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I was reminded I love Shawshank Redemption despite it being such a feel good movie, there's Redemption after all! But my favorite movies are hopeless, nihilistic, depressing movies. Some good ones: Funny Games - Hopeless home invasion. Either language version is equally good. Martyrs - Slowish torture porn revenge movie, ending that explains it all is fucked Landmine Goes Click - Brutal hiker torture/revenge movie. Unsympathetic! Bleak! Jesus! They Shoot Horses Don't They - Depression-era dance marathon where poor people dance to exhaustion all day for weeks as entertainment. Irreversible, Threads, and Dancer in the Dark are some on my to watch list. Whatchu got. Gimme something where a dog dies. Make me feel empty.

Man, I love The Shawshank Redemption

My wife and I are taking home this suspicious 7 year old floof in a couple days. Very excited. @Gloves I am the cat person of my family, but we compromised on a tiny dog. Because with a cat there's kind of no compromise.

Oh my goodness

Ha, I was going to say the same thing, but it feels silly to complain about review scores in the 8s being too low. My only complaint remains NSMBUD should absolutely have been a sequel. There are 2 years between SMG and SMG2, and in 7 years we couldn't get a 2D Mario sequel, now fans have to make levels on their own!

I used to be against them, but like @BortLicensePlatesays they're important for the structural integrity of the box. I'd rather just use one until I can replace it than have the cart rattling around the box. I don't care if I have repro Sega CD/Saturn foam for the same reason, because it serves a purpose to maintain condition, although in that case I'm sure I'm never going to get 100s of legit 90s foam inserts. You could always write repro somewhere on the inserts so you know which ones you replaced for the future.

Non-fighting arcade games often get reviewed by people who don't want to play arcade games. The PSN/XBLA Daytona USA has a 71 or 77 (which on the 7-10 scale is like an F). It's by far the best home version of the game. After 20 years, and like 4 messed up ports, finally fans got exactly what they wanted and half the reviews are like "It's short, so outdated, what a lazy port!".

The rules are set by the people who create the challenges, not 1989 playground law lol.

The US cart has Stadium Events written on one line because USA is #1. I come up with dumb mnemonic devices for everything.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the original boss design originally had you blow up the head, but they changed it to fall off and hit you after so many hits.

It's fake for all the reasons above. If you want another obvious one, the back of the box is wrong. That's the back from later variants. It should say "Boxing tips from the champ inside" not "Special tips from the champ inside"

Jesus people it's a Nintendo game

Whoa you like 5 and don’t like 1? Let’s hang out and fight the power. 4 is my favorite. I didn’t play 2 at the time, and 4 felt like game changer survival horror game at the time I played it. 2 is still fantastic, it’s the runner up. After those it’s RE5. It’s “too” shootery but came out at a time where solid co-op third person shooters were all the rage and it was a blast.

Autofire wouldn't even help. The button combo to slash cancel is down > B > release down. You have to do that sequence of 3 actions 5 times in a third of a second without messing up once. Maybe the speedrunners are too dumb to use one of those fancy programmable controllers though.

10. I'm a horror fan so I love the horror aspect of Terminator 1, but T2 is the movie I basically benchmark all other action movies against. When I'm bored watching a city blow up in a 10 trillion CGI particles explosion that took 450 artists and the world's most powerful supercomputer 5 years to render, I think back to how exciting watching Arnold Schwarzenegger drive a motorcycle down a canal was.

I dunno if this is already somewhere, but you can buy Lizard, Twin Dragons, Nebs n Debs, and Micro Mages on Famicom now. All super cool games: https://www.brokestudio.fr/product-category/famicom/?fbclid=IwAR1ZACEwa7ITrKMZntMib_6Eh_pAlTqR1XnmS3t6N4qBVANEt-Ilb7oUK1U

Just saw this, although it happened in December. Ninja Gaiden has a normally impossible to avoid hit at the very end of the game, although through nearly inhuman TAS-like button mashing you can barely avoid it with 5 slash cancels in 0.33 seconds. And you gotta perform that at the right moment after a no damage run through the rest of Ninja Gaiden. This is some legit "pro gamers are athletes" type stuff.

Crime Patrol and Fatal Fury took me a long time to even find for sale. It looks like Crime Patrol is all over Ebay right now, but Fatal Fury is still hot stuff.

Oh, someone else definitely posted it in one of the games groups then. Also I think misprint is a fine word to describe it, same as the Final Fantasy 7 misprint is called that. Hybrid collects and documents misprints so now he has to add this to his fancy database.

If it's a mass produced misprint, do you even get up in the morning to look at it? OP thanks for sharing. I sure didn't know about the misprint version (at least until I saw your Facebook post earlier today). Too much variant info is spread across social media or only exists in the hearts of man. Can't wait until the inevitable next attempt to centralize all the video games info.

When you reseal a game on Ebay or make a good repro label, you're trying to dupe rubes on Ebay on probably something that's like $20 to a few hundred tops. When you're recreating an NWC, you're trying to dupe experts scrutinizing something worth $10,000s. I think this amateur effort is a long ways off from being problematic in a high end way, especially in a world where people are grading water damaged CIB 3-screw Gotchas. Wata would tell you that's why they exist! You wouldn't buy a loose Honus Wagner, you'd send it to people to look under a microscope and measure edges and whatever the hell they do. Don't try to authenticate your NWC. Be sure to send it in baby! $$$$$$$$$$

These would be some of the most scrutinized collectible electronic components ever. I highly doubt this ever gets to the point of "perfect" as the counterfeiter so proudly claims. Even just looking at jpgs you can see all the details are wrong, fonts, masking, trace layout, etc. let alone whatever someone who actually knew about electronics would be able to tell with one in their hands. If you want to make money duping people in collectibles, it's not going to be by printing out the million dollar baseball cards and trying to dupe the biggest cardboard nerds on planet Earth. Reseal some $300 Gamecube and PS2 games or something. Those are already difficult to spot. If you had the same exact wrapping machinery, which surely still exists, would it even be possible? It sucks that someone is trying but if counterfeits haven't ruined books, cards, or coins, I doubt they'll ruin a much more physically complex medium.

I don’t know much about seal variants but when I’m not sure I just check Ebay for graded ones. There’s a Wata one with the same LRT seal.

If you like games like Doom or Ninja Gaiden, those genres changed over time, they didn’t just get better. FPSs are way more linear and set-piecey than the labyrinthine Wolfenstein, Doom. and Quake levels are. Platformers usually way longer and way easier than 90s platformers. To use the most overused example, Demon’s Souls really captures the shitty, confusing, figure-out-whatever-works-to-get-past-this-part feeling of older games and games today would much rather be streamlined and unfrustrating because that’s “good design”. Every time some new retro platformer comes around, it’s always “It looks like your old games but we removed all that bad design so you’ll never get frustrated!” My dudes, I don’t play NES for the shitty graphics nostalgia. Give me that shitty gameplay to go with it. I can barely remember anything about the Bloodstained game that looked exactly like Castlevania III. I’ve played Shatterhand like twice in my life but I vividly remember the elevator boss because he’s a bitch and I had to keep replaying the level to get different weapons and experiment with different things. I mean I like modern platformers too and there’s no reason they can’t be better than old games. The Messenger and Cuphead are cool and I gotta play that new cyber ninja game. I just tend to prefer the feel of a 45 minute stiff, hard, simple NES game to a 10 hour platform adventure game where i’m triple jumping, air dashing, and going to shops for upgrades.

We need to move your portfolio to Limited Run Games and high end sealed PS2!