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Not a lot going on here. Just a few pictures and words about things I came across during the month of August.
First picture... it probably won't get many hearts racing. I haven't noticed much love around here for the Dreamcast, but it was something I didn't have.
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Next image. For the PS1, Final Fantasy Anthology, and Contra: Legacy of War. Star Fox Assault for Gamecube, and some Sega Genesis boxes/manuals I needed (Thanks niceguy1283!)
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A bunch of GBA and GBC games here, and one SNES cart.
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Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Seasons. Pokemon Gold, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. Mega Man Xtreme 2, Golden Sun, Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Shining Soul, Shining Soul II, and Earthworm Jim 2.
And finally, a slightly battered Brady Games guide for Kingdom Hearts. and what I consider one of the best finds this month outside of the Chrono Trigger CIB, and Final Fantasy CIB that I mentioned in my first blog. Black Label Final Fantasy VII, and the Brady Games official strategy guide. Came in a package deal for about 50 bucks. Felt a bit pricy, but damn it, I wanted it. That makes two complete black label FF7's in my collection.
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Just wanted to post a few new pics of the game room. I think it's coming along well. Not going to post all my pics on this blog, but am providing a link for the curious: http://s1029.photobucket....necrom99/Game%20Room%202/
You've come a long way baby.....
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Entrance:
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Long view, with back wall and controller peg board (no Crabby, I haven't painted it black yet.....):
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Console shelf, well it was wire-free for presentation, but I decided to hook up 10 systems to my TV and make it more function (hence wires). The Coleco is hooked up to the small Space Saver TV on the shelf. I have 14 systems in my house ready to go at any given moment. You will notice that since last time I added an upper shelf to give myself more room as I was running out of space.
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no lie....
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Work station table where I clean games and play 2600 and Vectrex. That orange thingy is a pretty cool 8-track player I found at a thrift shop. Maybe a few of you actually know what that is:
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Drawers for handheld systems and games. These are opaque, but with the flash you can see through them a bit:
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Probably my coolest local find:
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Classics:
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Some of my 2600 collection:
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My favorite collection VECTREX!!!!
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Fami collection. Yes, I do labels on the ends of the carts....what of it?
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Other random room stuff:
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And last but not least. The best apology letter I have ever received from a seller in Japan. I ended up getting two games for free from this standup gent. It also came with some cantalope Halloween candy which of course I saved. Whaaaaaaa???
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After an unusually long absence we are back to discuss a topic that our significant others wish was more universal, cleaning. This is one of several areas of collecting that we find oddly enjoyable. Don't know how to stock your cleaning tool box? We will help you get started. Wondering what the best method is to get stickers off your games? No problem. Dirty contacts giving you trouble? Or maybe you just want to spruce up the look or your dirty old NES. Whatever it is, we will get you on your way to a pristine looking game collection that will make your friends jealous.
And if you're a listener of any of the previous Collectorcasts, you'll probably recognize how sick we are of talking about Wildbil52's great new finds each episode during the small scores recap. To remedy this we invited Wildbil52 onto the show so that he can talk about his own damn finds this time around  . And since cleaning can be such an important part of the collecting experience Wildbil52 sticks around for the rest of the episode to let us take a look inside his cleaning tool box, share a few cleaning secrets, and make sure that we don't get off topic.
Show notes:
Music: Contra (NES)
17:06 Small Scores
59:17 Interview with Wildbil52
1:23:06 Crabby's Amazing Pick-up
1:32:52 Main Topic: Cleaning
2:49:25 Outro
Sites mentioned in the show:
http://famicomblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.snescentral.com/
https://www.nintendorepairshop.com/
http://www.newelectronx.com/
http://youtu.be/KghFebsMw00 (retr0bright)
This weekend I was out taking a walk. After a while I decided to sit down and relax. Fortunately there were lots of chairs around. I picked one out and sat down.
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Thinking to myself, I realized this was a funny place. There seemed to be way too many lights....
Continue reading Rock Band or real life?
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So here I am, devoting time to playing through my Dreamcast collection as it grows. No matter how good or bad the game, I'm giving it a fair shot. So with that said, let me give you some context as far as sports games -- and specifically hockey games -- stand within my history of gaming. You should know that I've never been a sports fan per se. I am a huge Celtics fan, but that tends to be my extent of caring for sports in any organized manner. And yet I've always had a certain appreciation for hockey video games. And I'll tell you why: NHL 94.
Ah yes, NHL 94 was an amazing game. I first picked it up on the Genesis and played it constantly. Though there was no Season Mode yet, there was Playoffs Mode and I endured it many times. There was something so brilliant about that 16-bit rendition of hockey. So brilliant that I even re-purchased the Sega CD port of it later, and have always considered it my favorite hockey game by a long shot. Hell, I even made it a point to pick up NHL 06 on PS2 just because it had NHL 94 on the disc as a bonus, and because 06 was marketed as a serious attempt to get EA's series back to its roots made strong by the integrity of 94.
But alas, EA had nothing to do with the Dreamcast. Instead we got Sega Sports' 2K series of games. But I figured that would be no problem considering what I know of the NBA 2K games that have been released in the last decade. Unfortunately my time spent with NHL 2K has proven to be a bit of let-down.
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Now let me start by telling you what's great about NHL 2K, which is surprisingly a lot. Visually this game is top-notch. The camera flows naturally and the presentation is excellent. Indeed you'll see such incredible attention paid to detail like the blades of your skates etches slits into the ice. The commentary, though limited, is also pretty impressive considering the optical media (though in fairness GD-ROM's were created to store more information than standard CD's anyway). Feature-wise, there's plenty here to keep you busy from quick games, to full seasons, all the way up to play-offs. Add to that the impressive controls, which certainly borrow a bit from the aforementioned classic 94, but manage to add much more responsiveness thanks to the Dreamcast controller's analog stick.
But unfortunately the game flops in a very major way. The AI is just completely unfair. Not all-around either. They almost got it right. But unfortunately the goalies have been programmed to be near impossible to get past. Indeed I spent much time last weekend trying to work my way through Play-Off Mode only to find many games end in a 0-0. The furthest swing was 0-2 -- my loss. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not hating on a game for being to hard. And I'm certainly not hating a game because I kept losing. I'm only hating on it because it seems you can master just about everything in this game only to find that the AI isn't believable. There's nothing "human" about that goalie. There's no way to figure him out and ultimately fake him out.
Over the Summer I read the fascinating book Racing The Beam, which if you haven't read it I strongly urge you to do so post-haste. In it there is a chapter on Pong, and more specifically Pong's AI designed for its 1-Player modes. The book shed fascinating light on how the programmers had to make it so the computer could beat you consistently -- creating a genuine challenge that made you want to try harder. Yet they had to make sure it wasn't "too computer-ish" in the sense that you were reminded that you were not playing against a human component that couldn't be exploited for his weaknesses. I can only hope that subsequent Dreamcast editions of the NHL 2K series had programmers on their teams that had figured out this same sort of balance.
Alrighty, I'm fairly new to collecting... my gaming addiction started in 1985 on Christmas day with an NES my parents bought for me at the ripe old age of 5. I had the common games, Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, The Legend of Zelda, and some others. My original NES suffered the common problem of the 72 pin connector going bad over the years. I took it apart with the intent of repairing it and my mother decided the disassembled NES in the corner was trash. Out it went with the rubbish. I've got the majority of my original NES games, as well as the controllers, zapper. and NES advantage. I never owned an SNES when they were the hot item.
I did own a Genesis. I gave my Genesis 2 to a friend for a birthday present.... Which he spilled milk on, thought was ruined and sold it to a guy for 20 bucks. The Genesis cleaned up fine, and worked the same as always. I still hold a bit of a grudge over that.
Fast forward about 20 years, and while at work I meet a guy (niceguy1283), that has a gaming collection that makes me drool... as well as a bit nostalgic for the games I played as a kid. A few good trips to local gaming stores, pawn shops, comic and collectable shops later I've gotten quite a few of the games that I loved in the past. That, and a good deal more. I now find myself with an NES, two SNES (one two-tone and one minty), a Genesis 1, PS2, Gamecube, and a Wii that I snagged at a very nice price. I've also got a Playstation, XBox, and a N64 that I picked up over the years previous to this renewed obsession with console games.
But enough jabbering... I know people around here love pictures! Here are some of my better finds.
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Found for 20 bucks, the letter hasn't even been dipped!
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Chrono Trigger, complete in box. Bought from a friend for 65 dollars. Box has a little orange peel effect going on, but what can you expect for 65 bucks?
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Final Fantasy, also complete in box. Paid 40 dollars for this one.
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My recent desire to get back into Dreamcast collecting (thanks OatBob) isn't just to watch piles of games stack up on my shelves. Nope, I want to actually spend time with these games. I want to delve into the library and find out first hand everything the Dreamcast did right, wrong, and just downright bizarre. So to start with, let's talk about a game it did very, very right: King of Fighters Evolution.
Evolution is actually a port of King of Fighters 99, though the Dreamcast port of KOF 98 was confusingly titled 99. All title-weirdness aside, it is an absolutely fantastic game. But before I get into all that, I should tell you a bit of my history with the KOF series to put things into context. Growing up, I was a huge fan of Street Fighter II as I'm sure most of you reading this can relate to. My first introduction to SNK's breed of fighting games came via a Neo Geo cab at a convenience store a few blocks from my house. The game was Art of Fighting, and I popped some quarters into it whenever I had a chance. Not long after I added Fatal Fury to my collection via its SNES port. I found both games to be fun -- with their bright colors and large, expressive sprites. But ultimately, neither would prove as memorable to me as Street Fighter II. And for the most part, I wouldn't touch another SNK fighter until just a couple years ago when I finally played King of Fighters 98: Ultimate Match on PS2.
King of Fighters 98 UM I actually blogged about here and basically complained about its difficulty. It seemed to me an exercise in pure frustration. But of course this had a lot to do with its gigantic roster of characters I was completely unfamiliar with. That and y'know... KOF 98 is pretty damn hard. But for some strange reason I stuck with SNK. And really, I'm glad I did. Subsequent titles I'd check out were oddly amazing (Neo Geo Battle Colessium) or just downright incredible (Garou Mark of the Wolves, King of Fighters XIII). And slowly I started to branch out from just using my staple Terry Bogard, and started to really learn some new favorite characters (Athena rules).
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So now that we're all on the same page, let's talk KOF Evolution. First off, the roster is large but not outlandish, topping off at just over 30 characters. And luckily many of the series' fan favorites are present -- including some of my favorites like Terry, Mai, Athena, Kasumi, Choi and so on. Graphically the game is stunning. 3D backgrounds mesh beautifully with the 2D sprites and the music is fantastic and bordering on the darkside. Even more interesting is the strange storyline -- something about a conspiracy and an evil organization who has infiltrated the King of Fighters tournament to capture "data" in the form of the winners' fighting styles. It's all a bit over-the-top in a really awesome way.
There are many King of Fighters games out there, so certainly it can be a daunting task to know where to start. Certainly I've yet to make my way through all of them. But I would certainly suggest this one as a good place to start. The final boss is difficult, but lacks the infamous SNK Final Boss Difficulty that many have known as a reason to break windows with controllers. And while it uses the series' usual three-character teams, it also incorporates a fourth Striker character (including a couple exclusive to the Dreamcast release) that can jump in during a match similarly to the Marvel Vs Capcom series. What's even better is that this particular title is not overly expensive, especially if you're interested in the Dreamcast port, so you've got every reason to give a try.
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Looking back at this very blog, it appears that it was just about this time last year that I lost all interest in my Summer Gaming list and starting spending a bunch of time with my Dreamcast. In fact it was after I had beaten four of my ten games last year that this occurred. Guess how many I've beaten this year?
Let me tell you a stupid story. In the past I've often tried to be a one-console man. I can't really explain the need for this, but I'd usually try to just focus on a single console as far as collecting went. I guess my hope was to not overwhelm myself. So when I'd move from one collection to another, it usually meant selling off a bulk of what I had been collecting previously.
But recently I've come to terms with the idea that I'm not a single-console collector. I'm a video game collector. And because I love shmups, I was going to need to stop limiting my focus so much. Instead of a single console to collect shmups for, why not have a PS3, 360, Wii, PS2, Saturn and Dreamcast all hooked up and ready to go?
And at first the Dreamcast was just sitting there waiting for some new shmups -- I've just recently found a copy of Last Hope (non-Pink Bullets version sadly) for instance. But then OatBob's recent blog post got me thinking about my neglected console. And then I came across this wonderful checklist again:
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Are you familiar with this? It's the list of all officially licensed US releases. In short, it's a pretty good reminder of just how many awesome titles, and how much variety there was released on the console in such a short span of time. It also reminds me of what an interesting period of time 9.9.99-January 2001 was for gaming.
I printed the list out and checked off the small handful of DC games I still own. And now I want more. But y'know what's nice about collecting DC stuff? For the most part it's relatively cheap.
Perhaps Dreamcast collecting is a sickness, but if there's a cure for this I don't want it.
I typically like to update every 3-5 games, but somehow I managed to knock out 7 titles since last my last blog! And there were a few delightful surprises in there too!
First game I beat was a very interesting title called Treasure Master. This game was developed in association with MTV and was basically a contest. You enter your special code packed in with the game to unlock the final stage and therefore be eligible to enter the contest. Upon completing the final stage you receive a new code to enter into a mail away form and a phone number to call for help if needed. The prizes actually sounded pretty decent with stuff like trips to see your favorite band or sports team, new home theater systems, big cash prizes and tons of game/console prizes. The game itself can be a bit frustrating at times, but its not to bad. Its a platformer with a little bit of action tossed in and an interesting exploration/puzzle aspect to it. Each level has various tools hidden throughout it and you have to figure out where to use each tool you've found. Most tools only have one area to use them in, but a few attack items can be used in any part of the game. If there is one thing to say about this game though its that the main character has one badass stride when he walks. Its probably my favorite character animation of any NES game.
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Since I've already taken care of the other 3 Simpsons games I figured I might as well knock Krusty's Fun House off my list too. It starts off fairly fun and simple, but quickly becomes boring, repetitive and frustrating due to the way you have to stand on the very end of platforms to solve many puzzles. There are much better puzzle games on the system so its only really worth checking out if your a huge Simpsons fan, and even then there isnt to much fanfare.
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King's Knight by Squaresoft was my next target. This one is another interesting mashup of genres. It is very much a scrolling shooter, but with strong RPG type elements in it. The game consists of 5 levels, the first 4 having to be played each with a different character specific to each level. The final stage is played by any of the 4 characters that survived their initial levels. By hitting select at the title screen after dying you can replay any of the characters levels again in order to get them all to the final stage. Each character has to be on the lookout for some special powerups in their respective stages in order to gain access to a powerful spell in the final stage, there are 4 of each of these powerups for each character to find. In addition to the spell powerups each character can collect other useful items such as: increased attack power, increased defence, faster movement or increased jumping capabilities. Depending on how many of these powerups you find your character is given a level (1-20 where every single powerup collected adds one level to your character) So the challenge is to get each character as close to level 20 as possible and have access to their spell for the final stage. Now in the final stage all for characters form a diamond shape and by hitting arrow tiles scattered through the level you can swap your front character. By some trial and error you can find which character needs to use their spell at different parts of the level. Once you are able to navigate your way through a fairly challenging castle you get to face off against the final boss. Each character is needed to beat him and all 4 of your guys must hit the boss at least 15 times a piece before you can claim victory.
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After that was done I decided to follow in Arino-san's footsteps and challenge Mighty Bomb Jack. This was one of the best titles I've played in quite a while. Each room is scattered with treasures, secrets and randomly spawning enemies. The character controls AMAZINGLY and feels very fun to move around with such ease. Each level ends in a room full of bombs and baddies. After clearing all the bombs from the room you get to move onto the next level. A nice little trick I learned from Arino was to collect the bomb with the burning fuse last in order to skip a world. By using this technique I was able to save the king and beat the game fairly quickly, but I definitely plan to come back to this one day and see if I cant find some of the secret items and get one of the better endings.
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After that I had to keep my Bases Loaded legacy alive and started work on Bases Loaded 3. The win condition in this game was fairly unique. My goal was to beat a Level 5 team (the hardest) and have my rating at the end of the game be 100, which is the highest possible rating. Every error you make, such as getting struck out, throwing wild pitches or tossing the ball to the wrong base costs you 3 of your 100 points. If you can shut out their team for the inning you can make 1 point back and by making a "great play" you can score 2 points back. I took the easy route out and used the team edit tools and created a team of steroid induces berserkers in order to keep my play time with this game to a minimum. I figured I have spent enough time loading bases on the first two games that I deserved to take the easy way out. Plus it was a built in game feature so it didnt feel like cheating 
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Second to lastly I played a game that I've heard a fair amount of negativity about, Castelian. Each level starts you at the bottom of a tower and tasks you with figuring out some short puzzles in order to reach the top of the tower before your time runs out. After completing the tower you get a bonus stage in which you can rack up points by collecting gems and if you are able to make it to the end of the bonus stage you are awarded with some extra time for the next tower stage. I found the towers to be a lot of fun and surprisingly addictive. Definitely a game worth checking out.
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And lastly I played possibly my favorite game of the bunch, Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll. Flying Dragon starts off as a very generic side scroller, with very simplistic controls. In these types of levels you have to defeat 5 enemies in order to get a boss to appear on screen. Once you've killed 5 bosses and collected the items they were carrying you gain access to the real fun part of the game. The 1 on 1 fighting areas. To fight you have to watch for targets that appear on either your character or the enemy and react quickly before the opponent can strike/dodge. To make things even more interesting you have to defeat some enemies in very specific ways in order to get them to reveal their true form as Tusk Soldiers and then fight these demonic rivals in order to obtain the secret scrolls they have stolen. The game has the basic high/mid/low kicks and punches for you to work with, but there are also several special moves at your disposal as well as healing items that occasionally make their way across the screen for you to pick up. These fighting levels are so much fun that the side scrolling areas feel like they just get in the way. Luckily you can do all of them, even the later levels in about 2 minutes and get back to the good stuff. This game has a required second quest in order to get the real ending, but since I had so much fun going through it the first time I had no issue doing it again right after. The only difference is that you are also tasked with finding 4 crystal balls along with the 6 scrolls hidden throughout the game. Its not nearly as daunting as it sounds and its a blast to play though, even the second time around.
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NES Games Finished In 2012
(click on a title to view the video)
Silver Surfer
Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones
Ghosts n Goblins
Tetris
Pro Wrestling
Gradius
Zanac
Adventure Island
Karnov
Trojan
Excitebike
Baseball
Spy Hunter
Adventure Island II
Tennis
Battletoads
Shadowgate
Battletoads/Double Dragon
Pinball Quest
Section Z
Godzilla
Hydlide
Marble Madness
Back to the Future
Darkman
Terminator 2
Robocop
Total Recall
Predator
Robocop 2
Robocop 3
Hudson Hawk
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Batman Returns
Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters
Die Hard
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Krion Conquest
Adventures of Dino Riki
Ultima: Exodus
Legacy of the Wizard
Air Fortress
Ultima: Quest of the Avatar
Darkwing Duck
Ultima: Warriors of Destiny
Legends of the Diamond
Pro Sports Hockey
Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball
Yoshi's Cookie
Kick Master
Zombie Nation
Stadium Events
Super Jeopardy!
Joust
Yoshi
Dance Aerobics
Adventures of Bayou Billy
Pipe Dreams
Ski or Die
Werewolf: The Last Warrior
Simpsons: Bart vs The Space Mutants
City Connection
American Gladiators
Roundball 2-on-2 Challenge
720
Athletic World
Super Team Games
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Gumshoe
Bases Loaded
The Addams Family Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt
Kings of the Beach
The Blues Brothers
Volley Ball
Lode Runner
3D World Runner
Twin Eagle
Dragon's Lair
The Adventures of Rad Gravity
Break Time: The National Pool Tour
Bases Loaded II
Rainbow Islands
Conquest of the Crystal Palace
Peter Pan And The Pirates
Kid Kool and the Quest for the Seven Wonder Herbs
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Dragon Strike
Slalom
Wrath of the Black Manta
Race America
Treasure Master
Krusty's Fun House
King's Knight
Mighty Bomb Jack
Bases Loaded 3
Castelian
Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll
BONUS GAME -
Assimilate
Future Plans - I'm getting close to another big milestone so I'm going to try for another game that big in scope such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms II to try and make that milestone memorable.
Hey everyone went around to a few places today and well didn't spend much but I receieved a lot of FREE goodies!!! I picked up a few SNES, Lots Genesis Boxes, one N64 box, and a few Master System Boxes. These were the wonderful first of the free items. Cool thing is I needed most of the boxes for my carts I have sitting around I also picked up a PS3 box for my 80GB system, and the Sears Tele-Games 2600 system and cart holder all for free!! Then as for my purchases I picked up B.O.B. CIB for $4.00, Game Geneie codebook for SNES for $0.95, Happy Trails Intellvision with controller inlays for $0.95, Tron Deadly Discs CB with Inlays for $0.95, and World Series Baseball Sega Saturn CIB for $1.95. Then I went to Half Price Books I picked up the "NEW Edition" Bioshock Guide fro $2.00. So here are the pictures let me know what you think. Some of the boxes might go up for sale BUT not for sure yet. If they do I'll post something.
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July was a good month to be a Dreamcast fan. A new indie game, a classic standby, and some other goodies made this month all worthwhile.
Continue reading Dreamcast Mania! July 2012 ed.
I told my wife as I was opening the latest box of Odyssey^2 games, "It would be better if I could say, 'I was only 12 games away from having the complete, regular US released set of arcade cabs.'"
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Continue reading Meanwhile back at the world of Odyssey 2 collecting...
Hello everyone this is my begining of August Finds. September though could possibly be a heavy month of buying but who knows. So I am on this kick of finding cheap stuff or things at a decent price. Well last weekend I bought Kingodm Hearts 3D for a total of $5.00 I had a few giftcards from purchasing items before that and kept collecting the cards and got the game well for buying the game I got a $10.00 gift card so I practically spent nothing on the game! Then my brother (whom which doesn't collect much anymore for a lot of reasons which I respect and we are selling some stuff) he picked up a brand new copy of Monopoly Star Wars on eBay using our eBay bucks grand total he spent $4.00! Then today I went to a garage sale and picked up an NES Action Set Complete in Box for a grand total of $2.00!!!!! So I would say that is the mother of all finds in a while!!! I know own an orange zapper set and a gray zapper Action Set! So sweet!!! Also today went to a local store and picked up Assassin's Creed II Masters Edition for $17.00 sadly it is almost complete it didn't have the statue SO!!! IF THERE IS ANYONE out there that has an extra statue or want to sell there statue I would be interested Thanks. So here is the picture let me know what you guys think. The Action set is very minty fresh even the box looks pretty great.
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****NEED ASAP MIGHTY FINAL FIGHT MANUAL ON NES****
NES Games I am looking for:
**Flintstones 2 (Boxed or Cart Only)
**Little Samson (Boxed or Cart Only)
**Stadium Events (Boxed or Cart Only)
SNES Game:
**Final Fight Guy (Boxed or Cart Only)
**NEED ASAP EARTHBOUND BOX AND INSTRUCTIONS***
This update is all over the place again. First was Kid Kool adn the Quest of the Seven Wonder Herbs. Awesome title! This game seems to be designed to be an especially frustrating platformer. Your quest is to finish seven stages, each ending with a boss battle, and depending on how quick you finish you get a slightly different ending. The levels have a lot of different trial and error sections which I'm assuming are to slow you down and prevent you from getting the best endings to easily. After you get used to the awkward jumping controls (you have to be moving at a decent pace to be able to jump forward with any momentum) it plays alright, but holy hell some of the areas you have to get past are annoying. It took me around 3 hours to finish the game and I still seemed to get a good ending (but not the best one).
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Someone on the nintendoage thread I've been following made a comment about AD&D Dragon Strike being nearly impossible. I'd never tried it out and always assumed it was going to be a traditional RPG or possibly a dungeon crawler. Turns out its a shooter, cool right! So I had to pop it in and see what all the fuss was about. Turn out I loved the game and only wish I'd played it years ago. You get to control one of 3 different dragons, all with different stats and attacks. Even though this game is definitely in the shmup family it plays drastically different than most. Instead of scrolling vertical/horizontal you get complete freedom to move as you wish across a small map. Each mission consists of 1 or more objectives which have to be met before you can move on to the next mission. Your dragon moves in a swooping motion instead of straight ahead and you can switch between to different heights. Some enemies or projectiles will require you to be at a different height to hit/avoid. Very cool little game that I'd definitely recommend trying out.
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Popped in yet another black box beauty and tried out Slalom. Having played a few different black box games already I had some expectations about Slalom going in. It surpassed most of them right away. As far as BB games go its got to be one of the best. Decent graphics, sound and gameplay really werent what I was expecting when I turned it on. Short enough that it doenst get too repetitive and just a lot of fun.
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Next up was yet another Taito game, Wrath of the Black Manta. I've had relatively good experiences with most other Taito games so far so I had high hopes for Black Manta. While it did do a few unique things and have some funny cheesy-ness to it, it ultimately was broken because of one move you obtain after completing the first level. It wasnt bad, but not up to par with many of Taito's other games.
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Finally for this update is my most recent pick up, Race America. I'm not a fan of racing games unless they are Mario Kart. This may be the exception though. I had a lot of fun with Race America and it played VERY well for an NES title. Almost something I'd have expected to see on the SNES or Genesis. It might even be a bona fide hidden gem. Very cool game!
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NES Games Finished In 2012
(click on a title to view the video)
Silver Surfer
Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones
Ghosts n Goblins
Tetris
Pro Wrestling
Gradius
Zanac
Adventure Island
Karnov
Trojan
Excitebike
Baseball
Spy Hunter
Adventure Island II
Tennis
Battletoads
Shadowgate
Battletoads/Double Dragon
Pinball Quest
Section Z
Godzilla
Hydlide
Marble Madness
Back to the Future
Darkman
Terminator 2
Robocop
Total Recall
Predator
Robocop 2
Robocop 3
Hudson Hawk
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Batman Returns
Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters
Die Hard
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Krion Conquest
Adventures of Dino Riki
Ultima: Exodus
Legacy of the Wizard
Air Fortress
Ultima: Quest of the Avatar
Darkwing Duck
Ultima: Warriors of Destiny
Legends of the Diamond
Pro Sports Hockey
Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball
Yoshi's Cookie
Kick Master
Zombie Nation
Stadium Events
Super Jeopardy!
Joust
Yoshi
Dance Aerobics
Adventures of Bayou Billy
Pipe Dreams
Ski or Die
Werewolf: The Last Warrior
Simpsons: Bart vs The Space Mutants
City Connection
American Gladiators
Roundball 2-on-2 Challenge
720
Athletic World
Super Team Games
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Gumshoe
Bases Loaded
The Addams Family Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt
Kings of the Beach
The Blues Brothers
Volley Ball
Lode Runner
3D World Runner
Twin Eagle
Dragon's Lair
The Adventures of Rad Gravity
Break Time: The National Pool Tour
Bases Loaded II
Rainbow Islands
Conquest of the Crystal Palace
Peter Pan And The Pirates
Kid Kool and the Quest for the Seven Wonder Herbs
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Dragon Strike
Slalom
Wrath of the Black Manta
Race America
BONUS GAME -
Assimilate
Future Plans - I worked a bit on Treasure Master tonight and think I can knock it off my list tomorrow if all goes well. Also want to get to Krusty's Fun House and King's Knight in the near future.
Here is a short video that shows my test of a new product in development called the ENIO (Extended NES I/O). One of its abilities allows you to connect Famicom peripherals that use the expansion port to the NES expansion port.
Being the Famicom/NES geek that I am I think this is really interesting, and great to see the NES expansion port get some real use. I can't wait to see what comes about next.
You can visit the projects main page at http://enio.chykn.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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