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@damienivy8422 Well, you are definitely not wrong, lol. Thanks for watching!

@kidclaw11438 I do not. I live in a very small town and this was the only machine in our entire town at the time. Sadly, it no longer is located here though.

@@jasonbyrd-retronerddo you know who the owner is? I would love to contact him on inquiry of buying his key master miniZ

@kidclaw11438 I do not. I live in a small town and it was the only machine in town at the time. I won nearly every prize it paid out while it was there though lol.

@michaelpramudhita-te2xh Oh how I wish that were true lol.

@@GreeneryForTheScenery Thank you!

@jessepinkeye2339 It is an unusual situation, but I will do my best to explain in a little more detail. In this case, the version of No Mercy with the "bug" was sold originally in HUGE numbers, and by the time anyone realized the game had a problem, most everyone already owned the bugged version of the game. When people started complaining about their saved data getting deleted, the company offered to fix it for free, but the customer had to pay to ship the bugged game back to the company for an exchange. Not very many people bothered to do the exchange though, and because of this, very few copies of the "fixed" version of No Mercy exist by comparison to the "not fixed" version. I have literally bought and sold hundreds of normal copies of No Mercy over the years, but I have only seen two "fixed " copies in all my time doing this. It's the extreme rarity of the "fixed" version that makes it so desirable to us weird collectors that care about such things, not the fact that the bug is fixed or the improved save functions in the game. I hope this clears it up a bit.

​@@jasonbyrd-retronerd ​ Crap, I don't know where my reply earlier went, it was very lengthy! It pretty much tells how I went in to a rabbit hole and found more answers. The fixed game version were less accessible as customers should reach out to THQ, instead of cancelling the bugged productions and recalling them and replacing the stores with a fixed one. A former employee got a hand of boxful of WWF No Mercy when they moved offices and sold them on ebay. Somehow I cannot post a link here to show where I got that info. Anyway, thank you very much for clearing that up! It made a lot of sense. This has been VERY interesting. (I'm just gonna leave it here because for some reason, I can't leave a reply on my previous comment 🤷‍♀️)

No problem at all. It really is an interesting subject for sure lol. Thanks for the awesome info too.

@maelbarraud3087 You are not wrong, and I do mention those games in the video's description, but I decided not to include them in the actual list. There is definitely an argument to be made for them to be on my list but the games DK64 and DDKR do not really have anything to do with Mario games on the N64 aside from DK as a character being in Smash and Mario Kart 64. With that in mind, I decided against including them to avoid any potential confusion, but I 100% know where you are coming from.

@@jasonbyrd-retronerdi see what you mean and one thing that is true is that most of the game that include donkey or Diddy as the or one of the main character of the game doesn't feature mario, exept for Mario vs donkey kong

I want to know too. It's really hard to guess with that subtle twang.

I am from Kentucky.

@@jasonbyrd-retronerdlol, kentucky is an easy one to to guess. I love this state.

@@jasonbyrd-retronerd I was thinking Tennessee. I've lived in Arkansas for the past several years. I'm starting to pick up an accent myself. Haha

On this one, I was just going for Mario games on the Nintendo 64. Mario Paint was a masterpiece for sure, but it was on the Super Nintendo.

Yes, it was!! I also like the cool little surfing Pikachu nod in Snap. You can lead Pikachu to a surf board with apples, and he will hop on to pose for a picture, which I thought was just awesome, lol.

@Sergesauce That is exactly what was going on. They would have swapped it for the fixed USA-1 variant if you sent it in to them, but I do not think many people knew about that offer back then, I sure didn't, at least.

@@jasonbyrd-retronerd I had no clue until now, I was like 10 with no internet at the time either. I wish I knew.

It sounds crazy but there is always a collector out there willing to pay up for the rare and obscure stuff. I found my USA-1 variant in the wild for cheap so I got super lucky, thankfully.

​@@jasonbyrd-retronerd those people ruined game collecting super hard to find a decent deal now and days cause everyone goes off eBay prices

Might as well include Diddy kong racing js lol

Thank you! I really appreciate that.

Thank you so much for the awesome feedback. It makes me SUPER happy to know that my video brought someone joy and I plan on doing many more N64 related videos in the future. Thanks for watching!!

@@jasonbyrd-retronerd My wife (who isn't into video games) thought you were hilarious when you mentioned that you had more fun during your vasectomy then playing a certain game!

It ain't waste if it's in a loving home, and his wife made him dust all of it! 😇

Thank you for the feedback. During the filming of all the various scenes over the several weeks I was working on this I was at the same time installing a new light set up all through my game room. I was experimenting with different lighting, and learning what works/what doesn't work as I went, and it unfortunately the learning curb shows sometimes in the video lol. This is what led to some scenes and moments where the lighting mucks things up a bit. I have a much better understanding of things now so hopefully moving forward these issues wont pop up as much on future videos. Thanks for watching!

Oh man, I hate to hear that. Sadly, that happens far too often with childhood treasures. Sometimes, when I find an amazing deal at a yard sale, I wonder if there is someone that is going to eventually realize that item is missing from their room at some point and be crushed. Thanks for watching!

Thanks man, and I appreciated the awesome feedback! Congrats on starting your collection and welcome to the retro video game community. Thanks for watching!!

Thank you! I appreciate that.

That is interesting. I know, here at least, the USA-1 is sought after big time BUT mostly by collectors and the occasional reseller with some game knowledge. A NTSC USA-1 is seriously hard to luck into here and collectors love to hunt them for that reason. Is there a large price difference between the two versions in the PAL territories? Thank you for watching and for the comment!

@Avarixin This is the ultimate compliment, lol. Thanks for watching, and a huge thanks for the sub!!

Well, you're not wrong lol. At the end of the day that is the just of it I suppose. Thanks for watching!

Thanks man, I appreciate that. Yea she loves playing that card against me. I play it here like a joke but it's 100% her favorite threat lol.

Yea, it hurt my wife too lol. She is still mad at me for not dusting them off first but I had major time constraints for filming and just didn't think about it, grabbed them off my shelf and went. It may help to know that she made me deep clean them all after she saw it so they are currently extraordinarily clean. Thanks for watching.

I may prefer to collect for the N64, but I LOVE me some PS2 on the side for sure!! lol

@HighFuel90 I have collected several different third-party controllers over the years but I still have a ton to learn about them for sure. I have no idea how many are out there though lol. It would certainly make for a great video if a person could document them all. Thanks for the comment, and thanks for watching!!

Thanks for watching!!

Thanks man!

Thank you and thanks for watching!

That is AWESOME! Congrats on the find man. $100 bucks is an insanely good deal for any of them but a legend of good deal for the largest one for sure!