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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.

6/10, better versions of console games of the era, and worse versions of PC games of the era. Gamecube and PS2 exclusives are way more interesting, which leaves the Xbox as just this sort of middle ground to play games you can play elsewhere. If you asked me to rattle off the most "Xbox" games I can think of... Halo, KOTOR, Ninja Gaiden, JSRF, PDO, Fable, PGR, Morrowind, GTA, Splinter Cell, Jade Empire, Psychonauts, Oddworld, Conker, Riddick. How many of those are just PC games? Half? With Gamecube or PS2 it would probably be zero. It had bad Japanese support and the Japanese make the best video games, so the fact that it even manages a 6/10 is a testament to at least how good the other games were. The Controller-S is amazing and led to the best controller designs of the modern era, so props for that. Having a standard hard drive was also a huge important innovation. It was also the first console to make you pay to use your own internet service which to this day is a joke, lol.

I've played so much Picross and 3D Picross. The DS has all the normal puzzle stuff and more I think. And yeah you could play Mario's Picross but it's better on DS.

/Vote OptOut, wait is this secret, wait does the game not start for a month how do I delete this

How do I vote off OptOut

I have no idea what's going on

OK kids, I've never done this forum game thing, but I'm in.

I asked a couple really deep Xbox collectors and both had no idea. I would be surprised if you found an English-language source about it. Could be Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Singapore LE, and rare in any case. Where did you get it?

This is awesome

I was once trying to a copy of Treasure Master on NES and for 2 months straight the same person bought the one I was about to buy. It was ridiculous and unacceptable.

Sweet Home is really popular and I don't think many people care about it in the movie sense, but I sure wouldn't say I'm completely in love with it because the random battles never end long after they become pointless. Chronicles of Riddick is the first movie game I remember people liking more than the movie, or in spite of the fact that it's a movie game.

10. I usually don’t like how 16-bit platforming feels. Characters often feel too big, platform edges are less defined, cartoony animations can be prioritized over responsiveness, etc. Mega Man X fucking rules. It feels better than the NES games.

Honest criticism here, you look like you have some graph paper designs and are trying to cash in on the current speculative craze. You’re using stock photos, have no pictures of your case design because it sounds like you don’t have solid plans for a case, and the fact that you only want to grade CIB NES to makes it seem like you have limited experience with video games, let alone sealed video games which are really what the market is crazy for. $94k seems like way too little money and flexible funding just makes it seem like you’re basically taking donations... to start a business. The “objective” scoring system is also pretty nonstandard for grading, it sounds like you’re grading on a 1-200 scale counting defects on a large rubric? I’ve heard grading described as science for near mint things and art for lower grade things. You can count the number of miniscule defects between a 9.4 and 9.6, but the difference between a 4.5 and 5.0 will be more subjective due to all the different types of damage. Also the last thing the world needs is more graded CIB games but that’s neither here nor there.

Wait you guys didn't just have a sibling so you had access to both copies of the game and played both games at the same time and traded all the Pokemon to yourself??