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Gonna take a jar of the discontinued Peter Pan Reduced Fat Peanut Butter. In food lingo "reduced fat" means "more sugar, baby!". It was the sweetest, most delicious, probably least healthy peanut butter ever. I'll top it off with an Entenmann's variety pack. You guys with your steaks. This is the dinner of kings.

I checked my Letterboxed ratings for all the Friday the 13ths and all of them were pretty average 2-3/5 so I think it would be hard to meaningfully order them. My blazing hot, hippity hottest take is that my favorite F13 movie is Jason Takes Manhattan. It's totally falsely advertised, but Jason on a Boat is still rad. 1, 3, and 5 are my favorites from the rest. Jeez, are my favorites 1, 3, 5, 7? "The bad ones??". There's so many kills in all these movies that if I can remember specific ones, it kind of jumps to the top of the list. The twist and ending of the first movie are just too memorable to not put it among my favorites. The 3D nonsense and Jason getting his mask in 3 definitely make it memorable. 5 is just had a lot of dumb and strange kills, plus another "shocking twist". The most memorable part of Part 2 for me is that like half the teenagers at one point leave camp to go to town and just... don't end up dying? Am I remembering that correctly? Lol.

I randomly have one of these FWIW. It was in a lot of Kingdom Hearts games that was sitting unsold BIN on Yahoo maybe a year ago. There were maybe 8-9 sealed Kingdom Hearts games in the lot and I paid like $500 for it. I was valuing it personally at $100-200 because the new GBA and DS games don't mean much to me. Not bragging, just a counterpoint to that these are impossibly rare.

Nintendo published Geist, I’m not gonna listen to any of their opinions on first person shooters.

The most common, latest variant of Tecmo Bowl The Holy Grail: Nintendo World Championships

Top 10 game of all time, the best Metroid game, and one of the best ever 2D to 3D transitions. Every other indie game is a clone of Super Metroid but nothing is like Metroid Prime. I remember being so skeptical before it came out that Nintendo was just jumping on the popularity of FPS as if it was going to be an Unreal game.

Yeah this showed up in my Youtube feed too. I thought it was a great explanation of why the bad parts of crypto are pretty bad. The guy clearly has an understanding of the technology and all of its glossed-over limitations and faux decentralization and isn't just whining about people buying monkey pictures for too much money.

I was let down a bit by the condition of Funspot's games (I preferred the spotlessly maintained nearby Pinball Wizard, RIP) but they have so many very rare and unique games it's a must visit at least once. There's a whole section of black and white arcade games. Death Race, Sprint 2, Atari Football, Breakout, Tank, Indy 4, Night Driver... Where are you ever going to play those?? Your local city barcade it never going to get a Computer Space cabinet! When I was there they had the only working motion cockpit Outrun and Space Harrier cabinets I'd ever played which was really memorable too. It's a true bastion of video game history and the whole time you're just like "People are just coming here bowling and for ticket games, do they realize what's right next to them??".

Remember when $9000 was a lot for shrink wrap boys

The coupon is "nintendoage" for 5%

I see them occasionally in Deluxe Sets, but still think they're cool.

I was too scared to attempt to buy this as a kid because of the disclaimer on the box so I ended up with Forsaken 64 like an idiot.

Since this is probably the leading thread on the internet for Myst variant minutia, I noticed this on Mercari today. It looks like the second MPC variant but has sticker residue from the free CD rack promo what I have posted as the fourth. This possibly means the CD Rack promo existed during the triangle sticker era, and also #3 and #4 above are out of order. I've never seen this version with the CD rack promo before. Does anyone care. Why do I do this. What is my life.

Are you looking to play European Vampire Killer or the Japanese Vampire Killer? European/Middle Eastern MSX's would run at 50hz and Japanese at 60hz, so unless you're intentionally about the slow mo life, a Japanese MSX2 2+, or Turbo-R is the way to go.

Only 200 copies of Stadium Events were made and sold at a Woolworths in New England. Just ignore any copy with a sticker from a different store or the fact that there are 3 cartridge variants! There's some modern day game collecting mythology too with things like people saying every star code NES box was a promo/giveaway or every NFR Halo is an employee copy.

I also thought of Gran Turismo but I was outrageously hyped for GT5, preordered the limited edition, followed all the pre-release stuff, and it just kind of okay. Since there are so many amazing sim racing options I haven't played a GT since

The absolute worst Super Mario games are maybe SML or NSMB2 which are still pretty good games, so in terms of really big franchises I think that's it for me. Skyward Sword tanks Zelda too much (in addition to a also having a couple just-okay handheld ones). Metal Gear Solid is a good answer. That way you can cut out Survive and some other spin offs. You can even kind of cheat and include MGS on GBC which is also an awesome game. I don't think there's a bad Grand Theft Auto game either. Even Chinatown Wars on DS was really great. The only one I didn't finish was GTA5 but only because I'd played the same in the same franchise a dozen times beforehand. It would be hard to say GTA5 isn't at the top of the genre.

NES. I started on Apple II but got lazy and didn't want to deal with the freeform conversation system where everyone says "I don't know" when you try to ask about something, so I figured I'd play it for the VGS thread.

I'm a long ways into Ultima IV and the grind is brutal. The avoidable overworld encounters in Ultima III were a game changer! There's a great exploration-based RPG buried under this nonsense, it's kind of unfortunate. Reminds me of Sweet Home in that sense.

I played a lot and loved it as a kid. Now I mostly think of it in terms of how nice the graphics and presentation are since it’s not something I replay all the time cause it’s so easy.

9/10, easy 10/10 if historic significance was involved. I think Starcraft 2 is the best RTS of all time, so it's very hard to not compare SC1 to it at this point as "Kind of like Starcraft 2, just with a worse UI and unit selection caps". The unit selection cap sure forces more tactical army management and increases the skill ceiling to nutty levels (although I'm a dumb dumb and definitely like F2 > right click in SC2 to send my whole army somewhere at times). I love watching high level Brood War. I can appreciate the skill that goes into being world class as CS:GO or Street Fighter, but the high number of things to manage, reactive decision making, and dexterity in Starcraft (or SC2) by far makes it the most engaging competitive game to watch for me. My favorite Starcraft story is that I work with a Korean woman and we were talking about video games and she's all "Nah, I don't play video games". Then some time later Starcraft comes up and she joins the conversation. We're surprised because she said she doesn't play video games and she says "Well Starcraft, everyone plays Starcraft".

Do we need to redo roles since we know Gloves is Gengar

When I was way into D&D in like high school, I thought terrain, 3D buildings, and D&D dungeons were the coolest (possibly cause Warhammer terrain was also the coolest). Now I'm more about drawing a quickie maps on a erase poster or doing small encounters in our head and just approximating distances/ranges to keep the game moving. Like, a Dwarven Forge dungeon would be cool as hell, but the setup for the poor DM would be ridiculous, let alone the cost, painting, storage, etc. And then unless you want to spend $10,000s, you're rearranging the same few dungeon pieces for each dungeon. And like, Dwarven Forge towns??? Are there people who set up a miniature model of a town whenever they're in town?? I got places to be, wands of cure light wounds to buy!!

Lots of old games do a good job of not having obvious tutorials. SMB gives you like 5 key things just on the first screen. Castlevania's first boss is annoying to hit with the whip, but is a breeze with the axes you'll probably have, so it teaches you the importance of correctly using subweapons. Mega Man X has enemies that put you in a ditch in the first minute, forcing you to learn how to wall jump out without saying anything. Having an explicit tutorial stage means you did a bad job, but there are memorable tutorial stages I like such as Thief: The Dark Project and Driver.