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On 5/29/2021 at 10:29 AM, Californication said:

Zero three is a tough decision. Bought the first two, the first one is garbage. People say two is better, but I haven't played yet. The Switch already has a trilogy, but since I am not interested in playing the first game, that is kind of irrelevant. Guess I got to play the second game and see if it is any good before the pre-order ends.

I enjoyed both... I know most people prefer the second, but I felt like part 1 had a tighter and more cohesive world, whereas part 2 went on too long for me. They are ~90% the same game though IMO, so if you though the first was garbage I'm not sure how much of an improvement you'll see in the second one.

On 5/30/2021 at 1:07 PM, Jeevan said:

Woo, now i know why i nicknamed this game battleturds lol.  God I suck.

Wasn't last week "Rad Racer POO"? I'm smelling a theme here

Just checked this. Damn, I'm glad I posted that last run... Looks like we had a photo finish for 5th place.

30 minutes ago, Sumez said:

That's the thing though. The other release with all three games already exists, and was announced long ago. 

I’m aware. So buy that or wait for somebody else to do an English version. This one is for people like me who already own the first two standalone releases, and that’s ok.

4 hours ago, PII said:

My Vote For Best NES Racer:  GALAXY 5000  -  Also, it would make a killer competition game.  Pro-Ams and Rad Racers Are close behind though..

Probably not the best but I’ve always had a soft spot for Roadblasters. It’s basically this game but with guns. And the arcade-style box art is amazing.

24 minutes ago, Sumez said:

Seems a little BS to make a release of only the third game considering there's already a wide release physical edition of the whole trilogy available for preorder (and has been for like a month or two).
At least this one is slightly cheaper.

Speaking for myself, LRG already released the first two separately, both of which I own, so if I couldn’t buy the third one and complete the set I’d be pretty pissed. Ideally they or some other publisher could do a separate release with all three games on one cartridge for whoever wants that.

1 hour ago, DefaultGen said:

I would bet anything it's just because people think they look cool

FTFY

32 minutes ago, RH said:

Stage by stage strategies don't seem to exist on the interwebs (that I could find.)  I also thought I'd be smart and count/learn the turns on the tougher areas from the map.  Nope. Map not to scale, in any way.

Yeah I’m finding those maps almost useless.

1 hour ago, BeaIank said:

The map pictures won't be needed. I will only refer to lap 01 and lap 02 times for tiebreak.
As long as I can see the lap times for lap 1 and 2 in your picture if you didn't finish the game, it is all good.

Post the stage and the picture and I will do the rest of the dirty work.

I appreciate the map photos though. It makes me feel better about crapping out right before the goal line when I see everyone else doing the same thing.

Las Vegas, lap 3

Edit: same track but maybe 6 seconds better.

Just want to say one thing RR2 100% has over the original is not mapping the radio to the down button. I accidentally change the music in Rad Racer so often that I usually just mute the TV when I play it now, because it's incredibly distracting. Which is a shame because I like the music.

6 hours ago, docile tapeworm said:

technically shmechnically. he should own an "uglier" cart than that!

let the hate flow through you. yes, yes

I've got an old rental copy of John Elway's Quarterback that is probably worse but nobody wants to see that crap.

This is the ugliest cartridge I own. Just a nasty label. I’m not even sure what’s going on here.
 

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I really hate when you run out of time juuuust before you get to the next outpost...

Untitled Goose Game. Short, but two player co-op was fun with my kids.

I started playing Fight’n Rage a couple of weeks ago and it has been sucking up what remains of my free time. Absolutely killer tribute to retro beat em ups and extremely addictive.

The only problem is that I am old now and games like this destroy my hands. A friend game me a firm handshake this weekend and I swear I almost screamed.

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I’ve always enjoyed this game but I’ve never understood the scoring. And it does get tedious.

Fight’n Rage, which recently got a Limited Run release. I beat the game twice for endings B-GF and E-RF. Only 54 endings left to go!
 

Edit: Ok, in the four weeks that I’ve had it I have beaten this one 14 times. I was joking about getting all 56 endings but I could probably knock that out in a couple of months. This is a very addictive little game. 

On 4/27/2021 at 10:40 AM, MiamiSlice said:

Bleh. I'm not into this. It just drives up the prices of Japanese games anyway, as the demand shifts over, and plus I would be buying a bunch of stuff that looks nice but I don't actually have any sentimental attachment to it. And also, the resale value is not the same... I've seen people with stacks of Japanese games struggle to find other buyers (outside of obvious stuff like Pokemon)... if you ever decide to let it go, it's harder than letting go of US stuff. 

I'm not sure it's still true that the resale value is not there, at least for good condition items. I accumulated a good-sized Famicom collection over the last few years and I've recently sold off a few items fast, and for very good margins over what I paid for them. It doesn't hurt that covid has made shipping from Japan even more expensive than it used to be, so being a domestic US seller has added value now.

Also, there's nothing wrong with collecting stuff just because it looks nice. I love Famicom carts partially because they look so much better than boring NES grey stuff, and the games are still (mostly) the same ones I grew up with regardless.

6 hours ago, BeaIank said:

So you're all free to point press him for up to 50K out of his projectiles, if you are bored enough to do so.

Not bored, just ignorant! Sorry!!!

What does it mean to “point press” the final boss? I got there with enough energy to zap it with one blast of thunder but had to switch back to lasers and bombs after that. I fought it for about five minutes before it finally picked me off, but in the meantime racked up about 50,000 points. Was that a point press?

56 minutes ago, Ferris Bueller said:

Documentary that covered this question, Bits of Yesterday.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7116478/

https://www.amazon.com/Bits-Yesterday-James-Rolfe/dp/B07DLB9NQJ

I'm sure a few here have seen this before, but a friend of mine once wrote this great article about Stadium Events collectors (and what motivates them) for ESPN. I think it's interesting to look at that article five years out and think about how game collecting has changed over that time -- Stadium Events is still a premium pickup, but other titles like sticker sealed SMB CIBs have surpassed it in terms of desirability.

I started building RetroPies years ago to find games I could play with my kids. That lacked the tangible fun of playing on OG hardware, so I bought a few favorite titles to play on an old NES I cleaned up. Then I got addicted to started following eBay auctions and fell down the rabbit hole. My motivations have changed over the years, but ultimately my main focus is still on games I enjoy playing.

But yeah sometimes I also buy crap just to show it off on the internet.

On 4/23/2021 at 9:05 PM, ZeldaFreak said:

Mine was supposed to come today, but it skipped past Missouri and went straight to Illinois instead for some reason, where it's been for the past 2 days, and now the estimated delivery date says pending so I dunno what the heck Fedex is doing with it.

Mine did the same thing on the way to STL but was finally delivered yesterday afternoon. Maybe they were carpooling??

All right, this thing is rad. Can’t wait to get some RGB cables and see what it looks like on my Trinitron.