Tanooki

Ahh so that like cotton2/saturn whatever it was ended up being the defective title. I never did grab reboot but it's everywhere now, and it's like a remaster I suppose of the original which I have on my Astro City Mini, but still given what it is, it would be worth looking into. Honestly (and sadly) I miss when I used to own the old game on my Turbo CD and NGPC, both now are maddeningly expensive, though a loose copy of the SFC title I had too isn't bad ($80~) Panorama Cotton though outside of a bootleg for $20 is ridiculous too an extreme.

I think it was the 2nd one SLG put out. Reboot was fine, then the second one supposedly was bad enough to be really noticed and they had tried patching it I guess since. But if this one is ok, probably be already to snap up on Switch then. I also saw the reboot is up on Steam now too, but it's got a $45 price tag which feels a bit steep.

I found it googling part of your sentence, still is at that price too with 3 1/2 hours remaining. I'm tempted but with all the ugly lag issues the games seem to have had I question it. Still the non-game parts, the toy, the cup, the music, etc are pretty nice items for basically free given the game price.

Not that I'm aware of. Even when some companies tried to specifically take advantage of the base, such as the memorable Square Tax where stuff like Chrono Trigger could hit $70-80 and I recall FF6 going to $60 that's where it topped out. No matter the ginned up chip Nintendo put into a cart (FX2, SA1, etc) those titles MSRP'd out at $50. They strongly urged games not to cross that barrier but never enforced it, so those who felt they could squeeze people for more coin did, Square with those, and Capcom nailed people for SF2 for $65 because of all the hype too.

Thats a nice plush, would be fun to have.

Sure I've owned over the decades the system twice, originally a US Duo, later a Core Grafx 2/JP Duo. Unless you get an everdrive though suggesting US titles isn't that hard. I will warn you, price won't be factored into this, and some are sickeningly bad, such as my first suggestion of Bonk 3. CDs are excluded. Bomberman 93 (and Bomberman), the other 2 Bonk games and it's techy spinoff Air Zonk, Legend of Hero Tonma, Shockman, Time Cruise and the better known pinball duo of Alien Crush and Devils Crush, New Adventure Island, Soldier Blade, Jackie Chan(better than NES release), Neutopia 1 and 2(think Zelda 1), Cadash, Raiden, Turrican, Parasol Stars, Silent Debuggers, Super Star Soldier, RType1+2(they cut the game in 1/2), Dragons Curse, Legendary Axe 1+2, Ninja Spirit, Military Madness(aka Nectaris), Splatterhouse, Space Harrier, Final Lap Twin, Chew Man Fu, Klax, Dragon Spirit, Fantasy Zone, Galaga 90, Monster Lair, Side Arms, Blazing Lazers, Dungeon Explorer, Vigilante, and even the pack-in Keith Courage is fine. I know i didn't list a few, but these are a decent start and variety all card games. Cheapest one maybe $20-30 a lot of these get into the upper sub-100 and into the 100s easy and depending how much abuse you can handle card vs complete changes things a good bit from bad to argh.

Definitely, that is a nice like and hits it well on the high level of BS that Sega was lying about. Especially the block of text where sadly the US market allows blatant lying in advertising while most other countries in the world that were markets for the Sega system would be illegal to run because they could not prove to a court factual data backing the claim. We know Nintendo they would have happily destroyed them and sought damages and court costs too to rub in their faces otherwise. Who wouldn't? The most slimy to me is the one they gave reference to, calling up a comparison of Sonic a side scroller to a mode7(3D) racer Mario Kart for being a slow, laughably poor and otherwise garbage system. Yeah...fair. No arguing the SNES was slower, but coupled with its pros including its DMA/HDMA handling and the fact Sega learned NOTHING from the SMS vs NES period about leaving hardware truly open to cheap expansion capability really screwed them as SNES balanced the field with simple cheaper chips like the DSP and SA1 or the more costly RISC based FX1/2 style chips. Sega...they had to figure a work around, then gimped an existing project into a $100 cart for Virtua Racing -- impressive, but damn... $100 for one game in the early mid 90s was utterly reckless. If I get the motivation and time I'll scan that document probably into a PDF since I can pop the pages in sequentially... if anyone is interested that is.

@LHCGreg Interesting theory, I guess it would take having that(or one of those) carts and firing up various games on that very list and seeing if it torches the save data from a legit one like Final Fantasy or Kirby where you can get a save put down pretty fast into it.

Well given how long it takes to subjugate, re-educate, and break their Uyghur work force are you surprised? I've been told enough times despite the month plus they tend to give, stuff can show up as quick as a couple of weeks. I decided to test that when I went and got one item, then found something useful for my Nomad and grabbed a second a couple days later. I was curious to see if they'd arrive 2 days apart, or maybe far, or if the second would best the first.

I know this has gone off the rails into being temporarily co-opted by LRG shenanigans....but... is anyone here slowly picking away or going nuts at it to finish that new Kirby game? I'm taking the slow route every few days, game has a lot of charm, a few obnoxious hidden goals for waddle dees but the general game is pretty nice and a bit different than standard given the perspective of it all.

You know I've been wondering about that, well something relating to that. I don't know if you're joking, or do we know maybe this was something conclusively they were planning to add but failed to? The reason I'm asking this is very very simple. I'm sure enough of you may not want to own, but you are aware of, that there is a series of new game board famicom and nes style carts out for some time, hot out of china which started earlier on with the Best Games of X (150~) in 1 for NES style and the Super Games 500in1 in the FC shell originally. Each of them have a run down of various games that save to the battery it was a selling point for some because you could give a little and get some big fish like the Dragon Warrior quartet for instance, or even a cheapo one like Kirby and it would save. The corner cutting problem, you can only save ONE game at a time, and if you fire up another game with SRAM you nuke your data. Super Mario Bros 3 uniquely on that cartridge if you fire that up it will erase the SRAM. It means the game does at some code level give the pirate board/chipset the request to tap SRAM. Is this intentional like maybe it really did mean to save at some point in development, or just shoddy coding by either Nintendo, the pirates, both?? Any ideas?

I think he meant mushroom kingdom standard.

NICE job, welcome to the world of ramen and mac n cheese because that's all you probably will be able to afford after buying a game or two for this one. The slime is most intense with this market of sellers over most other systems. If you can wrangle it, you must get an everdrive. Not just for that, but also because largely the best made games never left Japan.

Kind of, it's lacking one thing... the horribly misused to the point of nails on a chalkboard term of blue chip which only works for sports and stocks.

Good question, and a shame. That logo is cool, step away for a moment from it being obviously a turtle head, look what it also looks like, sort of like a masked ninja with their arms crossed which is cool too. I did keep stuff from that era, long ago I typed it up but I really should just scan the thing, but when Genesis was combatting Nintendo finally on the 16bit front and egregiously lying their ass off in their ads Nintendo went and got a third party reputable company to do a break down of both systems, compare, contrast, to debunk the bs. They're still in business today Booz Allen and Associates I think it is. I got it in the mail from NOA in the early 90s. I still have it, envelope and all. It has a decent amount of paragraphs and a basic breakdown of the hardware cpu, memory levels, colors, sprites, etc like some faq you'd find on gamefaqs 20 years ago would do.

@MiamiSlice That's the most likely of cases with them. Just makes me frustrated and annoyed they take advantage of us who preorder stuff then let junk slide and play the angle of you'll get it...eventually like they can't do them in larger consistent numbers. Yet they can push larger consistent numbers when it goes to a big box retailer which makes me really question it a lot. I've already shoo'd off one buy I wanted from due to all the bs with the slipping of dates for no logical reason. What really set me off is the NGPC collection that slid twice. In that time Pix n Love got their package figured out, solid, and shipped both a standard release and upper tiers with far more fluff in the box than LRG did. I'm on a NGPC and a SNK group on facebook and I see images daily for weeks now of it and it gets me angry. I know when I wrote Jeremy Parish last year when it went up for pre-order asking him about how the book was (to decide if I wanted in) he had it done, it was published, and ready to go. So that shouldn't be what is holding up LRG on the NGPC package... I really would love to know what the hell there deal is on that.

You know that crossed my mind. I'm sure they could stock all the releases they come out with in mass like they do with Best Buy, and all their lame endless merch along with the games they do stock with publishers permanently to buy. That could fill at least a moderate sized rack, that's all, game wise. The other bs with the toys, clothes, whatever, some they could easily re-print as it won't threaten the collection princesses who lord their preorder window gems with 3+ figure sales asks. I just wonder because they do have the ability to print large amounts of stuff in a timely fashion for best buy, will they give the store the same premium? If that's so, will they finally make things right for the buyers who pre-pay online for stuff with nebulous idiotic windows they never keep their promises on?

Not sure what store policy was, but damn... it would have been a good moment to parallel a popular 80s quip from a movie. You call that a bat? THIS is a bat. (While coming around the counter looking to do damage for pissing on the rack.)

That's nice, did you keep any identifying packaging from Mirage? That would be for me more of a keeper than the game itself as it creates a tie back to the Turtles, not just Konami.

I got an email from them shortly ago. They're opening a retail store. This store has I guess most/all their previous releases, so they never either cleared out all their games, a note at the bottom says they don't reprint. I wish they'd grow up and start reprinting, screw the collectors, the have good stuff you get hosed on trying to buy after the fact. Guess that's nice if you're in driving distance into NC to get something, but if not...ugh. Over 800 games and merch around their past library. Seems it'll be a used game shop too, they have a deal if you trade in X value in stuff, you'll get some exclusive trading card and an item from the store. That would be the place to go to find that missed title which is kind of shitty, if they don't offer it up to the public at large who aren't graced with the great luck of living near by. It opens up April 30th. https://limitedrungames.com/blogs/news/limited-run-retail-celebrates-its-grand-opening-with-an-epic-event-on-april-30th-in-north-carolina?utm_source=Limited Run Games Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Tuesday Newsletter 3%2F29 | Unpacking (Sezzle) (R8ruHG)&_kx=BMq8moBoONtcf_q4dAjqJOirs2CJ0P7MGqQqw7SM53Q%3D.UsXyyC

@avatar! Hah so you do have that audio CD, and well technically that does fit as something new, even if they were meant not to be as they are now. Today I bumbled across a copy of Gamecube Sonic Adventure 2 Battle and it's in overall excellent shape, minimal wear to the disc thankfully but it wasn't like some cheap pickup either, was $40 but totally worth it being local.

They pulled that same gov't spy level bs language with me when I asked about the contents of the Castlevania CD. Given it was like +20 over the standard I rolled the dice, it's a good disc thankfully but it aggravated me they supposedly had no idea what they were selling? If that's true, it speaks a lot of their ethics and interest in what they're selling.

Huh 4th tank from that era and stature, funny the so called ukranian nazis that don't exist got belated payback I guess. I'm really curious to see how this ends as Ukraine seemingly is starting to shove them out of areas with all the added advanced hardware and quick n' dirty training on how to use it. They keep smashing air craft so even now they don't have air superiority let alone any form of control there, and now their so called elite tanks are being wasted. I saw a kill sheet maybe a few days ago and the losses of hardware (on top of at least 16k troops killed) has really got to be adding up.

I did a round about of games to some end today, PCE Mini tried out Sapphire, kind of don't get the 1000s in attraction to that one, it's ok. Then there was more time on Gradius and another. Then went over to Kirby's new Switch game but after doing a round of SMB1 as I guess you get coin for it on those switch missions. Then I hit the eshop a bit as I have some gold expiring, then couldn't find anything.

That's generous, whoever ends up with it who isn't named RH.