Jynx

You can also do it without exact terms. You can say "I beat the game, and finished the Pokedex too". Or "I beat Donkey Kong Jr. and looped until max difficulty." You can always say you beat a game, and then add qualifiers to describe how well you did. He said he beat the game, but did very poorly. I don't think that's wrong. Though you brought it up as a joke anyways, so who even cares?

The internet is so sensitive now, that they'll need to come up with a less insulting word for "quitting" or "gave up". People will start saying "I ended my playthrough of Metroid".

Boxed games are too expensive for me, so I sold my boxes and manuals. I only had ten, so I sold them quick. Now I can go back to how I used to collect, with just cartridges. Urban Champion is a fun game, and gets hated for no good reason. Gyromite is fun without the robot, and is more challenging when you play as a pacifist. Some levels are a real puzzle. Clu Clu Land is hard, but I've beaten the first four loops to get to where the rupees flip over. Donkey Kong Jr. is the first game where you play as modern DK, and is the best NES Donkey Kong. I ordered another CRT TV too, because the one I have won't work with light guns. Some games do work, but not all of them. I can't have an NES collection without Wild Gunman or Gumshoe.

I don't have a finish line, but now I only buy for certain systems. I like the NES, Wii, DS, Game Boy, and Genesis. I collect and play games, but playing games is more important to me than collecting. I'll never be done playing games for the systems I love.

Mirage Island is something only in Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire, where every day you can check with an old man to see if Mirage Island exists that day. It's depends on two pieces of information attached to any Pokemon you catch, and if those two bits of information match the numbers the game chooses for mirage island, then mirage island will exist. The numbers change every day, and you can bring as many Pokemon to him in a day as you like to keep checking. The problem is the odds are so ludicrously low that it's never happened to me ever since the game came out in 2003, and it's hard to make yourself check every day as it takes a lot of time to cycle through all the Pokemon in your boxes to check with him. I've never seriously attempted it for a long period of time, but every so often I'll do it for a week or two and it never happens. I believe it's the single rarest thing that can happen in any Pokemon game. In the remakes they removed it because nobody could ever get there. The only things on Mirage Island are really rare berries you can't get in any other way, and wild encounters of a Pokemon you can normally only get one of in an egg. The berry is the more valuable thing and is actually useful, but it's not a very exciting place outside of having the privilege of seeing it. I'd love to get there some day, but I've never made enough of an effort to try.

I have played Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire so much I have done everything. Finished nationaldex, got gold shield for 100 battles in battle tower, got the gold trainer card, been to southern Island with Eon ticket, got all the rare berries, and fought all Pokemon battle e-card trainers. The only thing I have never managed to do is make it to mirage island. I'd love to get there some day, but it's never happened. : (

Vs. Ice Climber looks so neat! I've known about it for years, and it's cool how much was added. I've never played it, but maybe I should. I've been playing winter related games by coincidence recently and enjoying them.

I'm playing the black box games again, because I love them. ^_^ I only played Ice Climber once before, but now I love it. Popo and Nana's weird jump is what makes Ice Climber fun, and it's extra good from stages 11-27. The final stages are mean though, and the early stages are a too simple. When you clear many stages in a row, you start feeling like Popo and Nana are really awesome characters. The cartridge I bought is faulty, and crashes after a "ding" noise that isn't meant to happen. The pins are damaged, so it can't stay running for too long. I need to replace it when I start going for score attack. This game is better than I remember, and I think it's great now!

I like Speed! I'm always surprised how long the run time is, because it never feels that long when watching it. I like it the same way I like Twister, where Speed and Twister aren't smart movies, but they're fun the whole time. They're two movies I think of when it comes to dumb Hollywood fun. Not every movie needs to be smart to be good. ^_^

That is true actually. I misspoke. I was referring to games Nintendo made that weren't released in Japan. Whoops!

We Ski & Snowboard! I love skiing games, and We Ski & Snowboard in the best! The other ones are fun, but the second one was the best. ^_^ For NES I think Gumshoe is often not given enough love. Nintendo usually ignores its old NA exclusives like Gumshoe, StarTropics, Kid Icarus 2, Balloon Kid, and Wave Race Game Boy.

I guess the question sounds silly. I was truly wondering if it would reach a maximum storage or something though.

Will the thread be reset at 200 pages? Or will it keep going? Sorry for not a collection post. ^_^

I wasn't going to try and open it! I'm terrified of the idea of poking around in an old monitor. People who keep arcade machines are brave to try and get them running again.

It's 13 inches, Sylvania CRT. It is an older model I think, because there is only one set of AV input on the front, and it only has a yellow and white slot. (No red) I have no clue what's up. XD

Every CRT I've owned works with light guns, but the one I have now is... special. The first time I used a light gun with this TV, it didn't register while playing Bayou Billy. I unplugged the zapper and plugged it back in, and it worked perfectly the whole time I had the NES on. It never worked with Bayou Billy again after that. I took my cartridge and zapper to a store to test on their TV, which they were nice enough to let me do. The cartridge and gun worked perfectly on their TV. Next I bought a copy of Hogan's Alley to see if it was just Bayou Billy that doesn't work. To my surprise, Hogan's Alley worked perfectly every time I played it, and has never given me problems! So I thought maybe the other black box games would be safe, and it might have just been a Konami issue. I buy a copy of Duck Hunt, and nothing happens. I fiddled with the contrast and brightness, and I found a setting where I can sometimes get the main menu to register, but nothing in-game. The last weird thing is that I was experimenting more with Bayou Billy, and found that if I paused on the same frame as the zapper turns the screen black, when I un-pause the game it would register as a hit. This was the only way I could have it work on Bayou Billy, except for that first time where it worked perfectly. I am just going to buy another CRT, but what a weird problem this has been. It's not a flat screen CRT, and there's no HD support. The one big problem is there's no sharpness setting, so I can't add more blur to my screen. Playing in RF didn't add enough blur either, so I just don't get it. XD I know there's not a lot to add to this for discussion, but I just wanted to talk about it. I've heard some zapper games were programmed a little differently than others, so that might be why Hogan's Alley works and the other two don't. Trying to find a list of information like that was hopeless though.

Did Zelda come out today? I'm out of the loop on new games now, so I wasn't keeping track. I hope you totally love it! Just Dance is fun, so give it a try too! My favourite was 2015. I have friends I play them with on their systems.

I beat Round 10 of Game Mode B in Hogan's Alley! Each trip through town is a round, and each round is five screens. Every two rounds the background changes colours, up until round 11 where the colour loop restarts. Round 9 and 10 are where the speed hits maximum, so the game doesn't do anything new after round 10. This is when the mode is basically won! Jynx's Lovely Hints! The hardest screen is the 3rd, then 2nd, 4th, 1st, then 5th. If you catch yourself pulling the trigger at a civilian, swing your zapper away from them! During downtime, keep your zapper aimed at spots where the targets come face out! There are five targets each screen, and only two can be on screen at a time. Keep count! Only two targets can be on screen, but they don't always appear at the same time! Train yourself to ALWAYS be ready for this old man. He's very easy to shoot by mistake!

It's a marketing term, but a clever one. In a world where indie games are often coming out with better games for 10 dollars on computers that people have access to, the console business has been trying to find ways to show their consoles are still important. "Triple A gaming" is a term to make console games sound like they're still the superior form of video game, and that a "Triple A game" is why you should still buy expensive consoles. It's a term to make them look good, by implying their big budgets produce "Triple A" quality games. If you were to just call them "games" as that's what they are, they're pretty expensive compared to cheaper options that are often better. If the thread is about are "AAA games becoming more irrelevant", I think the fact they had to invent a term to make them sound good over better options is a sign that they are. I'm just posting my thoughts for the thread, but you don't have to agree with them. I don't like arguing online, so just leave an agree or disagree emote and don't mind me.

It's a strategic term though, because choosing a term with three AAAs implies it's high quality, even if on paper companies say it doesn't. I think it wouldn't have stuck if it wasn't self congratulatory the way it comes off. There's often an official story of what someone in a quote says, and the other part of the story that is found by thinking about it. Often times people on the internet will point to a quote and leave it as that as if it's the only way to look at things, when common sense will show things another way.

I never even liked calling it "Triple A" gaming. Triple A games should just be called "huge budget", because the extra budget almost never makes them better. Gaming reviews should start grading things by letters if companies want to use a term like Triple A, and see how many of them actually get that score.

Following my Balloon Fight max score, I have gotten the max score in Trick Shot in Hogan's Alley! I sat far away from the TV, but close enough to make sure all my shots work. Jynx's Lovely Hints! You can drop ten cans before the game ends, and the most dangerous times are when cans group together. You can't hit two cans at the same time, so be careful, and separate cans from each other! Being greedy for the bottom 5000 point slot is fun, but know when it's too risky! Try to learn the trajectory of higher cans that will safely land in the 5000 points. Learning that will also help you know when to chicken out and shoot the can into the 800 points when you know it won't work. Shooting a can far above the screen removes it from play! If you get flustered after dropping a can, start a round by shooting some cans off screen to collect yourself with an easier round. Shooting a can gives you 100 points every time, so shoot cans whenever you can! As cans go into the point slots, be cheeky and sneak an extra shot on them when you have the chance! If you want to hit the true maximum score, get close to the loop point, and increase your score by 100 at a time by shooting cans repeatedly. I got the max score at round 63, as I had been greedy with getting the 5000 points a lot. If you play slowly, it's very easy to reach the max score. The real fun is how quickly you can do it.

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I like Konami's games better, but as a fan of both companies I think Konami's highs were higher than Capcom, but their lows were way worse than Capcom's lows. Capcom was very reliable, where Konami was either jaw dropping incredible or shockingly horrible. Their high points still edge out Capcom for me though. It depended on the system too. They were rarely both incredible on the same system. Only really on NES, SNES, Wii, DS, PS, and PS2. Most other times only one of them would seriously support a system with many good games, where the other wouldn't.