Prices are finally coming down on this at retail. I decided to pick it up before it was gone and people started jacking up the prices.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...8&d=1519960985
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Prices are finally coming down on this at retail. I decided to pick it up before it was gone and people started jacking up the prices.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...8&d=1519960985
I caved and bought the darn Dragon Ball. Not at least trying a DBZ game that looks and plays like this is betraying my 8th-grade self.
$45 on Newegg with promo code EMCPRRS75, btw.
I cleaned my spare PC engine and PC engine multitap. I went on ebay to look for spare controllers for teh multitap. Jesus, PC engine shit has gone up!
You could try looking for "junk" controllers from Japanese sellers. I've bought a bunch of "junk" stuff from Japan and the majority of them just needed some cleaning or something minor to make them work perfectly. I recently got the hori 6 button pad for like 1/2 - 1/3 what it goes for that way.
$20 for junk
One man's junk is another man's $20.
Tested working was 7 to 9 dollars 2 years ago.
But a time traveling machine is very expensive, at least on ebay.
You can blame that on Youtube as well. All these idiots (like me!) don’t know shit about electronics, but can follow a youtube fixit video. So before, if 90% of potential buyers would pass on a broken item because they’d have no idea how to fix it the seller would have to sell cheap to get rid of it. Now everyone fancies themselves a Ben Heck. Demand and prices rise.
International shipping tripling in price doesnt help either.
I remember seeing the TG-16 arcade stick sitting in a Gamer X-Change bin full of controllers. It sat there for years with a price of $5. I don't know why I'd never bought it.
If it was a Turbostick it's probably because it was lame.
It was. I think I figured that it's cheap parts were worn out and that was part of the reason it was $5. Then again, people weren't looking for Turbo stuff 7 or 8 years ago.
I got a Turbostick for free and I paid too much. It's a piece of crap, using a regular controller is much better. There's not enough space in there to hack in good parts either.
I was never very jealous of my NES owning friends. I had an SMS and then a TG16. I was quite happy with them.
But I will admit to being jealous of the NES advantage. Both my systems had absolute shit for sticks.
I was jealous of Bonk's Revenge on TG16, but that was it. What are the little grey slider nubbins on top of the Turbostick, rapid fire?
I didn't know anybody with a Master System until Genesis was a thing, but we were so caught up in Quackshot and Sonic and Taz-Mania that we didn't even bother turning it on.
I had Asciiware's Fightstick SN and Fightstick SG-6, neither of which was particularly useful. I think I got them both on clearance at the same time.
We have it so good with modern sticks.
I like the SMS stick, one of the few controllers that I broke from overuse. The advantage is a close second, but I prefer the Max pad :fail:.
The Max was a odd little beast. Hated it when I got one for Christmas but with time it became my favorite controller. When I got one a few years ago in a NES lot it was sobering how small it was compared to memories from childhood.
Yeah the Turbostick had adjustable turbo. At Max it could fire faster than a turbo pad.
The nice think about the SMS is that it uses a standard home computer controller port design, so there were a lot of great joysticks that were compatible even though they weren't marketed as SMS controllers. I had a nice Gravis three button stick, and a lot of cheap junk. I actually liked the SMS pad, but they turn into mushy garbage after a while. I had an NES advantage at one point. It really was nice to use, but a stick of that size is hard to keep level without resting it on a table, so I barely used it. It was neat that it could connect to two controller ports simultaneously.
I didn't have this when the console was new but a few years later. (not my picture)
https://obscurevideogames.files.word...2/dscn7987.jpg
It's pretty awesome, uses all Happ parts from the 90s. The button layout is weird but thankfully the games I would use it in have editable button assignments.
I'll just chime in and say I also loved the NES Max and Advantage. I used the max for racing games on the NES all the time. I have 2 of the SNES Asciiware Fighter sticks, and one for the Genesis. They are fucking terrible, I may try and sell them at a local gamestore soon.
I loved the SMS pad. I much prefer the mushy d-pad over Nintendo's stiff thumb breaker.
This thing was an abomination though
https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads...trol_stick.jpg
The base is too small to comfortably hold, the stick too fat, and even though I'm left handed I couldn't stand the stick being on the right.
That is the stick I loved! I have small hands though, and as a kid, the right side thing never bothered me. It would probably piss me off if I use it today.
don't lie to us, no one was caught up in Taz Mania.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Incidental music cues were fascinating!
unrelated but that remake of castle of illusion is on sale https://www.humblebundle.com/store/castle-of-illusion
I dropped by the Half Price Books in Arlington. They had some pretty good stuff at this location and the prices weren't too bad. I finally got a copy of NIER at a decent price, but I was hoping to get it on the PS3.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...9&d=1520045213
Was this a Florida thing? I didn’t see an SMS in the wild till I was in high school. I had one rich friend with a TG-16.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Possibly! *Everybody* had an NES, I saw a Game Gear or two, a Lynx, but only ever one Master System. I was born in 83. I messed with the TG-16 at Sears or whatever but never saw one. I didn't know the games were on little cards until the internet.
I'd seen the TG-16 on an endcap in Toys R Us. It would show off the power of the console, with the addition of the CD player, but the price of the CD drive was insane. I ended up getting the console for $20 and the power booster for $20 as well. NEC really priced that console out of the hands of most gamers.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I saw one Turbographix for sale at a yardsale in the white part of Memphis right before the system died.
I never saw a master system in Florida, MS or AL. I think I found some games in my early 20s in Atlanta at a thrift store.
Sega Gens seemed to be a toysrus/sears thing until the sonic 1 bundle or the sonic 2 bundle.
The Turbo had a horrendous distribution around here. There was a hole in the wall furniture store selling it at markup in my old neighborhood (was kicked out with a friend for playing too much Legendary Axe on the demo unit). The Venture department store had a video kiosk for several months....yet they never sold or stocked any Turbografx goods at all. The local TRU only got in Turbo stuff as it was fading out and everything was dirt cheap.
One of the department stores had Tg16 systems at launch, but that was about it. I was like 9 at the time so I couldn't buy one. A few years later when I was mowing lawns for money they were nowhere to be found within bike distance.
Every Radio Shack and Compucentre I went to had TG16 games. These were stores in malls across Canada. The system still sold like shit, though. I had one place briefly I could rent TG games from.
Compucentre had a Devil's Crush competition in malls in 1990 as advertising for the TG16. I'm still looking for evidence of this online but haven't found any. I didn't win any prizes but my friend won a gift certificate.
Master System games were really easy to find in British Columbia and Washington State. The largest mall near me had six stores where I could buy them. It wasn't anywhere near as popular as the NES but in my neighbourhood, I knew several SMS owners.
In retrospect, I'm amazed I probably played 75% of the TG16 and SMS domestic libraries while they were current thanks to borrowing, trading, renting, and buying. There were some pretty good clearance sales in the later years of these systems' lives, too.
My Sony sale haul:
Resident Evil 7
What Remains of Edith Finch
The Bridge
Severed
Icey
Pix'n Love Rush
Time Soldiers
Nex Machina
Enter the Dungeon
We had a place called Floppy Joes in Plano. It was about a 10 mile drive from my Dallas apartment. I'd rent Amiga games from there, and they had TG-16 games for rent from there as well. I got my Turbo and the Turbo Booster (Boxed) from there for $20 each. They also had a billboard where members could post their items up for sale. It was a great store.Quote:
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Nex Machina is dirt cheap on PSN... It is really good except, I think there is just way too much shit going on. I die constantly because I can't even see shit.
oh man, that is a great name for a store.Quote:
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that's gorgeousQuote:
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oh my god yeah, i had 2 of these growing up & i think they're why im adaptive to shitty control setups sometimes, hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
i mainly grabbed them because i never saw the rapid fire unit for sale on its own back then and i needed those to help me get to later levels in fantasy zone but still not the beat the fucking game
Skull Girls Vita finally shipped. Overall nice package, dug the little cel they included. If you are brave enough to venture into Family Dollar they’ve had cheap games lately, a few oddballs I picked up. The Family Dollar in my town is next to the pawn shop I frequent. In past few weeks they’ve literally only been open 4 or 5 Days. It’s sobering to walk by prime capitalism and see it ground to a halt, though not surprising with the sad employment system of these places (and Dollar Tree, Dollar General, etc). On Saturday I took the family out of town and hit the nearby Disc Replay. Got a couple cheap complete DS games for my collection and saw Air Buster. Seen one of these at Disc Replay a month ago for $24.99, not a shock for a Genny shooter. In this case someone categorized it as Afterburner II so $7 for the joy of Genesis loading!
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I was considering buying a copy of "Service Games," but I thankfully decided to look it over on Google Books before buying. My god is this book chock full of errors. Dates are wrong, events are wrong. Did they even attempt to update this thing, or did they simply copy/paste all of Pettus' articles together and sell it? I'll keep my money, thanks.
Picked up a few games from PSN Flash sale for vita: Samsho V Special, htoLNiQ: The Firefly Diary, The BIT TRIP, and Asdivine Hearts. SSVS looks fantastic on Vita's OLED screen.
I picked up the Dragon's Lair collection on PSN, it's gorgeous. I just dearly wish there were clean pause and frame by frame options on the 'watch game' extra.
Cool, I didn't see that, guess I will pick that up as well.
I still haven't got around to playing the DVD version of Time Warp. I loved that game on the Amiga.
You should probably pick up that book written by some guy named Ken Horowitz. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Melf
These have been sitting in Walmarts all over the place, still they've refused to lower the price.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...4&d=1520729590
For some reason the DC sent us (Target) several of those in the last month or two. Still $59.99 there as well and I had to create a spot for them on the floor since they're marked as "discontinued" in our system.
I stocked up on them on Black Friday two years ago when Walmart had them for $25.
I must've missed that deal OOPS.
Oh well, it'll end up on Really Great System and Nothing At All Like That Garbage Wii U System, the Switch.
sameQuote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
With the Amiibo?Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
it was never sold without the amiibo, so yes.
https://i.imgur.com/yun3yoa.jpg
Analog Super NT
Other stuff:
8bitdo SF30 with retro receiver
32 GB Sandisk SD card
Danmaku Unlimited 3 Switch
Does this at least have arcade stick support? I ask because I had it on android, LOVED IT, then bought it the moment I saw it on Steam. Load it up and ZERO controller support, gotta use the keyboard. I'm out!Quote:
Originally Posted by Brianvgplayer
A couple non game deals. The vacuum died a few weeks back, the local Shopko had a great selection of clearance. Got a Dyson Multi-Floor for $90 and a Bissell Liftoff Deluxe carpet cleaner for $50.
From a nearby Walmart got a dinged up Lego Minecraft Ocean Monument for $35 and one of those Black Friday 900 piece Lego boxes for $5. The $5 box was sitting on one of those risers used for storage. My son wanted the Ocean Monument but at the inflated $120 retail it was a rip-off, it’ll be fun to build with him.
I haven't tried it with the RAP yet, but it does support the dpad on the pro controller, so it should work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pineapple
https://i.imgur.com/pwjG09u.jpg
Having a bit of fun with this. Nice to see SE finally getting back to their roots somewhat.
The case for Mean Bean Machine cracked at the spine when I opened it. It felt like the case was jammed shut.
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/attachm...4&d=1521328986
Zero Gunner 2, Tiny Barbarian DX, and Scribblenauts Showdown for Switch
evidently I got an internet upgrade, feels like a mistake on bell's part but I'm not complaining
http://www.speedtest.net/result/d/90...47f9c92993.png
Holy crap! That's almost 1Gbps internet. Are paying out the ass for that?
sort of, bill is around $150/month but it also includes tv and a landline
It should. I've got one and the game but I haven't been home much lately and have been playing it when I'm out and not near my arcade stick. If not during the week, this weekend I'll try to play it at home and let you know for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pineapple
Nabbed a Saturn and games on Facebook this weekend. The Saturn will serve as a backup or if I bother to check modding options. The best part was all the included games were ones I didn’t already own and many that I never played to begin with. It’s been forever since I played X-Men, I recall Baku Baku had a fanbase on TNL. It’s going to be interesting to play through some fledgling 32bit platformers. I was so fixated on 2D Saturn titles that anything with CG or Polys didn’t compete.
As a side note, the owners of the system were a nice couple in their 50’s. Said the system was given to them by someone, played once or twice and sent to collect dust in a box for 20 years.
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BBA is a great game, but the graphics are pretty rough.
It frankly looks like a tabletop slot machine from a truck stop. I’m confident the cover art straight Up horrified people into not buying it. “The monkey wants to eat me Mommy”.
I remember it being really fun, but verrrrry little prerendered anything from that era holds up.
You’re telling me Johnny Bazookatone ISN’T the culmination of mankind’s hopes and dreams?
I'm gonna say Gex didn't save us from ourselves.
It certainly didn't help Dana Gould's career.
Baku Baku is the fourth best puzzle game of all time behind Tetris Attack, Magical Drop and Super Puzzle Fighter of course
I would place it below Denki Blocks and Picross, too.
Close but it's actually the fifth best. Puzzle Link on NGPC 4 life!
All the best puzzle games are Picross games.
Just tried it out and worked perfectly with my arcade stick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pineapple
Xbox One X
After selling my 1tb S and the controller for the X, I will have paid nothing to upgrade. Sometimes this business has its perks.
Wait, are retards paying a lot for the controller? I have a Scorpio controller sitting in the box.
no, I sell them for $40ish.
(I got the X for a...steal)
Dammit, I wanted to make some cash from retards.
I was thinking about selling my one rare nes game, Wacky Races and looked up what Metal Storm was going for while I was at it.
Sooo, I take it someone made a video about this? This was an 65-75 $ game when I got it 2 or 3 years ago for 40. What the shit.
What games do you usually play these days?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Awhile back I got a bunch of Gameboy games and a SP that had video issues. Was debating if I wanted to tinker with it or sell it as parts on EBay. A broken SP fetches what a good condition working system did five years ago.
It is pretty easy to replace the SP screen if that's all that is wrong with it. I would keep it for tinkering purpose.
Unless its the backlit version, I would dump it post haste.
I was browsing some of the new digital release on Switch and came across Hollow. Looks like an interesting space horror game until I saw some reviews which basically said it sucks. Kinda disappointed but remember that Dead Space series did this genre right, so I went to GS and found DS1 and 3. I also picked up Xcom:EW and Rayman Origins, all 4 games for $4/each from their promotion.
Yep, now is the time to clean up last gen stuff.
I’ve gone to a few gamestops in search of random games, unfortunately it seems like only .03% of their stock around here has the original cases. I’m not such a fart sniffer that I have to have instructions, but original artwork is a must.
I've been on a tmnt kick lately. Manhattan Project nes and Final Fight arcade were the two big ones last weekend. This weekend it has been World of Tanks PC. They did a massive upgrade to the world physics for free. Snow piles on the tanks. More water effects. Nicer buildings. Flowers in the grass. Video filters for a fake film. etc. I still recommend this game to everyone. It is one of the best free to play games on the market.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonusKun
I rarely look at raw disks. Just saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
ok?
I don't mind if the disc only copy is $5 or under. I can always rebuy if I ever see it again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
I’d say 95% of my PS3 and 360 collection was sourced from pawn shops. It’s becoming harder to find decent condition discs though, 360 especially tend to be beat to hell.
I just print my own inserts if a game is disc only.
The first Dead Space is a free game on Origin for the PC.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
Thanks, might check it out.
Yeah, although the deals aren't quite as good as the clearances from the previous gen, in my experience. I probably bought at least a hundred PS2/XB/GC games at EB for $3 or less.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
They've run enough 4 for $10 and 4 for $20 sales that you could have done the same with 360/ps3/wii games too. Especially if you buy into the dumb discount program.
I haven't gone there anywhere near as much to notice. I guess I was way more caught up with 360/PS3/Wii during its gen, especially since so much stuff was also on PC. With the PS2, every niche game that would now be digital-only had a retail release so there was always something to treasure hunt for.
That is very true.
Ps2, the best system no one talks about.
I think I picked up most PS3/360 games I would ever want to play back when they were clearing space for the current gen stuff. They had similar fire sales then I think. I feel like I should check again, but I wouldn't have any idea what to even look for anymore.
Also, naturally I've never played the 20-40 games I bought 4 years ago. They've probably all been remastered at this point also.
Question for SSJN, or anyone who might know: how likely is it that I find a special edition PS4 pro that's sold out, exclusive to GS? Specifically looking for the MHW one. These things never come back, do they? I watched the local stock for a few days seeing if there was a in store return but it never showed up. I still see stock for some like the Final Fantasy and Battlefield editions but I assume those were never actually limited?
Those LE PS4Pro are not easy to get and never restocked at GS. GS don't want to stock anything new to begin with. Some online stores might get some or have remaining stock, but I doubt it as people tend to buy them up to scalp.
Are all GS/EB as bad as the ones where I live? They have a worse selection of games and accessories than any Walmart, and two thirds of the shop is taken up by over-priced, stupid-looking toys and knick-knacks. Even basic stuff like consoles are either out of stock, or are last years bundle. Prices are generally higher than anywhere else, too. The only reason I stop in is to grab the rare sale items that are on clearance for a buck or two, and that only happens once or twice a year.
I don't understand how a specialty store can operate like this and stay in business.