Very cool video, I enjoyed it.

Lordy.

This whole thread is excellent, hopefully getting of my own soon!

My very first Wata graded game. Mega man Dr. Wright. Proud to be the one to make sure this mint classic is preserved forever

Awesome!

Few things back from Wata, show some pics then give my brief evaluation. Mega Man 2 Sealed, other games are CIBs:




As the original owner you have insight into the games much more than the slab shows you. That Soccer was significantly and noticeably nicer than Urban Champ, yet they are both 8.5 overall. I believe the weightings had Soccer at 8.72 (missed 9.0 by .03) and Urban Champ at 8.4 which rounds to 8.5 both. Nothing you can really do about it, but I figured UC would go 8.5 and Soccer would go 9.0. Just missed apparently.

Samson graded as expected but F2 was a huge miss, not sure what happened there. Both boxes are 9.4 (quite nice), but F2 Manual was 7.0 (had it at 7.5ish) and cart went 8.0. No cart peeling, no tears, no yellowing, very glossy but some minor light scuffs on surface. I thought it would have been a 9.0-9.2 but apparently I need to train my loose cart eye better. All the other carts went 9+ so not sure... guessing the prior owner may have pieced the F2 together? That's the only idea I can come up with.

Either way both display beautifully as 9.4 boxes of course. One of the main things I don't like about CIB grading is that you lose the visibility of displaying all contents, and 100% complete games truly do command premiums and look beautiful as pictured. The Matrix is supposed to come online at some point so you can view them but still feels a bit odd. Here's the pre-grading F2 pics for reference... yeah its a pretty darn nice 7.0 manual and 8.0 cart IMO:




Either way, definitely appreciate the CIB strictness. Though I've only cared about manual / box in the past and will have to pay more attention to carts in the future. No label peel / tear / discoloration was always enough for me as a collector but I'll have to give more scrutiny going forward.

Now to cross over all those VGA titles Jone. :-)

Thanks for sharing! Noticed that there's an inconsistency in the second bullet on both WATA labels; one has "(Cart)" at the end, the other doesn't. I assume a consistency mistake, or maybe there is rationale behind this difference?
 

These posts are getting sexier and sexier. Thanks for sharing all.

Hey guys!!
Im New at the forums i want to show of my amazing grades i got from Wata. Maybe i'll be interest in trades or sales 
Pm me if interested













 

Someone bought some cases...

Nice grades!

No idea what's up with the rotation on these lol. Look perfect on my phone.

OMG that Hyper Stone Heist though, love the TMNT - the KB sticker should add more value since they don't exist anymore lol

weird how Wata wrote the Super Mario 64's 9.6 quote upside down... (lol)
Crazy quote by the way!

Is it a mistake, or you just can't decide wich case you would want (since you took different case model for your mario 64 and your mario kart..)

That pic is just upside down on the 9.6 lol, but it's a mirror image because 9.6 looks the same when you flip it! Just an anomaly.

As for the cases, I've gone back and forth and just trying both out. In a vaccuum, I like the 2d Mario 64 better for N64 and SNES, but when stacked up side by side like books on a shelf, the 3d works better because you can actually see the grade. For everything else, I prefer the 3d in any situation.

 

Ugh. I'm so impatient! Can't wait to get my sealed NES game back from Wata!  

DVDs?   

 

Is there much demand for this kind of thing?
 

Is there a DVD worth $25 to grade, lol.

Their site makes no mention of DVDs that I could find.

That's wild... I know I have a few sealed DVDs laying around that are out of print, but this seems... weird

I must confess. It was photoshop. :-)