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  1. @Splain ALERT!!! It's finally done! I've finally defeated Body Harvest, a game I first got for Xmas at the age of 12 and has haunted me ever since! There is so much to this game, it truly is one of the most underappreciated games on the system IMO. There is undoubtedly a great game to be experienced here, although diminished somewhat by a few significant flaws. I'd say it's as close to greatness as you can get without quite getting over that line. The main problems with the game IMO are the punishing difficulty (especially when factoring in the absurdly long stretches between save points), and also the relatively mundane quest elements that often consist of simply locating an item and bringing it somewhere else. The thing is tho, there are also fantastic and truly impressive elements to the game as well. The combat is really fun, with well designed enemies and great weapons. Controlling the various vehicles is awesome fun, a true highlight, and the massive open worlds are incredible for an N64 game. There is also TONS of content here, tens of different vehicles, 5 HUGE levels which would each be enough for a whole game in themselves in many respects, and there IS a decent variety of objectives and things to do as you play through the various stages. The game also has a great atmosphere, augmented by an impressive and immersive soundtrack. This game has a truly epic, almost overwhelming and intimidating scope to it. It's not for the feint hearted, and it's not for the easily frustrated or impatient. It is also a game I would DEFINITELY advice to have a guide handy, because you ARE gonna get stuck an hour into a play session, with more than an hour before the next save point, with enemies all around and a dwindling health bar crying out for whatever mercy you can get! But, for a true deep-cut N64 experience, if you can say you bested Body Harvest on Hero mode, if you have GONE there and lived to tell the tale, you deserve a truly rarified kudos. I recommend this game to those N64 hardcore, unreservedly. To everyone else give it a look, you'll probably find a ton to enjoy, but don't feel bad about giving up once the grind hits you halfway into the second level when you just lost an hour's worth of progress because you accidentally fell in a ravine and drowned!
  2. I don't need to sue anybody, because I didn't burn all my money in a giant hype pit like a ton of other people did. The only rookies I know of are all the comic book and baseball card collectors who stumbled blindly into graded game collecting as though it was a thing.
  3. Lol, did it really take you two weeks to clap back with that? You are correct that the WATA fraudsters got incredibly lucky in the timing of their little scam here, as it did coincide with a remarkable and anomalous boom in collectable markets. But, that doesn't change their ill-intent and their deceptive actions, which are all now a matter of public record. They were gunning for that boom before the pandemic was so much as a twinkle in a Chinese bat's eye. If there was no WATA, that covid boom money wouldn't have gone into graded games, it would have just gone into regular game collecting (which it did AS WELL) or other collectable categories (which again, it did as well). The pandemic boom in collectables is not a part of the accusations against WATA, and to conflate them is a product of either ignorance, willful ignorance, or an intention to distract or mislead.
  4. I'm currently working on a playthrough of Body Harvest on Hero mode. It's been a 25 year journey for me with this game, I first got it for Xmas when I was 12 years old, and it's been kicking the shit out of me ever since! I've tried and failed to beat this game several times over the years, but I THINK I'm finally man enough to do it! I've just beaten the first Alien Processor in the America level, which is further than I've ever gotten before... I think I got this one guys, wish me luck!
  5. It will be fun to watch it crash again, lol!
  6. I'm afraid I'm not aware of any copies for sale local to myself! Good luck with the hunt!
  7. Whatever fetish it is you're talking about here, I want no part of.
  8. @Splain alert! Knife Edge Nose Gunner done! This is a pretty short arcade style rail shooter. It's fun enough, but nothing really special here, very generic Sci-fi plot. The graphics are basic and bland, the weapon selection is poor, and the game feels surprisingly lethargic for a shooter. I wouldn't call it a bad time, but it doesn't leave much of an impression, tbh.
  9. The Game Gear adaptor on my Analogue Pocket died pretty much as soon as I got it, so I figured I'd invest in the real thing! The guy I bought it from fully refurbished it for me, new caps and screen, she plays like a beaut! Of course, unless you plan on taking out a second mortgage to buy double AAs, probably gonna want to have one of these also! If I start putting some serious playtime into this thing, I may think about buying a set of rechargeable AAs, but I do most of my handheld gaming indoors anyway!
  10. Vigilante 8 and Vigilante 8 2nd Offense are two of my favourite games on N64, hands down. So much fun!
  11. I've seen all 100 of these movies, watch them all regularly, actually! Where can I accept my prize?!
  12. Lol, good ol' Joe! Never disappoints with his frigid-ass WATA takes!
  13. All my beautiful MS paint contributions count for nothing?! I guess they laughed at Van Gogh in his time too...
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