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Mainly working on Nintendo Switch. About 17 games shy from a full ESRB set.

Sonic Mania is in the notes for Sonic Mania Plus. As is Rocket League Ultimate and Harvest Moon (I agree they should have their own lines). The unreleased LRG games are pre-orders. If you are going to include pre-order games in your list, you might as well include anything available for pre-order from Best Buy, Amazon, etc. I give up. lol

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FNyvbbU64Pb9lheg28gC_5fMalIYJ0aD763T7M1QqF0/edit#gid=0 You'll need to ignore the other regions, but this is very accurate. My personal list (where I got the 497 from) includes Blaphemous (started shipping on Friday), Code: Realize and and Monster Energy Supercross 3 which come out this coming week.

11/5/19. I'm at 497 games for US - if you're still counting all the LRG stuff that is "pre-ordered, but not shipped" (Stranger Things, Vitamin Connection, etc.) - and you are at 500, then you are missing a bunch.

I once let a friend keep my Dig Dug arcade at his house and his Beagle chewed up the cabinet.

That fugly party carpet didn't show up until the 90s. My arcade games are from 1980-1983 so the low pile carpet and thick stripes are more indicative of the early 80s. The couch, rug, Switch games and TV are new additions to make it more of a family room but I'm first to admit it ruined the classic arcade feel the space use to have lol

My gameroom is set up like an old arcade.

I'm in the same boat - ESRB set comes first. I'll make exceptions for stuff like Darius or Cotton 100%, but there's a lot of games I'd like to get before this one.

This game is a European release. All of the carts are coded with EUR. The copies VGNY and Play-Asia are getting simply have a different cover for each region. They found a loophole, but I wouldn't count this as part of a US set.

Probably my Robotron: 2084

Hard to tell for sure, but seems like a lot of the CEs are still sealed. Are you buying both standard and CE of those?

When you collect 200+lb. Arcade games you get all kinds of injuries. I've hurt my back, legs, feet multiple times lol

Like Final Fight, right? Physicals off the top of my head: US: River City Girls (Limited Run) Code of Princess EX (closer to a Gunstar Heroes) Ninja Saviours Battle Chef Brigade (mixed with Puzzle/RPG - Limited Run) Cartoon Network Battlecrashers Japan: Capcom Belt Collection (Japan - bunch of Arcade beat-em ups, King of Monsters, Final Fight etc.) Europe: Wulverblade (Super Rare Games) Raging Justice (Strictly Limited) 99 Vidas (Strictly Limited) Slap and Beans (Strictly Limited) Gekido Kintaro's Revenge (Red Art games)

Yeah, they can be slow to update sometimes, but the list very accurate. On the Nintendo Switch Discord, it's pretty easy to get an accurate ship date as the "I got my notification for .... " message, will appear several times through the day lol. If you like I can give you mine. I agree with you on Rocket League and Sonic Mania. Both should be counted as two/seperate (I did the same with my list). Harvest Moon Light Special Edition and Special Edition Complete have different cart codes (and product codes) and the Complete edition has more content on the cart. Harvest Moon Light of Hope Special Edition HAC P AD6QA/LA-H-AD6QA-USA vs. Complete Edition HAC P AD6QE / LA-H-AD6QE-USA - edit: also, for clarity the name of the standard edition is "Special Edition" (not talking about a limited edition) and they later updated it to "Special Edition Complete" If someone is considering a full set of Switch games, and don't get the Labo Kits, they won't have a full set. Also, I noticed you listed both Trine 4: Nightmare Prince and Trine 4 Ultimate Edition - tho the cover is different, the actual cart (and cart code on the game) is exactly the same. The only difference is a download code and the cover. In this way, it's more of a variant.

Thank you sir.

Blue joy-cons are from the Japanese Dragon Quest XI S Console, the darker red ones are the "Mario" joy-cons released in Japan around the time of Super Mario Odyssey

Thanks! I just collect the esrb standards, joy-cons and pro controllers. I'm somewhere around 450. I'll occasionally pick up a CERO or PEGI release but I've grown hesitant as they eventually release stateside and I'm forced to double-dip. You've got a sweet set-up yourself!

I looked over your list and it's pretty much as you said - I think you're just missing a couple from last week, the 4 LABO games, and a couple of the oddballs like the 2nd release of Harvest Moon Light of Hope (complete edition) and the new Sonic Mania (without the plus). There's a little bit of clusterf•ck with the release dates as not all the big chains have been consistent (like Remothered, Harvest Moon: Mad Dash, Wargroove, etc.) - probably will even out by the end of the year when the releases slow down. My list is by release date and follows very closely to the master list on the reddit Switch Collector group (with no pegi/asia releases). General consensus there is to only add Limited Run games when they actually start shipping (and use the Ship date as the release date). oh, here's my switch stuff.

As of today, there's 435 ESRB released physical games with actual carts.