Jaden

It's very hard for me to remember, but I think the first game I ever bought on my own was Tetris for the NES. Of course, I had plenty of video games before that. I'm pretty sure the first game I've ever played is either Spyro 1 or Pac-Man. However, I'm just going by the first game I bought for my collection.

Here are the date codes for my boxed games.

• Adventure Island - no dates (tabs were ripped off)
• Bandai Golf - 81217 (manual), no box date
• Battle Tank - 20703 (manual), no box date
• Blades of Steel - no manual, 00305 (box)
• Captain Skyhawk - 00710 (manual), 00717 (box)
• Dr. Mario - 00806 (manual), 00815, (box)
• Hogan's Alley - no dates (no manual)
• Kings of the Beach - no manual, 00320 (box)
• Milon's Secret Castle - 90118 (manual), 90117 (box)
• Mission: Impossible - no manual, 00718 (box)
• Pac-Man (Tengen) - no dates
• Rollergames - 00821 (manual), 00820 (box)
• Sky Shark - no manual date, 90728 (box)
• Star Soldier - no manual date, 81206 (box)
• Tetris - 90824 (manual), 90905 (box)
• Tetris 2 - 30823 (manual), 30823 (box)
• Top Gun: Second Mission - 00306 (manual), 00308 (box)
• Top Players' Tennis - 00409 (manual), no box date
• Wizards and Warriors - no dates

Alright, here are the date codes for all of my loose instruction manuals.

• Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing - 00330
• BurgerTime - 81122
• Double Dragon 2 - 00710
• Fester's Quest - 90823
• Galaga - 91012
• Golf - no date
• Ironsword - 00121
• Millipede - no date
• Othello - 81121
• Operation Wolf - 90919
• Super Spike V'Ball/Nintendo World Cup - no date
• Tecmo Baseball - 81201

And I'll be on the lookout for that driver bit.

Very interesting stuff. I'll have to look through my boxes and manuals to see when they were printed. I would look at my cartridges, but I don't believe I have the right screwdriver to open them. But I'll be sure to post those too if I can open them later.

I kinda surprised this thread went so long without any activity.

Anyway, that looks pretty cool. I'd be interested to see the boxed stuff more up close. At least, it looks like there's a good amount of boxed games there.

I've been wanting this ever since I was a member of the old NintendoAge forum. And now boys, I finally got it. A brand new shelf.

I'm really happy with how it looks. It's very tall, it's got plenty of room, and it's nice and sturdy. And I like the color as well. I think it matches my room pretty well. And hey, I finally have a shelf that isn't broken, which is nice. I'm hoping this one lasts me a while, because it's super nice. Just having all of my boxed games in a row and not all pushed up against each other is so satisfying.

I picked up a nice selection of games a few days ago. I also made a video about them, but I imagine most of you probably don't want to hear an annoying kid talk for 15 minutes straight. I'm most happy with the boxed games I got. Dr. Mario especially looks really beautiful. And I finally have a Mega Man game in my collection! I've been waiting for like what, 8 years to find one for a not terrible price?

10 minutes ago, Gloves said:

I mean, that's a bit uncalled for eh?

What I'm saying is that this is the kind of stuff I would post when I was in elementary school, thinking I was cool for making up random arbitrary sets of games. I mean, collect what you wanna collect, but these sets are just flat out not real. But these are some great popcorn threads.

5 hours ago, Mario_Friend1982 said:

I'm not an artist and I haven't made a story since I was in high school.

Wait, you actually went to high school?!

Why must you torment us with your riddles?

Here's all the games my dad and I bought yesterday. If I remember correctly, I bought Tecmo Super Bowl, Magic of Shshshshshshsh, the Strawberry Shortcake game, and Solaris. And my dad bought the rest, of course. It's not the greatest lot of games, but the NES titles and the two boxed Atari games really made the whole set worth it. My jaw dropped when I saw Tecmo Super Bowl going for only 5 bucks. Keystone Capers is also a classic and Solaris is one of the best looking games on the 2600. I'm also happy that we found another copy of Spongebob Movie, since it was a game I loved back then and we needed a new copy.

I'd be up for Famicom stuff. A lot of the early Namco ports like Galaxian, Dig Dug, and Mappy could make for good contests. And they're all great games too.

Videomation I think could actually make for a fun contest. Who can draw the best picture with a D pad?

I dunno Dragon Spirit, I guess.

2 hours ago, Tulpa said:

I'm actually kind of ambivalent on Tengen. They made some great games, and some not so great games. The Sega ports range from meh (Shinobi) to godawful (After Burner.) They definitely weren't infallible.

I'm probably one of the few people in the world who actually enjoys After Burner on NES. Does it compare to the arcade version? Absolutely not. But I still think it's quite playable and I can have some fun with it. The only Tengen games I remember not really caring for were Temple of Doom and Skull & Crossbones. The rest of their games were consistently good IMO. As for the Sega ports, Fantasy Zone is probably the best of the lot.

I'm in!

11 hours ago, Tanooki said:

The way you worded that seems you don't want Tengen releases on the list which is a shame.

I didn't say that Tengen games weren't allowed. I just wanted to see more varied responses, that's all. For the record, Rolling Thunder is one of my favorite NES games ever. So, I'm definitely cool with Tengen.

Here's an old one. This is my good Blaster Master paired with my ugly crayon Blaster Master. Normally, I would trade any duplicates that I have, but this one is just too good to give away.

Also, I somehow never noticed until now that the Nintendo seal on Blaster Master is tilted a little bit. Interesting

I didn't see a thread for this subject yet. So, hopefully I'm good.

We all know that Tengen was famous for making some of the best NES games not approved by Nintendo. But what about some other unlicensed gems? Personally, I really love Bee 52. It's a really cleverly designed shooter with a ton of personality to it. So, what are your unlicensed favorites? Or guilty pleasures, if you wanna go that route. Feel free to talk about any unlicensed games you want. It's just that Tengen gets most of the love and I was interested in seeing what non-Tengen games people liked.

No, but now this thread will be completely abandoned!!!

Eh, it probably deserved to die anyway.

I'll go ahead and post this here too.

This is the version of FamiTracker I use. https://github.com/jimbo1qaz/j0CC-FamiTracker/releases It's a fork of FamiTracker that I believe fixes some problems with regular FamiTracker. This should play the ftm.

Remix to Bed.ftm

Just get whatever games you feel like should be part of your collection. It's not up to us to decide what games are redundant to you. I have both the original Tengen and the later black Tengen version of Pac-Man and I consider them to both be worth owning. That won't be true for everybody, but it is for me. It all depends on what your personal goals are for collecting.

Oh shit, I didn't realize that there was a club. I don't check the clubs and just post on the main forum. Well, I guess this thread is useless now lol.

Anyway, here's the NSF.

Remix to Bed.nsf

This isn't an actual game development thread. However, this does relate somewhat to making games. So, I guess it kinda counts for homebrew. I saw that there was a lack of FamiTracker related discussion on the forum. So, I created this thread for musicians to share their work. If you're doing music for a homebrew project or just making a demo tune, feel free to post it here! It doesn't have to be all FamiTracker songs either. I just made it the focus of this thread because that's the program I use the most. I personally have no experience making software for the NES. However, I can write music for it, which is something. To start things off, here's one of my personal favorite songs that I've done using just the stock 2A03 hardware.

Remix to Bed.ftm

39 minutes ago, Kid Dracula said:

Millipede has been looped 

Sorry, I already did that one a couple days ago.