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On 5/27/2023 at 9:21 AM, DK said:

I have a Ninja Gaiden III (Playtronic) that has a 9626 code.

 

Woah! This one is the latest one yet!

A question about Playtronic games, were the carts, manuals, and boxes all produced in Japan? I see their labels have more rounded labels. Are these official from Japan or produced in Brazil?

NES-FRA region "Les Schtroumpfs"

It has to be a PAL game, right? I want to know if anyone's discovered which NES title was the very last to roll off of Nintendo's assembly line.

I was going through a bunch of PAL NES CIBs and checking box/manual date codes, I saw a German or French "The Smurfs" with a '96 date code. 

Also, kinda interesting, but I ran across a German "Donkey Kong Classics" with a '94 code which exhibited the same sticker lifting as the US "Wario's Woods" is known for. Was it produced using the same batch of labels with weak glue in '94? 

I saw @ThePhleo posted his Super Jeopardy with a '95 date code which is insane to me. That's probably the latest "US" region NES print, right?

Woo! Finished Iron Tank. That last segment was crazy.

Hi all, 

I completed some Genesis games in 2022. Forgot all about this! I'll add photos of the end-screens.

Thunder Fox, Caliber. 50, Hellfire, Socket, Atomic Runner

Hi all, what's up?

I beat Ironsword: Wizards and Warriors II.

As a personal goal, I've been completing a bunch of NES games recently. I beat a lot of them in December, so they don't qualify for this...lolol, bad timing, right? Totally forgot about this challenge, though I used to do it a lot. Wish I'd contributed earlier this year.

Beat Marvel Land! I'd been searching for a copy forever. Finally found a good deal on a CIB. Its a fun game! But it gets very frustrating near the end. Truely a "hidden gem". Nobody EVER talks about this one

Beat Shadow Blasters! Pretty fun, simple game. 

Awesome. Just beat Decapattack for the first time. This is becoming one of my favorites. Love the soundtrack! Picked this up along with Phelios at Too Many Games.

(Also just beat Aladdin for the first time tonight. But that was already beaten)

Edit: Adding 1 more - Fire Shark

Contributing 3 games here. 

Boogerman 

Task Force Harrier EX

Phelios.

I took a bit of a hiatus from collecting for about a year. Im getting back into it by specifically picking up games that I've been wanting to play for the longest time. Most of my collection has been built by picking up games locally. For like 8 years, I've never found a copy of Virtua Cop 2. Why do I do this to myself? There has been no reason to wait this long lol. 

I finally got around to buying this game (good deal on eBay). I'm so happy to finally play it! It is a whole lot of fun. I love the Saturn and Sega's arcade titles. This rocks.

Sweet. Just beat Boogerman (Genesis) for the first time. This knocks another game off my list! I never played past the intro level before now. It's actually a pretty fun game. I'm not a fan of the theme at all, but the smooth animation is appealing. I may want to give Aladdin (Genesis) a serious effort now.  

1 hour ago, DoctorEncore said:

Do you have the physical version of SpongeBob? If so, you could delete your updated copy and then play offline from disc/cart to avoid patches.

I had that thought too. Yep, I've got the cart on Switch. Just deleted the game, but it requires the update for me to run it. Maybe because my save file is from the updated version? Doesn't seem like this will work.

Gotta get back into this! I do have some Resident Evil games planned for October. Looking forward to playing RE 7.

I did complete Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated. I would have gotten 100% completion, but there is 1 missing collectable sock that did not spawn. So I will forever be stuck at 99/100 spatulas. UGH. For a time, you could break the game and collect a sock which was out of bounds. Unfortunately, they patched that glitch but didn't bother to fix the initial missing sock glitch! So now I can't even break the game to get 100%. What a mess. Fun game though!

Oops just got to the final level of Fortified Zone before I realized yall have already beaten it. Ah well, I haven't beaten it before so I'm seeing this through to the end. 

2 hours ago, Splain said:

Finished Dick Tracy. I really can't say why exactly, maybe it was my low expectations, but I really liked this game. 

Interesting. Just looked up gameplay and it looks similar to The Rocketeer on NES. Makes sense since it's the same developer, Realtime Associates. If you like this one, check out The Rocketeer. It's a good game.

I beat Mega Man III. More frustration than fun?

Beat Battle Unit Zeoth. Not a great game. Its very short. If you don't die, you can blast through all the levels super quickly. It becomes hard to beat the bosses without the power ups on stage 4.

Y'all seen the prices of Devil's Third & Shantae and the Pirates Curse (Switch)? They are going for around $300 for some reason. Pretty crazy. I bought those for retail price. Also, I got Ribbit King (Gamecube) for $40 in 2019 right before prices went stupid and shot up to $300.

10 hours ago, JVOSS said:

lol thought i replaced that part oh well,  but the list i posted was what i have.

Wow! Thank you for sharing this comprehensive list. This is great information. Do you happen to have the date codes for the complete -1 variant list as well? I didn't see the date codes included in the Google doc. It would be interesting to see what changes were made to the boxes on USA-1 releases. (Aside from the ones with the obvious publisher change, players choice badge, and esrb). 

6 hours ago, JVOSS said:

what is the list of game you have as "Reprints"  listing

I just went over the USA-1 list on the first page and found them there. Just a sample of examples:

Electrobrain: (Hudson Soft, HAL games) - Bonk's Adventure/ Revenge, Revenge of the Gator, Trax, Felix the Cat.

Natsume: (Taito games) - Chase HQ, Super Chase HQ, Elevator Action

Sunsoft: (Vic Tokai, Squaresoft games, Data East) Aero Star, Daedalion Opus, Final Fantasy Legends, Lock N Chase.

I'm trying to understand release dates of these reprinted variants. Looking at game PCB date codes I think I've got an understanding.

Electrobrain reprints: 1998

Natsume reprints: 1998

Sunsoft reprints: 1998

Does that sound about right?

Day 31: The Best Picks for Each Day

Day 1: [NES] [1989] Monster Party - Prologue - AstralSoul
Day 2: [Atari 800] [1984] Ballblazer - Theme: Song of the Grid - rdrunner
Day 3: [Gamecube] [2001] Super Monkey Ball - Alternate Main Menu - rdrunner
Day 4: [Genesis] [1994] Castlevania: Bloodlines - Iron Blue Intention (Stage 4)- nesmaster14
Day 5: [PC] [2011] Terraria - Jungle - ZeldaFreak
Day 6: [SNES] [1995] Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time - koifish
Day 7: [Dreamcast] [2001] Sonic Adventure 2  - That's The Way I Like It (Metal Harbor) - AverageOliver98
Day 8: [SNES] [1994] Rex Ronan - Flying in Your Microscopic Spaceship - fox
Day 9: [Switch] [2018] Kirby Star Allies - Prayer Song to God - AverageOliver98
Day 10: [Gameboy] [1991] Spanky's Quest - Tower 5  - aguy
Day 11: [SNES] [1994] Final Fantasy VI - Searching for Friends - PII
Day 12: [PS1] [1996] Air Management '96 - Europe - aguy
Day 13: [N64] [1997] Twelve Tales: Conker 64 - Western Saloon - AstralSoul
Day 14: [NES] [1992] Erik the Viking - Peace in the Harbor - nesmaster14
Day 15: [PS2] [2004] Naval Ops: Commander - Wirbelwind Theme - AverageOliver98
Day 16: [DOS] [1994] Doom II - Running From Evil - AstralSoul
Day 17: [NES] [1992] Super Spy Hunter - Medley - nesmaster14
Day 18: [NES] [1990] Jacky Chan's Action Kung-Fu - Levels 1-4 - PII
Day 19: [Wii U] [2014] Shovel Knight - The Requiem of Shield Knight - 0xDEAFC0DE
Day 20: [Wii U] [2013] Super Mario 3D World - Snowball Park - AstralSoul
Day 21: [NES] [1990] Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos - Title Theme - sp1nz
Day 22: [C64] [1984] Lazy Jones - Stardust - 0xDEAFC0DE
Day 23: [N64] [1997] Extreme-G - Track 1 - AstralSoul
Day 24: [Genesis] [1993] Shining Force II - Town Theme - tigerwolf
Day 25: [N64] [1999] Donkey Kong 64 - DK Rap (Unused Version) - rdrunner
Day 26: [Famicom] [1991] Tetra Star: The Fighter - Title Theme - nesmaster14
Day 27: [N64] [1999] Mario Party 2 - Space Land - koifish
Day 28: [NES] [1991] Shatterhand - Final Area - nesmaster14
Day 29: [NDS] [2006] Elite Beat Agents - Jumpin' Jack Flash - koifish
Day 30: [N64] [2000] Mario Party 3 - The End - rdrunner

I will have mine all updated tonight!

33 minutes ago, Red said:

 

Sorry about that.  Doesn't mean you can't still beat it before moving on to something else (if you haven't already).  Are you still doing Choplifter?

No worries at all! I will probably go back to it. How many lives did you have when you got to the final stage? You can infinitely continue on every level before the last one. So I would enter the last stage with 2 extra lives after intentionally killing myself and continuing on the green Abobo boss.

Yep I'm still working on Choplifter. It's a tough one. I can get to the Cave level (3) fine. Haven't gotten past that level yet though. It'll take a while to get through it.

13 minutes ago, Red said:

Double Dragon is done.  My first time beating it solo too.

 

Damn. Ive been working on this one all day.. Just 5 minutes ago I got a game over on the final boss. Never beat it before either.  Congrats, though