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General / Re: September 2017 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: September 28, 2017, 07:07:42 pm »

Today was a good day...







Picked these up at my local Salvation Army Store and one of my local pawn shops.

From the Salvation Army Store...
SNES Bundle - $65 (I didn't take any pics of the system since we all know what a SNES looks like)
Arcade Greatest Hits
Super Mario World
Super Mario All-Stars & Super Mario World combo cart (yay redundancy!)
Turtles In Time

PSOne bundle - $175 (no pics of the system for the same reason):
Some demo discs
Sealed red memory card with a price tag from Kmart
Reel Fishing
Gran Turismo 2 GH (No manuals and black label discs)
Jeopardy
Spots Car GT Need For Speed II
Crash Bandicoot 2 GH (no manual)
Gauntlet Legends
Final Fantasy Tactics
Beyond The Beyond
Final Fantasy VII (No manual)
Brave Fencer Musashi
Rival Schools
Tactics Ogre

From my local pawn shop... These were $2 each. Some of these are duplicates that I'm going to give to a friend...
NFL Street GH
GTA Vice City Red Faction GH
Jack & Daxter GH
Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Cortex GH
Wreckless The Yakuza Missions
Metal Storm Arctic Edge
Metal Gear Solid 2
SOCOM 1
007 Agent Under Fire
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Area 51
Counter Strike (RUSH B CYKA BLYAT)
Final Fantasy X-2
Kingdom Hearts 1 (got two copies, one red label, one black label)
Kingdom Hearts 2
Xenosaga 1
Tales of the Abyss
Tales of Legendia
Grandia II
Grandia X-Treme

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General / Re: Some gems you have in your collections

« on: September 17, 2017, 10:30:55 am »

I don't own anything that's really amazingly rare, but I do have some rather uncommon stuff.

Skies of Arcadia (GC)
Knights of the Round (SNES) with period Hollywood Video rental stickers
Vice: Project Doom (NES)
Gran Turismo 3 Greatest Hits with BLUE disc art (PS2) This one may actually be rare, since I have never seen another.
Dual Hearts (PS2)
Mr. Mosquito (PS2)
Outrun Coast to Coast (PS2)

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General / Re: Rubber Banding and Rubber Band AI In Racing Games Or Cheating AI In Games

« on: September 17, 2017, 09:57:32 am »

I don't really remember the rubberbanding in Gran Turismo, but I do remember it being absolutely atrocious in Need For Speed on the Xbone/PS4/

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Classic Video Games / Re: What game are you really good at?

« on: March 05, 2017, 06:20:21 pm »

Burnout 3: Takedown, especially the Road Rage mode. I've gotten 62 takedowns in one round.

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General / Re: Annoying things people ask us about your gaming hobby/gaming collection.

« on: July 22, 2016, 05:03:29 am »

(Walking into the room while I'm playing a game), "What game are you playing?"

For some reason this question frustrates the hell out of me.  The only time it's okay is if it's a fellow gamer and they just don't recognize the game immediately.  But this is less than 1% of the time.  And even then wait more than .5 seconds and you might just figure it out.  In every other case, it's a non gamer usually trying to start small talk, or just engage me somehow, because heaven forbid a moment of 'awkward silence'.  If you don't recognize the game, then what information do you hope to glean from the title?  Knowing the title is worthless information for a non gamer.  Not to mention that you'll forget it one second after I tell you.  If you wish to chat about the game, here are some more acceptable questions:
"What kind of game is that?"
"How do you play?" or "What are your goals?"
"Is it fun?"-still a stupid question, but at least you'll learn something useful from the answer.
Or even "Which guy are you?" - "Um, it's a strategy game, I'm every guy." 

If you just want to chat, simply ask to talk about something.  I'll gladly pause or even turn off my game so we can talk about something you care about.

Sometimes this one is gold though.  My wife walked into the living room while I was Playing Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia, right when this scene came about.  Our eyes met, there was this awkward silence. Then that question drops with a hint of worry in her voice.  I couldn't resist I just started laughing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoODv8LVib8

Hahahhaaha. I haven't laughed that hard in a while.

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: July 20, 2016, 12:12:28 pm »

Does anything come with a manual these days?

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Video Showcase / Re: Top five must have PS2 Games! What are yours?

« on: July 18, 2016, 11:20:57 pm »

Final Fantasy X
Burnout 3: Takedown
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
TimeSplitters Future Perfect
SSX Tricky

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General / Re: What Do You Like In a Metroid Game?

« on: July 17, 2016, 08:20:49 am »

An ending screen with Samus in a bikini.

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General / Re: July 2016 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: July 16, 2016, 06:01:19 am »

Yesterday's scores:
PS1
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1

PS2
Pac Man World 3 (In a Pac Man World Rally Box)
Aliens Vs Predator Extinction
Devil May Cry 1
NamcoMuseum
Crash Nitro Kart
Need For Speed Underground 1 and 2
Star Wars Bounty Hunter
Hot Shots Golf 3
Star Wars Episode II Revenge of the Sith
Harvest Moon Another Wonderful Life SE
Star Wars Battlefront II (2 copies, 1 CIB, one in a Battlefront 1 box)

Wii
Mario Party 8
Super Paper Mario

3DS
Fire Emblem Fates Birthright

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Classic Video Games / Re: Mario Kart 64 or CTR (PS1)?

« on: July 14, 2016, 11:46:43 pm »

Gran Turismo 2.

*ducks*

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General / Re: July 2016 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: July 13, 2016, 12:30:00 am »

PS2 (I actually picked these up a while ago and forgot to add them)
WinBack
Mobile Suit Gundam Journey to Jaburo

PS4
Uncharted - The Nathan Drake Collection
Uncharted 4
Just Cause 3

Nintendo DS
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Echoes of Time

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Off Topic / Re: Which do you like best, Beef or Milk?

« on: July 09, 2016, 03:36:58 am »

Beef. I'm lactose intolerant, so milk just turns me into a chemical weapons factory.

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General / Re: What cheap games do you think will see a increase in value in the next 5 years?

« on: July 09, 2016, 03:05:26 am »

I expect most of the quality titles in the PS2 library to pick up quite a bit in value as it ages and some people get priced out of collecting for other consoles. Vita and WiiU will probably gain or at least hold value due to low sales numbers, but I would expect any large increases to happen when the systems are 10-15 years old.

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: July 09, 2016, 02:57:41 am »

Well, I'm back. I haven't had much time to spend on gaming since I sold my childhood home and got a condo. I'm still unpacking as the condo is about half the size of my old house, and I have a bunch of antique furniture that used to be my parents' and that takes up a lot of space. I also managed to somehow lose the poster and manual from my copy of War of the Monsters and somehow find the box to it. So anyway, how have y'all been doing?

Can you use a resurfacing machine on a GameCube disc (due to the size of the disc)?

At least some of them should, I had one of my copies of Luigi's Mansion resurfaced at my local game store.

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: April 06, 2016, 02:36:23 pm »

Just took apart the GunCon I bought, I hope I don't mess it up...