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We need price charts on Original Insert Posters and Maps, etc
We have prices and charts on boxes, manuals, loose carts and CIB — BUT we have no prices on the maps and posters and other inserts that ORIGINALLY came with many games which —for those games —are the diference between those three loose items and CIB. There is as much of a market for these map and poster inserts as there is for a loose game, box or manual so why no pricing for maps, posters and other original inserts? Lets face it —not that many games have been kept fully intact for the last 25 or 30 years. So in reality “CIB” games are mostly assembled after the fact from various parts purchased separately. These maps and posters are critical to that reassembling process and it is a handicap if we have no info on pricing for those essential components.
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not only would pricing be very nice, but it would make pricecharting a very useful database for tracking what games had which inserts. there is currently no internet resource which offers this type of information.
agreed. Great example in collection is SNES Final Fantasy 3. There are two poster inserts, and the market value of the game is dramatically different for "CIB" listings that don't have these two items.
I think the biggest obstacle is that no one knows which games have posters and which ones don't. It would be difficult for pricecharting to just assume all games had one in order to CIB a game. Maybe there's an additional marketplace tab, or maybe a different designation that these items could be labeled with? I probably have 100+ game posters in my collection, and would really love a feature to catalog them.
there's also the issue that there really is no 'database' that currently tracks what game inserts have what. pricecharting could be the premier resource for cataloguing this information. there are a lot of hurdles to this though:
- how do you prove what inserts go into a game?
- insert pictures?
- some games (especially ps3 or later which began including ad promos) would include different inserts at different production runs.
i think the only true way to know what inserts a game had, other than just through consistency of collections having identical inserts, would be unboxing videos