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Happy Thanksgiving to all! Even those silly Canadians who had theirs last month. I am thankful to all of the members here for joining us and making VGS such a success so far! I got up at 5am today to get things started cooking, we plan to have about 17 or 18 people over at our house for the festivities today. What are your plans?

I had a buddy who's divorced parents liked to compete for his affections by buying him stuff, so he had an awesome NES collection. The one game in particular that stands out is he actually owned Donkey Kong Jr Math. The cool thing was he kept all the boxes and manuals and around the year 2000 or so he gave them all to me because he wasn't interested anymore. So the funny part is the only game that wasn't CIB was DK Jr Math. That is because him, another buddy and I put the box up on a dart board when we were kids one day because the game sucked so much!

That's my take on it.

You traded a priceless family heirloom to feed your addiction?!? You sir have a problem! Kidding! You didn't have a copy of Earthbound yet?

I got to know Thor years ago, around the time The Ecstasy Of Order movie was being made. He auctioned off something from that movie (something I will probably show in here later). I ended up flying down to Texas to pick it up. He was great, I hung out at his place for the weekend. At some point he mentioned that we was planning on selling some stuff including Nintendo Powers, so I jumped at the chance to get this specific issue from him.

I thought it would be fun to talk about items in our collections that are truly one of a kind. Not necessarily OMG worth super moniez discussion, but stuff that if you let it go you couldn't get another one. Some examples might be: An item used at an event or during a significant time in video game history Something that can be traced back to a famous person, or even something specific you had growing up Just anything you know there isn't another copy that is the same out there This stuff could be valuable, but I'm talking beyond just dollars and cents. Lets talk about unique items with a story behind them. So I have a couple in mind, but first here is one of my favorites. Nintendo Power issue 18 - Dr. Mario This was the issue that profiled finalists for the upcoming NWC 1990 competition. So that's cool and all, but what's the big deal? As seen, the first profile is Thor Aackerlund, and as we know he was the one who went on to win the whole thing. Well this was his subscription copy sent to him while he was preparing for the finals. The champs personal copy! I've always thought this was a pretty damn cool piece of unique memorabilia. Post em if you got em!

We will probably see it, though I have 2 boys and they didn't love the first movie. I'm guessing we will wait until it hits the cheap theater.

I'm sure plenty of them will legitimately run a raffle, as in they will pick a winner and give out the prize. Not legitimate as in legal, because they are likely not. It's blind faith and trust though, not my thing.

Is that Michael Phelps brother?

Better hurry and get that list in!

Lots of unique stuff, very cool. Welcome

He was also part of the reason they were down 20 at halftime. That 1st half was putrid. He has played a lot better over the last 6 games, but the Dallas win was the only one really out of the ordinary for him. The other team with a winning record they played in that span was a loss to the Chiefs. The rest of the wins were against bad teams. Vintage Cousins.

There should only be two of them. I removed the latest posts one as that's been there awhile. The secret santa one needs to stay a bit longer.

Finally! Welcome

Is this cat friendly? Does it let you pet it?

I've always been a Double Dragon 3 guy. That is the one I had as a kid and played A LOT. The final boss has a ridicules amount of energy. Like OSG said it takes a bit to get the hang of so it's easy to dismiss when giving it a try. I really like it though.

I spoke to the timeline a bit in this thread Gloves and I had the original conversation on deciding to move forward with a new site. Then a lot of NA alums were brought in for the planning.

Hell yeah, I had this one. Played it so much that I memorized exactly what base you could get to 100% of the time by the 1st dot the ball got to after hitting it with the bat.

Limiting it to 10 is though, but I think I have it pretty well narrowed down to real milestone games. Here it goes 1. Space Invaders - 2600 The first console I have at home was a used Atari 2600, I remember playing a lot of Space Invaders with my dad. 2. Mike Tyson's Punchout - NES Tough to pick out a single NES game, but I will go with Iron Mike. I remember talking to friends at school each day about how far we got the night before. Getting up and running around my basement when Doc was training Little Mac after winning a belt. The first time I finally got Bald Bull. Good times! 3. Zelda: Link to the Past - SNES I rented a Super Nintendo one weekend with Zelda and I was hooked. This was when the game counselor line was up and I probably spent a months worth of allowance calling those guys like 20 times over that weekend. 4. Final Fantasy 2 - SNES Yeah I called it 2, because that's what it was to me! Another weekend rental (though I had my one SNES by then). This is still the game I have probably replayed the most in my lifetime. 5. Quest for Glory - DOS This would have been around the time we got our first computer at home. This game was really fun. 6. Snake on the TI-85 Yep, here is one out of left field. I was in high school at this time and got a TI-85 graphing calculator. It could play rudimentary games which I thought was the coolest because I could get away with it in class. 7. Mario Kart 64 - N64 This game was college. Playing 4 player in the dorm was the best. We played so much of this with the speakers blaring. Toad was my go-to. 8. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - Gamecube My first Fire Emblem game. Fire Emblem has become my favorite franchise. 9. Dragon Age Origins - Xbox 360 This game holds a spot as being the first game I really gave a chance on a non Nintendo system since the sega master system. I am a huge Nintendo fanboy. I really liked this game though. 10. Dragon Quest Builders - Switch Love this game. I can pick it up and play it and get sucked in over and over again making new cities. Definitely the switch game I have sunk the most hours into.

There is this cool site called GoCollect. I hear they made an amazing forum.

Giving in is good, don't fight the inevitable! Welcome!

I know Huey, Dewey and Louie called Uncle Scrooge an old fuddy duddy in Duck Tales. I remember asking my mom what the heck was a fuddy duddy?

Watched an episode of Duck Tales with my boys tonight. Duck Tales WOO WOO!!

I'm excited for the Mandolorian, though no binge watching as it's only being released one episode a week.

Your arbitrary lists are the best, I love it! The above accessories are my favorite.