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General / Advanced collection storage solutions...?

« on: May 12, 2015, 01:54:37 am »

After many years of trying to keep up with displaying an ever-expanding game collection, I've decided to move my lesser-played items into storage boxes. I'm looking forward to having less cluttered shelves, actually! But I want a super-killer way of organizing the games that do end up in boxes.

In the past, when I've packed up my collection for moving, my main concern has been just putting as much in the boxes as possible without damaging the games. Standard jewel case games are easy enough to pack into a box, but then you have various sizes of Famicom game boxes, loose GB/GBC/GBA/VB/DS carts in a jumble, easily-crushed PC game retail boxes, etc. Those are harder to pack in safely. And they aren't necessarily organized if, say, you need to find and pull out a specific title. (I tried organizing boxes by platform once, but I always ended up with half-filled boxes.)

I'm wondering if anyone's done anything sophisticated to keep the order within storage boxes. I've been thinking about inventory sheets, boxes within boxes, etc. It sounds a little overboard, but it also sounds a little awesome. I dunno! What have you tried that you like?

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Marketplace / Got girly games? Wanna sell/donate/trade?

« on: January 09, 2013, 07:36:44 pm »

WANTED :: Girly games for FEMICOM
// Complete-in-box preferred, but loose is OK. If you wish to donate (rather than sell or trade) an item listed here, you will have my personal gratitude as well as recognition on the FEMICOM donors page that is currently in development. //

Atari 2600
Strawberry Shortcake Musical Match-ups

Casio Loopy
Any game except Little Romance and Wanwan Aijou Monogatari
Magical Shop attachment
Sticker paper roll

NES/Famicom
Lost Word of Jenny
Mahou no Princess Minky Momo
Videomation (for my personal game collection--CIB only)

LCD
Barbie for Girls Beach Adventure
Barbie for Girls Hearts & Stars
Barbie for Girls Shopping Adventure
Beauty Salon
Cake Shop
Electronic Full House
Hello Kitty Carrot Story
Hello Kitty Hello Submarine
Hello Kitty Schoolbus
Hello Kitty Seaside Holiday
Hello Kitty Tennis School
Kerokerokeroppi Herpit
Koi no Dai Pinch
Love Star
Marmalade Boy Herpit
My Birthday
My Fiance
Perm Salon
Petit Herpit
Sailor Moon R: Herpit
Sailor Moon S: Moon Cosmic Power
Sailor Moon S: Touch Panel Game

PC
Barbie Storymaker

Super Cassette Vision
Milky Princess

Hardware
Super Cassette Vision Lady
Hello Kitty Game Boy Color
Hello Kitty Game Boy Pocket


FOR TRADE
// I would prefer to do trades for the items listed above, but I realize that most of the stuff on my wishlist is not super common. I will let this simmer for a while as a trade thread, and eventually I'll edit it to be a trade/sale thread with prices.

GBA (Cart only)
Astro Boy: Omega Factor
Frogger’s Adventures: Temple of the Frog
Golden Sun
Gunstar Super Heroes

N64 (Cart only)
Goldeneye 007
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (gray ver.)

NDS (Complete)
Bangai-O Spirits
Elite Beat Agents
Meteos
n+
SimCity DS

PC
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
Axis & Allies
Baghdad Central Desert Gunner
Battlefield 2: Special Forces Expansion Pack
Clifford the Big Red Dog: Phonics
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Diner Dash: Hometown Hero
Enter the Matrix
Hidden Mysteries: The White House
Hide & Secret 3: Pharaoh’s Quest
Home Sweet Home
Mia’s Big Adventure Collection: Romaine’s New Hat
Mia’s Big Adventure Collection: The Kidnap Caper
Peter Jackson’s King Kong
Snood Deluxe
UNO Undercover
The Whispered World

PS1 (Complete)
Dance Dance Revolution Konamix (Greatest Hits ver.) – broken hinges on jewel case
Final Fantasy IX (Greatest Hits ver.)

PS2 (Box + disc only)
Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA

SMS (Box only except where noted)
Alien Syndrome
Ghostbusters
Great Ice Hockey – manual only
Kenseiden – box and manual
Pro Wrestling
Zaxxon 3-D – manual only

SNES (Cart only)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
PGA Tour Golf

Wii (Complete)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Rampage: Total Destruction (NIB, shrinkwrapped)
MotionPlus controller attachment (NIB, sealed)
Octomania
Samba De Amigo
yellow maracas controllers for Samba De Amigo (loose)
Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure

Books/Magazines
Prima Super Mario Galaxy 2 Premiere Edition strategy guide
GamePro #213 June 2006 issue

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Hardware and Tech / Anyone ever replaced a joystick in an old arcade cabinet?

« on: December 28, 2012, 07:07:45 pm »

I am looking for recommendations on replacing a crappy joystick in my Mario Bros. wide-body cabinet. The P1 joystick is sunken in and hard to move, requiring a lot of muscle as compared to the P2 joystick. I'd like to have something that is or that looks original to the machine. Has anyone here done a joystick replacement before? Recommendations on where to buy or what to do/not to do? Thanks!

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General / An invitation to visit and/or contribute to my video game website, FEMICOM

« on: December 20, 2012, 02:14:59 am »

Hello, friends! Now that I've been here for almost a year (!), I thought I'd share a little bit about one of my game-related endeavors.

I am the director of FEMICOM, the feminine computer museum, online at http://femicom.org. I seek to archive girly video games, electronic toys, and software of the 20th century. You can read more about the museum on the website's About page, but briefly, the goal is to collect and preserve the memory of "pink games," often derided or discarded, and other electronic items that were created in the '80s and '90s in an attempt to appeal to a female audience. I maintain an online database of games as well as a physical collection of games, boxes, manuals, etc. By collecting physical copies, I am able to get reliable sources for release data as well as photos, screenshots, video gameplay, etc. (From what I can tell via Google searches, FEMICOM is the sole source of information on at least a few of these games!) In addition to collecting games, I am also collecting gameplay memories from the site's visitors as well as information from game developers and artists in the form of sketches, interviews, and so on.

If you have memories to share, suggestions, or materials to donate to the collection, do let me know. (I'm especially eager to get a complete collection of the Casio Loopy games, though I know they're hard to come by.) Or, just check out the site! I would appreciate it. The site is fairly new, so there is certainly much to add, but FEMICOM is getting bigger and more complete by the week. I'm hopeful that I can one day make the physical collection open to the public through museum installation, though I realize there may be some legal barriers. Stay tuned for further developments, and thank you for reading!

Contact information: femicommusem@gmail.com