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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: July 31, 2016, 09:05:12 am »

I'm currently playing through Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. It's not the best portable Metroidvania, but it's still really good.

What's cool about the portable Metroidvanias is after you play through all 6 (Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin, Order of Ecclesia) you can go back to the first one and it feels like you haven't played it in forever.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat or Tekken?

« on: July 27, 2016, 10:54:27 pm »

Darkstalkers 
Seriously, the Vampire Savior Japanese import on Saturn is my favorite fighting game ever.

But if we're talking an entire series, I would have to pick Tekken. For me, the Tekken series has had the most consistently fun games. Both Tekken Tags were great, and Tekken Bowling is one of the most addictive minigames I've played.

Naturally, I love me some SF2, and SF4 is alright (haven't played SF5 yet). However, SF1 is crap, and SF3 was far too technical for my taste.

MK is fun, but I've bever found it very deep. I love all the little things and unlockables they put in, but MK4 through MK Deception (?? the one before MKIX) were not that good.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Which starter Pokemon did you pick?

« on: July 21, 2016, 03:05:00 pm »

Also, Red Gyarados wasn't in Pokemon Blue.

Ah, you're right. That was Pokemon Gold.
It was Articuno, not a Red Gyarados. I remember now that I used my Master Ball on it by accident because I didn't know at the time you only get one :p

I guess you DO forget your first Pokemon team :p
But hey, it was almost 20 years ago so I get a little slack.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Which starter Pokemon did you pick?

« on: July 21, 2016, 08:51:56 am »

Squirtle. Eventually became a powerful badass Blastoise
You don't forget the first team you beat a Pokemon game with. I finished Pokemon Blue with Blastoise, Dodrio, Dugtrio, Onyx, red Gyrados, and an Electabuzz which I never used (like the 12th man on an NBA team

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General / Re: Intro thread

« on: July 20, 2016, 08:14:45 pm »

Hey all
I've been a member of this site for a couple of years, but only to keep track of my game collection. Finally decided to join the discussion, mainly because my family and I recently moved to a larger house in Indiana and I now have a retro-gaming area where I can get most of my old consoles and games out of storage.

I grew up during the golden age of arcades, playing classics like Ms Pac Man, Dig Dug, and Q*Bert, my all-time favorite game. My first home console was the Atari 2600, which was given away a few years later. Eventually got an NES, and I have kept every system I've acquired since then. I enjoy about every genre except for sports games; action, adventure, beat-em-up, platformer, RPG, shmup, FPS, I have favorites in each category. My personal top-10 games is a mixture of genres and eras, from Q*Bert to arcade TMNT to Final Fantasy VI to Shadow of the Colossus to Bioshock Infinite. I still consider my best gaming accomplishment to be finishing NES Contra twice consecutively without dying; at the time, I never needed the 30-man code

Glad to be here, I just enjoy discussing classic games with people who know what I'm talking about

Anybody cool enough to have a Q*Bert avatar is welcome here.  Welcome to VGCollect!

Rarely have I ever been called "cool," especially not because of Q*Bert, so I appreciate the sentiment 

First time I played Q*Bert, I did what I bet most people did: promptly jumped off the pyramid
Ended up obsessed with it; had the board game, card game, Coleco tabletop game, storybook, and watched the Saturday Supercade segment all the time. It's the only classic arcade game I feel like I could be record-breakingly good at if I had the time and patience to practice for hours a day. However, that won't happen. I met George Leutz a couple of years ago, the world record holder, and he had also set the marathon arcade gaming record at the same time (40-something hours straight). There's no way in Hades I'm capable of that :p

I asked him how he has time for bathroom breaks, and apparently once you get a bunch of extra lives you can just leave the game for a break, as it takes 10-20 seconds for the bad guys to kill you each time you respawn.

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Classic Video Games / Re: First video game you ever played?

« on: July 20, 2016, 10:16:46 am »

If I remember right, my first game was arcade Space Invaders. It was near the customer service desk of a Sears and I played while my mom was returning something

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Classic Video Games / Re: Doom 64, GoldenEye 007 or Perfect Dark?

« on: July 20, 2016, 10:03:40 am »

Doom 64 no question. Graphics were unnecessarily dark, but it was atmospheric and spooky, even more so than the PC versions.
Goldeneye was ok, but didn't really impress me, especially since I had already played much better FPS's on my PC, like Doom, Doom 2, Quake, and Duke Nukem 3D.
I rented Perfect Dark once and it was just meh, didn't motivate me to buy it.

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General / Re: Game Room Pics

« on: July 19, 2016, 10:03:08 pm »

Just moved into a new house a couple of months ago, and I finally have a chance at a true retro gaming area. I have some of my more recent consoles and games set up (PS3, X360, XBOX, PS2, Gamecube, Dreamcast), but I still need to retrieve the rest of my collection from storage at my parents' house...which is now a 9 hour drive away. I now have an identical shelf on the other side of the TV, just waiting to be filled with NES, SNES, Genesis, etc.

Went to a convention 2 weeks ago and a guy was selling posters he had made of NES box covers, and they were perfect for the look I was going for so I took 6 of them. Got posters of some of my favorite games, and purposely wanted one to be a more obscure good game like Shadow of the Ninja. Would have gotten Shatterhand or Vice: Project Doom instead if he had them.



I figure this is a good place to show these as well. Got a couple of games autographed, and they are now on display on top of my game shelf:

Final Fantasy X-2 signed by Tara Strong, voice of Rikku



Mass Effect 3 Collector's Edition signed by Jennifer Hale, voice of FemShep

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General / Re: Recently completed/finished

« on: July 19, 2016, 08:30:02 pm »

Just finished Castlevania: Circle of the Moon for the first time. I've owned the game since it was first released but never finished it because I just kept losing interest. The game got much more interesting once I got a few of the more powerful cards, but I never would have found them if not for Gamefaqs.

Just started Order of Ecclesia, which I've finished before but is still fun to play.

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General / Re: Intro thread

« on: July 19, 2016, 06:05:43 pm »

I still consider my best gaming accomplishment to be finishing NES Contra twice consecutively without dying; at the time, I never needed the 30-man code

Well done.  I'm impressed

Welcome to our little corner of the internet.  Kick off your shoes.  Get comfortable.  Beware the soera.

Thanks.
It was not even something I was trying to do. I just happened to be good enough at Contra do get through it with minimal deaths, and I just felt like continuing after finishing it. I didn't realize what I had done until it was over.

And I'm sure not claiming to be some gaming god, I just happened to be good at that one game. There's a number of games that I wasn't able to finish that many others did, like Zelda II and Final Fantasy. Hell, in FF I couldn't get past the first fiend; I would keep grinding for ages and felt like I never got any stronger, and just got tired of grinding so much.

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General / Re: Intro thread

« on: July 19, 2016, 12:47:54 pm »

Hey all
I've been a member of this site for a couple of years, but only to keep track of my game collection. Finally decided to join the discussion, mainly because my family and I recently moved to a larger house in Indiana and I now have a retro-gaming area where I can get most of my old consoles and games out of storage.

I grew up during the golden age of arcades, playing classics like Ms Pac Man, Dig Dug, and Q*Bert, my all-time favorite game. My first home console was the Atari 2600, which was given away a few years later. Eventually got an NES, and I have kept every system I've acquired since then. I enjoy about every genre except for sports games; action, adventure, beat-em-up, platformer, RPG, shmup, FPS, I have favorites in each category. My personal top-10 games is a mixture of genres and eras, from Q*Bert to arcade TMNT to Final Fantasy VI to Shadow of the Colossus to Bioshock Infinite. I still consider my best gaming accomplishment to be finishing NES Contra twice consecutively without dying; at the time, I never needed the 30-man code

Glad to be here, I just enjoy discussing classic games with people who know what I'm talking about