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Definitely. I'm sure some would probably get hot over this or that name worthy game/series being left out of the mix, but a Top50 list is a cinch. Back when I had some hard days of unemployment that lost most my collection I had lots of hard pills to swallow killing off one entire line of systems on the whole, or just console(s) and the games with them too. In the end I even had to chop into the Nintendo stuff I had, but I refused to let stuff drop under a certain level, the true stuff I had been gifted or bought in those periods for the NES and the SNES. I conveniently did not let them fly under 50. Even now after rebounding then realizing what mattered most, neither system is much higher around 56-58 games on each and I could make easy cuts there. See for yourself, I can give you a list of X to remove to hit 50 if you're that curious but it saves me the trouble of writing that up or pasting it. I do have a few famicom titles, I don't include those so they'd just get sold. http://tanooki.byethost16.com/nintendo.html http://tanooki.byethost16.com/supernintendo.html

I remember having a decent small set but nothing outrageous like more committed types did. I guess now though if those things were back I'd be up +3 Pinball, Arcade, Virtual Boy set, and maybe more as it's been years since I looked at them. It was in a strange way kind of fun, even if some of them were just nuts.

Well no accounting for intelligence if that wasn't just gas for a fire and he meant it. I got so fed up with the kiddie thing tossed at the system in the day, as much as a hold over from the smears about the N64 in the 90s. Yes it was a cube, yes it had a strange handle, but the games it got, especially in its first 3 years until some people stopped porting sequels were anything but childs play. The system wasn't a failure though, it wasn't first by any good margin, but it was profitable outright for Nintendo. Their only real true unmitigated loser was the WiiU.

I've seen adapters in years past, and I wish I could help because I don't recall the name. Back when I was looking to get a start on FC games and N64 for a couple titles I had considered it and researched it, they do exist though I'll say that much. If they've all but evaporated online that's a bad sign.

The last modern game I gave much time to was Bloodstained when it arrived on Steam, before that a mix of older stuff as I do grab DOS stuff still. Before that toughie, maybe Rebel Galaxy on GoG or something which was done quite well.

I think that distinction with the qualifiers works best, but at some point people are going to have to create new metals or something between bronze and modern and have a reason for placing that block into existence. I don't think very highly of most of the golden age for sure outside of arcades, silver really was the time things got quite good.

You know, you're drinking the kool aid on that one. If someone even bothered to just apply the rocket cable update by those bunglers at Tommo the system actually seems to handle just a little bit better than that wretched Mini SNK put out last year which is just even horrible to consider the fact SNK screwed it up on their own. Now, to really make the mini look terrible, one just has to go with the aftermarket fixes by smart coders placing a properly repaired emulator/patches to the device and it actually can and will perform quite nicely.

One month way back in the days of the NES+GB+SNES on the market they put out these little books in one issue that had a green cover with some kind of Fido Dido looking head on the front in a small shape. I may still have it around somewhere but I wrote a heap of codes in there and other notes. I never liked, wanted to or ever bothered making maps. I wanted to enjoy games, not write them, save that for D&D.

Any nostalgic memories of the first time you received your gameboy, or any other childhood memories playing the gameboy you'd like to share? -- Well yeah, Christmas of 1989 I ruined my moms fun. She blew it and I opened up this small square box and out popped Super Mario Land. From there on the scramble was in play for the Game Boy I knew had to be hiding somewhere. It was like the 2nd coming of the NES (pre)Deluxe Set freak out of Christmas 1985 which had it been caught on camera would have dwarfed the n64 christmas kid bit. I still had opened up presents before and even after the Game Boy, and sure I did play with my stuff, in time, but damn did that thing come out of the box fast. I couldn't help myself going between Tetris and Super Mario Land. At the time I was 12, so like, I was old enough to get it, so Mario didn't last long, but I didn't care. I played played and replayed it as it was almost like a zen relaxing thing to knock off in a little over a half hour, I didn't mind, it was unique and fun and still is. Since I believe most sane types consider the GBC just a beefy color Gameboy as it is, that game system kind of saved my Nintendo sanity in 1997 through the Gamecube in those annoyingly long stretches between good releases worth buying (and then and now still detest overkill fetch quest games so I was NOT a Rare gamer.) The N64 made me two things, a handheld gamer first ever since, and second, broke my habitual middle finger to other systems, I went multiplatform with a NEC Turbo Duo. True story though, Tetris from 1989 until the GBC era, even into the GBC era was my go-to game to leave in the system to keep dust out and to do around new stuff. Mario Golf broke that, shame every game since lacked more and more of its good RPG to fun balance and charm and became more grating. What are you favorite obscure games for the system? In all fairness I know the library pretty solidly, so a list would be a bit much. Out of the games I currently have now, not over time which would be a lot more, I'll list a few but it's the readers choice to read up on it as I don't want to write a story here. GB: Ganso!! Yancha Maru, Nekketsu Koukou Dodgeball Bu, Pop'n Twinbee(EU release), Samurai Spirits 3 (JP release), The Getaway HIgh Speed II, Trip World (J/EU) GBC: 3D Ultra Pinball Thrillride, Cannon Fodder, Konami GB Collection Vols 1-4(EU), Project S-11, Warlocked, Wendy Every Witch Way

The Gameboy version of the original Double Dragon is fairly impressive, closer to the source than the NES release.

I could probably chip in on the Neo-Geo reviews as I have access to most the library and have picked away at quite a few of them, especially the non-fighting games.

All of you in there playing that pokemon game and I don't see that happening for me. Friday evening I think it was I got a sweet deal on Yoshi's Crafted World for $24 so I snapped that up and I'm making a little progress there. It's surprisingly fun. I did skip the 3DS title, but I found each release from the old SNES era got worse over time to where I kind of just didn't care anymore but this one is solid. A bit easy in the earlier levels it seems, but I like the no timer and exploration of the crafty world it has. Also have Dragon Quest 11S in the mail that should be here on Monday so I'll be swapping titles through the end of the year as I don't see a reason to spread too thin.

I've had this gaming laptop for the last 5 years, was the first in a generation of nvidia chips where the mobile version only took like a 10% hit from the desktop chipset too which is why it still works great for things. I can handle the last generation and the outgoing one now with games at full quality at a 1080p level. Clevo/Sager PC and it's one of those DIY things where each part can be popped out like a desktop for easy upgrades. i7-4710MQ @2.5ghz stock(3ghz in games) - 16GB of RAM, NVIDIA GTX980M w/8GB OF RAM (equals a 970 desktop) and has a 1TB SSD inside, came with a HDD originally but nothing but trouble. I've got a blu-ray drive installed into it, and it could take up to another 2 (remove optical 3) drives on a raid config but had no reason to do it. I figure I'll wait for it to melt down or get sad on running new stuff before I ditch it, though at this rate the keyboard is looking a bit rough so I may need to replace that. This thing is why in other topics I said I don't bother with the current generation of basically closed PC consoles and ditched my PS4 as the games were better on my computer.

I'd go with Double Dragon 2, the first one is ok and all but the liberties they took with it over the NES game I found grating and diminished the fun of the title, and 3 is pretty terrible compared to either.

Good point and you're right. I have one of the more interesting of those still I had back when I was on the other site, that Supervision cart in the NES shell that 115in1 I'd never let go of as it has good stuff on it and convenient. I have since got a modern super games 500in1 in a famicom shell with a fc mobile88 locally that has some amazing titles on it but it leans towards the expensive NES stuff yet still no repeats but like 1/3 are sub-par below homebrew level garbage the rest more than makes up for it.

Mmm good call on SF2CE. I've got that one and no regrets at all. It gives the SNES one a run for it's money and just shames the Sega version hard, and not just because of the terrible audio job Capcom did for the sega release. It's amusing seeing the fatness of that HuCard as it nearly uniquely stands out well over it. And like he said in that last post, the 6 button is a must on it and I grabbed the Avenue 6 about the same time. It's weird trying to play it on a standard pad having to tap select fast to pop between punches and kicks. Oddly still playable just response time is hurt a bit if you're switch between.

What's this stuff I'm reading here about comic collectors getting into video games making things worse?

I really hope they intend a lot more of their classic back library in the coming year. I was kind of borderline ticked off they didn't put all the old movie theater black and white/color cartoon shorts. They used to blow those out or hours in the first decade Disney Channel was around, and about the time they pulled them all of them got rolled into a lot of metal case/interior plastic clamshell with extras DVD sets. There's no good reason not to include that stuff.

I'd have to concur with the captain there since he beat me to it. Some may remember years ago back on NA I was pretty pumped over they honeybee. Some foolish ebay seller had actually a pair of them each with a pirate cart attached. I got together on the auction with foochie, and basically I got to keep the 2 pirates but only needed the one honeybee and sent him the other at cost. Back then I recall they had a pretty high value because the adapters at the time were pretty crappy not caring for some famicom games, but the honeybees were like the gold standard and commanded more value. I've held onto mine and while some FC games have come and gone, I still have around a dozen, many that use higher end JP only mappers and it has never failed me. I'd do what fcgamer said, check your game list. A lot are just basic multicarts with common as all get out low/no mapper level stuff. But, if you find that right one with a particular game or set of games on it people will pay, some quite well. I recall a few years back the Golden Game model that had some particular titles like Wild Ball on it, that Jewelry game he said, and others would go over $50 easy.

The area I'm in and I know I'm not alone here with that, is not great for founding some of the mind blowing stuff this thread has or will show. I decided to add 4 images of some solid finds on the high end of what has been possible. The VB was a $75 pick up for everything you see there, it needed the ribbons fixed and only lacked a stand. The ZOID there that's an original year one from Japan I strangely found locally for $10 and it's brand new and very hard to come by so they get fairly well up there. And Pokemon was $100 which came from the same place as the VB and as you can see it's in quite nice shape. The fourth is the Israel Defence Army Set, an exceedingly rare toy set, the company lasted only 5 years in Haifa Israel and is their rarest boxed set and second only to one stand alone, and insanely another goodwill find and another at $10 too. I've had an offer from a toy collector on that one for $2000 because he has the only other known complete in box set as had 2 boxed variants with a couple differing vehicles. There have been other toys and strangeness but those are the most notable to me in the last 5 years, probably overall with the army set (second would be the home use only pin-bot I have in value.)

Going to agree about the low value of those things. Unless you just have to have a certain one with the right person they're low interest especially now that modern ones are made with the really good stuff all thrown on new boards. The honeybee there has more value as it's an excellent adapter.

Well said. I remembered the movie second or third run in the 80s as a kid and it was a loss due to Disney stupidity for ages, then it popped up in the earlier DVD days and it went MIA for liek 20 years after the fact. I was blown away about a decade ago or so when I found the DVD in really fantastic shape and I've kept it around all these years. It has been a long time since i last watched it so saved it on disney plus, but I kind of want my eight year old to watch it but I can't seem to get her to focus on doing it so I may just have to let that plan go and watch it myself. I'm just glad Disney is softening up a bit as that is a really good movie, and it's like the only lost disney princess there too.

I was surprised to find out both that The Black Cauldron and also the old Gummie Bears cartoon are on there. I kind of figured a lot of the other things should be and are there, though still some other small eye opening scroll by moments checking to see what kind of back library they'd do. Still those two stood out because of their childish buttoned lip behavior about the shunned Disney princess movie there, and for some bizarre reason they've had no interest in streaming or doing dvd sets of those bears like they did with the other stuff that came just after (duck tales, rescue rangers, talespin and darkwing duck.)

Well then I guess you would not be aware of Crossed Swords 2 then? Razoola who did the work on the unibios also did the conversion of the NeoCD sequel game Crossed Swords 2 to the MVS format. I used to have it, not really sure why I sold it as I forgot as it was enjoyable. The CD version audio couldn't be straight lifted so a mix of the originals music and some other sources were pulled for it. The game as a sequel has more expanded controls for attack, evasion, and movement, but also now sports 3 styles of attacker you can use and each is quite different from the next.

I never liked the controller. I got one that came with my SuperNT last year and it never felt 100% right, but what really ticked me off was the short battery life of it and the receiver. Maybe I'm spoiled by the ground unicorn horn powered Nintendo batteries in their controllers, but I felt like I had to keep charging the thing every few days to a week or it would be dead so I shelved it and stuck with my corded originals. It just sold on ebay this evening so it'll be out of my hair for good shortly.