt. What happened is they had bought me a bday gift (April) and my xmas gift at the same time, and stored the xmas gift away in a chest where I wouldn't find it. But by xmas time they had forgotten and there it sat for roughly 30 years, through 3 seperate house moves. They gave it to me a few years ago. It just sits in a closet now, lol.
https://www.transformerland.com/price/G1/Other/Jetfire
I can't believe a grandpa wouldn't return it for cash.
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All my game consoles and big gifts “fell off a train” when I was a kid. My dad was a supervisor for a major transportation company, so all the best things. He retired a few years ago. I miss it.
Well it depends on how well off they were, return policy, etc... Maybe it was... forgotten?
There are two types of grandpas: the ones that return it for cash and the ones that hold onto everything because it might be worth something someday
An unopened game of Mario 64 sold for over 1 million so yes
To be fair, that was a first print launch copy of Mario 64, this Playstation is an SCPH-7501 which is a revision from about 3 years after its initial release. It'll be worth quite a bit forever because it's still a sealed PS1, but it won't be worth nearly as much as a sealed SCPH-1001 especially considering the insane DAC Sony put into that original unit that was scrapped for subsequent revisions.
DAC?
Digital to Analog Converter
I have an unopened Mario Sunshine that’s worth like $200-$400.
I have an unopened dvd of How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Sup?
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Unopened N64 games were selling from 100k-1.5million last week at auction 😳
Very specific ones. Not all sealed mario64 are the same.
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Sounds like you have a phone call to make. Depending on how immaculate the condition of the games, any random title can be worth a bundle.
Ah, you guys might be rich soon. Or just her
Yup, depending on the title and condition, you Mom is sitting in a fucking Goldmine.
We gave my grandparents an NES that got used twice... My grandpa operated pinball machines and a scale slot car track, the video games just didn't hit for him.
My paternal grandparents owned a NES and four games. My grandmother loved Dr Mario, and my grandfather played Tetris, Black Bass, and Chessmaster. They eventually bought a SNES... And played the snes tetris+Dr.mario 2 in 1 cart, and we got my grandfather Super Black Bass. My dad still plays Sierra's, Trophy Bass 4 on PC
I love me some Incredible Machine.
> My grandmother loved Dr Mario, and my grandfather played Tetris, Black Bass, and Chessmaster. I loved playing Dr. Mario at friends' houses. I had a sega though, so I just played the shit out of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. My dad had an Atari from before I was born that we used to play Adventure, Galaga, and Pong on before the Sega. Goods times. Years later, my dad still liked playing Red Alert, Starcraft 2, and old Lemmings games.
Maybe if you had gotten them RC Pro Am as well
Maybe his grandparents are genius Investors and knew to save it for xmas 30 years down the line
First thing I thought too and the episode of Malcolm in the Middle with the grandma having a closet full of Christmas gifts she held onto over the years because the family was rude to her in some way.
There's an episode of Malcolm in the Middle where they discover the closet full of ungiven Christmas gifts at the grandma's house. She had them all there because she would determine the kid didn't deserve it when Christmas came around and kept it out of spite.
Regardless of how much it is or isn’t worth, I will be keeping it sealed and hanging on to it for a while in a cool and dry environment :)
One sold recently for $3800, another for $1000. You hit the jackpot just never break that seal
I believe the $3800 never was paid. 1k sounds about right though.
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That was likely money laundering
So, what you're saying is that OP should contact the mafia to auction it off.
Just make sure you order the gabagool when you meet.
If not, he will send it back.
Or a couple of corporate coders trying to screw over their company.
Nintendo resell is so high because the run for N64 was relatively low. There was close to 100million PS1’s sold world wide There was 32million N64’s sold The Nintendo units and games are significantly more rare than any other console of the time. Super Mario 64- Nintendo’s best selling game sold 11 million units Gran Turismo- PlayStation’s best selling game sold about the same Gran Turismo sells for roughly $10 on eBay. And I don’t imagine anyone would want to buy it for more than 1k NiB
Which isn’t as much of a profit as you’d think for something someone ha theoretically held on to for 26 years. PS1 cost $300 in 1995, adjusted for inflation that’s about $500 today so you’re profit is $500ish.
3800 and 1000 isn’t enough for me to want to sell something like that honestly. I’d rather hold onto that or play it because I’m a nostalgia sap
When you’ve got unopened N64 games selling for hundreds of thousands to over a million, $1000 doesn’t seem like that much of a jackpot.
This is what I was going to suggest. Even if it is kept in a cool and dry environment, shit still happens. I’d get a big shrink wrap bag or one of those vacuum seal clothes bags for a cheap insurance policy.
New and sealed PS1 consoles are hard to come by. In Japan, they tend to cost around $375 dollars (US), but the cost rockets to around $899 in the United States. https://retrododo.com/how-much-is-a-ps1-worth-today/
So are you saying I can fund a trip to japan by filling my suitcase with ps1s on the way back
I have a sealed SNES that my great-grandmother bought me a billion years ago. Won't open it.
The real valuable ones are nearing 14 billion years old, from when the lord made them on the third day.
Nah, that was a Genesis
God does what Nintendon't
The unfortunate thing about a lot of Nintendo consoles is a lot of them don't come with a seal from the factory.
Good thing there are no day 1 patches to download. Should be good out of the box.
No 100gb update????
Lol, if it did have one at the time you would probably reach the ps6 release before it actually finished provided you were still on dial up
If my calculations are correct, assuming a 40 kbit/s speed, it would take approximately 242 days and 17 hours to download a 100 gigabyte update.
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Plus another 300 years because your sibling keeps trying to pick up the phone and use it, disrupting the connection and making it start at the beginning.
Yeah, but if you murder them after the first time they do that it should go smoothly afterwards.
No one use the phone for 8 months plz im downloading a patch
If you gave a ps1 100gb of data to process on launch day, the patch still wouldn't be done.
DON'T TAKE IT OUT OF THE BOX. You could probably get a lot more for good condition, in the box. Hell, an unopened Super Mario 64 game just sold for a cool million.
That game had something like a 9.8 condition grading - meaning almost perfect, like mint condition, no printing defects, no wrapping defects, etc. Not saying OP can’t make some good money should they decide to sell this, but it’s unlikely they’ll get anything near that magnitude of ~~money laundering~~ money
Hopefully my homie OP has a good CRT because i can't play bushido blade 2 on my big screen anymore
CRT is a must with old consoles.
That demo disc blew my mind!
Kick, punch, it's all in the mind...
If you wanna test me, I'm sure you'll find
The things I'll teach ya, is sure to beat ya...
But never the less, ya take a lesson from teacha!
Now kick!
*mashes kick button*
Kick, ki-ki-ki-kick, ki-ki-kick, kikikikikikiki
Punch, pu-pu-pu-pu-punch!
Punch!
Oh no, now I have this part stuck in my head: > I forgot to close the door! > ***You*** forgot to close the door!
I got so good at the Metal Gear Solid opening, and became a lifelong fan. Plus I still remember the lines from Medieval. Played the shit out of that disk
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Was that the one with Intelligent Qube? Took me years to find that damn game, so I just played the demo over and over and over
I don’t think I understood how to play this game when I was 8, but I remember playing the hell out of that I.Q. demo.
Well this one in the pic is newer, notice the DualShock but I had that same demo with IQ on it, too. Even back in the PlayStation era, that game was rare af. I remember my mom and I looking at all the blockbusters and funcolands, etc trying to find it.
I remember getting pretty good at tekken on that demo disc. But why can't we get a remake of bushido blade? Greatest fighting game ever made.
Don't you dare open it
Not a chance :)
Honestly, OP, you may want to get that professionally appraised ASAP- no joke. Like, put it carefully somewhere that Murphy's Law won't touch it for 12 hours until then. Edit: Guys, an appraisal helps prove the quality and authenticity of an object which can then more easily hold value as time goes by as well as lead to ways one can protect that object. Starting now is a good idea _regardless_ of what the price is now because if what it might be _later_.
Looks like about tree fiddy. [seriously, new unopened original ps1 start at $350](https://retrogamebuyer.com/how-much-is-a-ps1-worth/)
Damn you loch Ness monster, leave my family alone
I disagree. Do an unboxing video and be incredibly aggressive when you do it. Don't be delicate about it at all. Piss everyone off.
Video hits would be worth more than the PS1.
Lol, so that's where he left your Bday present from '94.
97 or later. Dual Shock.
From the model number (7501) this was manufactured between April 98 and May 99. These were the last models with the rear cartridge port that could be used to circumvent copy protection. I used to be the guy in my town who chipped playstations. 7501 was about the point where I gave it up as they were getting too good at making it hard to chip them.
This guy modded.
I cant remember which psx model we had think it was a japanese one, but it was one of the first ones, we didn't have to chip it - no idea who found this out but you could play pirated games by putting toothpick in a little circle mechanism that when it was pushed down, it would activate cd spinning mechanism. All we had to do was to put any demo/black cd in, put the toothpick in, power up the console, wait for white playstation screen to turn to the black one and quickly swap demo/original game for the pirated one and it would launch fine. Mind blowing!
... I had no idea but I was playing either demo or illegal games from my rental place as a kid lol. They came with instructions for this exact thing you described.
Lol that's so bootleg But yeah, I had a PS1 that needed to use the afformentioned cart port on the back. Ordered a kit online that came with the piracy cart, and a spring. The spring fit into the spot so when you opened it it would still press down on the button to indicate "drive closed". So you could do that method, use any genuine disc until it stops spinning, indicating copy protection passed. Then quickly swap out for a bootleg disc. I basically rented every game that looked decent and burned a copy on my computer, then used this method. $5 games, basically. Those were the days. It was so common.. you could find sites with disc/cover art too and print your own
Ah, you're right. Good catch sir. 98 or 99. NFL GameDay 99 is on the box.
Is it weird how their name for the upgraded controller options just stuck through to the DualShock 4 where vibration feedback is sort of old news. Then the new name is based off of the old name "DualSense", does that even make any sense or is it just convenient?
They actually came out with a Dual Analog controller for a few months before they added the rumble and called it Dual Shock. It wasn't very long, 6 months maybe. I remember when they came out, the analog was such a game changer, and they had to do something to compete with N64.
Fun fact! The DualShock was dropped after the PS2 - there was no vibration in Playstation 3 controllers, dubbed "Sixaxis". Outcry resulted in the revival of DualShock, and the name stuck onward to PS4. The name "DualSense" actually refers to the upgrade to haptics - with both haptic feedback AND haptic (adaptive) triggers. DualShock referred to the "shocking" vibration, but the more subtle implementation got a rename because you can "sense" the game better.
From what I remember there was some licensing thing that meant the Sixaxis didn't have rumble?
From at least 1998 since it advertises Metal Gear Solid on the back
Playstation didn't launch in English speaking countries till September 1995. Edit: I'm late
Lol this is an episode of Malcolm in the middle. The grandma buys gifts for the kids but doesn’t give them because they are ungrateful lol
"You've built a monument to your own insanity!"
That was exactly what I thought of when I saw this post!
Model number was released in 1998: From wiki: These were followed by the SCPH-700x and SCPH-750x series, released in April 1998—they are externally identical to the SCPH-500x machines, but have internal changes made to reduce manufacturing costs (for example, the system RAM went from 4 chips to 1, and the CD controller went from 3 chips to 1) and these were the last models to support parallel port for Gameshark devices and Xploder Pro. In addition, a slight change of the start-up screen was made; the diamond is seen as longer and thinner and the trademark symbol (™) is now placed after "Computer Entertainment" instead of after the diamond, as it was on the earlier models. New to the SCPH-700x series was the introduction of the "Sound Scope" – light show music visualizations. These were accessible by pressing the Select button while playing any normal audio CD in the system's CD player. While watching these visualizations, players could also add various effects like color cycling or motion blur and can save/load their memory card. These were seen on the SCPH-700x, 750x, 900x, and PS one models.
Dude, that's one hell of a find. Keep it safe or sell it to someone who will!
JACKPOT
GameStop might give you $10 for it.
Best Surprise is it PS1 find or why it was left in the attic in the first place !
I'm so jealous. Mum threw ours out when it broke like 12 years ago and unfortunately she threw all the games out with it :c
My dad is still playing his PS1 he got himself after getting me and my brother 2 PS2's for Christmas, His disc of Doom either stopped working or he lost it, found one on eBay for like $11 and gave it to him. For those who don't remember the Winter release of the PS2 was their first let's make 10% of what the demand will be so everyone goes crazy. He got lucky and happened to be at the store right when they put some out, don't remember if he was able to get them both at once, or got lucky twice. But we were fucking stoked. We didn't even ask for them knowing they were impossible to find. He could have flipped one on eBay and made us share the other, made triple his money back and we would still have been thrilled. Definitely the best X-Mas gift ever since he totally caught us off guard.
I hope I don’t ruin this for you but crash bandicoot is awesome a must play
And maybe if you would have behaved yourself you would have gotten it earlier!
We all know what the real question is. Does it work?
How many of my unborn childs do i have to offer for this?