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Duck Hunt!! My kid did the same thing! We had a blast with Duck Hunt for the longest time. Then we, naturally, transitioned over to Super Mario Bros. The NES controller worked well too. A lot of the modern controllers were just to big and, honestly, complicated for him at two.

Date: 07-12-2020 Kids Age: 5 Game: Altered Beast Platform: Sega Genesis Settings: Normal difficultly, 5 lives, 5 health, 1 continue The fun stuff: My son wanted a fun game to play. I showed him fatal fury. He liked it, but he wants to play with dad not against him. So I went looking for co-op games when I remembered playing Altered Beast as a kid while my mom would shop. The thing that drew me to the game as a kid was turning into the beasts. A mechanic the game had nailed for me back in the day. To my nostalgic delight it nailed it for my son as well. I watched as my son said “I’m getting bigger.” To “Look how strong I am.” To “Dad!! I’m a wolf!! Look at me I’m a wolf! I can shoot fireballs! And I go whoosh!” The same reaction repeated for the dragon, the bear, the tiger, and back to the wolf. Once you transform you can absolutely wreck the stage, which we both enjoyed. There’s no getting away from the bosses in this game so we both had to fight every boss. I liked that because I got to watch my son think of different attack strategies. There was a constant attempt to hide from the bad guy so he wouldn’t steal our powers. We never were successful. The stage difficulty really ramped up on stage 5. It came down to the wire on the last boss as we were both running low on health and lives. Remarkably we took down the rhino in short order. The game was about the perfect length for us. When I asked my son what his favorite beast was he replied “All of them!” I felt the same way.

I wanted to start chronicling the games I beat with my kids. Primarily, that consists of my son right now. Hopefully, that’ll change in the future. Date: 6-27-2020 Kids age: 5 Game: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Hyperstone Heist platform: Sega Genesis Settings: Normal difficultly, max lives and continues The fun stuff: I decided that I’d let my son have all the pizzas in this game, which give you max health. That held true on all but one occasion where I took the pizza because he died before he could get to it. I also let him get all of the power up pizzas, which was as awesome to watch out of game as it was in. I played as Donatello and my son chose Leonardo. A departure from his normal Raphael. I did a lot of the heavy lifting in this game. With the exception of Tatsu. That guy just had my number from the get go. Lucky for me, my son was on point and dropped him like a sack of potatoes. We both grew to despise the purple foot soldiers that always seemed to hit us with throwing stars no matter what. The favorite enemy by far was the mousers. I’m guessing because they jumped all over the place, which was my son’s preferred method of attacking. All of the boss fights were fun. The one enjoyed the most was Baxter Stockman, again, because of the mousers and jump kicking necessity. When it came to Rocksteady my son adopted the “I’m going to stay on the other side of the screen” approach. It did keep him alive, so, success? I was the only one to get one-shot killed by Shredder. I always attacked from the rear after that. All in all this game was a lot of fun. I did find it rather short overall. The length was about right for my son as we needed a break to address a Hand cramp. This was the first retro game my son had beat and he had a hard time grasping that you just played the game for the sake of playing the game. He expected a treasure chest at the end, and thought I was giving him a hard time when I explained the game is just over. Feel free to share games you beat with your kids if you would like.

Do you think the Turbografx mini will be back in stock on Amazon? Or are there other places to buy it?

Title says it all. I can’t recall playing a wrestling game on the Genesis. So, what you got?

Please do! I made a quick and dirty list from vgpc, but haven’t checked it for accuracy.

It’s back down to the $30 price point. I’m supposed to be getting mine by the end of the week.

Just snagged the Neo-Geo international off of Amazon. If anybody is wanting one they are $30 right now.

@CasualCart @DoctorEncore Thanks for bringing up the C64 and Neo Geo mini. I am only looking at things NES Classic and after. I followed the link on the c64 and it doesn’t look like it comes with an AC adapter either. Is there a particular one you guys recommend for the TG and C64 mini? Slightly off topic but have you guys looked into the consolized MVS? That might be something you guys are interested in.

I was looking this over and wondering if I was missing any. Here’s what I have found so far: NES Classic SNES Classic PlayStation Classic Sega Genesis Mini TurboGrafx 16 mini (preorder) apparently doesn’t come with a power supply. is the TG-16 a Japan exclusive? When I pull it up on Amazon it says Konami jp.

You might be right. I’ve noticed some games are already fluctuating. Plus you have LRG, But I enjoy collecting, and playing, so I’ll keep chugging along. it is about the journey, not the destination, and all that.

Why did I not get an email about this?! That dual pack looks sweet! LRG. Is killing me with the Switch games.

I kind of keep an eye on it and pick up a few games here and there. It’s not my focus right now. I did order Cooking Mama. I also hit up a sale when I see one.

I’m considering it, which translates to I’ll probably attempt it sometime in the future.

@spacepup I hadn't fully vetted this list by any means. It did seem like a good list and I wanted to make sure we could preserve it here. You're right on Sega Swirl, although a little bit of digging says it was released with Web Browser 2.0, Sega Smash Pack volume 1, and official DC magazine in UK. I've not verified any of this yet. I plan to give this a hard look when I start collecting for the system. Thanks for your additions! I had no idea there were that many Web Browser Versions.

I found this list a while back. It was originally on the Sega website. It looks like it is not there any longer. I had also found it on CyberiaPC but I can no longer access that either. I wanted to put it here in case anybody needed or wanted it. The list contains 248 Sega Dreamcast games, and unless I am mistaken is a list released by Sega themselves. DC checklist.pdf

Great work. I have been looking for a PS2 list. Your efforts are much appreciated.

How do you differentiate between a map and a poster?

As someone that has virtually zero knowledge of the cd-I, is this a set of all releases? Or is it like the PlayStation where they switched to regular cd cases after a while.

How are you keeping track of the games you need?

Wow. Out of curiosity, are you going to get the Limited Run Games?

Can I see a picture of that?

Would you be willing to share some pictures?

I’ve been looking at the monstrous prepac shelf. $200 but it’ll hold so much.

Thanks! I did a search but didn’t see anything.