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I've not been much of an indie/homebrew guy for the NES but I have to say Full Quiet has looked amazing to me and I definitely am tempted to buy one.

I own Metal Gear Solid, but other than 5 minutes of the original NES Metal Gear game, I've never played a Metal Gear game. They are high on my list though. I definitely need to get the PS2 titles before they get too insanely priced with time. I feel like all of those games would be right up my alley.

I’d wait, cause otherwise the rest of us will steal the win! lol I think I have a strong educated guess on 3 of them.

Generally, I'd agree but considering that I have over 1,400 games and "collecting" is often more than just playing, that's why I'm in the camp of wanting something like a sealed Blue Thunder VHS tape. There are certainly a lot of games I'd like to play one day that I don't own and, yes, I am the gamer who prefers to play on OG games and hardware when that's an option, however, with over 1,400 games, you don't really need more games to play cause if I did, I was doing something wrong when I acquired all of those games because if most of those games don't have an enjoyable purpose, why did I buy them in the first place. I mean, my shelves might be about 15% "filler" because I pick up cheap, excellent condition stuff when I find it at thrift shops, or if I buy a lot of games and Madden 19xx is in it, I'll likely keep it because no one wants to buy it but, still, the other 80-85% of my library are very-playable games. If I have 5 left to get, it's going to be rarer stuff that I find to be really cool for a purpose. It's not so much about acquiring "value" but there's a reason why NWC carts are valuable and it's not just because it's rare. It's because the NWC was probably the coolest gaming "thing" to ever have and owning one of the related carts is about the awesomest thing you could collect, other than maybe a verified original NES and/or PVM they used in the competition. Even with something like that, though, it's not as immediately recognizable for what it was.

No, your interpretation is correct in what I was attending. To my knowledge, the first Pokemon game I ever played was the original and that was about 2-3 years ago for a couple of hours. I felt it was time to try and give it an honest try. I think the reason why there might be a high-number of retro-gamers that have never touched it becuase in general, if you are about my age or younger, you saw that this was a "kids" game and didn't see much interest in it. I mean, Nintendo made a lot of game, but IMHO, Pokemon was the last, great series Nintendo created that was 100% geared towards children. Since their older fans from the NES days were mostly pushing 20, we didn't have an interest in playing this game, at all, so playing it now is more of a historical curiousity. And no shame towards anyone 40+ for liking Pokemon. I'm just saying, back in 1999-2000, if someone was playing Pokemon, they were probably 15 years old or younger, and "15" is being generous. EDIT @Sumez Oddly enough, when FortNite first came out and was starting to get traction, I didn't know anything about it culturally speaking. I downloaded it, gave it a try, sort of saw the appeal but it seemed like a game that'd have a flash-in-the-pan moment of popularity and would then blow away. Man was I wrong.

Interesting call out. Had I asked this question just 2-3 years ago, I too would have been in the "never played a Pokemon game" camp too. I gave it a try a little while ago (and posted about it in one thread) and I just couldn't see the appeal. I mean, I was about 40 at the time and I get that it wasn't made for me, but even back then in 1999, I didn't see the appeal, even though I was just a few years older than the target demographic. I think Pokemon excelled at introducing a younger generation to RPGs with a novel goal of collecting versus grinding. I guess I could see the appeal of that to someone who's possibly never touched an RPG. However, as someone who'd played countless RPGs at that point, it just seemed too simple. But there's still something about it that makes me want to give it another go. Pokemon Snap! might be more to my liking, though. I kind of like the idea of hunting and photographing animals rather than catching them and grinding them for battle.

I'm trying to recoup some funds from my last (awesome!) purchase I made from you. I'd like that Zelda for a conditional upgrade of mine, but I need to sell a few things firs to build up those Paypal funds. Anyway, let me know if you sell it elsewhere. I won't ask you hold it for me, but I wanted to let you know, I am interested. Regardless of if I get it or not, GLWS. Your prices have seemed reasonable to me and I'm a cheapskate.

Can you stream those old cartoons anywhere, in full? I have a Super Mario Bros DVD but it doesn't have the live action bumpers with Lou Albano, nor is it the complete series. Anyway, it'd be cool to all stream and discuss episodes around the same time. I couldn't find a... legal site to stream Captain N but The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is available on Tubi for free, and I think if you have Prime, you can possibly get it over there ad free.

I've wanted to take my complete GB set to Antiques Roadshow if/when it was in my area but I wanted to wait until about 2028, after the 40th anniversary of the GB.

Eh, we all have our soap boxes and gripes that cross the line for us personally. @Code Monkey just had more and differing standards than most of us. I still haven't bought a new Sony product from retail since I bought The Foo Fighters In Your Honor album the day it came out and as soon as I popped it into my work PC, it bricked it due to Sony's intentional, driver malware. I'm sure some people I need to give it a rest by now but... I won't.

I'm not a fan of Blink-182, but I think that Siamese Youth did a fantastic job with this cover of All the Small Things. It's on regular rotation on one of my work motivation playlists.

My wife picked up Wonka for the kids from the library and we watched it last night. I really wanted to like that one. We all did. But it's not good and borderline terrible. It's just not an engaging story and it feels like it just goes through the motions. The music feels sooooo flat, almost to a remarkable point, and in the end you end up feeling like you wish there was something a bit more too the whole package because you want to enjoy the story but instead the whole thing feels lame and phoned in, at best. I didn't like the Johnny Depp Willy Wonka film and in the end, I actually found myself liking that one more than this one. The only redeemable aspect to Wonka is that throughout the story, the keen eye might notice very small touchstones to the original Gene Wilder film. The story feels like it's suppose to be a prequel to that specific film because of that. But other than that, the film is the most bland experience you could imagine for such an imaginative story. I don't recommend it and give it a 2.5 of 10.

Here’s a score for Epic Pinball on the Enigma table. 36,330,000

There's also a pinball thread on here. I don't think I've seen it bumped in a while, either.

I've seen this thread pop up from time to time, and I just don't have an answer. There are too many games I'd like so even though I'd probably put a little thought into it, I'd probably get 5 games that are high in desirability but it'd still be on a whim. Well, 4 of them. After further thought, there is one game that's eluded me for years-- Blue Thunder for the Action Max. I have all of the other games, sealed. I just need this one game in sealed condition but since I started looking years ago, I've not seen a single copy, even used. I think it's a pipe dream at this point, but I keep looking.

Jokes aside, these remakes probably are part of what keeps physical media thriving. The people wanting physical media are often those of us who are old enough to want to play games that we’ve seen delisted from eShops and know the “perils” of DLC that comes and disappears at the whim of corporate boards. We’re the people that would potentially buy a +10 year old game, so you’re kind of right, depending on what part of the gaming industry you’re considering.

Dude, can we get you in on the next game of Werewolf?

But you got to them. And that's what counts.

Man I want this but I just can't at the moment. A user on Reddit is offering a sealed Taco Bell Eclipse Xbox One X for $350. https://old.reddit.com/r/GameSale/comments/1c77zst/usanm_h_xbox_one_x_taco_bell_eclipse_limited/

This is what I'm talking a bout. What?! Especially, Metroid. I'm not sure if that's one that would hold up well, unless you can put yourself in a 1990-and-early mental-mode. The complaints are real like "It needs a map", but if you consider the limitations of the time, and understand that all series have to start somewhere, it's not really an issue. Punch-Out is one of those games I personally can't get into. That said, I have played. And in general, I can understand if many of us game one or two games a try in a popular series and never tried subsequent games. I know I've played both Mega Man and Mega Man 2 for a few minutes and they seemed cool enough, but as a middle-aged gamer, they were never cool enough for me to deeply get into, in spite of there being a latent desire to do so. That said, I've barely touched any of the Mega Man games after those two, even though I own 3, 4 and 6, as well as all of the GB games!

Well, Super Mario Bros 1, 3 and Super Mario World are three good starting points for an idea. There's also games like Mega Man 2, Legend of Zelda, Pac-Man, Wolfenstein, Doom, Sonic 2... etc. You know, the iconic stuff everyone's heard of and if you were to say you'd never played that game, not even for 5 minutes, they're likely to pull your gamer card.

After seeing a response by @T-Pac from @wongojack regarding WJ never playing Super Mario World--this led me to ask this question--are there any games for you guys that are often on the "Everyone Should Play These Games" list, but you yourself have never played? Feel free to interpret that as you will but generally speaking, I'm looking for the titles that you've never so much as put in a console and turned it on to the title screen, or even fired up on an emulator. It's an interesting question. We all have games we probably should play just because of their historical importance, or whatever, but we don't. What games are like that for you?

This gives me an idea for a new thread... stay tuned for 5 minutes.

Wow, this turned to the Hornets. Nice! As one who was living in Charlotte when the transition happened several years ago, it was a really, really BIG deal when the Bobcats left and the Hornets were back. The Hornets were alright back in the 90s, but what they had was a perfect brand for the era, and that's what I'm hearing. Anyway, transitioning back to the Hornets was a smart move--though the team still sucked, people around here actually started liking them again and paying to go to games. It's interesting how a simple name and brand change, which has no bearing on performance, can change a lot. And back to the topic... I have no clue what the answer is. I want it to be my wedding day because even near-19 years later, I'm still deeply in love with my wife and we're best friends. But... our wedding day was tough. We had a wedding in a medal building in the middle of summer in Georgia. The venue wasn't use to having events, and a "nice" volunteer came in the night and cut on the AC early and CRANKED it. Bad move... yes, the intent was nice but the AC ended up freezing over and cut off around 9:00 AM, which meant the entire time my bride was getting ready, though the entire service AND the reception at the same place, the temperature inside was pushing 100 degrees! We had one of the fastest weddings you've ever seen. My wife really regrets this, but considering we didn't plan to be needing to pass out water bottles by the gallons, we didn't have a choice. We had a typical service and after that the reception was literally, get everything done as fast as you could. We had little time to meet with everyone and it was rough. All weddings have their issues. It just so happened that ours caused us to have have an entire service + reception in about 2.5 hours. After the wedding, though, we went and stayed the night in Atlanta to fly out bright and early to Disney World for our honeymoon. Yes, we were that couple and I have zero-regrets. It was loads of fun being an adult there and the whole trip is a happier memory, though I can't pin one specific day. We were there for 3 Nights/4 Days and then flew out to Denver to drive up in the mountains to a town called Crested Butte in the middle of the Rockies. That too was an amazing experience.

Top comment-- "Did they just emotionally blackmail us into buying this game?" Well, yeah. Probably. I also find it amusing that the main character was probably born around 81-84 and yet in the 2024 segment, he looks like he's still in his mid-20s. Dude, where are those greys at?! I need to see realistic grey hair, cause that's where we should be!