I bought Blaster Master after watching that video as well.
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You take that back right now!
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Latest CIB black box pick up. Not the greatest condition but really good ones go for stupid prices. I now have just one more of these to get what I consider a full collection: Clu Clu Land. I’m not concerned with obtainingcomplete copies of DK Jr Math or Stack Up because those games are dumb and prices are outrageous. I do have a DKJM cart that I bought many years ago. I will probably get a Stack Up cart but I’ll never play it because it requires ROB (unlike Gyromite).
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That’s a great black box collection. it looks really cool all lined up.
If I was going to go for any kind of collection in a collection. It would be the NES black box games. Too cool
Thanks. One thing you can’t see in this view is that they are all the early version with a circular Seal of Quality and five-screw carts, with or two exceptions.
Wish I could share what I hoped for it to be the deal of the season - a copy of Lomax for the PlayStation, US version, which the seller listed on eBay as ‘like new’, and confirmed so after my specific inquiry - but it turned out to be in such poor conditions I feel bad to even sell it back. It was 15 euros (hence why I didn’t bother asking for a refund), but please accept my words of advice: as an Italian collector, beware of Italian ebayers. Too many similar recent instances to risk and ruin your retro Christmas, folks.
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What a shame. I still have my copy of Lomax, was bundled with my PS1 when I got it in 1997. The shop just stuffed them into the console boxes, lol.
Great little platformer, lovely art design, but very repetitive level design.
I apologize in advance for the length of this post. I’ve picked up quite a bit of items of late. I’ve been working on building a stable set of Retro PCs for playing Windows98/Dos and Windows XP games.
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Birthday presents to myself: a bunch of old game guides
T&E SOFT golf games
Kururin Series
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It’s here! I’m down the Rabbit Hole!
It’s in great condition, especially the pad! I’m super excited to be joining the PC Engine group, I’ve barely touched the system outside of a few heavy hitters (Castlvania, Splatterhouse, Bonk, etc…). No game to play just yet (a cheap Baseball game I ordered is on the way), but now I’m impatiently awaiting to release of the SD System 3, which will open up the library for me.
Also, this thing is SMALL. I mean, I knew it would be small, but it’s SMALL. Super RotJ for scale:
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Are we converting to a ‘Winter’ Pick Up thread or should all pick up related posts still go here?
@Socksfelloff says he’s going to go with seasonal threads in the OP. Let’s let him rev up another thread tomorrow?
Discourse is good for long running things like this though. It might make sense to just rename the thread and drop the “Fall” part?
For now I think I’ll rename the thread since we are still a new site and see what we want to do for the new year.
Do we want new threads for each season?
Do we want new threads on a monthly basis?
Do we want a giant never ending thread?
I’m leaning towards never ending thread… but I may have to think on that.
Is there a post limit per thread at the moment?
I’m not sure. When I get into a rental car I don’t ask how fast it goes. I find out how fast it goes!
An all-in-one has my vote.
Also here’s the only game I’ve picked up in the last 2 months. I enjoyed the first, hopefully this is just as good.
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The way the discourse forum software works - intelligently loading just enough posts - means that one giant thread doesn’t have the side-effects of older forum systems.
I don’t know how it performs with hundreds of thousands of posts, but that’s quite a way off.
We’ve got some very long threads at Quarter To Three because they imported the entire forum from before Discourse into Discourse at the change over. It doesn’t really have a maximum and certainly not one that this forum is likely to hit anytime soon.
Discourse is pretty slick.
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A while ago I posted I might have been onto a good haul, well as I kind of expected it indeed turned out to be a complete bust. He did have a bunch of games and there were some great ones in there in fact (not snes, but nes) Pretty common ones, but still quality games like Zelda, Ninja Gaiden, Metal Gear (debatable I know), Legendary Wings and apparently a lot more (he just showed me a pic with those games). But after he confirmeed multiple times with me that he would bring the games over he today told me he’d rather just keep them and keep them stored so he can sell them for more money in the future.
Goddamn reseller mentality. I was willing to buy all the games off of him, I even gave him an absolute bottom-dollar-price for a game he was looking for (Diablo III CE for PC) that’s going for ridiculous prices right now, and now he pulls sopmething like this. I’m kinda pissed, not so much the games, most of them I already had, but it’s a trust issue. This guy is my colleague and he has severely damaged my personal trust by confirming over and over he was gonna bring the games over and that he didn’t care about the games (he doesn’t even own a NES, hell he didn’t even know what it was before he met me a few months ago).
Sorry for the rant, but I thought it was an incredibly shitty thing of him to do: just dangle that carrot in front of my face and snatch it away at the last moment just for a few extra bucks.
Game collecting: serious business.