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

« on: January 14, 2013, 11:58:04 am »

Hey, sorry... been out of town. Thanks for the offer on Videomation, but I am looking for that particular item to be CIB. I'll update that and add a few more items to the trade list here shortly. As for Disney Princess: Magical Jewels, that game would be too modern for FEMICOM, so I think I'll pass. Thanks, though! I'm curious about the story of the cart, though... did the game come with the oven on purpose, or was it a second-hand toy that accidentally had the game inside it?

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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 / Re: Anyone ever replaced a joystick in an old arcade cabinet?

« on: January 09, 2013, 04:36:43 pm »

Thanks! The CP doesn't have an acrylic overlay. (Maybe it ought to though... the original stickers are there but peeling up a bit.)

I found this awesome tutorial on opening cabinets. He also does a video on replacing coin door locks and replacing marquis lights. <3 <3 <3

Given my schedule, I probably won't be able to get around to fixing this until March, unfortunately. But I'm feeling pretty good about it now!

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: More Missing Consoles

« on: January 07, 2013, 01:56:43 am »

Are we allowed to add old 80's handheld games like Tandy or Mattel LED handhelds? If so what section is the best to put them in? Hardware? Other?

BTW, Mattel handhelds have their own section: http://vgcollect.com/browse/mattelhandheld

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: NEW Duplicate Listing Thread

« on: December 29, 2012, 05:10:48 pm »

Casio Loopy
Dream Change: Kogane-chan no Fashion Party
http://vgcollect.com/item/20997
http://vgcollect.com/item/27933 -- Can be deleted, in 0 lists/collections and doesn't have as much information as the previous entry

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General / Re: What Are You 2013 Game Collecting Goals

« on: December 29, 2012, 12:03:26 pm »

Will you be adding these to your "Sell-List" here...or can you link us to these treasures(?) once you've sorted everything out?!

I am currently in the process of adding them all to my Sell List, and I'll probably make a thread once they're all sorted and ready to sell or trade. It's a mix of NES, SMS, PC, GBA, N64, PS1, GC, and Wii stuff. Can't remember what all is in there but I'm fairly certain OoT and TwiPri are in the mix. 

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

« on: December 29, 2012, 11:47:28 am »

Cool, thanks!

After looking at the Mike's Arcade link, I'm starting to think that maybe I can just repair that stick rather than replace the whole thing. I've been a bit wary of opening my cabinet up. Maybe it's because once I start doing work on it, I'll find more and more things to fix (like the bottom coin door that doesn't have a key)!

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General / Re: What Are You 2013 Game Collecting Goals

« on: December 29, 2012, 11:36:00 am »

For my personal collection:
1. To play some of the games that I haven't played through yet. I am thinking about just  setting a timer for 15 minutes each day and picking a random title off the shelf.
2. To get more of my systems in a "ready to play" state. I used to have a switchbox setup with 8 different consoles ready to go, but I ended up getting rid of the furniture that all of that was on, and that TV broke...
3. To sell all my extras--two big boxes full of games and controllers to sell!
4. To get boxes for my loose Genesis and SMS games because... well... it's nice to have all those guys in their little plastic homes.

For my FEMICOM collection, the two things I really, really hope to get this year are the rest of the Casio Loopy game library, Casio Loopy peripherals, and a Lady Cassette Vision. Lofty, lofty goals, but hey, you never know! Some girly, '80s-era LCD handhelds from Japan would be nice, too.

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

« on: December 21, 2012, 01:35:33 pm »

Thank you for all the suggestions; they're great!

There are a number of reasons I chose to limit the collection to 2000 and earlier. Given that it's a personal undertaking, I definitely considered project scale and my own areas of expertise. But I also think these are the games most in need of concerted preservation efforts.

Since the Wii came out, there's been a fair amount of discourse about how gaming and the gamer demographic is changing. More females are playing video games. Meanwhile, retro gaming aesthetic is invoked as a device to return the game-literate player to "the way things used to be." Mega Man 9 is hard because Mega Man 2 was hard, and only the most practiced players could get through it; no social gamers allowed, so to speak. Of course I don't mean just Mega Man 9 but also the huge swath of mobile and indie games that feature an 8- or 16-bit aesthetic as an appeal to an earlier era of gaming.

I think there are some really interesting ideas embedded in there about the retro gaming aesthetic and larger cultural issues within gaming. How they intersect with gender and gender stereotypes is the focus of my study as a graduate student, in fact. By cataloguing games from 2000 and earlier, FEMICOM is able to catalogue the retro and the feminine together, which I think makes it an interesting site for discussion.

Of course, soon enough 2000-2010 is going to be retro, but that's a worry for another day...!

(By the way, I tested the email link, and it worked for me just fine. I don't know whether it was a hiccup or is perhaps a browser issue, but I would certainly appreciate any additional information about the error you received.)

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News / Re: Looking for Collection Photos

« on: December 20, 2012, 02:58:24 pm »

Is logging out of the website the only way to view the cycle of collection banners? Clicking the vgcollect banner when I'm logged in takes me to my collection rather than to the homepage.

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

« on: December 20, 2012, 11:29:09 am »

One of the most interesting parts of this website is trying to figure out what "stereotypically girly" means! The discussion is just as important as the website, if not more so.

I'm on the fence about whether Kirby and Yoshi's Island should remain. They have pastel colors and I believe did have a stronger appeal to girls than many other games of that era, but honestly they may not really belong after all. I need to look into the cute-'em-ups (great word!); I know even the SFC Parodius has some amazing floral tiled backgrounds in menu screens. And while Super Princess Peach more than fits the bill, I'm only collecting games from 2000 or earlier.

Thanks for your comments!

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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

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Hardware and Tech / Re: Fixing a Virtual Boy display!

« on: December 20, 2012, 01:59:53 am »

You put a Virtual Boy in the oven?! The thought of this terrifies me for some reason.



BUT, good to know.

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General / Re: This game DOESN'T SUCK?!

« on: December 20, 2012, 12:13:37 am »

M. C. Kids!