arch_8ngel

7 minutes ago, RH said:

Two words-- Purple Ganon.

Speaking of... our "Like" button or Emoji field is in need of an update on that one!

(can live without the nutsack emoji...but Purple Ganon had a lot of versatility!)

On 10/30/2019 at 8:46 PM, trj22487 said:

There is so much potential a third Startropics could have it's a shame they don't do something proper with it.

There was so much potential the second Startropics could have had...

On 10/28/2019 at 1:02 AM, Alder said:

 

And the one I'd enjoy the most would be a new 2d castlevania game on console

Did you play Castlevania Adventure Rebirth?

2 minutes ago, TylerBarnes said:

Well that system started it's life as a Nintendo collaboration combining a SNES with a CD-Rom drive. All that would have been 100% true

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_NES_CD-ROM

That wouldn't have had NES compatibility, though, which was somehow key to the rumor I recall.

EDIT: and the more I think about it, I wonder if my original memory was toned down by having read about the CD-add-on system years ago on the other forum.

I have the tickle of a memory that the original rumor my friend was circulating was that he read that the Playstation would play EVERYTHING (not just Nintendo). 

In my school, before the Playstation was fully announced/finalized, there was the rumor that it was going to be a Nintendo system that had full backwards compatibility with all of the previous systems AND played CD-based games.

Fingers are crossed that this boosts the eBay value of the original McNuggets and Changeables...have a couple of sets of each that I need to unload from cleaning up old toys at my parents'.

8 minutes ago, Crazy Climber said:

 

 

bah, political discussions are usually filled with guys that actually tell their wife or girlfriend the real price they paid for stuff, no collector of awesomeness wants to be surrounded by that

There's a meme for that now

Wife: "What's an SMB-VGA-85+?"

Husband: "Damn taxes..."

24 minutes ago, darkchylde28 said:

I always found it laughable that the same folks who are trying to put up their Christmas trees before Halloween also had some big opinions on my mother's family traditions of putting up the Christmas tree as a family on Christmas Eve then leaving it up until New Year's, taking it down on the 1st.  Not sure where the tradition came from, but most folks I knew put their trees up a bit earlier (a week or two before Christmas, maybe when kids got out for Christmas break?) but took them down immediately after Christmas.

Yeah, our usual is EARLIEST it gets set up is the weekend after Thanksgiving, just to have an extra family activity.

But teardown is definitely over the New Year's holiday, since that also allows for post-Christmas giftgiving that is still adequately festive later in the week

38 minutes ago, doner24 said:

Early Christmas music is one thing, people that put their Christmas trees up now are psychopaths. 

My parents had enough space that the Christmas tree just stays up all year, since it was a pre-lit tree and my dad didn't want the wires to degrade in the heat of the attic.

They at least took the decorations down, though

8 minutes ago, DarkTone said:

Isn't Thanksgiving next for you guys?

That's the joke.

Commercially, stores practically take down Halloween decorations on the night of the 31st and instantly shift gears hard to Christmas.

If Halloween wasn't on the calendar, I'm pretty sure Christmas shopping season would have already rolled forward to labor day

15 minutes ago, SoleGoose said:

Couldn't disagree more with @arch_8ngel's evaluation of the gameplay. It is one of the most solid homebrews in that regard, particularly if you like arcade styled games. Art and music are top notch as well. It can be a bit difficult, but it is relatively fair.

It was able to be sold outside of China, he just had some hiccups on launch day.

Production was high as far as limited releases go (over 100), but the desirability is there due to gameplay.

I thought there were fewer than 100 out there, but I could be misremembering.

In terms of desirability due to gameplay, I just don't want someone thinking this thing has anywhere north of $100-worth of NES gameplay, unless they've had the opportunity to play it before.  (and I thought the original price on this one was pretty darn steep for the gameplay value)

But the larger point was that NOBODY PLAYED THE GAME prior to its release -- there were no demos.  So the original demand was almost all FOMO at work, along with the frenzy of dealing with the weird selling situation.

And as far as I know nobody that has paid the crazy prices for it played it prior to buying, because there is no way to easily do so  (so again,  SEEMS LIKE a bit of FOMO at work)

10 minutes ago, jonebone said:

What's a Starkeeper and why is it so special?

3 minutes ago, MrWunderful said:

It was an NES homebrew from China that was really well made, and he had some sort of export troubles and he couldnt sell them outside of China (Someone correct me if Im wrong)

 

It made it highly desirable. 

There was fairly limited production and high initial demand, because it came out of nowhere unexpectedly.

That coupled with eBay listing difficulties (the not being able to sell from China thing).

For its time, it was perceived as really good quality AND it was pretty close on the heels of the super-limited Super Bat Puncher demo, so there was a HUGE Fear-of-missing-out factor at play.  

4 minutes ago, MrWunderful said:

Mine sold for about that. 450$ if I remember. As soon as I saw how much @arch_8ngel went for, put mine up immediately.  

Yeah, there was nothing recent when I sold mine (same with SBP), so I was treading into unknown territory with old information and throwing up what I thought at the time was a fairly high price.

I think I did BIN with best offer and took a best offer (probably had it listed at $400, though -- but too far back to see the eBay records without digging through my email).

7 minutes ago, G-type said:

I think a lot of people just enjoy piling on the hater bandwagon. I get that it's a meme, but some people drink the kool-aid so hard that they start to believe it too. All their songs kind of sound similar and they also sound similar to a lot of bands from their era (Matchbox 20, Creed, Lifehouse, Hoobastank, 3 doors down) So while there's nothing here to really get excited about, not really noteworthy enough to deserve the "most hated band on the internet" trophy.

Definitely agree.  They have generally catchier songs than a lot of the other samey-samey bands of their time.

I paid $5 to see them as part of a summer concert series in Atlanta, back in college.

Definitely worth the $5, just for the live outdoor concert atmosphere in a pretty decent downtown location. 

But not as good of a deal as seeing The Scorpions, Deep Purple, and Ronnie James Dio for $16 total at the same show

There are relatively few bands I'd ever pay modern ticket prices for, and Nickelback doesn't make THAT cut, for sure   (last one I actually paid for was getting to see ZZ Top locally -- but Weird Al, and a VERY short list of other would be able to extract the current rate of $50-$100/ticket from me)

17 minutes ago, Tulpa said:

That's one I kind of regret not getting.

I didn't have as high an opinion of the gameplay value as others seem to, so other than the eventual cash-in (or if you were trying for a "complete" homebrew collection) I don't think you missed anything worth worrying about.

If you manage to play it at a meet-up or convention, you'll have had about all the fun you'll ever want to have with it, IMO. 

8 minutes ago, RH said:

The problem with that, as a rule, is it's subject.  Someone says something spiteful, they get banned, then people on their side start calling out moderator, preferential treatment & bias.

I wonder if part of the novelty of the tag/topic system could be "banning" people from specific topics alone, if they misbehave in those topics?

25 minutes ago, spacepup said:

 

We will consider and discuss this of course.  For the time being there isn't any specific exclusion - I'd prefer to give us a chance and deal with issues if they arise, just like anything else.

Well, I started a side topic suggestion about utilizing our "topic"/"tag" feature to let people "ignore topic" rather than just "ignore user".

That wasn't possible on the old forums that I know of.

If it was possible here, it would probably go a long way to solving the potential conflicts.

11 minutes ago, Nintegageo said:

I think he was joking

Maybe, and sorry if I misread the tone.

At one time it was a fairly common dig on the old forum to try and discredit someone's participation in certain topics with a "why are you even here if you don't seriously collect".

22 hours ago, cj_robot said:

Air Fortress was a game I used to enjoy back in the day. Each level started as a horizontal shooter, then you'd enter the enemy fortress and the second half of the level became a free-roaming adventure to find the core, destroy it, and then find the exit before the place exploded.

It was the first game I played that made me feel I was on an adventure rather than just playing a video game.

Air Fortress does it perfectly.

It probably pushes the definition of the thread, but Star Tropics is a great blend between Zelda-style underworlds and DW-style overworld and towns.

That is a good haul for that one, though if it shipped within Europe, the premium wouldn't surprise me, since fewer copies made it there versus buyers in the states.

Mine sold within the US for about $360 back in January, for reference.

And it went QUICK.  (though not as quick as my Super Bat Puncher :P)

I particularly enjoy the image-clipping style that makes it look like a teen-girl-magazine-collage!  Hilarious!

8 minutes ago, Crazy Climber said:

...it's usually just people that don't collect stuff that care about such things as politics...

"collecting stuff" is not a criteria for participating in the forums, nor is it a measure of one's worth in the context of the forum.

Maybe this already exists and I just haven't searched through the settings enough to find it.

But Tanooki's "no politics" topic got me thinking that instead of just having an "ignore user" option, having an "ignore TOPIC" option would probably help people avoid things they find inflammatory without suppressing what other people might want to discuss.

I'm a firm believer that Everything Else should be anything people want to post that isn't illegal.

If the mods want to add a couple of "tags" that more obviously label threads as "Politics" or "Religion", etc, that might be helpful to let people avoid accidentally clicking into something they don't expect to read.

(maybe even allowing people to filter out certain tags entirely, so they don't even see them -- kind of like a "foe" feature for entire topics)

But people that get upset about those kinds of threads should just avoid them in the first place.

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