AmandaCathedral

I guess to answer the question more directly, if a youtube video or advertisement tries to pander to me with some nice looking shirtless dude, I feel nothing really. It's ultimately just a commercial, so if I'm looking for a new carpet to buy that a shirtless dude is advertising, I'm more thinking, "WOAH! CHECK OUT THAT CARPET!!"

Observant! Yup, for the first party Nintendo games, I'm trying to get the Canadian variants. I'm always happy when Canada actually gets acknowledged by video game companies, so I love the Nintendo Canadian prints.

I'm looking for a lot of things, and I'll probably post a more cohesive list some time in the future. For now my gaming budget is gone for the month, so I'm trying not to worry too much about what I'm missing while I have no gaming money. Though I know it's next to impossible to totally block it from one's mind. I'm not aiming for every pixel art, early NES game, but there are more of them I'm after. As for some of the third party stuff, Batman, Ninja Gaiden, and Ninja Gaiden II are high on my list. I also like Ninja Gaiden III, but I don't think I like it enough compared to the first two to justify the higher cost. I don't want to tell everything I'm after though. Otherwise there would be no mystery to the thread. I'll say though that some of the other early games I'm looking for are Hogan's Alley, Donkey Kong Jr., Balloon Fight, Mario Bros., Golf, Excitebike, and a couple of others. I'm hoping to get those first, but availability of the pricey ones combined with only having so much money to spend might make it take months. I'll keep the thread updated as I buy games, so keep an eye out if you're interested.

I know there's another thread about fast food, so I'm sorry if this is a little needless, but I was wondering if you all have had any interesting stories about people who have delivered food to your house? I seem to have the most trouble with Pizza Hut. I'll only order from them once in a blue moon, and always remember why I never do it despite loving their food. I don't know if it's because it's Canadian Pizza Hut or what, but here's what happened the most recent time. It was about a week ago now, and due to the pandemic the guy wasn't letting me hold the debit machine, which was already weird since nobody else in nearly a year of this nonsense has asked for me not to hold the machine. I play along for a bit, and after he puts in the price, he very quickly chooses the tip option so it's on a percentage. I tell him that he needs to redo it so I can not tip him 25%, and then he starts playing dumb about how there isn't an "amount" option. I try to take it from his hands so I can do it myself, and he pulls it away and tells me not to. I tell him exactly how to do it, and he lets on he didn't know despite knowing exactly what button to press at the screen that says "amount" or "percentage" to make it so he tried to get the maximum tip percent, and then when it gets to the point where I have to put my debit pin number in, he asks me "what numbers do I press"? I kind of lose my cool for a moment and say to him, "Can I NOT tell you what my debit number is? Give me the machine so I can put it in!" I grab the machine from his hands at that point and do it myself so he can't see, and then he calls me a cunt before making me take the pizza out of his bag, as if suddenly it's not an issue for me to touch things. The guy was clearly up to no good, but I'm not going to accuse him of what since I have no idea. Anyone else have any bizarre food delivery stories?

You really had me for a second. XD Well played!

I agree with you Kguillemette. Personally it's not the body whoring that bothers me as much as the undeserved financial gain. I've worked really hard to get to a point in my life where I have disposable income after years of not having it, so frankly I'm pretty stunned by the lack of frustration over people like this. The people who do this when they're young won't really have any proper idea of hard earned life status, so when it all falls apart on them once they don't "got the stuff", they're in for a rude awakening about how the world works.

Cute outfit. A shame about her goofy clown hair though.

Hello again! I mentioned in my welcome thread that I'm now in a good spot in my life, and I can now do something I've always wanted to, which is fill my small childhood bookshelf completely full of boxed NES games! The shelf in question can fit 63 games if they're in plastic protectors, so it's going to be slow going. I've been starting with the really early first party Nintendo games that had the nice multi-coloured game logos on black background, and more importantly the adorable pixel art on the front covers. The first NES game I ever owned was Popeye, which is why pixel art Olive Oyl is my profile picture. I only started about a month ago, and lucked into a pretty remarkable find at a nearby game store. I picked up a boxed copy of Urban Champion for $100, and best of all the tab on the back hasn't been touched at all! When I started looking for these early games I wasn't going to fret too hard about the tabs being in nice shape, but seeing as how this was the first game I found for my new collection, I was really happy about it. Urban Champion is a game I really enjoy, and it's always been sad to me that it gets so much undeserved hate. The second game I found at a different game store, and is one of my favourites of the early days, which is Gyromite! I had an NES Robot as a kid, and I've never liked that thing due to how many times a spinning gyro would fall off the platform and scrape my hand. ROB the Robot is no buddy of mine since it's a dangerous toy! The way I play Gyromite is more fun! Since the point of ROB is to push buttons on the second controller, I just do it myself! The game is too easy that way, so I came up with my own rules to make the game more interesting without ROB. In the "Feed the Smicks" challenge as I like to call it, you can't kill any Smicks, (the green guys), and you have to feed all the turnips to them as well. You can't clear a stage until they've finished eating and gone on their way again, and since enemies have a habit of screen wrapping in Gyromite, the level is invalidated if a Smick screen wraps, forcing you to exit the stage and go back in. It makes the game into more of a genuine puzzle platformer, and some of the levels become really complicated this way. Level 18 in particular is the hardest stage in the game to not kill any Smicks, as you have to juggle two of them between pillars to keep them from falling in a hole. You need to get past that hole to grab the final dynamite, but to do so you need to lower a pillar that will squish any poor Smicks that fall into the hole! It's quite a puzzle. Lastly I have Popeye and Duck Hunt which I have less to say about, except that Popeye was the first NES game I ever owned, and holds a special place in my heart. It's such a cute and charming game, and whenever I see some hideous M rated game from the modern era, I think even more fondly of how sweet and innocent NES Popeye is. It really is a timeless classic. I was able to clear three loops once, but that's the best I've ever done. In case you're wondering, the top of the Popeye box isn't torn at all, but the tab has been completely removed. It's not an issue to me, but I know some collectors wouldn't like it. I was just happy to find the game at a price I liked. That's all I have so far, but I'll be posting updates as I get more games, and I'll be looking in other people's threads to see what people are collecting! I hope to have some fun here, and I hope you'll keep an eye out for posts from me! See ya soon!

Hello! I am Amanda. I've been a life long fan of video games since the NES and Game Boy days. I've recently started re-building my NES collection from scratch, which I can finally do now that I'm in a good spot in life. I'm not aiming for anything too crazy, but my end goal is to fill up my small childhood bookshelf with boxed NES games, which can fit 63 games when they're in protectors. My favourite NES series is Ninja Gaiden, and some of my favourite NES games are from the earliest years of first party Nintendo. Those games had these nice uniform packaging boxes with pixel art on them, and I've always loved the simplicity, charm and fun of those games. As a kid I thought those boxes looked really pretty with the multi-coloured game logos on the black background, and I've started off my new collection by going for a bunch of those early games. Though I don't intend to buy them all, there are a large amount of them that I'm after. I plan to start a collection finds thread as soon as I can, as that section is what made me want to join this forum. I was trying to find a place where I could follow along with people as they built their collections, and no other forum I found has something quite like the one here. I look forward to posting along with everyone else on their finds!