Trade-N-Games

Hi Dain, Big Hugs! This internet is a wild place.

If its been opened you can put in notes if you would like to keep it on or have it removed before they slab it. Its totally your choice. It wont affect the grade and its easy to grade with it on, if its so bad i would just remove it.

Each week we are talking about a different topic but lately the Sealed games being sold on Heritage have been the hot topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvsIKGYRm3o&t=2s

Thanks for coming in to the store. Love when a true collector finds something they have been looking for. Just in case someone calls you out, the system was new but they never came in shrink wrap. I offered to do this for free to help protect it and it looks super nice and keeps dust and grime off of the box. Our web site is www.tradengames.com

This is a fine art that take lots of practice. Introducing moisture to paper and cardboard to loosen the fiber is needed. To much and you will ruin what your working on. Cardboard can take a lot more. First off only use distilled water. Also building a humid chamber with a meter is best, so cardboard could be in 20% humidity for 30 min but a manual only needs 10 min. Then you can use standard iron to really heat things up but no more then 200 degrees. This will flatten out the creases. Then you need to get the box or manual under a very heavy weight for at least 10 hours. Now there are many other steps like special papers that you put between the iron and damaged paper. I dont use an iron much and have a digital heat press so i can control heat and pressure. Things to consider like staples, if you press them the entire staple will transfer its shape across all the pages. Also things need to be as clean before you start this process or as water and heat are introduced you could cause smears and other blemishes. Like someone did above is just fine for very good results. I am really moving into the next stage of restoration and making these things best they can be.

look for bluryness on the Nintendo logo kinda like ink run. All pages should meet up on the cut side nice and even. If the paper kinda bows out from the center staple page thats often newely printed and stapled. If I had it in hand I can tell instantly by how the paper feels.

Well with Wata once the Matrix code works you will be able to see the pre grading pictures front and back along with everything inside extra. As a seller getting a lot of games graded I am trying to include all the proper paperwork besides the CIB part. Funny thing is not one buyer paying crazy high money has asked or cared

Dont Forget Wata had an official shutdown started on the 18th of December to the 8th of Jan and that may delay your order. When I mail Fed X i insure my games as computer Software and never tell them they are games. I have heard they wont insure collectables for more than a few hundred. I myself had mailed almost 150 games in and Zero Have had damage both directions. On a single game i often use about 4 sq foot of bubble wrap and then put that in standard priority mail box and it fits snug, I dont use the Priority mail tape so wata does not have a hard time opening the box. Then I put all those in a much bigger box with extra padding like peanuts or more bubble wrap.

MO Game Con In St Louis/ St Charles in August is fast becoming a great show!

Everyone please keep an eye out a bunch of the stolen games are starting to pop up all over the US. Thanks

Hi everyone is Jason Brassard From Trade-N-Games same old name from NA. Owner of Retail Store in Fenton, Missouri Called Trade-N-Games since 2002 Author of book Classic 80's Home Video Games, Senior Price guide editor for now long gone magazine "Video Game collector Magazine" Very active forever at game conventions all over the US. Huge collector with some great videos on the Tube look for Trade-N-Games there Sell at my retail store and on my website www.tradengames.com