# NES/Famicom Appreciation Thread - Playing With Power, Then and Now **URL:** \ **Category:** Video Games\ **Created:** [October 30, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258 "2017-10-30T03:00:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![D.Lo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/d.lo/32/4116_2.png) [@D.Lo](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/D.Lo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/162 "2018-11-13T13:22:59Z")
I’m slowly, slowly getting all the non-silver Konami/Ultra/Palcom releases (already have a complete silver box set) ![IMG_5658](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/retrogameboards/original/2X/1/14501631fd095a4b9152db5856b2664c70be4f24.jpeg) So many are US exclusives and I’m sick of playing ridiculous global shipping program extortion, I should do some trades or something for the cheaper games like Qbert and Skate or Die. ---
**Author:** ![Radarscope1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/radarscope1/32/200_2.png) [@Radarscope1](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Radarscope1)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/163 "2018-11-13T18:07:02Z")
Contra Force - nice CIB get. You are truly a Konami super fan, sir. ---
**Author:** ![Peltz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/peltz/32/6142_2.png) [@Peltz](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Peltz)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/164 "2018-11-13T18:26:15Z")
Basewars is a legitimately fun game. ---
**Author:** ![DaveLong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/davelong/32/1419_2.png) [@DaveLong](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/DaveLong)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/165 "2018-11-13T21:57:48Z")
I rented Basewars and loved it. I should definitely get that into my collection. ---
**Author:** ![D.Lo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/d.lo/32/4116_2.png) [@D.Lo](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/D.Lo)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/166 "2018-11-13T22:04:00Z")
I didn’t get all of these recently, just posted all I have. The new one is Monster in my Pocket. ---
**Author:** ![Televator](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/televator/32/37_2.png) [@Televator](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Televator)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/167 "2018-11-15T19:20:20Z")
Damn, I gotta get me a repro Batman box. Looks fantastic! ---
**Author:** ![D.Lo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/d.lo/32/4116_2.png) [@D.Lo](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/D.Lo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 6:20am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/168 "2018-11-17T06:20:51Z")
Batman Returns has a hologram logo thing on the cover. This is pretty amazing > **[ファミコン コナミ 悪魔城すぺしゃる ぼくドラキ... - ヤフオク!](https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/r284916594)** > > ご覧頂きありがとうございます。ファミコン コナミ 悪魔城すぺしゃる ぼくドラキュラくん RC847 サンプル品? 開発途中品?試作品?デバッグ版? カセットのみ 動作確認済 ... How do these things keep turning up? ---
**Author:** ![Televator](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/televator/32/37_2.png) [@Televator](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Televator)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 6:41am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/169 "2018-11-17T06:41:01Z")
Kid Dracula proto? ---
**Author:** ![D.Lo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/d.lo/32/4116_2.png) [@D.Lo](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/D.Lo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 11:32am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/170 "2018-11-17T11:32:23Z")
Yaha. ---
**Author:** ![D.Lo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/d.lo/32/4116_2.png) [@D.Lo](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/D.Lo)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2018, 4:43am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/171 "2018-11-29T04:43:24Z")
Dammit I bought a Dynamite Batman box with missing insert (it’s a hard case like all that era of Sunsoft games) and now I can’t find any decent quality art to replace the insert with. Real legit game (you can’t make a repro of it anyway as it uses special chips), real legit Sunsoft box, just wanted to make it look nice again. Sigh. There’s a guy on ebay who sells cases with inserts, but they’re the wrong size, some dodgy universal size. ---
**Author:** ![D.Lo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/d.lo/32/4116_2.png) [@D.Lo](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/D.Lo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/172 "2018-12-02T14:26:41Z")
I’m largely quitting buying stuff for a while, but these turned up from a while ago, largely driven by my small box collecting. ![IMG_5949](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/retrogameboards/original/2X/6/617d4ad086378b92891ec5cb846458872b0b79e7.jpeg) **Nuts and Milk** is a pretty good platformer… Not sure what you call the ‘single screen platformer genre’. It’s very much that ‘Lode Runner’ genre, while some may say puzzle platformer, the puzzle element is so light as to be non-existant. I mean are Donkey Kong/DK Jr a puzzle platformers? You have to be strategic **Dragon Quest III** is Dragon Quest III. I always meant to get a copy since it was the game I first heard about Japan’s crazy lines and kids skipping school for games, in a magazine article all those years ago. Finally grabbed a copy of that legend. **Jenny** is an odd one, but very good. Essentially an adventure game with exploratory platformer elements. Not top tier but solid and cute. And **Valkyrie** is a Zelda clone. Kinda a bit scabby, but decent. It comes with a huge map too! ---
**Author:** ![Radarscope1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/radarscope1/32/200_2.png) [@Radarscope1](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Radarscope1)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/173 "2018-12-02T14:30:06Z")
Nice. I’d love to have a CIB set of those early numbered Namco games. N&M is on my list, too. ---
**Author:** ![Morfeo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/morfeo/32/571_2.png) [@Morfeo](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Morfeo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:02am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/174 "2018-12-04T06:02:21Z")
Any differences between Dynamite Batman and western Return of the Joker? ---
**Author:** ![D.Lo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/d.lo/32/4116_2.png) [@D.Lo](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/D.Lo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2018, 6:37am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/175 "2018-12-04T06:37:14Z")
Not that I know of, just Dainamaito Baatoman on the title screen! ---
**Author:** ![Morfeo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/morfeo/32/571_2.png) [@Morfeo](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Morfeo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/176 "2018-12-05T23:27:25Z")
Ok, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/matt/32/13124_2.png) [@matt](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/177 "2018-12-09T21:21:11Z")
A great article on the influential NESticle emulator > **[The Story of NESticle, the Ambitious Emulator That Redefined Retro Gaming](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9a48z3/the-story-of-nesticle-the-ambitious-emulator-that-redefined-retro-gaming)** > > The product of a talented programmer who designed a hit shareware game while he was still in high school, NESticle was so good that everyone looked past the fact its name was basically a dick joke. ---
**Author:** ![Timu321](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/timu321/32/25_2.png) [@Timu321](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Timu321)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/178 "2018-12-11T02:36:55Z")
I just beat the Grim Reaper from the 1st Castlevania without holy water/sub weapons and it was also my 1st time ever beating him…it was insane, lol. ---
**Author:** ![fester](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/fester/32/16133_2.png) [@fester](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/fester)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/179 "2018-12-11T17:39:20Z")
Wow, just thinking about things like NESticle and Zophars Domain takes me back to some halcyon college days. ---
**Author:** ![NeoZeedeater](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/neozeedeater/32/415_2.png) [@NeoZeedeater](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/NeoZeedeater)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/180 "2018-12-12T15:53:36Z")
Nesticle was the first emulator I used. I was blown away by it. ---
**Author:** ![Peltz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/www.retrogameboards.com/peltz/32/6142_2.png) [@Peltz](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Peltz)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258/181 "2018-12-12T18:38:29Z")
Same here. [Previous page](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258.md?page=8) [Next page](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/nes-famicom-appreciation-thread-playing-with-power-then-and-now/258.md?page=10)