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Is the Kickstarter for the VGS version or the regular version? What is the difference between versions? Has the other version been released yet?

More garbage

Filipino style spaghetti we had tonight for dinner. It was actually surprisingly excellent.

It's a repro edit: on second thought, @Dr. Morbis is likely correct that it's legit

Some of my students call it "boke ay mon" or "boke ee mon". It drives me crazy. I told them a list of acceptable pronunciations, which included "poke uh mans" and the above "poke your mom", but said I'd better not ever hear that boke ay mon crap again.

I'd been looking at antique Asian opium pipes one day and decided I wanted one to display in my apartment...then after thinking about it further, realized it would likely be illegal to own.

Man this one hurts. Gonna grab me guitar and play a few songs now of his.

Really f'ed. Actually it's great. Fried chicken here is one of the specialties.

Sunday went over to the area around Sun Moon Lake. Had the opportunity to taste some Assam tea as well as some Ruby Red #18. You can see some ruby tea fields here, for example, and the Santa bags all have ruby red inside. Afterwards headed back to the city for hot pot. It was a fun day.

Had some fukd up fried chicken for dinner last night.

Might have heard them but if I did, don't know them by name. If I didn't hear them, never will. With all the great music out there, don't have time for this shit, lol.

That boat's sailed, sadly.

A buddy of mine in Taiwan just posted this video. Bet you can't guess where he's from. 422048708_765721462276216_8307317557481181281_n.mp4

Steak sucks here, both getting a good cut and options for grilling. I'd probably do shitty thin steaks pan fried or on an electric grill, both of which would make me sad.

According to the description: This ultra-rare Nintendo NES Myriad Six in One cartridge is a must-have for any collector. With six classic games... That's gotta be the reason.

Well for those who kept their game sealed, they should just order a second, corrected copy so that they have both variants of the game

I remember borrowing Majora's Mask from a friend who really liked the game - I really wanted to like it, but couldn't get into it, and after a month my friend wanted it back. Never finished it, never will, but those aren't the games that we're talking about here. Least favorite games that I played to completion would be the duo pair of Diddy Kong Racing and Mario Kart on SNES. I loved Mario Kart 64, which was my first time entering the go kart racing genre. I always enjoyed racers, but Mario 64 had my favorite Mario characters, fun background music, bright, enjoyable stages, etc. After we mastered the game, we decided we wanted more of the same experience, so we bought the turd that is Super Mario Kart. That game was rough. The stages are boring, the music is boring, and the game is notoriously hard. Blisters here, blisters there, this was definitely not the experience that Mario Kart 64 was. When my brother moved to a university three hours away, it was decided that he'd take the SNES, and he was so bored he played Mario Kart up there too, hating every minute of it. Total trash. Our other attempt at finding "more" Mario Kart 64 was a second turd, Diddy Kong Racing. My brother and I grabbed it from Funcoland one night, and we forced ourselves to play it nightly. We thought that wizard guy was stupid, found the game difficulty to be less balanced than Mario Kart 64, and again, the music and stages just weren't great compared to Mario Kart. It got to the point where after our nightly play session of Diddy Kong Racing, we'd force ourselves to come up with some good points about the game. In our minds we knew we were lying though, and we felt so dirty, we'd generally then play a round or two of Mario Kart 64 right afterwards. Man, Diddy Kong Racing was another stinker. A few others that come to mind include Kid Icarus, M.C. Kids, and Project Blue (the rom running off an Everdrive, I still don't have the Famicom cartridge from the Kickstarter I backed years ago...). Kid Icarus started off fun but it quickly became monotonous, difficult and long. I felt similar about M.C. Kids - it was extremely fun initially, but towards the end I just wanted it to be over as it started to drag a lot, bringing the whole experience down. As for Project Blue? It just felt like a difficult Battle Kid ripoff, another game that I just forced myself to finish yet doubt I'll ever revisit.

My brother and I had this for our Mac LC. Aside from the terribly slow load times between stages (about five minutes a go), we spent a lot of time with it and had fun. Its easily one of the best edutainment games I've played. No idea how it compares to the SNES version, I thought the NES version sucked in comparison to the Mac version though.

Very nice! Love seeing your Japanese GBA stuff, like the design of those boxes much better than the NA ones.

Does anyone have any pictures or the ROM or whatever of the game in question?

Found this last weekend

It seems pretty good, these were sold in the west too.

Just added another one to the list!

If you're talking about the Asian version released in regions such as Taiwan, I'm not sure why they wouldn't be preferable. They're NTSC, mostly Japanese versions, yet have English. what's not to like?

I used to feel along the same lines as you guys, but something happened about a week or so back, where I ended up getting some reproduction cartridges of games I already own the originals of. It was a slightly different situation, as they were made by someone who had worked on the games, but he had no rights to make these reproductions, etc etc etc. That said I found these were really neat pieces that I will treasure in my collection. I similarly own a few modern game hacks from people in the community, and again I treasure those cartridges despite them being modern game hacks, not homebrew, not 90s stuff. Such items sort of made me change my attitude towards collecting a bit, especially considering I have more games than I'll ever need, paired with the fact that finding items I don't have for the machines I truly collect (i.e. not just opportunistic collecting fodder) is quite a rarity by now. Some of this fan-made stuff is great, even if it isn't official, especially if it's tied somehow to the community in which you've spent countless hours of time. If it was just random Joe Blow on feebay I'd likely feel different.