A chance occurrence today resulted in one of my greatest finds ever, both personally and collection wise. I took a close up shot of the price tag before I peeled it off, because it such an unbelievable price. I had the afternoon off work because my wife and I had a couple appointments with our [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Finds – the $1.99 deal of my life…
Posted in finds on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Finds – Extra Large Edition
Posted in finds, tagged classic, collection, finds, gameboy advance, gamecube, genesis, kingdom hearts, playstation 2, ps2, resident evil, retro, sonic, star ocean, video games, xenogears on April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here is a collective post of all the finds that didn\’t really merit a single post on their own, so I just saved them up so I could do a great big post. All of this stuff has been acquired since mid March. Also of note, I barely paid anything at all for this stuff. [...]
Chasing Carts: NES Top 15 CIB (Update #2)
Posted in Art of Collecting, tagged collecting, Dragon Quest, dragon warrior 4, enix, nes, nintendo, video games on April 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is a chronicle of my quest to own my 15 favorite Nintendo Entertainment System games… Check out the flagship entry here, and after that check out Update #1 here. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh- That was meant to be read as a sigh of relief and not as a scream. I am relieved because I acquired a game [...]
Five Completely Rad Capcom Games
Posted in Lists, tagged capcom, classic, collecting, ducktales, final fight, Gameboy, genesis, little nemo, marvel, mega man, nintendo, retro, Sega, the punisher, video games, vintage on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Oh, Capcom. You have been so good to us over the years. Most recently with Mega Man 9 and Bionic Commando Rearmed. Unlike some developers (AH-HEM-Rare-COUGH) you never forgot your roots and frequently reward long time fans with remakes, sequels, and assorted rad shwag. Capcom has made so many great games over the last couple [...]
Chasing Carts: All Zelda CIB (Update #2)
Posted in Art of Collecting, tagged chasing carts, cib, collecting, gameboy advance, retro, the legend of zelda, video games, zelda on April 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is a reoccurring feature here were I provide updates in my quest to own all of the Zelda games complete-in-box. Play catch up on my progress by checking out my flagship entry and the first update. Sorry for the week without updates. My wife, daughter, and I all had this insane cold that put [...]
Commodore 64!
Posted in Art of Collecting, finds on April 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Unlike most children of the 80′s I never had an Atari 2600. My first memories of the Atari 2600 where not until after I had already received my much loved Nintendo Entertainment System. Whenever we would go over to my aunt and uncle’s giant Lakewood mansion, I would always go off on adventures and would [...]
Finds!
Posted in finds, tagged cib, collection, complete, final fantasy 2, final fantasy 3, finds, ii, iii, nes, snes, square, square-enix, squaresoft, super nintendo, video games on April 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With this recent find, I have filled a sizable gap in the body of work that is my game collection. These are two of my favorite games that I have always owned loose, but to find them complete, in the mint/near mint condition they are in, and for the paltry price I paid (i love [...]
Q: Where the hell is the temple of doom?
Posted in Art of Collecting on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A: As you may have noticed, this blog is not called templeofdoom.org anymore. When my domain expired last month I ran into some blatantly obvious “copyright issues” regarding my choice of site and domain names. So I am back (update your bookmarks and blogrolls, bitches) under a new name. ******** Q: Why did I choose [...]










