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You would be wise. I did a lot of thinking when I decided I wanted something arcade. It came down (multicade not desired) to finding the best option. One would be to get a fantastic looking cabinet with more than enough buttons(4-6) with a pair of sticks that takes JAMMA so the board options would be far and wide. I was leaning there mentally for a time, but the MVS popped up in my mind as a true favorite of the 90s and the luck happened to tip one into my hands locally for a very overly reasonable price. The JAMMA bit would require more work, more expense, and storage of a lot of decent sized boards which pushed me off it. The MVS is basically a coin drop console hiding inside a cabinet with the oversized two board cartridge shells so they're durable, rugged, well protected and easily swapped using no more than a puffy VHS tape space basically to store each title. Those factors and others really clinched it. The Neo Geo is a huge space saver as you can keep a library of dozens of games in the space of literally one cabinet, most if you're cool using a pair of multicarts on the market as it will cover nearly ever single release. That said I'd also and always will strongly suggest taking a bite into the Neo Geo Pocket Color too as it has a good sized library of mostly great titles that aren't overly expensive on the whole with a more than reasonably priced uniquely well made click stick based system. And now with the drop in solder free backlight screen handheld legend alone sells that little issue is fixed up too for all of $60 for the custom lens cover and screen package.

Wow of all things I've got to give credit where it's due on Mario Bros. I've never heard of seen of that in over 30 years about that happening, and I'd wonder why Nintendo didn't catch it but I'd assume rushed out low tested famicom game is the answer there. That is a game I've had since it more or less came out and it would never have occurred to me to hit the start button maybe a fist length away from the floor to teleport through it. To see that in action it's a cheat but also a game changer with strategy entirely for attack and evasion even more.

I would think in this case it's not the software directly but whatever list it references using your IP address to figure out where in the world it is. So whatever the forum software uses as their index if it's internal or some international hub of some choice they use it grabbed that name and I would think imagine it can't be helped. It's pathetic, but may be stuck.

If I had a real collecting bone left the GC would be attractive. I don't have your lead off, probably around 30 games, but I have some of the ugliest price wise like Cubivore so that would be a plus. Good luck with it, and better off that than PS1 was that's an insane amount of games and they're starting to creep up too, even the bland ones while the notable JRPGs and others are getting nuts. I'm currently sitting on a dozen or so PS1 games and I'm waffling on the whole catch or release bit (as is with PSP too.) For some less is more, for others more is happily more.

That's the thing, Nintendo has lacked for quality+diversity in games from outside their own direct control since the first 1/2 or so of the Gamecube era when companies put games on a Nintendo system that wasn't just a handheld device as Gameboy and DS lines were hardly ever lacking. Nintendo clearly got the right idea after the WiiU got what it had coming to it, that doing console alone until their still set philosophy of squeezing more out of something that isn't fresh and new wasn't going to keep them in business. It works though great for handheld because people don't expect as high a bar out of handheld devices which is what primarily the Switch is. Despite the fact they used a few years old TegraX1 tech here, they got smart in customizing it and allowing for the device to handle much of the modern game development engines with scaled back model sizes being the biggest hit and it worked. Nintendo at a consistent rate getting things like Diablo, Dark Souls, Skyrim, Civilization, Doom(gba aside), and the non-indie list goes on was basically unheard of in a very very long time. It's a great device and they worked to their strengths I think better than anyone rationally imagined they would. Given their typical habits I'd be downright stunned if Christmas 2020 didn't have a TegraX2 or something similar Tegra Switch PRO/2 model out so the can still keep that parity of custom port potential with the new generation of systems while still (like all their past handhelds) letting the old games work too perhaps even hybridizing as GBC did some releases that won't need that added oomph to keep more people happy too. They're in a great space because the price isn't offensive and it works, and has worked since they caught on they can beef things up 2-4x in potential as they did with GB to GBC, GBA to DS, DS to 3DS dragging along some of the classics to the next. BC, instant library, carried over library, it carries weight.

No picture, but I'm a godzilla fan. In the last few years as they've popped up I've grabbed anything from the series that has hit blu-ray. Godzilla (criterion), modern Godzilla and Godzilla King of the Monsters US movies, King Kong vs Godzilla, Godzilla vs Ebirah, Godzilla Destroy All Monsters, Godzilla vs Hedorah, Godzilla vs Gigan, Godzilla 1984, The Return of Godzilla, Godzilla vs Biollante (also has some mega shark movie duo on there, Godzilla 2000, and then all the double features released in toho 2 packs (there are 5.) I also have a small selection of figures too of Godzilla, MG1/2, Gigan, Fire Rodan, and a blue/green with sparkles translucent special Gigan too along with an old mid80s Imperial King Kong with that stuff and one Ultraman original. Not godzilla related, but I do have that pair of Pacific Rim movies which are fairly entertaining.

That has to be the most fitting case ever for what you accomplished there, and they seemingly fit quite nicely too. As someone who is a big enough collector in your case, you just can't top a clean intact full retail full length N64 display case for house all those colorful N64 boxes as it is. It just makes too much sense, and despite being way up there, that matching red TV would be a solid way about enjoying it too in all the same space.

Even the Virtual Boy would in a way have a small hurdle with this one at least with the US library because Mario Tennis while sold in Japan was a pack-in entirely for the US market. Despite that fact, Blockbuster or Nintendo, not sure who bothered with it, but one/both of them made a run of DISPLAY ONLY boxes for the game so they could have something to shrinkwrap up for the shelf when renting out games. Someone may argue a CIB set from the US is 13 games or 14 games because of that one and it's not a cheap box, this year alone it has been over the $100 mark and creeping northward so I could see some moaning about that being a thing.

You're better off for not having that urge as the AES market is like bankruptcy worthy in buying some of the games as it's the worst.

Interesting, the design of the actual hardware instead of the usual nitpicking of game lists and how their quality has fared over the decades. I'd feel comfortable saying that most of the Nintendo handhelds have held up very well, especially the classic vertical designed Gameboy family of handhelds (and the original GBA too.) Visibly speaking they just work well. The designs still are copied and re-used today, both on and off the original scale but with the similar proportions with all sorts of chinese multi-game knockoff devices and emulation handhelds of some sort. The bitboy and friends from that RS- line all have that original GB/GBP style setup in layout but with more buttons that are needed. And then others have that wide grip/panel design the GBA used because that too is a comfortable controller like style layout. Some classic designs just hold up very well. I wish I could say that of like the GBA SP or anything DS, but the trends in handheld kind of tossed the whole clamshell thing into the past. Handle in the back aside your stock black and platinum gamecube would look totally clean and normal in a modern entertainment space due to the clean minimalist lines of it all.

Long time no see and a gamecube journey sounds interesting as you don't see that pop up often. Maybe even dig into some regional exclusives? I have, it's fun to scratch that surface a bit.

Ganbare Goemon 2 on SFC(SNES) did get nuts, it actually is like a 2D/Mode7 combination title in the style of Mystical Ninja on N64. You have your usual side scrolling action, but then IMPACT comes into play for robot fights and they're done there first(not n64) in cockpit first person style doing a battle with a mode7 layout on there.

We've had to regulate it. The DSlite she has became a problem to where it would get used for hours, and what broke the trust was sneaking it into bed when she should be sleeping. Now she has to ask for it and hopefully is given time which usually is 30-60min. I don't like it, she should be able to use it more when the stuff she's working on can't do much in the shorter end of that time to be of any value. TV and her mini Nintendo classics in turn have been regulated too, not so much limited other than based on behavior and this is all around an 8 year old.

I don't pick up a lot much anymore but there are a few things I've had misfortune trying to get avoiding ebay bin trolls. If anyone has something here with a reasonable trade value or price attached maybe I could afford to work it out? I have a lot of trade bait of all sorts of stuff gaming, a few pc parts, and beyond into vintage toys, antiques, and other stuff. - Konami GB Collection Vol 4 (GBC/UK) --game only I have 1-3. - Red Gameboy Pocket (intact, for a project, aftermarket doesn't make red shells stunningly) - ROB Parts (I've got a bare ROB, no battery door or any accessories attached (hands) or otherwise (spinner, gyros, holders, r/b contact plates.) - Virtual Boy Space Squash, also paper (box) for 3D-Tetris and Nester's Funky Bowling, then box+manual for Jack Bros and V-Tetris. (I doubt I have the $ for JB paper.) DOS games: Simspons Arcade, Comanche CD, Hi-Octane, Stunts, and Sam & Max Hit the Road talkie CD

Thanks, and YES among other projects related to it and beyond and it's from Mellott http://www.mellottsvrpage.com/index.php/virtual-boy-projects/ Not only do you have the link cable, but games have been hacked extensively to add 2P modes or more to link such games together to play (like Mario Tennis.) Currently he's working next year on getting out a true sd card using flash kit. You're right about HF, and it has dropped the value of it quite a bit even in just recent months. Back when I got it, it was a stunning saving and now it's not so much but still ahead of the curve at least.

I mean I can see why NOW people would hate on it, you have the Pinball Arcade choice if someone got it before the new owners of Williams made that huge mistake, or you just use the ripped APKs for Android as it's right. This game is right too, with compromises obviously many. The ball physics are pretty solid, especially for that time frame/system. The table is intact with all the challenging moves and ramps, but given the monochrome setup lots of detail is gone, audio is minimal with no voices, and the multiple ramps only pop into view if a ball hits them to handle the complexity. Core mechanics, it's there, has the multiball, the DMD mini games, the skill shots and the rest are all there. It's nice it's made on 5 ball as it was in the day, but odd there are no options to do less or change anything else. I'd call it as far as a single table goes one of the best/better on the handheld, but has nothing on the party stuff like Kirby's Pinball Land.

I didn't see it last night when I peeked as it's just those 3. I've got Trip World which was done, but Samurai Spirits 3, Ganso Yancha Maru, and also that Nekketsu Dodgeball Bu game too from the region that's why I asked as they didn't have values assigned or listed. I own 3 of the 4 Konami GB Collection games that are GBC re-releases of old GB titles from Japan ported into english so those are choices too.

I have an interesting idea I'm stealing from facebook groups, but has anyone ever considered using the discord channel for a live claim and/or fire sale if they want to move some goodies? Between PC or mobile apps meant for discord it wouldn't be hard to do rapid fire pictures with values, perhaps even a video feed.

Well when I was kind of digging into a few GC games I did grab a couple I ended up just not getting into (NIntendo Puzzle Collection, but even more so Gundam vs Z-Gundam.) I had looked into Kururin Squash as I like the GBA title. Radirgy and Zoids caught my eye then, as would have Lupin if it wasn't so reading heavy. But beyond that I'd need to start watching clips to try and remember more, and I think there was a PAL game or two that had some potential.

I'm glad I did keep all my college Japanese books as i took a couple semesters, but unlike the above I've forgotten most as I never had anyone to converse with after the fact for too long. Once I was out of the game industry and my former state it was entirely a dry well. At my best I knew kana and a few hundred kanji and their basic uses at a grade school level at least.

Good job on the list, it's handy and gives me ideas if I want to grab another JP game sometime what I could look forward into digging into as options. I really do need to get the Adv Island Hudson Select though as I've got Bonk and Star Soldier (had Lode Runner, hated it.) I know PAL got some unique stuff too, pretty sure it's a shorter list though, and outside of wonky regional sports it would be interesting to see what goodies there were kind of like the english Doshin the Giant.

My focus through August had been Virtual Boy, but with the US game set fully locked down and most the paper side along with other tidbits, it's a passive grab now. Honestly, maybe not the most normal thing for a kind of collectors focused site, but my goal is to have no goal, at least with actual growth. My goal if there is one, shrinkage, and I mean of the inventory of things I have, not just games, but also a few other odds and ends too such as some of my vintage toy collection. I kind of broke that finding a stupid cheap PSP and DS deal within weeks of each of them at the start of summer but I didn't go crazy at least. The DS I'd keep as my kid has one too, but I could see just being sad about it briefly and dumping PSP again. I got rid of the PS4 because the unique library was garbage so it was a space waster and the rest Steam/GoG covers. I've mostly repressed my buying of Switch titles as I've got backlog making me uncomfortable with it and beyond, enough that I've been dumping games I couldn't get time for on that system and others. I've totally removed Sega ownership outside of a closed handheld SMS/GG device and nothing with the Wii namesake is welcome in these walls, at all, so that's out too. So right now, selling off games (and some antiques/toys) I have no use for anymore or trading into something I could use. Trying to keep up with playing more, it's a motivation and time issue. And also as I can get them, repairing/refurbishing handhelds (and virtual boys) to either keep or sell so I can get things I could use/actually need. That's about it. If I buy now from previous eras it's strictly to play, or to sell so I can get something to play.

I'd suggest (sadly it's digital only) both Blaster Master 0 games, a crime they're not on media. Also Cave Story + would be a great one that's not super long but plays well and has some leveling elements and sotn-ish stage layout to the map too. A short but fun JRPG would be I Am Setuna from Square-Enix which would be worthwhile too. I'm in the same boat, I want to do more, but life, kids, crap...wears you out, leaves you mostly with just evenings if it's not phone touch stuff so the hours are limited. Stuff like that you'll get some value from. I wouldn't skip on Breath of the Wild or Mario either. Zelda there maybe huge but you get sucked in and can be fine playing 15min or 3 hours so it's safe to stay awhile, and Mario it's still the usual 3D bite sized stuff but even more readily easy in a short time to get icons (moons in this case) to progress the game so it would fit the schedule too.

I know I'm late to the game on this being November, but I decided like in past years when I could I'd do something about the Gameboy list. You can tick off this evening Parodius and The Getaway Highspeed II, and I noticed Ninja Gaiden Shadow wasn't done and it is now too. Japanese imports carry any weight here? I can finish Samurai Spirits 3 on there, also Gansou Yanchamaru (the true Kid Niki 2 sequel of the NES game.) I do have Samurai Shodown on GB, I could finish that for another if it's wanted.

HuCard only is not a bad idea, and storing them I find can be a really easy job if you don't mind buying just those basic 100ct sports cards clear plastic holder as they fit the games magnificently. I've got a few loose ones and they all sit in there very well and easy to get to. Face it though, the PCE is the way to go if you want affordability in playing the TG16 library and then far more that we got hosed out of. It amazes me just how dumb NECs US branch was when bringing the thing out. Making it a huge ugly space wasting beast with no A/V capability (rf only) and then bringing over almost a 1/3 of the card library and in a lot of the cases not the best stuff too which was mystifying. I swear had they actually tried as hard as they did in Japan I think we would have had a pretty different map of the industry in the 90s. The PCE really did spank the crap out of Sega and kept Nintendo at bay pretty nicely sharing the market because the system despite being an 8/16bit hybrid looked and sounded nicer than the Genesis/MD and it has a notably better game library (Japan) too. I just can't hardly suggest deeply enough if someone really did care to just buy the Core Grafx 1 or 2, and an everdrive. Explore a bit, then buy what you like most, then if you burn out or want more, then look into optical, or by then there will be some HDMI level optical simulator that isn't shoddily built.