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9, but I have big nostalgia for it and have played it to death. I still walk around quoting the game at home. If my wife says "Who are you guys" to anyone in any context, I say "We're Star Fox". Then without missing a beat she'll continue with the response "I still don't know what that means".

What on Earth

58950. The control delay is tough. I gotta figure it out.

GTA3 was the most “video games are at the next level” experience I think I’ve ever had. It’s gotta be that. I played 1-3 the most. Now I hate open world drive to the icon for busywork games. Screw you GTA3.

I think most people consider continues fine. Almost everyone continues 20 times before they beat Ninja Gaiden or GNG for the first time, then celebrate, not think "Oh god I didn't really beat it". Then games like Contra and Ninja Gaiden III give you tons of continues, but not unlimited continues. You can beat those with continues, beat them without a continue, beat them without dying, going up the power-gaming master chain, but you're beating the game regardless. What's the point of limiting continues if that's not developer saying "You really should be able to beat Contra with like... 15 lives kid" or however many it actually gives you. What about modern games? If I die in The Last of Us II should I delete my save game and start the entire movie over if I die, or does it count as beating it if you continue?

Lots of buyers from Germany lately in the Facebook groups to the point where there are complaints about keeping conversations in English. Not sure what happened, possibly related to the German streamer spending ludicrous money on things like GTA and God of War to for views.

3+ old men in a trenchcoat, probably Florida. Is there an actual end collector at the super high end beside the Pets.com guy who bought the Nintendo Playstation? It’s probably an investor group similar to the 100k Mario. If it sells for crazy money and they have dozens of other sealed Mario games, everyone wins.

Here's MJ playing a Space Invaders pinball machine. It's basically a video game, ask @ThePhleo!

I mean I used Nintendo Power and playground advice to beat games, is that any better than online walkthroughs? If you beat it on original hardware or the equivalent, ya beat it. If it’s a puzzle game and you looked up all the answers, you only really ruined it for yourself. Being against save state practice is kind of crazy. You think every top speed run of every game isn’t legit then, because every top Mario speedrunner uses them to practice and build muscle memory for tough tricks. And if you ever practiced with save states, all your runs and completions are then invalid? On Twitch right now there’s a guy streaming 5 second loops of Contra 3 runs!

David Crane and Garry Kitchen's new game just went on sale: http://audacitygames.com/editions.html - Pretty neat

I broke both ties I’m so sorry

So she deserves to... lose right?

I made a new bluetube video. Just pretend it’s a Collector’s Quest microcast and put it on in the background and hey there’s a new podcast out

I used to be top 20 in the world in the Palm OS game Bike or Die, an Elastomania clone. I played it all day in high school to shave off milliseconds. Guys it was an achievement! People care about Palm OS leaderboards! Edit: I also hold the world record in Home Alone for NES.

That is pretty funny that people are paying double for a game that's still in stock. In this day and age it is not at all surprising. FOMO is out of control. Edit: Shipping is $15 from Larian, jeezus. Also the original Collector's Edition from Larian was limited to 1000 and sells for like $500+ now I wish I bought one before I knew it would be the best CRPG ever made.

Atari is like, you want to play some CHECKERS? It's gonna be with a god damn KING. LOOK AT HIS SMUG FACE, YOU JUST GOTTA BEAT HIM. And you're gonna have a FINE PRINCESS at your side cheering you on! Are you ready to play some VIDEO CHESS? I don't think you are because you are competing with HALF-MAN, HALF SPACE MACHINE Nintendo is like are you ready for the BEST ZELDA GAME EVER MADE? Here's the logo on a blank background.

7... 8... 9 for historical interest??? Atari games are some of the only console games I've ever gone back to playing for score. NES kind of aged out of score based games pretty quickly and most other old consoles have bad versions of arcade games or just kind of suck. It is hard to rate because it blows basically anything out of the water for almost a decade on either side of its release, but I don't think the tippy top best games stack up to most newer consoles. I'll go with 7. Some of my favorite games are Pitfall, Pitfall II, HERO, Kaboom, Warlords, Seaquest, and Megamania. It says a lot that ONE of those isn't an Activision game I guess.

Switch Doom is a remake of Doom in Unity. I think there was some internet gamer outrage about it when it released. Most console ports are pretty grungy without making a bunch of "Well, considering the limitations..." arguments. The best ones will have features the PC game doesn't like Doom 64 is its own thing or Diablo PS1 has local co-op. SimCity on SNES is a great port, although I don't know if it beats playing with a mouse. You get a Mario statue though! Star Control II is pretty notably improved from DOS to 3DO, mostly with voice acting that really brings out the personality of the game.

7, mainly because I don’t like the genre in general. It’s maybe my favorite vintage beat ‘em up? The style and music are great. It’s easy as hell compared to most beat ‘em ups. I have no idea what the last stages of SoR3 even look like.

Please, sirs, only the first two are mine I stole the other pics from Discord and Ebay.

Are we really going to try to make these cards a thing, lol. Are the junk trading card warehouses of the 80s finally having their day? Did it all finally come around? There's one guy, 85 years old, on top of his pile of Days of Our Lives, Desert Storm, 80s sports, and Nintendo trading cards screaming "Maude! Maude! I told you these cards would be worth something one day!" Pop 2! Pop 3! Because who on planet Earth has ever thought to grade one of these!

I put UV film on my windows, but I know it's not a magic bullet (neither are VGA/Wata cases or anything, they're more piece of mind that actual protection). This is a thread I always remember, where a guy tested 3 pieces of paper, one in darkness, one in a window, and one behind 99% UV film. The one behind the UV film was like... half faded after a month instead of completely blown out. Anything of utmost importance should basically just be in darkness. https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/uv-window-protection I mean I'm not going to let that prevent me from displaying my favorite games. Most of this stuff has sat on shelves for decades already and looks fine as long as it hasn't been in direct sunlight in a store window for years. But if I had like... a $100,000 Super Mario Bros I would not trust the UV protection of an acrylic case or window film.

Here are some PCB date codes from 5-screw Zeldas for science. The top two are mine and came with TM boxes and cassette manuals for the record. although I can't really say if they're correctly paired. It's interesting my initial instinct was to look at the PRG ROM dates, but DEAFC0DE looks at the most recent date on any chip, which makes more sense in determining the oldest time the production could possibly be. The third PCB also has both the oldest and newest dates of any of the four. I wonder if anyone is going to care about any of this stuff.

What the eff. I thought I was free. I thought I had CotM on PS4 and I could just forget about it forever, but you made me check and I do have the Switch version. I guess I should buy the sequel too because the boxes would look so nice together mannnn. Why do you do this to me.

These are review scores of some of the "hidden gemmiest" Wii games: Muramasa: 8.9 A Boy and his Blob: 7.6 Deadly Creatures: 8.0 Dokapon Kingdom: 8.0 Klonoa: 8.0 Shiren the Wanderer: 7.6 Kororinpa: 6.5 Unless niche and low-budget games can get considered in the 9s, they're just going to mix in with everything else in this 7-10 world. I haven't played any of these so I can't judge their scores. Purely on reputation, I've heard Muramasa is one of the best Wii games ever, and it didn't get a 9. I've also heard Cyberpunk is one of the most busted games ever and it got a 9 on the same review site. Budget goes a long way.