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General / Re: The Pay It Forward Thread

« on: January 10, 2013, 03:48:53 pm »

Anyone here a big anime fan?

Preferrably, "older" (30-40 year olds)?

Just wondering, cause the anime I got yesterday "Ghastly Prince Enma: Burning Up" is pretty damned hilarious...if you catch/understand the references to (Grateful Dead, the Eagles, Kiss, and tons & tons) of other references to music, pop-culture, movies, and tv shows from before (and up until) the end of the 80's...or so.

At any rate - my "personal" copy of the LE came w/ both Blu Ray and (standard) DVD discs (2 discs each) - I'd be willing to "Pay it forward" on the 2 regular DVD discs & package them together in one of the cases (I have 2 cases...each one has 1 blu ray & 1 dvd - I'd just combine the 2 dvd's into 1 case & keep the other for my blu ray copies)...

Like I said though - if you don't/won't get these older references...it will probably not be very enjoyable to you...at all

I'm actually a huge anime fan.  And I'm in my 30's =P

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Marketplace / Re: Selling off some of the collection

« on: January 05, 2013, 09:04:23 pm »

dibs on the zelda!

Damnit!

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General / Re: The Pay It Forward Thread

« on: January 04, 2013, 07:15:07 am »

I've got an extra copy of Dragon Warrior for NES, just the cart, if anyone is actually looking for one.  I found it a few days ago in my trunk in the shed.  I've also got a few random items for TF2 that I gathered when I was giving the game a test try.  I doubt they are rare or anything, but anyone is welcome to them.

Sadly, my collect is still tiny so I don't really have a whole lot to offer to the thread. 

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Classic Video Games / Re: Are retro games harder than current-gen?

« on: December 15, 2012, 04:02:41 am »

YES!  One of the big reasons I switched to retro games is because of the difficulty.  Most of my friends at school say that retro games are so easy and I should play real games like Halo.  I would like to see the looks on their face if they played something like Wizardry!  Of what I have played this is what I would consider to be the hardest and I am slowly making my way though it making my own maps.

You give me hope for our future.

Thank you.

Edit to add :  If you are playing Prooving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, Murphy's Ghost is the key to that game.  Lots and lots of killing Murphy's Ghost.

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General / Re: Game Room Pics

« on: December 10, 2012, 01:36:02 am »

So, my first step to building the gamer room was complete today, or so I thought.  Managed to wall mount the new TV that was delivered.  Set up a PS2 to test out the picture.  Turned on the TV for the first time and found this :

http://imgur.com/z7Nw7

Yep, a shattered LCD screen on the brand new TV.

 :'(

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General / Re: December 2012 - Recently Added to Collection/ Recently Purchased

« on: December 10, 2012, 01:32:10 am »

Picked up a Super Game Boy today at a local retro game shop for $10.  Happily added to the collection.

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General / Re: December 2012 - Recently Added to Collection/ Recently Purchased

« on: December 09, 2012, 06:28:22 am »

Just picked up Valkyria Chronicles last night from Gamestop.  Loving the game.

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General / Re: Where do you buy your games?

« on: December 08, 2012, 08:19:13 pm »

I've been *trying* to buy games on Ebay.  But the sellers keep canceling my bids for some reason.  When I check their reason why they say Explanation: Miscellaneous Reason.  I try to contact them and ebay just gives me an error message with "the seller cannot answer your question" before I even get to ask it.  Its almost like these people are banning me from auctions or something and I have no idea why

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General / Re: Collection Achievements thread

« on: December 08, 2012, 07:35:59 am »

Sorry for the initial confusion, I forget sometimes that not everyone knows my silly local slang ^^~

Due to my job, I'm actually getting pretty good with the English/Irish/Scottish slang, terms and accents.  Not that I can speak with the accents myself, but I can understand them a LOT more.

Except the thick Scottish ones.  Oi.  I think I need to be more drunk for those.

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General / I need ideas for a gaming throne. Show me your gaming seat.

« on: December 08, 2012, 05:17:28 am »

Title says it all.  I need ideas for a chair for my gaming space I'm setting up in my bedroom.  Show me your gaming spot!

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General / Re: Save your Change, Folks

« on: December 04, 2012, 05:59:40 pm »

Yeah there is one of those Coinstar machines at the Walmart by the house. Amazon card would work for me (or whatever has the cheapest game Im looking at).

Just a heads up, the Coinstar machines in Wal-mart don't offer amazon.com ecerts.  We're not allowed to place machines in Wal-mart with an Amazon.com option due to our contract with Wal-mart (amazon being a major competitor for walmart and all that).

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: December 04, 2012, 05:54:59 pm »

Finished Final Fantasy II (GBA) this morning and am going to start Final Fantasy III (NDS) sometime tonight.  Another step along my Final Fantasy marathon!

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General / Re: There's no greater gaming nirvana than...

« on: December 03, 2012, 11:42:47 am »

Final Fantasy IV.  The one game I could play forever and never get tired of it.

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General / Re: December 2012 - Recently Added to Collection/ Recently Purchased

« on: December 02, 2012, 05:37:46 am »

So the Wii U launched in Europe this week

Haven't had a chance to play ZombiU yet, but loving the New Mario Bros. U and Nano Assault Neo

That ZombiU is pretty "meh" as a single player game.  But doing the 2 player vrs mode is a BLAST.  Many hours spent filled with evil laughs by the zombie kings and horror filled shrieks by the players in our house.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Favorite Retro Console

« on: December 02, 2012, 04:00:52 am »

For me it would be the SNES for sure.  My favorite system hands down.

As for a disliked system?  I'm not really sure I have one.. ?