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This is the first time I’ve done this here and I am really looking forward to this. At this particular moment I feel like a little kid waiting on Christmas morning. I am thoroughly enjoying this even more than I thought I would.

Is it weird that I am super excited for my person to get their package?

Could you add me to the list for future events please.

Thanks everyone! After looking online and taking everyone's suggestions into consideration I think I am going to go with the Arctis 3 2019 edition.

I did a forum search and couldn't believe I didn't find anything. If I missed it forgive me. As the post says tell me your top 5 games (in order or not), the reason they are there, and for giggles the system you played them on. I'll start. In no particular order: Uncharted Waters: New Horizons (SNES) This game has a bit of everything and it is interwoven so perfectly. You have six characters that have different storylines. Different objectives. The gameplay is, mostly, unique to each character as well. I don't know what it is, but I love ships and the ocean. That's a huge checkmark for me. Roleplaying elements, another checkmark. Turn based tactical sea combat it has that too. Add in the fact that the different playable characters pop up at different times in each other's story and I am playing this game again and again. There's just so much you can do from exploring, fighting, trading, cartographing. This game just kept me wrapped up in it. This is one of those games that I rented enough times from the video store that I could have bought it, twice over. I wish I would have thought to see if I could get them to order it for me as no store near me had a copy when I was younger. In fairness the only store I had to go to was the local Wal-Mart. Remarkably, I only beat this game once. I blame other renters erasing my save data. Tecmo Super Bowl (NES) This is, in my opinion, the best football game ever made. I remember reading about this is Nintendo Power. It was the first football game that I had ever seen with a season mode, every NFL team, all the players, season stats. I wanted this game so bad, I saved up for it. Prices at Wal-Mart were ranging from $79.99 - $89.99 or so I was told by my friends. Every time I went to Wal-Mart it was sold out. I remember giving my Mom the money for it and telling her to not let me spend that money on anything else. I tested her on it too, but she wouldn't let me spend it. I asked for another game, a set of Score football cards, some now forgotten action figures, she always said no, and reminded me what I had given her the money for. Hey - I was young cut me some slack. She worked right next to Wal-Mart and checked for me every day. It took four months! And then one day she came home from work and there it was. I don't know who was smiling more me or her. I handled this game like it was a precious piece of art. Carefully, removing the shrink wrap, examining every insert, the manual, the playbook, the box. Heck I think I even inspected the styrofoam. I kept a chart and set out to beat the game with every team. I never did that, but I know I was close. So many hours spent on this game. Street Fighter II Turbo (SNES) I first saw SF2 World Warrior at, you won’t believe this, my local Wal-Mart as an arcade machine. I wanted to play it so bad, but I didn’t have a quarter. So, I watched the demo screen while my Mom shopped. I was enthralled with this game. I want to say it was the driving force behind wanting to get a Super Nintendo, but that isn’t accurate. Then SF2 Turbo Hyper Fighting came out. $79.99 at Wal-Mart. I remember holding this in my hands when I bought it. Play as the boss characters, WHAT? I fell into a full-blown obsession with this game. So. Many. Moves. I played the game with every character. Beat it with all of them too, save one exception. Dhalsim. I am so bad with that guy. The music, the backgrounds, the character animations, art style, fighting techniques. Man, I love every aspect of this game. I’ll still drop a quarter in this game whenever I see it. I ran across an arcade in Cincinnati with this in it recently. I was a little rusty but did pretty good if I do say so myself. Took down the arcade manager and some local regulars. /nostalgic gleam in eyes Brigandine: Legend of Forsena (PS1) You ever see a game and know you’re going to love it? That was how I was with this game. Originally saw at the video store. I’ve sunk countless hours into this. Played and beat with every character; including using the cheat code to unlock Esgares. Tried every way imaginable to unlock the Snake of Chaos and Bulnoil. Spoiler alert you can’t in the US version. I can’t tell you how many internet rumors I tried hoping you could. This game is the single reason I bought a Japanese PS1 and Brigandine Grand Edition back in the day. It is a tactics game with mythological beasts and magic wielding knights. So, I am sold right there. What kept me coming back were maxing the monsters. Trying different battle strategies. Maxing out the rune knights. At first, then it was all the different characters you could discover. How those characters interact is just amazing. When twin sisters meet on the battlefield and then one of them deserts to join the other. Or Dryst’s burn it all to the ground attitude, and his ending is straight out CRAZY. Shred, who can be liberated from a jail cell. This world really felt like … a world. With everything going on it felt unimaginably deep. I actually was smart enough to get the video store guy to order me a copy of this one. Super Mario Bros. 35 (NSW) I don’t play games online. Period. End of discussion. But Mario against 34 other people? I mean the game is free anyway, right? I don’t play digital games on a console either. Physical or bust. But it is against 34 other people. I mean, how does that even work? This game teleported me back to the mid 80’s. SMB is a fantastic game but going against 34 other people was just awe inspiring to me. I can’t really explain it except to say I felt like a kid again. I couldn’t put the controller down. This was my nightly go to for the better part of 6 months. It was a mission to unlock every stage. I took a picture of the screen every time I finished first. It felt like I had climbed Mt. Everest. I would keep a Switch online subscription just for this game. Why did you take this away Nintendo? Honorable Mentions: Final Fantasy VII Suikoden Jade Empire Contra And a bunch of others. The deciding factor for me was how much I would, and still do, come back and play these games. Or really want to, looking at you SMB 35. Now, I have rattled on about my top five. I look forward to hearing all about yours!

I absolutely love me some KOEI on the SNES. Haven’t tried many games on the NES. Do they play as good? Uncharted Waters: New Horizons is in my top 5 games of all time.

Ok. I’ve rarely ever played games online. When I did it was primarily SMB 35 on the Switch. Still wishing they’d bring that back. Anyway, there’s a few games I’d like to try playing online, Shredder’s Revenge anyone? But I don’t have a clue about headphones. I would like for them to work across systems. I’ve got the PS5, Switch, PC, and might get the XBox. I guess if I wanted to talk they’d need a microphone too. If at all possible I would like the price point to be $100 or less. Recommendations? And TIA.

I was looking all the Battle Network games up not long ago and was trying to decide if I wanted to drop that much coin on them. I’m a fan of Mega Man and turn based strategy so this really ticks a lot of boxes for me. A few days later this compilation was announced. Question answered! I’m really happy to see a number of these older games that are expensive for one reason or another getting compiled and rereleased. I managed to pick up Network Transmission for the GameCube at some unknown point in the past. So I can give that a try as well. Any recommendations on play order?

This might be one of the only games I buy a copy for both Switch and PS4. This is one of my favorite series of all time. As such I’ve beat exactly one game in the series. I really need to get better about that.

I believe there is a Mortal Kombat one as well. I might even have it. I’ll try and do some digging for it.

I’ve been buying off eBay lately and I don’t see why some people even bother putting a Best Offer. If I make you an offer It’s basically an open parlay to negotiate. I am effectively saying I won’t pay asking but let’s see if we can come to an agreement. I offered 80% on one item and the guy responded with “I’m looking for higher than asking”. That’s just silly to me and they need to adjust their BIN price accordingly. I once offered a seller $10 on a $15 item. Then $12. Then $13. They simply declined every offer. I don’t know if I pissed them off or what. If you are firm on price put a BIN and leave it at that. @AirVillain When a store owner says make me an offer I consider nothing off the table. If you don’t feel comfortable making an offer I’d go with “I’m sure you know how much you want for it. Why don’t you tell me and we’ll start there.” I also use that approach when negotiating salary as well.

Not at all. My powers of observation are that of legend.

I’ll throw a different name in the ring. How about Tecmo? Best football game on the system in Tecmo Super Bowl, arguably best football game ever. Ninja Gaiden for hardcore platforming action. Fire N Ice for the puzzle genre. one of the only sports RPG’s in Tecmo Soccer. Many other solid sports titles and a variety of different games as well

10% isn't enough. You'll need to talk to the property management company to see what their fees are but it'll probably be something like this: half of first month rent $300 advertising fee 10% of every other month throughout the lease 10% of any late payment fees collected 1/4 1st month rent on lease renewal or repeat the above process. repairs not included in the above. Also, most counties have a homestead exemption on your property tax if it is your primary residence. If it isn't your property taxes will probably double.

And List submitted!

I always feel like I am not very good at posting so I tend to lurk more. I stepped away from collecting for a while because it just wasn’t fun anymore. Set collecting doesn’t really make sense for me anymore either. I realized I was spending a lot of money for something to just sit on the shelf. So I changed my collecting habits and am focused on getting either games I want to play or owned as a kid. To me, and I realize I’m old and probably out of touch, at some point there was a shift where the focus shifted from collecting to collect/play into just making money. And that shift in community in general (NOT saying that happened here just the collecting community in general) really pushed me away from the community all together for a while. But I do really enjoy discussing games so I will attempt to be more active in the future.

I came here looking for this thread today. I am looking forward to doing this this year! I am in!

I've been doing this myself this year. Didn't make a list at the start of the year but just trying to focus on playing more than collecting. 2022 is almost over. How did that happen already? I definitely want in on this next year! Will it be a continuation of this thread or will I need to watch out for a new one?

Thanks! The two games I am wanting are good to go. I am also pondering Harvestella. If I get it I will grab the US release.

Thanks! I saw that, but then the Japanese flag was also on there so it was confounding me a bit. going to snag RPG Time and Monster Rancher Kaiju.

I’ve never ordered from Play Asia before. There’s a couple of games I want to get. But I need them in English. does this mean they are in English? https://www.play-asia.com/rpg-time-the-legend-of-wright-english/13/70fjsh

Digimon Survive is coming out today. I plan on getting that but it’ll be a bit. So many good games that have came out lately are starting to hurt the ol’ wallet.

I'm on the fence about it. Maybe it was because of burnt out when I played it. I started playing the anniversary collection on PS4 and made my way through 1 - 5. I'm two bosses into 6 and have just kind of stopped. I think I ranked them: 1) 2 - this was nostalgia as much as anything for me. 2) 3 - I thoroughly enjoyed this and felt they added a lot of fun stuff to it. 3) 1 and 4 - These aren't bad by any means and this is just my personal preferences. 1 was really hard for me though and I absolutely spammed the heck out of the save button. 4) 5 - Granted I was playing the games pretty much back to back. I'm probably in the minority here, but I am not a huge fan of the exploration in these games. First because I have this uncanny ability to not find anything and Two not finding things really makes the game harder. Also 5 just felt like Mega Man 4 part two to me. With that being said I still think Mega Man is a great series and a "bad" NES Mega Man game is still a pretty darn good game. It'd be unfair for me to rank 6 yet because I haven't finished it but right now I'd tie it with 5.

2K15 came with my PS4 when I bought it and I had a lot of fun with it. I don't play online., I really enjoyed the MyCareer mode and the MyGM mode. I got really ticked off at the reliance on virtual currency in MyGM as I could buy the team for 50 VC, which I somehow earned through the game, but by the time I got their the server was down and ... well I could buy the team but couldn't. I also have 2K16 which I played for a few minutes and didn't really give it a chance. Mainly because my player was so God awful I didn't think he deserved to be in the NBA, and it felt like a pay to win scenario. Full disclosure I like playing games but I am actually not that good at games so I understand that some of this could have been a PICNIC error. Anyway, I've been getting the itch to play again and wondered if I should look at grabbing a more recent release for the PS5? Really appreciate your thoughts.

Is there a one time donation option? I didn't see it on the subscriptions. (Obviously, because that wouldn't be a subscription.)