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49 minutes ago, MrWunderful said:

I always assume that people not in California have 2000 sqft + basements

Pretty sure the Alamo is the only place in Texas with a basement.

Complete Tengen Tetris is now 200+

@Sam NES Litmanhad his up for offer on Facebook for around 10K a week or two ago - did it sell?

I got one for my kids when they were pretty little, it's a great first system.

Wii Sports and Lego Star Wars got the most plays.

7 minutes ago, fcgamer said:

But what I don't get is the large number of people who typically wank off to purchasing HK/Asian/Korean/Indian NES/GB games. I'd reckon most of these people don't have ties to these regions. Then what makes it even more curious to me is that the same crowd generally tries to get a full set of the games. It just blows my mind.

 

I can relate a little bit. 

I have essentially no connection to Korea, beyond being on Korean Air flights that pass though Seoul.

However, I really like Korean NES games, and get them whenever I can for a non-crazy price.

I just think it's neat seeing US box art in a different language. That's the same reason I collect Brazilian Playtronic.

I'm not going for a full set or anything, but if it happens just due to paying attention then, that's ok with me.

I don't have an Instagram or show the public the weird things I have, so I'm probably not the person you are complaining about, but I can understand being interested in another region's games with only a minor or maybe even no connection to the area.

I collect Hong Kong NES because when I was living in Asia I visited Hong Kong 3 times. It's really great city and I have good memories of it.

So, when I see the word Hong Kong on a NES classic that I love, it makes it just a little more interesting to me than a regular US copy.

Plus, purple NES boxes look pretty sweet.

Since I don't actually get to play too many NES games that much nowadays, I'll go with the one with the most memories from childhood: RBI Baseball.

I played it a ton with my best friend, we even had rules like you couldn't be the AL team because Brett Saberhagen's slider was basically unhittable for the first 3 innings.

I brought it to college and had a Japanese roommate who absolutely humbled me with his skills. I still remember bringing out the cart and getting destroyed with the 10 run rule.

Grand Theft Auto III for PS2 is super cheap and has great replay value. 

Hitting a wall in my main collecting objectives turned me on to variant collecting.

It's never-ending and new stuff keeps getting discovered.

9 minutes ago, Avgn Gamer said:

Ah yeah, I've seen that one before. What weirds me out is that there's a blue capcom border DT2 floating around and seems legit. 

Blue border? Got a pic? 

I have Dragon Warrior II promo and Jackal mail away posters framed in my office.

Amazing collection!

Is there any piece you happen to be looking for?

Do you/your group have doubles/extras of anything for sale?

10 minutes ago, Bearcat-Doug said:

That may even be a worse name than former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle.

I would way prefer being named General Booty over Dick Trickle.

General Booty sounds like a nickname for a stud.

Dick Trickle sounds like a serious medical problem.

Since we're expanding outside of the US, I think that the Korean version is the only non-North American version to use the North American artwork - is that right?

As someone who collects Asian games, for sure. Covid really messed up international shipping. Some countries STILL aren't shipping to the US 2.5 years later...

This seller on Ebay just listed several Asian front/Samurai back carts from Australia:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/284865148772

Since we're on the topic of Super Mario Land - have you ever seen this HKG variant?

23 minutes ago, JVOSS said:

here you have the 3 most common FCO Square Connors.  i have them listed in the collection as variants due to the Square corners.  from what i can find and that if very limited the square corners are from early mainland china releases.  Where as the rounder corners was from a  Taiwan  company. 

 

Have you ever seen a round cornered Mario Land FCO?

39 minutes ago, samsamsamsmasmasma said:

Looks like a knockoff to me. Is it normal for some of the Chinese games to have the square corner stickers?

I thought that too. I think Super Mario Land - For China Only might be the only one with square corners.

My copy is square, and here is another that's square:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/165206960468

Here is a Super Mario Land - For China Only for only $20:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/203974179500

I think it's been a while since my last one of these.

What the hell, I'm in.

Are you specifically thinking of Super Nintendo/Genesis only?

I bet if we looked thoroughly at NES/Master System and Game Boy/Game Gear there will be a few examples.

Mega Man for GB/GG being an easy example.

What does the board look like?

That last pic with the little blob on the inside ring is a telltale sign of a copy. All the pirated DVDs I saw in Thailand had that on them.