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Site Feedback / Re: error request when looking at collection page of big collections

« on: February 15, 2025, 05:55:52 pm »

Having the same problem here

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General / Re: Top 30 Pick Ups of 2024!

« on: January 05, 2025, 03:43:25 am »

Here are some of my top pick ups of 2024

Wonder Dog: Sega cd
Final Fight: Sega cd
Klonoa 2: GBA
Klonoa: Ps1
Panic Bomber: Virtual boy
Nester's Funky Bowling: Virtual boy
Turrican: TurboGrafx-16
Darkwing Duck: TurboGrafx-16
Tech Romancer: Dreamcast
The Twisted Tails of Spike Mcfang:Super Nes
Capitan Commando: Super Nes
Gunbird: Dreamcast
Giga Wing 2:Dreamcast
Lunacy: Saturn
Saturn Bomberman: Saturn
Pro Sports Hockey: Nes
Keo Flying Squadron: Sega cd

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General / Re: Top 30 Pick Ups of 2024!

« on: January 05, 2025, 02:02:11 am »

Another year has ended and per tradition on this site.
Share your top 30 favourite pickups from last year of 2024.
It could be a rare game, the best quality game, maybe it had a cool story behind how ye got it?
Doesn't have to be a top 30 could be top 10 top 5 or maybe just a single item.
Pictures or a nice story are a nice bonus to share always fun to see what other people got.


So lets start my list of the top 30 pickups I got in 2024. mainly just my favourite additions of the year

Made some pretty decent progress in terms of collecting.
The quality was pretty solid and I did manage to achieve some personal big goals.
Always on the hunt for those imports that never had european releases slowly but surely always crossing some of those off the list
But this year I finally managed to score a Neo geo aes console with a decent stack of english games 
What a great year it has been didn't expect that anytime soon.

My list in no particular order

30 fist of the north star gameboy
29 growl sega genesis
28 persona psp
27 super adventure island turbografx
26 wanderers of YS Snes
25 Parodius saturn
24 cd denjin pc engine cd
23 Dark legend  sega saturn
22 Blades of vengeance sega mega drive
21 Summon craft story gba
20 Summon craft story 2 gba
19 Brandish snes
18 soccerbrawl neo geo aes
17 samurai shodown neo geo aes
16 Fatal fury neo geo aes
15 Monster world IV sega mega drive
14 Bulk slash sega saturn
13 Nam 1975 neo geo aes
12 Crossed blades neo geo aes
11 Mystical ninja snes
10 Super turrican 2 snes
9 Gigawing 2 sega dreamcast
8 Yu yu hakusho makyo sega mega drive
7 Grind stormer.  kinda funny how I found this one for cheap in Japan.
6 Starwing competition  I'm not really big into cart only and while the game is kinda mid it do be fun to finally score one on the cheap.
5 Air zonk turbografx most of Turbografx pc engine stuff came from one deal. The guy was using google translate to communicate so our talks where getting kinda whacky.
4 Ninja combat neo geo aes
3 Alpha mission II neo geo aes
2 Popfulmail sega mega cd always wanted this one, defo the ''rpg'' I wanted the most out of all the sega working designs ones
1 Sengoku neo geo aes

Very nice you picked up a few I've been looking for myself (Growl, Grind Stormer and Nam 1975) congrats! I'll try to figure my top 20 later.



I have a weakness for strategy guides. I am a connoisseur as a bonus my top 5 strategy guide additions of 2024


5 super metroid
4 final fantasy III players guide
3 castlevania portrait of ruin
2 fire emblem gba
1 ogre battle

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General / Re: What are the worst games you ever tried?

« on: January 05, 2025, 01:42:15 am »

FF Type-0
Callisto Protocol
Medal of Honor, it's really a cheap copy of COD.

I know Callisto Protocol gets lot of hate especially from Dead Space fans but I liked it. But I understand everyone's opinion is different.

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General / Re: Your 2025 Gaming and Collecting Goals

« on: January 03, 2025, 08:40:38 pm »

My goal is pretty much the same as last year to slow down my game collecting. I almost have everything I want unless it's one of those types of games that you never see or it's big money. Cause one of my collecting rules is never buy online it's more fun for me that way. Any way I'm thinking of starting a new hobby I just got my firearms license and have been having fun with friends at the range I might even start competing.

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General / Re: What are the worst games you ever tried?

« on: January 03, 2025, 08:16:13 pm »

Tomb Raider (2013) - Failed to understand what Lara Croft and the TR games are meant to be and got turned into a generic cinematic Uncharted clone because it was fashionable at the time, without understanding what made Uncharted 1-3 work. It doesn't really fit the topic, I can see people with poor taste liking it, when it lets you play it's competent, but unremarkable. Still it is an awful game I rage quit at around a quarter way through and have no intention of ever revisiting.


If that's the worse you got, something that is genuinely a good game, even if you don't like the direction it took, it's not been all that bad with the games you've played lol

For me, while I could pick something such as Superman 64, I might have to go with Fallout 76, as that one sucked real bad as a Fallout fan.  A series that is notorious for its bugs, gets even buggier online features strapped onto it, the game clearly incomplete, lacking content, and to this day, despite getting a lot of work done on it, I think is still not a good game.  It has content and is a better game than it was, but its still terribly optimized as I tried to play it recently on my new PC, but can't get a smooth frame rate at all and it's still very buggy.  I don't get how people stick with that game lol

Feel the same about Fallout 76 such a poor experience it was such a let down.

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General / Re: What are the worst games you ever tried?

« on: January 03, 2025, 08:08:38 pm »

Worst games I have played. This is tough because I have vendettas against certain games like Destiny and Death Stranding (or any Kojima game) but I am going to assume that you want basically something that is really not playable or redeemable that I have had the displeasure of playing. So going back into my brain vault here we go.

Nobunaga's Ambition for the NES - If a human yawn was turned into a video game. Walls of text, ugly graphics and gameplay that is about as fun as reading the entirety of an end user agreement. I love turned based strategy games but this is not the game for the NES. Part 2 did a better job but this one I don't think I can get anyone to play this game for longer than a couple of minutes.

Alex Kidd: Hi Tech World for the Sega Master System - This game is a huge departure from the original game I loved. Instead of it being a Mario style platform game they turned into some kind of educational point and click adventure game that was so uninteresting I would literally rather flick my left nut as hard as I can over and over instead of playing this game.

Make My Video: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - I don't want talk about this one. It's like when the therapist asks you to point on the doll where your Uncle touched you. If you don't know what I am talking about I am sure youtube has videos of it.

LOL

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General / What are the worst games you ever tried?

« on: January 01, 2025, 03:19:57 am »

Hello everyone have you ever played a game that was so bad that you can't believe anyone could ever like it?
I mean the worst of the worst the most unbelievable piece of crap game? Here are a few I feel are up there for worst games ever. How many would make your list?

Ps2: Portal Runner (My most hated game ever)
Super Nes: Pit fighter
Nes: Super Pitfall and Top Gun (I could never land that dam plane!)
Genesis: Race Driving
Xbox 360: Divinity II Ego Draconis this game was released twice on the same system with slightly different names
                by two different developers Divinity II The Dragon Knight saga was the second attempt by Atlus and was
                not bad but the other one was pretty much unplayable. At least it had separate achievements.


Do you have any games to add to the worst games of all time list?

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General / Re: Happy New Year 2025!

« on: January 01, 2025, 01:50:07 am »

Happy new year to all!

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

« on: December 02, 2024, 07:39:46 pm »

My favorite genres are

1. War sims - World of warships, Ace combat etc.
2. fps - cod, battlefield, far cry etc.
3. racing - grand turismo, forza, mario kart etc.
4. horror - resident evil, silent hill, metro, dead space, alone in the dark etc.
5. strategy - shining force, disgaea, culdacept etc.
6. adventure - zelda, uncharted, tomb raider etc.
7. rpg - final fantasy, oblivion/skyrim, fallout

Least favorite genres are but will play on occasion

8. fighting - tekken, soul calibur, king of fighters etc.
9. Sports - madden, mlb,
10. Platformers - crash bandicoot, spyro, sonic

So i geuss number 1&2 are my top for now.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Resident Evil vs Silent Hill vs Luigis Mansion vs TLOU (you can only keep one)

« on: November 22, 2024, 10:51:38 pm »

For me it's tough to choose  My favorite Resident Evil games are 1-3, Veronica and the Gamecube remakes I also enjoyed the revelations titles.
My favorite Silent Hill games are 1-4, Homecoming and Shattered Memories.
I'll choose Resident Evil over Silent Hill even though I think the Silent Hill games are scarier and darker than the resident evil games.
 

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Site Feedback / Re: didnt get the 4k badge

« on: November 15, 2024, 06:26:29 pm »

I think I have a 5k badge but no 4k badge lol.

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General / Re: Where do you buy your retro games from these days?

« on: October 06, 2024, 03:59:32 am »

there are a few local mom and pop shops within an hour in any given direction from where I live. But I Usually only go to one regularly. I never go to gameStop anymore and I won't buy online either.

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General / Re: How did you choose between PS2 and Xbox (or PS3 and 360)?

« on: October 06, 2024, 03:38:23 am »

I picked up all of them first was the Ps2 it was the first to release then later the Xbox cause I wanted to play Halo and the next gen was 360 first then later Ps3 because I wanted to play Disgaea.

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General / Re: List your favorite game from your collection for each letter of the alphabet!

« on: October 06, 2024, 03:25:54 am »

7th Saga (Snes)
Ace Combat 4 (Ps2)
Brigadine (Ps1)
Culdacept Saga (360)
Disgaea (Ps2)
Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion (360)
Fallout 4 (Xbox One)
Grandia (Dreamcast)
Halo (Xbox)
Iron Tank (Nes)
Just Cause (360)
Killzone Shadow Fall (Ps4)
Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver (Dreamcast)
Mega man 2 (Nes)
Need for Speed Most Wanted (360)
Onimusha Warlords (Ps2)
Parasite Eve (Ps1)
Quake 4 (360)
Resident Evil (Gamecube)
Shining Force II (Genesis)
Test Drive Unlimited (360)
U.N. Squadron (Snes)
Vanquish (360)
Wonder Boy in Monster World (Genesis)
Xenogears (Ps1)
Yoshi's Crafted World (Wiiu)
Zelda link to the past (Snes)