Tanooki

Yeah no real surprise. Do you remember what year Tomb Raider hit the PC and PS1? 1996. Do you remember really what year the internet just started to slowly creep into advertising and gaming? 1995-97-ish and that's right in the middle of that. Before 1995 only a few businesses really got into it, largely for their product advertising, colleges, general email for them or anyone who got AOL, prodigy, or compuserve by that point. Keeping that in mind, even then, largely the internet tiny compared but well...porn still had a large unchecked presence. Before that point your Boob Raider would have been basically jerking off to the Sears catalog or stealing daddy's playboy. No surprise some hot brit pops up with short shorts and a huge rack...triangles or not, someones going to hack them boobs into plain view.

@WhyNotZoidberg@avatar! Reading between the two of you, it plays back to the evercade because I got the 2 Lynx packs for that. There's way more than enough for at least a #3 maybe a #4 cart Songbird owns and they're the ones who did those 2 so far. Some of those favorites mentioned like the 2 shooters, and the combo arcade pack they're on those carts that exist already along with a selection of those other newly picked up CIBs in that picture. Lynx is a fine system, just the hardware as far as degradation sadly just isn't. Despite the evercade I could see whenever that adapter pops for the Analogue Pocket going that route for the $30 for the adapter, then get the retrohq/stoneagegamer flash kit. While I'm sure you're right most the lynx library is easy to get and even complete being around 70 titles I think it could add up a lot if $20/avg a game was a really good deal.

That the original version of Tomb Raider in game could get Lara either topless or nude, Nude Raider. Yes I know it's a real thing, by hacking/modding, I'm talking by intent with a code. That got peddled to a bunch of horny polygon pullers in the 90s.

My poke expectations have been low to no for ages, Ultra Sun revitalized it a lot because it decided to try something new, not another sad re-run, but then S&S went back to that bs with the GO style raids which soured me. But Arceus being not the wash rinse repeat bs again, but unique even more than UltraSun was being like an open world of it all and the style they're going with I think it could be actually very good. I could see it pissing off the entitled purists, but you know...stagnate too long and people get fed up. Zelda went there sadly, but BotW was mind blowing good.

Similar here, 2 Switch (my OLED, kids lite) to one red Mario Wii that has just sat for months now.

That part I agree with entirely and I'm curious to see how it shakes out over the next few months into next year when the stragglers are caught blind with 1099Ks. Personally online I'm trade only, if I have to sell it'll be a last case scenario and mindful of the cap as I'd rather save it to deal with swapping change to cover shipping or a few bucks off a trade to be fair. Locally I've offloaded quite a bit at a big dip to resale (half price) than deal with the online shenanigans and tax issue. I do have a business owner a mile away I'm more than customer/less than a friend with. He does consignment, considering on some stuff of value worth my time having him deal with it at a 25% cut as it pays in cash.

Any my streaming accounts backlog -- yeesh. I'm considering dumping sling to save $35 as I got enough banked in multiple other accounts.

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I used to emulate it, loved the Japanese games especially those that did see a franchise hit the states. I'll second the post above, best bet is a Japanese 60hz machine and the MSX 2+ would be ideal. If you're curious about the differences on models, the wiki has that covered.

Indiana Jones gets the same treatment too, though it wasn't exactly retail, but people conveniently forget what Lucasgames did do. In the run up to the games release they put on their website a day/time to login to buy a copy of the game as they did like a run of 10K of them and everything else went to blockbuster. I still have my mail order copy of the game from their site complete in the box no less. I've had enough people shout me down spread over many years a part of being full of crap about it. I used to be able to find a copy of the old sales site on the web archive, maybe it's still there. EDIT: I thought I might get lucky, didn't. I went into my old big box PC games and through the old lucasarts catalog/adventurer inserts and couldn't find it. But I did find a gem of something in the 98/99 book my XW vs TIE book, last inside page is the Indy that did end up on N64, in 1999 Infernal Machine was listed as a PC and PSX!! game, not N64. I guess the PSX was just too weak to do it.

No, they time and again were bought up by one entity after another going back into the 90s such as when they got grabbed by a group that owned Sierra Online and all that in time rolled into Vivendi which died like 15 years ago. So I mean you would have any IP that Sierra Online controlled still at the time they croaked. But really if you're thinking 90s, look at early Blizzard/Silicon Synapse stuff. BLACKTHORNE, LOST VIKINGS, ROCK N ROLL RACING, RPM RACING -- they did a package 11mo ago that was put out on battle.net re-issuing those old games. There's no reason they couldn't make new ones, they're beloved and not bad. While I think Blackthorne and RNR would be more likely as a console game, the puzzly Lost Vikings would play well to a mobile device.

Personally I think in the end for most interested groups of people the impact will be positive or neutral. If you already were a Windows PC user and XBOX owner you're in great shape. With the PC they're not greedy and stupid enough to put all things exclusively on WIndows store, so Steam support will carry on. On the XB, that would be the most positive, console exclusives that used to be dual released. Sony if anything is rightly fucked. When they got their hands into Bethesda I think that was the kiss of death for Elder Scrolls playstation wasn't it? MS isn't going to watch to compete with themselves giving games over to Sony who sells hardware against their own, so Sony is screwed. Future Blizzard/Activision stuff from Call of Duty and Diablo down to Warcraft potentially could not be put on playstation anymore which would be completely fair and the smart thing to do to help move more hardware. The outlier would obviously be Nintendo and mobile devices. MObile I don't see them getting greased, they're not dumb enough to think that's going to make everyone want a windows phone(hah) so perhaps even more games will pop out to exploit that market. And on that, Nintendo, MS seems to like them, really like them, and do not see them as a competitor at all which is a positive. It could be where if a Switch Pro/2 shows up and Diablo 4 arrives, it could get the custom conversion (like D3 did on Switch) along with a XB and PC release and *NOTHING* for Playstation. I could see more custom conversions from their higher end to the more less demanding indie stuff get a mobile release on Nintendo too. It's all speculation really, but flipping Sony the bird of anything I wrote above seems the most obvious move to do.

NA was a better more active source. I clearly remember a decade ago whatever the topic page depth was (50?) it usually had between 1 and 1 /2 pages of consistently updated sales threads at any given time as some pull down others would pop up in a rotation of sorts. Here it's a fraction of it as is the variety. But also a decade ago people did something you don't see much here now, caring about the community and showing it with a community discount to members. I'm not saying it dead, but often you'd find prices that were pretty off what ebay paid was, not just off in respect to the fees between them and PP but more, a discount of sorts really. That really isn't normal anymore, prices here I've often found match or at higher than something I could just straight up click on over on ebay, and with a OBO not too off the ask(here) easily could be a fair bit less. Coupling the lower pool and lack of the old community discount practice, that may be a good reasoning of why it's more sketchy and less used. Things just have changed, the cesspool of Halperins wet WATA dreams had had a ripple effect between the high end buyers pool down to the dude buying some loose average shape cart. Everyone basically largely knows now, and they want to get the same higher coin or maybe make their mark doing the next potentially sustained high water mark due to more fear of missing out. It wasn't a toxic environment then vs now, you could give more of a community price pardon because the fear wasn't there of someone taking advantage of the buyer for a good scalpin'.

Probably should not link it here, but someone took the 2hours of that total movie format (vs the 4 episode style) and popped it up with a fairly decent quality dub on youtube for free with no ads or sub needed. Totally found it pretty fast on accident trying to see if I could find a dvd or streaming anywhere.

Going to have to disagree on this one, I'd also happily throw Smash Bros under the same bus, run them both over, back up, and do it again to be sure. I know it's me given the mind numbed types who are too into their clutches, but post-Gamecube both franchises went to shit. Victim to the same culture that has damaged and watered down FPS and RTS games too. Crap quality mechanics added in to a long in the tooth franchise coupled with a very intense push to feature the online mechanics over the campaign/single player jewels that used to exist. I can't stomach either franchise anymore, totally went to the dump. I want to make a case for Zelda, but unlike the other two it would be unfair to. Where those are clear Zelda isn't, it's more based on tolerance of how much of things you wish would change or not. Zelda until BOTW got super long in the tooth, very samey and wash rinse repeat. There are good ways to do that like Dragon Quest does, and bad ways where you feel like you're just doing an overly done tv re-run. Combine that with some checkered divisive titles like Majoras mistake, Skyward Sword with its busted controls, as did the 2 DS ones where you'd roll accidentally to death as much as walk, and it's a contender based on taste.

It's sad but honestly, nothing much other than Pokemon Arceus, the open world Kirby game, obviously Breath of the Wild 2 and Metroid Prime 4 if they happen. As far as maybe's go I'm aware of Chocobo GP, Advance Wars reboot, big maybe on .hack(loved the first 2 DVDs on PS2 ages ago), and I don't know... And the PC is seeing something of Uncharted and God of War too so that's something. Wish as fluid as the GOG/Steam market are for PC insanely good stuff ranges from taking time to showing up out of nowhere too. And a big of course to TMNT Shredders Revenge. I will add as it's kind of a new game not new game due to what Evercade is pushing, but there are some upcoming carts for that I want like the Renovation cart which has Valis 1+3, Sol Deace, Exile, and more on there largely from Sega Genesis/PCE stuff. and they promised more arcade collections and indie stuff too. GIven the typical $20-25 price point it would be dumb not to jump in for some new variety. Personally I'm glad there's not a whole lot to truly sink money into, and not that much optionally either. I'm more or less done reselling, definitely online, so I'm only buying to play now pretty much so that'll leave more time to dig through stuff already on the shelf which is fine by me.

Final Fantasy Legend of the Crystals was fantastic, I remember watching that like 20 years ago or so. Did that ever make it beyond a dvd transfer? Or at worst...streaming.

Still waiting on Shen Long, I think many of us are.

I don't have any pics of the stuff, but I get ya. I'm probably worthy of a multicart bauble if they ever add one as I got all piratey arrr with my choices in the last few years to say the least but I was limiting it to NES/FC as you did. I did have a Supervision 115in1 NES style I stupidly let go of I wish I hadn't, and another about that size too years earlier with differing stuff. GBA though, I've got a custom like that, it's a 100in1 SMS+GG cart, not that utter trash 106in1 that cluelessly replaced it in recent years. It has such an amazing spread of fantastic stuff, some even translated to english things like Phantasy Star Gaiden. If you can tolerate a hancock youtube video he seems to be the only one bright enough to feature it or even have a page which is pretty pathetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcTwMuBChYA I did find a game list though spread on a picture, you'll see why I said it's superior: I also have another for DS, guy on ebay was making them for a stock set of games, but I talked to the guy and had a custom one made so I could get the entire MVS library short of the dumb unreadable quiz garbage, runs NeoDS and it's fantastic so it has like around 140 or so games on it. Beyond that I could keep listing things, but it's far easier if I just link a page from my game inventory you might appreciate. http://tanooki.byethost8.com/multicarts.html

I've got a 111in1 in a fc shell, even have the original english mini sheet of paper included that has the game list type printed to it, then a couple screwball smalls with like 4-10(ish) in 1, all FC style. One modern, that super games 500in1 where like 350+ of are all legit games, the rest are sub-homebrew gutter trash no one should be a victim to.

I've been considering cracking open the sealed game I have, it would probably infuriate more than one entitled sort doing it. I don't care about the decrease in value, not exactly at least, as I can't seek money for it now without taking a tax hit. Mostly what stops me is justifying opening it and not being able to have the time to commit to playing it through basically. But just in case I was asking the best route to go when the seal is tight. I was guessing maybe a soft touch around where it's already actually open, maybe cutting a cello-flap of sorts to keep the seal around the box as much as possible still.

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Nice, and yeah that hack of SMB2j is pretty slick I'm aware of it. NTDEC is a taiwanese company that did bootlegs like this, fcgamer would be your go to if you really want some history on this one. It's a solid cart, not really rare exactly, but definitely not common. Someone asking $400 isn't making it worth that, it's probably not even worth $100 to be fair, but the value on something like this is more about the personal value and game selection than anything as it's just another in a long line of vintage era bootlegs. I haven't looked but I wouldn't be surprised if the bootleg games wiki would have a listing about it, or at least NTDEC they surely do.

Just playing catch up on this thread, lots of nice things since I last looked, good variety for sure. I've been slower pacing myself desperately trying to minimize looking to ebay for stuff as I prefer trying to work it out locally first. Online will be for when I'm fed up and the right price on a very short list of stuff pops up. It's why I've been relatively quiet outside of the evercade. Luck would have it, driving by a usually fairly meh goodwill had decent results. It's that one between the two half price books so it wasn't out of the way was the only reason I bothered at all anymore. They tend to price anywhere from decently fair to ebay annoying, which at $80 for a Gamecube game was a no go(Mario Strikers) but they did have at least a dozen other games, strange, as no other store has seen that many combined since fall around here which is weird. I paid $50 for these, they're complete, minimal wear to the discs. I could have grabbed a couple more at least but better versions are up on GoG/Steam depending which so I didn't bother. Always wanted that Gladius game, looked fascinating but never had the time.

If that makes you nervous, I'd wonder, what would be the best way to crack open the seal on a high dollar target like that for Gameboy if you're going to do it?