8bitsupremacy

Galloping Ghost is the best hands down.

Sorry that was a knee jerk reaction...I was always so severely disappointed going there. Couldn't even properly play NARC the first time I went because the joystick was so dysfunctional. I went from being elated to deflated within seconds.

Logan Arcade. Emporium sucks shit and they never service their games! So many cabs there have half-working joysticks or buttons.

I work at an arcade bar in Chicago and it's a scary time with the pandemic and all. Not sure how that's gonna pan out...

This is the correct answer.

Crash N Boys Ice Hockey or whatever it was called.

Still going for that NES full cart set, it's a goal I've kinda set for myself since the late 90s. I've gone for it, gave up on it, and gone for it again...I got kind of lazy with the final few as they are nearly impossible to find but a year or so ago I actually landed a Hot Slots cart and it reignited the flame to forge on and finish, eventually... Bubble Bath Babes Cheetahmen II Myriad 6-in-1 Peek-a-Boo Poker (I have a promising lead on this actually) Stadium Events Missing those carts only...I have about 500+ boxed NES games and I would gladly sacrifice a sizable chunk of cardboard to someone who's looking to maybe trade away that terrible turd of an unlicensed game for some quality licensed cardboard? I know that's a long shot but I'm dead serious, and I have some juicy cardboard for the cib collectors out there.

The prices...I collected heavily during the golden era of NES prices in the late 90s and early 2000s...got out entirely in 2004ish, then got back in around 2015. Boy was I, along with my wallet, surprised to see how things had changed.

$319 buy it now for a Dino Peak, in 2018 (yeah, smashed that button real hard when that popped up). $875 on a nice Samson, also on ebay $600 for a Hot Slots cart, in the flesh. Zero guilt on these buys thus far, I had a ton of loot from reselling garage sale junk etc, didn't phase me and they were technically "good deals". Other than those I always had a fairly firm $200 max on anything no matter how rare or whatever; typically just keep it frugal as hell otherwise but sometimes it's fun to go to a con and be like, yeah gimme the Gun Nac here's $200 I'm sick of waiting for "the find". These purchases are me in very rare form, if anyone here knows me personally. I'm more of a wait-for-years-to-find-the-thing-for-$5 kinda guy but I chose that full set life and reached the end of the rope on wild finds for the most part, got sick of waiting on the final few.

I've never paid enough attention to the title screens, but I'm sure it's something like that (I assume) that denotes the separation.

I've always wondered this: if Dizzy the Adventurer (the Aladdin cart) is universally considered to be counted toward the set, and both Tengen versions of Gauntlet/Pac-Man/RBI are already generally counted as 6 games instead of 3 (despite being indentical games, just grey licensed vs black unlicensed shells) toward the set total...then why would the other 6 Aladdin games that AREN'T Dizzy not be counted but only Dizzy is? I get that they are the same games as the gold cart Camerica versions for NES, but they should be counted as 12 carts (6 Aladdin and 6 NES gold carts) if one is to apply the same logic with the three Tengen games that have two different cart versions each...right? Consistency, or something...

Hi looking for these PAL games. Preferably PAL B (International Cricket is only A). US seller preferred. Banana Prince Devil World Dropzone Formula One Sensation International Cricket Mario Bros. (Classic Series) Mr. Gimmick! Noah's Ark Over Horizon Parodius Rod Land Trolls in Crazyland

Estate sale find yesterday. I stalked the sale bright and early because of the preview photos they posted a day or so earlier. Paid $100 for the lot.

This just fell out of the manual for my cib copy of Flintstones.

I did the NES full cart set thing, have them all except SE. Then I got sucked into boxes/manuals because ya know, collecting...been battling that demon on and off for a while. I'll sometimes sell some of the boxes off, then kinda regret it, but get the same ones back in a lot by chance (I think I've had Hydlide cib like 8 times)...then I'm occasionally like, "well I already have like half of the set cib, might as well keep going..." but then I think about tracking down a box for some shit-ass title like Color a Dino or a Koei strategy game I have no interest in and it reminds me not to even waste my time and money on attempting to go further down that hole. I was always nostalgic for the carts, and manuals as well, but for almost two decades boxes did nothing for me. One day some switch flipped in my brain and I got sucked into boxes, and I kind of hate myself for it. Takes up a ton of space and is also a money pit if you don't play your cards right. Anyway, in the end my rule is if I just don't enjoy the game enough to consider it a high quality title or nostalgic banger then it remains cart only. CIBs are reserved for the hits, or strange unpopular games I just really enjoyed playing a lot, and occasionally a bad game gets a pass for truly amazing artwork. I did do a full black box set cib and absolutely love it; would not break that up ever. But yeah I feel this thread. Every time I reacquired a Hydlide box again after selling it off of I'd be like, "Hello there old friend!" Haha.

Bump. Knocked $5 off.

Yes to trades. Send me what you got. I have a full NES cart set but definitely am into boxes and manuals these days. I am also into Genesis, Master System, cib Gameboy.

$70, that includes shipping to anywhere in the US. Would ship internationally but would have to figure the shipping rate out if interested.

Yes they are exactly those, and when I got mine I had to buy a 5th just to harvest a few extra shelf pieces from to hold an entire loose cart set on four of them (as per the advice of someone on NintendoAge I was messaging at the time)...also when i got mine they were sold out everywhere and the 5th of the 5 I scheduled to pick up was an open box one returned by someone else, and was the very last shelf in stock. After that I have recommended them to others but it seems they were discontinued, and I may have literally obtained the last ones available in Chicago area as only one location even showed up on my list of available pickup spots. This was probably two years ago now.

Thanks a lot. Sorry my pics suck they were all I had on my phone. The black box rainbow rack is my pride and joy.

Video of the day I completed Black Box set (with Rocky theme music ) so you can see the rack better.

And here is another custom one for my Sega stuff. This is an old pic and also had some spillover nes cibs below before I built the NES cib shelf in the post above for those to all live together.

CIB shelf was custom built with a couple of 1x6 pieces of wood from Home Depot. Cost me about $60? Cart shelves were Mainstay Media Shelves from Walmart which are great for loose NES carts BUT a few levels will not fit carts if they have dust sleeves on them, which irks me so damn much...black box rack to the left was a complete stroke of luck; simply a thrifted VHS tape storage rack that coincidentally perfectly houses the entire black box set plus the three silvers with no slots to spare.

My fave example of this that comes to mind is a box/manual for Kung Fu I got from my buddy a few years ago. They were from his childhood copy and in the memo section of the manual is written, "Mr X's that I killed" with tally marks underneath. I laugh about it every time I open the manual and will never get rid of that copy. Here is a pic.

Bingo. Smooths out texture on cartridges and ends up looking worse than if you just left MARK's name on there.