NZCollector

11 hours ago, Code Monkey said:

I don't understand, it's an additional case for your game and isn't licensed?

Yeah, it was just a different type of case I was given for free by the EB Games worker. I've attached some photos of what it looks like on the inside and on both sides of the outside to show you what it's like. Not sure if the steelbook was released in America- hopefully it was, it's pretty cool in person. 100% licensed. 

9 hours ago, MiamiSlice said:

Is that the same as Hot Shots Golf Out of Bounds?

I believe so yes. We never got anything under the Hot Shots Golf title here, it's always been the much more generic sounding Everybody's Golf. The naming starts to get confusing when there's an Everybody's Golf 1 and 2 on PS1 and PSP, when they're different games. 

46 minutes ago, Shmup said:

Enjoy. I’m glad they re released this one because it is an amazing game and definitely one of the best Mario’s ever released imo. I’m going to grab it at some point to replay it and also check out the added content.

It's definitely up there for me too. It'd be amazing if Nintendo put 3D Land onto the Switch too, but that's unlikely. 

Having finished the first world I can say it's better than the WiiU version. The visuals look crisper, and the controls feel more refined. 

It is February 12th here in New Zealand, so that means Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury has released! Today's my day off so could not have been released on a better day. I didn't preorder it, but when I went to EB Games to get it I was also given the steelbook. The photo doesn't really do it justice, it looks amazing in person. The dotted background behind the characters is shiny. 

I also got Everybody's Golf: World Tour for the PS3. Golf games are a weird guilty pleasure and this is the last one I needed for the PS3. It's eluded me for a few years and one finally popped up for a price I was happy with. I don't know if it's rare but it's definitely uncommon. 

On 1/12/2021 at 2:23 PM, croagunk said:

I’m currently playing Sonic Forces on the Switch. Pretty good!

Finally, someone else with that opinion!  I don't get why it's consistently regarded as one of the worst games in the franchise. It's nothing special but there's far worse. I quite enjoyed my playthrough of it a few years back too. 

As for what I'm playing now, I just finished Night in the Woods on the Switch. If none of you have played it, it's fantastic. I'd highly, highly recommend it. It's a heavily story-driven adventure game with focus on the characters. I've not been so invested in a game and its world in a long time, if ever to this extent. Got it digitally during a Christmas eShop sale, and during my free time I've played through it once, and I'm almost done with my second playthrough. (The outcome is dictated by the characters you interact with midway through the game). I still don't feel like I've got all the content out of it, will put it down for a month and probably go through it a third time. 

I've been waiting two weeks for something and that's frustrating enough. I couldn't imagine waiting for some of the times you all have mentioned! I don't have the patience for that. 

Mario 64. I've played it to completion every year for what's nearing a decade. It can be a bit rough around the edges at some parts yes, but I think that's part of why I enjoy it so much. It has a charm to it that I can't find in many other games. First played it in 2012 on the Wii VC (I know, but I wasn't around when N64 was big so hopefully that's a pass). Played it since on N64 a couple times, the DS (if you count that as the same thing), the WiiU VC, and 3D All-Stars. Fantastic game. 

I'm pretty much nearing the end of collecting for the most part. I've been getting less and less the past three years. (Though to be fair I did get a video editing PC a month ago which made up most of my free funds but wouldn't have gone to collecting regardless). One of the few goals left is to get the last Sonic games I don't have for a few systems (totaling about a dozen games in all), or maybe upgrading the last of my Platinum (PAL version of Greatest Hits) games to black label, but as I only have about a dozen and they're not on display it doesn't bother me too much. Really just playing things now. 

For the Switch I don't count physical games (and to a lesser extent eShop titles) into the collection until I've finished them- that way I get the most out of them and enjoy every title all the way through. That loosely ties into collecting, so to be able to add the remaining 8 Switch games I own but not added into my spreadsheet! 

4 minutes ago, Jeevan said:

 

That is brilliant.  

It's 9:17am January 1st 2021 in New Zealand typing this, Happy New Year to everyone! I hope despite everything going on in US right now you're all able to enjoy the night (I presume it's still NYE in US right now, time zones are complicated). Having done this every year since 2017 on NintendoAge I need to keep the 'tradition' going and be the first one to message. It may have been a turbulent year and the same threats still loom this year; things may be okay here again but that doesn't mean it'll stay like that. Despite that, I'm glad there's a place like this to even momentarily escape the real world. I may not post much but I enjoy logging on from time to time and seeing what's happening in the community. 

I don't typically create large resolutions since I find they get pushed aside within a few weeks or months, but I do like hearing what other people have set for themselves. What have you all set? The two I thought of are to work towards a promotion at work (not necessarily realistic, but doesn't hurt to try), and (of course) spend a bit of time to enjoy my collection. I didn't really collect much in 2020 if at all, but I did start going through my collection. With 1200 games this will be a couple years worth of resolutions I reckon.  

Hope you all have a good year and find the time to play some games! Even if you're approaching the year with cautious optimism, fingers crossed it doesn't get any worse. I hope you're all doing well. 

Two years ago I would've said room full. Now just the shelves I have. I have room for another 100 or so games. Since I have more important financial obligations kind of have to stop at a point. That and I'm a uni student so having money is virtually nonexistent. 

10 hours ago, Andy_Bogomil said:

Thank god for that. I am so glad that I grew up without everyone having a phone/camera/video recorder with them at all times. Although it comes with convince (instant communication, fast internet speed, video/music services, etc.) I overall feel sorry for kids today being inundated with technology/online activity.

 

 

 

My younger cousins have said to me before they don't understand how I didn't properly go on the internet until I was 9, and never really went on the likes of YouTube until 10. There just wasn't a need to and I never felt pressured to. Mario Kart was enough for entertainment! No kids really had phones until middle school, I didn't- it wasn't common at the time. I guess even though it's a relatively very very small and similar time period (as I'm 10 and 13 years older than these two) my experiences are so different to theirs. Told them matter-of-factly that almost all schoolwork was written in books and hardly (if ever) online for me in primary school. Even through middle and high school there was a surprising amount of physical bookwork. I only graduated two years ago mind you. That makes it sound like I'm recounting a long passed educational experience, when it really wasn't. I reckon ten years from now they too will be told the exact same thing. Plus, offline media is just as good anyway! Games don't need to be online, and with streaming services most old shows or films that I'd have interest in I own DVDs for. 

Hah, since I made people feel old in the 3D All-Stars thread a month back I'll do so again. I'm from the "futuristic" year of 2000 and now in my 20's. Grew up with the PS2, Wii and DS and spent my teenage years with a WiiU and 3DS. I was lucky enough to have a small experience with rental stores, with the last one around here closing about six years ago. Rented quite a lot of games from the one close to me back in the day. (I say back in the day but it was hardly a decade ago). 

I can partially attest to the "horse and buggy" sentiment already too, I was probably one of the last age groups to have not grown up with social media having a presence 24/7. (I hardly use social media nor care to). I will agree that media was better when I grew up too. That's probably a bit of bias (a lot of bias) but when younger family members talk about shows they watch they just don't sound good. Cartoon Network was good from 2003-2008. Really good. 

Feel bad having missed this. Guess that's what finals and work does. Happy (very belated at this point) One Year everyone! I wish we still had NintendoAge but that site was getting a bit archaic looking towards the end. Good that we have this. It's weird to think I just finished my first year of high school when joining NA, now I only have one year left until I get my bachelors degree. It's great the community didn't die along with NA, that was a concern of mine ever since its closure was announced. Here's hoping there are many years to come here! I wish I had more time to post, averaging less than one a week isn't good. That would've almost constituted a (0.01 posts average per day on NA!) 

I got mine pre-ordered and paid for this morning. NOT because it's a limited release (which is a pointless concept to provoke people to go panic buy), because I've never played Sunshine before. I'm too young to have played it when it first came out as I wasn't even 2- going to be 20 in a few weeks and I thought it'd be a nice thing to treat myself to 4 days before I enter my 20s. 

Mario Sunshine and Gamecube systems have always been expensive here, it's consistently been 80+ bucks and a Gamecube is 250 on a good day. New Zealand retro collecting is a joke. Don't get me startedSo I'm getting it to experience Sunshine for the first time (that may shock some of you but it was initially released nearly two decades ago). 

Mario 64 and Galaxy being put on it are pretty exciting, though I have those two and have 100% them multiple times. Fantastic games, I expect Sunshine to be no different. 

Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec 

Grand Theft Auto III 

God Of War II 

Those are three I own highest up in the best selling list. I know my PS2 collection is lacking with the absence of San Andreas, Kingdom Hearts I & II and Final Fantasy. Working on it. 

With my limited experience of shows from your desired time, I only have a few I can recommend. 

Sonic SatAM was previously recommended, I strongly urge you to look into it. A fantastic show that never gets old no matter how many times you look at it. 

If you want a laugh at a show that's hilariously bad, I'd recommend Sonic Underground. It's not good. At all. All the text is in Comic Sans, that's one main reason. 

The Mario animated shows (all three of them) while not the highest of quality are entertaining for what they are. I'd just ignore the episode of SMB3 where they turn into babies and keep their mustaches. It's... weird. 

Meme because of the regular mention of it on Collector's Quest. Makes me laugh every time it's brought up on the show, and it's still in stock as of today. Very limited. 

Good, I wish we'll follow suit here in New Zealand. 

People on the likes of Twitter getting upset over it saying they don't know how they'll function reinforces why social media is bad if you don't use it in moderation. I could go on about that for ages, almost like people have developed a dependency for it and can't live without it. Though it's irrefutable that it's just glorified spyware.  

Probably a bold claim for me to make, but that's one of the best setups I've ever seen. Looks absolutely stunning, the amount of care that went into it...  

On 6/22/2020 at 12:23 AM, ChickenTendas said:

Huh. I was the opposite. I had a GBA when everyone else had DS'. A friend of my parents had a kid who didn't want her Gameboy games because she had the newest and greatest (a DS), so instead of trading them in they gave them to my parents. After that, I sunk hours into her Gameboy games, like the Pokemons, some Mario Advance titles, and random stuff like Barbie games. My Dad also had some original Gameboy games, which I played with him, like Link's Awakening and Klax. If I ever went for a fullset, it would be the GBA or the 3ds, which I also played a lot of in mid to late Elementary school up until now. I also consider the 3ds to be the greatest handheld ever made, with native capabilities for every portable Nintendo game ever to be played on a single device. Sadly both the GBA and 3ds both have insanely huge libraries with a ton of shovelware.

Couldn't agree more with the 3DS. I got mine in early 2012 and have enjoyed it a lot since. That would be a close third. 

On 6/22/2020 at 12:05 AM, ChickenTendas said:

I totally agree, 20 just seems really old. Maybe not terrifying, but it is quite sad in the sense that you aren't a child anymore and you have to fend for yourself. Is college all that it is hyped up to be? I'm interested in just how much of a change it is and exactly how much freedom you have.

College (or university as it's referred to here) is definitely far different than high school, but I didn't find it overwhelming at all. As long as you're doing a degree you're passionate about it's great fun. I've thoroughly enjoyed the past 1.5yrs I've been at uni for. As far as freedom goes it's about the same for me as it was in high school, though that's purely down to the fact that the school I went to specifically prepared us for uni through their teaching styles and content. Friends of mine say the freedom they have is day and night. All up to you to get assignments done. 

20 hours ago, Estil said:

How is that terrifying exactly?  In the US the age of 21 has always been considered a very big deal but I'm not sure if hardly any other countries the age of 21 really means much of anything.

Just meant it in the sense that it doesn't feel long ago I registered to NA and I was 15 then. Feels like only two years but it was four and a half, but it makes sense considering I was just out of middle school when joining NA and now I'm halfway through my Bachelor's Degree. 18 is the age where you're technically an adult here. 

On 6/7/2020 at 5:45 AM, zeppelin03 said:

Gen Z will become relevant in another 10-15 years.  Generations seem to get talked about when they are of an age to have spending power and influence politics etc. 

I find Gen Z is appealed to just as much as Millennials. I'm Gen Z, going to be in my 20s in three months (which is nothing short of terrifying), and will be voting in the NZ election in September. I'm definitely on the older side of Gen Z, but am Gen Z nonetheless. 

$110 for my CIB Airboarders 64 and Mario Kart 8 Limited Edition (PAL Version as I don't live in the States). Then system I'd say I paid the most for would be the SNES Classic I bought new at 140 (that was and still is the retail price for it here. I know, we get ripped off). Most consoles I have are from when I was younger or birthday presents- in the case of the Switch that was Christmas as well since they're 550 new). 

Never been one to justify spending above retail for anything, so never have. Especially now.