ThePhleo

Also, to add, we need proof of "Flush" or "Square" copies of Rad Racket, Tiles of Fate, and Venice Beach Volleyball

Well hot dog.

Thanks

I have photos of the following:

I'd love to see your copy of Ultimate League Soccer @Dr. MorbisAlso, I want to thank this thread for making me cry, because a copy of Magexa Soccer sold in Australia for $100 last week and I didn't see it

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Edit: Updated per @Dr. Morbis photo.

1 hour ago, Fleck586 said:

I dont know exactly who my SS was, but Im guessing it was @ThePhleo.  I asked for SNES commons and my Secret Santa went above and beyond with the CIB games. And I wanted that plush so bad, so Thank you!!! Super stoked to add these to the collection!

It's'a me!

You're welcome, and merry christmas

I'm not sure who my SS was either, but thank you for the Game Console Book 2.0, the ornaments, the candy, and the donations to charity! You're awesome whoever you are

(I never got my box from shipment, I told my wife when Secret Santas come in, to wrap them up as gifts for me!)

2 hours ago, Link said:

I can't find anything on this site. @ThePhleo might have an idea. 

What I can find is pictures of cartridges that don't have the notch, for Deathbots, F-15, Mermaids, and Solitaire. That's 4 out of 18

 

I won’t remember to reply to you unless you @ me again, but I do have a list of these in my PC.

My unlicensed data isn’t as comprehensive as my licensed stuff though so it might be a little outdated

I'm pretty sure, Final Fantasy easily has the biggest NES manual, unless you count the manual for Racermate Challenge.

For what it's worth,

My mint CIB comes with the following:

Standard Items

• Box: NES-FF-USA, Oval®, 4-Line Warranty w/ Mexico, 00523 Date
• Manual: NES-FF-USA★, Oval® No Date
• Cart: NES-FF-USA, Oval®, Gold Back Label w/ 07 stamp

Inserts

• NES-FF-USA(A) Poster
• NES-FF-USA(B) Poster
• PMG-USA Nintendo Power Ad

Packaging

• Nintendo Non-Foil Dust Sleeve
• Blue Foam Spacer
• Standard Large Hole Bag
• Standard H-Seam Cellophane

26 minutes ago, ZeldaFreak said:

I love this thread being raised from the dead once every few months

3 hours ago, Gloves said:

They ain't interested in your old ass lol. 

You'd be surprised.

*counts money*

29 minutes ago, Gloves said:

When you click on a stream on Twitch, then click out of it, they keep playing the video in a little screen in the corner:

If you see a kid "watching" Twitch on the home page, fair chance they just closed out of that little window and started one of the random streams at the top of the page to cover themselves. Same effect as alt+tab or ctrl+w but without the whole screen changing/flashing. 

I have no problem with young teens looking at adult content, as long as they have some sort of respect and dignity with themselves.

But the interactive aspect of Twitch is just a recipe for disaster. Grooming, and brainwashing kids for cash is one thing, then the warped sense of reality teens will get in how the sexual aspect of a relationship works...no, sorry this is wrong on all levels.

Porn shouldn't be interactive, ESPECIALLY stuff that's accessible for young teens, and even preteens.

Honestly, the more I think about it, the more it seems outlandish and outrageous.

Uhh...

This is actually a problem. My preteen nephews love Twitch, I guess I know why now.

Thank you @T-Pac for the gift.

You're one of the best things about VGS and I hope you continue this tradition next year.

I love every little piece you let me have, and p.s. I still have the custom little envelopes you make too. They make for great storage!

6 minutes ago, DefaultGen said:

It's from the SUPPLEMENT to that issue of 1892 La Nature. Don't go buying the actual 1892 magazine

What kind of idiot would do THAT.

6 hours ago, mbd39 said:

I'd never even heard of this. It's never mentioned in histories of video games.

It's mentioned in this article by Michael Cowen on NECSUS

https://necsus-ejms.org/interactive-media-and-imperial-subjects-excavating-the-cinematic-shooting-gallery/

He also includes a diagram from the January 1892 publication of "La Nature", a scientific journal popular in its day. This diagram shows the idea of mounting a camera to a gun, and attaching its trigger to the guns trigger to take a photo of your target.

23 hours ago, SilverspoonGaming said:

Those shooting galleries should be classified as "arcade," or "amusement" games.  One of the precursors to video games.  Just my two cents!

I agree, but I like to play this game with @DefaultGen to find the earliest thing you can possibly stretch your imagination to apply as the EARLIEST "Video Game"

He claimed Nimatron (1939) as the first computer game, and I claim El Ajedrecista (1913).

He claimed Bertie the Brain (1950) as the first video game, I claim "Automated Video Projector Shooting Galleries" (Pat. 1901, circa 1913-1915)

He claims "Stick and Rock" (~10,000,000 b.c.e) as the first GAME, I claim "Stick" or "Rock" (~10,000,050 b.c.e.)

In all honesty though, I think there's a little seriousness to my claim though.

The way the machines work is as follows:

1. A film is projected onto a paper screen, with either an animal or an enemy combatant as your target.
2. The player shoots their target, and when the bullet penetrates the screen, a trigger behind the screen pauses the video, and shines a light from behind to show if you've successfully hit the target.
3. The game operator will then spool out more paper and the game can continue.

To me, that technically is a type of game that both meets the technical definition of Electromechanical Game, and Video Game. It just lacks any computational element.

It's pretty sophisticated for its time really.

https://patents.google.com/patent/GB190114871A/en

July 22, 1901 the first LITERAL video game was patented.

This meets the definition of requiring a video screen. To exclude this, you would have to exclude a PS5 connected to a project, but also count it again if it's played on a TV.

These shooting galleries were popularized from 1912-1915 too, so they had a history that's been long forgotten.

Did all my Christmas shopping in one go.

Terrible mistake, because now I missed out on "the shopping season" and my wife said "we haven't even shopped yet"

....so basically I spent an extra $2500 this year for Christmas, since she's gonna do her own thing.

Credit card debt here we come. I'm a dumbass for thinking I could save money this year.

Meh …

bring back snack wraps please

From what little I know about Haiti right now,

I understand that it's basically being run without a functioning government right now? As in, it's basically a low level anarchy over there at the moment?

[R E S E R V E D]

Probably gonna just continue my last year goal

3 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

@ThePhleo last year you waited until the very end to reveal your updates.  Can we expect the same this year? 

Yes.

Spoiler: Once again, no where near as much as I wanted, but more than I thought I would get done!

16 minutes ago, Friendsfa35 said:

in case it helps for the rarity guide...

this is pretty much the current state of the PAL-B market.

1. Phantom Air Mission
2. Ultimate Air Combat
3. Snowboard Challenge
4. Air Fortress
5. The Miracle Piano Teaching System (loose copy)
6. R.C. Pro AM II
7. Gold Medal Challenge '92
8. Goal! 2
9. Mighty Final Fight
10. P.O.W - Prisoners of War

games like Mr. Gimmick and Flintstones - The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak are NOT rare at all, just uncommon and expensive.
but still offered way more than any of the ones listed above.

That’s pretty much what I noticed too.

Not so much the loose Miracle Piano, but it was never on my radar for some reason. Also, I think PAL folks in English speaking countries flip for cardboard HES stuff too.

Some small news:

A buddy of mine managed to automate this, and every 90 days I can automatically update the rarity guides at the push of a button. Price guides, not so much but I’ll figure out a way to make it work using VGPC.

I need to work on GB / GBC since I’m missing a few titles, and GameCube I need to work on separating and finding all bundles and players choice variants.

Lastly, GBA is still on track for the month, I may push G&W out.

Added three new platforms to the Guide Collection.

Gamecube - https://tinyurl.com/2023gcguide

Virtual Boy - https://tinyurl.com/2023vbguide

Pokemon Mini - https://tinyurl.com/2023npmguide

Game & Watch, and Game Boy Advanced are next.

Also, please don't actually use the Pokemon Mini guide. It's such an obscure, rare platform with such a small "US" library that it makes no sense to actually make a guide for it. It's unusable, I just added it for the "lols"