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Marketplace / Cooking Mama Games - Come and Get EM!!!!

« on: October 12, 2019, 10:49:16 pm »

I bought these on eBay and didn't like the condition of them. Jerk seller wouldn't let me return them and now I'm just trying to get rid of them. Condition is acceptable, they're all complete, manuals and booklets are nice but cases have some wear and tear - bumps, snags and creases along the edges and whatnot as you can see in the pics. If that stuff doesn't bother you, then make me an offer on the lot them and I'll send em your way! Entire lot only, don't want to separate.

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General / Game collecting addiction

« on: October 09, 2019, 01:14:43 pm »

Have you ever been addicted to game collecting to a point where it was unhealthy, or financially reckless? How overboard did you go, and how were you able to stop yourself?

Lately I've been on somewhat of a game collecting binge. I've been buying up games left and right without much restraint. Granted they are all games that I think I really want to have, but I'm simply buying so many of them so fast it's alarming. I've spent hundreds and hundreds in the past few weeks. Subconsciously I think I'm trying to make up for the year or so I didn't buy any games. I'm just so tired of not having certain titles, and just thinking "some day". I'd rather have them all now.

I think that if I keep rage-buying I'll actually reach an end goal and feel satisfied, but with collecting games I don't think that's truly possible. There's just too many, and interests shift and change over time. You want to be done, but you never really want to be done. Then there's always the fear that what's affordable today might not be affordable tomorrow. Sometimes you will come to your senses and realize how silly all of this actually is. It's just pieces of plastic with names printed on them. Every single one of them could be downloaded onto a hard drive or multi-cart and played for free if playing the game is actually the end goal. Games aren't even something unique or exclusive to collect. They can be had elsewhere for less, or no money at all. It's just plastic with stickers on them. What's the big deal?

But I digress. Has your game collecting ever gotten completely out of hand? How bad did it get? What made you snap back to reality?

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General / The downward spiral of GameStop

« on: July 26, 2019, 05:56:11 pm »

Although I'm sure there will be some clamoring on over their demise, I hate to see it. I find it to be an unfortunate sign of the times, and not simply a matter of this one company. The writing really is on the walls for GS though, more so in the past year than ever. Aside from greater overall mismanagement, the acceptance of download one-time purchase only games is finally doing it's damage. Following in the footsteps of the now mostly defunct FYE, most GS stores now feature more gaming merchandise than actual physical media and the company is not going to survive on selling trinkets.

For some of us, it's the last brick and mortar store we can somewhat depend on to actually stock the modern games we want to buy physical copies of. However, that is more and more often not the case as of late. In terms of Nintendo Switch games, a lot of my close-by GS stores do not receive a single copy of a new release if nobody pre-ordered it. More baffling, most of the newer releases go quickly out of stock or were never available to order from their site to begin with. It's pretty bad sign when a video game store does not carry a lot of new video games. My local GS stores probably only have 1 or 2 of the past 10 Switch games to release.

A GS employee told me they're becoming really vigilant about not ordering copies of games that nobody is going to buy. I was told that many GS stores are still sitting on more than 50 unsold copies of Smash Ultimate, because so many people just downloaded it instead. If they can't depend on selling big name franchise games like that, then they're really in trouble. If they don't sell them, that means no pre-owned copies, which means their bread and butter is diminishing rapidly. That also means a lot less physical copies of these games will be floating around in the wild later on.

I've spent thousands at GS, picking up obscure and essential games to own when literally nobody else in town would even have them. With the loyalty card, I always got a decent deal on anything pre-owned. When GS is gone, I'll have to order most of my modern games online. There's just no fun, or satisfaction in doing that for me. But I'll continue to buy physical copies of games until they are no longer made. They will certainly become a lot more obscure once the major retailers that sell them, like GS, cease to be a thing. I honestly expect the first big wave of GS closures to begin after a "dismal" holiday 2019 season. Mark it on your calendars. Three to five years, they're all going to be gone.

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Off Topic / Amazom Prime membership really worth the $12?

« on: July 22, 2019, 09:57:41 pm »

I don't think so. I just cancelled actually. Reason being I was under the expectation that you would actually receive your orders in 2 days. Nothing I ever ordered with Prime came in 2 days, and yes I'm only counting business days. All of my Prime orders have came within 3 - 5 days. I get the same speed of shipping, or faster from random eBay sellers.

I think they make 2-day shipping sound like you'll literally get it that fast. Customer service told me no, you won't. They can take however long they want in processioning, and they do in order to save themselves money. So why was I paying a bunch up front for Amazon to ship my stuff at a standard rate of speed? Made no sense. So I cancelled. I kinda see it as a scam. Deceptive advertising. Lousy company. They also treat their employees really poorly or so I've heard. I hate what they've done to the retail business. Amazon is the evil empire.

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Off Topic / Your favorite amusement parks and rides

« on: July 05, 2019, 06:59:27 pm »

For those who are into this sort of thing. What are you favorite parks and rides?

The parks I've been to are - Dollywood, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Carowinds, Six Flags Great Adventure (no longer operating), and Cedar Point.

Of all the rides I've ridden, my favorites are Tennessee Tornado, Blazing Fury, Hurler, Lochness Monster, Big Bad Wolf (no longer exists), Villian (no longer exists). Millennium Force was also memorable, but I can't say it was a particularly great ride, personally. I think it's a bit overrated, and almost too intense to be fun for me.

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General / How many of you use box protectors for your collection?

« on: June 15, 2019, 07:45:52 pm »

Seems a lot of resellers use them to trying and justify their jacked up asking prices on various things, but do you use them for your personal collection? I've begun the goal of acquiring box protectors for my entire collection, boxes, cases, and cart only. I really like the looks of them, and not just for particular games but for everything. I find it enhances the presentation and makes it look more like a proper collection, rather than just an accumulation of stuff. To me a box protector says "I care about this / this is important to me". It's not just another random thing in my house that's collecting dust.

Of course, not only do they preserve condition and protect against minor incidents that may occur, the high gloss finish just makes every game pop. Even if the game or box is not in great shape, a box protector makes them appear to be in better shape than they are. I find they're well worth the 75 cents to $1 they usually sell at. I'm going to be ordering hundreds more of these things. Right now I'm boxing up my DVD style case games and it's looking good. I would have to recommend them.

How many of you use box protectors for all of your collection, versus just using of them for particular games, or items that you sell or buy that came with one?

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Site Feedback / Can the search bar be improved?

« on: May 28, 2017, 02:10:17 pm »

The biggest problem with the search function is that the box disappears if you move the mouse away from it. This makes it particularly hard, if not impossible on desktop to copy and paste text into the bar which is often necessary because the search engine doesn't typically recognize misspelled searches, or anything short of the exact entry for a title. It would be better if the box were disabled by clicking away from it.

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Site Feedback / Possible malicious pop-ups/page hijacking?

« on: April 06, 2017, 06:07:27 pm »

So I was just browsing through my collection page when all of a sudden I was forwarded to (what I think) is a bogus Microsoft webpage claiming my computer is infected with viruses and that I need to call a 1-800 number and contact them.

This is the page that I was taken to -

[link redacted by admin]

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General / DreamGear Retro Machine

« on: March 23, 2017, 02:06:04 pm »

So I recently got around to opening this thing up and trying it out. I got it for Christmas unexpectedly, and had no idea what to think of it. The Retro Machine I have has 200 built-in arcade games that are basically knock-offs of various arcade classics. I'm actually fairly impressed with it, it's valued at about $20, it's very portable, takes 3 AA batteries, has a bright and colorful LCD, and there's 200 games. It's crazy to think that back in the 90s, something like this would be Action 52. A $60 game cartridge for NES or Genesis that had 52 games on it - ranging from bad to ugly, and some of which didn't even work. The Retro Machine is a much better product, and for way less money. I'm not trying to say that the games are amazing or anything, but from what I've played so far, they're pretty darn good for $20. Of the 200 games, so far I've tried the first 8. Here are my thoughts on them.

"F-22" - You guessed it, a vertical shoot-em-up. You blast through patterns of enemies, collect power ups, and progress through the stages. A pretty good one.

"Racing Fighter" - This game is kind of bland. It don't get how it's a race if there are no positions. You just drive vertically and shoot other cars, or dodge them. You eventually run out of ammo and fuel and I can't figure out how to replenish either. I don't really get it. This one is not so good.

"Vanguard" - This is a tank game where you're going through levels, blasting enemy tanks and turrets, collecting health packs and better fire-power. Not bad.

"Animal Blockers" - A puzzle game with animal faces on blocks, stacked on multiple levels. You match the faces in the right order to clear each level of blocks. It's okay.

"Magic Jony" - A platform puzzler where you use a piranha plant to eat so many enemies until they drop keys and to open treasure chests. It's not bad.

"Aerial Warfare" - This is a diagonal shoot-em-up with an emphasis on the altitude of the enemies. It's hard to see what you're doing and the graphics don't help. Kinda crappy.

"Crystal Ball" - This game reminds me of Lolo. Your character sort of looks like him, and you go through boards collecting these stones while avoiding enemies that follow repeated paths, and some that just move around erratically. Probably the best one so far.

"Police Dog Lasy" - You watch a criminal bury his loot in a field, but he also buries bombs. Then you go out into the field and dig up the loot, while avoiding the bombs. It's okay I guess.

I'm only a fraction of the way into these games, but so far I'm impressed I found anything that I actually liked. It's surprising that any effort actually went into this. No doubt that many, if not most of the games are direct knock-offs of something, but I don't mind. The music is pretty cool too, it's quite similar to NES music. I could just be really late to this boat, but I've not heard anyone mention this thing around here, so I thought I would. Apparently there's newer models, maybe better ones by now. I dunno. But I think this thing is worth picking up if you like classic arcade style games. For $20, why not?

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Video Game Deals, Sales and Promotions / Walmart clearance games "struggle bin" YMMV

« on: February 01, 2017, 04:04:24 pm »

Wanted to post this here, in case other might have the same luck. My local Walmart store has just put out one of those large bins full of clearance video games. Ranging all modern consoles, new and "Walmart pre-owned" and prices from $5 - $19.99. I was able to find Mega Man Collection (PS4) for only $5, and Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii) for $15.

This is a "your mileage may vary" deal, it might not be occurring at all stores, and all stores might not have the same stock. But, it's worth a shot.

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Off Topic / The Haunted VGCollect Thread

« on: October 26, 2016, 10:29:18 am »

So, actually I wanted to make this thread at the beginning of the month because the season is right, and I've put it off now until it's almost pointless, and it may be a stupid idea and will totally flop. But, I wanted to post this general "haunted" thread as a place where anyone can share their opinions and experiences with all things paranormal. Whether you think it's all a bunch of crap, or you are totally convinced.

Mostly, what it'd like to see here is if anyone has any personal stories about something possibly paranormal, or just weird and creepy. I doesn't necessarily have to be about yourself, but at least try and refrain from making up things, or posting about stuff that is known to be a hoax or not true. Discussion, or debate of any post is of course welcomed and encouraged, so that we can keep the thread interesting.

Myself, I'm not a hardcore believer, I think that a lot of people make things up for the entertainment value. Another part of me though, thinks that maybe some of it may have some truth behind it. I've never personally experienced anything that I would say is paranormal, although I've always wanted to. I've heard several stories before from friends and a few from family, and I actually do have one that I'll probably share in a bit, if the thread doesn't flop hard. It's a story about my great uncle who was involved in a mysterious incident in the 1960s, with police and medical records that actually back up the claims.

So, if anyone wants to jump in feel free to. It just seemed like the right time of year to be telling scary stories and giving one another the heebie-jeebies. Sometimes it can be fun, so I thought I'd see how this would go around here.

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General / Buying the same series across multiple platforms, yay or nay?

« on: October 17, 2016, 12:49:35 pm »

Say that a multi-plat game comes out across several plaftorms. You go with the PlayStation version, does it bother you to then pick up the sequel or further installments for Xbox, or Nintendo, instead of the console you've started buying the series for? I'm sort of struggling with this, on occasion. Sometimes it's just easier to find stuff across platforms instead of all on one. But at the same time, you can't keep the games together because the unwritten rule is you must organize your games by console. It's a really petty thing, it annoys me a lot.

What do you say? Pick up whatever version is most convenient, or try to get the whole series all on the same platform?

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Off Topic / The uptick in social networking and other websites in general closing down

« on: April 10, 2016, 08:46:39 pm »

This is a trend I have noticed across the internet the past could of years. Websites basically shutting down. In some cases, websites that have been online for past 10 years. This trend seems to be most heavily concentrated on websites of (anonymous) social networking, like forums. Forums like VGCollect, even. Heck, even 1-Up bit the dust. Yahoo is considering closing down some of their branches. I've even heard that Twitter is in a sharp decline and may eventually bomb.

I just heard that the website Experience Project is shutting down. I thought that was a really cool idea for a site. I worry about other sites like Last.FM, or Rate Your Music which is currently undergoing a transformation into a new brand and marketing strategy, could one day disappear. It seems like we're starting to see a lot of sites, ones that used to get many hits, basically drop off the map. It's not something that I'm used to, I guess. I've always taken for granted that once on the internet, it'll always be there. But that's not the case.

I'm sure Facebook has hurt a lot of website traffic, but can that really be the only reason for it?

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General / Can you recall or share any halirious moments when playing a game?

« on: January 23, 2016, 12:38:44 pm »

No matter how stupid it might be, what are some moments while gaming that had you cracking up? Maybe a game glitch, or an unforeseen turn of events, etc. Some stories might not seem too funny to recount, they might be more of had to be there moment, but just give it a shot I guess.

I thought of this last night when I was playing more Alias. I started the whole game over on my 360 after my OG Xbox kicked the bucket.

I was on this level where you're supposed to sneak past like 7 armed guards in a warehouse. I was tired, so I just ran for it, they saw me and gave chase. So in desperation, I climbed up on a crate hoping they couldn't shoot me up there. This was futile as they were still filling me with lead. My character did the whole hunkering over animation from being shot, and I guess in a panic I had pressed some buttons, she did this odd looking spin around and then took a swan dive off the crate straight down onto the ground pretty much on her face, in the middle of the shark pit of guards. I swear it looked so deliberate, like someone diving into a pool. Of course, they immediately finished me off. For some reason, it was just hilarious to witness. I couldn't recreate that if I tried. It sounds really dumb, but I couldn't stop laughing about it.

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Marketplace / Warmsig's bad stuff cheap

« on: January 14, 2016, 07:51:53 pm »

I've got a lot of junk I don't wanna just trash, so I'm hoping to find new homes for. Most of it is not that great, or not in great condition (none tested, all as is). Pretty much pricing this stuff to move. Any buyer must pay shipping costs. The only payment I accept is Paypal. There are a few items here marked as freebies, which you can have free if you buy at least one thing. I will be adding more games and stuff in the coming days and weeks for cheap prices, so check back. I won't have most of this stuff very long, some will go on eBay, the rest will be donated/dumped. Thanks for looking.

Dollars for discs - The following are disc only games, some of them are kinda scratched, all $1 each (honestly I'd prefer if someone would just make me an offer for all).

- The Sims (PS2)
- ATV Offroad Fury (PS2 GH)
- GTA III (XBOX) (scratches)
- Charlie and the Choco Factory (PS2) (scratches)
- Samurai Warriors (PS2)
- SOCOM (PS2)
- Ratchet and Clank (PSP GH) (cracks on plastic)
- Star Wars Force Unleashed (PSP GH)
- Puzzle Chronicles (PSP)
- Destroy All Humans (PS2)
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x (XBOX) (scratches)
- Simpsons Road Rage (XBOX) (scratches)
- Secret Agent Clank (PSP)
- Death Smiles (360)
- Star Wars Battlefront Elite Squadron (PSP)
- Five (5) copies of Kinect Adventures for the price of one (360)
- Up (PSP)
- Endwar (PSP) (freebie, UMD damaged)
- Daxter (PSP) (freebie, UMD damaged)
- Transformers the Game Bonus disc (freebie)
- Deadliest Warrior bonus disc (freebie)
- Halo 3 (360)
- Battlefield 3 single player disc (360)
- Lost Planet (360)
- MotoGP 06 (360)
- Soldier of Fortune Payback (360)
- Kinect Game demos
- 007 Quantum of Solace (360)
- Enslaved (360)
- Fallout 3 (PS3)
- Fallout New Vegas (PS3, a lot of pin holes, freebie)
- Wii Play (scratched)
- Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)
- Battlefield Bad Company 2 (PS3)
- Mag (PS3, freebie)

Decent games for decent prices - the following are some more disc only games that I'd like to make something on.

- Tactics Ogre (PSP) $8
- Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (PSP) $5
- Adventures To Go (PSP) $5
- Star Ocean Second Evolution (PSP) $10
- Growlanser Wayfarer of Time (PSP) $10

Books and guides -  everything must go.

- Pokemon White & Black ver 2 Offical Nation Pokedex Vol 2 (torn back cover) $1
- Epic Mickey 2 Collector's Guide hardback (new) $2
- Pokemon Black & White ver 2 Collector's Guide hardback (new) $2
- Battlefield 4 Guide hardback (new) $1
- COD Ghosts Guide hardback (new) $1

Boxes and various stuff for $3 each - everything must go.

- Conception II first print outer box (PS Vita, freebie)
- Kirbys 30th Anniversary (outer box only)
- PS Vita console box
- Nintendo 3DS console boxes, pink, blue, red, purple, blue Mario Kart 7 ver,
- Nintendo DSi black
- Nintendo 2DS Pink box (some damage) with Mickey Case
- Classic (fat) PS3 40gb and 80gb (some wear)
- 360 Kinect bundle
- Wii U Zelda bundle console box display (no inserts)
- Pokemon X/Y bundle (outer box only, have both blue and red)
- Luigi's Mansion 3DS bundle (outer box only)
- NES themed 3DS box
- Roll of Codename STEAM posters 12x18 (freebie)

Free standees (these are free as long as you pay shipping).

- Disney Infinity 2.0
- Hitman Absolution