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  1. Heads up, NES collectors in NYC. Bookoff on 45th St has an Ubisoft Last Crusade cart in their display case for $50. Since I already got my CIB cheap at another NYC store I'm paying it forward and hope somebody gets it before they fix the price.

     

    They also have Die Hard for $190, which I still need for my collection, but I'm not currently in a financial situation where I'm buying $190 NES games.

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  2. 53 minutes ago, darkchylde28 said:

     

    Regarding your yearly tradition, the person who beat Castlevania 3 did it yesterday, on the 2nd.  If it was your thing that you really wanted to do on the 1st, you had that option--nobody blocked you from doing it, and when you didn't, someone else had fun playing and beating the game. 

    I spent January 1 on a 16 hour shift at work, so I wasn't gonna be doing any gaming.

    I beat Super Pitfall again. A really simple run when the route is fresh in your head, takes maybe 15 minutes.

     

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  3. Personally, I'm still a little miffed I didn't get any points for FF3j since that was one of the toughest Famicom games I've played, particularly the final dungeon where you HAVE to do it in one shot without dying and can't exit. Die against the final boss and you just wasted 90 minutes. Because of that, I will never replay the Famicom version again. The FF2j Famicom version is miserable too. At least FF1 only takes 15-20 minutes once you're ready to win.

     

    Will make a much better effort to play more games in 2023. My Everdrive Pro 8 and 8bitdo wireless controller have the best retro gaming setup I've ever had!

  4. Took one for the team and beat Super Pitfall. Every time I beat this game I swear I'll never touch it again, but it always drags me back. Was one of the first NES games I ever owned.

     

    The only remaining game on the list that I have any confidence in beating is Ultima Exodus and I don't think I'm gonna have the free time to play through that in the next week. With none of the Bases Loadeds completed I think it's safe to say this project is a bust for 2022?

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  5. 15 hours ago, DefaultGen said:

    I was a mage but I didn't have any trouble with dying or anything. It was just super tedious traversing the world because once you level up "too much" you constantly hit big groups of tough monsters who use AOE sleep spells.

    The trick with both Exodus and Avatar is to not level up any more than you have to, which means getting your character high enough to get the pirate ships to appear and then stopping. Avatar is actually easier to do solo except when doing the dungeons (which you can save until the latter half) since a smaller party also means fighting less enemies each battle but still getting the same gold. Also in Exodus don't level up at all until you have enough experience to go straight to 5 because all level 1 fights can be beaten with those free attack spells.

    I like playing Avatar with the Druid, since she has a good balance of magic and defence and being able to use the bows. For Exodus it's pretty boring but 3 wizards and a cleric will get you through the early grind to level 5 and then bring in a Knight and Ranger to deal with the meleeing.

    Neither of those games are that time consuming once you know what you're doing. I've beaten both for this challenge in previous years.

    Warriors of Destiny may be a great PC game, but the NES port is absolute garbage in every form and I don't know how they ever got Nintendo to approve it, or how the same people who ported Avatar so we'll could mess up Destiny so badly. It's such a miserable game to play on NES that it'll probably be one of the last games I ever try to beat for that system.

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  6. Legacy of the Wizard finally beaten. This game has been on my to-beat list longer than any other game, ever since I saw the preview for it in Nintendo Power in 1988. And it was a workout. On the surface,the game appears to be an action-RPG with metroidvania elements, but it's really an action-puzzler, somewhat like Castlequest or Milon. I never quite got the controls down for the block moving glove, and each time it slides the wrong way you have to leave the room to reset each puzzle. I don't know how anybody could beat this game without a guide. I used the one on the U Can Beat Video Games YouTube channel and it was still a struggle.

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  7. On 3/14/2022 at 2:58 PM, nerdynebraskan said:

    But will I play it again next year if nobody jumps on it? Probably, but not before Zelda II, Willow, or Magic of Scheherazade (to name a few...).

    I'll give it a go in 2023. One of the few NES RPGs left I still haven't beaten.

     

    Gonna start on Legacy of the Wizard next. It's been on my to-beat list for about 30 years.

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  8. There's a really nice video game store in NYC. They are well stocked, quite often have higher than usual prices (sometimes insanely higher) but if you browse around enough, there are some good deals to come across. These are two of them I found recently (even the cashier was surprised at the pricing on SOS when I checked out with him today!)

    Last Crusade UBI is CIB used.

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  9. On 1/22/2021 at 8:02 AM, Plisse said:

    When will we be seeing a ps4 library update? Death Stranding? COD MW? MediEvil? Those are only some examples of the older released titles not yet  added.

    GameValueNow seems to have no interest in updating any modern systems that aren't Nintendo-based. There STILL isn't even an option to manually add PS5 games. So don't hold your breath.....

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  10. 6 hours ago, Magus said:

    Unfortunately we are still dealing with the fallout of Ebay completely wrecking and changing their API. We are working out getting the current systems we have 100% first. But adding the missing systems is on the to do list, and was set for january before this ebay crap happened. We just went through and added hundreds of switch games the past couple of months. 


     

    Thanks for the update, but in the meantime would it be possible to add Playstation 5 to the pulldown menu for the add games manually feature? This is still the main database I use to track what's in my collection, and I'd like to have a record of the PS5 games I've purchased.

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