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  1. THE MARKET FOR MYSTERY HOUSE HAS JUST EXPLODED
  2. There's a couple Mystery Houses on Ebay. This one looks really nice and is an early-ish print. I dunno how to authenticate these, but given that sells old computer stuff, it seems legit. https://www.ebay.com/itm/176306040636
  3. I drove 14 hours in a rented truck with a rented trailer to pick up a 1960s big ball bowler in working condition. When I got there it was "kinda working". But I bought it anyway because I wasted a whole day of my life getting there and they're pretty rare.
  4. I don't care enough about football to go higher than a 7, but this game does a really good job at appealing to people who don't care about football. A guy at my local arcade could just sit there and run circles around the CPU all day.
  5. I mean any shooter is hard (except Arrow Flash) and I'm only familiar with so many of them. Ikaruga has a straightforwardness that makes it unintimidating to me personally. Lots of enemies are just slow dumb chain fodder and the polarity system means memorizing when to switch more than navigating pixel perfect bullet curtains routes. RSG is hard. You have a lot more attack options, you need to score with them to level them up, and it's a long ass game. Just try them out. They're both pretty unique so I think you'd know if you think they're worth investing time into. @docile tapeworm knows right away that they suck!
  6. I'm definitely not a master at any shooter because I don't play for score. Ikaruga especially I think people like because of how straightforward it is. The polar bullet curtains and enemies appearing in obvious groups of 3 for chains usually make it clear where the best, or at least a good, place to be on the screen at any given time is. The chain system is really forgiving too, since there's no timeout if you miss an enemy. Part of what drew me to Ikaruga at the time (besides how generally popular it was on Gamecube) was how approachable it was compared to some Cave shooters of the era where I looked at gameplay and my immediate reaction was "This is impossible, how can a human play this?". I distinctly remember thinking F-Zero GX was harder than Ikaruga. At least Ikargua lets you make small mistakes
  7. I recently noticed this limited-to-400 Switch CE hasn’t sold out a year later. It feels like the kind of thing that would last 10 seconds 5 years ago. I think a lot of people got burnt out on the sheer volume of “limited” editions. https://www.jjgames.com/#!/Cathedral-MGC-Show-Version-Switch/p/544555369/category=148553001
  8. My favorites that I've played the most: Ikaruga, Radiant Silvergun, Espgaluda, Donpachi, Touhou 8: Imperishable Night. My favorite era though is the mid 90s era like Batsugun, RayForce, or Battle Garegga, right before bullet patterns were designed solely by flashy math PhDs.
  9. I’ve backed away from most collecting communities (just cutting back internet usage in general) but I don’t see much negativity towards other collectors except on Reddit where people circle like wolves if you stray outside the dank Goodwill pickups and only collecting to play hivemind. The top post right now is a guy who got sent the wrong game from Wata and literally half the comments are just calling OP an idiot, lol. Terrible place.
  10. To toot my own horn, it’s the best Mountain King video on the internet. EDIT: Besides T-Pac arcade obviously.
  11. In my heart I understand that this game does not hold up to modern standards. But I somehow played through this game 3 times and watched my friend play through it once, so I mean, it's gotta be at least something. 7/10.
  12. HA couldn't authenticate it. I think it was a "legit" baggie and manual found at a garage sale a while ago, combined with one of Richard Garriotts NOS disks and NOS labels from the Shroud of the Avatar Kickstarter. A fully original copy would've been numbered on the green sticker on the disk. Even the NOS copies never come up for sale. I think it's worth a ton, but he's shooting high because he's not able to auction it.
  13. The guy with the pieced together Kickstarter Akalabeth that got pulled from HA listed it on Facebook for $40,000. So yeah, no need to save money for that anymore, lmao. Got the next best thing.
  14. 7/10. I remember it looks and sounds really good, and it's the dumbest space movie ever, which is saying a lot. The plot is that Sandra Bullock gets knocked off her space ship, somehow doesn't die, so she jetpacks her way over to the ISS and crashes into it, then uses a fire extinguisher to scoot on over to another space station? Like for real, that's the plot of the movie, right?
  15. I'll go 8 for The Message and 3 for the Bruno Mars song. VGS hates The Message, man. I don't know anything about music. Is the consensus of rap fans that The Message doesn't hold up?? The beats are iconic, the last verse is fire, and this is the forum full of people who play outdated crap like N64?
  16. Wait so I am allowed to rate these songs for historical importance but not the video games or what?
  17. Akalabeth (Apple II) - Very early CRPG Panorama Toh (PC-88) - Very early JRPG NWC Gold (NES) - Gotta complete my NES cart set, and this is of course necessary as everyone agrees. Doom v1.1 5.25" floppy version - Not any earlier than the 3.5" floppy version but way cooler. Donkey Kong red cabinet, converted from Radar Scope. I don't have room for this but if price/rarity don't matter, than space can't either.
  18. You caused me to make a T-Pac-induced FOMO purchase with this thread
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