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General / Re: Is there a game console you have that most people don't?

« on: October 01, 2016, 05:03:08 pm »

My most uncommon game consoles:

• Barbie Game Wizard (MGA)
• Loopy (Casio)
• Master System Girl (Sega/Tectoy)
• Vectrex (WT/MB)
• Virtual Boy (Nintendo)

I also have a few unusual game console peripherals, such as the Pro Fighter X (Super Famicom), Magical Shop (Casio Loopy), Slide Controller (Nintendo DS), and Piano Controller (Nintendo DS).

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General / Re: 52 games in 2015 - VGCollect Edition

« on: July 11, 2015, 05:47:07 am »

Updated my original post with Kirby's Adventure (NES on Wii U) and Pop Cutie! Street Fashion Simulator (DS on 3DS). Pop Cutie! is an underrated DS gem; if you want to learn a little more about the game, I wrote a review that you can read here: http://www.femicom.org/blog/popcutietxt-is-a-bot-that-tweets-fashion-advice-from-a-nintendo-ds-game/.

I'm up to 8 games completed, putting me on track for about one game per month. Nice!

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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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General / Re: 52 games in 2015 - VGCollect Edition

« on: April 29, 2015, 11:55:02 pm »

New adds:

#3  2/27/2015 Zero Zero (PC)

#4  3/10/2015 To Build a Better Mousetrap (PC)

#5  3/31/2015 Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 (PS3)
Currently working on getting all the different endings becaaauuuuse I don't know.

#6 4/19/2015 Style Savvy: Trendsetters (3DS)
Such a nice game; really looking forward to the third installment in this series. (Really wishing the boyfriend DLC for Trendsetters had been released in the US, though.)

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General / Re: 52 games in 2015 - VGCollect Edition

« on: February 23, 2015, 04:21:55 pm »

#1  2/18/2015 Mary-Kate and Ashley Crush Course (PS1 on PS3)
The PS1 is part of the generation of consoles I totally skipped when it was new, so now I'm going back to have a laugh at early 3D graphics. This game was surprisingly hard for a kids' game. While frustrating at times, I persevered because I absolutely had to know who had a crush on me. (It was Brent.)

#2  2/20/2015 Hoshi no Kirby (GB)
Kirby's Adventure (NES) is one of my all-time favorite games, so it was a real tragedy that I hadn't played through the original Game Boy Kirby until now. The game is super-short (I beat it on my first-ever playthrough in about 40-ish minutes), but it's absolutely beautiful. All Game Boy games should look and sound this good.

Updated.

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General / Re: 52 games in 2015 - VGCollect Edition

« on: February 20, 2015, 01:45:15 am »

Hmm... maybe! Got it CIB, by chance?

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General / Re: 52 games in 2015 - VGCollect Edition

« on: February 19, 2015, 12:42:15 am »

I doubt I'll reach 52 completed games this year, but it's fun to track things in any case. I think now I'm on a mission to play through all of the Mary-Kate and Ashley games. (Any recommendations?)

#1  2/18/2015 Mary-Kate and Ashley Crush Course (PS1 on PS3)
The PS1 is part of the generation of consoles I totally skipped when it was new, so now I'm going back to have a laugh at early 3D graphics. This game was surprisingly hard for a kids' game. While frustrating at times, I persevered because I absolutely had to know who had a crush on me. (It was Brent.)

#2  2/20/2015 Hoshi no Kirby (GB)
Kirby's Adventure (NES) is one of my all-time favorite games, so it was a real tragedy that I hadn't played through the original Game Boy Kirby until now. The game is super-short (I beat it on my first-ever playthrough in about 40-ish minutes), but it's absolutely beautiful. All Game Boy games should look and sound this good.

#3  2/27/2015 Zero Zero (PC)

#4  3/10/2015 To Build a Better Mousetrap (PC)

#5  3/31/2015 Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 (PS3)
Currently working on getting all the different endings becaaauuuuse I don't know.

#6 4/19/2015 Style Savvy: Trendsetters (3DS)
Such a nice game; really looking forward to the third installment in this series. (Really wishing the boyfriend DLC for Trendsetters had been released in the US, though.)

#7 6/3/2015 Kirby's Adventure (NES on Wii U)
My favorite game gets yet another playthrough! Always finding new things to enjoy about this game.

#8 7/11/2015 Pop Cutie! Street Fashion Simulation (DS on 3DS)
A super-underrated fashion game by Koei. More challenging and weirder than Style Savvy.

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Video Game Database Discussion / Re: Category/Platform Requests 2015

« on: February 08, 2015, 04:41:24 am »

Casio Loopy Accessory [JP], please!

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Modern Video Games / Re: Club Nintendo February Rewards!

« on: February 07, 2015, 04:43:55 pm »

Had 500 coins, so I picked up Earthbound (Wii U) and Chibi-Robo: Photo Finder (3DS). Sad to see Club Nintendo go...

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Modern Video Games / Re: Upcoming Niche Japanese Games

« on: February 06, 2015, 06:35:35 pm »

Glad to hear from other Neptunia fans! I didn't keep up with PS3 releases much while I was in grad school, so I completely missed hearing about this series until now.

I just picked up a used copy of mk2 and am enjoying all strange and wonderful references to old game consoles. (DECO tapes! What!) Hopefully I chose an OK place in the series to start.

I'm kind of curious whether there are any in-depth fan guides that point out all of the references. There's a wikia that has a decent amount of information, but surely the developers had to hand over some kind of massive reference guide to the localizers, right...?

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Site Feedback / Re: Consolidate LCD games

« on: November 13, 2014, 07:06:05 pm »

As an LCD game collector, I support this idea, too!

For me, having them divided by maker (Konami, Tiger, et al.) is not terribly important. I would probably put all the dedicated handhelds in one category and then systems with interchangeable games (game.com, Game Wizard) into their own categories.

I would also vote for a separate consolidated category called "LED handhelds" for things like Mattel Baseball, Blip, and Horoscope Computer.

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General / Re: VGCollect Member on Retronauts Podcast!

« on: May 04, 2014, 01:57:31 pm »

Ah, thanks for posting the link! I had a lot of fun chatting with them.

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Classic Video Games / Re: What's the oldest CRT television that you own and game on?

« on: April 24, 2014, 04:45:24 pm »

I would love to get a Philco Predicta. They really are a thing of beauty.
Edit: Apparently there's a company that makes reproduction sets. http://www.predicta.com/gallery.shtml My God I want one.

Ooh, prett~y! Reminds me of being at the Museum of Electric Wonders and Late-Night Grilled Cheese Parlour. So many spacey TVs; definitely worth a visit if you find yourself in West Texas.

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Classic Video Games / Re: What's the oldest CRT television that you own and game on?

« on: April 23, 2014, 08:57:53 am »

I have two oldie Commodore 1702 monitors, and I absolutely love them for 8- to 32-bit consoles. Their built-in speakers make C64 and NES audio sound great.

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: June 05, 2013, 03:07:20 am »

Closing in on the 100% completion mark on Picross 3D for NDS. Crazy addicted at the moment...