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Well, you probably won't learn the entire game in 2 hours but you will learn enough about the mechanics of the game to get started.
Like I mention in the video, the game is available for under $15 and it really is an outstanding strategy experience. Feel free to leave questions or comments.
So the end is near. I started this journey Feb 12th 2013 and I am still poking at it.
Some of the members on this group know that I have been living in Italy the past few years, but before moving here I lived in Michigan for the bulk of my life and then followed that up with three years in Nebraska. During that time frame I was a local game shopper, commonly visited places for me were game stores, good wills, thrift stores and flea markets. The normal spots most game collectors head to on a average day of game hunting. Well during the first year here in Italy, I only bought newer games on the Military base I work on and games from the local American community that also works on the base. It kinda worked for a while but it did not satisfy my needs for the hunt.
Well a year passes, I knew that I was going to be heading back to Michigan to visit family and I even made a trip to Nebraska to visit a friend as well. During that time frame I stopped by a local game store I use to go to so I could pick up some games and bs with my buddy Mike who ran the store. He was telling me of a huge score he got over the summer and how excited he was. He was at a thrift shop and asked if they had any games. Well it turns out they just got over 1000 CIB snes games and they were sitting in the back. He then offered them $2000 dollars for the lot and they took it. I was super excited but then as the story went on he was explaining that he already made over $18,000 dollars profit on it but there was hardly anything left.
My excitement kinda went away knowing most of it was gone but I still asked him to bring in what he had left. I assumed what would be left was all sports titles but I was actually wrong. This is what he still had available and was still posted on Amazon at the time.
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I up until this point never made a purchase online in regards to video games and I honestly did not know a solid price to offer. I desperately lacked knowledge in complete in box collecting and I hardly knew anything of many of the titles here. I then shot him a $300 dollar offer for the lot to see what he would say. It really took him a minute to honestly agree to it and I understood because despite not really knowing much I did feel like it was kinda a low offer but I did not have much spending money since it was the very back in of the trip I was on and I spent most of the money I put aside for the game hunt. Well that same day I had to catch my flight back to Italy and did not have much time left before the post office closed and I knew if he sold it I needed to get it to the post office asap to mail this out. Eventually he agreed to the $300 dollars I offered him and we then peeled the price stickers he had on the plastic bags around them at the time so he knew what games to take off amazon.
When we started peeling the stickers I soon realized that it was adding up quick. It could of easily been at least $800 dollars worth of inventory he had on amazon that he just hooked me up with. Well fast forward to early Feb 2013 and this ties back into not being satisfied with the lacking of game hunting locally in Italy. I finally broke down and made my first gaming purchases online. My stubborn self went 11 years of game collecting without doing so up until this point. I even wrote a blog on this site about being on edge and whether i should do it or not.
But what was my first gaming purchase online? It was NBA JAM 99 for the N64 CIB for a whopping $2 dollars with free shipping. I was not complaining, but why that game? No real reason other then knowing that the journey to a Complete N64 set was on my mind for the past year in a half prior to that point. But I was not sure if I was ever going to pursue that journey and if I did I defiantly did not know that it was going to be the CIB journey. It was the huge super Nintendo lot that I got from my friend that made me realize that I wanted to not only pursue the N64 set as I have wanted to but to also work towards getting the complete collection with boxes.
Fast forward to today and I am nearing the completion of what I set out for.
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This is what I have amassed so far when it comes to Nintendo 64. As of this time I am down to the last 9 games I need to complete the set. However it is not a easy task, I have been waiting patiently for the games to show up for sale in near mint or great condition which is not as easy it sounds. Just to give a example I have only added three games to the collection since July 9th with the purchase of Bomberman 2nd attack.
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The next game to come to me is a nice Castlevania Legacy of Dark Box and manual. Technically I am still waiting on a cart I ordered separate so I need 10 games. But this does not count haha 
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And finally the most recent CIB game I received. I actually had this game in my possessing for a whole whopping two hours and then as I left work with my box of games I condensed to one box I managed to forget the box on top of my car and drove off. I was about 10 minutes away when I noticed I did not have the box and I drove back quick but the box was no where in site. A few days go by and still not luck. I lost one of my pricier N64 purchases and one of the games I spent the past year in a half waiting on quality wise. A week later however the girl i know at the post office on base calls me up and informs me that a individual found the box and dropped it off at the post office. I was so relieved and stoked and I am happy to have this game currently sitting on my shelf and in my possessing.
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So this is where you come in, maybe I should of posted this list at the top but if you are still reading and with me thanks for hanging in there. I am currently on the hunt for the following 9 CIB games. Condition is a big factor to me but please message me with what you have and if you can help me in my journey to completing my first ever collection of any console.
Bust A Move 99
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
International Superstar Soccer 2000 (English text)
International Track and Field 2000
MLBPA Bottom of the 9th
NBA Jam 2000
Stunt Racer 64
Top Gear Hyper-Bike
Turok 3 Shadow of Oblivion
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Um, negotiation? Harsh language?
*Sometime in 1989, my dad is flipping through channels while an 11-year-old me is puttering with the family Commodore 64. I glance up to the screen in time to see the coolest thing on wheels my young mind has yet absorbed: a giant rectangle bristling with weaponry, tires almost as tall as the vehicle is high, and a turret atop that is so huge, it slides on a rail from the top and down the back so the whole thing can fit through a huge industrial door.
"Woah, what is that?" I ask.
"A movie." My dad says nonchalantly.
"What movie?"
"Aliens."
From the kitchen, I hear my mom call out, "Ken, isn't that too scary for him?"
The wood-grain 25" console TV flickers to a different channel.
This was my first encounter with the legendary franchise. And a moment that dug deep grooves into my life from then on, including a love of sci-fi I would end up sharing with my dad.
Alien Isolation is the latest product in that universe, which by most accounts needed a palate cleanser after the failure-on-many-levels Colonial Marines (full disclosure, I did enjoy that one, though I agree with the critique.) That game, like most based on the series, was modeled as a guns-blazing action game with a touch of horror, which makes sense; Aliens is highly regarded as a fantastic action/sci-fi/horror-lite movie that was also key in developing the quintessential and now ubiquitous 'Space Marine' archetype.
Continue reading Death and Harvey: Time with Alien Isolation
Why would a person want to open a video game store and how does that idea go from conception to reality? That question has a nearly endless amount of possible answers. But here is one answer to that question.....
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Young Crabmaster getting his first dose of Nintendo
Continue reading Blog Quest: What?!?! No Game Stores??
I thought I would record my first 20 turns of Civilization Beyond Earth just in case any RFGenners would care to join me in learning the game.
I've played a whole bunch of Civ V so I'm familiar with the formula but I do explain some basic things as I play so if you are looking to get into the game, this might be a good place to start. If anyone finds the video helpful or interesting, please let me know and I will record another video continuing this game.
Episode 26.5 discussion thread: http://www.rfgeneration.c...rum/index.php?topic=14708
We're back with another Small Scores special! Crabby is on hiatus while Bil and Duke dig into all the fun snags of the members of RF Generation. Join us for game talk, some rambling, and our memories of Kazaa.
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Music: Mouryou Senki Madara (Famicom)
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I recently started playing Far Cry 3 to see what all the hype surrounding the game was about. The game took some getting used to, since the first-person shooter genre is still very new to me, but there's one mechanic in this game that I'm very familiar with, the skill tree. However, I this mechanic wasn't the right choice for this particular game.
Continue reading You Got RPG in My FPS: Bad Upgrade Systems
Hi everyone, I've been a user here off and on for a while and just recently started making a video series on Youtube called Game vs Game and thought I'd begin sharing here. I'll be posting the backlog here for a while, one every two weeks or so until it's caught up and will continue posting new episodes as well. Hope you enjoy!
Earthworm Jim is a terrifficly fun and unique game and was released on a ton of systems. On this, the premiere episode of Game vs Game, we'll dive into the Super Nintendo and Genesis version to disect them side by side. Which is the better version?
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Cosmic Carnage is a bad fighting game for the 32X. What makes the game bad?
Most people can tell if a game is good or bad from playing it for a short while, but what if you wanted to break it down and figure out what specifically makes the game good or bad? You could have a punch list and put little check marks or ratings in each box. But what are the criteria? Story, Gameplay, Control, Visuals, Sound, Replayability? It's hard to apply the same rating system to different types of games. It would depend greatly on the kind of game you are playing. All games should be fun. This can be a bit of an intangible as all of the pieces of the game, good and/or bad, come together to make up the overall experience. Let's take a look at the parts of Cosmic Carnage as they are presented to us.
Continue reading Cosmic Carnage is a Bad Game With a Great Premise
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Posted on Oct 24th 2014 at 12:43:07 PM by ( Fleach) Posted under Community Playthrough, SNES, PC, Super Metroid, System Shock 2, Metroidvania, FPS, Exploration, Retro, Modern, Game |
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After a month-long fight through the night exploring Dracula's castle, we have arrived at a new frontier. Join RF Generation in an outer space sci-fi Community Playthrough in November. This time we invite you to play the Super Nintendo classic, Super Metroid and the cult PC hit, System Shock 2.
A young Metroid specimen has been kidnapped from the Galactic Federation science colony by Ridley and his Space Pirates! Battle through the caverns of Zebes again to recover the Metroid from the rebuilt Space Pirate facility. Another amazing title to tackle this month, so please join us for Super Metroid on the SNES in the Retro Community Playthrough.
Retro Playthrough Discussion Thread
Board the Von Braun Space Station in 2114 to battle wits with Shodan, a rogue A.I., in the spiritual prequel to BioShock. System Shock 2 is a tough as nails PC only game released in 1999, just over the verge to be considered modern. This Ken Levine cult classic is heralded as being way ahead of its time, and you'll be shocked at just how deep and complex of a game it is. So join the Modern Playthrough Group this November for their playthrough of System Shock 2
Modern Playthrough Discussion Thread
Gaming has always been a large part of my life. I received my first gaming system: a Sega Genesis for Christmas in 1992 when I was 8 years old. I had no idea what a game system was, as I had never even seen one before, but once I got my hands on the controller and played Sonic the Hedgehog for the first time I was hooked. Flash forward 22 years to 2014 and things haven't changed; gaming is still a large part of my life but the collecting aspect is largely diminishing.
I really got into collecting around 2005 or so. Almost like a light switch had been flipped and I transformed from a gamer to a collector overnight. My gaming habits had changed. I was no longer buying games to play, but buying them to collect. This was a very weird transformation. I was amassing large quantities of games, but I rarely played through them. Many were never played at all. I went on for years like this and it never really bothered me until my first son was born in 2010. When my son was born I realized that my hobby really wasn't sustainable anymore. Buying things just to have them didn't seem so tangible when money could be put to better use elsewhere.
For a few years after my first son was born I found myself in sort of a collecting limbo. I found myself playing through more games but I was still buying more games then I could play. The reasonable part of myself couldn't handle this. I eventually found myself during this time period selling off parts of the collection or at least trying to. You see selling always seems easier than it really is. After spending years amassing a large collection I just couldn't find it in myself to let go of said collection. These items meant a lot to me but at the same time bothered me as they had become useless clutter in my eyes.
In 2013 my second son was born and I also came to terms with my gaming and collecting habits wherein I combined them. To this date I no longer just buy games to buy them but I buy them to play them. At the same time though I do find myself keeping some of these games if I find them unique or having high replay value. I found myself on an amazing gaming journey over the years but now I feel as if I have found the perfect place for me as a hybrid gaming collector.
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Before I get started, I just want to say that Fatal Frame is absolutely NOT based on a true story. The producer of the series has gone on record to say that the story is based on two Japanese urban legends and ghost stories, and is not true at all. The inclusion of this statement on the game's cover was a marketing slogan used in Western Markets. In Japan, Fatal Frame was released as Zero, and it was titled Project Zero in Europe. The game was developed and published by Tecmo in Japan and the USA, though in Europe, it became quite a mess with system exclusive publishers.
**WARNING** - PICTURES AND VIDEOS BEYOND THIS BREAK CONTAIN DISTURBING IMAGES THAT MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AUDIENCES. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
Continue reading Spooky Plays: Fatal Frame
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Falling Skies: The Game
Little Orbit, 2014
I've just hit ten hours in a game that I can't really say anything positive about. It's an odd place to be. Everything that my rational brain tells me is that this game just isn't very good, and yet I can't seem to stop myself from continuing on. And no, masochism has nothing to do with it. I'm not forcing myself through something unenjoyable, quite the contrary. Instead, I'm having fun playing a bad game.
Continue reading Review: Falling Skies The Game
Recently, I finished a decade long goal of mine and obtained a copy of each and every licensed NES title. With how important communities like rfgeneration, nintendoage and racketboy have been during that quest, it seems fitting that I take some time to give a proper thank you to those that have helped me along this path. With today coincidentally being both the anniversary of the NES in North America and my birthday (pretty cool, eh?), it feels appropriate to chronicle my journey to 677 Nintendo games.
Continue reading NES Story
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As a kid of the 80's, Hollywood slammed my generation with awesome action films starring arguably the two biggest names in action at the time, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. Of course, the gaming industry understood the popularity of these movies and were quick to cash in by churning out action movie titles based on some of our most beloved films: the Rambo series, Total Recall, Predator, Terminator 2, and Die Hard, etc. (just to name a few). The labels and boxes of these games were seductive and often depicted the movie posters themselves, or very recognizable scenes directly from these films. No doubt about it, any young kid/teenager coming across these games on their local store shelf was immediately filled with excitement knowing that they were about to bring home that same movie experience and blast away baddies as their favorite action stars.............well...........that was the idea, wasn't it?
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of these titles, the surface was far from the reality; often the games were very bad and had little, or nothing to do with the plot of the film itself. So imagine my distrust when a good friend came over to my house a few weeks ago, pointed to my copy of The Terminator for Sega CD and said, "Have you played that yet? Man, you should, because it is f%&king awesome!"
Continue reading Banana's Rotten Reviews: The Terminator
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