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Classic Video Games / Re: Anyone own a large import collection?

« on: August 24, 2015, 11:48:38 am »

There are a lot of reasons to buy import titles, especially for the Famicom and Super Famicom.  For one, you can get them a lot cheaper than their US counterparts.  A SNES cartridge for Chrono Trigger goes for up to $50 at auction.  I picked up a complete in box-in fantastic condition-copy for the Super Famicom for under $20 shipped.  The packaging and artwork is usually better on the Japanese versions and the inner tray is sturdier and prevents the cardboard boxes from being crushed.  I also like the cartridges themselves better than their US counterparts.

All of this pretty much. It's incredible how cheap Mother 2 is compared to the US version. Especially RPGs, tactics and simulations are mostly in the 5-20$ range CIB. Not so much for simpler platformers and action types, I guess because the language barrier is much less of a problem there. Wild Guns or Demon's Blazon for example are still super expensive on a SFC cart.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Super Game Boy game cartridges for Super Famicom?

« on: August 24, 2015, 11:41:20 am »

They're for memory packs to be used with the Satellaview.

http://satellaview.wikia.com/wiki/Slotted_cartridge

Thanks! That's pretty cool actually, never heard about that data broadcast before. So now its only purpose is for data storage unless I'd happen to find a memory pack prefilled with RPG Tsukuru extras.

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Classic Video Games / Super Game Boy game cartridges for Super Famicom?

« on: August 24, 2015, 07:22:01 am »

I've seen a couple of those and they all seem to be exclusive to the japanese Super Famicom. They seem to be regular games but with a Game Boy cartridge slot on top. What's its use?

For example I was interested in the RPG Tsukuru series and found out the second one has this type:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/RPG-Tsukuru-2-RPG-Maker-SFC-SNES-Super-Famicom-Nintendo-Japan-Import-US-Seller-/161640157153?hash=item25a2810fe1

I know there also was an RPG Tsukuru on Game Boy, so does that mean I need the corresponding Game Boy cart to make this work at all? Or maybe you can get extra stuff by connecting these two versions, like for example Metroid Fusion with Metroid Prime via link? I'd like to know before I jump on to this.

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Classic Video Games / Re: The top 5 games that defined your childhood

« on: August 24, 2015, 03:29:58 am »

5. Plok (SNES) I never owned this game (I just recently remembered the name of it.) but I'd rent it every chance I got.

Great one, too bad it was a flop back then. Love the style and especially the music!

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Classic Video Games / Re: First video game you ever played?

« on: August 24, 2015, 03:00:29 am »

The first games I played were Jungle Hunt, Boulder Dash, Jump Man, Giana Sisters, Summer Games, Mr. Robot, Robin Of The Wood on the C64 in the early 90ies. Which one of these was the first I can't tell for sure, but my family always told me it was Summer Games.

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General / Re: Moments In Games That Scared The Crap Out Of You

« on: August 20, 2015, 10:07:04 am »

I guess I can offer some thoughts on this topic.

None of the games I played really scared me, per se, but they have made me jump or weird me out. Recently, I had the pleasure of going through Eternal Darkness for the Game Cube. Everything about the game's atmosphere was wonderful from a horror standpoint. When your sanity meter gets lower and lower, this is when the game really shines as it attempts to mess with your head.

That bathtub is such a silly jump scare, but it gets me every time, haha..

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Classic Video Games / Re: Anyone own a large import collection?

« on: August 19, 2015, 12:48:02 pm »

Not a big import collection (cause I don't have a large collection), but it's growing. So far I got 8 Super Famicom games, 2 US SNES games, 1 US N64 cart and a japanese Turok - Dinosaur Hunter N64 cart for some reason (well it was dirt cheap and my old PAL cart is heavily censored, so there...).
Plan to get more, especially SNES/SFC, since europe didn't get half of the good stuff except Terranigma. My next buy probably is Mario's Super Picross, because I loved the Gameboy one.

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General / Re: Guess the Game!

« on: August 18, 2015, 07:17:34 am »

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General / Re: A Mini-Review of every Tetris game I own (in alphabetical order)

« on: August 18, 2015, 05:50:32 am »

Thanks for the short reviews, interested in Tetris DS now!

Personally I liked Tetrisphere on the N64 as a kid. 3D Tetris games tend to be sluggish as hell compared to classic Tetris but the spherical "playground" was an interesting twist to the gameplay.

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General / Re: August 2015 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: August 18, 2015, 04:10:37 am »

Another wishlist item arrived today along with two impulse buys.

Can you guess which is which?



Battletoads Battle Maniacs (SNES)
Chuck Norris Superkicks manual (ColecoVision)
Sparkster (Genesis)

Guessing Sparkster was the wantlist item. Battletoads is more notorious than good.

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General / Re: Guess the Game!

« on: August 17, 2015, 02:13:49 am »

I'm guessing Resident Evil: Gaiden for the dog pic.

BZZZT.

That's Dog from Shadowrun (SNES).



I can't be the only person here that's played that game.

Well done!

Not a very popular RPG on the System, but a pretty cool one IMO.

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General / Re: August 2015 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: August 16, 2015, 09:36:53 am »

Oh boy <3 and only 50$, what a steal! Congrats.

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General / Collector's frustration (missed deals, deals gone bad, general mishaps)

« on: August 15, 2015, 08:28:48 am »

This depressing thread is for stories of how you got unlucky: games that arrived broken or not at all, terrific one of a kind deals that you missed by a hair, finding out that your super mint & complete game you paid top dollar for turned out to be in terrible conditions or incomplete, opened a parcel with a paper cutter and cut the outer game box in the process, your game shelf broke down and ruined half of your well kept collection, bought a rarity and received a shitty russian repro - all of your collecting mishaps that made your heart sank.

One of my most memorable ones happened some years ago. My mom is a regular flea market goer and knows I'm a game nut so she casually looks after my main console interests. So after she attended one of the bigger ones in my area she told me of this guy who had a couple of loose SNES carts and one of them had a price tag of 10€, looked like I might be into it: Demon's Crest. She did not know that this one was one of my most desired games and a loose cart of the PAL version already sold for more than ten times on ebay easily, so you can see I was more than a little excited. Fortunately the flea market continued on the following day, there was hope the guy would still be there, and so of course I went together with her.

Long story short: We did find the guy again ( ), he happened to still have the game ( ) so I asked him about the price with sweating palms, hardly able to contain myself.

Guy: "Oh you know, this one really is super super rare, you should check out ebay, it sells for like 200€. I can sell this one to you for 120€. What do you think?"

Me: ->  -> ->  "No, thanks..."

Turns out, the guy apparantly got the great idea to look up what he's actually selling just the day before and found out that Demon's Crest was way more worth than just 10€. I could have kicked myself that I did not went there earlier! My mom kind of felt bad about it but I told her it's no big deal, shit happens, etc.. However deep down I felt heartbroken, haha.

Besides, who tries to sell a fucking loose cart for 120€ on a flea market of all places anyway? Moron...

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General / Re: What's your best gaming deal to date?

« on: August 15, 2015, 07:38:32 am »

Good deals before retro gaming exploded:

-A brand new Atari 2600 Jr. for 5 deutsch marks (now = 2,50€) in a super market stock clearance sale. It has like a billion price tags pasted on top of each other, the oldest one I can make out is a 60 deutsch marks price tag. They also somehow had dozens of copies of Syndicate & Sim City 2000 for the SNES, 2,50 marks each.

-boxed FF3 & complete Splatterhouse 2 for 5 marks each (second hand shop)

-complete and mint Pitfall, Defender, Pac Man (ugh) for Atari which I could haggle down to 8 marks together, also got an NES with a complete and new copy of Super Mario 3 and the obligatory Super Mario Bros. 1 for 20 marks from the same seller (flea market)

-Mega Drive Mk.II together with 8 complete games for 40 marks from a school friend

These kind of deals don't happen anymore

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General / Re: Guess the Game!

« on: August 14, 2015, 08:14:02 pm »

^^no idea but I'll drop something as well to give some more momentum: