Tanooki

Would you believe I'm still trying to find this annoying little piece of plastic?!?!

The only thing people ever got worked up about things with her is she'd get accused by the loser in an argument that she was a flip flopper who just went with the crowd to break a tie. An honest justice, she stuck to the law and didn't get into creative interpretation and public grandstanding.

This year seemingly has been none of the above technically, especially how I feel about it (like a few others do) which is the Famicom. I have got up to now over 55~ games for it and have an AV Famicom on my panasonic monitor. I did end up with a number of NES games in the last couple of months too which was strange, and a number of Genesis titles too. SNES, N64, maybe a gamecube game or two since they're toxic, and I've got GB, GBC and GBA I grab for when I can, and a supervision. That's it, everything is done and good n' gone other than my Switch.

@Splain Yup and we know what that corner of the world gets in some games as Japan seems to have a thing for tentacles, panties...both, with camera angles on railways too. One in particular hit the western news a dozen years or so back for being extra r-wordy with its games.

You never know, could be an ecchi game and tail was intended.

I got a N64 exp (ram) pack for $36, and Sega Arcade Gallery for $24 at a local shop that did a generous(hah) 20% off sale they do just once a year. Online, nothing, saw nothing of value, and needed no more Switch games at this time given I'm barely able to juggle the 2 Mario titles from this month. I did get a few 50% off blu ray/dvds because of a half price books sale too. Police Squad! DVD for $3.75 also same price Afro Samurai DVD, and blu ray Eden of the East for $12.50,

I sadly benched Wonder, great game, but SMRPG has been more engaging as it has been a long time and the minute changes and quality of life tweaks are making for a really nice special edition of the classic. Hopefully if means even if it's like 30 years on if it happened, the game finally gets its first sequel.

@the_wizard_666 I'm just fed up with his troll posts about the game as I am with others online. This false narrative even when corrected by Japanese members who worked on it still persists and it's beyond tiresome. SMB2 was never a black sheep game until some group think troll farm decided to make it so. He has been going on for months now doubling down on it and people seem to keep feeding his need for attention, that's really all it is. It's annoying it persists, especially in a topic that wasn't even about SMB2 anyway, it's SMW vs SMB3 which has always been more of a hot button issue of people trying to choose which is better and there are good arguments on both sides. It's cute he thinks I'm worked up, I'm not, I'm just over it and felt it just needs to be called out for what it is, revisionist alt-history.

You're not having just a discussion, you're a troll, and you're so high on your alternate reality there's really no point in arguing with you. Great you found a US based media spin of history to suit the narrative, despite what Nintendo has cleared up over time, glad that pacifies your mental conditions. Obviously Nintendo would cover their own tracks in the US because they buried the FDS game because how nasty it was and out of date by the time it would have arrived here. The makers have stated what's what in interviews long after Mario Mania was published, keeping that cozy narrative of 'The Lost Levels' with their frehs All-Stars release. Guide from the mid/early 90s, interviews from the 00s-10s that clarified the background, really doesn't help make your case. My advice go find an old field, grab as much hay as you can and snuggle, because you seem to love grasping at straws.

@RH That is really weird I never had that happen, but I don't use FF much maybe once a month. I have a friend a vet about half my age who I have helped along in various ways, gaming too, and he likes to PP me $ FF when I end up finding something for him when I'm out, have an item he wants to buy off me, etc. Either way try venmo, same company, I don't think it would be an issue. Id split the payments between PP for legit and FF on the Venmo side so it doesn't gum up stuff. I don't go after cherry items anymore, especially paper, I can deal with some wear stickers on games too if I can improve them enough to deal. If/when you get around to posting things I'll take a look.

@RH Are you abusing FF I've never hit any limit with it, but I don't go even average sales (or nuts) with it either. Paypal is Venmo so if that's the issue, use venmo as they're linked. Zelle my mom used to send us stuff through our bank, was fast and idiot button easy. I'd be curious about this perceived hoard. I don't buy a lot of games anymore, but if it were the right non-game but gaming related item, anime related, ???

It's based on a non-japanese computer game and I think book story from the west and was adapted to the FC as a point n click type title. The problem is, the developer was dumb as a bag of rocks, made a terrible interface, made the game boring and just good enough maybe to confuse a 5yo, so it's largely reviled by those who grew up with it.

Look when you want to act that way, double down when you're clearly wrong, then seem to take pleasure in it, any shots fired assumed or otherwise are just going to happen when enough is enough. Because it's gaming, doesn't give a free pass to try and re-write history.

I saw that tax thing, popped up by sheer luck when I was looking at a news site on my phone. Within a day I dusted off my ebay account. I've got a few smalls for myself, but my wife wasted a G on an ipad pro 12.9 on accident(sorta) because she did all this research for photo editing choices and when she did the Adobe was on board, shortly after, they decided to age out anything under a M2 where you can edit more than one photo at a time which ruined her use of the thing before she even got started to do it. It ended up largely sitting for youtube a little but mostly in the box. Replaced it with an apple laptop which has the M2 and otherwise largely the same, can do what she wanted, but now the tablet has to go and fast since it'll eat into a year of monthly payments we don't want to float. I hope someone bites, 256GB storage, space gray, has solid extras of an apple pencil and otterbox case etc. I put it at a level where I think it'll move hopefully sooner than later and to cover most the loss.

I'd put this up there with the N64 game in being debatably the best in the franchise. One thing I look back on this one for and enjoy about it is the fact that it was a good split between solid driving skill and item use. One really didn't trump the other which is how it should have stayed. The stages are fun, the selection of drivers has enough variety to be solid too. There are items, but not too many to get bogged down, and they all have a good equal fair use of some twist to either save or harm a driver. Back then you really had to be pretty solid at both, as we got more to the present it turned into Mario Party on wheels, way too many overpowered and utterly abusive items that punished being good at driving changing the dynamic towards the worst.

But depending on how you interpret missing, is he really? I mean will he feel a sense of loss if he's utterly unaware and doesn't care? Definitely not, so not missing out.

Hana no Star Kaidou is just terrible, and I think it's damn near unplayable if you want to actually try and finish it. I'm a bit more surprised to see a few on here, but maybe they took tag also as just tag as a more general sense to simultaneous play too, not just like wrestling. The nekketsu titles fit you can tag people even with people in that one. I have to wonder if it was trolling for fun or if they have such poor taste to put Kinnikuman (MUSCLE) there in the top slot by that wide of a margin. Just wow.

Oh I know what you were doing, it was more for the historical accuracy impaired here.

A divergence in the time line like Doc browns chalkboard showed in back to the future 2 of course. It is SMB3 because the development of that game is actually older than DDP, it started right after they finished the FDS game in 1986. DDP was a Mario engine they had worked on, tabled, and came back to with the whole DDP story I'm not going to re-run through. Both DDP/SMUSA and SMB3 were co-developed at Nintendo at the same time with large overlap in both teams, Miyamoto included, since it's his franchise. While we got the game in early 1990, Nintendo screwed us some, they got the game back in 1988. The same 1988 that gave us Mario Madness, our SMB2 (SMUSA) because we didn't have the FDS, know wtf DDP or Dream Machine was. DDP finished under contract far faster than SMB3 did, but also was already developed as the engine existed and physics, so it got a nice coat of paint and music to fit and it releases far sooner. Having enjoyed the development of both titles, Nintendo then saw how bad SMB2j really was for most players, so we know why we got our SMB2 to theirs. But that enjoyment was so much, it then got the later release in 1992 in Japan just about when the FC was starting to wind down on yearly releases. As a side note it's why Mario looks better in our 2 than 3, 3 started earlier so he has that more basic bland face, while SMB2 gave us the more rounded, colorized, and softer cartoon look which depressingly SMB3 lacks. The thing to notice though is, SMB2 copium kids like to skip, SMB3 the co-developed title has the mechanics of DDP/SMUSA in there, and also enemy and mechanics overlaps. It's a legit Mario game, end of story, it just took a round about way to be one in Japan because of the disk system title...that's it. SMB2/USA is a legit Mario game, to debate it, is just to dig in and be obnoxious.

Probably the software toolworks edutainment stuff or the few Mario Teaches Typing games, CDi Hotel Mario. They licensed out the name, world, likeness, but someone else did all the lifting.

Nahh it's not that, it's that other boss, you know, klaptrap because well some just don't realize there's a cream for it that'll clear it right up, so it's flames are a bad reminder.

Same one for about 9 years now. My last computer was a higher end gaming laptop (NP8278 / MODEL NUMBER: P170SM-A) and well you're kind of married to the screen. I've been chewing on that new PC for a couple years now, been back and forward with one brand over another and a return to desktop or not, and ultimately I know that my needs would be well enough met sticking now to a laptop format still for a number of reasons. I just like to go well into it, high enough, it'll last me a long time like this one has (and longer than intended) so yeah that. Once black friday prices roll out here soon I'm going to be a return customer on my seller of this current machine and get another from the same family (Sager/Clevo) as they're solid.) I've whittled the list down to 3 models, not close minded on it though, seeing where the deals slice but I'm keeping a set budget.

@Code Monkey I'd watch that. I bother with a short list of YT stuff as far as subbing goes, they have to do something unique and entertaining, not just someone who spins the same stuff re-using other easily found stuff while coin begging. Sharpolis does a dive, MVG(not subbed) does as well, Jeremy Parish, gaming historian, GTV Japan, RndStranger (Famidaily), and a few others are worth the look. If someone focused around nothing but vintage game protos, differences from retail, just ones that didn't retail, and they didn't do it in some cry for attention and money format but presented things tightly like those types I listed do I'd keep up.

It's fine I didn't think it would hurt to ask.

The weird mix of gross arrogance and incompetence in airvillian is something I wonder is tempered a bit with medication acting like that. I'd tell you what I think of you but I don't feel like getting another strike today, you're not worth it. @Link don't bother, he's so high on his own warped sense of reality there's not point in arguing with s....d as that wins.