Dr. Morbis

I only use real carts on a toaster NES with a CRT; it's the reason I own the damn things Anyway, the undispited BEST shooter on the NES is done: Zanac. Incidentally, it turns out I'm the Messiah of Earth, so... you know.... if anyone in your personal lives is asking...

I actually really like Amagon, but it's one of those games you have to learn to master - you don't just pop it in and bumble your way through it like a Mario game, you really have to understand the game mechanics and what to do and when...

Did you play Overlord on the highest difficulty to trigger the ending screen? I'm asking because I remember it taking me a couple of tries to finally figure out the best way to take out those turrets with my little pea shooter. That combined with the time it takes waiting for your ship to eventually show up at that last base was certainly longer than five minutes for me (unless you were being facetious )

This took me like three freaking hours, but Family Feud is done. I'm going to focus on beating games for my personal list that are still unbeaten here this year, and this is the first one...

I think a more pertinent question would be: Do any new collectors go for full sets anymore? Back when I started, it seemed like it was more common to go for full sets than not, and even the respondents in this thread that are still doing it mostly started years ago, and/or already attained most of what they were after in the first place. New blood, on the other hand, seems to never go for full sets, which may be a generational issue (owning physical entertainment media isn't really a thing in our world anymore) along with the fact that devices like the powerpak now exist, and then of course there's the outrageous prices that most popular games go for nowadays. I also don't get the whole "bragging rights" reason that always seems to rear its ugly head; am I the only guy here who just wants to have a giagantic library of physical games to pull off the shelf and play? It's like having a study with thousands of books: sure, you could never possibly read them all, but reading any one book while in a room surrounded by thousands of others would be a pretty cool feeling if books were your number one thing...

Only when it's required for the plot...

My only complaint is the inability to hold your aim diagonally; add that in and I'd give it a ten...

EDIT- I guess I should add: SPOILER ALERT - for anyone who hasn't seen it yet and may be planning to... This was a really weird movie in the sense that you could almost see the tug-of-war playing out between woke Hollywood and traditional Japanese sensibilities with the roles of the characters: one scene has the Princess destroying an obstacle course that Mario is supposed to prove his worth with but ends up failing hard at, then in the very next scene she says that he has to go and challenge DK (why wouldn't she do it - she's just proven herself to be physically superior to Mario in that world in every way?!? Oh yeah, having a 900 pound gorilla beating the shit out of a little blonde girl wouldn't be quite as "funny" as watching Mario being repeatedly punched in the face). Then, later on, she single-handedly frees herself from Bowser's minions and encapsulates Bowser in ice, but then a few scenes later she is standing helpless with a couple of koopalings casually holding back her arms, and she makes no attempt to escape and help the Mario Bros as they are saving the day right in front of everyone. I can only imagine the amount of back and forth and rewrites the two sides had to go through to come to this Jekyll & Hyde sort of common ground... Anyway, TLDR: Pretty fun movie to take the kids to, and all the little references for adults to look out for are cool, but nothing really special about it: 6/10

Thanks for the new variant submission with the star manual. I'll be adding my new email to the bottom of the list on my next update.

So if you play an S game in year 1, it won't count?!? Either go annually or don't, don't half-ass it to try and please everyone, as that can't be done anyway. I agree with wiz, all systems should be annual, even if they only get a tiny percent done, because you get renewed excitement every year and the great games people actually want to play get reset on January 1. The lists that aren't annual are basically "before we all die" bucket list threads at this point, making them priority zero. Finally, congrats to all you N64-heads on getting it done! It might only be 303 games, but a bunch of them are really loooong...

There are two completely different art styles for King of Kings: the original Family image (on both the box and cart label) which they must've realized wouldn't sell well, and then the re-release action shot featuring the camel (on both the box and cart label). What you did with your picture would be akin to putting a yellow metroid box with a silver cart label; I honestly don't know how you can't see it...

Yeah, that was kind of funny; plus the King of Kings pic has a mis-matched box and cart, and Impossible Mission is SEI... good times!

@ThePhleo:

Honestly, my guess is that all or most of the library is going to end up having both variants, with the exception of Maxi-15. For the record, though, these are the carts that I have with the square corners: -Deathbots -F-15 Shitty War -Impossible Mission II -Maxi 15 (both label variants) -Mermaids of Atlantis -Pyramid -Ultimate League Soccer

The story is cool and the quests and dialog and everything are fine, it just seems like the programmers for the NES port didn't know what the hell they were doing. So it feels kind of like watching a terrible remake of a really good movie, or the video game equivelant: putting the task of porting a masterpiece (Ultima V) into the hands of an incompetent fool...

Well, the worst RPG in the North American NES catalog is done: I spent most of my time on Boxing Day beating Ultima: Warriors of Destiny. It really only has two problems that prevent it from being playable: (1) terrible sound - only one short bgm track loops over and over for the entire game, no matter the situation or where you are, combined with there being no sound effects to speak of, all of which isn't really that big of an issue since you can just crank your own tunes; however, the real killer is: (2) complete lack of scrolling! The whole game is on a grid system, and when you press a direction, the game keeps your character still and teleports the entire surroundings in the opposite direction by one square about a second later to simulate movement! As a result, the game essentially feels like it has a refresh rate of 1 fps (1 frame per second) whenever you're trying to move. It's incredibly jarring at first and singlehandedly turns off most would-be players in seconds, but after forcing yourself to stick with it, you do get used to it after a while. Honestly, if they could have fixed this one issue (by learning how to program scrolling), the game wouldn't really be that bad. Don't get me wrong, there are a kaleidoscope of other issues to contend with (don't even get me started on the battle system), but the lack of scrolling is the knock-out blow. Oh, and @DefaultGen I don't know if you're planning on playing blind or following a guide like I did, but if you do follow a guide, ignore all the "kill yourself to save time backtracking out of the dungeon" advice. I don't know how the hell Aschultz missed it, but there's an escape spell that's in your spell book from the start of the game and it's free to cast from literally anywhere with no ingredients required, so no need for any suicides outside of maybe a hardcore speed-runner using it as a strat...

Why does #3 say "Mega Man" - is that a typo?

I don't know, I think infinite continues is a determining factor in discussing the measure of a game's difficulty. I beat both NG 1 and 2 in my childhood the first time I ever played them because of that attribute, whereas I had to play Battletoads for weeks straight as an adult until I had mastered each level to the degree needed to finally beat the game. So it's more than fair to take infinite continues into account when rating a game's difficulty, in my estimation.

It's not really made for modern generations that are used to cutaways, jokes and explosions every fifteen seconds. It's a great movie, but if you can't deal with the heavy dialog and much slower pacing of just about all movies made before the eighties, then it's going to be a pretty hard sell...

I'm actually planning on doing it over the Christams holidays, so my completion will be for 2023, then you can tag in for 2024. Apparently it's not so bad if you follow a guide, as The Mexican Runner did it in less than eight hours, but if I learn anything really helpful in my playthrough I'll let you know.

Because it's a sitcom. And he is forced to buy it because it is a soiled "toilet book," not for any sort of theft prevention.

Man, this is some funny shit! Trust me, I'm good. And any situation where someone else (like yourself) would be put out by not having a phone on hand for any given circumstance that may arise, is entirely mitigated by the fact that said person will already be carrying their own phone! Once again, it's a win-win; you're happy; I'm happy; live and let live...

Have you never seen the Seinfeld where George brings a book into the washroom of a store so he has something to read on the can, and then he is forced to buy it and can't return it because the book has been tainted by being in the washroom with him? Well I don't know how old you are, but that's how the world used to operate until the early 2000's: you didn't bring things into the washroom with you. So you're taking a dump and holding your phone while on the throne, then when you're done, you wash your hands... and grab your phone again right after?!? Do you wash the phone as well? If you're not washing the phone, then what's the point of washing your hands? They were both in contact with each other prior to you washing your hands. Do you have no understanding of the concept of cross-contamination? Go and have a chat with your family doctor or any nurse you can find; someone from the healthcare profession should be able to set you straight...

Like I said earlier, the person I'm with literally always has a phone... If you can explain to me how having a second phone on hand could have somehow made the situation even better, I'm all ears. So spending hundreds or thousands on a phone and then signing up for one more monthly bill could have saved me ten bucks? Well holee shit, I'm making my appointment with the Apple store tomorrow...

Pretty sure that FF never came with a dust sleeve. I highly doubt there was ever a print run that included one...