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GlossaryWhat a Slab Actually Tells You About a Sealed GameTwo sealed copies of the same game can lead completely different lives. One sits naked in a drawer, shrinkwrap intact, waiting to be believed. The other is entombed in acrylic with a label reading something like 9.4 A++ — and suddenly everyone at the meetup wants to hold it. If that label reads like tax code to you, here's the vocabulary, minus the mystique. Slab vs raw, and what the plastic really signals A slab is the tamper-evident acrylic case a grading company — WATA and VGA are the name
GlossaryWhat CIB, Loose and Sealed Really Mean on a Game ListingSet two copies of Rayman for the original PlayStation side by side. The early North American printing lives in a tall cardboard long box, roughly the proportions of a VHS tape. The PAL copy sits in a standard CD jewel case. Both sellers can honestly describe theirs as “complete” — and they'd be promising you entirely different stacks of cardboard and paper. That's the trouble with collector shorthand. CIB, loose, sealed, NIB — the words sound precise, but what they actually cover shifts with pl