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Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers (www.retronews.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Kain1@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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A Reddit post in the GameBoy subreddit caught some eyes. It showed a fake yellow Game Boy Pokémon cartridge displayed at a GameStop. The post received many comments, pointing out the poor quality of this bootleg Pokémon game.

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Video game grading is a massive scam. Karl Jobst did a series of videos on it, and it's basically price rigging and speculation investments for profit.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Oh huh, that's interesting. I'll definitely have to check that out