Its really interesting to see the ebay market dynamics and the horde stampede movement to snatch up us tg games as any price. When i lost interest in my tg system, i dunped everything cheap on the Turboboards ( think that was the name) in 1997. I had my stash lying in my closet up to that point and was delighted ti be avle to get cash for it. I then saw a movement on ebay that had mostly centered around 2 titles - macross 2036 at around 75 bucks and dracula x at 175 or so. Nobody even gave a hoot about spine cards then, and i started windoe shopping on the games listed out of curiousity, since i didnt know what most titles were at the time. This was a time any pce title would sell, at higher prices to the us TG counterparts. I as a college student hit the jackpot one summer in 1998 and found a huge stash in a taiwan dealer, and which i brought back and sold stuff like DE2 and Valis 4 all pce versions for 75 dollars each. Popful mail and seiya monogatari were 175 dollar titles then too. I then stopped tracking this around 2002. I dived back in 2009 and was surpised to see us counterparts gain a premium, cuz my opinion the coverarts were sheit and screwed up compared to the jp counterparts, to fit the us culture. It wasnt until the late releases bomberman looked like bomberman, soldier blade actually like yhe normal star soldier art, etc.
These days i pay premium for us counterparts where language text is an advatage - ie DE2 and Cadash. Also exclusive kickass games like Beyond shadowgate is def a must - (i need that poster!!).
