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I like sports in the ESPN The Ocho sense. I like competition but I most intently follow the Marble League or pro wrestling or chess rather than big men carrying ball sports.

Welcome back the internet of the past buddy.

1 hour ago, Gloves said:

Is that why this is what's being advertised to me on Amazon lately?

I think this is just your vibe tbh

V Rising. It's got tons of mindless grinding resources, lots of The Sims homemaking, a bit of colony sim-esque management, and some challenging combat. I know there's lots of first/third person games in whatever this genre is ("Valheim-likes") but it's super cool to have a co-op isometric one that's easy for my wife to play. It's always hard to find a game we both really get into.

market for mystery house exploded, etc.

This seemed like a nice early copy to get despite the disk bend. I think the other one on Ebay might be fake. The print quality is way lower and the floppy sticker is way off the mark. I can’t believe I lost the auction when it went for such a low price.

I just got a shipping address confirmation email from Soko Banana a game I backed 5 years ago Just confirming my address, it has not shipped yet.

Buy games. Put games on shelf.

I've never seen it but that's neat!

19 minutes ago, Hammerfestus said:

I saw on Reddit that it was @MinusWorlds who won this.  They don’t seem to believe that he’s a real person lol.

Is he the guy who’s been illegally inflating the prices of Earthbound cartridges???

6 hours ago, xelement5x said:

Is that a pachinko machine on the left next to the homer bucket as well?

Yeah this pic is super old. I used to have a few pachinko machines from different eras but I didn’t play them enough to justify the space they took up,

1 hour ago, Brickman said:

Never heard of this thing but after a google search I see it is huge! Do you have this set up in your house? It must take up a lot of room. 

Yeah it's a 16' lane. There's one singular spot in my house it fits, and I have to open the garage to be able to work on it from the back

15 hours ago, fcgamer said:

I decided to dismantle my dedicated game room so that I could turn it into an office.

THE MARKET FOR MYSTERY HOUSE HAS JUST EXPLODED

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

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.

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.

On 3/23/2024 at 2:56 PM, final fight cd said:

since this is 100% completion this surely has to be full season mode, right? so 162, 9 inning games?

*with every team

10 minutes ago, final fight cd said:

I have not played either because both games intimidate me.  But it sounds like beating them isn’t a thang? Just maxing the score is where shit gets real?

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!

2 hours ago, final fight cd said:

I’ve heard that ikarugs takes like a lifetime to master and radiant silver gun is no slouch either.

Out of curiosity, did you take the time to master and beat these?

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

3 hours ago, Skorp said:

Definitely with collector and limited editions. Was on a good roll getting every single collectors edition for 4 years for the Switch, and then space became an issue. All they end up going is into climate storage due to running out of space just sealed in their box. Did not make any sense. So, I just stopped going after everything and only will get stuff I like now and focus just full-setting standard Switch games.

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

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.

The Dentist has one, doesn’t he? I bet he’d call this low price a steal!

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.

To toot my own horn, it’s the best Mountain King video on the internet. EDIT: Besides T-Pac arcade obviously.

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.