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13 hours ago, RH said:

To put a bow on top of this old story, yesterday Summoning Salts on YouTube posted another one of his excellent documentaries, but this time on Tetris high scores. He covered this accomplishment, as well as the updates since then.  This was a very fun watch (even if it is 2 hours long) and I learned a lot about competitive Tetris.  It's so cool and it makes me want to try and join in but I know the brutally honest truth--it'd be a life time accomplishment for me if I ever got to the originally intended kill screen of level 29 on my own.

 

Great documentary. I love his videos.

1 hour ago, avatar! said:

Did you unlock the puzzle box? If not, do that, it certainly helps. There are a few others secrets that can really help if you're stuck. If you want clues/solutions here it is

https://www.ign.com/wikis/inscryption/Secrets

Thanks! I'm really hoping to get by this first act soon. I've actually done almost all of the puzzles in the cabin. Looks like I only have the clock and the 3rd painting puzzle to do. I just got the knife item today, didnt realize what it did.

Yeah the squirrel totem head is helpful, I'm at the point if I have to play one more squirrel card I'm going to flip out LOL. 

I've put 5-6 hours into Inscryption. I can't get past the 3rd boss and it keeps starting over. There's so much to think about with the pelts, totems, sigils, stuff in the room, items, icons on the map etc. 

Before I give up, I'm gonna watch some playthroughs because I think I'm still missing something.

" MLB baseball x11 "

WOW!

Just hearing anecdotally from folks who have visited Japan recently, it sounds like in the big cities there are less deals than there were in the past.  But if you got to smaller towns you may find better prices.

1 hour ago, JamesRobot said:

Best Buy preorders are back up.  Just nabbed me one.

I got one just now myself!  Thank you

Here's the link for anyone else:  https://www.bestbuy.com/site/nintendo-world-championships-nes-edition-deluxe-set-nintendo-switch-nintendo-switch-oled-model-nintendo-switch-lite/6583885.p?skuId=6583885

7 minutes ago, RegularGuyGamer said:

I don't see any active preorders. Did I miss it?

Yeah for now. Ill post here if I see any more preorders available any where

2 minutes ago, a3quit4s said:

Reseller fodder! They should have made it more expensive lol

I see a few on EBay already 

 I had one in my Best Buy cart for preorder, went to check out and then they said it was unavailable!

Gamestop had preorders but also now unavailable.

I'll get one at some point.

See you there! Looks to be so much bigger than last year.

https://socalretrogamingexpo.com/

We weren't allowed to own a NES. But one Christmas we got a SNES, out of the blue, and it was awesome

One more vote for GTA3.

Although a mobile game might make the most sense. Flappy Bird came to mind, maybe not the most important but memorable for sure. And the guy deleted the game when it was still mega popular. Who here remembers people selling phones will Flappy Bird on it for thousands of dollars on eBay?

Was really hard to choose just 5, so here's 5 more!

Super Russian Roulette

Was this first NWC repro from Retrozone ? I have the blue one with no dip switches and I believe I've seen a green one as well. I've never been able to figure out which edition was first.

Good luck with the sale. 

I love puzzle games.

Baba is great, although it gets very tough!

I like Jonathan Blow's work, I got pretty far in The Witness but got stuck. Worth revisiting.

Return of the Obra Dinn - Amazing game, especially if you like being a detective. I agree about brute forcing some aspects.

Tunic - it's on my list but I thought it was more of an action-adventure game

Other puzzle games:

Patricks Parabox (never played but heard was good)

Stevens Sausage Roll (never played)

Limbo/Inside (more like puzzle platformers but still good)

Gorogoa (short game but pretty solid)

Portal 1-2? (prob it's own genre but worth mentioning, great stuff)

Hard to choose just 5 and I love all my records.

On 3/26/2024 at 8:26 AM, Hammerfestus said:

It’s been a slow trim for years now.  

Same. And I'm trimming all systems to focus on NES which is looking good!

They REALLY needed to add more courses, but I did have fun while it lasted. One of my favorite games I played last year.

Blazing Lazers for me

1 hour ago, Reed Rothchild said:

F*** stickers.  Not in my house!

Some stickers I will remove, some I will keep. It really depends on what type of sticker and where it is located. The few that stick out  are my Top Loader with the local Game Xchange sticker on the bottom, and a Star Wars cartridge with another local game store on the side (one of those security stickers).

For those folks wanting to remove stickers, a hair dryer on low setting works magic but be careful!

Interesting to see this on the Ebay listing:

"Located in: Beijig, China"

I collect what I like (NES), which happens to be what others are interested in.

Perhaps I was a mild pioneer when I started, as collecting NES is way more popular now than it was when I started 10 years ago.

NHL94