AlternatorDelux

No, I had no idea about the prize.  I didn't buy the game at launch but it was a very long endeavor.

I have a ChuChu Rocket card that you get for sending a postcard to Sega with a code after finishing all 2,500 puzzles in the Game Boy Advance version.  The number on the card is 19, and I got it in 2005.  Does that mean only 19 people sent in for the card in 4 years?

I know someone with that same Phantasy Star II book!  I can take a look when I visit them on Saturday.

On 1/22/2022 at 3:59 PM, CasualCart said:

I've always wanted to know more about this one. Was he ever directly credited as a composer for the game?

-CasualCart

You might find the Sonic videos in this channel useful: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3hwP25TVdY8VLtR9w7cX4w

On 1/17/2022 at 6:14 PM, twiztor said:

my first thought was all the schoolyard rumors of yesteryear, always told by someone whose 'cousin did it'. "mew is under the truck", "sonya blade's nude-ality", and "you can bring Aeris back to life" being my favorites.

 

Nobody will ever believe me, but after losing my save data 2 months after Pokémon came out, I decided to see how much I could sequence break by trading (long before I'd ever heard the term) and found the truck without already knowing about it.  I theorized that there was some way to get Mew out of it, but I never said anything about it online.  The only person I mentioned the theory to was my brother.

...Am I the one who started all this?

18 hours ago, Rivin said:

Is this it? It's a hard one to find unfortunately.  

 

That's the one!

If we're on the subject of sharing images of inserts, I've been trying to hunt down the Fall 97 catalog for about a year now.  Any of those around?

On 8/25/2021 at 9:38 AM, drxandy said:

How would I go about getting Luigi, do you have to buy Lego?

It says Luigi is a VIP reward through Lego, you won't see it on My Nintendo.

On 8/13/2021 at 8:40 PM, Tanooki said:

What makes this game, 10 years ago you could find easy, stupid cheap too, suddenly become like unicorn horn?  I know I can't get an answer to this, but it makes you wonder...how and why?  Can an answer even be found?

I bought this game in 2005-2006 and even then it was almost impossible to find, with usually none in eBay or in stores at the time.

Related tangent: Jeff Rovin covered Mega Man 3 in a paperback guide, and noted the spelling of Dr. Wily in the manual but Wiley in the game.  He decided to go with Wiley as the proper spelling.

5 hours ago, ThePhleo said:

Mega Man 1

I claim credit for discovering the “Dr. Wright” typo for Mega Man 1. Likely someone else knew of it before; but I never heard anyone talk about it prior to the mid 2010’s when I discovered it on NA.

 

I think I remember a Blockbuster box of all things calling attention to this name discrepancy around 1990, even if they didn't call it a typo.

NOA was founded in 1980 as an arcade game distributor.  I've seen conflicting sources about when they started selling products in stores, but it was probably 1983.

Enterplay is the company in question.

On 5/10/2021 at 3:18 PM, AdamW said:

Hey folks, got a question: has anyone ever seen a GBA Zelda box with "PLAYS ON DS*" at the top left corner, not "ONLY FOR"? Like this (from a Pokemon FireRed box):

I am currently trying to work out a comprehensive list of games that have these prints. The ones that got them seem to be top selling first party-ish titles (plus three extremely obscure very late releases), so the Zelda GBA games are definitely candidates, but I have not spotted any yet.

Note that this is an actual box print. There's a similar case where the "PLAYS ON DS" blob is a sticker applied to the shrinkwrap of a sealed copy; I'm not so much interested in that case.

Thanks!

Aside from these and Mystery Dungeon, what games have you seen the box print on?

Things may have been quiet here for a while, but progress hasn't stopped.  A huge number of pre-order items were added to the list today by holding them to a more expansive standard: Either when the item is known or has a very high likelihood of being produced by Nintendo, or when the packaging indicates it was supplied by Nintendo, even if the contents are known to be procuded by another company.

I hope to do the same for Nintendo Power-related items next, but not until I have access to all of the Super Power Supplies catalogs, so that I can do it all at once.  There's been a lot of progress on that front too, with 20 of the 24 catalogs accounted for.  The last few have long been elusive.  I could use the help of anyone who has these around.

I can remember a game with a high-pitched creature that says something along the lines of "Payamo!"  I can't remember what kind of game it is, but I suspect it's on Game Boy Advance.  Multiple voices in Super Monkey Ball sound like it, but I haven't found that particular line in those games.

Astral Chain tops that list for me.

Too much to list, but the highlights are all the games they offered, 4 Wii Remote holders (2 white & 2 black) and the gold Nunchuck.

2 hours ago, mbd39 said:

I remember having so much fun playing NES Wrecking Crew co-op with a friend as a kid. Turns out there is no co-op.

 

Any chance you remembered the DualSystem arcade version?

While that site doesn't directly say that these items all came together (they're just placed in a general Pre-Order Goods category), it does give other useful information in the form of the back of the cel, which made me skeptical that it was Canada-exclusive to begin with.  Sure enough, I confirmed that there were US GameStop stores that at least offered the cel, though they usually never actually got any.  It looks like it was also announced by Canadian stores first, and maybe that's just where most of the copies ended up.

There's a card being sold through this eBay auction which is described as a pre-order bonus for Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon.  I can't find the slightest mention of it outside of this one auction.  It doesn't look like this game actually had a pre-order bonus outside of the art cel in Canada.  My next thought was that this card came along with the art cel, but if it were from Canada, I would expect at least the ESRB descriptors to be bilingual.  Could it be possible that this was actually given out at some kind of media event?  I've run into a similar situation with F-Zero GX pins from E3 a GameStop preview event being misidentified as a pre-order bonus.  Any information or even other theories would be appreciated.

I've seen that DS setup in store with 2 copies of Metroid Prime Hunters for playing over wireless.

21 hours ago, GPX said:

Also, I can imagine that as a Sega fan, and there being not many Sega-produced GBA games, this is one that buyers may have a stronger attachment to or harder to sell or let go..?

Offhand, I can think of at least 14 of them, and most were fairly easy to come by.  This and Pinball of the Dead are the exceptions.

The type of game doesn't seem like it would be the main factor; GBA was was pretty much the only system where all the pinball games were released at the time, and it's arguably the only system that can truly claim to have multiple proper F-Zeros.  But there's stronger case that the themes of these two particular games wouldn't find a large audience on the system.

I used to have this!  I think I bought it complete on a site I can't remember in 2005.  I was going after Sega games on the system.  I sold it to eStarland in 2010 when I narrowed my collection before a move.  I don't remember what I paid or what I got for it.

Just to be sure, I checked my points history, and it shows that I earned them within the last couple of months for Aaero and Rival Megagun, both of which were released in 2018.