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General / Re: June 2025 - Recently added to collection/recently purchased

« on: June 09, 2025, 06:24:24 pm »

Switch
Fuga: Melodies of Steel (Japanese physical copy)
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2 (Japanese physical copy)
Fuga: Melodies of Steel 3 (Japanese physical copy)

Switch 2
Nintendo Switch 2 console
Mario Kart World
Switch 2 Pro Controller

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General / Re: May 2025 - Recently added to collection/recently purchased

« on: May 12, 2025, 11:10:25 pm »

It's been a bit of a slow month. I've certainly been seeing a bunch of games at thrift stores, but it's just been the usual sports games, Wii exercise games, Kinect Adventures, and occasional Lego game. No new releases have me interested and I've been mostly chilling with Pokemon Sapphire and Pokemon Colosseum, trying to get all 386 Pokemon.

GBA
e-Reader
Mario Party-e
Balloon Fight-e
Excitebike-e
Clu Clu Land-e
Tennis-e
Donkey Kong 3-e
Pinball-e
Air Hockey-e
Game & Watch: Manhole

Other
Jakks Pacific Mega Man X Mega Buster from 2019
Sonic the Hedgehog The Official Cookbook

The e-Reader had Donkey Kong Jr. still saved on it which was neat and I have a few old Pokemon cards that have e-Reader dot codes on them. Overall, the device is neat as an early DLC idea, but looking at the requirements for hooking the device up to another GBA, I can see why it never caught on outside of Japan. Having one of these e-Readers now though, makes me wish I could go back like 20 years and tell my kid self to hold on to the e-Reader cards that came with Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3.

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General / Re: April 2025 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: April 08, 2025, 08:56:42 pm »

NES
Deadly Towers
Ultima: Exodus
Gauntlet II

GBA
Pokemon Sapphire

Gamecube
Pokemon Colosseum

Switch
Wargroove Deluxe Edition
Freedom Planet 2

PS4
Gimmick! Special Edition

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General / Re: March 2025 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: March 25, 2025, 07:13:45 pm »

Virtual Boy
Waterworld
3D Tetris

Game Boy Color
Scooby-Doo! Classic Creep Capers

N64
Controller (with a nice stick)

Gamecube
DOL-101 Platinum Gamecube console
1019 memory card

DS
Mahjongg Mysteries: Ancient Egypt

Xbox 360
250 GB Hard Drive

Other
Bowser's Fury promotional poster
TimeShock (a board game by Nintendo from 1972)

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General / Re: February 2025 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: February 06, 2025, 08:39:01 pm »

The second half of my birthday gift arrived today which is the Nintendo Block Set.

Famicom/NES
Nintendo Block Set
Gyromite manual

Game & Watch
Mario Bros.

Virtual Boy
V-Tetris

DS
Scribblenauts

PS1
Die Hard Trilogy 2
SuperLite 1500- Oekaki Puzzle
SuperLite 1500- Oekaki Puzzle 3

PS3
Catherine

Dreamcast
Performance TremorPlus rumble pak

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General / Re: January 2025 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: January 30, 2025, 12:54:29 pm »

I didn't think this was going to be a big month for pickups for me, but looking back, it was pretty decent.

NES
R.O.B with Gyromite and Gyromite attachments (birthday gift for myself)

SNES
Rockman X (v1.0)
Rockman X2

N64
Mario Kart 64

DS
Mega Man Battle Network 5: Double Team DS
Mega Man Star Force Pegasus
Shooting Star Rockman 2: Berserk X Shinobi
Shooting Star Rockman 3: Red Joker
Art Academy
Personal Trainer: Walking
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
Hotel Dusk: Room 215

Switch
Kirby's Return to Dreamland DX (90% off at Meijer)
Pikmin 4 (90% off at Meijer)

PS1
Spider- The Video Game

PS4
Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series

PS5
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Dreamcast
Sonic Adventure 2

Other
NES Works 1985 & '86
NES Works 1987
1989 Wilton Super Mario Brothers cake tin
Mad Katz Gamecube controller extension cables
Voultar SNES Jr. RGB mod chip
2 Sega Pico consoles (with 2 interactive books)

I was surprised how neat and fun (for something made for little kids) the Picos are. They're just edutainment devices, but how they work with their book cartridges is cool and a good use of old Genesis/Mega Drive tech. Also ROB is shockingly functional (although a bit fussy on the angle he's facing the TV); just very loud. Certainly makes playing Gyromite more interesting and challenging.

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General / Re: December 2024 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: December 20, 2024, 06:29:05 pm »

Game Boy
Robocop manual
Motocross Maniacs manual
Tetris manual

GBA
Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race

Switch
ANTONBLAST

Other
3 Mega Man Battle Network Battle Chips (016, 019, 226)
T-Arts Rick from Kirby figure
RGB Blaster
Gravity Circuit soundtrack (CD)
Monster brand Xbox component cable

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General / Re: FPS, RPG, SIM ... where are you "at home"?

« on: December 01, 2024, 08:30:29 pm »

Hard to say just two, but I'd say platformers and RPGs, specifically just turn based ones. The Dragon Quest and Mega Man franchises are my "at home" games.

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General / Re: Your Top 5 Video Game Sound Tracks

« on: November 20, 2024, 11:25:41 pm »

In no particular order:

Gravity Circuit
Freedom Planet
Spark the Electric Jester
No Straight Roads
Persona Q2

I'll throw in some honorable mentions too:

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red/Blue Rescue Team
Snowboard Kids
Mega Man 10
Freedom Planet 2
Dragon Quest VIII

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General / Re: November 2024 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: November 12, 2024, 11:22:39 pm »

Took what feels like forever, but Sonic X Shadow Generations for PS4 finally arrived today from PlayAsia which I think makes that the first game I got this month. Was hoping the game would've arrived quicker since Dragon Quest III HD-2D releases in two days and that game is going to be taking up 100% of my gaming time.

PS4
Sonic X Shadow Generations
Sonic Superstars
Sand Land
Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth

PS5
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Switch
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Dreamcast
Green VMU

Xbox Series
Shock Blue controller

DS
Contra 4

Other
Kirby figure

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General / Re: October 2024 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: October 03, 2024, 03:24:13 pm »

NES
Dragon Warrior with inserts

SNES
SNES Jr. console

Gamecube
Blue Retro Internal Adapter

Game Boy
Tetris (Japan, v1.0 Minuet version)

Sega CD
Final Fight CD
Corpse Killer

Saturn
Logic Puzzle: Rainbow Town

Other
Hallmark Santa Sonic ornament

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General / Re: September 2024 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: September 06, 2024, 06:36:07 pm »

Virtual Boy
Jack Bros. (Japanese version)

GBA
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (manual only)

Switch
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir
Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind

PS1
Arcade Greatest Hits/The Atari Collection 1

PS3
Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed
PS Move and Camera

360
6 Demo Discs

Other
Mega 7800
Commodore joystick
1 PS1 Memory card
1 PS2 Memory card
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney manga volume 1

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General / Re: August 2024 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased New

« on: August 30, 2024, 06:26:55 pm »

Nothing much this month, but that's okay.

GBA
Spyro: Attack of the Rhynocs

Switch
Emio- The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club
Super Bomberman R 2

Other
Nintendo Playing Cards from 1989-ish

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General / Re: July 2024 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased New

« on: July 25, 2024, 10:19:58 pm »

Switch
Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
Spark the Electric Jester 3

Gamecube
RetroBit Prism Component Cable
2 Third Party Gamecube controllers (ones that aren't completely horrible)

N64
75% of 1080 Snowboarding (somehow the back half of the cartridge shell is missing, but the game still works a-okay though)

SNES
2 controllers
Rockman X3

Famicom
Golf (side A)/Super Mario Bros. (side B)

Nintendo DS
Mega Man Starforce 3: Black Ace

PS1
Dragon Quest IV
Tekken 3

PS2
Buzz controllers

Other
Nintendo/PlayStation/Xbox Composite & S-video cable
Hallmark Xbox ornament
Hallmark Sonic the Hedgehog Collecting Rings ornament

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General / Re: June 2024 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased New

« on: June 20, 2024, 07:37:05 pm »

PS1
Ape Escape

PS2
Power Drome

Gamecube
Star Fox Adventures
Star Fox Assault

Wii
Redsteel
Rampage: Total Destruction

Game Boy
Heavyweight Championship Boxing

DS
Brain Age

PSP
Metal Gear Acid
MGS: Portal Ops
MGS: Peace Walker

Other
Commodore PR-100 Calculator
Commodore 1541-II Disk Drive
360 120GB HDD